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I tweet about random things.

[Anunaki @Anunakin]

Hip Hop thrives when the masses are literate. No reading, no Hip Hop. That’s why you and Amapiano are thriving right now. Kids can’t read for meaning, so anything rappers say falls on deaf ears. no information being passed down. Just Mark Zuckerberg and shota ka bo kae ko tlatse?

[MAZI OF BARCELONA💙❤️ @Bigi_Chima]

Barça fans too dey full of themselves?
Yes. And we have every reason to be.

The greatest player of all time came from La Masia Lionel Messi
The greatest manager of all time also came from La Masia Pep Guardiola.

Lionel Messi, a La Masia graduate, Has most balloon d’or in football history
No one comes close.

Messi is also the most decorated player in football history.
Dani Alves is the most decorated right-back ever and the second most decorated player of all time, only behind Messi.

In 2010, football history stood still.
The Ballon d’Or top 3 were all La Masia graduates, Messi, Xavi and Iniesta.
Three academy boys. One podium. Never done before. Never repeated.

Xavi and Iniesta didn’t just win trophies, they defined an era of football.
They changed how football is played from the middle.

Barça won a sextuple with a team built around academy boys.
Not galácticos. Not oil money. Pure football culture.

Let’s talk about legends who wore the Barça shirt:

Cruyff.
Maradona.
Ronaldinho.
Henry.
Ronaldo Nazário.
Romário.
Rivaldo.
Stoichkov.
Puyol.
Guardiola.
Busquets.
Aguero
Figo
Ibrahimovic
Neymar
Suarez
Lewandowski
Xavi.
Iniesta.
Messi.

Icons. Ballon d’Or winners. World Cup winners.
Eras were built here.

And it didn’t stop there.

Barça youngsters won the Golden Boy award back-to-back-to-back:
Pedri. Gavi. Lamine Yamal.

Three different generations.
Same club. Same factory.

Even the women’s team dominates football.

Alexia Putellas — Ballon d’Or winner.
Aitana Bonmatí — Ballon d’Or winner.

Men’s football. Women’s football.
Past. Present. Future.

La Masia everywhere.

So yes, Barça fans dey proud.
When your club produced the GOAT, the most Ballon d’Or winner ever, raised legends, ruled academies, and dominated football on all fronts…

You don’t explain yourself.
You stand on history. 🔵🔴

[Alli @tygarii]

Bloody hell! This was coldddddddd!!!!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The car AI is photons in, controls out.

Just like humans.

This is the path to AGI.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This actually works in Teslas right now

[JEY🥇 @Mmonkoaa]

The full match of Argentina vs France in 2022 World Cup Final.

3 years anniversary

[36. 🇿🇦 @Mpumi_Dope]

You entering the tavern today.

[MP𖤐 @MagicalPep]

Throwback to this crazy moment when the referee literally tried to tackle Maradona during El Clásico! 😭😭 Real Madrid have been playing with a 12th man since the beginning of time. Some things never change! 💀⚽

[I ❤️ Cape Town ~ I Stand with Russia🇷🇺 MAGA @Lolita721611021]

🇿🇦This is a very well written piece by an African about why our country is in the state it is....

‼️ The Politics of Self-Destruction ‼️
There comes a time in a nation’s life when even the educated must admit defeat — not because they have failed, but because the system rewards failure.
That dejected look on General Mkhwanazi’s face captured that exact moment — when competence meets political deployment, and logic meets the stupidity of power.

Here is a man with a BTech in Policing, an MBA, an LLB, a National Diploma in Police Administration, and is an admitted attorney of the High Court — forced to answer questions from a Parliament that confuses noise for intellect.

What we saw in that room was not governance. It was a performance — a theater of mediocrity sponsored by the taxpayer.

This is the crisis of Africa — not lack of education, not lack of talent — but the deliberate exclusion of capable minds from positions of influence.

Political deployment has become the new apartheid — it separates the loyal from the qualified. It replaces thinkers with followers and silences those who still believe in merit.

In such a country, education no longer inspires. It humiliates.
Because the child in the township sees the truth:
that the man who read all the books sits jobless,
while the one who shouts the loudest slogan drives a government car.
When young people see that power is gained through party loyalty, not through knowledge, they lose faith in school.
They drop out, not because they are lazy, but because the system has made ignorance profitable.
How do you convince a young girl in Limpopo to finish matric when she sees her councillor can’t spell “governance” yet controls millions in municipal funds?
How do you tell a boy in Mahikeng to study electrical engineering when the tender for electricity is awarded to a DJ?

That is the economic collapse we refuse to measure — the destruction of faith in education.
It’s not just corruption of money — it’s corruption of purpose.
The economy doesn’t collapse because of lack of minerals or investors.
It collapses because of mental poverty — the kind that makes a leader think a slogan can build a road, or that a struggle song can replace sound fiscal management.
Africa’s tragedy is not that we are poor.
It’s that we are mismanaged.
We export gold and import poverty.
We have diamonds under our feet and debt over our heads.
We send our best engineers abroad, while we appoint cousins to build bridges that collapse before the ribbon is cut.
Political deployment has turned public service into personal service.
Institutions are no longer centers of excellence — they are shelters for the connected.
That is why our schools fail, our hospitals die, and our police are demoralized.
Because every appointment is political, not professional.
And every professional who dares to challenge the system is pushed out — humiliated, or silenced.
General Mkhwanazi’s look of defeat was not personal.
It was national.
He carried on his face the disappointment of every competent South African trapped in an incompetent system.
And until we replace party loyalty with national loyalty,
until we restore meritocracy over mediocrity,
we will keep watching our brightest minds fade away in despair.

The revolution Africa needs today is not just political — it is intellectual.
It is time to decolonize our thinking, not just our slogans.
It is time to value results over rhetoric, books over boots, and skill over slogans.
Because when mediocrity governs excellence,
poverty becomes permanent.

So, let the message be clear:
We will no longer clap for stupidity.
We will no longer elect the loudest voice — we will elect the most capable mind.
We will no longer let our children believe that education is useless.
Because the future of Africa depends on the restoration of merit, discipline, and dignity.

By Seako Masibi (Inspired by Wiseman Mbali

[Nicole Barlow @Nicole_Barlow1]

The late Charlie Kirk didn't even need to visit South Africa to know exactly what was wrong with it.

One can't help but admire an icon of intelligent and rational debate.

[N'wa Khalanga 💕 @NwaKhalanga_]

That you singled out Tsonga and Venda people is telling.

It implies that you view us as somehow less South African, which is why you believe we would be targetted by Operation Dudula.

[POTEGO @POTEGOLP]

@ChampionsLeague Fabian Ruiz, there is too much football 🧠 there.

[POTEGO @POTEGOLP]

Fabian Ruiz

[UEFA Champions League @ChampionsLeague]

Name a current player who will become an elite coach one day... 🧠

[𝗫𝘆𝗻ᥫ᭡ @xynifyy]

Family guy is so insane bc why were ppl dating that dog

[Max Stéph @maxstephhh]

@iamnapgod 95th min winner to win the match which eventually resulted into PSG winning the league.

Now go back to crying!

[South Africa First @Kvnza_SA]

The fight is between good and evil. Not black and white people 🇿🇦

[Yanga @Yanga_Co]

Just like a homie who fills up shebeen tables with alcohol for women while mom went to bed hungry.

Justice starts at home.

[K @StopThatXavii]

football

[Nandi 🤍💜🤍 @pallnandi]

In this society, a man without money is treated like he does not exist. He is overlooked, underestimated and often discarded. His character means nothing. His heart means nothing. If he is broke, he is invisible. And that is the cold truth no one wants to admit.

A 🧵 >>> >>>>>>

[Bird Kganakga @PopeJohnBirdiii]

The one neighbor you will never hear SA complain about. The one neighbour with common sense, dignity, self respect and respect for others. The only neighbours that supports the eradication of crime and drugs in SADC