Sphehadebe1

El Shaddai Adonai.

[Zakes Bantwini @ZakesBantwiniSA]

Twenty years ago, I met a young man from Newcastle in Durban.

L’vovo Derrango. My brother. 🖤

Although he wasn’t from Durban, Durban is where we would make history. It’s where I discovered him, believed in him, and signed him as my very first artist, ever, at just 24 years old. It’s where I built him a home at Mayonie Productions Label.

Together, we created something so unique that it needed its own name. I began referring to it as Durban Kwaito Music, because there was nothing else quite like what we were doing.

And we took that sound everywhere.

Johannesburg. Cape Town. Barcelona. Stages across the world.

Two boys from KZN, carrying our story further than we ever imagined.

Yesterday, twenty years later, we stood on that same stage together in Durban, this time for my own festival. Some of the people in that crowd were born in the very same year I discovered and signed him.

Twenty years!

We’ve been through more than most people will ever know.

We survived an accident together that took people we loved. We built a sound that became part of this city. We fell out, and somehow found our way back to each other, because real brotherhood survives all of that.

And then came the stroke.

Watching him fight to stand again. To speak again. To walk back into a studio. To reclaim pieces of himself and his glory.

That kind of strength is difficult to put into words.

His mother asked me to look out for him a long time ago.

That was never a favour.

That was family.

So when he walked out onto that Mayonie Open Air stage yesterday, I wasn’t just proud of the artist.

I was proud of the survivor.
The fighter.
The brother.
My first artist.
And the man who is still here.

Still standing. Still rising.

Twenty years, L’Vovo.

From Durban to the world.

Durban Kwaito Music forever.

I’ll always be right there with you.

#MayonieOpenAir #DurbanKwaitoMusic #DKM

God Speed Osama. 🖤

[ɠɧıʂɧ @rirokpik]

The fact that Africa is called "underdeveloped" by the same countries that spent 400 years specifically preventing it from developing is the most brazen rebranding in human history.

[Voltaire Archive @VoltaireQuote]

"Politics is the path for men without principles to lead men without memory"

Voltaire

[Jobs with Aramide @AramideOyekunle]

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[Sphehadebe1 @Sphehadebe11]

I have seen it many times to experience a dude in his mid 40s, even late 40s. .moving like a 19 year old. In Durban.

[Sphehadebe1 @Sphehadebe11]

Folks act funny when around a dude with a Lil bit of paper. Lol!

[Sphehadebe1 @Sphehadebe11]

Eish

[Dr. Koena Moabelo 🇿🇦 @Koena_za]

When you stop reaching out to people, you'll realize how many bonds you were forcing.

[TK_Nala @NalaThokozane]

Black Coffee understood the township setup was a trap to keep the native poor, and took steps to break out of the system 🙌

[THE AUDIO LAB @TheAudioLabSA]

These boys need to lock in the studio with DJ Maphorisa ASAP! 🔥😭 I know Phori can cook something serious with them. The potential is there! 🎹🔥

[Sphehadebe1 @Sphehadebe11]

Turn the volume up!

[THE AUDIO LAB @TheAudioLabSA]

Bro just produced the whole song on his way to the studio😤🔥😂

[Resko★ @Bloke_Baz]

I still CANNOT believe humans were gifted a planet full of tress, fruit, water, wildlife and sunlight and then they invented debt, capitalism and war.

[Sphehadebe1 @Sphehadebe11]

You can't outstrategize God.

[The AI Colony R&D @TheAIColonyRD]

A young Nigerian built AI smart glasses that let blind people walk without a cane or a guide.

His name is Khalifa Aminu, and what he made is not the smart glasses you've been seeing online.

So how does it work?
The glasses have sensors, GPS and AI inside them. When the person is walking, the sensors pick up anything in front of them. A wall, a pole, a car parked on the road, somebody standing there. The glasses alert them before they hit it, so they can walk around it themselves.

No stick. Nobody holding their hand.

The GPS tells them where they are at every point. But the part that got me is what happens when the person gets lost.

The glasses track their exact location and send it straight to the phone of whoever is taking care of them. WhatsApp or email. So their mother or brother or friend can find them in minutes instead of searching for hours.

If you've ever watched a blind person try to cross a road in Lagos you know that fear is real. This takes it away.

And he's not even done.
He's now adding voice to it, so the glasses can actually talk to the user and describe what's around them. Staircase ahead. Busy road coming. Someone on your left.

That's when it stops being a gadget and becomes a guide that never leaves your side.
He built this himself. No big lab, no foreign funding. Just one young guy who saw a problem and refused to ignore it.

[Elvis Mvoi @elvismvoi]

😅😅😂😂

[Sphehadebe1 @Sphehadebe11]

@ILuvDBN @SaveMyVideo

[Sphehadebe1 @Sphehadebe11]

@ILuvDBN @StreamviDL

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.”

— Aldous Huxley

[Sphehadebe1 @Sphehadebe11]

Fully behind Chippa United Football club today.

[Sphehadebe1 @Sphehadebe11]

🤣

[Thato @Tidoo_Wax]

The only clientele advert I enjoyed 😂😂

[Hlovo @hlovo_]

I don’t think you could pay me to go to Nigeria 😭