Thabang 🏳️‍🌈

It's never too late to start over... 😍

[Seth @fiercepatricks]

A same-sex couple can't tell their child, "You were an accident." Becoming parents takes intention, planning, lawyers, paperwork, and sometimes years of fighting just to build the family they dreamed of. That child was chosen, fought for, and deeply wanted

[Columbia Records @ColumbiaRecords]

LIL NAS X
WORLD’S GREATEST!
OCT 1

[Siviwe Gwarube @Siviwe_G]

What an incredible honour being selected as @TIME 100 Next for 2026: The World’s Most Influential Rising Stars.

I love serving my country. And I am absolutely passionate about affording all our 13.7 million learners the quality education that they deserve. 😊🇿🇦

What uMama did could never be undone.

[The Ogunboy 🌚 @AlafinOfOgun]

Gay men are allowed to be soft without becoming someone’s emotional punching bag.

[Richard Wilkinson @wilkinsoncape]

South Africa’s best chance.

[Xanda🏳️‍🌈 @GreatXanda]

Some gay men don’t want to “come out” dramatically. They just want homosexuality to become as boring and ordinary as heterosexuality.

[Green Lantern 💚 🇿🇦 @Mr_LiverpoolX]

I remember very well. Even women were defending the Former minister of higher education after he assaulted a woman in Cubana night club. Men were told to back-off. He is now elevated to ANC NEC as a National Organizer. What happened to the victim? This GBV turns blind eye to some

[Ronald Agaba Jr 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇬 @ronnieagabajr]

🌈
We've always been here.

[Eyewitness News @ewnupdates]

New arrest warrant for former EMPD deputy chief Julius Mkhwanazi stayed https://t.co/NWicCxJnXq

[QUEER FAMILY VALUES 🌈 😍❤️ @QueerFamlove]

Dear gay men,Not being fit doesn’t mean nobody wants you. You are more than your body. The right people will like you for who you are, not just how you look. You deserve love, respect, and happiness exactly as you are.❤️✊🏿🏳️‍🌈

[All Things Current Affairs @A_T_C_A]

Our esteemed guest, Oupa “Bafana” Sindane, today at the #MadlangaCommission definitely has a lot to tell us about where all this money comes from. 🍿

Follow All Things Current Affairs for live updates.

[BIG PAPA🧸 @ElijahRenzee]

It’s honestly heartbreaking watching LGBTQ+ people who were bullied throughout high school finally become adults, find the community they thought would be their safe haven, and then get bullied by that same community. Imagine surviving rejection just to find rejection where you thought you’d finally belong💔

[eNCA @eNCA]

Taxi boss Bafana Sindane is heading to the high court to avoid appearing at the Madlanga Commission. Sindane is challenging the Commission's subpoena. eNCA's @pule_jones has more. Tune in to #eNCA on #DStv403.

[Seth @fiercepatricks]

Ran into an old secondary school friend. I’m a year older, but he looked 10 years older. Married with kids, he told me how hard being a family man is, then asked how I still look so young.
“BRO… I’m gay”

[Xanda🏳️‍🌈 @GreatXanda]

Gay men need spaces where the conversation isn’t always sex, dating, hookups, bodies or who is attractive. Some of us actually want to build a life.

[News Live SA @newslivesa]

BREAKING NEWS

Brown Mogotsi Denied Bail For the 4th Time After Alleged Escape Plot

[Ronald Agaba Jr 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇬 @ronnieagabajr]

Gay to Gay

Being homosexual is often treated as a curse. Many of us grow up inside that idea. We hear it in church. We hear it at home. We hear it from conservative communities that speak as if God, nature, and society have already judged us. The message is repeated until it sounds like fact: nothing good can come from a gay person. We are doomed. We are unworthy. We are a stain. Conversion prayers are poured over us. Shame is placed on our bodies and our love. An image is painted of us as people who cannot bear fruit, no real family, no real success, no real peace, no real future.

A lot of gay people believe this. Not because it is true, but because it was planted in us early and watered for years. After enough time, the belief stops feeling like someone else’s opinion. It starts feeling like identity. So some of us stop fighting for a better life. We stop studying hard. We stop building skills. We stop saving. We stop dreaming. We hide. We drink the pain away. We accept smallness. We live as if we were already finished. That is how a lie becomes a life.

Here is a story for us.

There was a man who lived for thirty years believing his soil was cursed. Every spring he watched his neighbours plant their gardens. By summer their yards were full of flowers and their tables were full of vegetables. He looked at the empty ground behind his house and did nothing. When he was a boy, his father told him nothing would grow in that soil. Years passed. He stopped wishing for a garden. He only looked at other people and thought, Some people were given good soil. I was not.

Then one spring morning he noticed something at the edge of his yard: a flower growing. He had not planted it. He had not watered it. He knelt beside it. Then he dug a small patch of ground next to it, planted a few seeds, and waited. They grew. He planted a few more. Those grew too. By the end of summer, the ground that had been empty his whole life was filled with flowers.

There had never been anything wrong with the soil. He had only believed there was.

I wonder how many of us have gardens like that. Parts of ourselves we gave up on. Maybe someone told you who you were. Maybe a pastor said you were cursed. Maybe a parent said you would never amount to anything. Maybe you failed once and took that failure as proof. Maybe you looked at someone else’s life and decided they had something you could never have. After enough years, you stopped calling it a belief. You called it who you are.

Just because you believed something about yourself for a long time does not make it true.

Being gay is not a sentence to a wasted life. It is not proof that you cannot work, love well, learn, create, earn, heal, or become someone your younger self would be proud of. The hate you heard was loud. It was not a prophecy. Fruit does not come from waiting for permission. It comes from planting anyway, a skill, a habit, a boundary, a job application, a sober day, a kind friendship, a plan, a second try.

What would happen if you planted something where you were told that nothing could grow?

Try. Begin. Give yourself a chance. You may be capable of things you have not imagined yet. You just have not planted there.

[Xanda🏳️‍🌈 @GreatXanda]

Living in Colors isn’t just a queer series; it’s a reminder of how powerful it is when our stories are told with honesty and humanity. The acting, writing and emotional nuance are beautiful. Huge appreciation to everyone behind this project. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

[SABC News @SABCNews]

MADLANGA COMMISSION | Prof Somadoda Fikeni has warned the commission that its recommendations are likely to face resistance when implementation begins.

[Pule Letshwiti-Jones @pule_jones]

"In this country, there is money everywhere - except where it is needed." - PSC Chairperson Somadoda Fikeni

#MadlangaCommision
#eNCA