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[Chocolate💋 @favoritel8dy]

How niggas be on my page after they did absolutely nothing to keep me

[Pedro Stolf @p_stolf]

10/10 read and killer ending sentence

[Miles @milesbuthelezi]

Higher paying jobs require degrees. Stop letting these people lie to you, education quite literally does matter. 😂

[𝖑𝖔𝖔𝖙𝖊𝖉 @6looted]

The older you get, the more you realize that if something genuinely makes you happy, it’s usually smartest to keep it private.

[lelu @lelulolololol]

new apple tech released on the same day that a landslide at a coltan mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo killed 200 people including 70 children

[Mima @RealLifeGold]

That’s why you have to keep going back. Can’t lose against yourself.

[member of Hamas🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦 @kwets11]

You guys had no problem with Cape Town being unreachable all your lives driving past shacks and the Cape flats from the airport, now it’s affecting you all of a sudden it’ “increasingly” what what.

You kept the DA in power due to swaartgevaar and now you’re paying the price.👍🏾

[ً @BALUCIAGA]

even if every, single digital nomad left cape town tomorrow, the city would still feel inaccessible. these problems aren’t being caused by the foreigners, they’re being exposed by them, bc the real issue is structural, and the real problem is the DA.

the cape town housing crisis isn’t accidental, and it isn’t just market forces. it’s the result of political choices, particularly in the western cape. the province is one of the most difficult places in the country to build new housing bc of restrictive zoning laws and layers of bureaucracy that slow down and limit construction. that manufactured scarcity pushes property prices up which benefits existing homeowners and forces black and coloured residents further away from the city and further from economic opportunity.

and at the same time, the DA actively promotes cape town as a destination for foreign residents and digital nomads through relaxed visa pathways and lifestyle branding. the increased demand enters a housing market where supply is already constrained, which inevitably drives up rent. foreigners didn’t create the crisis, but policy choices have made it easier for global capital to compete w locals for limited housing.

these zoning frameworks didn’t emerge in a vacuum. south africa’s spatial planning laws were originally designed to enforce apartheid geography, deliberately separating low-income black and coloured communities from city centres. many of those patterns remain intact today. resistance to densification and affordable housing is often strongest in historically white suburban areas, where homeowners oppose developments that might change neighbourhood demographics or affect property values.

the result is a housing market heavily leaned toward luxury and high-end developments w a severe undersupply of affordable housing. demand at the lower end far exceeds supply, yet reform is slow or blocked altogether. this is where the DA’s contradiction becomes v clear. the party frequently criticises labour laws, BEE and employment equity as overly bureaucratic and claims to champion deregulation and economic liberalism. but when it comes to zoning reform and housing integration, that appetite for deregulation disappears. liberalisation is welcomed when it protects property values, but resisted when it would allow black and coloured working-class people closer access to the city.

what’s being preserved isn’t efficiency, it’s an inherited spatial order. the language has changed, but the outcomes are very familiar: exclusion repackaged as market logic and inequality defended as inevitability.

[Kiernan Forbes 🙏🏿🕊❤️ 🇿🇦 @Sibo_Nene]

Corporate SA loves rugby because Rugby is a predominantly white sport and corporate SA is predominantly white. We don’t need to sugar coat it, it’s not a bad thing.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Read a lot of books.

[V @__ayaV]

everyone’s favourite month, long weekend after long weekend 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

[iRazo 🇿🇦🖤 @inja4lyfe]

The American-isation of South African salons, from the pricing to the disgusting attitude. It’s like they were studying the Americans on tt.

[jebill• @jebillll]

being an owl in africa must be soo difficult

[Yeezyrih @Yeeezyrih]

He said it & he’s the perfect example.

[Tshepi @TsitsiNotha]

You guys actually underestimate what the previous generation went through. You can’t even boycott Starbucks but you think you can fight against slavery

[Kierra | Data Conversationalist🎙 @iamKierraD]

People really underestimate how much decision making depends on literacy.

Your life choices are directly related to being able to access, understand, and critically evaluate information.

Low literacy is a fast track to poor life outcomes.

[Mabintou @mabintou]

I didn’t even aspire to marriage or kids as a child or teen. Just being a rich, succesful woman.

[Jolie Cowslington @yomgqashiyo]

Did you know in 2025 they are doing exactly the same thing in Cape Town and the Western Cape in general?

[Newii @newi_6th]

“Duel” the incomes must be fighting each other😭

[Lunga @LungaMrhetjha]

Very little is known about Naspers and the role it played in supporting Apartheid and the National Party. Did you know that they used to print out Bantu education text books as well?

Let's unpack this company's history a bit.

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