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mom.

[Aisha 🇵🇸🇸🇩 @jewojallow]

The rumours are true, you really do get finer in your 30s

[Lesilo Rula @kay_mahapa]

AWS Summit is Moria for hackers?

[Mima @RealLifeGold]

Just paid 50 bucks for a hot choc (R10 for almond milk). That lady would freak out.

[KM @KhanyaMsika]

#MadlangaCommission

[khanki @TboozeSA]

Xhosas are born with the "andimphiwanga" gene. Basically, they are annoyed by your very existence. This can occur 2 seconds after meeting you for the first time. Trying to win them over is a futile effort. Your blinking can increase their hatred for you.

[Umlingiswa osemqoka @Sbhalo60]

Ngesandla

[Ahmed/The Ears/IG: BigBizTheGod 🇸🇴 @big_business_]

Is Shakira to the World Cup what Mariah Carey is to Christmas?

[ArtButMakeItSports @ArtButSports]

The Battle of the Peasants, by M.D. Hout, 17th c

[Tina @Tina_Hokwana]

AyinaYesu lento niyenza kum @sarstax

[‎‏ً @grandekordei]

if rih and jay were #real they would’ve done talk that talk!

[WnT @WheelsnToys]

The food at Woolworths really brings criminals out of hiding

Its the difference for real 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I love it

[𝓛𝓪𝓾𝓻𝓪 ˚.🎀༘⋆ @Laura_arma_ni]

Me minding my business but still noticing everything

[Gugulethu Mhlungu | Gogo Mpendulo @GugsM]

If you had genuine hope that Egypt could beat Argentina, that FIFA would allow that, then I have a *gorgeous* beachfront property in the Joburg CBD for you. DM me for details.

[Msizi @msiziworld]

You will be watching a series, and they will just randomly start playing the best song you have ever heard in your life😭🔥

[Frazier Tharpe II @The_SummerMan]

Is Pharrell lowkey Beyoncé’s best producer collaborator? in this essay I will…

[Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo]

When people are being manipulated, they don’t realise it. Otherwise, it wouldn’t work.

Whenever bad actors seek to destabilise a country, they don’t manufacture grievances from scratch. Instead, they identify genuine, existing frustrations and use them as vehicles for mobilisation. That is simply the most efficient strategy.

This is why those being mobilised often react emotionally when confronted with the suggestion that someone else may be exploiting the movement because deep down they know in their heart of hearts that they feel very strongly about this. Who are you to tell them someone else is putting ideas in their heads?

In fact, the more genuine the people’s grievance, the easier it is for dark forces to weaponise, and the harder it is for the person experiencing it to see the puppet strings.

This is because external actors don’t invent grievances out of thin air; that would require too much energy to sustain. Instead, they act like a lens focusing sunlight on the grass of genuine systemic failure, economic hardship or social injustice. On things the target population has every right to be angry about.

The crucial distinction lies in where the energy is directed. Instead of channelling public anger into reform, accountability and institution-building, “solutions” are redirected toward maximum polarisation and social fragmentation.

So, anytime someone tells a mobilised citizen, “You’re being used by hidden forces”, the citizen doesn’t hear a political analysis. They hear: “Your pain isn’t real. You are too stupid/gullible to think for yourself”. Naturally, the ego and the emotions revolt and commitment to the cause deepens.

There’s very little anyone can do about this. Directly confronting someone who is emotionally charged with the fact that they are a pawn is always counterproductive. It causes them to dig in deeper because the alternative, admitting they were manipulated while processing their real pain is psychologically devastating.

Another important dimension is how external agitators don’t intervene randomly, but pick moments when those grievances are already near a boiling point. This makes the intervention difficult to detect and attribute. This way, any attempt at de-escalation gets reframed as betrayal or collaboration with the enemy.

The deeper irony is that the very qualities that make someone a good citizen, such as caring deeply about injustice, being willing to act on their convictions and refusing to be gaslit about their own lived experience, are precisely what makes them more recruitable.

The sad thing about destabilisation is that the grievances are real, but the proposed “solutions” are designed not to solve the underlying problems, but to deepen division and erode public trust.

In the end, the people on the ground are left holding the matches to burn their own country down, entirely unaware of who brought the petrol and tyres.

[Tirivashe Mundondo @tcmundondo]

Today is the deadline some have set for migrants to leave South Africa. I write this from Sandton, as a Zimbabwean who operates between two countries.

I am building businesses in one country because the other was the harder road. I am also still building in Zimbabwe, because somebody has to.

The structural truth gets lost in the rhetoric on both sides. The migration is a symptom of an economy that did not give people enough reasons to stay. Until that economy gives them reasons, no border, no deadline, and no movement will produce the outcome anyone is asking for.

The argument that displaces people fleeing one failure into a second one is not a solution. It is the failure compounding.

Zimbabweans built homes and businesses in South Africa because South Africa was open and Zimbabwe was difficult. South Africans now face an economy that is also difficult, and they are asked to make peace with that difficulty by directing their frustration at the people who arrived with the same problem.

That is not a political position. It is a pattern. And it ends badly for everyone in it eventually.

I keep building in Harare because the only durable answer to the question of where Africans go is to make where they are work better. The work is unglamorous and slow.

The alternative is to keep moving the same problem from one country to the next.

[Tyla’s Uncle @_rorrryyy]

One day I’m proud, the next I’m embarrassed. Being South African is an experience.