Nothing drags you down like being surrounded by people who always complain. They’ll make you see life as a burden like they do instead of making every moment count
Yes it can be hard but let’s try to be optimistic & learnto see good out of every situation 🫂❤️
May your day be filled with productive energy, peaceful thoughts, unexpected opportunities, and reasons to smile a little extra today🌺😉☺️🥰😍
Happy Thursday✨💥🌟
I love you ❤️❤️❤️
It’s 5am. I’m awake.
Not because I am hyper-maxing my life. No peak-optimisation here. It’s just my body clock. My chronotype. I’m an early riser. Even on Sundays.
This is not about what time I wake up. I’m digressing before I even start. Jammer.
I have some work to do. So I started my morning reading through my mails and my messages. And I was left, sitting at my desk, with a mixture of both heartbreak and guilt.
I am warm. I have a beautiful plush gown on. It was a gift from a friend. Hot air is blowing on me from my air con. I have a fresh brew of coffee that I’m sipping while writing this. And electricity. And Wi-Fi. And a home. My Apple Subscription is playing the new Jensen McRae album. It only has 3 songs. But they are on repeat. And they are beautiful.
I have stuff. I am healthy. I am not alone.
There is an email from someone who has stage 4 brain cancer. He is a grandfather. And his family need funding. Another from a family trying to keep their daughter in school. I have 4 emails from people desperately looking for work. They are willing to do anything. There is another message from a family fighting for their 2-year-old daughter. She has Lymphoblastic Lymphoma. They live in my hometown. And another, a woman in Renal Failure, looking for a match. I have an email from a son trying to help his father, who has dementia. And messages from a woman who has lost her toes to gangrene. She has sent photos. She has to have her foot amputated and will no longer be able to work. Lastly, a woman emailed me to explain how she and her husband have lost everything, and they were forced to move their children into her parent’s 1 bedroom home, while they try to find work and a home for themsleves. They don’t eat every day but they are grateful that their kids are safe.
This is just a normal day in the Good Things Guy inbox.
We get many submissions from people who want to share their good news. But in equal measure, we get messages and emails from so many South Africans in need. This ramps up when we report on crowdfunding campaigns that have done well.
Warrant Officer Karl Sander and his coffee machine. 9-year-old Zelnay Liebenberg and her aggressive battle against Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia. Chad Nathan, who raised money for Sidney Miller. Jason Vanporppal and his plan to build a skatepark in Uganda. And Mark, a dad who ran back into his burning house to save his son.
That’s just a couple of crowdfunding articles we featured in the last 2 weeks.
But that is not the reason I wanted to write this. It's not about money. Or crowdfunding. Or sympathy. Or making you carry the heartbreak too.
I was reminded this morning how lucky I am. That guilt quickly turned into gratitude.
Yes, I have stuff. I am healthy. I am not alone.
But I also have a platform. And a village.
So here’s what I am going to ask of you today: if you are part of an organisation, charity or community project doing good in South Africa, please register on The Helpers. We don’t make money from The Helpers. We built it for one reason… to help.
And the truth is that most of us cannot help everyone. I certainly can't. But I have learned that when enough people each do one small thing, incredible things happen.
That's why we built https://t.co/Fj1cF6EELF
Not to save the world or fix every problem. Just to make it a little easier for people looking for help to find the people offering it.
So if your organisation is doing good in South Africa, please register. Somewhere in my inbox right now is another person searching for exactly the kind of help you provide.
Okay. Love you. Bye.
MISSING PERSON
Notsikelelo Maseko (18) was last seen on Tuesday, 3 June 2026, while on her way to school in Vanderbijlpark. At the time of her disappearance, she was wearing her Suiderlig High School uniform.
The last known location of her cellphone was traced to City Deep...
SUIDERLIG LEARNER MISSING, PHONE LAST SIGNAL DEEP CITY JOHANNESBURG
VANDERBIJLPARK – An urgent search is underway for 18-year-old Nontsikelelo Maseko, who disappeared on Tuesday morning while heading to school.
Maseko was last spotted in Vanderbijlpark wearing her Suiderlig high school uniform. She has knotless braids and was traveling to class when contact was lost.
According to the family, the last signal from her cellphone placed her at Benrose Supermarket in Deep City, Johannesburg.
Her father, Mr Maseko, and family friend Lebohang Mokoena are pleading with the public for any information that could lead to her safe return.
Anyone with information is urged to contact:
- Mr Maseko: 082 678 3568
- Lebohang Mokoena: 067 260 9820
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