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I hope Netflix is monitoring TikTok and how beautifully SA health professionals are applauding how the STI topic especially gonorrhea and its relation to HIV/AIDS and miscarriage was delivered by #ThePolygamist. TikTok and SA indigenous creators have owned The Polygamist, not just owned it but took it further. They are not reviewing it. They are giving it life and giving it the SA story life. They are writing what is happening right now in SA in different settings. There is one creator who is sending the cast VNs. You have taken SA health professionals down memory lane when AIDS in our country was killing people in numbers. They remember how hard it was to be a health professional at the time. They remember how patients used to call them in their deathbeds on their last days. The way Jonasi was calling Lindani. They applaud the use of iqhoks because that was SA’s HIV/AIDS at the time. We gave it names. They applaud even the makeup artist and how AIDS patients used to look like on their last days. Bathi la AIDS ka Jonasi yile thina esiyaziyo. There is a content creator who has taken it to church and gave it a church lens. There is another who has given it the modern and empowered wife who is talking to her “husband” asking ba uphi and she hopes “awuJonasi ke apho!” But there is the black American woman TikToker who identifies with the story but still recognises that the story is a South African story. But I love the new conversation that is also coming up: what made Jonasi? How women also should not be spared in 2026 as enablers of abuse and how we sacrifice our children. SA TikTok is concerned about How the cycle of Jonasi does not end and is and will be continued by Menzi. How do we then rescue the boy child and the difference between Mpume and Menzi is because women talk. To each other. To strangers. To anyone who cares to listen. That is therapy. Mpume wrote to her dad and confronted him even when her voice was shaking. But boys don’t. Men don’t. Menzi saw her father getting a BJ from the girl he loved who was also her sister’s bff. How do we get to Menzi before Menzi becomes Jonasi multiplied? Exodus 20: ndakubuvelela ubugwenxa booyise koonyana. Kwesesithathu nakwesesine isizukulwana came to mind as a boy mom. Those who are bold even talk about grace, the swear word introduced to SA women by Nandi Madida. Bless her boldness and honesty. It is beautiful to watch how users of the different platforms choose to interpret and take the story forward and TikTok is giving it the SA story. @marangdream @SbuMpungose naze nasebenza booo lapho! Naze nasenza abantu ezizweni. Well done again to the production team. Manxamalala waze wasebenza nethimba lakho. We are a country that speaks and now we are talking! Boldly and fearlessly. Still sisazabalazeli lizwe lookhokho bethu. Our challenges as a country are different in 2026 and we are reminded yet again that we are alive with possibility. We are Mzansi fo sho!

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