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[Iran Embassy SA @IraninSA]

The incompetent @FIFAWorldCup host, USA, is failing to fulfill its responsibilities properly.

We are guests of @FIFAcom, and it is FIFA’s responsibility to ensure that visas for all members are issued.

US Denies Visas to Iran National Football Team Officials Ahead of World Cup

https://t.co/sXw74OzmIt

[Siphosami Malunga @SiphoMalunga]

So I advised him very strongly & also made sure to communicate to his lawyer that he must take time at home, away from media or public. I told him that's what my father did. Granted, it was a different era & my grandfather died the very week my father was released from prison.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

I’m glad that FIFA decided to reverse this policy and allow water bottles to be brought into World Cup games.

No one should have to fear being priced out of being hydrated, especially fans who are often waiting for hours before a game in extreme heat.

[Abhishek🌱 @Abhishekcur]

This article is literally wow.

i read it 2 years ago, and coming back to it today, it still feels new.

few tutorials teach computers in a way that permanently changes how you think. this is one of them.

If you've never built a VM before, you're missing one of the biggest "aha" moments in computer science.

[NIK @ns123abc]

“Sir… Clive Chan… our top chip designer on the Broadcom project… just quit and joined Anthropic BEFORE we even shipped anything… sir… our custom chips are still coming in 2026… right?”

[Man’s NOT Barry Roux @AdvoBarryRoux]

Yesterday at Cartrack's head office in Rosebank, a woman named Gcina Dhladhla passed away after reportedly informing management last week that she was unwell. Instead of being supported, she was issued with a warning for being absent from work and was called into meetings regarding her attendance.

On Friday morning, Gcina went to work after being threatened with dismissal if she did not report for duty. At around 8:30am, she went to the bathroom. After being inside for an unusually long time, her team leader went to check on her. When there was no response, security was called to open the door.

Gcina was found unconscious on the bathroom floor. She had removed her clothing because she was feeling extremely hot. She remained on the floor for a prolonged period while assistance was being arranged. CPR was attempted by individuals who were not trained first aid responders, and it was only later realised that an ambulance had not yet been called.

Supervisors managed the situation, A manager went to Netcare in person to request an ambulance. By this stage, Gcina's body had become cold, her hands and feet had turned purple, and she had begun bleeding from the nose.

An ambulance only arrived after 11:00am, following intervention from her family, who instructed the company to call emergency services. When paramedics arrived, Gcina had already passed away. Employees from the Debtors Department were then instructed to vacate the building.

Gcina had previously complained about the way she was treated by team leaders. Her family, colleagues and the public deserve answers about the circumstances surrounding her death.

[King Jay🇿🇼 @KingJayZim]

#KingsMemoirs
If you grew up in Zimbabwe during the transition from Rhodesia to Independence, you’ll remember how accents alone could tell you which school someone went to, which suburb they came from and sometimes even how much money their parents had 😂😂😂

Just before full Independence in 1980, and during Bishop Abel Muzorewa’s short-lived Zimbabwe Rhodesia government of 1978/79, the old whites-only schools finally began opening their doors to Black, Coloured and Asian students.

Schools like Roosevelt, Churchill, Girls High, Oriel Boys, Gifford and others slowly started integrating.
Parents who could afford it rushed to enrol their children there. Suddenly a whole new generation of Zimbabweans began emerging.

By the mid to late 80s, and especially into the 90s, a completely different accent started developing. It was a unique blend of the old white Rhodesian twang mixed with the hard township and local accents many of us had grown up hearing.

These kids spoke with a smoother, softer nasal twang and quickly earned the nickname “Nose Brigades” from those still attending the F1 and F2 schools reserved mainly for Black students, and from some of us who had gone through Coloured schools like Morgan High and Founders.

Meanwhile, those with deep rural or ghetto accents were labelled VSRBs… “Very Strong Rural Backgrounds” 😂😂😂
There was always a silent class war hidden inside those accents.

The “Nose Brigades” were seen as polished, suburban and middle-class. The VSRBs were viewed as rough around the edges. But funny enough, many of the so-called VSRBs were academically brilliant and ended up humbling the very people mocking them.

Then came another generation altogether.
The “Nose Brigade” crowd slowly gave way to the “Salads”... also known in street lingo as “Ma Saladhi” or “Masalala.” The accents weren’t very different, but this new lot carried themselves with even more class consciousness than their predecessors 😂😂😂

When my brothers and sister got to the University of Zimbabwe, they used to tell me how some of these Salads would openly mock fresh arrivals from the rural areas because of their accents, constantly calling them VSRBs.
But the plot twist was beautiful 😂😂😂

Many of those same “VSRBs” proceeded to set lecture rooms on fire academically while the Salads watched in disbelief.
My brother from another mother @DMwonzora ,Douglas “Dhagi” Mwonzora was one of those guys labelled a VSRB because of his hard accent, but he was exceptionally bright. Before long the mockery died a natural death 😂😂😂

Today, no matter where I am in the world, I can identify a Zimbabwean almost instantly just from the accent alone.
Whether it’s the Nose Brigade twang, the Salad accent or the deep VSRB growl, there’s something unmistakably Zimbabwean about all of them.

And speaking of VSRB accents… one man I could listen to all day is ZANU PF stalwart Patrick Chinamasa @ChinamasaPA regardless of whether I agree with what his saying or not 😂😂😂
That man’s accent is deeper than the Zambezi Valley itself 😂😂😂

[𝘾𝙈 @charlesmore25]

tennis superstar Coco Gauff sharing a pre-match prayer with her father and former coach, Corey Gauff

[mmatigari @matigary]

In less than ten years, @BgoniJustin has done tremendous work that was unthinkable for those who followed our capital markets decades prior:
•He created and set the the Victoria Falls Stock Exchange from scratch and it now has 15 or so counters. Great!
•He took ZSE public. The public can now buy shares of the bourse.
•He is about to launch the SME exchange to help SMEs raise capital.

Great strides. Justin and his team have made great strides in a short amount of time.

[TobyWrites @tobyasky]

Please see how Ivory Coast welcomed their players to USA, see the fans waiting, see the hotel organisation.

I love that they performed their traditional or cultural rites.

I said it yesterday, this is how countries leave us behind. You can see growth.

[RT @RT_com]

IRAQ football STAR Aymen Hussein INTERROGATED for 7 HOURS

Held and questioned before being allowed into US for World Cup

‘Why America hosting World Cup if so hostile to foreign nationals?’

[Sunday League @SundayShoutsFC]

This video must never disappear. 🤣😭🇧🇷

[Syrian Girl @Partisangirl]

Glory to Albania kicking out the Israeli settlers on Sazan island.

You have to nip it in the bud before cancer spreads, Cyprus we are looking at you.

[BonkDaCarnivore @BonkDaCarnivore]

What's amazing to me is that, 10 years apart, there are the exact same clouds in the exact same positions.

DC truly is a magical place

[Aaron Cannon @AaronLCannon]

I started talking to my co-founder like Claude

[Andrew Yeung @andruyeung]

Clubbing is dead and has been replaced by fitness & wellness.

Ppl used to party to socialize and date but now they do things like HYROX, bathhouses, and running raves.

The death of clubbing is something to be studied:
— US has lost 12% of its nightclubs in the last 24 months
— 25% of US adults didn’t drink at all last year
— Gen Z drinks 30% less than Millennials did at the same age

On the flip side:
— According to Strava, the number of running clubs recorded on the platform increased 3.5x in 2025
— 72% of Gen Z go to run clubs to meet new people
— Sauna and spa market: $11.8B → $22.4B by 2034

The post-alcohol economy is gonna be a massive category.

[Wofaase👿 @wofaase_]

Bro doesn’t deserve an Oscar. The Oscar deserves him. 😂

[Chicago Fire FC @ChicagoFire]

A journey that took two players across the globe 🇿🇦

Chicago Fire FC and @BlackArrowFC present: 𝘖𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘪𝘴𝘦: 𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘩 𝘈𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢 𝘵𝘰 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘨𝘰 𝘍𝘪𝘳𝘦.

#cf97

[Ruvarashe @beloved_ruva]

When a man chooses to embark on a polygamous marriage, the first wife and the second wife are both wives full stop.

Neither is inferior to the other.

Some of you need to snap out of the delusion of calling one woman a “small house” when she has been properly married and lobola/roora has been paid.

At that point, she’s not a side chick, small house or a secret partner; she’s a wife, just like the first wife.

Whether people agree with polygamy or not is a separate discussion, but within a polygamous marriage, both women are wives.

[Justin Bgoni @BgoniJustin]

Excited to get approval to launch the SME Exchange. Very different from current exchanges and tailor made for entrepreneurs