From the ultimate guessing game to the world's biggest stage! The Mzansi Youth Choir's World Cup performance with Tyla was years in the making.
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Tyla sang the first part in her lower register and knocked it out of the park. The change from her lower register to the higher register for the second half of the anthem was great.
You wanted her to belt out a prayer? That's what ya'll wanted?
You just want to complain.
Tyla is set to sing the South African national anthem during the opening ceremony of the 2026 World Cup, FIFA has confirmed.
The South African star will take center stage as part of the official opening ceremony celebrations.
#AfricanFootball#WorldCupwithMicky
This is free advice from an expensive psychologist. If you’re an anxious person, do everything for fun. Go to a job interview for fun. Submit documents for fun. Start a blog for fun. Anxiety feeds on importance. Don’t make everything a matter of life and death.
We do know what Mel and Peet Viljoen allegedly stole and scanned improperly. That is why the “redemption/sweetheart tour” is so frustrating - Mel Viljoen keeps saying it was a credit card glitch and they were targeted because they are celebrities BUT the charge sheet is publicly available!
The allegations across all CCTV incidents (29 August 2025 to 8 March 2026) includes 52 transactions; 392 items allegedly stolen or improperly scanned. Total alleged loss: $5302.17
On the last day (8 March 2026) before their arrest on 10 March 2026, Peet Viljoen allegedly exited Publix with a trolly without paying. The contents included:
2 bottles of La Marca Prosecco
1 package of Charmin toilet paper
1 case of San Pellegrino Mineral Water
1 case of Maison Perrier Forever Lime Sparkling Water
1 pack of Coca Cola Zero
Mel actually paid for her items on the 8th but it is alleged she assisted in the overall scheme on the day and they worked in concert on the other days.
“The proposed 50-bed unit on an air force base in central Kenya for Americans exposed to the virus in Democratic Republic of Congo or Uganda has angered many Kenyans.
They accuse the U.S. of offloading the health risk of caring for patients.”
The Trump Administration has made one thing clear - Africa is for stripping resources and dumping.
An Afrikaans only university, a private airport : all part of a pattern that has played out elsewhere in the world to insulate the privileged so that can destroy and defund public services without suffering any consequences.
No wonder we need to be so distracted and divided.
“To be born Black in South Africa is to inherit pain as a birthright—a pain that is not metaphorical, symbolic, or poetic but material, systemic, and institutional. Black skin is a site of assault, a canvas upon which the violence of capitalism, White supremacy, and the post-apartheid betrayal by the comprador bourgeoisie is painted daily in blood”
#whiteprivilege
#blackpain
Daniel Mekgwe @ApostleDeza
(an extract from his chapter)
I once lived in Mpumalanga, Kinross, Secunda for one year, in 2012. While I was there, I tried to get involved in Community projects. One project was a "Community garden" in a school yard, started by a Primary school teacher, the aim being to teach her learners how to plant and grow vegetables. Later, the kids' parents were invited to get involved in tending the garden, weeding, watering, and then allowed during weekends after doing the work, we would take some spinach, carrots, pumpkins home. This was a way of putting some food on the table and alleviating hunger.
The teacher had sought permission from the school Principal to use the piece of land.
The teacher's husband was a Sasol employee, he held a senior position at Sasol. He was very supportive to his wife, bought water pipes and watering cans, seeds, whatever was needed, he just sponsored the project from their pockets.
There was an informal settlement emerging around the school, so the parents of these kids came from that informal settlement. When I came on board, I saw potential for the mothers who were part of the project to organize themselves into a Cooperative. I wanted them to own the project when I leave, since I wasn't going to be there for long. At the time I still believed in the government promise of supporting Cooperatives. So I thought maybe they could get support from government too.
Sasol, through the teacher's husband, heard about the project and were entertaining the idea of assisting from their CSI with some resources, a possible borehole, and grow the project to a point where they could supply one or two of their kitchens with vegetables. It was early stages, but it had potential.
Then, the Chairperson of the SGB, who happened to also be an ANC Women's league Chair in the area, and a girlfriend of the principal, heard about the Sasol offer. Suddenly there was interest because they thought money was coming. She called me and some of the ladies from the project to talk. In the meeting she suggested to us that she would like to report on this project as an ANC Women's League initiative. I was like what?? 😂 I said no ways, this is a community project, it has nothing to do with any political party or affiliation to anyone.
To cut the long story short, the project was then sabotaged, the teacher was harassed, told to present in every SGB meeting about the "funds received from Sasol". There were no funds. We were called "outsiders" not welcome on the school premises. I used to run at the time, just for exercise. My heart would bleed when I go for my runs, passing the school and seeing those cabbages rotting there. They had no decency to at least let the parents to come and harvest those vegetables.
I left Secunda later that year, only to receive a call that one of the ladies who was in the leadership of the project had died of a heart attack. I couldn't attend the funeral, but I was sad and angry. 😏
Mel and Peet Viljoen sneaked out the country owing a number of South Africans money and under a cloud of allegations regarding shady business deals in May 2025. They then spent months in the USA making videos saying that “white genocide is real” and “Trump is right”. Then got arrested for retail theft at a Publix Store in the US in March 2026. ICE picked them up from county jail because they overstayed their visas and were illegally in the US.
After 2 months in ICE detention, Mel Viljoen opted for voluntary deportation. Peet Viljoen is still in ICE detention and will only appear in front of an immigration judge on 12 June 2026. However, Mel Viljoen who told Netwerk24 that she would be staying in the US as long as possible to wait for Peet (according to her she had until the end of June to leave) quietly arrived back in the South Africa on Tuesday this week.
The retail theft case is still open in the US and the next court event for the Publix shoplifting case is 24 June 2026.
Netwerk24 is now doing a number of puff pieces on the Viljoens - framing them as remorseful victims that lost their way.
Question:
When will people like the Viljoens be held accountable for the alleged financial damage (alleged fraud re: Tammy Taylor franchises) and the reputational damage to South Africa?
bro to bro: if you like skinnier girls, get yourself a skinny girl. if you like thicker girls, get yourself a thick girl. if you like fitness girls, get yourself a fit girl. you are entitled to your own preferences.
but what you are not going to do bro, is date a girl who is not your type and make her feel inferior to other girls.
So…
Buckingham palace officials were handed emails 6 years ago showing that Andrew was selling state secrets
And they buried it
Want to know what else was kicking off 6 years ago?
A very hateful, deliberate, coordinated smear campaign against Meghan, Duchess of Sussex
South Africa’s very own, Tyla, is once again making South Africa proud.
The multi-award-winning singer and songwriter scooped two awards at the 52nd American Music Awards. Tune in to #eNCA, channel #DStv403
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