Thobile

The world is truly your oyster.🙏 believe! love! laugh! share you!

[Thobile @Thowy]

@Anele Flomist spray. I swear by that spray.

[Thobile @Thowy]

@News24 I’m just going

[Sinethemba.🇿🇦 @cnehshuga]

Had this last week 😍 I love it sm

[MoFlava @moflavadj]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾

[Ryan Cummings @Pol_Sec_Analyst]

No one:

South African rats....

[SA🇿🇦 FIRST BEFORE AFRICA🌍 @MusaMzilikazi]

Fixing something that is not broken leads to this horrible situation

Suzuki Cars

[Jade Novah @JadeNovah]

Why didn’t nobody tell me Cardi B was on America’s Next Top Model? 😅 This is the doc I’m tryna see…

[Department of Human Settlements @The_DHS]

The Department of Human Settlements invites qualifying youth to apply for the 2026 Scholarship. This opportunity is available to students pursuing studies related to Human Settlements.

Download and email the completed form to: [email protected] by 07 January 2026.

[Thobile @Thowy]

Mine picks me always. Even if I wasn’t driving it, the minute I am close, it kicks out whoever is connected and connects to mine ❤️

[Anele Mdoda @Anele]

My car never picks my phone as the one to connect to. It always goes with everyone else in the car before me but it’s my car. Even when I’m alone, it still does not pick me 🥹

[Thobile @Thowy]

@Musanathi2 Succession on Showmax

[Ty Ngachira @anto_ty]

When Tyla said she is not Black but Coloured, she was not speaking into the American conversation about race at all. She was speaking in the language of her own country, shaped by its own history. Yet her words detonated in America as though they had been aimed there. This is what happens when a nation has spent a century convincing the world that its definitions are the only ones that matter.

America’s greatest export has never been war. It has never been democracy. It has never been freedom. America’s greatest export is the dream of itself.

It is not that the films are inherently better. It is not that the music contains some mystical note absent elsewhere. What America has, and what it has always had, is money, reach, and a machinery built to make its image the centre of the world.

This was not accidental. It was policy. It was the soft arm of empire. To project yourself outward until your face is the first one people recognise in the mirror.

And so the American way of life became the default. Other cultures were filed into two neat drawers: savage if they challenged the story, exotic if they could be sold back to you.

If you are Black, your first cinematic self was likely African American, the rapper, the sitcom character, the hero of a Spike Lee joint. If you are white in Europe or Australia, it was the white faces of American sitcoms and stadium tours. Whoever you were, your first image of yourself came with an American accent.

Over time, Americans began to believe the story they had written. When you grow up in the country that built itself into the cultural Mecca, it is easy to think you are the best simply because you are on top. You forget, or never know, that the game was fixed long before you played it.

But the monopoly is breaking. Nigeria’s Nollywood now speaks across oceans. South Korean dramas leap borders. India’s Bollywood never needed permission to fill theatres. Spanish thrillers keep strangers awake at night. Slumdog Millionaire, Squid Game, Money Heist, Shōgun — all aimed partly at the American market because that is where the money is, but no longer about America.

And here is the thing. Black Americans, who fought to be seen in their own country, became the global face of Blackness. That is a remarkable achievement. It was also made possible by the same system that excluded everyone else. Now Africans, Caribbeans, and Afro-Latins tell their own stories without making room for American centrality, and the absence is noticed.

We grew up watching you. You did not grow up watching us. And now the internet has levelled the ground just enough for others to speak without hesitation. Tyla’s words land differently because the world no longer accepts America as the only arbiter of meaning.

America’s greatest export was never its art. It was the power to decide which art, and which identities, the world would see. That power is no longer yours alone. There is both justice and loss in that.

[Thobile @Thowy]

@Rochelle__Meyer 😂

[Thobile @Thowy]

Am I the only one who is being harassed by Auto and General because WOW!

[SK 💃🏾🕺 @Rimmesfk]

Meghan is the only royal woman in history who was told there wasn’t enough money to feed her or clothe her. The only one cast out, not by formal exile, but by silence and cold shoulders. When she retreated to find peace beyond British shores, they still held on tight.

They don’t pay her, they don’t welcome her, yet they forbid her from making a living. She wasn’t given a seat at their table, so she built her own. But even as she lays the foundation, there is a relentless campaign — daily, unyielding , spread across front pages, whispered on talk shows, amplified by paid trolls online. Their only goal is to unscrew the legs of the table she’s building for her family to eat from.

She is the only royal woman in living memory to be targeted like this, to have TV presenters openly state that she should disappear.

And yet, she doesn’t.
She endures.
She builds.

We often underestimate the quiet, burning strength of Meghan, but what she carries is not fragility — it’s Fkn fire & it terrifies them.

#confessionsofafemalefounder 1Day 2go 💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾 #MeghanSussex

[Thobile @Thowy]

@Lukhos_Mom I was searching frantically until I learnt it was discontinued 💔

[Spike @SpikeNotion]

#JoyfulFriday 18 April 2025 on Good Friday #Pmb

[Thobile @Thowy]

@MaBlerh Don’t give up! I once went and fetched my phone from a car wash after it went missing. They tried to hide it but I found it using the sound thing on find my.