i want to be so disgustingly well read. i want to be sitting at tables and speaking of books with names that roll off your tongue like an exotic animal’s name. i want to talk about theories and the science and philosophy and the universe and religion and love and my career.
In my sleeping and waking, in my sitting and standing, in my tears and laughter, in my pain and joy, in my loss and wins, in my lowest and highest, in my shame and pride, today and always, a South African I am and forever will be. My home, my heart, my love!
What a people, what a nation! Ke le rata hureee!🇿🇦❤️🇿🇦❤️🇿🇦❤️🇿🇦❤️
Wasn’t the Botswana president in SA a few weeks back criticising us? I thought he’d be willing to step in, show us how decent and caring countries behave towards illegal foreigners.
Steve Biko was 30 years old when he died. Frantz Fanon was 36 at his death. At 30, Biko had already comprehensively developed the entire ideational structure/paradigm that underpins Black Consciousness Philosophy, as we know it today. At 36 Fanon had authored several books and essays, two of which are seminal texts in decolonial theory/literature, as we know it today. Jabulani Nobleman Nxumalo was 35 when he died in 1991, and was only 32 years old when his iconic book was published: "Gatsha Buthelezi - Chief with a Double Agenda" (the scathing critique of the IFP and its leadership). Nxumalo's polemical essays, although largely uncited, shaped much of the SACP's early thinking on racial capitalism, Black Marxism, and their theories as regards the relationship between capitalism and colonial disturbance. Books and writing aside, Kaizer Motaung was only 26 years old when he established Kaizer Chiefs Football Club in 1970 - it has grown to become the biggest brand in South Africa, and is one of the very few successful institutions that were established and owned 100% by Black people. Now back to books and writing; Toni Morrison lived longer, she was 88 when she died in 2019. But, she was 39 when she submitted the manuscript of her first novel to be published; she was considered a late bloomer, even though she was still in her 30s. Bessie Head was 48 years old when she died, but was only 31 years old when her now world-acclaimed novel was published: "When Rain Clouds Gather". What about Nadine Gordimer? Almost like Morrison, she also lived a long life; she was 90 when she died in 2014. She was only 35 when her iconic novel, "A World of Strangers" was published in 1958. She continued writing politically subversive books, such that in 1976 the white racist government banned her book: "The Late Bourgeois World", which was published in 1966.
What are 30+ year olds thinking/reading/writing in 2026? What are we doing ngempela? 🤔 I wonder! (I'm not excluding myself here. At all)
***Happy Youth Month to all the young people of South Africa! 🙃
You could be having the most awful day and a random girl comes to you and gives you the cutest compliment. That's why I will always choose girlhood 🥺🥺🥺
@naijababie4lyf Haiti was a blueprint of not abandoning indigenous spiritual practices, mobilisation and killing off all weak links where necessary. There is no sound African person who would hate on Haiti. Diaspora wars are not possible without an invisible hand
South African 🇿🇦 star Ime Okon speaks on choosing to represent Bafana Bafana instead of Super Eagles of Nigeria 🇳🇬.
He says South Africa means everything to him.
Born and raised in South Africa, with a South African mother.
He is in the World Cup squad
“ im too busy to watch another man chase a soccer ball. id rather watch a podcast about making money. ”
who do you people think you are, mara ???????? 😭😭😭😭😭😭
girls really are never spared from misogyny from the womb because wdym of ur ugly when ur pregnant its a girl and if u glow its a boy? LISTEN TO YOURSELVES 😭