1) I find that when people say categorical things about South African film/literature, it's because they don't pay even a modicum of attention to what is done. Look at how many people are under that post talking about how "films aren't advertised"...

2) Which is the same laziness that results in people asking you where they can obtain a book (as though book stores don't exist). Or there's a foolish expectation that a film produced on a South African budget should have the marketing of Mission Impossible/John Wick...

3) There are many wonderful South African films from the last decade, and many truly abysmal ones as well (that's another story). But they'll never succeed as long as we live in an incurious society.

. Lusibalukhulu 🖍 The IDC and Black founders is trending. So I did what nobody else is doing, I pulled the actual funding data.854 companies. R65.9 Billion. 7 fiscal years. Every deal. Every shareholder name. Public record.The data is now live. Go look for yourself 👇 📊

there are cathedrals everywhere for those with the eyes to see

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Fuel shortages are going to hit the logistics industry like a nuke going off…

everything about this album is so fucking timeless, a discography that’s just aged gracefully like wine.

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South African football across this country deserves this investment lol

Facebook Marketplace should have its own app entirely removed from Facebook. such a gem of a place.

This will just result in more extraction of interest, dividends and profit (primary income) from SA by foreign investors. SAs large primary income deficit is the reason for SAs current account deficit (we usually run a trade and services surplus). What SA needs is to direct SAn

the apprentice.

mashallah 🤲🏾

This GQ shoot is a class in art history. [left: Jay Z by Rashid Johnson, 2026 & right: Francis Bacon, Three Studies of Lucian Freud, 1969]

The Xhosa Kingdom sustained the longest anti-colonial struggle against British expansion in Africa, commonly referred to as "Africa’s 100 Years War". Spanning from 1779 to 1879, the Xhosa fought nine distinct Cape Frontier Wars in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, demonstrating

peak cinema

Treasury won’t do anything that is in the interest of its citizens…

the projects/era I'm listening to the most on any given week easily