Siphumelele Zondi
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Urban Zulu warrior. Travel & Africa. MA: Media & Culture, Sussex. Creator, Snr Producer & Anchor: Network on SABC. Lecturer. MG Top 200 Young South Africans
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Look at Africa. She is beautiful! That’s Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, the beach in Maputo, penguins in South Africa and Gross Barmen in Namibia. Happy
#AfricaDay
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Samthing Soweto becomes the 1st South African musician to have a simultaneous number 1 song and album on Apple Music. When it's your time, it's your time.
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"A new strain of flu that has the potential to become pandemic has been identified in China by scientists. It emerged recently and is carried by pigs, but can infect humans, they say." Researchers concerned it could mutate so that it can spread easily.
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We’ve been sold a lie that London & Paris are beautiful. They even tell us that Paris is a romantic city. They’re not. They have grey skies & their brown buildings don’t help. Have you seen the beauty of Zanzibar, Durban, Victoria Falls & Mombasa? Africa has blue skies for days!
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I have never seen anything like this! The pride in culture & Africanness exhibited by the Zulu in the last week is like nothing else. Even in Christianity, brought to Africa by the coloniser, Zulu people have preserved who they are.
#RIPKingGoodwillZwelithini
#RIPKingZwelithini
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I can't help but think that the new Radio 2000 is what Metro FM should be, what Metro FM was. Quality conversations about the black experience outside social media. Quality black music & music education. You get the sense that they read and research far & wide too.
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Back home in Pietermaritzburg, they’re discussing Dr Zamambo Mkhize who left Edendale Hospital (now Harry Gwala) to get lunch at about midday & never returned. After her husband contacted her tracking company at night, she was found murdered in the boot of her car.
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Has any African government, ruling party or president spoken out about what's happening in Zimbabwe right now? Is it quiet diplomacy again, maybe?
#ZimbabweanLivesMatter
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Master KG and Nomcebo Zikode's Jerusalema continues to move from house parties to clubs to church to the convent. It does this in every corner of the world.
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Burna Boy's Love, Damini is the best album I've heard in a long, long time. It sounds like hard work & a lot of soul and went into it. It takes us to a time we didn't want albums to end because every song sounded better than the previous one. And there are 19 tracks!!
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Natasha Mazonne is DA's parly Chief Whip. She has no post high school qualification. Lindiwe Mazibuko held that position & she has a Master's Deegree. John Steenhuisen is DA leader. He has no post high school qualification. Mmusi Maimane held that position & he is a double Master
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Zakes Bantwini studied music at DUT. He can play saxophone, guitar, piano, sing and Deejays. Black Coffee studied the same programme at the same university. While there's no formula, theirs was university followed by hard work. Maybe school isn't such a bad idea after all.
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This lady speaks some truths. The scramble for what's left of Africa and its resources continues. It's not just the West now. The East has entered. The taking often happens with permission from some of Africa's leaders.
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This is Soshangane Nxumalo, born in KwaNomgoma in KwaZulu-Natal. He went on to found the Shangane nation of Mozambique. His grandfather was named Gaza. Mozambique has a province named Gaza.
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Let's go beyond retweeting the trending hash tag
#ZimbabweanLivesMatter
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John Legend's Nervous is great. But this Tik Tok version with Mthandazo Gatya elevates it a hundred times more. I hope it becomes something more than just a Tik ToK version since John Legend loved it as well.
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On election day, I was with an Italian journalist working for Italian TV station. On Tuesday, he’d told me that he wants to see violence. I said there’d be no violence. On election day, he wanted us to drive around to search for non-existent violence. This got me really annoyed.
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As you continue with criticism of Babes Wodumo's colour white for her celebrity husband, Mampintsha's funeral - one would assume that you know that black as the colour for mourning was introduced by Britain's Queen Victoria. The practice was brought to Africa through colonisation
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I seriously think Stormzy's 'This Is What I Mean' & Burna Boy's 'Love, Damini' are the best albums to have been released in 2022.
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The ANC's Lindiwe Sisulu attends a service of the massive Shembe Nazareth Church. He asks congregants to pray for the ANC as they're now losing to Hlabisa. The leader of the IFP is Velenkosini Hlabisa.
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It's Mthandazo Gatya and John Legend on the same stage performing Mthandazo's TikTok duet of Nervous. Look at what TikTok did!! 🎊🎊🎊👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
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On
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, one Zimbabwean friend to me: "We have a cartel for a ruling party. Thugs with no remorse." Another says: "Bob's killer right hand man was never going to be our savior".
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Tonight,
#ShakaiLembeMzansi
starts with an injured Godongwana. The real story is that he flees to the lands of the Sotho and will return on a horse to become King Dingiswayo, one of the greatest. He shocks many on his return as the Zulu had never seen a man on a beast.
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Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi is doing a brilliant job in how he guides Zulu King Misuzulu kaZwelithini. 👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾
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3-nil. All in South Africa will get peaceful sleep tonight. Let's celebrate with coach Pitso Mosimane, son of the soil.
#CAFCLFinal
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When I saw these photos of Miss Universe, Zozibini Tunzi, on her Instagram - I thought she clearly is the one we've been waiting for. Too many suffer mental health issues because they think life must be faked on social media & that their realities can't be seen by others.
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Trust Ukhozi listeners to have Sete at number 6. It's the biggest song of 2022 by far in South Africa. I get shocked every year.
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On SABC News, Hopewell Chinono
@daddyhope
, says President Cyril Ramaphosa loves requesting the removal of sanctions against Zimbabwe but never mentions the reasons those sanctions were implemented in the 1st place which he says are a result of corruption by the Zimbabwean gov.
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As we watch another public racism video made by
#AdamCatzavelos
, we still hear people trying to convince us that this is not the norm. What do you accept at private dinner table conversations from family & friends? Do you correct them when they’re being racist?
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Journalists are dealing with a lot today. What's going on here?!
#21daylockdownSA
#LockdownSA
#Day1
#COVID19SouthAfrica
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I didn't watch
#PodcastAndChill
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Piers Morgan writes that he prefers a Beyoncé who doesn't tell us about her race & who isn't an activist. Privilege!
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The story was in The Citizen. The man allegedly bumped the car of South African designer Fabrice Moyo. Fabrice, who is South African but born in Cameroon, says when he got out to assess the damage, the man who isn't white called him a kaffir and then makwerekwere.
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As Prince Misuzulu arrived, the warriors suddenly changed the song they were singing to, "Uyinkosi yohlanga."
It's a song they only sing for the one they recognise as king
The significance of the warriors (Amabutho) walking to him to surround him, walking with him as they sing!
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They’re sending a shoutout to DUT where I currently lecture. Let me add some DUT Journalism graduates that include broadcasters Siphamandla Goge and Jeremy Maggs as well as print guys that include award winning author Fred Khumalo as well as Dudu Dube of The Wife book series.
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At
#GovTech2019
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@SABCNetwork
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My colleague who is in Clermont, outside Pinetown, in KwaZulu-Natal sent this to me. Looting of shops is taking place there as well.
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I have been a fan of Black Coffee's music for years & years. His decision to play in Israel & then justify it by saying he needs to feed his family is an insult, more so now after Prime Minister Binyàmin Netanyahu has said African migrants are worse than terrorists.
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Gogo
#GeeSixFive
came for a season. She asked us to question who the people we are worried about are as we don't chase our dreams because of their opinions. She told us she only wanted to be a one hit wonder. After that important message, she left. What a legacy!
#RIPGeeSixFive
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Siphamandla Goge spots government minister Lindiwe Zulu at Zulu prime minister, Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi’s funeral and uses his phone to record as he asks: “Aniziholeli ngani izalukazi?!” “Why have you not paid the elderly?!”
That’s journalism.
#Buthelezi
Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu is one of the programme directors at the funeral service of the late Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi in uLundi.
#eNCA
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I've heard people saying black people don't really contribute to charity. We do, every single day. We help out close family, extended family, friends and strangers in need all the time. Ubuntu is what we live daily. Some refer to a part of it as black tax. Charity is always us!!
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On Dr Zamambo Mkhize in Pietermaritzburg. Those who work at Edendale Hospital, where she worked, allege that her husband is there & under police guard & say he had tried to commit suicide. From what they know, he’s accused of buying izinkabi (hitmen) to take out his wife.
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What's happening with Zanu-pf politicians in Zimbabwe? You'd expect a rebranding of some sort post Mugabe. But mess after mess. Petrol price hike. Wrath unleashed on protesters. Pres. stays abroad despite deaths at home. Internet shutdown. Now controlling who should mourn Tuku?!
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That Babes Wodumo interview with MacG was brilliant. Mampintsha called twice during the interview and even asked her to video call to prove she's at an interview. That part was not confusing. Babes Wodumo is a star man!! Superstar! Also, Radio has been properly disrupted here!
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I wonder if Jonas Lekganyane &
@LopangAlamu
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@NokoMashaba
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@Rene_Lost_It
He works for Rai TV. Not sure if it was employer or him that would be looking for that type of story.
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I wish Malawians would speak their Chichewa with pride & not apologise for the lack of English. Most Brits don't apologise for knowing only one language. Malawians must own confusing Ls & Rs when speaking languages that weren't originally their own.
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You’re a parent. You’ve sent your child to university. You then hear that they’ve been killed on campus. Students protests or not, how and why did live ammunition enter a university campus?
#DUTShooting
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In 2019, Nkanyiso Madlala was part of the Red Bull Amaphiko programme. His social entrepreneurship initiative, Light Shines Programme, is currently intalling street lights with public WiFi hotspots in Hammarsdale in KwaZulu-Natal. Info on
@SABCNetwork
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#SABCNews
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There were protests in eSwatini. People died. The internet was switched off. The Southern African Development Community (SADC) responds by sending a delegation to engage in what they call "pro democracy talks".
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World's most livable cities of 2018. They look at things like crime, public transport and overall infrastructure. Vienna is at number 1 followed by Melbourne.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie says men must “go through a process of unlearning” & know that “a woman’s body belongs to her and her alone”.
#NelsonMandelaTribute
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Durban Metro Police say vehicles with cameras that can read all about the car & owner from photo of the registration number will roll out in the city before year-end. They say the next phase of smart policing will be body cams on police officers. Info on
@SABCNetwork
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#SABCNews
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I likes the idea of
#Ehostela
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If you look at photos, you'd think cases of monkey pox are rising in Africa because western news organisations are choosing photos of black African hands to tell the story. When you read, you realise they're rising in Europe & America and Africa has nothing to do with the story.
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@AfricaFactsZone
He was born in SA, he was raised in SA, his mother is South African, he plays in the PSL. End of discussion.
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“SADC is a club of repressive dictators,” says Hopewell Chinono who is
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I think coding needs to be introduced in all schools, especially township and rural schools. Imagine the kinds of solutions township and rural kids could come up with, solutions that would solve the real problems of those areas.
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Because of Zimbabwe's healthcare system collapse, journalist Hopewell Chin'ono says many women are crossing to South Africa to give birth. "Dr Motswaledi says 75% of women who are giving birth at Musina Hospital are from Zimbabwe," he told
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Watching
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“I’m sorry but you are not a black man, you can’t use that word,” student tells Prof. Adam Habib - director of the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) after he used the N word. Students are calling for Habib to resign.
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Hlaudi Motsoeneng, president of the Africa Content Movement, is on Power FM & he insists that he lectured at Wits. The presenter says he wasn't going to go there. I think Motsoeneng confuses being invited to talk to 1 class for one session with being a lecturer at the university
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Ukephi, ukuphi, umaphi, ulaphi all mean the same thing, but it’s one word that might just tell us which part of the Zulu kingdom you’re from.
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"Notorious for hitmen that will pull a trigger for a price." This Carte Blanche piece is on the culture of izinkabi (hitmen) in KwaZulu-Natal and refers to the province as Killing Fields. It says most hits are carried out in Pietermaritzburg and Durban.
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At the University of Zululand, we read about the sale of degrees through the murder of a professor who'd spoken out against it. We now hear of the same sale of degrees at Fort Hare. Murder gets reported again. What's happening in historically black universities? How are we here?!
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Letta Mbulu sings as Sidney Poitier listens in the 1973 A Warm December.
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@GalaxyTwoTwenty
This story makes no sense. Che Guevara died in 1967. Jacob Zuma went to exile in the 1970s. The Battle of Cuito Cuanavale took place in 1987 - 20 years after Che died. From the timelines alone, there are a lot of untruths in this story. Guys, we must read!!
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SABC 1 screening I Am A Slave. It's a movie about a girl who is abducted in Sudan and sold into slavery. We need a lot of content about the rest of the continent like this on national TV. 👌🏾👌🏾
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@Kwena06019336
But essentially, all Bantu people have some relations & that's why languages gave similarities. That's why mbuzi, manzi, ndlovu (ndovu) are similar from Kenya to the Cape. AmaZulu then birthed Shangane of Moz, Ndebele of Zim, Ngoni or Zambia/Malawi/Tanzania & other SA groups.
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"I went on a residency in Luxembourg. The family was talking about adopting an Asian child because an Asian child has a better IQ than an African child. I took it personal & decided all the kids I'm gonna portray, I'll make them look smart," South African artist Nelson Makamo.
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African names have deep meanings and histories. Think uThongathi, bastardised to Tongaat. It comes from "bazenza utho ngathi" which means they're making something od themselves out of our pain. History of the land will tell you who the Zulu were referring to those many years ago.
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This farm worker tells the KwaZulu-Natal premier that they're abused by their employers, their livestock gets taken away and yet authorities never show up when they call them when they're there when called by farm owners about their grievances.
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The song that would have brought us to 2020 is Ntencane. Maskandi keeps on proving that it is actually bigger than any genre in South Africa. They win SAMAs for best selling, they filled up Moses Mabhida Stadium in 2019 and now this, again!
#SihlukanisaKwasani
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This says 92-year-old Prime Minister of AmaZulu nation & former IFP leader, Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi, drove to Ulundi in Northern KwaZulu-Natal to personally thank residents for protecting infrastructure such as malls as they haven't been vandalised or looted in the town.
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South African actress Connie Chiume looking very Himba in Wakanda. Namibia stand up!!
#BlackPanther
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While schools with smart classrooms are launching in Gauteng, many rural schools don't have teachers who can even do the basics with computers. Many still only touch computers for the 1st time at university, if they make it there. We must push against this digital divide.
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Did former Vodacom CEO, Alan Knott-Craig, explain why he'd lied about having come up with Please Call Me and even mentioned it in a book when in fact it was Nkosana Makate's brilliance? Today the high court ruled that Nkosana Makate deserves way more than Vodacom wants to give.
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@hunchosnipes
@nuhohm1
The many comments I read are calling out the adult in this situation to the point that they’ve traced him & shared his photos. It’s South African adults who need to be kept in check. And yes, you’re defending pedophilia.
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I speak no Portuguese. When in Mozambique, locals often ask me to speak isiZulu as they understand that better than English. When I do, we are then able to have conversations. IsiZulu helped me in Bulawayo in Zimbabwe as it also helped with the Ngoni of Chipata in Zambia.
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People have died. People are missing. They lost homes and other property. Give people this week off to sort out their lives and put the missing pieces together, that's even if they can. We read posts about managers who still expect employees to show up. Be human!!
#KZNFloods
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Thinking about the
#VanBreda
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As there's a
#ZimbabweShutdown
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#Zimbabwe
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has decided not to cut his overseas trip short. What kind of leadership is this?
#Zimshutdown
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@Oliver_Speaking
Bongani Mtolo, Nala & Lonwabo in the morning. David Mashabela at noon & Glen Lewis in the afternoon. They are music, sport & education at the same time. Production teams have a lot to do with it too. I think Hlengiwe is amazing for Glen & team in the afternoon.
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When they speak of filth in Durban, they don't joke. This is the Durban Harbour right now.
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Using statues to honour people is something brought to us by colonialists. I sometimes wonder if we should continue where they left off or if we, as Africans, should figure out new ways of honouring our heroes. Statues cost a lot in a continent with many in poverty.
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#GeeSixFive
said she wants to be a one hit wonder to show others that it is never too late to start something new. I think the PhD candidate has proven her point. The 65-year-old has the most downloaded song in SA right now.
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If you looked at YouTube in South Africa, the biggest song right now is Big Nuz with Ngeke. They're number one on trending. King Monada's Aye Kuwa is number 2. The crossover song is a big deal in South Africa.
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How do we explain people who aren’t the country’s military doing military drills in army uniform and saying things like “impi”? Who is the “impi” against?! What is this called in a democracy?!
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"The ANC is never under attack because of its policies. It's always because of morality," says Dr Makhosi Khoza on
@channelafrica1
#SABCNews
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@ElderMumba_
We didn't have written words, amaZulu write it as Gasa and the Shangane write it as Gaza. It's like how the surname Mabaso has one S in KwaZulu and it becomes Mabasso in Mozambique. Some of our spellings were influenced by who had colonised us. English vs Portuguese.
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In many townships, there would be one entrance and one exit. It wasn't for the people of the black township, but for the apartheid police to block anyone from leaving or running away when they'd be there to take unleash their brutality.
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"There would be people who would want to exploit the condition of our people and behave as umgodoyi behaves." - Thabo Mbeki
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Is it not fascinating how there are shows that now start on YouTube before TV channels pick them up. Think Unpacked with Relebogile which is now on S3. Think Podcast and Chill with MacG which is now on Channel O. The internet now allows the viewer to decide what they consume.
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