South Africa’s democracy is focusing on the wrong things. Nobody cares about this. We are regular citizens faced with serious issues like unemployment and poverty. They wanna tell us that men being simps is legalised. Yoh please man✋

A young Philip Tabane of Malombo with his flutes and his Gibson guitar, c 1960s. Picture: Arena Holdings Collection

People at ol lowyat forums still confused by how Bitcoin works, and Luno continues to misrepresent "network fee" as if they actually paid RM28 to miners. Check any blockchain explorer and they will see that Luno likely only paid RM0.80. RM27.20 go where?

Our main man [email protected]'s soft goal is 1 million active Bitcoin users on this continent by conference day next year 😁 Adopting Bitcoin conference at Workshop 17, V&A Waterfront, Cape Town. Tickets and website for #abcpt26 below: pretix.eu/machankura/ABC… adoptingbitcoin.co.za

Three years ago, I was entrusted with a rare and important library collection, once owned by Ian Smith, the last colonial prime minister of Rhodesia. At first I was excited and thought I should donate it to a local university, I called a cabinet minister to ask how I could do

This is the first recording of "Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika", made on October 16, 1923, in London, England, by activist and writer Sol T Plaatje, accompanied by Sylvia Colenso on the piano.

If you are into filmmaking, in 2010 I bought thousands of hours of visuals from the Rhodesian days in America and donated them to Harvard University’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism. Nieman Foundation I entrusted them as custodians so that these archives can be accessed by many

The Group Areas Act required the forced removal of millions of South Africans to ensure racial segregation. The Act also ensured that 87% of the land ended up in the hands of White people. Often Black South Africans who had inhabited desirable lands ended up on arid and

The 1980s saw a string of brutal forced removals as whole communities were uprooted from where they lived. One such removal happened at Mogopa township in Ventersdorp on Valentine's Day in 1984. This old woman had lived there since she was 13. Picture: Alf Kumalo

"When I was initiated for the first time in 1937 into the mysteries and knowledge of Mother Africa I was ordered by my teacher, who was my aunt, to go outside and fill a small clay of pot with water. Then she said to me, "Look into the water---what do you see?" I was caught in a

Instead of competing, let us build things together. One of my favourite radio stations when I am in South Africa is the University of Johannesburg Radio, run by its journalism students. That is how institutions produce professionals by giving them real platforms to practise and

A lot of people would get a higher ROI investing in themselves than in stocks, bonds, real estate, and even bitcoin.

This reminds me of Matthew Booths carrot cake.

The nice thing about the work done by mayor Dr Nasiphi Moya is that when there is good services residents will come out themselves to defend good governance.

Some of you don't have the ability to orange pill nocoiners and it's starting to show.

Bunny (Barney) Rachabane, Pennywhistler Kid, 1959. Picture: Drum Social Histories

A woman jumps from a bus after members of the army fired tear gas into busses during a banned gathering on May 14, 1986 in the homeland of KwaNdebele. Picture: Trevor Samson

Big drama today in the Tor community. Conrad Rockenhaus, a Tor operator based out of Michigan, United States, was arrested in 2020 after refusing to cooperate with the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation Rockenhaus, a disabled United States military veteran, ran the