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Our mothers really had the right idea of just visiting their friends at home and chatting over a cup of tea. Because yho!
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Shout out to the Intercontinental security guard who tried to protect Cassie, filed a full incident report, leaked that video of them in the hotel hallway, and now testified against Diddy. 🤍
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A lifetime of substance abuse didn’t break him but not performing at the Super Bowl did? I love Wayne but he’s doing too much behind this.
Nobody took a birthright away from you, this was never guaranteed/owed to you.
Wow... Lil Wayne was just on IG Live talking about how hurt he was not performing at the Super Bowl in New Orleans
"It broke me but I'm just trying to put myself together. Thank you to my fans, my peers and my friends
I'm working on me thank you"
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People literally died waiting for medical care because someone wanted a trio of blue Lamborghinis.
The SIU confirms an operation at a Sandhurst home connected to our #TembisaHospitalCapture investigation, part of implementing investigation outcomes and managing consequences. Further updates will follow once legal processes are complete.
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Opens Twitter. Sees tweet. Types a reply to give constructive criticism, even though the tweet didn’t request it. Suddenly remembers to mind my business. Deletes tweet. Continues scrolling.
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Uncle Waffles is the story of when opportunity meets preparation. She had a helluva few months around Africa and now she’s going to Europe. That’s on her team, and ignoring the bs and just working. Love it. 😌
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Zweli Mkhize wasn’t dismissed, he resigned. Khusela Diko wasn’t dismissed, she’s simply given a written warning and redeployed to a different position.
Somebody died trying to expose this corruption.
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Daisies is 18 years old this year and when it started it was a very far cry from what it’s grown into. I know people might be frustrated by teething issues but they managed to pull off a festival of this magnitude in the first year is MAJOR.
#HeyNeighbour needs to learn how to do VIP. Or do concerts. Basics were missing. Learn from Daisies or something.
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When Cass gets on stage he does the damn thing. No two ways about it. You can talk all the shit you want about him but he doesn’t disrespect fans with half-assed shit.
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Guys, KO doing push-ups I’m top of a Siyaya eBree will forever be one of the GOAT moments in SA hip hop. 🤞He had to flex physically because he’d done it lyrically too. 💪
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There’s a blockage in the SIU to NPA pipeline. Because as much as we see these public statements and diagrams, where are the charges?
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So Metro forgot to take Mampintsha off today’s playlist and Thomas stopped the track halfway on some ‘why are we even playing this?!’
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SA girls arguing about their wigs on Twitter but we can still see the lace 😭 nitter.app/channielonglegs/status…
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Hasan Minhaj lost a job as Trevor Noah’s replacement on The Daily Show because of your take-down piece. Because you prioritised the feelings of an FBI informant over the community he was informing on. You deliberately misquoted him and excluded evidence he presented you with.
Here’s our official statement. I stand by the story and encourage people to read it in full. newyorker.com/news/annals-of…
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Didn’t MacG host Jub Jub on the podcast? Double standards are when men aren’t held to the same moral standards. That man killed four children and has been casually accepted back into society and has a TV show to boot.
If it was Flabba who murdered this lady would anyone even think of hosting him on a podcast? Would it be Lekker for him to even consider doing a doccie about it? Pure madness and double standards of the highest order.
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I hate that people’s first reaction to this is that we’re gonna get the best album out of this. She’s a human being ffs, not a melancholic album generator, and she’s divorcing her husband and father of her child. Treat her like one, because this is awful 💔
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There’s a story we don’t know there between Burna and Kiernan. This isn’t about football banter, no way.
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Guys, this isn’t a racial issue, this isn’t a parity issue… she’s an athlete and she took a banned substance. She should’ve known better. That’s it. 🤷🏻♀️
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Twiggy’s stories just reminded me of Fernando so I went back to watch. Never gets old. 😭🤣
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Guys, Maphorisa is goated and that man needs every single flower we can possibly give him. Ndithi house, hip hop, afrobeats, piano, PLUS he’s a lyricist on top of all that?! 🔥🔥🔥
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Guys, please do what you said you’d do when you said you’d do it. And if something changes, please just communicate it. That’s all.
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‘Abelungu abayazi uba ndiyaxoka’
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 nitter.app/blasianFMA/status/1099…
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I watched both Nara and Onezwa’s videos and c’mon! They’re nothing alike except that they made a similar product. So we’re saying that if you post lasagna today I can’t post mine till months later even if my recipe is totally different?
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There’s a group of creatives in SA who think that the industry can’t function without them. As if there aren’t hungry and talented kids coming up every day. 😴😴😴
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Ha a abuti. If you are flashing an Audemars Piquet on IG about not paying what you owe suppliers, you’re wrong. If you want your side of the story set out, then tell it. But don’t play victim if you owe someone 60k for 8 months. It’s wrong, qha.
Stop Looking at your brothers pockets and calculating how much of that money you think you deserve. O tla shwa ke pelo!!!!
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This thread is really why I hate the classism that folks in private schools graduate with. The stink follows them to their social circles where “Which school did you go to?” becomes an evaluation of your worth in society.
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Thank you to @Cruzvodka for the @akaworldwide limited edition delivery yesterday. Keen to taste it and see what #CruzAKABananaDeluxe is all about ✨
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The Plug is five years old today. 😆 Five years of making magic happen. And I’ve owned the mag for two of those magical years.
How amazing to have @therichmnisi grace our birthday month cover and be every bit of the icon he is on it.
To doing dope shit with dope people 🥂
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That 'child' is 21. RT @ThatNicole: Crisis. That boy who murdered those people in Charleston is a child! This world is so sad :"(
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Its so disheartening that the family of a medical professional has to crowd fund for her hospital bills. Someone who’s been so selfless in her own devotion to the field. Capitalism *truly* is a scourge.
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Make this coming year one for you and your dreams. Don’t be distracted by pettiness or inconsequential people or things that don’t lend themselves to your personal growth. Be your first priority and watch yourself bloom. 🪷
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Part of @YoungstaCpt’s acceptance speech for his Video of The Year award at the SAHHAs last night 🙌
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There’s no way I’m voting Dada Morero in again. Field better candidates, actually serve the city with delivery, then start demanding votes.
Vote ANC and block @helenzille from being the Mayor of Johannesburg.
That simple maths
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Sipho is travelling and drinking beer for a living. As far as work goes, this is up there 😂
Danko Dublin! Our final stop was where they make that 'Irish beer' 🍺 Lana we asked the pros who they thought was the world’s #MostAwardedBeer 🤔
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Riky Rick’s mom, @Louisa_Zondo, wrote a book about her life and her journey through grief, healing and trauma.
She reached out to me to be part of the journey and moderate the launch next Wednesday.
I'll be speaking to Mam' Louisa, Kumi Naidoo, and Bianca Naidoo on the panel.
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“The only thing that separates women of colour from anyone else is opportunity. You cannot win …. for roles that are simply not there.” - Viola Davis
GQ Magazine
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Y'all coulda put a pic of a woman with an actual big butt on that article tho. @MaximMag
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Y’all should hear Charlamagne singing Cass’s praises on the podcast. Small minds would be blown. 🤷🏻♀️
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I love the sound of kids playing in the complex. I love kids being outside, riding bikes, making up ridiculous games. Because the opposite is kids sitting inside on the internet, and that shouldn’t be the goal.
They're arguing about the noisy kids on the complex WhatsApp group.
Now the conversation has reached the part of "if you didn't want to be inconvenienced, get a stand alone"🫠🫠.
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It was Danielle Bowler who said that every time every time I see a powerful black woman slaying, I feel like I can stand a little taller, work a little harder, dream a little bigger ❤️
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If you wanna know who’s reviving SA hip hop, check for the dude who everyone’s running to to feature on their tracks because he has something so special it’s undeniable in the music. 😉
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“I appreciate the safety of knowing I can love you unconditionally and not have to second guess that.” ❤️
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I had a really great conversation with @Bas and put that into an article. Check it out here 👇✨
.@Bas has carved out out his own lane in the music industry. His latest project "Milky Way" catapulted him onto the international stage.
We caught up with the @Dreamville MC while he was in SA for an exclusive interview.
theplugmag.com/exclusive-int…
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Never seen more soulless people than I have on Twitter. When Kim was robbed, she staged it for publicity, now Khloe is cheated on and Kris is behind the leaking of the video. Nevermind the MEN who are actually committing these deeds.
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*opens Twitter*
*sees polarising bs*
*drafts tweet*
*stares blankly for a bit*
*deletes tweet and enjoys the day*
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Anybody can start again and again and again. We need to be gentler with ourselves and not hold ourselves to the ransom of our age.
i’m actually only 23. i have my whole life ahead of me. God did not create me to suffer. it’s not by fire by force i must stick these things through, i can actually start again (and again and again). i have time
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It’s so heartwarming to see Athabz and Boogie grow Homecoming into an even better version of itself. Malatji and Moela really did something by empowering them to run it on their own. 🤞🏼
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As your own person, never somebody else. Know when to come back to yourself, to sturdy yourself, to ground yourself. Never put that on someone else.
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Daisies doesn’t have this many A-list international headliners. That’s what the cost went into.
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If Mihlali was visibly drunk and disorderly on the flight, threw a cup at the flight attendant and swore her, and has other passengers corroborating the flight attendant’s story, they had every right to call the cops on her. And this is about to be a mess.
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It’s not a thing in SA. But I generally prefer interview subjects who aren’t media trained because you get responses that are more genuine. The problem arises when interviewers are just looking to be salacious. THEY need the training tbh.
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My cousin fell head over heels & got married after a bit. Life was grand while dating, the day of the wedding he hit her for the first time.
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The problem is, now everybody at the SABC knows that they’ll toss you like a bag of dirt on a Tuesday morning on whatever whim takes them. They don’t value their talent, they certainly don’t value their audience. You would think the SABC is in enough shit already.
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And while Daisies has a lot of smooth sailing, I had to wait 90 minutes to take a shower last year. So they’re not perfect either.
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There hasn’t been an ANC or government/departmental spokesperson that I’ve come across on social media that I didn’t hate. Athi and Nonceba have routinely been sarcastic and derogatory to the people they are meant to serve on this platform. Don’t get me started on Esethu.
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This is cute when it’s between two brands, but shitting on ordinary folks who are just enjoying a picnic - unprovoked - is not the one.
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