spent the weekend watching the BBCs Shifty (2025), & if someone else were to do the post-Mandela-prison-release South African version using the SABC archives, it’d be more or less identical, coz ykw? neoliberalism is a country

i want Dan Snaith to executive produce my life caribouband.bandcamp.com/album/butter...

close to 300 episodes. a huge archive of SA deep house music culture between 2009 - 2017 (episodes after this year were sporadic). gone just like that 😢 what remains is a single episode from 7 months ago (probably uploaded after the administrator deleted all earlier episodes. damn!

🎵🎵🎵 📚📚📚

days ago, Meadowlands & Dube~

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ music.apple.com/za/album/mou...

I recall reading or skimming the texts cited before the show. So lucky because quote after quote was voiced by a Narrator, esp. Sylvia Wynter via Chude-Sokei's book which argues that Black people have always been equated with Machines. The title itself is from a 2018 interview of Achille Mbembe.

"Paying homage to the building’s history, artists have placed a row of mannequin legs near the entrance with plants sprouting from them. The installation was inspired by watching women waiting for taxis, says artist and custodian of the building Kganyapa Kganyapa." groundup.org.za/article/jobu...

Some great news. My hybrid memoir IN OPEN COUNTRY will now be published by Little, Brown. It’s about freedom of movement and stillness in the US, and the ways capitalism & settler colonialism have shaped (and continue to shape) the answer to who has either across time. I also do a lot of walking.

"Pertinent for now is a singular foregrounding: That a festival cannot meaningfully applaud African creativity while its sponsor profits from African death..." africasacountry.com/2026/02/co-o...

my mother, an insomniac, started listening to YT ai slop to help her sleep, but then she began enjoying (?) it, now whenever i pop by for a visit she’s listening to audio stories w/ titles such as MY SON AND HIS WIFE BEAT ME UP AFTER I CONFRONTED THEM ABOUT STEALING MY MONEY lol

Possibly the country’s greatest poet/novelist, but outside of the niche he’s carved for himself, no one knows him. I’d say you should check him out but most of his work was published by indies and university presses. Obv out of press, & costly on the 2nd hand market.

I’ve decided on my Reread for the year.

In December, the Department of Home Affairs published the Draft Revised White Paper on Citizenship, Immigration and Refugee Protection. Opportunity to comment on the paper closed on the weekend. Read groundup.org.za/article/huma... by Ohene Yaw Ampofo-Anti

Naledi, Soweto~

i mean, borders are absurd things, but the Lesotho/South Africa border is probably the most absurd. it should’ve been dismantled a long time ago

Man, my tinfoil hat is itching

Members of the anti-immigration movement March and March, together with members of the MK Party, believe, without evidence, that immigrant learners are being prioritised over South Africans who want to be placed in the school. Read groundup.org.za/article/anti... by Tsoanelo Sefoloko

south african house producers, who all ran away to that hopeless genre (afrotech) when mapiano took over, are finally coming back to their senses. nature is healing. music.apple.com/za/album/tha...

all the heart emojis in the world for Mxolisi Nyezwa www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmlR...

the Government of National Unity. being disgusting & doing disgusting things. as usual. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...

"Cass Sunstein proclaimed it 'the most admirable constitution in the history of the world.' And yet, set against the longue durée of settler colonial [...] the constitution’s affirmation of the sanctity of property rights evades and rationalizes the history of how land and property were acquired."

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Yeah, no. I don’t see Moçambique winning this

plz Mozambique, save us from the insufferable eagles

lol i can’t believe Hugo Broos made no subs. also: Ronwen Williams is washed.

the officiating in this AFCON has been atrocious

im not trying to be weird or anything, but Tanzania’s goalkeeper is like the first player i’ve seen wear boxers during a match. the kit manager did him dirty

anyways: nzeru-slow.weebly.com/blog/slow-re...

i decided to start a blog, & ykw? I should’ve stuck w/ wordpress coz weebly is ass

nvm i figured it out lol

drunk, i created this blog & now I can’t remember my login credentials. i can’t even reset coz i don’t know which of my numerous emails i used to register 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦🤦🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Damn, I jinxed it lol

STOP THE COUNT!

Rest in Peace Isiah Whitlock, Jr. #BlackSky 🌱 www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

Yikes~ youtu.be/7oW_HdegO-U?...

this is the worst Bafana game in years lol

every time Gayton McKenzie shows up on my screen i puke a little in my mouth

i honestly don’t understand what’s been going on w/ SAfrica’s defence this AFCON, it’s usually so tight

(Aubrey Modiba is washed; all the Sundowns players are washed)

(Ronwen Williams is washed)

Bafana Bafana & Zimbabwe having a mid-off

it’s the power of the AK47, thank god the motion to remove it from the flag was shot down 🫢🫢🫢

reminder: o Moçambique é o meu país também VAMOS OS MAMBAS!!!!

*sigh* now this is the Mozambique i know lol 3-2 now :(

the way my fingers are so numb from crossing em this whole 2nd half lol