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I grew up watching Mr. Bean. ❤️
Before the war, whenever my family wanted a happy evening, my mother would make popcorn, and we would all gather around the TV to watch his funny shows. I was just a child, with no worries, enjoying those beautiful family moments.
I never knew his real voice. I had only ever seen him make us laugh.
Today, for the first time, I hear him speak about us. And for the first time, the man who brought so much laughter into my childhood makes me cry instead. 💔
Please listen to him carefully. The face I once associated with laughter is now speaking about our pain. I never imagined I would live to see the day when Mr. Bean would remind me not of the happiness of my childhood, but of the heartbreaking reality of what we have endured.
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The video attached to this post is not genuine footage or a real statement by Rowan Atkinson (Mr. Bean) about Gaza or Palestinians; he has made no such public comments, and similar clips are documented AI fakes or fabrications.
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#NhlanhlaSophaza | EV's retweeted
If you're building with AI in South Africa and feel alone, you're not. Say hi and I'll point you to people.
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Independent economist Duma Gqubule questions why South Africa alone is failing to grow its economy and create jobs while other developing countries average an annual GDP growth of over 4%. He says the National Treasury and the SA Reserve Bank don't care about job creation.
Watch: tinyurl.com/32jnas2e
"Urbanization without industrialization."
In 1950, there were 228mn people living in Africa, with about 33mn in cities. Today there are 1.6bn Africans, 19% of the world’s total, of whom 670mn live in cities. Almost unnoticed, Africa has become an urban story, explains the FT's David Pilling. ft.trib.al/XZw6TGM
#NhlanhlaSophaza | EV's retweeted
In 1950, there were 228mn people living in Africa, with about 33mn in cities. Today there are 1.6bn Africans, 19% of the world’s total, of whom 670mn live in cities. Almost unnoticed, Africa has become an urban story, explains the FT's David Pilling. ft.trib.al/XZw6TGM
#NhlanhlaSophaza | EV's retweeted
Everyone should see this. Everything trump does in his administration is beginning to make a lot more sense...
#NhlanhlaSophaza | EV's retweeted
You asked for names @mmontshengmaoto, here is my list so far. Mzansi AI accounts worth following:
@sabelontombii_ ships real tools. Latest: an HR dashboard for a security company.
@BlackWizSA runs a full AI stack on $50 a month. Claude on specs, Deepseek on builds.
@Ntlakanipho07 is building Thetha, voice AI that hears South African accents.
@playmzansilife built a whole multiplayer SA life game. Free to play.
@nivacent is getting a smart home system going, hardware and all.
@SizwePrinceT is building a mathematical guardrail for AI drift, engine discovered in Soweto.
@Viihunnid builds sites and tested my POPIA Kit until it broke. Made it better.
@henno_4e ships apps daily out of Cape Town.
Who did I miss? Drop them below, let's grow the list 🙌🏾
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South Africa's Unexplained....
Eyewitness states: My husband works for a CCTV distribution company and sent me this clip downloaded on 23rd November 2025 from a client's CCTV system. This clip comes from a game farm in Bela-Bela South Africa. It really creeped everyone out and no one can explain it - there was no one in the carpark at the time recorded. You can see the bugs clearly flying across the camera lens, so the misty shape is definitely not a bug and the misty movement is really weird....It has been sitting in my inbox for almost a year and I came across it scrolling through my galery, thought it would be worthwhile to share :-)
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Whisper speaks 99 languages. isiXhosa isn't one of them.
So I taught it.
Meet `Thetha`: speak isiXhosa, see it written. Runs free in your browser, and your voice never leaves your phone.
Open source, ~$10 of GPU.
Try it: ntlakanipho-thetha.static.hf…
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beautiful explanation. this is 100% happening. xitter.cf/sotak/status/211179423…
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“I think it is a bit unusual that we have a leader with such power, which the president of the United States has, who happens to be such an inadequate leader for the world.” Former Irish President Mary Robinson reflects on the importance of rule of law and her view of the Trump administration's conduct.
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FOUND IT!
Just saw a skit of an Afrikaans father who is called at his son’s school, because he was involved in a fight.
My phone died midway. Now I can’t find it. HELP! 😩
cc @wfreemantle