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@AphiweMame "A toll-free number hated to see me coming when these were still a thing. Especially that LoveLife line. I used to call them every month asking for the Uncut magazine. Those packs with the keychain wristbands and the mag to be a teenager in the 2000s 🫶"
X Link @AphiweMame 2025-10-12T11:41Z 6755 followers, 89.4K engagements

"📺 SABC: Police File (1980s) Police File aired on the SABC as part of the state broadcasters public service programming an attempt by the South African Police (SAP) to enlist ordinary viewers in fighting crime"
X Link @AphiweMame 2025-10-17T19:05Z 6757 followers, 8070 engagements

"📺Dr Albert Hertzog the Minister of Posts and Telegraphs at the time agreed. Saying televisions depiction of race mixing would sow discord branding it as a tool for spreading communism and immorality"
X Link @AphiweMame 2025-10-07T19:21Z 6621 followers, 3328 engagements

"Its hard for me to go through TV news archives because whew the Apartheid government This morning I watched the Trojan Massacre of 1985 in Cape Town. I had to take a break for an hour"
X Link @AphiweMame 2025-10-14T18:59Z 6624 followers, 1081 engagements

"Unfortunately theres no justice in producing classic/legacy creative work without material equity especially at that level. We have seen what that has done to the actors in South Africa. Cultural resistance is important when dealing with exploitative creative industries that disguise exploitation as empowerment"
X Link @AphiweMame 2025-10-16T09:27Z 6645 followers, XX engagements

"Books TV and playing with the mop(for dialogue 😭)mops used to hate to see me coming. I was an only child just lonely with an imagination"
X Link @AphiweMame 2025-10-10T11:30Z 6697 followers, XXX engagements

"🚨 Do you consume media in South Africa 🚨 If you watch listen scroll or read South African media in any form your perspective matters. Pls take a few minutes to complete this short anonymous and voluntary survey. Your input will help build a deeper understanding of our media landscape"
X Link @AphiweMame 2025-10-16T14:20Z 6660 followers, 1057 engagements

"@JayS_Mo Its Diane Coetzer she was working as the South African correspondent for Billboard and Music Editor for Rolling Stone South Africa. Robyn is a brilliant arts critic by the way her work on M&G and Sunday Time in the 2000s and early 2010s 👌🏾"
X Link @AphiweMame 2025-10-16T18:01Z 6655 followers, XX engagements

"📽🎶 After Robot: Kwaito Music in Johannesburg (2002) Every now and again I return to this short doccie and each time Im struck by just how much the artists of the early 2000s carved out new ways of being. It reminds me of how kwaito musicians forged powerful and diverse cultural identities even while facing systemic barriers in the music industry and a social climate that wasnt always receptive to the new wave"
X Link @AphiweMame 2025-09-27T16:32Z 6751 followers, 335.8K engagements

"📻 If you missed the conversation on the wireless last night you can catch it here: ARCHIVING SOUTH AFRICAN POP CULTURE"
X Link @AphiweMame 2025-10-10T10:02Z 6738 followers, 2149 engagements

"📺SABC News (1994)#FeesMustFall Protests at Pentech (now CPUT) and Vista University (now NMU) over fees and student living conditions. Proof that South African students have always spoken up long before hashtags. What we saw during #FeesMustFall was part of a much older story of youth activism class struggle and the demand for dignity in education"
X Link @AphiweMame 2025-10-14T18:46Z 6747 followers, 36.2K engagements

"📺 AP Archive: Ja Rule Presser (2003) Ja Rules South African tour and the politics of global hip-hop recognition local artists were denied backstage access hustled into a shared dressing room and swiftly removed after performing. This wasnt just poor event management it was a cultural moment that revealed how global music economies often work. The incident captures a larger cultural anxiety of the early 2000s what it meant to be local in a world where globalisation was sold as the ultimate validation. In that moment South African hip-hop learned something about the global stage that inclusion"
X Link @AphiweMame 2025-10-15T13:50Z 6751 followers, 39.8K engagements

"📺 Coming Out(1989) In 1989 amid apartheid South Africas repression activist Simon Nkoli sat down with Chris Vogel to speak openly about gay organising. Nkoli founder of 🏳🌈GLOW (Gay and Lesbian Organisation of the Witwatersrand) was among the first Black South Africans to link the struggle for LGBTQ+ rights with the broader liberation movement. Coming Out was a cable access tv show from the Winnipeg Gay Media Collective Cred.: University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections - Manitoba Gay and Lesbian Archives"
X Link @AphiweMame 2025-10-17T07:17Z 6753 followers, 12.4K engagements

"87% of this country used to be reserved for white people. That still shocks me to this day"
X Link @AphiweMame 2025-10-18T11:09Z 6749 followers, 1487 engagements

"@Katli_Katz the joys of an open campus :)"
X Link @AphiweMame 2025-10-19T08:22Z 6757 followers, XXX engagements

"📺 Vuzu : Top Shayela (2011) TS walked so that vlog culture could run. Early blueprints for the attention economy where visibility itself becomes a form of currency. The show rehearsed what we now recognise as the vlog vernacular: aspirational intimacy para-social bonds and prosumer (producer-consumer) culture. It was a starter pack for influencer-era storytelling format migration from TV to timeline"
X Link @AphiweMame 2025-10-14T18:00Z 6751 followers, 126.5K engagements

"📺 Today in History: CBS Archive (1985) On XX October 1985 in Athlone Cape Town members of the apartheid security forces shot and killed three young people during anti-government protests. This tragedy became known as the Trojan Horse Massacre Local media at the time was so heavily censored that reports barely reflected the horror of what happened. Entire truths were silenced and many of the regimes crimes were buried or erased from public view"
X Link @AphiweMame 2025-10-15T07:47Z 6757 followers, 44.1K engagements

"🎼 Remember Devante (1995-1999) That R&B boy band from Newlands East Durban one of those small but memorable acts that emerged during South Africas quietly golden age of R&B in the late 90s and early 2000s. The tragedy is that the market was too small But culturally those pockets of R&B were doing something remarkable a creation of African pop modernities imo the way artists used global Black soundscapes to craft new lanes in SA. A reminder of how our music once held small but radical possibilities for who we could be"
X Link @AphiweMame 2025-10-17T18:15Z 6751 followers, XXX engagements

"🎥Murder in Paris (2021) Traces the motives for the assassination of anti-apartheid activist Dulcie September. At the end of 1983 she was appointed to lead the African National Congress (ANC) office in Paris following President Franois Mitterrands decision to allow the liberation movement to establish a presence in France. In this role which she held until her death in 1988 she became a powerful voice for the anti-apartheid struggle organising awareness campaigns engaging with French civil society and travelling across the country to speak about the daily realities of Black South Africans"
X Link @AphiweMame 2025-10-17T19:40Z 6748 followers, 6557 engagements

"🎭 Ipi Ntombi (Baxter Theatre 1997). When Ipi Ntombi burst onto the scene in 1974 it did something radical it placed Black South African performance music dance language rhythm on a global stage at a time when the countrys own laws denied Black people full humanity. Even though it was staged within apartheids constraints Ipi Ntombi became one of South Africas first international cultural exports. A moment when Black South African creativity slipped through the cracks of apartheids machinery and found global resonance"
X Link @AphiweMame 2025-10-19T08:48Z 6757 followers, 10K engagements

"🎭 NW South African musical theatre is elite pls Rewatching this makes me miss home I grew up on a dubbed VHS of Ipi Ntombi. It was on REPEAT okay HAYAAA HAYAA HAYAA O INTOMBI YAM"
X Link @AphiweMame 2025-10-19T09:56Z 6757 followers, 1659 engagements

"@agemsolidified Im not sure of the channel I saw the clip on TikTok 😭"
X Link @AphiweMame 2025-10-19T16:58Z 6756 followers, X engagements