Moving to @AneleAndTheClub was the best decision I ever made. Everyday Im either laughing or having debates with the ‘radio’. Love the show. I stream it in the car too 😭🙌🏾
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Two young South Africans looked at the e-hailing industry and saw the same problem drivers have complained about for a decade.
You work 12 hour days. You cover fuel, maintenance, data, your own safety. Then a platform based on the other side of the world takes 25 to 45 percent of every single trip.
Persy Qamata and Msizi Mtolo built Bro Cabs because they were done watching that math play out on SA roads.
Their model is simple. Zero commission. Drivers pay a R300 once off verification fee, then R600 a month. Every Rand from every trip after that belongs to the driver.
Their words, unsoftened: when a driver hands over 30 to 45 percent of every trip, he isn't building anything. He's just surviving.
It's not only about the money.
Bro built its safety stack around the reality of SA roads. Panic button. Verified drivers. Live trip sharing. A 24 hour line where an actual person answers.
Big platforms treated South Africa like just another market to conquer and move on from.
Two local founders built something rooted here instead.
That's not a small thing. That's a driver keeping what he actually earned.
Built in SA. For SA. By SA.
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These are our driver in East Rand, Gauteng. They have been supporting Bro since day one, now they keep 100% profit from trips, South Africans came together to make a change
#entrepreneurs #ehailing #southafrica #brocabs
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This 30 seconds of footage is doing more for that baby's brain than any flashcard, screen app, or "educational" toy on the market.
MIT has the brain scans to prove it.
Rachel Romeo's 2018 study put LENA recorders in 36 families' homes for a weekend and counted everything: total words, child-directed words, back-and-forth conversational turns. The kids were brought in for fMRI scans while they listened to stories. The ones with more conversational turns showed stronger activation in Broca's area, the brain's speech production center, with the effect holding after controlling for parent income, IQ, and total word count.
The active ingredient is the trading. The pauses are doing as much work as the words.
Watch what the dad is actually running:
Vocal turn-taking. The baby babbles, the dad pauses, the dad responds, the baby waits, the baby babbles again. This pattern emerges around 2-3 months and becomes the foundation of every conversation that human will have for the rest of their life.
Joint attention. They're locked onto each other's faces, reading expressions, syncing reactions. Joint attention shows up around 9 months and predicts language development and social cognition for years afterward. The absence of joint attention by 18 months is one of the earliest signals pediatricians screen for autism.
Coregulation. The baby can't self-soothe yet. Its nervous system is using the dad's calm, attentive state as a regulation template. Every time the baby gets excited and the dad meets the energy with engaged calm, the vagus nerve is learning what regulated arousal feels like.
The reverse case is in the literature. Edward Tronick's 1975 "still face" experiment had mothers interact normally with their babies, then go completely flat-faced and unresponsive for three minutes. The babies "rapidly sobered and grew wary," tried desperately to restart the loop, then withdrew with what Tronick called a "hopeless facial expression." It remains one of the most replicated findings in developmental psychology.
The face is the curriculum. The pauses are the lessons.
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Elon maybe you should respect South Africa’s laws and acknowledge what its people went through because of colonialism. As someone born there, you should be more empathetic and understand the country’s history better, instead of trying to bend the country’s laws to fit your own interests!
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The fact that so many people don’t know what this is proves Apple really hides their best features 😭
For anyone wondering, it’s Apple’s motion sickness feature — the dots move with the car so you don’t get sick while looking at your phone
Hi @WOOLWORTHS_SA It’s incredibly frustrating that you increase the price for delivery but your app experience just keeps getting worse. I feel like half my life is wasted just waiting for your app to open or accept payment or something else that’s wrong that day.
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Let me jog your mind kidogo. When we were kids, we watched a film called Gods must be crazy. In this film, the bushmen(the san) are seen chewing a succulent plant called hoodia to quench thirst and hunger. This plant is what the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) of South Africa has been using to make slimming pills, the ones people are swallowing all over the world. In 2003, the bushmen petitioned CSIR, mtu aliwachanua, and they won the petition in the grounds that they are the inhabitants of the forest this tree is made. On 28th March 2023, they signed a benefit-sharing agreement in the Northern Cape, in terms of which the community was to receive between R8-million and R12-million from the sales of slimming pills. I read about it in campus. The concept behind calling herbalists witches was to keep Africans from herbal drugs so that the resources could be exploited for pharmaceutical companies.
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Black consumers need to understand our buying power. When we spend intentionally, we influence markets, shape brands, create jobs, and build wealth within our communities. Our money has power and where we choose to spend it matters.
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Indulge in some Palm Royale this holiday break.
#PalmRoyale — Now Streaming