Apr 1, 2026
The Governing Technology – Xenophobia as Electoral Infrastructure
How South Africa's politicians learned to perform governance instead of deliver it — and why xenophobia is the most efficient technology available to them.
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Feb 27, 2026
” An adult but not really.”
First of the month on a Monday, as hopeful as any other.
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Jan 16, 2026
Gnossienne Launch Report
Gnossienne Launch Report A Thursday Night in Parktown North author: Leo Vanzini date: 2026-01-08 venue: Sumthing Sumthing, Parktown Quarter status: Published "Where are you going again?
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Dec 31, 2025
It’s a Wrap: Spotify & Masturbatory Year-end Prattling
‘The role of the intellectual is no longer to change society but rather comment eloquently on it.
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Dec 4, 2025
Modise Moriri vs. The Matlala Parallax and the Mathys Situation
The fluorescent tube above me buzzed like an insect dying in chapters.
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Nov 21, 2025
Culturally superior reporting: Access to Canvases and Quiet Spaces at Joon’s Art Bar.
A dear friend and I patronized Joon’s Art Bar near the end of October, and I have been trying to write an article about it ever since.
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Oct 24, 2025
BARISTA REVOLUTIONARY BANGERS VOL 1 – PLAYLIST BY BIG SPACE
A playlist by South African producer, Big Space for your perusal.
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Oct 24, 2025
Free Palestine. Free Trial (cancel anytime) – By Big Space
In 2018, I wrote an honours dissertation about algorithmic gatekeeping in the music industry, about how data-driven, automated branded playlists had become the new tastemakers.
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Oct 22, 2025
Wet Ears Playlists
Curated playlists because we want to contribute towards war crimes.
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Oct 10, 2025
Zoo Lake Bowls Club Fire: A way to stay relevant
The scene is quiet, nothing unusual for Zoo Lake’s Bowls club.
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Sep 24, 2025
King Shaka Made No Appeals -Heritage, Resistance, Mzansi Fo Sure. – Leo Vanzini
King Shaka Made No Appeals Heritage, Resistance, and the Death of South African Militancy By: Leo Vanzini Heritage Day.
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Sep 12, 2025
Toilet Bowl Astronomy
Toilet Bowl Astronomy The Blood Moon Approaches The Blood Moon will appear soon.
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Sep 3, 2025
DISCONTENT OPERATIONS MANUAL: EXTREME TRANSPARENCY
CONFIDENTIAL Report Classification: INTERNAL DISCLOSURE - FULL TRANSPARENCY MODE Audit Period: Q3 2024 - Ongoing Collapse Cycle Prepared By: Discontent Operations Division Review Status: LIVE DOCUMENTATION - SUBJECT TO REAL-TIME MUTATION Operational Overview Presentation Video Brief: Stakeholder Introduction to Discontent Operational Framework Executive Summary This document outlines the current structural, financial, and editorial mechanisms driving the Discontent platform.
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Aug 29, 2025
Jenkum Digest: CursedBrudda, The Crystallization of Food Slop Content
CursedBrudda, a twenty-something-year-old British lad, is tearing up the YouTube and Instagram food-content game.
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Aug 6, 2025
Curated Connections, Opposites Attract and other forms of Magnetism.
Curated Connections is an events company that offers South African singles an in-person alternative to the bleak mire that is dating apps.
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Jul 4, 2025
Pessimism: The New Counter Culture? [Part 2]: Optimism in The Age of Nyaope -Hassan Hussain
I told my features writer to start writing about stuff that isn’t about himself and how much he hates everything, and I was very impressed when he pitched the idea to go cover a South African pop sensation from Cape Town performing in Johannesburg.
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Jun 26, 2025
Pessimism: The New Counter Culture? – An Ethnographic Melville Report-Leo Vanzini
June 8th, and Melville’s 7th Street has no shortage of parking spots.
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Apr 8, 2025
Jenkem Digest: Sam Sailes, Sheffields Seminal Auteur of Rotten Excellence
Sam Sailes Youtube Instagram
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Apr 7, 2025
Go to an Art Gallery
① Some quick reads: Social Impact: The Loss of Third Spaces - Avibra Blog Third places are disappearing as the world goes more online | The Week What are Third Places and Why Do They Matter?
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Feb 21, 2025
The Slop
①Read Osman, J’s recounting of previous conflicts leading up to current events on Channel 4’s website: DRC civil war: M23 rebels and a decades long conflict – Channel 4 News ②For a full history of the region prior to, during and post-colonial rule, read Weise and Cordell’s History Of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Encyclopædia Britannica.
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Jun 25, 2024
Open Call Submissions for Strange Fruit Magazine: Celebrating a Lifestyle of Outsider Art and Low Brow Culture
Why Strange Fruit?
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Mar 12, 2024
Maxwell Simons & Big Space – ‘FUGA NA MADRUGA 05.00 AM’ – Out NOW
Presenting 'FUGA NA MADRUGA 05.
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Jan 31, 2024
Northern Alliance – Paths To Glory ( Official Music Video)
A Strange Fruit // WD Industries Production Filmed By: Montle Moorosi & Mohale Motlali Editor: Montle Moorosi Director: Montle Moorosi…
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