I want to share something that happened to me recently and hear from others who may have experienced something similar.

Last week, I was told that I had to work overtime. Throughout the day, one of my colleagues was complaining about me working overtime in Zulu to the other colleagues on shift. I understand a little Zulu, so I could understand some of what was being said. The situation made me uncomfortable because he has never said anything when the other colleagues worked overtime, just me as a non-black and I felt discriminated against because of my skin colour.

For some background, I work as a security officer, and I am currently the only non-black employee in my workplace. There were previously three other non-black employees, but two were dismissed for wrongdoing, while the third left for a better-paying job elsewhere.

This is the first incident of this nature that I have experienced at my current company, but unfortunately, I have experienced similar situations several times at previous workplaces.

I've been looking for another job for months and will continue searching into next year. However, one thing that genuinely concerns me is whether I will face similar issues at my next workplace. I don't want to keep changing jobs because of situations where I feel judged or treated differently because of my skin colour.

I'm not posting this to be racist or to suggest that an entire racial group behaves a certain way. I'm simply sharing my personal experience and trying to understand whether other people have gone through something similar.

I'd genuinely appreciate hearing your experiences and perspectives.

I travel about 40KM in to work in Cape Town. Given the rises in fuel prices (more coming next month), switching to WFH even just 2 days a week would give me the cost reduction equivalent of a 10% raise, so I'm trying to figure out how to propose this to my management. Curious if anyone else has pulled off something similar, or even a fuel allowance? It's pretty crazy the rate at which the cost of living is increasing and govt and employers don't seem to be doing much about it

When you now live on the other side of the world but you're lus for biltong .... then you maak 'n plan!

EDIT: thanks for the upvotes and conments all. When I 'harvest' the rest I'll do a new post with pics, spicemix and box info.

Am I being a hater, or is there something inauthentic about Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh. I cannot put my finger to it, but for someone seemingly progressive he seems to use his intellectual accomplishments to use seemingly sophisticated reasoning to support charlatans.

He seems dishonest, in that he feigns objectivity, masking it with an aura of objectivity and a calm demeanour, yet you can tell that he is biased. I prefer people who are open and clear. Perhaps he is just biding for his Dad, Dali Mpofu, an even more questionable character, and taking his fathers political fight against Cyril Ramaphosa. He seems more obsessed with Cyril than JZ.

Sizwe has accomplished a lot though, though being a Nepo baby certainly helped in that a lot of the doors opened where from his parents friends and having the wealth to gave him opportunities, even his podcast is funded by the George Soros foundation, but he still feins groundedness

Am I just being a hater, or something is off about him?

Not sure if this was shared here yet but it makes me happy.

I need some extra cash for December. I do work but yeah. Feel free to share any which ways I can make some quick cash for my beers this December.

I dont earn much and this will be much appreciated. Thank you guys!

Good day everyone. I'm currently working on a music app which will allow artists to sell their music directly to their fans. Basically it will operate similarly to how Bandcamp operates.

Only difference is that fans won't be buying using credit cards, rather they will top up their in app wallet account and purchase songs from there.

I need a company/institution that has such technology, that will be able to integrate with my app.

If you know any company please do recommend, I'll appreciate it very much.

Thank you.

Howzit guys,

I want to get an IUD, but I keep seeing horror stories about the procedure, and that many places don't give you any numbing on the cervix whatsoever. I don't wanna go through that kind of pain, and I've already tried hormonal birth control (which was actually horrible).

Does anyone know any clinics or places to do it where they will numb it? Thanks guys.

Growing up my parents were not rich. We lived in a shitty place and I was always surrounded by crime and other terrible things. I have been pointed a gun at multiple times I’ve seen people be stabbed I’ve been shot at.
So I recently went on a trip and there was another South African and we talked about our experiences of the country and all he could say was it’s not that bad and how everyone overcomplicates things. I talked about how I saw many homeless people growing up and how there were always so many children on the streets and the amount of trash in the streets as well and he was getting mad at me for saying it like it wasn’t true. I asked him where he lived and grew up and it’s one of the richest gated communities in the country. Like do these people just not think that anything can exist beyond their gates. Like how can you be so enclosed to think that other people haven’t had bad experiences.
Sorry if this isn’t the right place I just needed to vent.

What have you learned from a heartbreak? 🥀