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The township economy has long been misunderstood — spoken about as a space of poverty, informality, or survival. Yet this narrative ignores a powerful reality: townships generate billions, house massive consumer markets, and form one of the most explosive innovation frontiers in South Africa.

Greetings friends, I want to share something that has brought me a lot of joy and quiet pride. Over the past few years, it seems I may have helped inspire a new literary and philosophical genre — what I call Ubuntu Stoicism, and what others refer to as Afro-StoicismorAfrican Stoicism.

I never planned on being a book publisher. I never planned on writing 10 books. And I definitely didn’t plan on building a BookTech company. Yet here we are When I first thought about writing a book, I stumbled on a post by James Altucher — my favourite blogger and author at the time (still…

I got into book publishing through a few small mistakes in 2016–2018, and I can’t believe that today I’m preparing to build a book publishing and retail startup: iZwily.com (formerly VentureBooks OS). First, some context that will make the rest of this story make sense: I’m based in South Africa.

Some of the ideas will feature in my upcoming economics book, Robust Manifesto Nation. “Entrepreneurs are heroes in our society. They fail for the rest of us.”  –  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Skin in the Game) – – – I recently shared a LinkedIn post by someone criticizing the Enterprise and Supplier Development (ESD) system –…

My book Innovate Like Elon Musk is available on this blog, Amazon and SA bookstores. If you follow tech news — or Elon Musk’s social media rants — you might have come across the claim that Starlink can’t operate in South Africa because of “racist laws.” He once said, “Starlink can’t get a license to…

Apartheid wasn’t just racism. It was economic warfare. It was a mix of genocidal tendencies and structural slavery — just without the whips and cotton fields of the American South.

President Ramaphosa, during this week’s media engagement with President Donald Trump in the White House’s Oval Office, displayed the quiet strength that defines Ubuntu Stoicism.

First, congratulations to Africa Eats on its listing on the Mauritius Stock Exchange. Since last year, my co-founder and I have been researching the best model for our book publishing and AI fund underway. We are exploring the choice between a venture capital company and a Permanent Capital Vehicle (PCV), but we are leaning towards…

Introducing Ubuntu Stoicism book is available at Amazon, my webstore (SA only), Takelot.com, Bargain Books and Exclusive. – – – Talking about Ubuntu — I heard Ernst Roets on Tucker Carlson’s Show trying to tarnish the word Ubuntu for his political denigration game. Let me show you what Ubuntu is and is not. I wrote a book called…