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⠀⠀ ⠀ Connecting Africa To The Digital Economy
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀⠀Founder of:
⠀⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀@our.proofoflife & @jdcreations.co.za
⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ God Ordained.

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The last of the avengers is Cassie! I’m so grateful for my supportive friends who are willing to be silly with me and sing at the top of our lungs. Stimela had the biggeststreaming day on Spotify yesterday. No virality no marketing spend juts all of you listening to the record thank 🥺

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Last in the chair is Cassie! I’m so grateful for my supportive friends who are willing to be silly with me and sing at the top of our lungs 🥺 has the biggest streaming day on Spotify today. No virality no marketing spend juts all of you listening to the record ❤️thank you

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Life moves fast, but the lens lets you freeze the moments that matter. 📸
Whether I’m framing up a new shot, capturing raw emotions, or just documenting the day-to-day grind, it all comes back to telling a story. #PhotographyLife #ContentCreator #VisualStorytelling #LifestylePhotography #BehindTheLens CreatorEconomy AestheticFeeds PhotoOfTheDay CreativeCommunity ThroughMyLens

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Are we a band now? 😂who’s next in the chair ?💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾thanks streaming! Can’t wait to sing it with you in person !

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MORE JOY!! new music coming soon 👀 until then, we’re still jamming this tune till it reaches the world

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Ticket link in bio 🎟️It’s always a guy named Josh who knows Zulu…

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@ritas_jhb lineups are looking awesome this weekend! See you tonight 6pm till 10pm 💫⭐️🫶🏻

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Who really shapes culture?

At One Last Game, that question opened up a much bigger conversation about the people, structures and communities behind South Africa’s creative ecosystem.

The Visionaries bring the ideas.
The Operators build what allows those ideas to live.
The Tastemakers understand where culture meets community.

But none of them operate alone.

From ownership and visibility to creative play, local context and the structures that sustain great ideas, this conversation explored what actually happens behind the cultural moments we see.

The One Last Game conversation is coming to YouTube.

#ProofOfLife #OneLastGame #SouthAfricanCreatives #CreativeCulture #CreativeEconomy

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There are house mixes that move a room, and there are mixes that give the room somewhere to disappear into.

Ritas Mix 2: Part 1 finds OOU moving through deep house with patience, blending rolling grooves with soulful vocals, spoken-word moments and spiritual textures that give the set a deeper emotional pulse.

Recorded at Ritas Cocktail Club, the mix carries that late-night feeling where reflection and movement start becoming part of the same experience.

The full mix is live now on YouTube. Link in bio.

#ProofOfLife #TheListeningRoomLive #OOU #DeepHouse #HouseMusic

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Had the pleasure of being on the panel and team captain for the TASTEMAKERS for @our.proofoflife Games Night event at Artistry’s new Heineken Bar alongside @theblcksparrow @abobooi & @iamjoshdylan

What a concept. What a community. What a time🔥

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One Last Game lived up to its name. 🎲

The games got competitive, the conversations kept going, the music kept the room moving, and somewhere between all of it, people met, laughed, danced and connected.

A special shout-out to our guest and Gamesmaster, Anesu, who curated and led the games brilliantly and kept the energy going throughout the room. 👏🏾

Big love to Ozzy Funk and Mellow for soundtracking the night and keeping us dancing. 🎶

And of course, our team leaders who showed up for their people, got involved and helped create the energy that made the games what they were:

🔵 Josh — The Operators
🔴 Abo — The Visionaries
🟡 Themba — The Tastemakers

A special thank you as well to everyone who came through, to the new people who joined the Proof of Life Inner Circle, and to our existing Inner Circle members who showed up and shared the night with us. The community keeps growing, and it was beautiful seeing so many of you in the room. 🤎

And a big thank you to Artistry for hosting us and giving us the space to bring One Last Game to life.

This is what Proof of Life is about: bringing people together in ways that feel human, playful and real.

Thank you for coming outside and playing with us.

Until the next one. 🤎

If you want, I can also make this feel slightly more celebratory and energetic for Instagram while keeping the same credits.

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Josh’s confessional makes The Operators philosophy pretty clear: structure creates the conditions for everyone to play properly.

For him, asking questions, interpreting the rules and agreeing on how the game should work is part of making sure everyone has a fair shot. Call it overthinking if you want, but The Operators are coming into One Last Game with a plan. 😭

10 September at Artistry. RSVP via the link in bio.

#ProofOfLife #OneLastGame #TheOperators #GamesNight #JohannesburgEvents

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