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Remembering South Africa’s favourite Internet moments

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It takes one incident or funny video for something to become engrained into the fabric of South African culture. Remember some of these moments?

A few of our favourites:

“My f** Marelize”

Who can forget when South Africa made a lady from Namibia famous when she was trying to learn to ride a bike?

“Good evening, Candice. Welcome on Top Billing!”

In 2012 Petru Steyn from Welkom auditioned for Top Billing. While nerves seemed to get the better of her, she stole our hearts.

“When people zol”

During the COVID lockdown in May 2020, then Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma was defending an ongoing ban on tobacco sales. But naturally South Africa showed their unserious side and musician Max Hurrel gave us this gem:

“Tough times never last…”

A man motivated us through the most bizarre viral videos. Demi Demi (also known as abo Demi Demi) uploaded a series of energetic, raw, and highly passionate motivational videos. It was this that we loved the most:

Phil de Lange
Phil de Lange
Phil de Lange is the producer of the Ryan O'Connor Breakfast show and has been with Smile 90.4FM since it's inception in 2013. Through his work on the breakfast show he has won two national radio awards. He has been in broadcasting for 15 years and has honed his talent at 6 different radio stations. Outside of radio he is also a podcast producer and award winning stand-up comedian.

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