Discontent biannual periodical
Issue 01
You are not uncultured. You were just never given the language to describe what you are.
Michelle Hartley piece ( @shelfrighteouscollectibles ) in the premiere print edition , Hartley’s piece is the identity audit apartheid never wanted conducted.
S/ o to every single coloured person to have ever lived!
Buy it on our website or at the good people over at @lovebooksjozi in melville
Bespreek jou kartes.
It’s a lifestyle variety show . Hosted by @vespuchi_chi
S/o to top billing .
Go buy the book . If you’re in jhb go over to @lovebooksjozi in Melville , the last bastion you literary brick n mortar in jhb.
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This publication won’t offer solutions. Solutions require resources readers don’t have.
Discontent — Issue 001. Available now.
R450.
A4
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Also available at @lovebooksjozi
For Outsiders By Outsiders.
you are what you eat. we are what gets left on the plate.
discontent 001 biannual- print & new website / store· tomorrow · link in bio. New site. New voices. Same appetite.Sponsored by local government.
Just like the compromises in taste that you reframe as deliberate rebellion..discontent exists. The printed copies are real, Were Just waiting for the refurbishment of our website which is currently down but will be up again in a day or 3 , and finally you can enjoy the intellectual vitriol that shopify wouldn’t allow us to publish on the new discontent website and more importantly, no more international shipping pains.
A culturally superior publication
“Do it for the culture dawg” - @sizwempofuwalsh
It’s finally done..
- OUT NEXT WEEK. That’s if @gaytonmck & @haroongunnsalie just sign off on the dockets we sent them concerning our bid to use the market theatre toilet as the venue for the launch.
Discontent x brokenpattern_ — investigative intelligence on the political, socioeconomic, technological and the things your favourite party doesn’t want modelled. Starting with xenophobia as a governing technology. Because someone had to say it properly.
We’ve matured into covering adult stuff. Which is convenient, because the adults in this country love to complain in the comments, scroll past the ballot, and call it activism.
We see you. Article is live. Link in bio.
#Discontent #BrokenPattern #TheGoverningTechnology #SouthAfrica2026 #XenophobiaAsInfrastructure Joburg2026
Brokenpattern.co.za
The city runs on broken sentences. Nobody gets through. Nobody says nothing. Everybody understands.
“English is a dying language “ an essay by @vespuchi_chi is available for your reading pleasure
@vespuchi_chi kicks the year off at @sumthing_sumthing.jhb for the book launch of Gnossienne vol.2
A night of making friends, harsh judgements and hard(er to hear) exerts from friends of the publication @gnossiennepress ‘s beautiful new publication.
Marijuana, white privilege and only a small superiority complex from a man who partakes in none of it.
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IIt’s a Wrap (Unfortunately).
@vespucci spent December hate-scrolling Spotify Wrapped and somehow convinced himself this required a long essay.
Taste became virtue, listening became achievement, and he became that guy — overthinking a feature everyone else posted and forgot about by Tuesday.
This is a serious article written by an unserious person about unserious people taking unserious data very seriously.
It mentions Spotify, drones, pseudo-intellectuals, and the moral weight of pressing play.
Read it if you enjoy cultural criticism, self-owning, and watching an author argue with himself in public.
This week in Discontent: What they don’t want you to know about the Matlala hearings.
Forget the corruption allegations.Because @leighmathys shifted her papers and our reporter Modise forgot how to write coherent sentences.
He tried to DM her . Seven times. Including the phrase “flexible emotional availability.” But thankfully he doesn’t know how to use instagram.
The story investigates how Matlala sips water and whether he’s the Malcom X of Mamelodi.
This is the Matlala hearing coverage that ends with Modise throwing his phone under a table and a waiter asking if he’s okay.
The story nobody else had the audacity—or stupidity—to publish.
“Then I sent DMs that included the word “Freirean.”
“Then I compared a corruption-accused official to Malcolm X.”
Short Left II: The unhinged investigative journalism you didn’t know you needed.
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#Discontent #Matlala #PoliticalScandal #UnfilteredJournalism #ParliamentaryIntelligence #BehindTheScenes
