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Local Gaming Content Hub Gives SA Streamers a Chance to Shine

MyPR: Local Gaming Content Hub Gives SA Streamers a Chance to Shine:

Johannesburg, 26 July 2021: Esports and gaming content providers Mettlestate (https://www.mettlestate.com/) are taking local gaming content up a notch with the launch of their Streamer Zone, featuring some of South Africa’s top talent, including top streamers: RustyPieLover (http://www.twitch.tv/rustypielover) , AreYouAuthorized (https://www.twitch.tv/areyouauthorized), MissLadyJay (https://www.twitch.tv/missladyjay), Moripe (http://www.twitch.tv/moripe) TechGirlZA (http://www.twitch.tv/techgirlza), Bumfluffski ( https://www.twitch.tv/bumfluffski) Zaffa_Geek (https://twitch.tv/zaffa_geek/), DaddyCoolZA (http://www.twitch.tv/daddycoolza) and HenricoM (https://www.twitch.tv/henricom).

The Mettlestate Streamer Zone is an all-South African online space designed exclusively to promote and celebrate local streamers, where South African content creators can find the support they need via a platform that purely promotes their unique attributes as colourful personalities, gaming experts, influencers and the real voices of the local gaming community.

Fans are invited to see which of the top local talents are live, find out more about them and watch them around the clock. Every day a different local streamer is highlighted so that local fans can discover the vast mix of talent South Africa’s esports and content creation community has to offer. Content creators currently streaming are:

RustyPieLover (http://www.twitch.tv/rustypielover) – Ginger Streamer. Professional high-pitched screamer and entertainer extraordinaire! Ready to entertain and bring smiles to faces and laughs to guts!

Streaming times:

Mondays and Wednesdays at 7pm – 11pm is Stardew Valley
Tuesdays at 7pm – 11pm is Spiritfarer
Thursdays at 8am – 12pm is Spiritfarer
Fridays at 8am – 12pm is Stardew Valley
Saturdays at 8am – 4pm for either multi-player games or speedruns of games like Diablo 2 or Stardew Valley.

AreYouAuthorized (https://www.twitch.tv/areyouauthorized) – Variety streamer who has come from a competitive background in multiple games to put together a community of fun, excitable people who love to play all sorts of things. Authorize is currently playing Final Fantasy XIV, as well as looking at dipping his toe into F1 2020.

Streaming times:

Tuesdays at 2pm – 6pm | 9pm – 11pm
Wednesdays at 3pm – 7pm
Thursday at 2pm – 6pm | Possible 7pm – 9pm slot
Fridays at 2pm – 6pm | Possible 7pm – 11pm slot

MissLadyJay (https://www.twitch.tv/missladyjay) – Twitch Partner and streamer for Bravado Gaming. MissLadyJay mainly streams Gwent: The Witcher Card Game competitively during the week. On the weekends, she plays a variety of games such as Dark Souls, The Witcher, Horizon Zero Dawn and many other games. Her streams are very chilled and she responds to almost every message in her chat while playing the game.

Streaming times:

Mondays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays at 2pm – 5:30pm
Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6:30pm – 10pm

Moripe (http://www.twitch.tv/moripe) (Tshepang Moripe) – Comes from Ekurhuleni, a place in the east side of Johannesburg, South Africa, from a background where he was heavily involved in sports. He has been playing sports almost religiously since he was a little boy and that’s what gave rise to his competitive personality. He always competes to win.

Streaming times:

Every Tuesday to Sunday with the streams starting around 4:30pm

TechGirlZA (http://www.twitch.tv/techgirlza) – Sam “Tech Girl” Wright is an international esports shoutcaster and South African gaming content creator. Her passion is esports and playing Rainbow Six Siege casually.

Streaming times:

For now, definitely Wednesdays at 1pm on www.twitch.tv/techgirlza

Bumfluffski (https://www.twitch.tv/bumfluffski) – Above average at being average at gaming, sometimes does cool things by complete accident. Some say that by rubbing his head, you can make a wish that would most likely never come true.

Streaming times:

Tuesdays and Fridays at 12pm – 4pm
Mondays – Saturdays from 10pm – 2am

Zaffa_Geek (https://twitch.tv/zaffa_geek/) – Zaffa_Geek is a full-time variety streamer that has been streaming for about six years, who is heavily focused on his community and helping out fellow streamers where he can, with a bit of an Afrikaans dirty mouth.

Streaming times:

Mondays at 8pm – 1am
Tuesdays at 7pm – 11pm
Wednesdays at 8pm – 2am
Thursdays at 8pm – 1am
Fridays at 8pm- 1am
Every second Friday, the stream times go from 5pm until the timer runs out – usually 11 or 12 hours later.

DaddyCoolZA (http://www.twitch.tv/daddycoolza) – South African streamer and esports enthusiast. Developer, Maker, Designer and Hug giver | Lead content creator for @Project_RiseZA.

Streaming times:

Tuesdays at 6pm – 10pm
Thursdays at 6pm – 10pm
Sundays at 12pm – 6pm

HenricoM (https://www.twitch.tv/henricom) – Henrico tries to make people happy on the internet with his streams. With a mix of being unapologetically himself and some comedy, he’s sure to be able to make you smile, at least once! He plays a variety of games, mostly FPS, and does a lot of chat segments.

Streaming times:

Every day from 5pm until around 10pm in the week and on weekends, whenever he can and for as long as he can.

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Sophiatown: The Lost “Paris of the Transvaal”

Sophiatown’s golden age was the 1940s and 50s. It was a dense, vibrant, and often dangerous neighborhood, characterized by “backyard” rooms, shebeens (illegal speakeasies), and a sophisticated social scene. It was the birthplace of Kwaito’s ancestors and the legendary “Marabi” music—a blend of traditional African rhythms and American ragtime. The streets were home to the most iconic figures of African literature and music: Miriam Makeba found her voice here; Hugh Masekela received his first trumpet from a local priest; and the writers of Drum magazine, like Can Themba and Bloke Modisane, used the neighborhood as their muse. They dressed in Fedora hats and double-breasted suits, channeling the style of Hollywood gangsters and Harlem intellectuals, creating a world that was cosmopolitain, intellectual, and radically multi-racial.

However, the “Bohemia” of Sophiatown was an existential threat to the National Party’s vision of total racial separation. The government viewed it as a “black spot” in a white area. In 1955, the state launched Western Areas Removal Scheme. On the morning of February 9th, 2,000 heavily armed police officers moved in, forcing families into trucks at gunpoint. They were relocated to the newly established matchbox houses of the South Western Townships (Soweto), 20 kilometers away. The resistance was led by figures like Trevor Huddleston, the Anglican priest whose church, St. Joseph’s, still stands today. Despite the slogan “Ons dak nie, ons pola hier” (We are not moving, we are staying here), the bulldozers were relentless.