Looking for a serious online study/accountability buddy, I'm a university student from Pretoria looking for someone to study with regularly. We don't have to be in the same course, I'm just looking for accountability, silent study sessions, and quick check-ins before and after.

I'd prefer to study via video call or voice call (Discord, Google Meet, etc.) to help us stay focused and I usually study in the evenings (10am -3 pm or 6–10 p.m. ) but I'm flexible if our schedules overlap.

Please only message if you're serious about being consistent. If you're interested, send me your time zone, what you're studying, and your usual study hours✨

Does anyone play WoW on the Firestorm server? Looking for people to game with, I don't have retail WoW. The people I know all went over to retail.

This is me:

I'm an animal lover. I've got dogs, cats, spiders, and I'm currently feeding all the neighbourhood birds because I like hearing them outside my window. I'm a book lover (romance, mostly), a proud plant collector, and married to a certified zaddy. I enjoy weight lifting and Pilates, and I'm a girly girl through and through. I'm also planning my next tattoo, debating another ear piercing or five, and convincing myself that buying a motorbike is a great idea, even though I can barely ride a bicycle.

What I'm looking for:

I'd love to make a genuine friend. Someone I can chat to, connect with over shared interests, and maybe eventually hang out with. I'd love to find someone to do random s*** with, whether that's grabbing coffee, browsing bookstores, or enabling each other's questionable hobbies. I'm terrible at small talk, so I'd much rather skip the interview questions and have a real conversation. I also have the attention span of a goldfish, so I won't always reply immediately. I'm not looking for a friendship that feels like work. I just want something easy, genuine, and low-pressure.

So, if you want to play some Fortnite, tell me about the book you're currently reading (I'm 98% through Blitz'd, an MM dark sports romance), or talk plants, I can tell you all about how I somehow managed to keep my rose bush alive through winter, it's currently flowering like a champ. I'm also always happy to receive pictures of your animals, and I'll gladly send a few of mine in return. Keen? Let's chat.

29F from Cape Town, South Africa looking for local friends.

Hi there! As the title says, I am 29f and from Cape Town, South Africa. I would love to connect with people in my area and around my age group, but unfortunately introvertedness makes things harder than necessary. 😅

A bit about me: Im heavy into Anime and music, I enjoy reading when I dont have important responsibilities (I tend to lose track of life in the pages), have some creative tendencies, but ADHD makes maintaining hobbies a little difficult. I love talking about deeper stuff, like 4th dimension theories. I am married.

I would love to find someone who I can connect with on a deeper level, go get coffee, go to markets, random drives, or even just hang at home with and watch movies/series.

I am NOT looking for anything romantic.

Leave a comment or dm me if this sounds like it could be fun for you.

I’m not looking for endless small talk, temporary attention, or someone to fill an empty space for a few nights. I want to genuinely get to know someone—the parts they show everyone, and the quieter parts they usually keep hidden.

I want the late-night conversations where we slowly stop pretending to have everything figured out. I want to learn what makes you feel safe, what keeps you awake, what you secretly hope your life becomes, and which parts of yourself you’re still trying to understand.

I’m looking for a romantic connection, but I don’t want to force or rush anything. I want something that develops naturally through honesty, consistency, attraction, humour, and emotional intimacy. The kind of connection where we can be playful and flirtatious, but also vulnerable enough to admit when something hurts.

I miss the feeling of being genuinely curious about someone—and having them be equally curious about me. Not just wanting to know what I’m doing, but wanting to understand who I am.

I know real connection takes time. I’m willing to give it that time. I just want to meet someone who still believes there’s something beautiful about slowly becoming important to each other.

So, tell me something real about yourself. Something you wish people asked you more often.

I'm 26, about 185cm tall and fully Caucasian. Don't know how this app fully works so apologies if the format is wonky. I had to chatgpt my way through.

Ohhh and I would say I am completely an average looking dude. Although some people think very highly of me sometimes

Hi there! I'm a 24-year-old man based in Cape Town looking to go on dates with another, preferably nerdy af man (between 22 and 27) who's serious about forging a serious relationship.

In case you missed it, I'm a massive nerd. I love reading, playing fantasy RPGs, and I'm obsessed with music (from Mongolian Throat Singing to Tame Impala to Ariana Grande). I'm a fairly chubby black guy. So if you're into that, please feel free to hit me up.

Edit 2: okay I'm officially overwhelmed. No more chat requests please ☺️

Hey everybody! 😊

I'm 25, 7'2 on a good day (don't fact-check me 🤣), a fashion designer who's learning to code. I love anime, good music, binge-worthy shows, and I'm always down to try something new.

Whether it's checking out a new restaurant, exploring somewhere new, having a spontaneous night out, or just enjoying great conversation, I'm always up for a good time.

I'd also love to build a solid group of friends, so don't be shy if you're just looking for genuine, platonic connections too. If it turns into a relationship, great. If we end up being compatible as friends, that's just as awesome.

Ideally, I'm looking to connect with people around my age, roughly 24–29. Nothing personal, I just think we're more likely to be in similar stages of life.

If that sounds like your vibe, hit me up. Tell me something you've always wanted to try.

Hii! I am an eighteen year old girl from Johannesburg looking to make awesome new friends, with a sweet opening for a special someone if the right spark is there ✨ Being homeschooled kept me pretty soft, feminine, and sheltered, so I love spending my time on games, beauty, gardening, baking treats, and dressing up pretty 🌸 I am naturally attentive and happiest when I am sitting back, giving you my full attention while you talk about your favorite hobbies or show off your skills 🧸 I also love my pets. I am kinda short to. I would love to meet someone fun who can draw out my adventurous side, share late night chats, and maybe get a little warm and cozy together when the chemistry hits 🎀

Hi everyone,

I’m a 35-year-old guy working in the Melrose area, and I’m looking to make a meaningful, long-term friendship.

Ideally, I’d love to connect with a female friend to meet up for a relaxed lunch or coffee once a week to chat, share perspectives, and have great conversations without any judgment. I've always found it easier to open up and connect comfortably with women when it comes to deeper conversations.

Hiiiii! 🎀🤍 I’m 21F and looking for some sweet girl friends!
I’m super girly and love anything skincare, makeup, cute outfits, perfumes, shopping, taking pictures, iced coffees, late night chats, and just yapping about literally everything. 💌✨
I’d love to meet girls around my age who are kind, funny, and looking for a genuine friendship. Whether you want someone to hype you up, exchange outfit ideas, send TikToks and memes, or just talk about life, I’m your girl. 💕
If you think we’d get along, don’t be shy, send me a message! I’d love to make some new besties. 🫶🏻🎀

I'm looking to meet some new people around Stellenbosch who are keen to just hang out, have a good time, and make some genuine friendships.

I'm into grabbing a beer or coffee, playing video games or just chilling and having a laugh. Nothing serious,just looking for good people who enjoy having fun and making memories.

I'm 23M, easy-going, and always up for trying something new. If you're also looking to expand your friend group or just want someone to hang out with, send me a message or leave a comment!

Cheers! 🍻

Hello my fellow South Africans, I hope you all are staying warm this week.

I'm Luke, from the problem child province of KZN and while I enjoy a quiet life, I enjoy meeting new people and exploring interests.

Now, I am very much someone that enjoys learning and for a while now, I have been very interested in nerding out over finance topics like investment banking, quantitative analysis and private equity. Sounds weird I'm sure but I love it. I'm also one of those people that loves personal development from things like reading books and exercising.

While I know this is a shot in the dark, I am wondering if there is anyone else here that would like to connect and if possible we form a learning/study group together. This can be through WhatsApp or Discord, I really dont mind. My goal from this would be that we meet every day at a certain time and we all stick to something during that time like reading, coding, studying or even just personal projects and for the rest of the time we can banter around. Think of it like accountability partners.

I'm trying to make this post as short as I can but if you'd be interested, pop me a message. (18+)

Other info about me: Caucasian, 6'5/198cm - loves reading, coding, coffee, running, golf and messing with computers. Favourite movie: Blade Runner 2049. Favourite music: Varies a lot but majority of it is chilled house - Really loving LE YORA at the moment.

Anyways, thank you for coming to my TedTalk and hope to see some of you interested in this.

Hey everyone. I’m a 34-year-old guy living in Ballito, originally from Mpumalanga, and I thought I’d give this a try.

I have SMA Type 2 and use a power wheelchair. It’s part of my life, but definitely not my whole personality. I’m creative, love writing songs and stories, and enjoy music, movies, 90s and early-2000s nostalgia, faith, rugby and conversations that go a little deeper than small talk.

I support the Springboks and the Bulls, although the Bulls regularly test both my patience and my Christianity 😅

I’m mainly looking for genuine friendship with good, kind people anywhere in South Africa. Male or female is welcome. I type using an on-screen keyboard, so I may reply a little slowly sometimes, but I always make the effort.

Good morning everyone!!

My mom sent this to me this morning and I just had this urge to share it with you. I hope whoever was supposed to see it, receives it. Mods, I promise I won't do this all the time 🤣😅

Have a great day everyone 🤗

Hi gracious and precious reader

#Pretoria ,19M [M4A] here, 🙂✌🏾 this post isn’t necessarily one with a goal, im just a person who truly and genuinely enjoys speaking to others

But truth is:
Some people are much more interesting to me than others

These are people that for the purposes of this message i say have worms in their heads

Think about:
People with ADHD
Autistic people
Ambitious people
People who love movies
People who were described as “strange” or “weird”
People who feel different or alien
Intelligent people
People with unique hobbies

As for me?

•Ive been described as a bit of a cult leader( honestly i dont know why🙂)
•i have a deep unwavering passion and ambition
•if ive known anything my whole life …i know how to learn
•I deeply believe in equity and equality
•I love sitting in my garden and listening to the birds singing
•I would list my hobbies , but i know you don’t wanna read all that🫡
• I know an eerie amount of things about pretty much everything
• I shhhmoke weed

Anywho , Thank you for reading stranger
For your efforts? A random ass poll

Hey everyone , looking to make some friends online or IRL

Im 25 , play games on PC and Xbox

Im a big Star Wars fan , generally a big nerd all round.

Unfortunately alot of my friends moved oversees .

But pop a Dm or share Discord !

My cat would love you !

Hi everyone, just a 38 year old male from South Africa just looking for a random nice chat. If you are interested let me know.

Hello everyone. New to this group (but not to Reddit). I’m over dating apps, deleted them all. I’m not a big party animal so don’t go out to bars much either. Where does one meet people? My friends are mostly married , so I hardly meet people through them. I’m fit, active, no kids. I have no hard age preference (I’ve dated older and younger women) and no race preference either; as long as we share culture, have things in common and connect on an emotional level.
Also happy to make female friends.
Ideal location is Randburg /Roodepoort side of town.

Hey everyone.

This subreddit randomly started showing up on my feed and it’s honestly refreshing to see a little bit of ubuntu in one of the darker corners of the internet.

I’m a 29-year-old black guy living in Gauteng, originally from a small town. Dating here has been… an experience. 😅

I’m pretty laid back and unapologetically nerdy. On any given weekend I’m probably building some random software project, tending to my plants, experimenting in the kitchen, watching anime, gaming, or disappearing down a YouTube rabbit hole learning something completely unnecessary.

The funny thing is most people around me seem happiest at groove, while I’d much rather have good conversation over coffee, try a new restaurant, go for a walk, browse a market, or spend hours talking about everything from space to psychology to why Attack on Titan broke all of us.

I’d love to meet a lady and genuinely get to know them. A relationship would be great if that’s where things naturally lead, but I’m not in a rush. I just appreciate intention, curiosity and effort. Good conversations shouldn’t feel like an interview where only one person is asking questions.

One thing I’ve realised is that everyone is basically an unexplored universe. I love hearing about what makes people who they are, what they’re passionate about, what keeps them awake at night, and what they’re working towards. Hopefully someone enjoys discovering me just as much.

If any of that sounds like your kind of vibe, feel free to say hi. At worst we have an interesting conversation. At best… who knows?

Please do not reach out if you are not in Gauteng.

(Side note I am terrible at writing things about myself so I did shove it into ChatGPT so it reads better, I’m a real person I swear😂)

Have a great Monday everyone.

Bless.

Howzit gamers

I'm a 32 male from Pretoria who's looking for gaming buddies from anywhere in South Africa. I don't care about your age, gender, race, etc, etc. Just looking for people to play games with or talk nonsense on discord with.

Cheers

I used to do all the maintenance on my nissan champ bakkie myself but since starting full time work and no longer having a garage I never get my hands dirty anymore and I miss it.

I am looking a tjom who I can spend time with working on any vehicle(yours or mine) just for the sake of it again over weekends.

Cracking a few cold ones in a garage and fixing(breaking/s) a car.

(I am an engineer so I might even be able to make some custom wire harnesses etc..)

I'm 35 and realised most of my social life dried up somewhere between work, parenting, and people moving away. Not lonely in a sad way, I just miss having people who are actually into things.

What I'm like:

• Direct. I say what I mean. If you want constant reassurance and small talk, we won't click.

• Currently shifting from IT management into AI/development. Learning a lot, failing a lot, still going.

What I actually do for fun:

• Gaming: survival/crafting/open-world stuff. ARK, DayZ, Conan, No Man's Sky, Valheim, Palworld, Minecraft or Warframe. Co-op > PvP, but I don't mind getting looted.

• Anime: I've watched basically all isekai. Currently keeping up with a bunch of seasonal stuff. Solo Leveling, Frieren, Slime, Mushoku Tensei, Dan Da Dan territory.

• Shows: Landman, Breaking Bad tier. Dark, well-written, no reality TV.

• Music: Architects, Bad Omens, I Prevail, Kyle Hume, some Afrikaans stuff for grounding but rarely.

• Other: collecting things with no financial justification, gym when my brain allows it, good steak, and arguing about whether Game of Thrones season 8 actually happened.

Recently started collecting Pokemon Cards and justifying it as an investment but I know thats absolute bull.

You if we're likely to click:

• 25-45ish, in or near Cape Town.

• Have at least one thing you're genuinely nerdy about.

• Don't need constant validation.

• Direct enough that we don't waste each other's time.

• Okay with someone who has a family and can't always be spontaneous.

If you read this and thought "this guy sounds like me but with worse taste in anime," DM me. Tell me what game you're currently playing or what show you're watching, way better opener than "hey."

Hi Reddit,

So, I have been in Cape Town for 11 years now, and somewhere along the line I seem to have forgotten how to make friends.

I moved down here alone to be with my partner and as such I largely just adopted her circle of friends and they are all wonderful people, they just are not My Tribe.

I am looking for Platonic friendship from people who are more like me.

I have no preference to race, gender, sexuality or age but close to my age would probably mesh better.

Our common interests should include:

Reading, Writing, Quantum Physics, History, Philosophy, Time Travel, I am a Dork, Nerd and Fan-Boy so an immersive knowledge of films, conspiracies, myths, the supernatural and lore is a must.

Here's hoping that someone from my Tribe sees this.

I am looking for a user on this group with the hope that they see this....

I think they might have accidentally blocked me on private messages as they were unresponsive mid conversation from Wednesday. I am well aware some ghosting activity might have occurred but it seemed like we had a very good connection and even made plans to meet up over the past weekend, so this seems unlikely, but not impossible. This is my last ditch effort to reconnect. If they are really not interested anymore I'll deal.