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The Mission<\/span><\/h3>\n

Good Things Guy is on a mission to change what the world pays attention to. We believe that there is good news all around us and over 35 million South Africans agree with us. We hunt down and report on the best Good News stories from South Africa, and the World.<\/p>\n

Our mission is to change the national conversation and give South Africans a balance to the news in South Africa.<\/p>\n

The award-winning South African Good News site<\/span><\/h3>\n

Good Things Guy was officially launched on the 1st of August 2015 to promote only good news, inspirational stories, and positive, upbeat media. Since then, we have become South Africa’s top good news site.<\/p>\n

Good Things Guy is dedicated to telling good stories and we like to share things that inspire.<\/p>\n

Awards, Accolades And Good Things\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

Lead SA Hero (2014)<\/p>\n

Mail and Guardian Top 200 Young South African (2014)<\/p>\n

Talented Young South African Entrepreneur (2015)<\/p>\n

South Africans you need to follow on Social Media (2016)<\/p>\n

South African Blog Awards – Top Blog of the year (2017)<\/p>\n

100 Best Global Websites (2017)<\/strong><\/p>\n

South African Blog Awards – Top Blog of the year (2018)<\/p>\n

Top 25 African Blogs to follow, as well as the Top SA Blog to follow (2018)<\/p>\n

One of the \u201cMost Influential Young South Africans” (2018)<\/p>\n

100 Young Mandelas of the future (2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Top 25 African Blogs to follow, as well as the Top SA Blog to follow (2019)<\/p>\n

GQ Men of the year – Influencer of the year (2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n

South African Blog Awards – Top Blog of the year (2019)<\/p>\n

One of the \u201cMost Influential Young South Africans” (2019)<\/p>\n

The Good Estate – Global Top Blog (2020)<\/p>\n

Officially recognised as a News Site (2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Voted one of the best podcasts in South Africa (2021)<\/p>\n

Recognised as one of the safest websites for users (2022)<\/p>\n

World’s Top 100 Innovation Success Story (2022)<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the Top 10 podcasts to listen to in South Africa “When You’re tired of MacG (2022)<\/p>\n

Partners with Primedia Malls to bring the Good Things to 30 mall screens around the country (2023)<\/p>\n

Top 30 Best Africa News Podcasts (2023)<\/p>\n

Brent Lindeque voted number 5 in the Top South Africans of the Year (2024)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Voted number 8 in the Top 25 Best Africa News Podcasts<\/a> (2024)<\/p>\n

Voted number 12 in the Top 100 Best South Africa Podcasts<\/a> (2024)<\/p>\n

Brent Lindeque voted as one of the top 300 of South Africa’s most influential leaders (2025)<\/p>\n

Voted number 11 in the Top 100 Best South Africa Podcasts<\/a> (2025)<\/p>\n

Voted number 2 in the Best South Africa Storytelling Podcasts<\/a> (2025)<\/p>\n

The Founder<\/span><\/h3>\n

Before Good Things Guy, the online Good News site was born, Brent Lindeque did something. What started as a simple idea to make one person’s day better turned into a global event carried out by millions of people. The \u2018RAK initiative\u2019 was all about giving back & helping those in need.<\/p>\n

It all started when Brent Lindeque, a young South African, turned the reckless drinking game Neknominations on its head \u2013 by using his nomination to instead perform a random act of kindness. By giving a homeless man a R20 meal, and using the power of social media to \u201cpay-it-forward\u201d his nomination went viral and to date has been featured locally on Carte Blanche, Espresso, 5Fm, eNCA, News24, Radio702 and internationally on Mashable, Huffington Post, CNN, BBC, Sky News, the Oprah Magazine and even Ellen Degeneres even gave the initiative a shout-out.<\/p>\n

\"BrentLindeque saw himself becoming a LeadSA Hero, was selected as one of Africa\u2019s most promising Entrepreneurs and also chosen as one of the prestigious Mail & Guardian Top 200 Young South Africans.<\/p>\n

More importantly, his small act of kindness spawned hundreds and thousands of similar videos, reaching and physically improving millions of lives and in addition creating 3 dedicated feeding schemes in Canada, the USA and Ireland that are still running to this day.<\/p>\n

The Following<\/span><\/h3>\n

We try to keep up to date with all the current Social Media sites to make it as easy as possible for you to follow the Good Things and get your up-to-the-minute good news fix.<\/p>\n

Algorithms on Social Media constantly change, so the best way to follow us is to bookmark the website or physically choose to follow the page in the page settings.<\/p>\n

Here are all our spaces where you can find us online:<\/p>\n