Thanks for the mention my friend and glad to hear that Steemit has helped your situation, that is what the @steemdrive is all about, bringing Steemit to South Africa, to help fellow nationals.

You have just schooled an old dog! Commenting and voting on trendy content is genius and a great way to be seen and create allies as they join Steemit.

@minion also does something great, whereby he puts animated gifs in his comments which are endearing, here you will find some of them which he has put out there for all to use.