Nadine Dirks
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Women & Gender Studies MA Candidate. Author of Hot Water. Freelance writer & editor. Gogo. Communications Expert. Intersectional Feminist. SRHR advocate.
Cape Town, SA
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Ngwana wa QwaQwa. Vannie Kaap by way of our parents, warrior wa Aus' Aggie. My eldest sister Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng, a whole Commisioner of Gender Equality by way of the Parliament of South Africa. Let us ululate as the President appoints her soon.
Congratulations. Kea u rata. 👏🏾
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Cape Town voted best city for opportunities in all of Africa.
Meanwhile, the bus trip from my neighbourhood to the city centre takes the same time as a flight from Cape Town to Johannesburg.
Y'all gonna stop playing.
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Hi
@Clicks_SA
where can I find the penis deodorant/wash section? Since you now have a whole range of products to make vaginas pristine, even though it cleans itself, please point me to where I can find the stuff for musty balls and smegma. Thanks 🤗
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Apartheid spatial planning, jou ma se POES.
Sincerely,
A Youth.
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Today is a special day for formerly enslaved people in the Cape. It’s Tweede Nuwe Jaar.
When we were enslaved, we had to work on New Year’s Day at the slave owner’s for their celebrations.
But on the second day, we were granted a day off from our duties.
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So someone shared that video of a Cape Coloured woman and an Indonesian man talking and seeing the similarities between the languages. The comments were hurtful and I've seen this a lot, people esp in JHB will lambast you for speaking Afrikaans and say it's an apartheid language.
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Ghel. We are tired. Black women have BEEN doing that. Let people have nice things that aren't poverty/trauma porn. Ain't no one in Blood & Water denied Blackness. It was a Black ass show, in all its glory. We had no choice but to stan the versatility. We are more than trauma.
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Camagu. Don't let anyone tell you that you cannot phahla because you don't know your ancestors languages or because your parents weren't married. It is about intention. Call upon who you know and speak as you want, set your intention and speak to your people. Do it.
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I'm about to graduate with a post-grad triple major in Communication Science, Public Relations and Media Studies.
Help me so I don't faint.
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Celebrating Black Excellence. When I found out
@bonang_m
made pots, AGAIN, I cried. I'm so so proud of her. Hard work, creativity and love. Also, this is so delicious.
Well done, moghel. You did that. We stan, we support, we love. Thanks to moreki
@drtlaleng
#HouseofBNG
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The worst kinda kak happened tonight. In Long Street a guy drugged a girl and tried to take her, I somehow realised something was wrong and ran after them. Physically had to grab her and fight with the guy to let her go. My aunty came running after me. Police & ambulance came
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While we are on the topic of Afrikaans being a stolen language. Do we know about what is happening in Observatory, Cape Town? Particularly surrounding indigenous ground & water?
Amazon is currently trying to build their Africa headquarters, and fill parts of the River with cement
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Meanwhile, y'all threw water at us for protesting so we don't get raped and killed? Your poes actually! Your entire poes. Fuck off. Voetsek.
The City’s dam levels have declined to 81,6% and our collective water usage has increased to 598 million litres per day. We acknowledge residents’ calls to lower water tariffs and this will be reassessed in November. Thank you to all residents who continue to
#ThinkWater
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@cherryk0la
@noluzuma
You should have! 😭😭 It makes all the difference to the tweet 😭 you’re cooking 3 times a day because he’s disabled not just spoiled by mom.
Hayi even me I feel terrible for not making and responding masepa
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#EFFRedFriday
I feel like
@LeighMathys
.
#blacklivesmatter
in the
@kayafm95dot9
studios this morning.
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My mom knows how much I LOVE
@LeighMathys
and scream whenever I see my TG. I truly almost passed out and had to stop myself from crying today,
@drtlaleng
ma asked TG to take a photo with me. 😭😭 She was so graceful and pretty, I can't wait to be just like her.
#VoteEFF
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You'd swear
@bonang_m
is my relative or something the way I'm exciting about this. Like, I just got off the phone to tell my sister. We need to give our good sis our coins. She's a legit. Black women are coming for everything.
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FIRE HIM.
Don’t just suspend him. This is a criminal case.
He’s even been arrested. Call it what it is. It’s not just an altercation. He harassed, stalked, assaulted and abused
@karlowitchy
for her views in South Africa and under our constitution? 🤡
This isn’t good enough
With immediate effect, Sanlam has suspended an employee in light of allegations of an altercation with a member of the public.
We do not condone behaviour inconsistent with our company standards & values. A thorough, fair & independent investigation is underway.
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Tonight,
@drtlaleng
@TheOnly_Itu
and I are celebrating our Queen Mother in the Eternal Realm, who allowed us to exist this fiercely and freely, Mam Winnie.
We salute you, we salute
@bonang_m
, we salute Black Women.
Here is to May 8th.
#HouseofBNG
#FreedomDay
#EFFFinalPush
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People saying to Chrissy Teigen that God wanted an angel after she lost her baby are a special kind of up-on-their-high-horse cruel and unusual. Hou jou bek.
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Today, my thoughts are with the women Dr*gan violated, threatened, r*ped, drugged, abused, harassed and stalked. I see you and I am holding you in my heart.
Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslight by women who are his flying monkeys even in d*ath.
I believe you. I see you
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Please don't follow me if you're conservative or right leaning. Even my healing and gogo things lean left. Essentially: I tweet and work for the hoes (current and former), the queers, the gworls who get abortions, Black women, the radicals, intersectional feminists, & co. I beg.
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The House of Nyisists are observing
#EFFRedFriday
. The kind of House I belong in.
#UphephelaSeason
#EFFRedFriday
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@morri85
@JordanRowes
White people and trying to play respectability politics to get Black people to stay in check. And they still think we haven't figured it out, it's the only time they give a fuck about manners - they don't fucks with manners when they're stealing, killing or mistreating us.
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@cherryk0la
@noluzuma
Haibo! You made it seem like your mom did everything for him and now you have to indulge him. Like he’s an able-bodied lazy uncle.
Now I know my guy is disabled and I need you to peel and chop the fruit for him beforehand or I will 😭 aowa Baba!
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Let's talk coloured people and last names, shall we? Are you German, Dutch, etc. Or do you just have a slave name? 💔. Take me for example: my last name is Dutch, I am not Dutch. But my last name comes from some Dutch man who owned my family, hence we get the last name because
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Red lips and red flowers in abundance.
I finally got to hug Fighter
@NalediChirwa
. It was incredible. She has such good energy. Look at these smiles.
#EFFTshelaThupaRally
#EFFFinalPush
#VoteEFF
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Come for AKA all you guys want. Punish him, do what you want. But leave Coloured people out of it. Sies. He is not reflective of a whole community. That isn't okay, and it's anti-Black. By the way.
Also, his poes. Also men as a whole are violent.
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Beloveds, my graduation is on Monday. Triple major post grad even. If you wanna gift me, please help me get
@bonang_m
to send me a congratulatory note. She's. My. Beyoncé. 😭😩
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My surgeon, an endometriosis specialist, told my mom - I guess while I was unconscious or whatever. That I have the worst endometriosis he has ever seen, it is not just stage 4 but deep infiltrating, a rare form involving my nerves etc
He estimated 5 hr surgery. It took 12 hrs
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Hi, interrupting your regular broadcast to say - I just found out I got a distinction again for my exam for one of my *three* majors at post grad level. 😭
When I tell you I am numb and crying, believe me.
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Quick story: my eldest sister grew up in QwaQwa, with a dream and a fire in her soul for justice. She then turned her own experiences and expertise into gold. She works tirelessly to ensure that the lives of all people are treated with dignity. I don't know a better person.
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Black people. Saying it's because it's Dutch and relaying it back to white people. It erases coloured people entirely, it erases our history which is so complicated. And erases what we went through especially in the Cape with chattel slavery which other groups in SA largely
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I understand the language was used as a weapon against Black people. But I think it's important to decolonise Afrikaans. Please think about how what you share could affect someone else. Even if it's to educate. The comments really hurt me. Especially because it is from other
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It's a creole language
The reason for the similarities with that of Indonesia is because of the Dutch bringing Indonesians here as slaves who then intermarried with indigenous people, birthing us. People assume often coloured people are half white and half Black, that's incorrect
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“The bullies won”People holding your friend accountable & telling their stories of assault is not bullying. Sorry some lost a friend but you don’t get to use that as a means to recreate a narrative & ignore the fact that this man preyed on women. Even if that’s not ur experience
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On behalf of me & the women from
#EndEndoForNadine
. I want to say something.
Thank you Cleo, for pushing me to do this campaign, sharing, checking on me to make sure I'm okay, for donating.
Cleo pushed me to do this when I was lost & sick. I will miss the safeness of her care
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Be mindful of the erasure. Be mindful when you say that people have no culture. Be mindful when you bring up clan names and last names. It is not our doing that it is lost, it is the fault of the colonisers. And they get off free while we are busy with tribalism.
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didn't have to deal with. And it erases our language entirely. White people stole Afrikaans. It was created by us to avoid them. Not having to deal with the slavery and Dutch at the time allowed for some to preserve their traditions longer than others could
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Mntase, before you as a Black person come side ways about Afrikaans not being an African language and asking why we claim it. Understand that maybe it means nothing to *you* because it's not *your* mother tongue. Not only are you misinformed but you are actively erasing people.
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Thread 🧵
This is my story. I was tossed aside by the public healthcare system in South Africa based on race, gender & class bias.
By the time someone opened me up, my organs were stuck together. I was diagnosed with stage 4 endometriosis.
#EndometriosisAwareness
What if I told you there was a disease that tangles a woman’s organs together but the only money we’ve spent trying to figure out why is because sometimes it means she cant get pregnant
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*Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng.
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My mom keeps singing Water by Tyla in a Catholic hymn style and it’s undoing me 😭😂
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Mntase, gobela wam helped to arrange my ndumba. We spent the whole day busy with imithi, and laughing. So, I'm ready to consult, dispense imithi.
I throw bones, I read tarot, I work with amanzi. book in advance.
I'm currently doing bones for R100 for 30 mins.
#GirlzTalkZa
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It's really hurtful because no one ever asks us about our language. They say we have no culture, fellow Black people say that. And it makes me feel like people have no compassion for people who were victims of a holistically genocide. Our teeth was beaten out so we couldn't click
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Kak. You can show appreciation to them by giving them the money y’all spent on that damn minstrel costume. There are easier ways to achieve your goal. Tell your comms team to go back to the drawing board and leave low income Black people out of the foolery.
@GogoMagosha
Hi ADHDiva, thanks for your feedback. The entire campaign is centered around heroing our drivers. It’s to spread some festive joy and hopes that customers who can afford to do so, can tip the drivers a little extra to further spread some joy to them as well.
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@toxickarmen
@MyLifeAsSne
I mean... These women have rhythm asf. I don't usually get the fuss of ballet but this is a vibe.
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Coloured aunties and people in general are so scared of doekums and witchcraft. They won't even let their hair, nails, blood, placenta just be discarded in a bin or so forth. They are constantly saying that it's a way someone can doekum you.
But okay AKA go be anti-black.
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Beloveds... Look at my sister and I. Look at this skin without foundation. Look. Bona. Melanin is truly magic, the elixir of life.
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Enslaved people were forbidden to wear the same outfits as white people. We were also not allowed to wear anything vibrant in colour.
It was an act of rebellion and joy. It’s the reason for the homes in BoKaap still being bright and multi-coloured.
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A thread on Cape Coloured food.
I am deliberately saying Cape Coloured because Cape Malays think they have a monopoly of cuisine and customs. It doesn't just belong to them. Anyway, I literally get chest pains when people discuss our food and relate it to yt people.
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to speak our languages, our names were taken away. Traditions beaten out of us. And it's like that is ignored and said to be a lack of culture and not the reality: it is genocide and eugenics.
It's painful. It's one thing when it's colonisers but when it's your kinfolk? 💔
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FYI: Tygerberg Hospital has new TOP (abortion) patients on Mondays. I think they may accept walk-ins but book about ten patients a day, but you can call them for an appt. 021 938 6443. Fetus Deletus.
#GirlTalkZA
#twoggle
#SRHR
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I’m glad Adila brought up the Israeli soldiers making videos showing how happy they are to destroy Palestine and its people.
They’re demented. We’ve all seen them do it. And if that isn’t genocide then I don’t know what is.
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Camagu makhosi amkhulu. Mama wam did well with me. Amathongo wam are fast too, they decided a long time ago that my processes would be AmaPondo. They gave uGobela wam my name and it is 👏🏾😍. Introducing: Makhosi Thembithongo. Call me Makhosi Thembithongo. Qha.
#millennialgogo
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Now that there's a pending domestic violence case against Katlego... It answers my question about why she was filming the encounter. She probably did it to safeguard herself and not be gaslit later when he denies this. I am in such disgust. It just gets worse.
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I can't help but be giddy at all these little independent online suppliers popping up. We are buying from people who look like us. Go monte! People are selling candles, baked goods, edibles, hair products, bonnets, dresses, teas, gift sets, crystals, skin care, etc. Here for it!
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Since people are loud and wrong. Let’s break this down. It is not a baby, okay? Shap. Until about 11-12 weeks it is still an embryo. After 12 weeks it is a fetus. Still not a baby.
It is not viable outside of the womb.
Now in South Africa abortion is legal.
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I'm a kullid from Cape Town. How do you mean now? Everyone knows these.
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@drtlaleng
Did someone say Uphephela season? I'm here from the Uphephela gang, sis.
#EFFRedFriday
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Wow. She's a wow
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So gore Bonnie is just gonna come at Sho Madjozi side ways nje, after the week we've had as a country, as a people. This is the most ghetto shit I've seen. Why don't people just mize those they don't like? Or at least come at her on merit. So rude.
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@CheckersSA
it is almost 35 degrees in the Cape. You are making people deliver groceries in a very American Santa costume. That costume is designed for SNOW. Could y’all not do a T-shirt and some shorts? Or is it a non-issue because it’s a race and class thing for sure. Do better
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My mother
@drtlaleng
took me to see
@CheekyNatives
at Outie Bakery in Newtown.
Look at her. Jesuuuu.
#EFFFinalPush
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Black women will reign Supreme. We just waiting for y'all to catch up. I'm crying and probably won't stop for a while. Dr T, Aus T - you are a light that never dims on us.
This is amazing. She's on the best seller list on DAY One. This shelf was empty last night. REPRINT, umuntu
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Whether you enjoy the Klopse or not. It’s important to understand the history, rich culture and tradition.
To understand the need to defy one’s enslavers. To celebrate our freedom.
And to remember why we laugh, sing, dance whenever possible. We’re free.
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Guys
@FreckledToast
makes handcrafted gourmet donuts, cinnamon rolls, cakes, biscuits and it is so affordable. I want nice things for our girl, the dlozis must speak on our behalf to God, and arrange for this to be in a cute bakery or whatever Muneera desires.
@booksbakesbants
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If it's not the wax, it's the smoke, sounds or the wick of a client's candle. I'm sitting here and I hear a sizzle and I look and something formed in the wick. It's a fetus. I will never stop being astounded by the dlozis. My umthandazi gifts are strong vele.
#gogo
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Hello... Re protests and looting.
If you want a translation, I will translate. But basically coloured people... Don't be naaiers.
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Y'all know you can dislike NDZ without being racist and misogynistic ne? You know she's highly educated right? I wish you guys ridiculed The Matriculant the way you guys ridicule Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma.
#NDZ
#LockdownSA
#LockdownLevel3
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The assumption that I'm clueless is annoying. I understand all of those things, I also understand that I'm stuck on the outskirts of the city for a reason.
People need not tell me my lived experience is wrong because it didn't happen to them. Yhu abelungu.
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So next time you’re enjoying our cuisine. A cuisine which has added so much to the tapestry of South Africa.
Remember that it was created in these very slave quarters.
It’s a rich mix of spices, techniques and ingredients from various enslaved people.
To them we say Camagu!
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@drtlaleng
@Clicks_SA
I mean, I thought I only needed water but evidently my vagina is a health hazard that needs specialised detergents to ensure men don't realise it doesn't smell like Pleasures by Clinique. Whoops!
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😂😂😂😂 Cape Town influencers are so embarrassing, GIRL! These Cape Malay queens don't even like other coloured people and use slurs on them. Now they're Black Lives Mattering for the gees. You know if you call them out, they're gonna say you're jealous because you're ugly. 😂
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My therapist and I had our last session for the year and said our sessions have been such a joy and she's enjoyed how I engage in our sessions and how I've growth. So I cried because she's been so kind, and then she cried too. I feel so held. Black women hold up the sky
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Yts, the same ones who complained when we protested, are now asking why we aren't protesting regarding loadshedding. Y'all are fucked up. Bitch, this has BEEN our reality.
My grandmother still doesn't have access to hot water in her home. There is ONE tap.
Voetsek
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@KaybeeKatlego
@MoanerLeaser
Then she must joke with her friends. You don't joke with strangers like this and think they must accept your masepa.
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I’m so stunned. Victims are hurting and having to deal with people turning someone into a martyr? Am I getting this right?
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I smaak to book a golden arrow bus tomorrow and lai a klomp tik koppe op and take them to Clifton. 😊
They want chaos, I'll give them chaos.
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I would just like to say slamat to my face. No make up and the hun is sitting! Nyisa once.
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You know you can be against these protests and find it destructive, dangerous for everyone and even senseless because Zuma se poes, without being racist or saying shit that sounds like a big big microaggression? Weird, right? I know.
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As I'm entering Woolworths at Glen Garry, the person in front of me decides to argue about having her hands sprayed, saying she doesn't want to, it's unnecessary. Girllll. During a global pandemic - it's unnecessary?
And yes, she was.
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The celebration usually included music, Ghoema in particular. An important part of our culture.
As well as meals to share. Brightly coloured clothing in flamboyant styles often ironic white fashions were used but made in all the colours imaginable.
This was important
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Not Taariq Jaftha slut shaming women on the internet. When his sister literally does the same shit, & gets paid for it. Which is wonderful, bec it's her body, her choice, her right. The gag is... I guess it doesn't bother him that his sister does it because she's his meal ticket.
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It was also the reason for the Kaapse Klopse. Playing traditional music, using instruments to play Ghoema and just a form of enjoyment.
Slavery was abolished in the mid nineteenth century where former enslaved people carried on these traditions we know today.
❤️💐🎉
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So glad I grew up with a dad who cried, A LOT! So I've never had this toxic ideology passed down to me. It's bullshit.
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Beloveds,
My cousin and her girlfriend are out and open after 2 years. They're proper in love. They do little trips together, they're just in awe of each other. My family is accepting the queerness of it all.
It's so wholesome. 😭
Even me, I want.
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"You don't listen to women because you are afraid of facts. Under EFF government, women will own more than 50% of the land, because they are the majority." -
@Julius_S_Malema
#EFFTshelaThupaRally
#EFFFinalPush
#VoteEFF
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A huge wow. The Queen just announced that she will be releasing a book this year, a whole sexual and health guide. What we deserve.
#InfluentialFridays
live on
@kayafm95dot9
#SONA
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A woman's place is in the revolution. But a gogo's place is to smudge the city with impepho.
#womensrights
#ForNene
#MyBodyMyChoice
#AmINext
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This weather is kak. And triggers really kak memories of my childhood. The shack would rain in in winter, the wood would rot, even when you put buckets, the linoleum floor would be wet, the rain would come in from the roof, onto beds, the floor, and it was loud. I hate winter.
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I love this. I love Woolies. Take all my money. 🥺
Dr Sindi is part of our Woolies family and we want nothing more than to see her back to full health.
We will donate R100k towards
#GiftSindiLife
and wish her a speedy recovery ❤️
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Hi.I'm sorry to make this announcement, I cannot at this point hold space for anyone. I'm mourning the loss of a close friend, & dealing w my health. I understand ordinarily I would be open to holding space& support but I am burnt out & can't deal w the DMs for help & support rn.
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Just yesterday, I asked, where
@LesDaChef
was because he had last tweeted 2 days ago, he is day 5 and the Dr said he is over the worst. How is this possible? No man... Someone so careful, so... I don't know. Yoh. What a painful time. Rest well, Chef Lesego Les Semenya. 💜
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I have no words. Honestly. My heart is full.
I will send out invitations to the wedding soon,
@drtlaleng
will be the officiator of the wedding.
@thobile_dlalisa
will be our bridesmaid.
That's all, carry on.
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My friend and I met like 20 years ago. We don't need to see each other often to feel like no time has passed. We are those likkle ngwanas every time. It makes my heart happy. She asked me to be her maid of honour and honestly, who am I to deny her? The photographer sent this 🥺❤️
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