Aisha R Pandor
@aishapandor
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Cofounder @Pandora_Health and @SweepSouthSA | Investing via E4EAfrica | 🧬 PhD | Mom | Partner to @alenribic | 🌱 veggie | 🇧🇼🇿🇦🇺🇸
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🧵 amazing being able to listen to the spoken voice of my great grandfather, ZK Matthews. An activist and academic, he speaks about the impact the laws of the apartheid government had on Africans, himself included (his home, teaching position, freedom)
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My daughter called me into the bathroom for an “emergency” only for me to find this. These kids don’t respect my time 🙄
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My mom has been an ANC member and activist for all of my life. I share a birthday with the ANC, and for most of my life, I proudly spent Jan 8th with other family or friends, while my parents served the party. Since I was almost 9 years old, she has served as a member of South
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Happy birthday to Dr Min Naledi Pandor, the most wonderful mother and my biggest role model ❤️
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This is my mother. Principled, authentic, transparent, erudite, honest, intelligent, patriotic, caring, funny, fair, cheeky 😁 and most of all, courageous. A servant of the people and of justice. We need more leaders like her in SA and globally. I adore my mom and I loved this.
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Grateful to have such an incredible mother. Grateful to be the mother of such wonderful children. Happy tears today. Happy Mother’s Day! 💐
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First time being on a panel with my mom. Loved it!
#LWS2020KZN
: "We encourage our kids to be entrepreneurs and to lead with softer skills - having a moral compass and family culture" says Dr
@aishapandor
.
@MastercardMEA
@kzngov
#DOKZN
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I feel like the sign language interpreter is doing an excellent job of displaying the President’s disgust at us all rn 😔 🙈
#cyrilramaphosa
#LockdownSA
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“How can granny be on the TV when she’s downstairs?” 😆
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We've raised over ZAR7m already and also continue to appeal to all private employers of domestic workers to continue supporting their helpers during this period however they can.
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That time I was on a
@forbesafrica
@ForbesWomanAfri
panel discussion with my mom and she casually said "We knew Aisha and her siblings were going out partying at night, they thought we didn't know, but we knew" 😅
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Proud South African 🇿🇦 and proud daughter on his historical day 🇵🇸
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So proud and excited to watch my mom DR
@NalediPandor
officially receive her PhD in Education from
@UPTuks
. Welcome to the club mom!!
#UPGraduate2019
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Happy Anniversary to this absolute snack
@alenribic
. Over a decade of marriage and almost 14 years together has gone by in the blink of an eye. ❤️ you to the 🌙 and back
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An estimated 38% of women deal with a chronic condition that requires ongoing medical attention, and for many, support, advice, community and access to treatment is expensive, out of reach, and not nearly personalized enough. We can’t reach the promise of precision medicine
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Ramadaan Kareem to my Muslim sisters and brothers who are also observing. Regardless of where my spirituality is at I’ve always appreciated participating in the fast and it’s principles of self sacrifice, self control, empathy and charity ☪️ All more relevant in today’s world 🌟
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Just spent the last 30 min sniffing a two year old’s feet and saying “poof!” While he laughs. Fellow high powered tech CEOs, how productive has YOUR day been so far 😜
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Woop!! Congrats
@RealBlackCoffee
, you're such a brilliant example of both investment back into the country and continent, and also thinking about the long term game. Much respect 👏
I’m honoured to announce that my investment company
@FlightModeSA
has officially acquired a stake in Gallo Music Group, as a part of a newly signed equity deal, I am now one of the major shareholders of this incredible piece of South African Music culture and history.
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10 years of fun, friendship, so much love, (yes a bit of fighting 😜), and adventure. So grateful to you
@alenribic
. Happy anniversary! ❤️❤️❤️
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Driving back home to my babies (missing them like crazy), what a surreal night! Thank you
@LWSummit
@forbesafrica
for recognizing the work we do with this award 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
@cnbcafrica
#LWS2020KZN
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Witnessed the work every weekend for the past 4 years, writing late into the night once you’d finished your “day job” at 7 or 8pm at night, and the revisions, edits, rewrites of so many paragraphs. All of this you handled, as usual, with dedication and aplomb. Well done mom!
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Happy Birthday
@SweepSouthSA
! So proud of what our team, over 20,000 SweepStars, and our customers have created over the past 6 years. So grateful for the support we’ve had! It’s been a heck of a journey. We’ve lost almost everything and at the same time gained so much...
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Real discipline is getting steers and not eating a single chip until you get home
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🙏🏾
Dr. Aisha Pandor is an award-winning scientist with a PhD in Human Genetics. She is also an entrepreneur who won the Forbes Woman Africa Technology and Innovation Award.
#WomensDay
#WomensDay2020
#WhileWomenAreAlive
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Amazing to go and do a talk and end up actually just being SO inspired by everyone else. I took so much away from this evening, thank you
@LiveBetterTalks
@CapitecBankSA
@FabAcademic
@jsomethingmusic
@akaworldwide
@YoungstaCpt
@NoniGasa
#LiveBetterTalks
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At
@SweepSouthSA
we've had amazing encounters with some of our biggest role-models. Such was the case last week when we were visited by
@melindagates
. The interaction encouraged us to think bigger, bolder & plan for even more positive social impact & growth. Hugely inspired! 🙏🏾
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The way my kids go through strawberries, blueberries and clementines (!?) 😭 When I was young it was apples and oranges only and if I was lucky enough to taste a blueberry it was (an old) one on top of a pick n pay tartlet 😂
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Everyone joining our platform has prior experience, however 70% are unemployed & 30% underemployed when they apply to us. Proud to be a group of DOING people who're making a dent in providing access to dignified work opportunities. Expect to see us do the same in more SA cities!
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The more I learn the more I realise how little I know. All I now know is that there are no absolutes, and engagement and seeking to understand feels far better than judgement.
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Huge thanks again to my brilliant cofounder
@alenribic
, our wonderful team at
@SweepSouthSA
, and the thousands of SweepStars who’ve found work via the platform and for whom we must continue to open up more and more opportunities for a better life.
🏆 Our first deserved winner this evening Dr Aisha Pandor, Co-founder of SweepSouth, receiving the Forbes Woman Africa Technology and Innovation Award! 👏🏼👏🏾👏🏿 Congratulations!!
#LWS2020KZN
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Thrilled to announce that
@naspers
' SA-based Foundry Fund is leading our latest round with a R30m investment into
@SweepSouthSA
. Great to have such a high calibre investor on board & we look forward to sharing more funding news over the next few weeks
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Peeps! Please consider buying local 🇿🇦 as much as possible for your Xmas gifting. I'm doing gift buying last minute (as usual!) and looking for some awesome new local brands. Comment below if you have any ideas or are an SA brand wanting support 💡🙏🏾
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Super excited to announce our acquisition of Egyptian home services startup
@FilkhedmaEG
, which will see
@SweepSouthSA
launching in the Egyptian market & also bringing services like beauty and broader home maintenance into our current operations in South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria
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So many of us have been through the most over the last 18 months. Acknowledging and sending love to everyone who is trying to keep it together while going through very real personal and private challenges. It will be okay ❤️
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Incredibly exciting, big congratulations
@PhutiMahanyele
! Look forward to working with you now that
@SweepSouthSA
is part of the
@Naspers
family via Foundry, and wishing you all of the very best!!!
Phuthi Mahanyele-Dabengwa to lead Naspers in South Africa:
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One of the many reasons this feature was so special to me, apart from coming at a time of change and new beginnings, was the fact that it celebrates women who are achieving into our third, fourth and fifth decades of life. This is important in challenging the notion that’s pushed
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Big day in the Pandor/Ribic household today! I couldn’t contain myself!!
#theyoungmaniswalking
@alenribic
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This
#lockDownSouthAfrica
is going to be incredibly tough for small businesses, but we will persevere. Proud of our President
@CyrilRamaphosa
and his team for decisive leadership and for doing the right things to help slow the rate of infection in our country
#cyrilramaphosa
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"How one woman created over 15000 jobs for other women" - fab article but we've created over 20,000 jobs 😉 and it's not "one woman", but rather via the efforts of an incredible, hardworking and dedicated team 😊
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Listen I consider myself pretty tough, but I’ve just had to pop in to V&A Waterfront with all three kids and that 30 min experience almost broke me as a person 😣
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Happy 5th birthday
@SweepSouthSA
!! Thanks to the incredible SweepStars who put their faith in us to change the status quo. Thanks to our wonderful customers, dedicated team, supportive investors, and to my partner in love, life, risk (& reward 🍀)
@alenribic
. To the next 5! 🎉
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Toddlers will legit spend 30 min walking around looking for a lost item with you, meanwhile knowing full well that they threw it in the bin
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So proud to have
@SweepSouthSA
investor and African innovator
@RealBlackCoffee
fly the South African and African flag at
@midem
. We mustn't wait for someone else to save us, we must build our own solutions. Yes! 👏🏽
Keynote:
@RealBlackCoffee
. He talks music,
#Gongbox
, art, social media business,
@Yoco_ZA
,
@SweepSouthSA
and technology in Africa -
#Midem
2018
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Absolute 🔥 panel with Minister Dr
@DlaminiZuma
,
@jumokeadenowo
, Prof Glenda Grey, and
@bonang_m
#LWS2020KZN
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2019 has been so busy & with a new baby added to the mix, I’ve tried to set aside mom & big girl time, capped off with a special trip this wkend to NYC to visit with friends & spend time w my godson. Reminded she needs me as much as her younger siblings, just in different ways ❤️
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Made oats this morning for the first time in years, and it made me think of my dad and how he made us warm breakfasts often and would pack our school lunches. He’s always been such a loving, happy, empowering father. So grateful ❤️🥲
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If you’re a mom and a working professional like me, and like me almost wept at the feet of your nanny when she came back after the dec holidays 😅😅😅 Please consider a raise and a gift and expressing the appreciation you have to her for looking after your home and family.
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Happy happy birthday to a dedicated and incorruptible public servant, but most importantly a wonderful mother and role model! 💕
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We're adding new services to
@SweepSouthSA
Connect alongside plumbers, electricians, handymen, carpet cleaners, locksmiths, DSTV specialists, chefs, movers etc. to help more small businesses connect to customers, and vice versa. Let us know which new services you'd like to see!
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On the road again! In and out of Jhb today to talk about the effects of regulation on platform technology startups at
#4IRSA
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It’s my birthday today 🎈 and I woke up feeling so grateful for my life, family, health, friends and colleagues, and the opportunity to do work that fulfills me. Thank you to everyone who is and has been a part of that ❤️
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.
@SweepSouthSA
is an app for booking on demand and regular cleaning while helping to create work plus other benefits & career opportunities. Now now offering outdoor work (such as gardening, outdoor cleaning & moving assistance) for your home too
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Thrilled to be included as a
@marieclaire_sa
2018 Future Shaper!!! Marie Claire is celebrating the forward-thinking, fearless career women who are raising the bar, breaking down barriers, paving the way forward & shaping the way we see the future in South Africa.
#FutureShapersSA
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Just a word of encouragement. Never live your life in fear or apologetically, live your life boldly. Without your experience, good or bad, you are an empty page, a blank notebook, a missing lyric. What makes you brave is your willingness to live through the challenges of your
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Anyone else really just here to support other people and promote positive stories? 🤷🏽♀️💖
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Reading through this brilliant follow up to
@brucebusiness
’s bestselling “The Upside of Down” and got a pleasant surprise at
@SweepSouthSA
being featured. Both books important reading for anyone wanting to understand SAs startup ecosystem and the potential for catalyzing (1/2)
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Home to startups like
@Yoco_ZA
,
@aerobotics_intl
,
@Clickatell
,
@getsmarter
and
@SweepSouthSA
, as well as
@Naspers
and
@TAKEALOT
,
#CapeTown
has been ranked a major tech ecosystem and investment hub on the continent -
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Long day yesterday - full workday, 2 good board meetings, late evening panel interview... but the piece de resistance for sure was my last minute Easter bonnet 😆
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Some exciting news! Thrilled to be welcoming Lourandi Kriel as
@SweepSouthSA
’s new CEO, effective 29 Jan 2024.
Growing SweepSouth over the last 9 years to serve over 2 million bookings and positively impact over 50,000 African women and their families and communities, has been
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So fortunate to have investors who ascribe to the vision of what
@SweepSouthSA
is building, thank you
@PhutiMahanyele
@Naspers
for joining our journey! We'll continue working damn hard (& smart) to achieve even more growth in the coming years!
@alenribic
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So excited about our progress after launching
@SweepSouthSA
in Nigeria, and can't wait to be able to go and visit again! 🇳🇬
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How did I go 35 years without pausing a few times daily to take a *deep* breath?? So many benefits. Instant calm, control of breath vital to control of body and emotions, and having lungs full to the brim with air will always remind you to be grateful for life. Give it a try! 😊
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At SweepSouth, & with generous support from the
@DellFdn
, we’ve raised over R7m to support thousands of SweepStars with covering their basic necessities during the lockdown period and for the months ahead. Please check our fund page to contribute, or share & spread the word.
Announcement!
Introducing the SweepSouth COVID-19 SweepStar Fund which will help SweepStars survive the COVID-19 lockdown & beyond. The fund will pay SweepStars up to R450 weekly to assist them with their living essentials.
Read more:
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Merry Xmas everyone! Hope your hearts and tummies are all as full as ours ❤️🎁🎄
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We won!! It’s an honour to have been nominated by our shareholders
@Edge_Growth
and to be recognized by the fraternity of investors that are part of
@SAVCA_news
, who support entrepreneurs and businesses like ourselves. Onwards and upwards!!
#SAVCAIndustryAwards
#SAVCA
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Huge congrats to my Fam at
@Yoco_ZA
! So exciting watching you all continue to blaze a trail both for small businesses, but also tech startups in SA and on the continent. Onwards and upwards! ❤️
It gives me great pleasure & pride to announce the closing of our $83m Series C backed by high-quality partners who believe in our vision & team. It's an investment into Africa & the small businesses we are humbled to serve. Now we accelerate our vision to Open Commerce
@Yoco_ZA
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Super proud of our data science and engineering teams who worked on this. Taking us even closer to our vision of intelligent tech combined with great people to create more income earning opportunities, and amazing experiences for customers.
Snap a simple photo of what you need fixed 🛠, and in seconds our AI automatically tells you what service provider can fix it, links you to a fully vetted one and enables you to pay cashlessly.
@SweepSouthSA
#Connect
!
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As a natural introvert I struggle with "networking" and the resulting anxiety around "did I present myself okay to everyone?". FAR more effective - just focus on doing your job well, and eventually all the right networks will come to you. cc
@alenribic
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Guys if your kids don’t have a broom or mop in hand right now, are you even doing
#WFH
right??! 😜
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I just heard my 5 year old outside telling a neighbor that his dad is inside the house “catching bugs” 😳(he was coding and had been complaining about working on a bug fix)
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Great interactive conversation on Legacy this morning with
@TheRealClementM
on
@Radio702
, hosted by
@Investec
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Had a rough day incl day back to back conf calls and this is what I came back to 😓 Somehow our dog’s water bowl and (filthy) squeaky toys (and part of a vacuum cleaner!?) made it into my bedroom. Feel free to judge the items on the floor 😆
#workfromhomelife
#LockdownSA
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I realized I’m bringing up my kids all wrong when I said “let’s maybe get gatsby a bit later” and my daughter said “what’s gatsby?” 😭😱
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I'm headed to Johannesburg this week to speak
@ObamaFoundation
's Africa Leaders program, a convening of 200 inspiring young leaders from across the continent. Follow along at
#ObamaLeaders
.
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💯 Cut from the same cloth (missing one). So grateful to have siblings whose counsel and unconditional love I can always count on 💕
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We bought him 🚀🩴 and now he refuses to wear any other shoes ❤️
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THIS is what it’s all about!! 🙏🏽 We’ve reached out and are scheduling an interview 💫
Hey
@SweepSouthSA
! So I was busy writing some software when one of your lovely ladies, Talent Pachenah, quickly pointed out and identified the languages and technologies I was developing in. Turns out she has a degree in dev/db (PHP and C++ background - app dev potential 😉)!
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My big brother
@FazlurP
the farmer! Super proud 🙌🏽🌾🧑🏾🌾 he is so cool 😎 Supporting agri and the growth of local farmers is vital for food security, employment, skills-building, cost reduction, to help combat the effects of inflation, and to help bring back healthy food practices.
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Happy Anniversary to this gem
@alenribic
! 12 years married and almost 15 together. Committing to a life with you has been the best decision I’ve ever made ♥️
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She says her younger brother can’t have her old pants because she still needs them as she’s “going to be smaller again later”
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Dinner eaten, kids in bed after 10 rounds of "Baa Baa Black Sheep" (for the 2 yr old) and playing puppy (for the 9 yr old). Now to start the 2nd half of work day (10pm - 1am/2am) before catching zzz's prior to my 6:45am flight (my third for the week)
#workingmom
#Entrepreneurship
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Teary seeing our alma mater in this state. The library and various campuses, where so many of us spent years of our lives, in flames 😭 Looking for and will retweet about initiatives to help
#uctfire
Efforts continue to contain a vegetation fire in the mountain above UCT.
The City of Cape Town is engaging in active firefighting efforts along with TMNP and the Volunteer Wildfire Service.
At this stage, UCT has initiated an evacuation of student residences.
#CTNews
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Friday the 13th! And the day our eldest turns 12. Why is my eye leaking?! 🥲 The days go slow but the years go fast
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Endometriosis op in the middle of a “keep it moving” week, in the middle of a “keep it moving” month & year. (1) Grateful 4 support of friends, family & team, (2) Reminded to be kind to ppl - u don’t know what they’re going through, (3) NB of balancing “get shit done” w self care
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Really proud of this partnership and of
@SweepSouthSA
helping to get hosts back to safely catering for guests, and more SweepStars back to work
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Rest In Peace and in Power to Human Rights Lawyer and anti apartheid activist George Bizos
#RIPGeorgeBizos
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I’ll be hosting
@Powerfm987
#POWERBreakfast
this morning from 6am to 9am with Minister
@NalediPandor
(aka Mom), very excited!!
#987Woman
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#RamadanKareem
to everyone observing. May we survive these first days with minimal crankiness and tiredness 😁 Hoping that the month ahead brings a reset, and renewed focus, spirituality, kindness, humility, gratitude for what we have, and ❤️ for each other
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Building a businesss. In the morning you can be lying in the gutter 💩 because of something, and by the end of that same day flying to the 🌙 🚀 over something else. What a trip! 😆🙏🏽 cc
@alenribic
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Only 5 years old at the time, I distinctly remember being in the crowd with my mother
@NalediPandor
, grandmother and siblings on this day 28 years ago, and picking up on the incredible and infectious spirit of joy, jubilation and triumph. Viva
@MYANC
Viva!
#Mandela100
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