Author/Writer | Finding my place in this world | She/They | M&G 200 Young South African 2023

Joined May 2012
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Quick question to those who know me, would you come to the function if I did some dramatic readings from White Chalk and read some unreleased stories from my MA thesis?? Like would that be something you would come see for free??
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Before I did @Idembeka I never thought of myself as a poet. That changed after @TA_4Short’s workshop (I still quote their 5 F’s for poetry). Many thanks to Idembeka and its wonderful instructors. And thank you always @thelavendercia and @soulfiru for your insightful feedback🫶🏾✨.
New poetry in @IseleMagazine Thank you to the editors for giving this piece a home🫶🏾✨. iselemagazine.com/2026/04/30…
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Congratulations to one of our #Thekgang #TechGangsters student volunteer app developers for the #bookvaluechain 🎓 Well done J 👏 #ReadersAreLeaders
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Why would someone ask me why I would post my results on here? What has happened to this place since I left
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So this happened.
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Now that my MA is done and dusted, I need to get back to life and take my Substack seriously. Also hello world.
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We may have never met but your impact on me cannot be overstated. Rest in peace, icon, legend. First Diana Ferrus and now Soli Philander its too much 😭
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Because Disability Rights are Human Rights
Eyesight is crucial for everyday tasks. If diagnosed with glaucoma, take your medication as prescribed and see your eye doctor regularly. Encourage family members to get screened. Early detection and proper care can prevent blindness. #AsibeHealthyGP
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CALL FOR PITCHES: Minority Africa invites writers, journalists and filmmakers to submit pitches for stories focused on minorities in Africa. Solutions stories about how marginalised groups / people are responding are more likely to be commissioned. 🔗 t.ly/AHeSL
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Good Morning Please help me make rent. Im in court again on the 4th Feb. Its almost over. Thank you so much
Good morning I need to make rent by the 7th. I will be adding my grant but I am still short. Please help where you can. Thank you. Im in court this month so its ending. Eventually
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🎶📺Jazz was deeply ingrained in the DNA of Black-forward mass communication in South Africa so much so that a majority of television title sequences were composed by jazz artists. In the late 1990s and early 2000s what I think of as the “nation-building renaissance”popular TV shows used jazz to evoke a shared sense of belonging. Isidingo, Backstage, Generations, nearly all the defining theme songs of that era were rooted in jazz.
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PLEASE SPREAD FOR AWARENESS ‼️) The public is being called to participate in the draft revised white paper on visas and migration. Cape Town folks, it’s your time to shine. this is about protecting your city, your housing, and your future. Get involved, make your voice heard.
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It distresses me that there is an increasing number of high schools that do not offer matric mathematics at all. We cannot build a country without mathematics.
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Colonialism was, as the Cambridge historian Ronald Hyam argued, “the transformation of the world into the white man’s brothel”
It ain’t just Asian woman. They love MINORITIES bc those are the women that still see white men as some status symbol regardless how trash and racist they are. Proud Boys right here. Look at their women. Racist white men can get any minority woman they want.
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My disability was caused by it
FACT: 1 in 6 people who get bacterial meningitis die. And even if you live, if you dont get treatment fast enough, it leads to deafness, neurological damage, and even amputation of limbs.
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Good morning I need to make rent by the 7th. I will be adding my grant but I am still short. Please help where you can. Thank you. Im in court this month so its ending. Eventually
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Speaking as an Iraqi who lived through the consequences of so called American democracy. God help the people of Venezuela, truly.
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Why does the media refuse to report that civilian infrastructure in Venezuela was attacked??
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The South African Constitution is FAMOUS READ THE GIRL
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Mamdani: We will provide our own answer to that age-old question: Who does New York belong to? Well, my friends, we can look to Madiba and the South African Freedom Charter. New York belongs to all who live in it.  Together, we will tell a new story of our city. This will not be a tale of one city governed only by the 1%, nor will it be a tale of two cities—the rich versus the poor. It will be a tale of 8.5 million cities, each of them a New Yorker with hopes and fears, each a universe, each of them woven together. The authors of this story will speak Pashto and Mandarin, Yiddish and Creole. They will pray in mosques, at shul, at churches, at gurdwaras, mandirs, and temples—and many will not pray at all. They will be Russian Jewish immigrants in Brighton Beach, Italians in Rossville, and Irish families in Woodhaven, many of whom came here with nothing but a dream of a better life—a dream which has withered away. They will be young people in cramped Marble Hill apartments where the walls shake when the subway passes. They will be Black homeowners in St. Albans, whose homes represent a physical testament to triumph over decades of low-paid labor and redlining. They will be Palestinian New Yorkers in Bay Ridge, who will no longer have to contend with a politics that speaks of universalism and then makes them the exception. Few of these 8.5 million will fit into neat and easy boxes. Some will be voters from Hillside Avenue or Fordham Road who supported President Trump a year before they voted for me, tired of being failed by their party’s establishment. The majority will not use the language that we often expect from those who wield influence—and I welcome the change. For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty. Many of these people have been betrayed by the established order. We will draw this city closer together. We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism. If our campaign demonstrated that the people of New York yearn for solidarity, then let this government foster it. Because no matter what you eat, how you pray, or where you come from, the words that most define us are the two we all share: New Yorkers.
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bell hooks: "We have to constantly critique imperialist white supremacist patriarchal culture because it is normalized by mass media and rendered unproblematic.”
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