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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
3 years
She Mastered.
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You’ll be fighting for your life financially then get invited to a birthday dinner.
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
1 year
Has a house at 28, lives close enough to the office to go home for lunch, has enough time for gym and haircuts during a work day He’s winning
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Mike 🧸
1 year
This video was so depressing that I started tearing up watching it
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@Cairo_Mathebula
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4 years
Adulthood is really waiting on one email to change your life.
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
2 years
some people are just underpaid and no amount of budgeting/saving tips can help them.
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Post your personal finance take that will get you cancelled 🤭🤔
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3 months
I used to wonder why many men will call you old at 25, then I remember that they date teenagers.
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I really don't think there's something beautiful about this video!. Young women it's okay sometimes not to accept expensive gifts from a boyfriend. 🤔💔 do these kind of kids even care ukhuti they're humiliating their parents out there?😔
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@Cairo_Mathebula
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4 months
People who were on Jika majika walk amongst us everyday and we have no idea
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
6 months
Looking down on UNISA, Fort Hare, Turfloop etc. as a black person when you consider how we’ve been historically restricted and financially excluded from other institutions, is very confusing to me.
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
4 years
People will charge R8000 a seat for a woman's empowerment conference to tell women to "aspire to inspire before you expire".
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
4 months
Skepta’s law >
@Skepta
Big Smoke -
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Leave the house only if necessary, complete the mission and get back in the house.
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
11 months
A lot of Amapiano songs lately are about praying for opportunities, success and hope. Ke economic indicator go bolela nnete
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
2 months
You guys are way too young to be this realistic, you should be as ambitious and idealistic as you can, great things weren’t built by young people who were playing it safe,
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@Cairo_Mathebula
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I’m tired of hearing that MK has some secret plan or strategy. Abana plan batho bale.
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@fcfortune
Farah C. Fortune
4 months
What would you do with the R63 Billion?
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
1 year
well this is awkward 🧍🏾‍♀️
@boipeloselowe
focalistic's daughter❤
1 year
Leina la "Kairo" le felle ngwaneng wa AKA skebe rautlwa bo Kairo Modisane
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
8 months
I think people from other countries are clocking that South Africans are very easy to get a reaction from and use us for engagement!
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
2 months
Xiluva ? wena o no gafiša ke democracy.
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
2 years
can’t wait till I’m president so I can make it illegal for engineers to work in finance and consulting 🙏🏾
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
4 years
people from Soweto speak every language, really badly.
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@Sagggwati His shower is huge too, o shap
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@Cairo_Mathebula
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4 months
Invite with an obscure colour theme so you must get a fit, location ? Some place in Muldersdrift. Food and drinks ? Still on you. Then umuntu still wants a gift ? Lmao.
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@Cairo_Mathebula
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4 years
The amount of pressure that needs to be applied this year is scary.
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
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I hope Department of Transport sees how dikoloi are breaking friendships and expands the Gautrain stations.
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
6 months
When I'm in power, you're gonna need a license to have a podcast
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Bonga Makhanya
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😭😭😭?
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
4 years
Ain’t no miles on this here new body. 15 kgs (30 lbs) down.
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
3 years
Ncishing yourself inice time because of your long term goals can get boring man.
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
3 years
some days I want love but everyday I want money.
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
1 year
Best medical aid, housing subsidy, job security, “system e offline”, they are so shap
@Biithecreative
Boikanyo Maboa ⚜️
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People working in government are so happy
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Cairo Mathebula
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@yrn_bryaan Honestly, he’s doing better than 90% of people, Even said his job has benefits, ke sure o nale pension le medical aid e shap
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
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@beyoncegarden
𝗱𝗮𝗻𝗻𝘆🫧💚
7 months
name a time a celebrity gagged their interviewer😭
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Cairo Mathebula
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This isn’t the Sandton yabo Kenny Kunene and Mandla Mthembu that I grew up dreaming about. 😕 4 days without water ?
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
2 months
Any party that wants to scrap minimum wage in a country that already has the highest income inequality in the world is just devoid of logic.
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
2 years
ain’t missing no meals.
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
2 years
lady.
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
2 months
I think feeling like you're "behind in life" doesn't always come from comparing yourself to others but also comparing yourself to who you previously were or what you feel like you should have become
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
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“Other Vaccines took longer” Yes babe, it was 1953, everything took longer
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
3 years
Me, I believe in an office. This thing of sleeping, eating and working in the same place doesn’t make sense for me.
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
3 years
basically.
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Cairo Mathebula
3 years
babygirl.
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
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the chairwoman.
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
3 months
In Norway, every citizen’s salary can be accessed on a website for anyone to see.
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Trevor
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64K salary is not a lot? I would do anything to see your payslips 😂
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Cairo Mathebula
2 years
In a time where we need engineers, they’re all doing spreadsheets in investment banks 😭
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
4 years
South African media has a dangerous habit of only mentioning nationality when it comes to crime. Whenever foreign professors make great discoveries, they simply mention the university. They clearly trying to further a specific narrative about foreigners.
@IOL
IOL News
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A Nigerian man was arrested for drug possession in Brakpan. Police allowed him to make a phone call, and his friend arrived with more than R3000 bribe - he was arrested too.
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There’s something rather dangerous about making yourself the person who “says what everyone is thinking” because there’s a reason they’re not saying it and you’ll learn when it’s too late.
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Cairo Mathebula
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Julius was right, The African Union is full of enablers. How can we expect presidents that are committing ethnic violence in their countries to call out police brutality in another ?
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
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Shoprite Usave and Pick n Pay Spaza are a greater threat to the township economy than Somalian owned spaza shops could ever be
@za_siphosethu
Siphosethu
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3 weeks later #vukadarkie
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Cairo Mathebula
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A lot of African royal families even collaborated with colonizers, and facilitated our oppression so no, I don’t rate them or their descendants.
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@Cairo_Mathebula
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And the funny thing is that, people will come do threads about the anti-blackness at UCT/Wits and how it affected their performance. Yet use proximity to those institutions to look down on others.
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
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Finding the audacity to dream again, after experiencing intense disappointment is such a difficult thing
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
4 years
You're gonna hear back from that application. Stay patient.
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
6 months
Those institutions were the first to give us a chance and are the reason we even had the few doctors, teachers and social workers in our communities during apartheid and even well into the early years of our democracy.
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
2 years
Electrical engineers are at ABSA and not Eskom now look at the mess we’re in 😭
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
1 year
You can’t nyatsa anyone in Joburg, o tla makala next week a le mayor
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Cairo Mathebula
4 years
Mami long legs.
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Cairo Mathebula
3 years
I hate the argument about which degrees are more “useful” because many jobs are over-credentialed anyways.
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
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“They’re playing chess” nakweo ba dlala maskitlana
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
3 years
Speaking of places that need name changes:
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
4 years
Luxury leather.
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
4 years
Networking events are also rubbish, the best networking event you can ever go to is a private school and elite universities.
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
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Sputla, Dan Marokane and Mateo Nyathi all studied engineering. See what happens when they stay in their field ?
@BusinessTechSA
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Five men played a big role in improving Eskom’s performance and helped stop load-shedding for three months.
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
3 years
Oil companies dumping 50 barrels of oil watching you use paper straws
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
1 year
Nakweo ke le 98 🤣
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
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- finished a double major degree @ 20 with Dean’s list - Got accepted into masters at 3 top 20 international universities - Got interviews on national TV and radio - Started my first book with a major publisher - Got recruited by top 3 asset management firm in the world
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
3 years
And this thing of my tax money subsidizing royal families I don’t like it.
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
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Being an educated black woman really rattles people hayi 🤣
@hoodservative
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Fat fingers, no wedding ring and clutching her degrees. Not often does one picture perfectly capture the perpetual success and failure of the modern black woman
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Cairo Mathebula
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there was once a woman who would be disgusted at this picture
@TeflonDonRozsay
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Adulthood is realizing how important these are😭.
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
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People who vote for super small parties probably watch Mvela league.
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
2 years
yep that’s why I studied politics but I work in finance whilst building a tech startup. Knowing good well, I’ll someday end up in film ✌️
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
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Very important to be done with the game before the game is done with you.
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Cairo Mathebula
2 years
me making these jokes with a poli sci degree building a tech startup
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
1 year
Chasing summer
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Cairo Mathebula
3 years
I really have no reverence for any royal families. The entire concept of “royalty” ie. being deserving of power and fortune purely because of your name never sat well with me.
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
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They'll have the most powerful women in the country on a panel just to ask them "what does women's day mean to you?"
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
1 year
Nakweo the engineers they’re looking for are in banking and consulting!
@TimesLIVE
Times LIVE
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MTN Group is seeking a visa dispensation to recruit electrical engineers from other African countries to help manage its towers and network as it transitions some infrastructure off the electricity grid in the face of intense load-shedding.
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
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destigmatise twangs so I can run
@dr_nxledi
🇵🇸willing buyer willing sfebe™️
2 months
Also… what is the solution to a leadership crisis ?
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Cairo Mathebula
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Everyone in Joburg thinks they run joburg.
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Cairo Mathebula
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Mo Tiktok gona re worse, someone does a small amapiano dance and we're already giving them SA names, o kare a ra tlwaela attention
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Cairo Mathebula
4 months
I really think that “2024 is our 1994” slogan undermines just how drastic apartheid was. Very disingenuous statement.
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Cairo Mathebula
4 years
A lot of “male-dominated” fields are just fields where women’s work has been erased and suppressed.
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
8 months
Mmusi Maimane just needs to stop denying his destiny of being a mega church pastor and leave politics alone
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
3 years
trop charismatique.
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Cairo Mathebula
11 months
ithuba, impumelelo, kwelinye, shona kwelanga, thokoza. We are on our last leg 😭
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Cairo Mathebula
1 year
The worse this country gets, the better the music becomes
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Cairo Mathebula
2 years
summertimefine.
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
4 years
"So Dr. Moloi-Mostepe, what's your definition of a modern woman?"
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
1 year
:)
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"she's so cute" and it's just a woman with a big smile
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
1 year
You’ll ask yourself why malls are so full during the week, ke batho ba government ba tsere lunch ya 3 hours
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
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@kay_mahapa De Mthuda made a song with a hook saying "Siyavuma bafethu, Kabza umsholozi", no debate
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
4 years
I pray we all receive it 🙏
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Cairo Mathebula
4 years
they speak every language nkare they learned it on generations.
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Cairo Mathebula
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We need to be discerning because ba re dia dibhari at this point 😔
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Cairo Mathebula
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The South African urge to turn every public holiday into a long weekend.
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Cairo Mathebula
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I’ll even argue that anything worth achieving requires a good support system to do well. From starting a business to furthering your studies amongst others.
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Cairo Mathebula
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Independence is sooo overrated.
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Cairo Mathebula
1 year
25. 🫶🏾.
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
4 years
Here's a thread of Youtube Videos that can help you understand the current economic crisis:
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
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I think the reason my generation says -insert objectively large sum on money - is “nothing” is because we measure things in luxury car and Louis Vuitton quantum’s (because of social media of course)
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
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No matter how things look on paper. The game is played on grass.
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@Cairo_Mathebula
Cairo Mathebula
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Nothing compares with finally being able to give yourself the life you’ve always wanted.
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Cairo Mathebula
1 year
life is long. you’ll be fine.
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Cairo Mathebula
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I changed my degree 4 times in undergrad, you're allowed to be indecisive bosweetie
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