Nosipho Makhakhe @DrMakhakhe Twitter profile

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Nosipho Makhakhe

1 year

If you want to teach your children to be able to say no and develop boundaries, they need to be able to say no to you first.

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Opinion about Parenting that would get you like this? Let’s have them!

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Nosipho Makhakhe

@DrMakhakhe

3 years

Bantase, this PhD has just paid off 😂😉. I started a new job today, 1st of December, as Senior Lecturer. Yithini hooray!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

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Nosipho Makhakhe

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3 years

It's PhDone.... Thank you Lord.

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Nosipho Makhakhe

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3 years

Service provider: Is it Miss or Mrs? Me: It's Dr. 🥺 Yho guys this is us!

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Nosipho Makhakhe

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3 years

Lecturers who tell their students that very few people pass their course are so boring. Like don't you see that it's also a reflection of your limited ability to translate knowledge and inspire? 🙄😩

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Nosipho Makhakhe

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@but_im_kim_tran To all of us in the African continent this doesn't apply. Don't abort mission I repeat don't abort mission ‼️‼️‼️

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Nosipho Makhakhe

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3 years

Ngiyabonga Umdali, ngibonga impilo. Ngibonga umdeni.

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4 years

Friends, gather around. Let me tell you a PhD story. So, 277 pages, 99473 words, 40 months and 12 days later... on this day 13th January 2021, that PhD Thesis is now submitted. Let me rest bafwethu... 💃🏾💃🏾🥂🎊🎉🙈 #phdchat #AcademicTwitter #Past3amSquad

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Nosipho Makhakhe

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3 years

In this country you can attach a whole PhD certificate, they will still ask for your matric certificate pls.😩😂😂😂😂

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Nosipho Makhakhe

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1 year

A PhD is not for clever people it's for resilient and patient people. 😣🤞🏾

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Nosipho Makhakhe

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3 years

Heheheh social media will have you wanting a truck while you don't even know what you are going to do with it. 😂😂😂

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Nosipho Makhakhe

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3 years

Living in a third world country with sprinkles of first world characteristics can really be jarring. Whilst the other half speaks of the 4th industrial revolution 😒another half doesn't even know what it's like to have a flush toilet and running water. I don't know maan. 😭

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3 years

I see this chat is back. Whether you go back to school or you don't, that 3 or 4 years will still go by. You will grow older whether you do it or you don't. This perspective literally changed my life. Went back to school at 30, now I have a PhD at 35. Weigh your options, do it.

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2 years

I love that UKZN doesn't try to police the celebrations. We love to see this display of black Joy.

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Backgrounds aren’t the same. A road to graduation is different for everyone. We understand these stories, emotions, tears of joy and celebrations at the #UKZNGrad2022 . #MyUKZN #MyPride #UKZN #InspiringGreatness #Graduation #UKZNGrad2022

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3 years

Haike bantase... it is now finished🙏🏽 Examiner 1: well-conceptualised, well-executed, critically-written Examiner 2: valuable piece of work Examiner 3: contributed to knowledge Minor corrections 💥 Enter Dr. Nosipho Faith Makhakhe 🎊🎉😍💋💃🏾💃🏾🥳🥳🎉🎊💃🏾💃🏾

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Nosipho Makhakhe

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4 years

@sq_eternal It's called a "word salad" manipulators tactic!

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Nosipho Makhakhe

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3 years

The concept of cousin is a Western family construct.

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Nosipho Makhakhe

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4 months

The world changes, revolutionaries die, and the children forget.

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Nosipho Makhakhe

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3 months

A PhD is less about the institution and more about the supervisor. (A postgraduate proverb.)

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Nosipho Makhakhe

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3 years

The hardest part about teaching in a pandemic is grading assignments. How do you grade people who are living through perpetual loss, first and secondary trauma. Anxiety and depression including loadshedding if you are living in South Africa? This has been the hardest part.

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Nosipho Makhakhe

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4 years

The people who do PhDs are not always the people who graduated cum laude at undergrad. Most of us are late bloomers who discovered our potential at postgraduate level and then had the courage to take it forward surrounded by the right kind of support. So keep going!

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Nosipho Makhakhe

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4 years

My editor said that my thesis made her cry and rethink her position regarding sex work, it challenged her misconceptions, she says she has nothing but respect for the will of these women to survive. She now realizes that they are more than just sex workers they are people.

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Nosipho Makhakhe

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4 months

Why is it that when you are poor people strip you of your complexity? Just because I am struggling with basic needs, it doesn't mean that I don't have the capacity to engage with the abstract aspects of human existence. Our view of the poor is reductionist and condescending.

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Nosipho Makhakhe

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3 years

My first masters student that I cosupervised passed her dissertation with a distinction. Now she's busy writing her PhD concept. I am so proud!👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🥳🥳🥳🥳

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Nosipho Makhakhe

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3 months

My former PhD supervisor would encourage creative writing as a way to overcome writers block. So she would say if you can't write the chapter, write a poem instead. We ended up writing an academic book chapter on this very process. I love creative unconventional academics. 🧡

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Nosipho Makhakhe

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4 years

A PhD should be considered as work experience, you have conceptualized a project, managed the project and produced an output which is your dissertation. PhD is work experience PhD is work experience PhD is work experience PhD is work experience PhD is work experience

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3 years

On paper everyone is sensitive to mental health issues until they have to give people suffering from mental illnesses some time off.

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Nosipho Makhakhe

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4 years

Please keep on writing because I personally am tired of referencing unfamiliar names. I want to be able to say according to Dlamini et al., and smile, because Moeketsi and colleagues sound like home.

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Nosipho Makhakhe

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4 years

When living with a PhD student, a thread!

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Nosipho Makhakhe

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3 years

My favorite thing to see in Durban during the holiday season is black women in their 50s traveling as a group doing touristy stuff at Ushaka Marine, wearing matching outfits. 😍

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Nosipho Makhakhe

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4 years

Academia will amplify your traumas. If you have a fear of rejection it will show, if you are sensitive to criticism it will show. If you don't trust your voice that will be evident. If you don't think you belong you will remove yourself.

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Nosipho Makhakhe

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1 year

My former supervisor used to say that the methodology is the backbone of a thesis. A student I supervised said to me yesterday that I was very hard on her particularly in the methodology section. Examiners said it was one of her best chapters. Don't compromise on the methodology.

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Nosipho Makhakhe

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4 years

@prasidentin @iBe_Precious They raise families with that money.

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Nosipho Makhakhe

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4 years

If you going to motivate young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to do a PhD like you. Please tell them about funding opportunities, share links and websites. Avail yourself for further questions. It's no use saying that they can do it when you don't provide practical steps.

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Nosipho Makhakhe

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One of the 1st courses I learned at varsity was the Sociology of poverty. People in the Bcom and finance streams need to be introduced to these courses. They help one understand that poverty is multifaceted and socially engineered. Not something people can snap out of.

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I will never get tired in telling people, especially black women that they can totally start and finish their dissertations. 🧡

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Nosipho Makhakhe

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3 years

Me a girl from Matatiele, I am part of a community of black people who are registered for their PhDs, some are already PhD candidates whilst others are PhD holders, haibo. To my 16 year old self, girl look at us now! 🤭😭🙏🏽❤️

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Nosipho Makhakhe

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The way I approached my dissertation was that I did not wait to be done with data collection to write. I wrote while I was in the field collecting data. I worked on my literature review, scoping review and methodology. By the time I had data I had four chapters written already.

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Nosipho Makhakhe

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3 years

Oh my goodness, paper accepted for publication. My Christmas present came early. What a way to end the year. 🎉🎉🎉🎉💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽😭😭😭😭

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Nosipho Makhakhe

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4 years

Have you noticed how scholarships that claim to be for the "disadvantaged," require a lot of advantage and privilege? Firstly gaining access to these sites requires internet, then you need stella writing skills and great references etc. I don't know man, the game is rigged. 😢

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Nosipho Makhakhe

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Yes a PhD proposal can take a year to put together, remember you are conducting research to contribute something new to the body of knowledge and therefore the conceptualization process is complex. Give yourself time, a well thought out study culminates into a clear direction.

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3 years

Writing a thesis also includes many weeks and months of not writing. But somehow it gets done. 😅😉

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Nosipho Makhakhe

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4 years

Adulting, is teaching me that nice people are not always good people. There's a distinction.

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3 years

The biggest mistake that some people make is assuming that the humanities and social sciences are general knowledge. Hence they speak on matters that people spend years studying and theorizing within these disciplines, without even taking the time to do the readings.

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Nosipho Makhakhe

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4 years

@BlazeSchwartze @sq_eternal Word salad used according to narcissism! The narcissist's word salad. Pathological narcissist uses word salads intentionally, to manipulate and control. It is a form of gaslighting, the 'go to' method for brainwashing to foster loss of trust in reality and in yourself.

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Nosipho Makhakhe

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4 years

I sincerely hope that you and your family will survive this second wave. 🙏🏽

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Nosipho Makhakhe

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1 year

"I confer upon you the degree of doctor of philosophy." May these words locate you in your lifetime mntase. 🧡😘🙏🏽

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Nosipho Makhakhe

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3 years

That whole banking conversation is simply what we go through in academia its called peer review. So instead of focusing on the tone of the reviewer you simply answer the questions. When they raise issues you have no answers to, you own up and go do more thinking and you grow.

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3 years

When you are surrounded by people with PhDs it may start to feel like graduating from a masters degree is not a "big"deal. But let me just say personally I was so proud of my masters because that's when I discovered my grit and tenacity. This PhD rests on that strong foundation.

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3 years

A lot of ideas die at the altar of perfectionism.

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Nosipho Makhakhe

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4 years

Pearl Thusi simply refuses to be reflexive and engage with other people's reality without centering herself. If she's crying about being asked to be sensitive about colourism, what must dark skinned women who have a whole system against them do about her privileged tears?

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Nosipho Makhakhe

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3 years

Sign up on research gate follow academics in your area of study and get the most recently published papers to use for your literature review. You can even send them a message requesting an article they authored if you can't find it or if it's behind a pay wall. They respond.

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Nosipho Makhakhe

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4 years

Personal opinion: I think influencers lose their influence when they subscribe to celebrity culture. You became an influencer because of your RELATABILITY and COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT. Stop that, and you dilute yourself.

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3 years

One of the things that let our South African universities down is poor administration.

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3 years

Just because you can articulate someone else's idea better, it doesn't take away the fact that the idea is not your own. Sometimes when we are gifted in the art of articulation we tend to feel entitled to appropriating ideas that don't belong to us. ✌🏾

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Nosipho Makhakhe

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3 years

Saying "abelungu did it too" is no reason to excuse corruption. Corruption is inexcusable, and abelungu are not, and should not be the standard.

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Nosipho Makhakhe

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3 years

Professors listening to their long bios being read before they speak.🤭

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My favourite part to read on any thesis or dissertation is the acknowledgments and dedication. They give you a glimpse into the heart of the candidate.

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4 years

It starts with NSFAS saying that they do not have enough money to fund students, and then it will change to we are only funding certain degrees. And guess which degrees they will scrape off first? Its downhill from here and we must be very afraid.

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3 years

A dedication to black women. 🧡🧡🧡

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Nosipho Makhakhe

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4 years

Postgraduate studies are not about competition they are about forming alliances. This is the time to build networks with people to collaborate and write with. So focus on social capital instead of trying to be ahead of everyone else.

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3 years

I am in the business of making academia less daunting for black girls and boys. Where we can just laugh, write, submit and admit our struggles in a safe space. Where we know that we are not welcome but we choose to stay anyway, not for ourselves but for those coming after us.

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Nosipho Makhakhe

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1 month

A massive congratulations to ⁦ @DrSindane .⁩ I remember how we used to log onto the zoom writing group and talk about the perils of writing and academia, and you would complain about how cold Bloemfontein is.look at you today. It’s PhinnisheD!

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Nosipho Makhakhe

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4 years

@CChetanne A lot of our dancing originates from the pantsula dance, a highly energetic dance form that originated in the black townships of South Africa during the apartheid era. So dancing with our heads turned upwards with our tongues out is a form of defiance.

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You are probably wondering how do people end up reading 300 journal articles that they referenced in their PhDs. Well they learn how to scan the paper for relevance, speed read and synthesize the main arguments. 🙂

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Nosipho Makhakhe

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3 years

There's a small window of opportunity to still get vaccinated before this wave gains traction and that window is closing fast. Go get vaccinated today. ✌🏾

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3 years

If we are going to profile "successful" women for women's month let's not forget about the women who work in jobs and industries that are not so glamorous. Their stories matter too.

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2 years

As an employer in South Africa the gaps in people's CVs should not suprise you. Those gaps should not be misinterpreted as a possible character flaw either.

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3 years

Molweni! Vaccine symptoms all gone. Proof of life.

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Nosipho Makhakhe

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2 years

So proud of my masters student. She scored 82% on her dissertation. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾😎😎😎

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In the humanities we help people differentiate between private troubles and systemic problems. This is important, so that you don't go around blaming individuals for problems that they have very little control over. Once again at your service. 😉✌🏾

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Why would you class the ability of an academic based on their institution? Don't you know that some really good academics make a conscious decision to go serve in historically disadvantaged institutions?

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3 years

St Augustine hospital in Durban is empty come get vaxxed. I am here for my second shot.

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3 years

Haibo congratulations for making it to the end of the academic year, with Covid-19 and loadshedding being the weapons formed against us, that did not prosper. 🧡🙏🏽

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3 years

Working as a research assistant/field worker for many years made me realize that I was simply a tool used to extract data from my own people to advance Western scholarship. So I decided to go back to school, so that one day I can do research to advance African scholarship.

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You deserve a paying PhD. Don't let them tell you otherwise.

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My favorite Twitter content is seeing black women in red gowns. 😍👌🏾

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I was facilitating a training this morning and for once I didn't feel the need to prove that I am the right person to facilitate. I didn't feel the need to perform, or overcompensate as a black woman, I just allowed myself to be and trusted my experience and ideas.

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One thing you should never do is prove your qualifications to strangers on the internet. For all you know you are probably chatting to someone whose high on doritos and coke.

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Please don't demand any emotional labour from anyone during this time. If it is freely given then try to reciprocate. We are all going through it.

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Finishing my thesis was the ultimate act of self care. 👌🏾😎My future is already thanking me for it.

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Msaki believes in the youth of this country her music is testament. She's always so gentle in her message to young people. 🙏🏽

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I hope that the empathy we show for famous people when they prioritize their mental health, is the same empathy we extend towards our friends, colleagues and family members, instead of just labeling them as dramatic.

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Be willing to let people go, never respond or act from a place of desperation. I know it's easier said than done, life will teach you to let go whether you like it or not. At the end of the day you have yourself, you may not like yourself very much but you are all you have.

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#NewProfilePic

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3 years

Are you referencing as you write or are you self mutilating by saying you will reference later? ☺️

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My dream is to own a guest house that is a sanctuary for black post graduate students and academics where we do relaxing activities and vent about the academy. A place where safe communities are created and sustained.

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3 years

There's something about loadshedding in the face of high electricity bills that feels disrespectful and infuriating.

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Remember what matters during your PhD is not where you are doing it, but whom you are doing it with. Your supervisor will make or break you, so choose wisely. You can be in the best institution in the world but without support you are less likely to make it.

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This 2 hours of loadshedding went by fast and it scares me because this means that I am getting used to it, and one day consistent electricity supply that I pay for is going to feel like a privilege instead of a right. This is how we get primed to normalize bad service delivery.

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The thing about teaching at post graduate level is that there will be students who are smarter than you, or have more experience or exposure. You have to be able to face up to your insecurities and not project on those students. Let them teach you a thing or two.

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Write first... Edit later... Don't attempt to do both it will slow you down.

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If it gets too hard, simply write your thesis in bed. Don't sit on a cold chair and desk. Just stay in the softness and write.

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There are people who started their degrees at the start of this pandemic and may finish them during the pandemic. If this is you, please give yourself a round of applause. 🧡👏🏾🥂

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Sometimes people mask their incompetentence by being rude and dismissive. It's a defense mechanism. 🤞🏾

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In this country I feel like we are so quick to put the cart before the horse. We struggle to get the basics right and yet we have illusions of grandeur.

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3 years

Let's start a writing challenge #1000 words per day would you guys join me? This is an equivalent of two pages written or edited. You say #1000words any time before midnight. Anyone who reports this gets a like and a retweeted. We basically recognize each others efforts.

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Most PhDs are completed out of spite. Someone somewhere said or insinuated that you can't, so you did.

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I remember someone saying that because she's a plus size woman people seem disappointed when they realize that she can't sing, doesn't like cooking and doesn't have a loud or bubbly personality. Yho it was such a teaching moment, because she doesn't fit in any of the "boxes."

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