I’m happy to share that my ndumba/practice is now open. If you are moved to, please email thokoza
@gogompendulo
.com for details on how to book your time. With the help of my ancestors & yours, I look forward to helping you find guidance. Niphile futhi nibe-safety, Gogo Mpendulo 🌙
I went to bed having just read that people in Sudan are boiling leaves and eating soil to survive and I still can’t stop thinking about it. Sudan has one of the largest hunger crises in the world 💔
You guys didn’t submit section 24a notices to the IEC, then you’ll go to a random voting station on Wednesday, demand a national ballot paper and then tweet indignantly about how you weren’t allowed to vote. Wednesday is going to be a long day 🫠
Stay in the queue. Stay in the queue. Stay in the queue. Stay in the queue. If you joined the queue before closing and are still in it come 9pm you won’t be turned away. Stay in the queue. Stay in the queue 🥹
Mampintsha also opening a case and claiming he was being “abused” is a textbook abuser move. They always want to give the impression that it was a “fight”, not consistent deliberate abuse by them. Doti.
My grandmother has the craziest road rage but she doesn’t drive, and she’s never driven. A taxi merged into our lane without indicating and she LOST it. She started making gun fingers at the driver 😭😂😂😂
Zenani says it was an act of extreme cruelty that the truth about Mama Winnie only came out after she died. Says it denied Ma Winnie her rightful legacy 💔
JUST IN: The South African government has withdrawn its support and that of South Africa for Miss South Africa in the Miss Universe pageant set to be held in Israel.
We would like to extend our deepest condolences on the death of UCT Student
#UyineneMrwetyana
. May her soul rest in peace. Government condemns any form of violence against women and children.
#RIPUyinene
#CYMI
Police Minister Bheki Cele says the lack of security outside the FNB Stadium in Soweto on Sunday was not the police’s responsibility.
#GlobalCitizen
This could be a real moment for the SA music scene to deny Mampintsha community and ostracize him. Un-invite him from award shows, no more features, no more gigs etc but seeing how nothing was done about Zola, Mdu, OkMalum, Arthur etc etc it’s very unlikely.
South Africa is imperfect in very many, systemic and heartbreaking ways, but man it’s also really nice to see things like freedom of expression, freedom of the press, freedom of association in real time. An election is a real pressure test of those things, and we do okay.
A woman on TikTok married a Tongan man and secretly learnt a special traditional dance, a tau’olunga, and performed it on their wedding day with his baby sister who was her teacher. His face 🥺❤️
Masechaba said she’s glad Babes has left “that man” (Mampintsha) & all I could think about much danger she’s in now that he’s been exposed and and she’s left him. The risk of greater harm, including murder, is significant once women try to leave. She’s not out of danger yet 💔
William Smith awarded the Order of the Baobab in Silver for his contribution to the teaching and demystification of mathematics and science.
#NationalOrders
“I don’t believe in messianic leadership because once you make leaders messiahs, they become gods and once they’re gods they cannot be questioned...” - Lumumba
What's interesting, to me as someone that works specifically in talk radio, is that Kanye is so typical of men who don't read or think or have any interest in any kind of fact but love talking, and doing so authoritatively. 'Critical thinking' kings.
South Africans looking for another “unifying” “magical” moment because that’s easier than dealing with being the most unequal society in the world and the fact that the social contract is dead:
I think what makes SA’s brand of GBV particularly terrifying is how it’s everywhere all the time. You’re afraid in your house, in the car or public transport, at the shops, day and night. There’s just absolutely no reprieve.