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@MmabathoMontsho

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Screenwriter & Director. Visual Artist. Lover. Fighter.

Johannesburg
Joined December 2011
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Phuzekhemisi “Ngo ‘49” 🎵
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Go well, Jamie 🍸🕊
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TV shows sending presenters with zero necessary skills/qualifications to mediate traumatic family issues for content should be illegal 👎🏾👎🏾
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Moriri appreciation post. Deep conditioner is our friend.
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Happy solar return! Happy birthday @MbuyiseniNdlozi 🎈🎈🎈
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You as a baby and now thread
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Done and dusted #IVotedEFF
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Happy birthday @MbuyiseniNdlozi 🎉🎉🎉 May you always be inspired! 🎊 🎈🎊
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💙❤️💛
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#EFFRedFriday ♥️✊🏾
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“To-Match” nail art courtesy of the 1 step wonder gel at the Hômé Nail Bar.
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What a moving and absolutely selfless farewell speech! This must go down as one of the best moments of South African television. #NoxoloGrootboom
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School uniform must include coats, bomber jackets, polo necks, boots. Kids look hella cold in those useless blazers.
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Where is the Afro emoji?! 💂🏾‍♀️
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Birthday smiles for me 🍸🍸🍸 cheers to another year!
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Thank you for alerting me that the show supports zionist apartheid. I will not be doing the interview. If you are in Joburg, please come to Constitution Hill and join the 1000 drums for Palestine at 10am. We also have free (amazing) film screenings. Free Palestine 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
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They say it’s #WorldAfroDay18 💂🏾‍♀️
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Ballot 1: EFF Ballot 2: EFF Ballot 3: EFF Asijiki #voteEFF 🌹🌹🌹
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President Kenneth Kaunda and Miriam Makeba making music 🖤 #RIPKK
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4 years
It’s with the greatest & sincerest pride to announce that 2 films I wrote & directed have been selected for the prestigious #PanAfricanFilmFestival2020 . Big up to great performances of @simphiwedana who stars in #JokoYaHao ; my mom & Gali Mfokazane who star in #TheAwardCeremony 🎉
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Drop a cool photo of you doing your job.
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Drop a cool photo of you doing your job!
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I like these #throwback pictures because my mother says when she saw them, it was the first time she ever thought I am pretty 😃 Happy 6th Birthday to the movement! Our Land and Economic Emancipation in our Lifetime ✊🏿 #EFFturns6 #OurLand
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Kante Modimo ha a re utlwi ha re le matlung? 🤔
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Throwing mine in too. 2009 vs 2019 #HowHardDidAgeHitYou
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3 years
48 colors of the moon, shot over 10years by Marcella Giulia Pace. #astrophotography
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Solidarity with the struggle for Black life and dignity near and far. Solidarity with Zimbabwe! #FreeZimbabwe #ZimbabweanLivesMatter
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#RhythmCity was the first production to give me a chance to transition from acting into directing. After leaving the show on-screen, I trained in multi-camera directing and got my first taste of the “Hot Seat”. Thank you for making a mark in all of our careers! ♥️
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And out! Dankie Citizens! #RhythmCity
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Yeses. A thousand words to avoid saying “racist”.
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Defend your vote! Stay in the queue and vote! Spirit 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
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The unexpected action comedy heros you never knew you needed! Just kidding - I interviewed everybody’s fave actor Zolisa Xaluva for @NounoucheZA and you can read his story here
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Shot. Stabbed. Set alight. Missing. Raped. Every week a new name, some names won’t even make the news. And a president who doesn’t inspire any hope whatsoever of any action against the war on women. Zero urgency.
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Good morning Universe.
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Good Morning Mzansi 🤍 #ThusoMbeduDay
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Teach your sons to stop killing.
@KevinAndile_
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Teach your daughters that coming back home from a failed marriage/relationship is better than coming home in a coffin💔😓 #RIPKgaugeloTshawane
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Too much talent 🥰🥰🥰 portrait by Spencer Selebogo #wonderseeker ☀️
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Maybe it’s a lot to ask, but it would’ve been so amazing to see the women who could not be Miss SA because of apartheid being honored. The ones who were crowned Miss Africa South. #CynthiaShange #PearlJansen #MissSA2018
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The film & TV industry is not only for actors, writers, editors & directors. There are lawyers, cleaners, paramedics, chefs, security guards, electricians, drivers, accountants and more who work on film sets everyday. It takes a village to tell a story. All crew matter. 🖤🎬
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S’phongo Nation 🖤
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Today would’ve been graduation day 👩🏽‍🎓 The highlight of my MA journey is selling one of the first scripts I wrote for an assignment to pay for the rest of the studies. Life works in interesting ways. 🎓🎥
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20 March 2023 #NationalShutdown
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4 years
Once again, I am NOT @Mmaps_ThePro . The account using my picture and that is as far as it goes. Nna I’m here minding my own business, tweeting about films and covid19. Can I be left out of the other conversation. Please and thank you 🙏🏾
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One of my favorite moments from the exhibition last night. This image makes me cry. ♥️
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He banna. Interesting use of language “Monster pay-day” “consequences” Trying to turn the public against Makate is not gonna work. A ba mo patale!
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Expect Vodacom price hikes if Please Call Me idea-man gets his monster pay-day If Kenneth Nkosana Makate gets the payday he's after, there will be consequences.
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No army can stop the force of excellence! Congratulations Dr Mbuyiseni Ndlozi! You did the work that 'makes the Phd to be done'. Salute! 🎊🎉
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Spirit ✊🏾 #EFFTshelaThupaRally
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Dear Mr President, Upon seeing your tweet congratulating our film, “The Award Ceremony” for its international win for Best Short Film at The Worldwide Women’s Film Festival, I spoke with some of my colleagues so that the response is collective.
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South African creatives are relentlessly making their mark on the world stage and they continue to make us proud. @MmabathoMontsho ’s short film “The Award Ceremony” came back with a Best Short Film award at the 2020 Worldwide Women’s Film Festival. We celebrate this achievement.
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It’s nice to be in the winner’s corner!
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Bo Idris ba fodile?
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I saw that very lazy, misogynistic post and how it was brilliantly and thoroughly rubbished. I really hope, at least, some of those committed to the stupidity of patriarchy allow themselves to be educated out of it. Ke a le appreciat’a ❤️
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I miss our #voicesandchoices exhibition already 🖤
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Earthstrong to you @mbuyisenindlozi Here's to wishing you a year full of creative inspiration, and one in which your activism is consistently touched by God's hand. Of course, I wish you economic emancipation in our lifetime. Re golele. Happy birthday Motho o Montsho 🎈🎈🎈
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Some unexpected fun moments of 2018 at Nelson Makamo’s studio (that is his brilliant artwork in the background)
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Went from wanting distinctions to Lord please just let me pass 😞
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Here’s to Black collaboration! Congratulations everyone involved. ✊🏿🖤 #BlackIsKing
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Condolences to Lindiwe’s loved ones. The screen and stage will deeply miss her as well. It was a pleasure working with you, Lindiwe 🕊 #RIPLindiweNdlovu
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Sibulele Gcilitshana appreciation tweet. Countdown to @PAFFNOW
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6 years
Last night was the opening of my first solo exhibition. I’d like to express deep gratitude to everyone who came through - friends, family, colleagues, leaders, media and of course The Women’s Manyano and Amadodana. Your presence made the evening too beautiful ♥️
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A couple of years ago my niece, who was 7 or 8years old at the time, told me she wanted to be an artist. Today she won her first art competition. Cash prize and all. I’m so emo 😭🖤
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Talk is cheap. Will applaud the day we feel safe. #GBV
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Best of the best. Di thespian tsa mannete. A standing ovation for you mama. Rest well. #RIPNomhleNkonyeni
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Thank you to those who watched #JokoYaHao . I know the team deeply appreciates the messages of encouragement 💛💛💛 even the not-so encouraging ones help us get better and better 😅. Shout out to cast and crew on your brilliant work. One love.
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“It is now in your hands.” Good luck bafethu. 😢
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SeZuthu incoming. Ngigubha umswarelo in advance. 🫶🏽
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I miss the heydays of SABC dramas. As much as creatives look down on “edutainment” it’s exactly the type of content we need in a country like ours. SABC used to have the perfect blend of entertainment, intrigue and pure education in their dramas. That ship needs to sail again.
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When a musician dies, it is like losing a healer. And then you remember they’ve left behind medicine for the sadness. #RIPJosephShabalala
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State funding is not meant to buy government unconditional support from artists.
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You’ll be shocked of how many artists get Government funding and don’t say anything when Government is being bashed for not supporting SA Arts and culture. Gov successes are overshadowed by the bad stuff.
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The way batho ba tshabang makgoa.
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3 years
“rubber bullets that were meant for protesting students” So students protesting for a chance at education have rubber bullets with their names on them?? 💔
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Stay safe. Be kind.
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5 years
5000 Women marched to Con Court to demand justice & dignity for women who have been and continue to be failed by the justice system - from police station to courtroom. Igama lamakhosikazi malibongwe. #EFFWomensMarch
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If you won R153m who would you tell? And who would you make sure never finds out?
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😢 I had fantasies of it being fixed up and turned into a film school. Of watching student films - discovering new perspectives & genius.
@KasiEconomy
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One of South Africa's first black owned cinemas, Eyethu Cinema, situated in Soweto will be demolished to make way for a shopping mall.
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Not sure why anyone at the SABC thought we needed to hear this woman making excuses. Next thing there’ll be books and movies a la Ted Bundy etc - treating white rapists with fascination. 👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾
@Chriseldalewis
Chriselda Zozi Lewis (Babes Wendaba)
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[EXCLUSIVE] Just 10 days after Dros child rapist #NicholasNinow was sentenced to life imprisonment, his mother has spoken exclusively to me. Parts of the interview coming up on #SABCNEWS channel 404 from a little after 5pm. 'I'm sorry to the little girl and her family'
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If AMANDLA was a person 🖤✊🏿
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@MmabathoMontsho
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Small budget. Big heart. Thank you for all your well wishes. Our story of broken shoes won BEST SHORT FILM @WWFilmFestival 2020 in Arizona, USA this Sunday. Cast and crew, our craft speaks for itself. Great work team🎊🎉
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I am my sister’s keeper. Kholeka (Sibulele Gcilitshana) and Nozizwe (Simphiwe Dana) in Joko ya Hao, now streaming on Showmax 🖤🎥
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@AladeensDeciple They can still get those numbers with a qualified person doing the job. This thing of using black families’ pain for shits & giggles is terrible.
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A filmmaker. A director. A storyteller. #FemaleFilmmakerFriday #directher #directordiaries
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A huge congratulations to @NomzamoMbatha
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I've always felt that it's not the pregnancy itself that ruins a girl's life, but rather how society responds to it.
@SABCNews_Radio
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Pregnant students are being arrested in Tanzania - as part of a campaign to end students' pregnancies #sabcnews
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Rest In Peace. 🙏🏾 #EnoughIsEnough
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“As far as I’m concerned…”
@fasc1nate
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Without saying its name, what is a tv show that can be instantly recognized based on one quote?
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Happy 7th birthday to our own 26 July movement. #EFFTurns7
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A love like no other.
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6 years
Lupita is African and I am not mad at her playing Trevor's mother at all. That she's a producer on the project which is even greater news! She's an African telling an African story. Power to her. #BornACrime
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Inspiring brunch, listening to stories and ideas of filmmakers from around the world, courtesy of @PAFFNOW and @directorsguild
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Self feelment
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