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B. Duma

@desiremarea

24 days

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I always wanted to break them so I could free the aquafresh trapped inside... and possibly lick it

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these used to be my everything

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Ngiyathandwa ekhaya.

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Beyoncé is pure excellence.

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She told us that the whole show today is about our music. In Gianni Versace’s house.

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People are gay you guys. Rappers. Football players. Rugby players. Soccer players. Politicians. Pastors. Criminals. Your fixation on homosexual allegations is so weird(homophobic) in the face of a bigger sexual assault issue. Like calm down.

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Well that turned out great ❤️

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5 years

Why is my uncle asking me to help him slaughter a goat... I’m literally wearing Yeezy

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5 years

Why is my uncle asking me to help him slaughter a goat... I’m literally wearing Yeezy

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5 years

I identify with summer walker. I feel like y'all need to be better consumers. Change the standards. Artists are human beings. You can't expect a gyrating spectacle when someone is ailing, no matter how professional they are, it's never fair and hardly possible without substances

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8 months

Khethiwe is the single most iconic soapie character ever

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ISIBAYA. I’ll arrive an innocent Zulu boy who’s hired to drive Mpiyakhe’s taxis. I’m timid and fragile, and everyone grows very fond of me. Meanwhile I’ve decided that uMpiyakhe ngiyamfuna. I seduce him. I make sure he always catches the lace peeping through my Brentwood.

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2 years

South Africans must be so happy

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2 years

Rihanna and ASAP Rocky

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4 years

Please. It’s only Gqom if it comes from the Bénu regions of KZN. The rest is just sparkling house.

Your X

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4 years

CPT GQOM> DBN GQOM. It's not even a debate

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“Ang’mane ngifeste oe” is my biggest linguistic contribution to date

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5 years

South Africa's culture of performance is something worth studying

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2 years

I’d honestly lose my mind if we changed styles that fast. Kanti ichoreographwe usomizi yini le sex?

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3 months

I feel like Afrikaans women don’t get enough credit

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3 months

close enough welcome back florence and the machine

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2 years

ISICHITHO is a spiritual disease that, upon contact with your spiritual body, triggers indiscriminate excretory functions. This means that even when productive things like opportunities, money, companionship etc. come into your metaphysical field of awareness, they are excreted.

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2 years

Kuyanyiwa behind the scenes. Umgowo may be cropped out but please don’t ever think any part of this is easy. Kuyafiwa kwa pursue your dreams.

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5 years

I’d rather watch Beyoncé twist her hip repetitively with Dua Lipa than see this

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5 years

i love you so much DESIRE

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It’s the Kween of KZN

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Guns and BBLs

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2 years

Madoda 😕🙆‍♂️🥴

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Beyoncé flew me to the #IvyParkXAdidas launch last night. Gonna rock some of my pieces today 😍

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4 years

There’s a KZN dpt of health van parked just outside our house, testing the community for covid. Did my gran not want to slaughter a chicken for the health workers ngoba “zizodlani ley’ngane?”

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4 years

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4 years

I’m feeling less ashamed about the fact that I am extremely sensitive and needy.

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14 days

Back day is my favourite

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4 years

Siyam’dlala u soft life

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4 years

I’m just reminded of the outrage when non-American black people play American roles meanwhile this problematic representation is viewed as a classic to them to the point where they created a sequel for “nostalgia”...

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4 years

The first trailer for ‘COMING 2 AMERICA’ has been released.

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3 years

A thread of my soft Italian Life

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4 years

I don’t like how you’ve encoded negativity into the term “Twitter Sangomas”. Izangoma eziningi have used this platform to demystify a lot of things and provide very valuable guidance FOR FREE. Nani do the work and stop treating their profession like a gratifying birth chart app.

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Twitter sangomas will be the end of our generation. Angilwi kodwa yekani ukudlala ngey’ngane zabantu.

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“Ungabaseleki”

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An African Soccer Mom

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4 years

RIP angel 🤍

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4 years

Nginibonga ngobuhle 🖤

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4 years

Starting to think the majority of black leaders who liberated “their people” only did it to liberate themselves and affirm their own exceptionalism. They loot funds meant for the survival and advancement of people, kill them when they exercise their rights.

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2 months

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4 years

Everything I like is expensive.

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4 years

The people y’all bash and call “braam kids” are the same people you’ll be congratulating in a few years time for winning the LVMH Prize, or any other esteemed international accolade that finally makes their brilliance legible to you.

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6 years

Necks: Exist Me:

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4 years

You are telling a generation that lost their parents, mostly to the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the violence of existing black, that this new pandemic severely affects their grandparents who ended up raising them. This is a lot. This is unfair.

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3 years

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29 days

Ubumomondiya bensizwa yomzulu

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4 years

It is with great joy that I announce my signing to @MuteUK . Kufestekile. I’m so grateful and excited for the future 🖤 📸: @JamalAUN

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1 year

These are baddies

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1 year

‘dancing ladies. (phata-phata)’. soweto jazz festival. 1960. 📸 alf kumalo

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3 years

Nje.

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6 months

uSantana ngathi usisi wase Lamonti ogqoka ka Truworth kuphela ngoba uzithandela uGinger Mary. UCurry wakhe umnandi futhi naye ave e right.

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6 months

Also this

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2 years

World Music. World Trade.

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5 years

constantly inspired by the fact that britney actually survived her meltdown

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2 years

UMSAMO and the Genetics of Destiny There are multiple layers to Umsamo. On a basic level, it’s a designated room or area in a household that acts as a shrine and a portal to connect to the other world in which our ancestors operate.

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Me and my aunt yesterday 🖤

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6 years

The Unty that never sleeps in the city that doesn’t either

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Felt really pretty

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I’m 27 today. I’ve lived through deaths of many kinds and today I celebrate my will to live.

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4 years

Expensive.

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Uzokufebela nges’ Kaytranada

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5 years

I can already see a denim jacket and polo neck

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8 years

Tell them your auntie was also lit this year. #BestOf2016

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2 years

Emshadweni ka Gobela wami ❤️

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2 months

The Baddies of Isandlwana | now showing at Eclectica Contemporary, Cape Town 🖤

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7 months

Enjoying the summer in KZN

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4 years

One thing about me: I will FEEL

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27 days

Self studies

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5 years

#RuralGays ™ roll call; nikhona?

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8 years

Your aunty has arrived #BlackGaySlay

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4 years

Duduzane represents the Midrandy Mr Smeg GTi Driving Red Couches Protein Shake demographic of South African masculinity which is literally the pinnacle of masculinity in the Ah

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2 years

I’m not going to stop being a lover. If I have to hold back in order to love you, if an integral and very real part of me has to be suspended as part of the rules of our engagement, then I don’t want it. I don’t want love that integrates death of any kind into its negotiations.

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2 years

You know that feeling when you can slowly start to envision a life under different circumstances after suffering endlessly? Entertain that feeling. That’s the faith that will greet your new reality at the door when it does arrive.

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2 years

Please love each other in whatever way you can. Celebrate the little things. It’s not possible for everyone to have money in the most unequal society in the world and that shouldn’t dictate how worthy you are of being loved. Love hard, love with your chest. Make love love again.

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4 years

God snapped when they made South African queers. Ha!

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3 years

This is actually the thing I desire most in a relationship. Romantic or otherwise. I’m not after grand displays of affection or movie love. Just see me. That’s the foundation to being treated well. Nothing more isolating than not being perceived adequately by the people you love.

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3 years

To Be Adequately Perceived

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7 months

“Mthi Omkhulu” by Desire Marea from The Baddies of Isandlwana series. Acrylic on canvas.

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5 years

unga givaphi oe

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3 years

This year has been a lot. I got signed. My album was reissued in vinyl. Sold out in most stores. Released visuals for Tavern Kween. Got playlisted on BBC Radio 6 A-list. Ngithwasile. Played a sold out headline show in Berlin. On the cover of Kaleidoscope Mag. I’m grateful.

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5 years

Drama Kween

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5 years

The booty / The face

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5 years

Ngishwiba is'Shwapha e Shanghai

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3 years

Ngikhule kule mpande ephilisayo. Thokozani. ❤️🤍🖤 📸: @JamalAUN

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11 months

Anyway, this SAMA nominated artist is off to Europe for a 30 day tour. Ngizonibona oe ❤️

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6 months

👃🏿

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2 years

Let meet

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4 years

The poor reporting (or lack thereof) of African tragedies is one of the worst forms of anti-blackness.

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5 years

your favourite pair in the hottest pair of YEEZY 700 V2's 📷: Nick Widmer

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3 years

Get information. Read about the things you love. Learn about the places you dream of occupying. Train your higher consciousness to see further, to see bigger. Give your spirit all the shades and hues because your awareness forms the palette that brings your visions to life.

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5 years

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6 years

I’ll love you later baby ❤️

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5 years

I am experiencing self death and I'm embracing it because that bitch needs to die.

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5 years

yes. me.

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5 years

Are you sleeping with the same person you slept with last winter?!?

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6 years

Are we weaponising queerness again? Okay.

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6 years

Unless pusha t did crack or has a secret boyfriend or killed a man, idk what Drake could respond with

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9 months

It’s home 🖤

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2 years

Focusing on being sexier works.

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3 years

whydidesire cross the road

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4 years

While we’re here, I feel like I should tel you what your name means in the motherland language of Zulu

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4 years

Phoyiye

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4 years

I’ve been building a secret empire with things I accumulated from dating taxi bosses namagintsa over the years. I run this operation le bo chommie. We speak isingqumo (a queer Zulu dialect) and we know our way around guns and men. Asisabi lutho and we are plotting to strike back.

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