Lindy 🐞

Lover of Life! God & Family 1st. Up the Chels! Tennis, Sport lover. Hiker & Investor

[Lindy 🐞 @Elle_sls]

Hello,pls https://t.co/HIMNZolqBd looking for Nathaniel Maboa,his brother was Bibi and sisters are Mankharebe & Mamchina.Last seen around 1968 and they were/are Sangomas.They used to stay in Duduza (Nigel),Sobende street around 1968.Please ask elders they might know.TIA #Dlozlami

[Redi Tlhabi @RediTlhabi]

I arrived early. Very calm. Ready for my lecture at the UN General Assembly. I've called it: The Inconvenient Mandela: Mandela In An Age of Fracture.

[Lindy 🐞 @Elle_sls]

Lawlessness in our country has made other nationals think this is a banana republic.

https://t.co/iF1PZc1wTd

[salfon🇲🇱 @Salfon_01]

#Mbappeballondor2026

[FIFA World Cup @FIFAWorldCup]

Spain are #FIFAWorldCup Champions. 🏆

[WelBeast @WelBeast]

Can someone explain to me like a child why the Spain goal didn’t count.

[Thandubuntu @Solphendukaa]

Everytime South Africa plays the opening match of the World Cup . Spain wins the World Cup

[simple boi: mabele & amabele @Queen_Finxa]

The prevalent adoption of the food waste Americanisation of our food is the worst thing to ever happen to us

[FIFA @FIFAcom]

Kylian Mbappé is the top goalscorer in @FIFAWorldCup history! 👏⭐️

[Lindy 🐞 @Elle_sls]

What a shit show France defence #FIFAWorldCup

[Lindy 🐞 @Elle_sls]

RT @SAJuniorRugby: Back-to-back 🇿🇦
#JuniorBoks #JourneyToGreatness #JuniorWorldChampionship

[Lesh 👸🏽❤ @LadyLionSA]

Whoever invented kissing needs to be compensated cos wow, it can't get better than this!🥺🔥🔥

[N’wa Mucanyi 🫶🏾 @KhananiShingan1]

Heartbreak feels like your body is buffering. Your chest hurts, your stomach is in knots, you can’t eat, you can’t sleep, and somehow every song was written specifically to finish you off.😭😭😭😭😭

[Lindy 🐞 @Elle_sls]

@SirayahShiraz Sourh Africa represented.

[Ray @SirayahShiraz]

Football 🫶🏽 new magazine cover. Blessed!

[Lindy 🐞 @Elle_sls]

@officialsaskay Well done 👏

[Standard Bank ZA @StandardBankZA]

Fly the flag 🇿🇦 Play with pride💙 We’ve got your backs @Banyana_Banyana

#SBLove💙 #BackedByBlue💙

[B N S L @_BNSL]

Put on cologne before you run, bro.

Let the paramedic have a good first impression of you if you faint on the road. Make it a pleasant CPR ❤️

[Kay @_KayTheLame_]

Understanding Sekwati/Sekhwati:

Sekhwati is the urban lingua franca spoken in the Northern Cape, particularly Kimberly and surroundings. This language is a mixture of Setswana and Afrikaans with influences from Tsotsitaal, Sesotho and Isixhosa. While Isicamtho and Sepitori both utilise Afrikaans in its vocab, Sekwati stands out because Afrikaans forms a huge part of the vocabulary, some sentences often being fully Afrikaans.

The origins of Sekhwati involves Batlhaping, a Setswana speaking group with ties to the |Xam "Obiqua" group or ||'aubiqua/||'aubi !kwi (fish people) |Xam group of the Cape. Tlhapi is the Tswana way of saying ||'aub or ||'aubi (xaubi or fish). When they got to the NC/NW area, they mixed with Barolong and Bahurutshe groups. In the 18th century, Batlhaping would suffer from raids and enslavement by by the Barolong, Griqua and the !Kora khwe groups. Intermarriages later happened between these groups, and the later Batlhaping culture changed, showing a heavy Khwe (!Kora) influence. Batlhaping had a city with about 16000 people and a circumference as large as Cape Town. during this time, it housed people of different origins - including Khwe. Barolong and Bahurutshe groups are the other Tswana speaking groups who lived around the area in numbers.

Xhosa speakers' presence in the region was in the late 18th century when Ngqika's uncle, Nzwane (Danster) of AmaRharhabe, escaped from his rule and settled in the orange river. He'd be joined by ImiDange, a Xhosa-speaking "Khoisan" group, officially marking the presence of Amaxhosa in the region. All these groups intermarried, with many Tswana, Xhosa and Sotho people in the region being of Griqua, |Xam, Nama or !Kora in origin and vice versa.

In modern times, the Khwe who were not assimilated into "Isintu-speaking" groups were reclassified as Coloured and were assimilated into Coloured communities. Afrikaans was the most common language spoken by Coloured people, with Nama in Namaqualand having their own dialect of Afrikaans (NamaAfrikaans).

The abolishment of the immorality act allowed Black and Coloured people to marry, resulting in neighbourhoods in many areas becoming heavily mixed Tswana, Coloured, Sotho and Xhosa. Today, many Black and Coloured individuals can speak some, if not, all these languages fluently, which allowed the creation of Sekwati.

Unlike Sepitori - which uses the Sekgatla dialect - Sekhwati uses Setlaro/Setlhaping dialects. It also uses Sotho words and utilises clicks due to Xhosa influence. Sekwati also has common words found in Tsotsitaal, isicamtho and Sepitori, meaning it's common to hear words that are normally used in Gauteng in this urban dialect.

Sekhwati is not a youth urban lingua franca, it's spoken by people of different ages Black or Coloured and it continues to grow today.

[justrsa @blockedyoulol]

Tyla features South African powerhouses Liquideep, MaWhoo, and Babalwa on her sophomore album. APOP is shaping up to be an album unlike anything the West, East, or North of the world has ever heard from a global pop star. T is putting South African talent and sound on the global

[Lindy 🐞 @Elle_sls]

This is funny 😂😂 Pretoria

[SuperSport Rugby @SSRugby]

Fans in Pretoria are hilarious 🍿😂

Some of the conversations in the stands this past weekend at the Loftus double-header 🇿🇦👂

Watch the full 𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐃 episode on YouTube!

#SSRugby | #NationsChampionship