Nothando Ndebele

Live large. Dare greatly. Have fun and show compassion. Mom. Banker. Reader. Zimbabwean. Pan African. Views expressed here are solely my own

[Dan Corder 📺 @DanCorderOnAir]

Americans can never again say "this is not who we are." It wasn't a once-off. It happened again. Sure, many Americans voted against Trump, but the country as a project did this. The politics, business, culture, system, did this. This is exactly who you are. Now you need to change

[David Coltart @DavidColtart]

When can we expect the upgrade of the Beitbridge to Victoria Falls road and national roads within @CityofBulawayo which are in an appalling state?

[Nothando Ndebele @Nothando_N]

@mbele_lnb @blancjlb Both of you looking 👌🏾😊

[Nothando Ndebele @Nothando_N]

@DavidColtart @CityofBulawayo Amazing!!! So needed in our city 🙏🏾😁

[Faith Kipyegon, EGH🇰🇪 @Kipyegon_Faith]

Thank you so much for all the support, it means a lot 🥹🇰🇪🥇🥈

[ESPN Africa @ESPNAfrica]

🥇 Wilfred Bungei, Beijing 2008
🥇 David Rudisha, London 2012
🥇 David Rudisha, Rio 2016
🥇 Emmanuel Korir, Tokyo 2020
🥇 Emmanuel Wanyonyi, Paris 2024

Kenya has won gold in the men's 800m in each of the last five Olympic finals 🤯

[Nothando Ndebele @Nothando_N]

@monicamusonda We’re sharing Monica!!!! No getting away from this 😂👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[SABC News @SABCNews]

Zimbabwean activist and recipient of the Kofi Annan NextGen Democracy Prize in 2023 Namatai Kwekweza and three other activists will spend the weekend behind bars after Harare Magistrate Ruth Moyo remanded them in custody. https://t.co/iao3jS81so

[Nothando Ndebele @Nothando_N]

@marangdream 😭

[Nothando Ndebele @Nothando_N]

@marangdream What did she expect to find in Zim? Hunters and gatherers?

[Nothando Ndebele @Nothando_N]

@BusisaMoyo Is this not what you’d expect a functioning ministry of agriculture to drive?

[Nothando Ndebele @Nothando_N]

@marangdream 🤣

[Nothando Ndebele @Nothando_N]

@judith_february @ShantzN Something is not right with those old A380s that they insist on using on the Joburg route…

[Nothando Ndebele @Nothando_N]

@ShantzN Happened to me twice in May…sadly I didn’t have the springboks 😂

[Thebe Ikalafeng @ThebeIkalafeng]

The first time I met Dr Tshepo Motsepe, we were sitting together at an event where former President Mbeki and I were scheduled to speak about the importance of encouraging South Africans abroad to return home to build the country. I was suffering from a cold and sneezing uncomfortably. A highly qualified doctor, she texted her driver a prescription for me and before long I just saw medicine being delivered. I have seen her a few times since in different circumstances and each time I left with one impression of a kind, caring and nurturing human. A mother.

When I see the regrettably unAfrican social media critique of her at 71, I wondered what happened to us. Our humanity and culture.

Looking at our own mothers, at 71, many would have lost a step or syllable or two, and have wrinkles that merit the journeys they have travelled: Raising children and communities. Building careers and families. All the while being underestimated; taken for granted; earning less while doing the most; being abused and used; walked all over and not appreciated.

Despite our best efforts, we can't dictate what nature serves us. Certainly, I don't know where or how most of our grandmothers, mothers, sisters or aunts would look like at 71. Or how anyone of us would. But I sure hope and pray I would be as dignified, qualified and respected as Dr. Tshepo Motsepe is in her field and society.

She has bothered no one. Has never been in the papers for the wrong things. Never sought the limelight or approval of public. And obviously hasn't resorted to the short-cuts most of us take with botox, bleaching, BBL, weaves, and the likes that seek to defy or redefine nature.

She is like most of our mothers, and just happens to be in the public eye because she married the most public of figures, the President of the Republic, Cyril Ramaphosa. She deserves the respect and adulation we pay our mothers and women like her who have carved their own paths and successes. Unless what we are reflecting in these social media streets is how we treat our own mothers.

[Nothando Ndebele @Nothando_N]

@diversiterri Very, this tendency of some men to reduce women’s worth to their looks and age…as if aging is unnatural somehow for women

[Nothando Ndebele @Nothando_N]

@mbele_lnb @Mnca_mnce Can never understand why some think it’s ok to demean women based on looks or age.

[Nothando Ndebele @Nothando_N]

@supertanskiii @antonythomps 😂👏🏾

[Nothando Ndebele @Nothando_N]

@Keir_Starmer @PrifWeinidog No