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fabulocity

[Dimakatso David Mokwena @SelfieRunnerZA]

Yet only 1% of people aged 24-34 in South Africa have a Master’s degree. While only less than 0.1% of people in South Africa have PhDs. On the whole, only 6% of people in South Africa have a university qualification.

[🟣*Nams *🕊 @Namritha_]

Went to shopping at Woolworths :Bread in plastic.
Cheese in plastic.
Cucumbers shrink-wrapped in plastic.
Frozen peas in plastic.Get to the till…“Sorry, we don’t give out plastic bags.”
The planet is saved, one bag at a time.

[MR. HiMSELF @pushinM15]

South Africa keeps arguing about which degrees are "useless" and which ones guarantee a job, and Sim Tshabalala just quietly ended that entire debate, saying a university degree was never about preparing you for a specific role, it was about teaching you to think, to be systematic, and to be disciplined.

That is a different way of measuring value than the one most families use when a matric student picks a degree purely because an uncle said it "pays well," and it explains why so many graduates with the "right" degree still struggle while others with unconventional ones somehow find their footing.

It also lands differently coming from the head of a R3 trillion bank, a man who studied philosophy and law before ever touching finance, proving that the discipline and reasoning built in a lecture hall travel far beyond whatever subject that lecture hall was named after.

Stop asking which degree gets you a job, start asking which one teaches you how to think, because that is the qualification the market can never take away from you.

[jackie binali @jackiebinali]

@JHBWater This is now beyond ridiculous 🙄, please provide us with an update as taps are dry AGAIN

[Big Timi @OrevaZSN]

Do you ever get exhausted by food? Not the food itself, just the endless cycle of deciding what to eat, shopping for it, cooking it, and having to do it all over again every single freaking day.

[ᴅʀ. ʀᴍʙ @Rkayyh]

Women are out here casually having 3 master’s degrees and a PhD.

Can’t wait! Can’t wait!

[Mbuyiseni Ndlozi @MbuyiseniNdlozi]

For the sake of your children, who each morning must wake up and go to school, stop insulting education.

Somehow you have grown accustomed to insulting education as a way to make your arguments. Very tragic culture I must say!

There is no pride in being an ignorant people!

You can perfectly disagree with anyone without insulting education.

Why would you want to breed an education hating nation?

Unless of course, you are working with those who have benefited for centuries out of keeping Africans ignorant!

#MakingEducationFashionable

[femiiiiii. @femiiiszn]

i don't care how you were raised. you're an adult, unlearn that nonsense.

[Sonia @BalogunSonia4]

You get pregnant and the man leaves you. 👀

Society calls YOU a whore.
Calls the baby a bastard. 😭

But somehow there’s never a shameful name for the man who walked away.

[SizweLo @SizweLo]

“There’s a deliberate disinformation campaign aimed at vilifying black South Africans, particularly the poor. It mobilises strongly held beliefs & opinions xenophobia in South Africa.”

I know about these views, though I’d be wary of going full conspiratorial over something that’s been there for a while. Unless we have evidence of a current, fresh organised campaign to this effect.

Otherwise, I’ve been been said this https://t.co/wvBYTsANAE

[Ous'B 💚 @BongsMahlangu_]

I recently “fired” a friend who’s been using me as her free therapist for years.

On Tuesday, she sent me another massive text wall, trauma-dumping about her job and her ex. I was about to type out some sympathy but then I scrolled up.

That’s when I realized she hadn’t asked about my life in over six months.

[𝓡𝓮𝓷𝓮🧚🫧ᥫ᭡ @sheisafairyyy]

Single sex schools give many girls something surprisingly rare: the experience of seeing women occupy every level of authority without explanation or exception. Entire institutions run by women. So no one will ever convince me that women are incompetent.

[Dr. Denver @denvern3]

Imagine if I gave up the day I got 0% in a Math test at 15
Imagine if I gave up when my Dad walked out during my A level exams
Imagine if I gave up when I didn't get all the points I wanted at A level
Imagine if I gave up when I didn't get into the program that I wanted
Imagine if I gave up if when I wrote my first PhD proposal without any prospect of funding or mentorship
Imagine if I gave up when my efforts at progressing in my scientific career were being blocked and sabotaged
Imagine if I gave up when the first of over 40 scholarship applications I made were rejected
Imagine if I gave up when I got rejected from many other PhD programs
While I'm not where I eventually want to be, I'm grateful for the strength God has provided, the kindness of strangers, the benevolence of acquaintances that became family.
We can only use what is within us to keep moving, and with God on our side, if we keep moving and trying, we will get a break somewhere.
Never Stop Moving!
Mpagazitha out 🫡

[Matriarch @_Matriach]

One of the best things you can do for yourself in adulthood, is to learn how to leave things alone.

Just leave it alone. Situations, people, whatever it is, leave it alone.

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

Underrated life advice: Make yourself easy to root for. Be kind. Be reliable. Celebrate other people’s wins. Work hard without complaining. Carry good energy into rooms. You'll be shocked by how many doors open for you by making life better for others.

[Blissful✨ @just_Enhle07]

Emotional damage at its best 😭😭😭😭🕊️

[masha @masha_slp]

people need to understand that even if you’re genuinely sorry, you still have to deal with the consequences

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

You don’t have to be everyone’s butterfly.

Be a bee.
Mind your business, make your honey,
and sting people when necessary.

[Lawrence Kitema @lawrencekitema]

I never get angry at people who refuse to help me, because if it were that easy, I would have helped myself. Remember, nobody owes you rescue. If it were simple, you would have fixed it yourself. No entitlement, just accountability.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Accurate