I may delete this in an hour, but screenshot it if you want. I have nothing but contempt for popular people who use their influence to promote BETTING. In a country where gambling is destroying lives and families, monetising that misery is unconscionable. Have some shame!!! 😳 🤯
HR is declining my family responsibility leave application. Apparently I’m not related to Dolly Parton. This is why no one likes people that work in HR
I do not understand people who say "you are an ANC beneficiary" as though it were an accusation.
I am. Say it plainly and I will not flinch from it. I am the child of a domestic worker who supplemented her wages with a child support grant and sent us to a no-fee school where I could eat something even on the mornings there was nothing at home. I went on to a good South African university on an admissions and financial aid policy that financed my place in it outright. Millions of South Africans carry a version of that same story. It is not a special case. It is closer to the ordinary one.
Here is why the accusation never lands the way it is meant to. Social security in this country is not a floor that sits beneath all our politics, guaranteed regardless of who happens to be governing. It is one party’s policy, sustained because that party has chosen, so far, to sustain it, precisely because other parties treat exactly this kind of spending (on grants, on education, on health, on the basic safety net under a household) as a drain on the fiscus rather than as one of the state’s most basic functions.
A party that cannot recognise the state’s role in that most fundamental piece of development is not a party I can trust with deciding where this country goes next.
Any party that believes the state should retreat from that ground is not, to me, a neutral economic position. It is a threat to a right that is meant to be universal, because where access is supposed to be equal for everyone, the state is the only actor with the size and the duty to make it actually equal. A state that withdraws from that role is not becoming efficient. It is abandoning the part of the population with nowhere else to turn.
You have to have been a beneficiary of these rights to feel this properly, I think, because without them some of us would simply never have had an opportunity in this country at all. Not a smaller opportunity. None.
It was revealed that Dolly Parton was secretly battling cancer but she didn't say anything and instead released this song as one of her last to raise funds for children with cancer. Even while she was sick she was still thinking about others. I’m absolutely devastated.
Miley got to perform with her godmother Dolly Parton many times and this will always be such a special moment where Miley got emotional performing “I Will Always Love You” along with her at New Year’s eve 🥺
Sunscreen is on sale at Dischem. Normal price is R455. It’s on sale for R327 and if you’re a Capitec user you get a further discount reducing it to R309. ❤️
It turns you into a people pleaser. You avoid conflict because you can’t afford to lose access, help, or opportunities.
It makes you overexplain. You feel the need to justify your existence, choices, or mistakes.
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