Hi guys, my older brother has launched a platform that connects customers planning any sort of traditional ceremony to vetted vendors. The platform is called UMCIMBI and officially launched today.
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I use to think being the subject of a go fund me page would be my worst nightmare coming true. I have since learnt there is way worse, being sick in a foreign country and being failed by the institutions that are meant to protect you.
I am mortified by circumstances of my life that now have me coming on this platform to ask for money/donations.
However I feel as though my back is against the wall and I have to lose my pride in the interest of saving my life.
I urgently need to raise additional funds to have 3 surgeries to remove all the gynaecological pathologies in my body that have caused me ongoing pelvic pain since November 2025.
My medical insurance @AvivaUK@avivaplc is refusing to pay for it because the surgeon who seemingly is the only medical professional invested in my well-being operates from their non-approved hospital list. When I offered to have some of the surgeries at one of their approved hospital list they told me that this would need to be "reviewed".
The only sense of urgency @aviva has exercised is paying off @CromwellHosp fees that they incurred as a result of their negliegence, opinion shopping to gaslight me into being discharged without any of the procedures that I was admitted for being performed and engaging in medical malpractice by prescribing and administering sedatives and anti-psychotic medication without my consent and misrepresenting these drugs as pain medication.
Please donate if you can, if not please like, comment and share with your network.
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Thank you in advance
Nomfundo Setshedi
Hello My dear brother @dansmywholename.
I wanted to flag an underreported but highly important case set down for hearing at the Gauteng High Court from 4–8 May. Tomorrow..
Major commercial law firms - Norton Rose Fulbright (NRF), Bowmans, Webber Wentzel, and Werksmans + Solidarity are challenging the Legal Sector Code.
On the opposing side are key legal institutions, including the General Council of Advocates Bar of SA, PABASA, LPC and transformation bodies such as the Black Conveyancers Association
Basadi ba Molao
South African Women Lawyers Association
At stake is more than the legal profession.
This case goes to the heart of:
whether sector-specific transformation codes can deviate from generic B-BBEE frameworks.
How transformation is measured - inputs vs outcomes
and whether enforcement mechanisms in high-value professions are lawful and workable
The judgment could have implications far beyond the legal sector, potentially shaping how transformation is approached in other industries.
Given the calibre of legal teams involved and the policy implications, it is surprising how little public attention this matter has received.
I thought being a member of the legal sector, I can bring it to your attention
Kindest
PK
Having a baby physically shrinks part of a woman's brain. Having a second baby shrinks a totally different part. Scientists in Amsterdam just figured out why, and the explanation involves the same process that happens in teenage brains.
This is from a research group in Amsterdam called the Pregnancy Brain Lab. They published their findings in Nature Communications on February 19, 2026. The team scanned the brains of 110 women. 40 were about to have their first baby, 30 were about to have their second, and 40 had never been pregnant. They scanned everyone before pregnancy and again after birth.
The results were so consistent that a computer program could look at any of those brain scans and correctly tell whether the woman had been pregnant. Every single time.
When a woman has her first baby, the biggest changes happen in the part of the brain that handles thinking about yourself and other people. The same region that runs daydreaming and inner monologue. That whole area visibly shrinks. And it stays shrunk for at least six years after birth, according to a 2021 follow-up study by the same team.
When she has a second baby, that same area shifts a little more, but the biggest changes happen somewhere else. They happen in the part of the brain that controls what you focus on, and the part that controls how your body moves. Even the wiring between the brain and the muscles becomes more efficient. Lead researcher Milou Straathof said it looks like the brain rewiring itself for taking care of more than one kid at a time.
The shrinking sounds bad. The lab compares it to what happens in teenage brains during puberty. Hormones flood the brain and trigger a kind of cleanup. Weak connections between brain cells get cleared away. The strong ones stay and get stronger. The brain ends up smaller, but the connections that remain work faster. The hormonal flood of pregnancy seems to do the same thing.
Elseline Hoekzema, who runs the Pregnancy Brain Lab and has been studying this since 2017, told CNN: sometimes less is more.
The pattern is layered. The first pregnancy does the deep work on identity and how a mom thinks about her baby. The second pregnancy adds a new layer focused on attention and movement.
About one in five new mothers globally develops postpartum depression. The same brain circuits being remodeled here are the ones tied to mood and bonding with the baby. Mapping what a healthy maternal brain looks like is the first step toward catching when something goes wrong.
South Africa played a key role in NASA's Artemis II mission in terms of deep space tracking and communications.
The South African National Space Agency provides vital tracking, telemetry, and ranging data through the Hartebeesthoek Ground Station (HartRAO).
@ThetoThakane Babe I’m actually in shock. The price has more than doubled. This should have been the more urgent focus.
Also, increases like this mean people use unsafe fuels, they blend at home, use firewood, candles - shacks burning, carbon monoxide poisoning - all going into winter! 😑
i highly recommend you find yourself a clingy (healthy) lovey dovey partner who’s super excited about you. life is too short to spend it with someone who act like showing love is a chore
I don't know who needs to hear this, but start living. The days are flying by, and all you do is work, pay bills, and stress. Enjoy what you can… walks, sunsets, music, laughter. Joy doesn't have to be expensive. You deserve it.
Early in my career, a mentor told me something I didn’t fully grasp:
“As a woman, you marry your ceiling.”
Years later, after working with lots of talented women, I’ve seen how true this is. The partner you choose can either expand your ambitions… or quietly shrink them.
A secure partner doesn’t compete with your light, they amplify it. They create space for you to grow.
I asked so you didn’t have to;
Our food legislation dictates it be “chai tea” and “naan bread”
So yes, most brands know the tautology but the law is the law
The more you know
Siza Gule (9 distinctions, class of 2025) is offering academic support and tutoring to Grade 8-12 students online and in person (JHB) while he waits and prepares to leave for Harvard in August. All the details in the 📷. 🚀
Hi guys, can we collectively help Charmaine. She is in need of funds to get radiation. I am pleading with you guys to help a life in need. She is currently standing on
R 22 238 with a goal of R60 000
https://t.co/5mdwAW6X8z
Please retweet when it lands on your TL. ❤️