miss20something🌈

Feminist 👸|| Aspiring bibliophile 📚||Coffee and all it's cousins☕ || No -ism formed against me shall prosper || Old skool music lover||

[Bheyonś Mboweni💕 @sunraysandstuff]

she closed
her books
and slept

~ rupi kaur

[NtsikiMazwaiMedia @ntsikimazwai]

When are black women going to stop wearing other races hair?

[B @botshelokoetz]

🤍The Phelophepha Health train is in Mamelodi for 2 weeks (until 22/08/2025). Services offered
Dental: R10 fee (cleaning, extractions, fillings) R5 for medication. Other services include Optometry, Psychology and healthcare check ups.

[lonah @justlonah_]

we need to talk about how disgusting apples are

[Khaya Dlanga @khayadlanga]

When I was in school, I did not think my life would turn into anything worth mentioning. After matric, I had made peace with the idea of working as a cashier at the local Edgars in East London on Oxford Street. (They never called me back after I dropped off my CV. So Milky Lane was next.) My mother, of course, had bigger dreams for me than I had for myself. But that’s a story for another day.

Why did I think life would just drift into nothingness? Well, throughout most of school, I only had one badge on my blazer. My name. Eventually, I got a second one. Library Monitor (It's that black badge on blazer). I would look at the kids whose blazers were heavy with honours and colours as if they came from another world. I assumed their futures were sorted and mine was not.

But life had other plans. I found my way into advertising. I won the first Gold Cannes Lion awarded to a black South African, along with Ntsikelelo Nukwa. Then came the Gold Eagle. Then the elusive Black Eagle, which hadn’t been awarded in over a decade.

More Cannes Lions followed. One Shows. Loeries. Other awards too. Eventually, I started writing and one of my books was even shortlisted for the Alan Paton Prize.

Sometimes you'll think it's a mistake. That you're an imposter. You don't belong. Other times other people may think you don't deserve to be where you are. Doesn't matter. Keep at it.

So here’s what I’ve learned: even if you have no idea where what you’re doing is taking you, keep doing it. Keep showing up. Keep learning. Life may take the long way around, but it gets you there. Some people are lucky, they’ve always known where they’re going. Some of us aren’t. But even when you don’t know, life sometimes finds a way to figure it out for you. Just don’t stop.

What I am trying to say is this: be inspired by others, but only ever compete against yourself. You are not running their race. You’re running yours.

You’re gonna be ok. Things always work out, not always the way you imagined, but they do work out.

Most importantly, never forget where you come from, nor the long road it took to get you there. And take nothing for granted.

One last thing. This may seem ironic considering the trophies, while accolades are great to have, there are things that are far more important. What really matters, no trophy can capture. Because what lasts is how you lived, who you lifted, your resilience, your humility, and whether you stayed true to yourself.

Trophies gather dust. Character doesn’t.

[Dikonketšo 🇿🇦🇿🇦 @Ketso28]

She needs to be held accountable for her choices. Why was she at the hospital in the first place? Why didn’t she get her own hospital? Did she send her location? Why is she going to a hospital to be checked by a stranger? What did she do to the doctor for him to do that?

[Dr Bubbles. @neochanel_]

No matter how long it takes, I’m going to give myself everything I’ve ever dreamed of. Everything.

[Lerato Pillay 🇿🇦💎🇿🇦 @LeratoPillayZA]

🇿🇦
A 16 year-old Bohlale Mphahlele from South Africa invented a smart earpiece that looks like an earring and helps fight violence against women by taking photos of attackers and sending instant alerts.

Her life saving idea won a bronze medal at the Eskom expo for young scientist

Proudly South African Stories 🇿🇦

[Indigenous Languages Action Forum @ActionLanguages]

A Chemical Engineering PhD thesis in isiXhosa and read ngesiXhosa!!! 👏🏾🎊👏🏾🥳
Mqhayi said: "Will the cabbages not grow if I teach Agriculture in Xhosa?"
Today, we say:
"Will the chemicals not react if I teach Chemistry in Xhosa!"

Sithi huntsu Gqirha Mabusela!🌟✨️
#BraaiOClock

[L E S E D I @_Hybreed_]

Nyuku Zaka

𝚖𝚊𝚕𝚒 𝓂ℴ𝓃ℯ𝓎

𝕔𝕙𝕖𝕝𝕖𝕥𝕖 ᴄʜᴀɴᴋᴜʀᴀ

𝔡𝔬𝔩𝔩𝔞𝔯 𝔡𝔬𝔩𝔩𝔞𝔯 𝔟𝔦𝔩𝔩𝔰 ɱąŋɖɛɩąʂ

🅑🅤🅒🅚🅢 𝒎𝒖𝒍𝒂

[Deraaaa❣️💜 @purple_dera]

Pun enters a room and kills 10 people
Pun in, 10 dead.

You get?😭😂😂😂

[IGBO History & Facts @IgboHistoFacts]

Dear Chinua Achebe, things have fallen apart.

[Bottoms Bottoms @thebembalady]

Real tea drinkers know no weather 😌

[🅰️fro-Gent @RenaissanceAfro]

@PhilMphela It's so heartbreaking to see that we still have people who are ignorant towards this mental illness called Depression. We have hospitals and physicians who specialize with this illness yet we still have people who believe mentally depressed people are just acting up. 💔

[KenKen🎀 @calllmekc]

This is the cake Bruce was eating in Matilda.

[Yolanda Dyantyi @YoliShade]

10 years ago I registered for 1st year on NSFAS. Partook in FeesMustFall and anti-rape protests both in 2015 and 2016. Got "academically" excluded from university in my third year 2017 for my activism, spent 5+ years in & out of court, 10 years later I'm still not a graduate 🙂