Nothando Ndebele

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

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

@mbele_lnb @blancjlb Both of you looking 👌🏾😊

What a champion for women, Africa and the diaspora. Loved bumping into this dynamic powerhouse @blancjlb look forward to sharing a cup of tea with her whit she’s visiting our southern African shores. She leads 💥👊🏽👠

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

Wonderful to attend the opening of the Dr Steve Beaty Eye Centre today at Mater Dei Hospital in the @CityofBulawayo . Steve and Jane have been dear friends for 24 years and they have shown amazing commitment to the people of #Zimbabwe and #Matabeleland in particular for over two decades. The naming of this new state of the art eye centre in #Bulawayo after Steve is a worthy tribute to all he has done for our community, particularly poor rural folk, over these years. Jane deserves equal praise because she has been an integral cog in the superb work they do. This centre will be able to do both cataract and retinal eye surgery using advanced equipment imported by the Beaty’s US non profit foundation.

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

🥇 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 🤯

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

They wish…

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. tinyurl.com/vbpwx94p

@marangdream 😭

Bathong. Her own family?!?!?!

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

Mind you, her dad was Eritrean. SMH.

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

To improve soya bean production & oilseed production in general we need research, private sector participation & policy intervention in three areas: scale, yields and competitiveness. To tackle the high import bill of usd400m per annum on oilseed related imports #OilSeedIndaba

@marangdream 🤣

This is even funnier when you see who got that gig.🤭

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

@Nothando_N @ShantzN Of course it was! 😌

So we ended up on a stayover with the Boks in London 🇬🇧. It’s like a strange dream. Lovely guys, shared biltong with my girls at a 1am check in. Then, I got lost in a stairwell with Edwill van der Merwe. Accidentally opened another team member’s hotel room door… 🤦🏽‍♀️😴

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

@Nothando_N It is…..

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.

@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

This is really an unacceptable post, sexist and disrespectful

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

@Mnca_mnce Unnecessary and unkind tweet. The President is a 72year old man, and his wife is age appropriate as a partner. In terms of stature, she fits the profile of a First Lady as a medical doctor and philanthropist. Please can we remain from diminishing people on account of looks.

Hhayi guys Men should take younger women as wifes. At least 12 years younger. The first lady Dr Motsepe looks like Ramaphosa 's mom😭 EFF and MK Malema #PresidentialInauguration2024

@supertanskiii @antonythomps 😂👏🏾

@antonythomps I don’t give a solitary shit what you think. Hope this helps.

Grenfell was social murder. Nobody has been jailed because the victims were poor immigrants and those responsible were rich white people. Today I’ll remember 72 souls who deserved to be listened to and deserved better than the fucked up feudal society we’re forced to endure.

@Keir_Starmer @PrifWeinidog No

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