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Awethu Fatyela

5 years

At 29 yrs old, I resigned from work & relocated to PE to be a full time student. At 29 yrs old, I took a chance on myself & at 33 I celebrate. This is for all the Black women in me who deserved a second chance 🎓 The journey continues...

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2 years

Yesterday while driving home from work I observed a father driving slowly behind his daughter on the freeway. She had her L on the car and as I passed I noticed she kept checking for him on her rear view. I literally cried. To have that kind of assurance, support & affirmation❣

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Awethu Fatyela

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5 years

If you've ever had anything slaughtered in your honour by a grandparent, you know that it's pure love 🥰😍❤

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5 years

Mapimpi's grandmother: I'm going to slaughter 10 chickens for him

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Awethu Fatyela

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4 years

A lady was being rather harsh with her child at the mall today and someone commented "anistrongo ebantwaneni kodwa very patient with amadoda". I clutched my chest

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Awethu Fatyela

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10 months

Yes, but my limit would be 3 husbands. I don't think I could handle more than 3 husbands. Or maybe 2 husbands and a wife.

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@amukelani_02

10 months

Ladies, please be honest, would you be in isthembu?

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Awethu Fatyela

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5 years

Translation: way too many Black people are getting doctoral degrees

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@NRF_News

5 years

The rapid increase in both the intake and graduation of SA's doctoral candidates has raised some concerns over the quality of doctoral degrees. SA's Council on Higher Education is set to look into the matter.

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Awethu Fatyela

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2 years

I was so overwhelmed with emotion I had to calm myself down. I couldn't possibly imagine what that felt like. But just trying...trying to imagine it, I knew right there & then that I want that for my kids. When they navigate new milestones I want to be right there behind them!

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Awethu Fatyela

@Awethu_F

2 years

I was 10 years old when my father died and although I know that our story would have been different, I cried again today driving down that road as I remembered my happiness for that young lady and my competing sadness for myself & many others

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Awethu Fatyela

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2 years

I would just like to thank Dr Awomi Fatyela for attending to us swiftly and lovingly when I brought my granddaughter, Kemi to the hospital with a fever. Thanks Doc ❤️🥰😍

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Awethu Fatyela

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5 years

My nephew refuses to eat. So my sister has to video call my son (who has to be eating at the same time) so that the little one will eat cos his big brother is also eating 😂😍

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Awethu Fatyela

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8 months

The end of the best month of a plot twist filled 2023. 🤰🏾 Surprise pregnancy on the loop 🛖 Worked remotely from home (EC) all year 👶🏽Went to hospital with a migrain & came out with a baby 👩🏽‍💻 Virtual job interview from the hospital in my hospital gown 💫 I got the job!!! ⭐️

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Awethu Fatyela

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4 years

Farai won't even change out of his uniform when he comes back from school.... 🥰😍❤

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Awethu Fatyela

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4 years

This relaxation of regulations means different things for all South Africans. White South Africans can go back to enjoying golf, tennis and meals at restaurants. Black South Africans get to go back to working for them or serving them.

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Awethu Fatyela

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5 months

Be still and know that I am God 🤍

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Awethu Fatyela

@Awethu_F

4 years

Guess who's 6 months old today 🥰

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Awethu Fatyela

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3 years

The look on her face when mommy and daddy video called to tell her we would be fetching her to take her home 🥰❤🙏🏾 Finally our baby's home

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Awethu Fatyela

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3 years

I know my babies love each other... A LOT but there is absolutely no reason to sleep like this?! 😍🥰

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Awethu Fatyela

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4 years

Unless you are married, your partner's family members are not your in laws.

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Awethu Fatyela

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5 years

You-Fair-Fella; it’s everywhere #EFFRedFriday

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Awethu Fatyela

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4 years

Seeing Black women walking to take taxis home from the clinic or hospital with small babies wrapped up tight on cold, windy and overcast days like this is the reason I will go to my grave angry about colonization and apartheid. I won't even go into the last 26 years

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Awethu Fatyela

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7 years

Port Elizabeth ✈ Johannesburg ✈ Frankfurt ✈ Lisbon ✈ Madeira 🔥💕 For every young, Black woman who never thought it was possible!

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Awethu Fatyela

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6 years

The face of a fighter. I choose EFF #ChooseDay #Asijiki

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Awethu Fatyela

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6 years

No, we're too busy wondering about why they're killing us

Destiny Magazine

@DestinyConnect

6 years

Ever wondered what men think about women that drink beer?

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Awethu Fatyela

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3 years

First day at new employment 🎉🥳

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Awethu Fatyela

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5 years

Sometimes the universe looks at you lovingly while you sleep and whispers "Here baby, let me show you how it's supposed to be" and just like that, you experience the greatest joy, love, kindness, care, support, protection and courage that your heart as ever known....

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Awethu Fatyela

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5 years

Graduation loading....

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Awethu Fatyela

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3 years

OMG where is Awomi?! 🙆🏾‍♀️ Has anyone seen Awomi? Namnams where are you....👀 🤣🤣🤣

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Awethu Fatyela

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4 years

Nightshift loading... 😏😏😏 #Akulalwa

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Awethu Fatyela

@Awethu_F

6 years

Yet schools insist on ID copies and signatures of BOTH parents when applying and an unabridged birth certificate.

DestinyConnect_

@DestinyConnect_

6 years

In South Africa: 60% of children live without their fathers:

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Awethu Fatyela

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8 years

All I wanted for my birthday was land. But all I got for my birthday is this cake #EFFWayaWaya #AwethuTurns31

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Awethu Fatyela

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3 years

How we spend lunchtime when mama is working from home 💗🌸💕🌺

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Awethu Fatyela

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4 years

Umntu athumele abantu kokwenu ukuba bayokucela. Kubizwe abantu abadala bezihlelele, kuba kuthwa kuzocelwa intombi, kanti ucelelwa lamasimba

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Awethu Fatyela

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6 years

The exam was brutal... The weather is brutal... But this EFF tracksuit is just😍 Wine awaits at home. Have a great weekend Fighters and future Fighters...

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Awethu Fatyela

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4 years

A baby Namnams is a whole three months old today so we celebrate 🎂 🧡 🌼 #QueenAwomi

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Awethu Fatyela

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5 years

First day at new employment. God for us all, guluva for himself ✌🏽

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Awethu Fatyela

@Awethu_F

1 year

Struggled through Honours b/c I was pregnant & wanted nothing more than to eat & sleep. After all that struggle & Covid robbing us of our 2020 graduation ceremony, I finally got to walk across that stage again and the cake I was baking is almost 3 yrs old 😄2 down, 2 more to go

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Awethu Fatyela

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2 years

When I tell you about parenting... ooTeacher base creche bazo Funda isiXhosa ngenkani 😄😄😄 My father's spirit is strong in this one.

Awethu Fatyela

@Awethu_F

2 years

Teacher Carol says small-small is refusing to speak English in class (again) 😄 I don't know what brings this on (it usually lasts a week or two). She has now resolved to learn isiXhosa so she can understand her. I must say...the revolutionary dlozi is strong in this one 😄😄😄

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Awethu Fatyela

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7 years

Sometimes our journey takes us right back to where we started so we can take a moment to breathe and try again. Don't be discouraged 💗

Nomampondomise ✊🏽🏳️‍🌈

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7 years

It sucks to be 30 something and back home living with your mom. This time you don't come alone. It's a lot to process.

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Awethu Fatyela

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4 years

The face of a brave little Namnams👶🏼 😇 10 weeks immunization done and we didn't even cry. We deserve boobies 💝

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Awethu Fatyela

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3 years

Gave birth to a beautiful baby 👶🏼 Graduated with my Honours 🎓 Turned 35 🎉🎊 Got myself a new ride 🚗 Spent all year home with my family

Sam The Challenger

@MohauSam

3 years

Tell something good that happened to you in 2020, no matter how small?

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Awethu Fatyela

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4 years

White people are not, nor will they ever be African. The same way descendents of enslaved Africans who have been in America for centuries are not Americans but African Americans. They must own their European ancestry with the same energy they did during apartheid

The Citizen News

@TheCitizen_News

4 years

Zille says white people not being called ‘Africans’ is part of a ‘campaign’ to ‘demonise minorities’

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Awethu Fatyela

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4 years

Chats with the bestie 💞💗 an opinionated little Namnams 😇💛

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Awethu Fatyela

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5 years

We’ve got laundry but you know what day it is #EFFRedFriday Gotta rep, one way or another ❤️♥️❤️

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Awethu Fatyela

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4 years

Off to Sunday lunch with the family 🌹

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4 years

Just had our first bowl of mielie meal porridge and this is how it went... 🥺🥰😍

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Awethu Fatyela

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8 years

I gave in to the doek fomo and I must say...I like it. #MarriedToTheRevolution #EFFWayaWaya

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Awethu Fatyela

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7 years

You're allowed to change your mind ~About what u want ~About where you're going ~About who you love/how to love ~About what you believe in

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Awethu Fatyela

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6 years

All this talk about the financial cost of raising kids reminds me of my circle of friends in Centurion, all single moms with whom I shared parenting responsibilities with. Here's a thread of some of the ways we supported each other

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Awethu Fatyela

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7 years

How cute, they leave women to raise boy children alone and tell us we have no business involving ourselves with circumcision & initiation 😊

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Awethu Fatyela

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1 year

@Gudeka If we are going to have televised processes on this I am taking leave mntakabawo and staying glued to my screen

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Awethu Fatyela

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4 years

I know I'm dramatic neh BUT my mom relives the day I was born EVERY. SINGLE. YEAR without fail 😂😂😂😂😂 Oh Mamvulane wam

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4 years

I don't mean to flex but... can your garden ever...? 😍😍😍

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3 years

Today is Awomi's first day at school. All I wanna say is I didn't cry in the car 😍🥰❤

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Awethu Fatyela

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5 years

In 1991 my parents told me I could go to the bakery section at Shoprite & order siblings. They would then put the baby dough in my mom to grow, take the babies out & take them to the hospital for the doctors to add hearts, lungs, blood & oxygen. My order arrived 25 May 1992 🌸💞

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Awethu Fatyela

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7 years

What shocks me is that we still get shocked by white people being white #GerrieNel

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Awethu Fatyela

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6 years

What are you doing on the 28th March 2018? Cancel/postpone, we have a date with leadership! CIC @Julius_S_Malema will be in Nelson Mandela Bay for the NMB People's Rally #Asijiki

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Awethu Fatyela

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3 years

Today was athletics day at Awomi's school. #TeamAwomi was down one member (daddy) but we went in with the mindset of champions and came out on top

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Awethu Fatyela

@Awethu_F

3 years

We must rename that lake. Africa has queens of her own

Facts East Africa

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3 years

FACT: Lake Victoria has a maximum depth of 84 meters, and a mean depth of 40 meters.

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Awethu Fatyela

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4 years

My womb popped off 😍❤🥰

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Awethu Fatyela

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5 years

And...my honey is also graduating today 🥰😍♥️🎓 Issa happy household! Congratulations my love 🎉 🎊 🍾

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Awethu Fatyela

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6 years

Ready to conquer Monday 💐💞

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Awethu Fatyela

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3 years

I wasn't even offered a lift 🥺

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Awethu Fatyela

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4 years

Are applications still open for Grade R? 📚 🤓 🤩

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4 years

Beach day with my mommy and the tenant ❤🥰💞 Kutyebekile 🤰🏾🤣

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4 years

No Monday blues here, only pink happiness 🎉💞🤸🏾‍♀️ 👼

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Awethu Fatyela

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4 years

My mom and I decided to step up our twinning ways. My daughter is so confused... She keeps looking from me to her granny and then back at me again 🤣🤣🤣

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Awethu Fatyela

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4 years

@JavierSOSO_ Anytime you feel like it, umphinde

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Awethu Fatyela

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5 years

No more dreadhead, the locks have fallen 🥰🥰🥰 Stood under the shower this morning and let the water just massage my scalp 🚿😍

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Awethu Fatyela

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3 years

The birthday girls sends a very special thank you to all the mamas and papas and aunties and uncles who wished her a happy 1st birthday 🎂🎉🎊👑✨

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Awethu Fatyela

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7 years

Post #SONA2017 selfie... EFF has dropped the mic and we've tapped out #Asijiki #FearFokol #Tsotsi #Lemenemene

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Awethu Fatyela

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4 years

My mom and my man think hospital visits are for picnics. My son on the other hand is so in love with his little sister he can't even eat. He just holds her, talks to her and tells her how much he loves her 😍❤️😍❤️😍

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Awethu Fatyela

@Awethu_F

4 years

What is this obsession with women submitting to men? Every single week I see some new "pearl of wisdom" about what makes a woman submit to a man. Why does an adult need another adult to submit to them? So that what can happen?!

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Awethu Fatyela

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4 years

A daily dose of love and laughter 💖💕😍

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Awethu Fatyela

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6 years

On Monday I shared a stage with these amazing Black women. Prof Sibongile Muthwa (VC of Mandela Uni), Dr. Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi (Chancellor of Mandela Uni) and Ambassador Nozipho January-Bardill (Chair of Council at Mandela Uni). This is my signal. I receive mama!

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Awethu Fatyela

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4 years

#NewProfilePic

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Awethu Fatyela

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4 years

So...today would have been my second graduation but I have been so preoccupied with #LifeOnLockdown that I didn't even know cos I haven't been checking emails. Happy to have done it again 🎓 👩🏾‍🎓🎓👩🏾‍🎓🎓👩🏾‍🎓🎓👩🏾‍🎓🎓👩🏾‍🎓🎓

Awethu Fatyela

@Awethu_F

5 years

At 29 yrs old, I resigned from work & relocated to PE to be a full time student. At 29 yrs old, I took a chance on myself & at 33 I celebrate. This is for all the Black women in me who deserved a second chance 🎓 The journey continues...

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Awethu Fatyela

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5 years

I am so exhausted I literally just cried. I’ve been studying full time, working full time, parenting & other shit for 4 years straight & I’m just tired. A part of me wants to deregister & see this shit next yr & another part of me says “you’re halfway through the yr, keep going”

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Awethu Fatyela

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5 years

Make sure your spouse is registered to vote. Is your wife registered? #RegisterToVote #RegisterToVoteEFF

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4 years

South Africa is a lawless country. From its government to its citizens, nobody gives a damn!

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4 years

Doing storytime and not letting the sheds get us down Jack and the Beanstalk 🌱🐤

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4 years

Kuyabonakala ukuba I am excited about turning 35 in two days time?!

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5 years

Better late than never right?! #2008Vs2018

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Awethu Fatyela

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5 years

Before my grandfather passed he had dementia, he would sometimes wander off at night & was often confused & incoherent. My mother said she was grateful it was a male parent because had he been a woman, he would have been accused of witchcraft & probably harmed.

SABC News Radio

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5 years

An elderly woman has been burnt to death at Brooksneck village in the Eastern Cape. The 75-year-old woman was accused of practicing witchcraft.

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Sometimes the words just don't come. They get stuck behind that lump in your throat and it feels like if that silence breaks, you'll break. Eventually you break either way. Ngxesi sthandwa #RIPKhensani

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Awethu Fatyela

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4 years

Just came back from the most amazing four/five days in Durban with my little family. My heart is so content 😍❤️🥰 Absolutely nothing in this world gives me greater joy

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Awethu Fatyela

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4 years

One month with you in our lives has filled our hearts with a lifetime's worth of love and joy already. Mommy's little Namnams 🤗 Happy 1 month Awomi Iyana Amile Fatyela 🥰❤😍🤩

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Awethu Fatyela

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5 years

Face by Andiswa Kota of Okuhle Beauty. Find them on Instagram/Facebook ♥️🎓 #NMUGraduation

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Awethu Fatyela

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4 years

What a fulfilling, love filled journey. Only to realise that today is not the end of it but a continuation of what is and the start of what could be. Welcome to our lives baby Awomi Iyana Fatyela. Mommy, daddy, big bro, grannies & the whole family is super excited to have you❤

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Awethu Fatyela

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5 years

While I was in the shower this morning, my loving, sweet, caring, compassionate, intelligent, extremely handsome and well mannered 10 yo son made me a surprise birthday "breakfast in bed" (had to get back in bed to eat it) and this piece of art on the blackboard at work.

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5 years

The weather finally played along so I could wear this dress I bought at the Masai market in Kenya 🥰😍🌤

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Awethu Fatyela

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6 years

Celebrating a strong, Black woman tonight. A woman I look up to, my best friend, my sister, a fellow fighter, my skaboompiripa 💞 I love you so much ❤️😍 #YoliTurns35

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Awethu Fatyela

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2 years

The last born says you must all have a lovely weekend nibe safety you guys 💕

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5 years

Yako: It was the EFF who advocated for the National Assembly to adopt the motion of land expropriation. It is the EFF who will deliver the land #UmhloboWeneneDebate

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Awethu Fatyela

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3 years

Kuyafiwa phandl'apha yi Covid and there are people who have the audacity to rock up at people's houses, unannounced, with bags, for a visit 😡 A distant relative did this izolo, told her and her plus one to come back next year and she is telling the whole world ndimgxothile 🤬

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Awethu Fatyela

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5 years

Mommy, daddy and granny 💖Roadtripping and wedding vibes with my mama and my man ❤️😍💕

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Awethu Fatyela

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7 years

We as abantu bakwaXhosa reject your narrow minded and offensive views. Please excuse yourself from the tribe

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4 years

Something crossed my mind last night. That I found a sense of comfort in this lockdown because young women weren't disappearing at an alarming rate anymore. I thought about that a lot

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Awethu Fatyela

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5 years

Egyptian water 💦 ereng mo ngwaneng?! Skin baby skin!

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