A bully in my daughter's transport put yoghurt on her hair, a fresh hairstyle from sun. Taunting her & calling her ugly. Gave driver hell and reported at school. They say it was outside of school and can't get involved. No matter...I will resort to "after school is after school'
@gala_tweets
Its not a school bus, it's an independent transport. School told me it's not their policy to get involved. I won't hit the bully but I will put the fear of God in her. The parent is a non starter as she said her child is sweet...
Was on my way to a meeting then this photographer asks to take pics cause he says i radiate positive energy🤷🏽♀️😂.
Anyway he tells me to walk towards him, clicks away and i actually had fun being a 2 min model😂😂
Was at home affairs in Alexandra & the walk-in guys who queed since 5am were told to go home as they did not book online.Was so crushing to see our people turned back,the other lady said she can't afford data hence she was here 5am.
@homeaffairsZA
do not leave our people behind.
College son came home for the holidays,he asked in advance to bring a friend home & I agreed. The friend just arrived from Mpumalanga and it's a she!! a whole she!!! We have plenty of room but I said yes assuming it's a flippin he!
Just had the most wonderful meeting, pitching in 90% Setswana because the CEO is Tswana, he took my cue and we flowed in Setswana, discussing complex biz issues ...it went so well🙌🏽🙌🏽💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿got there and was like flip we're doing Vernac kajeno!!So refreshing❤
@ZwoPrudence
Teachers are our everything,you're tweeting now cuz who taught you ABC??Like we were taught by our beloved teachers: If you don't have anything nice to say keep quite🙏
@sya_nkabinde
Especially if you are Tswana or like me you grew up around Tswana speaking people. Bathong is not a fashionable new term it's a way of speaking...even a 90yr old Motswana will say Bathong🤷🏽♀️
Stayed with my kids from Jan 23. I could not afford to do that 2yrs prior as I was building my startup from scratch & could not afford to stay with them & raise them. Asked my ex hubby to hold the fort only for 2yrs. Then 2023 I kept my promise to my babies & fetched them❤️💕😍
@theVati_Can
@thulasindi
@NathiMthethwaSA
@asandamagaqa
Dear Actors, Vatiswa put her financial neck on the line penning this letter. Now show the same mettle not by just tweeting but by signing a petition enmasse and delivering it to the Minister. You have the power to change the Industry as a United Voice...
1 Sept new offices!!Our global journey begins here...I appreciate my team🙏🏾❤7am sat meetings, 5am calls,etc everyone just going the extra mile to bring at home healthcare to the world
@Hello_Welo
🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
Thanx Twitter fam for all your support🙏🏾❤
As I turn 40 on this 22nd day of July i look back at the journey with awe& gratitude. The lessons, the tears, the breakthroughs....God was setting the stage for bigger🙏🏾
My wish for this chapter is for wisdom, growth and raising others as I rise.
Camagu🙏🏾
When I was in Kenya I was having breakfast with a VC & a Nigerian founder.She straight up asked the VC "How much cash do you have in the bank to deploy, so that we can limit back and forth discussions" man, Nigerians are built different! Love them!!! I think of her all the time😂
Panyaza is creating jobs in Gauteng, political campaigning or not...he is moving the unemployment needle in GP. What are the other Premiers doing? At this stage we just need jobs for our people...
@SisandaQ
Ausi, we know you are helping and it's great. However Bonga said he didn't want the limelight. Walk this journey with him in private for a few years as this ain't a mean feat. Thereafter let's see a success story narrated by Bonga himself when he's in a better space. Win win🙏🏾
Entrepreneurship demands resilience & you will go through humiliating episodes. I went from a Bryanston mansion, to my mom's house to staying with a relative in Sosha in the early Welo days...just started returning to Jozi & recovering in hang in there🙏🏾❤
@TheGreatLerato
Sorry, not leaving my man behind.
I will call him to order the following day though...not dumping or leaving anyone at the restaurant for this👍🏾
Thinking about this funny moment where I sent an email to TD Jakes office...got a response saying 'It's not Tiddy its TD Jakes(I spelt it Tiddy on the email) and it's not Pastor its Bishop
(I had addressed the email as Pastor Tiddy Jakes)🤣🙉needless to say my request was ignored
@pholoba1Jay
Clearly this is someone who has never worked and doesn't know that sometimes we live on overdrafts and that 20k has a 100 responsibilities waiting for it...
Its my birthday today and i thank God for life,all the gifts he has put inside of me and showing me love through the my family,friends and all the wonderful people i meet in my life including my Twitter family. 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾❤
Our kids are going to be building their biz from trust fund monies and getting
seed checks from their aunts and uncles...building from ground zero ends with us. Let's push fam👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾
Comfy in my own skin at my 40+ age.Had a client meeting that took longer than the scheduled 30min, when we got to 1hr it was my afternoon prayer time.Asked them for a prayer break, they gave me one of their spare office to pray in private.Prayed & rejoined meeting after. All good
1st Angel check of $25k wired and already pushing us up a notch especially with Product Development.
Met our Canadian based investor on these Twitter streets, he believed in
@Hello_Welo
so much that the money was wired before paperwork was completed 👌🏾😎all is well now SAFE done!
Digitization or 4IR should not come at the exclusion of the masses who vote for you. Engage local Tech startups and see how those who don't have data and smart phone can access your services.
Using the 35k i got from insurance(car accident write off, car was so old lol🙈) to fund a trip to SF, Silicon Valley in 2019 without knowing a single soul there. Spent a few months there and was never the same as an entrepreneur❤..changed the trajectory of my dreams.
Saddened but not suprised by the Drip contract saga....any black SA entrepreneur will tell you a story of how they get screwed by our own black brothers who are monied when we go cap in hand to them asking for funding/cash flow loans. Mashonisa conditions are par for the course😥
Now that you have confiscated the inkomazi, maize meal, tin fish and Pampers. Can you, our government deal with poverty affecting our people from it's roots and intentionally handle corruption, unemployment,etc🙏🏾
When an Executive from an NYSE listed health company reaches out to you saying "We were looking for a healthtech startup in Africa to engage with & your name came up a lot" Keep pushing fam, you never know who is watching.
PS:I must stop tweeting crazy things & be a serious CEO🤣
The 2 boys nxt door who are raised by their single dad came to my place excitedly with their reports : 'Aunty Zanele!we passed' gave them the biggest bear hugs❤won't post their pics.
Anyway pls show them some love with cute gifs and I'll show them❤Tlhoni&Gomo
Had a wholesome chat with someone on the DM who commented on my pic...no mjolo talk, a wholesome talk talking about God and some humour. The typa gentlemen i enjoy engaging with🙏🏾
2019, took my last money trekking to silicon valley to go learn about Tech without knowing a soul there or being part of any accelerator. That trip was life changing. I became a different breed of an entrepreneur after that trip. Limitless was possible. Best bet of my life! God🙏🏾
@ingagubeka
Millionaire or not, I don't understand this jozi phenomenon of inviting people to a restaurant and expecting them to pay. Yes, if it's a planned outing with friends you must def pay your part but a person inviting you from your own home and then expecting you to pay...hai noh...
Founder fam/entrepreneurs , can we do a space tomorrow on Storytelling....i speak to so many of you and you have amazing startups. I just think we must chat and advice each other on how to use storytelling to raise funds, close sales etc.
Thoughts?
Being told you're sexy in a biz meeting is so demeaning and just plain disrespectful of what I'm bringing to the table... i now walk out of such meetings and will block you!!keep your opportunities and tsek! I know my fellow biz ladies will relate😫😤
The most difficult type of closure is the one you give yourself without the other party acknowledging the pain they caused you or even apologizing...give yourself closure & self heal...don't wait for them🙏🏾❤
It has been a good year all round but being featured in the Wall Street Journal was beautiful. No PR Agency, no payment, just a journalist reaching out on my twitter dm's for an interview.
Don't be ashamed to run back to God after backsliding...stop condemning yourself. Lost count of the number of times I have backslid cause ours is not a journey without thorns...run back to him before your conscience gets numb to the nudging of the holy spirit.
This month we celebrate our revenue milestone
@Hello_Welo
.
We have reached
R500 000($27000) monthly rev and yes it's recurring💃💃💃
Sent finance report with proof to our Investors, our day zeros and they are all equally proud♥️
Mom sent me this pic when i told her about the chess outing yesterday...aaah man beautiful childhood memories❤my late dad(our coach) my older sis and little me trying to squeeze through🤭😂.At our 4 roomed childhood home❤
Exposure is everything in life...saw a founder who has a multi billion dollar contract in the automobile Industry, started working on his startup at age 17. Being constantly exposed to people who's bar is set so high kinda rubs off in you...you can't help but up your bar too!!!
Your gal made it to Wall Street Journal🙈
I once tweeted something crazy & relatable about my bootstrapping days and as luck would have it, It caught the attention of a journalist from Wall Street Journal. An interview was had & here we are😊
It has been a rough week...day made♥️
@TomiRikhotso
@Murendizee
Except for crime, we truly are one of the best countrues to live in. People stay in crammed houses out there, bad weather, etc. We really have it good, we just need good leadership.
Twitter DM stranger: Here's a private email address of CEO X (SA blue chip Company). I support
@Hello_Welo
so shoot your shot but you didn't get the email from me🙈!
Me: Cold email shot to CEO, leads to presentation and and.
We signed a contract...we start work from next week.
Was pitching today😎getting better at this as my 1st live pitch in 2021 was an utter disaster!!! I even swore off live pitches😂🙈
Thanx
@AWS
and
@GrindstoneXL
for affording female founders these types of platforms and support.
was the worthy winner🔥🔥🔥
Thank you so much Oxford Africa Business Alliance for the invitation to speak at this prestigious event. Looking forward to join you in stage at Oxford as we unpack this pivotal topic. Ndiyabulela🙏🏾🙌🏾
@zanele_matome
is the Founder and CEO of
@HelloWELO
with more than 15yrs as an entrepreneur. She is passionate about using entrepreneurship as a vessel to solve pivotal problems.
#OABF
@OxfordSBS
Today i was sitting & leading in a room way bigger than myself...a young woman from Tlhabane township Rustenburg in multi million dollar rooms🥺umzukulwana ka Nozamile Tyobeka...wish you were here Gogo🥺🙏🏾
@Miss_Masaya
Sis, as an entrepreneur i personally could not have survived building my Company without the money i got from my 9-5 family and friends...bona di payday tsa di 25 and 15th have helped with petrol, airtime, food etc. We love you guys and appreciate you❤❤❤
Today it hit me when we were doing our actual numbers with our accountant..actual numbers & pipeline of other new clients that is starting in July including our saas model play .Dear God,we are actually building a Unicorn..ish is real..someone bookmark this tweet.
Introducing
@Hello_Welo
2.0!
The baby has grown from humble soshanguve township beginnings,operating on whatsApp & excel and fueled by pure grit & passion to solve healthcare problems. 2023 comes with Welo 2.0...taking all our customer intel & building the Tech to scale!
@ProfTinyiko
I always say South African racism is a different vile breed...on a class of its own😫have been around the world and SA wins the nobel prize for racism...economic and social wise🤞🏾
We added a new client ( Multinational Group Hitachi) to our stable🥳🥳🥳🥳taking Welo to homes and Industries Nationwide and globally!!
Go Welo....Go Health access!
This is going to be an awesome week:
Onboarding a new client at a mine in Rustenburg.
France Trade & Industry invited us to an event tomorrow.
I will be the Keynote speaker at African leadership Academy .
Breakfast with fellow founders on friday!!!
Met our 2nd Angel Investor for the 1st time in person
@IsaacEwaleifoh
last night at the Apollo. He invested in us way back in 2021 from the US.When I think of everyone who believed in the vision from the early days when I was still doing the 5am hospital rounds..I tear up😭♥️
On my way from closing a phamarcy partner for our upcoming
@Hello_Welo
online store🙌🏽💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿
There's no music but my heart is dancing!
Thanx to my wonderful team & awesome advisors for adding so much value into our Rocketship!!!
And the carguard that shot this vid🙌🏽😂
Turning 42 yrs today and what a ride it has been🥰💫
From that bubbly toddler, to a 23yr old with a heart for communities(Had donated to a school in EC, they invited me over and threw a suprise party for me🥰) and now a mom....I know this is just the beginning. Destiny awaits💫
@Sli_Masikane
She met Thabo knowing full well he was a fugitive who was supposed to be dead, then a whole Doctor who has travelled before goes and arranges US citizenship and working permit without going to the US embassy🤣
This one is crooked as well...tsotsi ya Doctor.
My son at the ice rink as i was falling:
Mom you can't give up, akere you always tell us to fall 90 times and get up 100 times! I then had to practice what i preach🤦🏾♀️🙈
Tweeting from netcare casualty now at xray...heavily swollen & painful elbow.
Flip being a motivational mom🤦🏾♀️
Will be doing employee assessments at all national parks in SA on behalf of our new B2B client until December. From Kruger to Table mountain, Tsitsikama etc.I'm loykew excited about the free holidays my team & myself will score as we will sleep over. I'm choosing Tsitsikama😍🙊
@ewnupdates
What baffles me about black people in the DA is that there's zilch solidarity amongst them...these racists purge 1 Lerato and 1 Jabu is ready to take her space in a sec...dololo principle stand that says you will not do this to Lerato in my name🤷🏽♀️