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Pan-Afrikanist| Governance & IRD Adept| Law⚖️| #Sankarist| Young Diplomat| A Vision| Chairperson @afrikan_pan| RT ≠ endorsement| Views ❗️expressed are my own❗️
Sep 22, 2020 7 tweets 2 min read
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🗣🗣 Tips for women—safety🗣🗣

1. The elbow is the strongest point on your body. If you are close enough to use it, do!

2. If a robber asks for your wallet and/or purse... DON'T HAND IT TO HIM!
Toss it away from you; ... Chances are that he is more interested in your wallet and/or purse than you, and he will go for the wallet/purse.
AND RUN LIKE MAD IN THE OTHER DIRECTION!

3. If you are ever thrown into the trunk of a car, kick out the back tail lights and stick your arm out the hole and;
Sep 10, 2020 6 tweets 1 min read
Studying International Relations or Diplomacy or IRD in its entirety is DIFFERENT from being a diplomat. The challenge is, the lack of training within this field has forced Presidents to appoint (95% of most instances) military personnel because of their ethics and discipline;⤵️ Fostering foreign relations isn't a walk in the park.
1. You need to have a full comprehension of your country's foreign policies on various sectors/markets;
2. You NEED to be multi-lingual. English is NOT enough. You need to learn French, Portuguese, Spanish as basic;
Jul 19, 2020 5 tweets 1 min read
It's worrisome to read miscellaneous versions of thoughts and opinion on the alleged involvement of billions in tenders of Madzikane Diko. Yeah, SAY HIS NAME! It's irking to notice how NOBODY used the actual face of Madzikane Thandisizwe Diko.

It's truly a man's world! 🚮😒🚶🏽 I've read up on what I could find and nowhere does it say Khusela is directly involved and yet all publications and social media tweets/posts carries her face— WHY AREN'T THEY BARING THE FACE OF MR. DIKO? Is it bcos Khusela works in the Presidency? 🙄💁🏽
Jun 9, 2020 4 tweets 1 min read
Serving the continent didn't happen because I knew someone, it happened because I'm passionate and I was willing to start at the very bottom of leadership. Until you're comfortable with leading in silence and from the back— FORGET ABOUT LEADERSHIP! Today made me really sad. I understand everyone wants "opportunities" but prove yourself FIRST. Prove that you can be trusted, you can lead in silence, you're a community based leader and above all, you're a servant leader. Not everyone is meant to lead from the front!
Jun 1, 2020 4 tweets 1 min read
There will NEVER be a day where I will ever depend on a man for financial security. Nog nooit.

I will never allow myself to feel entitled to his money, to expect money from someone's son and to loot his pockets dry. I am NOT that woman, I will never be her! #Aneva ⤵️⤵️ Whatever I need or want— I get it myself. I buy it myself. I save if I have to. But, to demand and or expect someone else's son to just nje... Buy it, do it for me is witchcraft!

Women want equality and equity but yet again we (you) don't want financial freedom? Like, WTH?💁🏽😳
May 15, 2020 6 tweets 2 min read
I was once on a humanitarian mission to Somalia & Sudan. I slept in tents & ate tin food. What I saw on those missions not only broke my heart, I returned in a very depressive state. I saw how innocent women & children suffered & died of malnutrition, I saw what civil wars did; The sound of (physically weak) weeping mothers haunted me for days, I knew right there and then that I will never stay another day away from active politics. Everything we do is a DIRECT result of a political decision;
Sep 23, 2019 28 tweets 7 min read
I can't stop thinking about the Afrikaans university being build. White people mobilized 300 million amongst themselves. This uni is already under construction, and whites have yet again created an employment project worth 4,5 million. Dear black people.... (THREAD) stay with me! Dear black people, whilst we are busy killing each other, white people are BUILDING THEMSELVES. Whilst we are busy violating, abusing & committing femicide, white people are BUILDING THEMSELVES. Whilst we are busy "shutting down" the country, white people are BUILDING THEMSELVES