Most of the things we know, we learnt from our parents. Some of the fears that we have, we inherited them from our parents. Parenting is literally code for programming. I mean if you could look like a photocopy of…
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Thembi Terry Whande
I think before the house on the hill, this is the one thing I have wanted to do more than anything else. A friend of mine said if I shed the excess weight, she’d pay for the first round of…
Imagine genuinely being in love with someone and you’re just a painkiller to them. I came across ‘painkiller’ as an adjective when I was contemplating dating a divorcee. I was told that divorcees aren’t interested in getting remarried. They just…
I find social media exhausting. For a long time I used it as a time filler or a source of entertainment. I’d go to bed tired and yet having accomplished absolutely nothing towards my dreams and goals. Being a keyboard…
Sometimes I open my WhatsApp and find 120+ unopened messages and I feel overwhelmed and close the app. But because some of you have an inflated sense of self, you start thinking that I am ignoring you. Well I am,…
We shouldn’t have to set precautionary measures for our daughters. Teach your male relatives to STOP RAPING WOMEN. Now that all protocol has been observed let’s get into it. “You should’ve never went to his house at night.. what did…
The only thing humans are born instinctively knowing how to do is probably breathing. So if you thought we are all born with a module of how you wanna be treated, I hate to break it you but we don’t….
Here’s what my parents being too busy to show up to any of my school events taught me, you don’t die! Walking up to the podium or being on the stage and there’s absolutely no one to say, “mwana wangu…
I’ve been listening to that Msizkay, Awakhiwe and Mzoe7 Ngawuzw’ umoya wami song and I got to thinking about all the people who have expressed their romantic interest in me. I haven’t a clue what it feels like to like…
Love is a lot of things, the one thing it isn’t about is deprivation. If you’ve ever spoken to a good or decent parent, they will tell you how it tears their heart apart when they have to deny their…