First of all, do you know how hard it is to be a Beyoncé? Next of all, to become a Beyoncé you need to aspire to an impossible standard of perfection and hard work and those two things are what…
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Thembi Terry Whande
Most of my friendships deteriorated not because we fell out of love but because it felt like I was walking on thin ice and they were pussyfooting on eggshells around me. The situation got so awkward to the point where…
If you know me, you know that I never go anywhere without my phone and my headphones. I have a playlist for every chore and every mood. It wasn’t until I had to go to the States that I fell…
I remember anxiously pacing up and down the halls at 26 Ceres Road like my office chair had pins in it and I was avoiding it. My palms were damp and I couldn’t stop blabbering. I talk too much when…
Two Christmases ago I wanted to get my Samsung phone fixed so that I could give my little sister the Huawei since she barely had a phone. I failed to get the Samsung fixed and my boyfriend gifted me a…
I hear people a lot talking about, “I wanna give my kids a life I never had growing up.” This has been a problematic ideology for me because imagine I wanna buy my child a walkman because I didn’t have…
You can’t ever ask a man, “What are we?” It’s too much pressure they say. Just go with the flow they suggest. Just have fun and what’s yours will unveil itself. Pish posh me thinks. "Erotomania" is a type of…
Do you have that one hang-up that no matter how hard you work on it or how deep you introspect it just seems like you can’t ever heal or recover from it? Well, guess what, men are humans and they…
I’ve had some insane business ideas! Exciting ideas which are the epitome of innovation and forward thinking. These ideas didn’t work out not because they weren’t great, but because the team I had wasn’t. I tried to share my blessing…
When you’ve worked really hard and things still don’t work out it’s heartbreaking and devastating. You followed the rules, put in the work and the results don’t reflect that and you want to know why? From personal experience, I can…