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(Wo)MAN UP!



It’s time black girls mimicked their mothers. Time to put your worries aside. Put your babies on your back and get to work. This shit is waiting on you! Your life is waiting for you! Your household is waiting on you! Lets be very clear its about no one else but you. I tweeted this on the 8th of January 2018. I need black women all around me and even online to get up and GO! 

This year I have decided to dedicate myself to restoring myself and taking care of what I have to take care of. I am not pushing myself into spaces that don’t need me. I am not interested in going to people who do not need me or vice versa. I have listened to a lot of empowering talks to get my head into this specific head space of working, but not just working, but excelling at what I am meant to be taking care of. '

In my intro I called out black women because we have been conditioned by our leaders for a very long time to think that we need to wait on the government to support and validate who we are in society. They knew we needed shelter so they made it so. They built black people pathetic little homes(RDP houses) and called that ownership. They then said we could own child bearing as well and now we see long lines of young and old mothers collecting child support from the government.  They know that the revolution of the ANC was driven by one fierce woman, Winnie Madikizela Mandela. We also saw other stalwarts like Adelaide Tambo, Albertine Sisulu, Charlotte Maxeke, Dorothy Nyembe to name a few.  The food was on the table and clocking in at the jobs was done, however after hours, they formulated and supported the revolt. Today we stand tall in our democratic republic. But whilst the ANC has done what it has, it was also up to us to do better than the previous generation.

Whilst other races are ahead, in most cases we are behind. The best we can do now is to take up a different struggle. The struggle of how do I revolutionise my own space and who do I bring with me whilst I climb up. I do a lot of interacting in a day. I sit up when a black woman is speaking. Not because of anything, but just to find out where are we as a nation of women? How advanced are we in our thinking and if we are working with our men (even though most of the time they refuse to work with us) or are we not? And how much of this work are we doing out of our own initiatives? We are inspired by the Basetsanae Kumalo and Khanyi Dhlomo’s of this world, but how much are we really doing to be learned like them? In the industries and spaces we are in, are we applauding those around us, if not why not? Are we collecting as much information to get to the next big thing we want to achieve. Plenty questions but you are the only one who can answer them. Just spend time writing these down and you will soon find the territory that is yours and start building from there. Enjoy it and all the best to you and your goals. 

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