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Why you not liking my post thoughhh😬
Anyway sometimes three is not a crowd ! The fillings , three different folds , three different textures three different flavors … once banging plate of dumplings!!!
Dinner was in china
Pork and prawn ( my fave ) , chicken and coriander and pork and cabbage all served in a aged black vinegar chilli oil and a dusting of chicken skin and schezhuan crumb 😋😋#foodblesser #dumplings #pork #prawns
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I know a population of people who have gone through this 👇🏿👇🏿
Eunuchisation— the process of reducing a population or movement to this state.
• Eunuch class — the social layer that specializes in eloquent helplessness.
The term is deliberately harsh. It distinguishes between those who are temporarily defeated and those who have internalized permanent powerlessness as their political identity.
A political eunuch is a person or group that has been so thoroughly oppressed, demoralized, or conditioned that they have lost the capacity (or will) to resist. They endlessly narrate their suffering, recycle the oppressor’s actions as daily commentary, and marvel at the oppressor’s power — while producing no serious strategy, organization, or risk-bearing action to change their condition.
Why the term fits
Historically, eunuchs were castrated men kept in positions of proximity to power. They could observe, advise, gossip, and administer, but they could not threaten the ruler with heirs or independent force. The political version captures the same condition: speech without potency, proximity to events without the ability (or willingness) to act on them.
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My Sister’s Lover - My latest novel 🤎
All year I have been talking about “working on my book.” Well… she’s almost ready. 😁
My Sister’s Lover will be in major bookstores across South Africa from 13 October 2026.
This one is very close to my heart. I set the story in Mambale, the village where I grew up. Writing about a place so familiar was bittersweet.
There was something nostalgic about bringing the places I knew so well into a fictional world, but also liberating about being able to reshape them and let my imagination take me wherever the story needed to go.
I wanted to honour my home, but I also love drama and pushing limits. So I often found myself wondering whether I might offend the very ground that raised me 🫢
I intentionally positioned my main character’s home where my own home stands eMambale. I even placed the shops in the order they actually were at the growth point: General Dealer, Bottle Store, Hardware… Okay, I’m going on and on 🤭. But you see what I mean. Mambale is not just a setting; it’s home.
I poured my heart and soul into this one. I laughed, I stressed, I ghosted my publisher when the story got too intense and I continuously fell in and out of love with the characters and their story.
And now I can finally say: “It will be here in under a month and pre-orders are officially open.” 🥹😍
I hope you enjoy reading My Sister’s Lover as much as I enjoyed writing it.
A million thanks to my wonderful publishers, Kwela Books & Johnathan Ball @jbp_local for making this journey such a beautiful one. Thank you for believing in me and helping me bring this book to life.
And to everyone who has been asking, waiting, encouraging me and cheering me on, I can never thank you enough. You have no idea what that means to me.
So, Dear Reader, I hereby present to you My Sister’s Lover. She’s ready to meet you. 🥹
Pre-orders are open via the link in my bio (mysisterslover.netlify.app/). You can order directly from me, Takealot, Amazon or through a bookstore near you in South Africa.
From my heart,
Ndoboka. Ngiyabonga. Thank you. 🤎
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Remote Work Opportunity: Shona Language Lead !!
Contact myself or @e_jey with expression of interest! Via Instagram
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The struggles of spouses of men & women in struggles for freedom is real and often not acknowledged. Their sucrifies and contributions deserve to be celebrated more.
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Join us! 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾
PEDAGOGY OF THE OPPRESSED by Paulo Freire is on our reading list tonight at 7pm (BST) kwa @dandaro_online . Do join in, if you can, as we read, learn and discuss #Resistance concepts and psychological processes involved with the oppressed. @Marcie4LOC @Ppungwe @letterztoafrica
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Mark this tweet #Zimbabweans. One day we will reverse all the undemocratic amendments to our beloved 2013 Constitution.
In future the only amendments to it will be those which enhance it - which build on its foundations- not those which undermine its very foundations.
When this will happen I can’t say but it will happen just as firmly as the end of white minority rule, the crashing down of the Berlin Wall, and all other events in history when tyranny ends.
As Barack Obama noted yesterday
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
Obama noted that although the phrase is often associated with Martin Luther King Jr., it actually originated with a Boston abolitionist preacher, Reverend Theodore Parker, in a sermon delivered more than 170 years ago.
Obama explained that Parker preached these words in the dark period following the Compromise of 1850, when the anti-slavery movement seemed to be losing ground and fugitive slaves were being returned to bondage. Parker acknowledged that justice often appeared absent in the world, but expressed faith that history ultimately bends toward justice.
The fuller quotation Rev Parker used was:
“I do not pretend to understand the moral universe. The arc is a long one. My eye reaches but little ways. I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight. I can divine it by conscience. But from what I see, I am sure it bends toward justice.”
So too in Zimbabwe. Ultimately there will be justice and the rule of violent, cruel, corrupt and unprincipled men will end.