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African Giant 👑

BURNA with the truth 🗣

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Go natural, on little to no budget!

Ok, I know going natural requires a lot of maintenance (not really). If you google ‘tips on how to grow natural hair,’ you will find lots of

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Salvatore Di Gregorio / Good hair

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Rhubarb Rose Infusion

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Young Kenyan woman holds her pet deer, Mombasa, Zanzibar, Kenya, Africa, 1909.

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Paying smokers to quit may actually work

Swiss researchers found that among hundreds of poor smokers, continued payments helped more than one third kick the habit long term.

We live in a world where people get paid for making a conscious decision to take up an addictive habit, despite all prominent warning against cigarettes and its addictive qualities.

Instead of doing something a lot more meaningful like paying the youth to go to school (which probably has more economical benefits), people would rather pay-out addicts from their willful habits.

Why get yourself hooked onto an expensive habit to begin with, when you know you don’t have money? 

The reasoning behind this “pay-to-quit” scheme escapes me.

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Crooked Sytem

Is there nobody in this entire country worried about how crooked our cops are?

Everyday there is a police officer collecting bribe-money from a local or a foreigner.

It has become a norm to dig into your wallet for a hundred rand note when a traffic officer stops you at any point during a frustrating drive to or from work. How is this just OK?

Is this an economic issue? South African remuneration systems do not equate, let alone average, to the country’s actual cost of living. Workers are underpaid. The people of South Africa as a whole cannot live within economic needs. Essentials are overly priced, which makes one struggle to make ends meet. 

The working class cannot afford to live a comfortable lifestyle, one that aligns with their qualifications, often having to settle for any job because any salary is better than no salary. 

To get back to the subject-matter, the cops might also be choking under this economic belt to survive a deformed working class bracket. The police might be as broke as half the office-based workers in this country and have decided to settle for quick-cash. 

Instead of doing their job, they have decided forming a little side business so they can get their bread at the end of the day will suffice. Understandable. But, this is not right. 

South Africa needs to consider its remunerating systems and look into making certain people can afford to live within their means, so they do not see the need to blatantly do backdoor cash businesses that harm even a system that should be the number one trusted in this entire world.

There are even articles dating back as far as 2013 (which is insufficient and negligently reported considering how huge an issue this is, morally) that swiftly make mention of the “corrupt” police in South Africa but, nothing solidly stating repercussions or even any form of intervention to do ANYTHING about this crooked system. I guess, this is just how the cookie crumbles. Much like the racial killings of blacks in America. Nobody simply gives a damn.

Quick reads, if you care to look:

http://www.news24.com/MyNews24/corrupt-south-african-police-20160209

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/15/south-african-police-convicted-criminals

https://africacheck.org/reports/south-africas-criminal-cops-is-the-rot-far-worse-than-we-have-been-told/

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Motor ride.

The aim is to wake up each day with gracefulness. 

Be the man or woman you want to be because, why can’t you?

A lot that has to do with ones happiness is self-becoming.

Visualizing everything that you want to exist, then driving your spiritual and mental forces toward those things in order to physically experience them coming to life.

Constant thought towards your dreams and wishes encourages you to be a bit more focused on your set goals.

It gives you direction. 

With a focus in one particular direction, you can fine-tune your energies. Setting apart all distractions of worry, fear, and doubt from determination, passion, and motivation so growth can take place.

Wheeling your positive energies in active forward transition, enables you to drive past valuable stages in your life with recognition, appreciation, and an awakening.

Transitioning is important because it gears you into change. A change that only you have the control over if you choose to take the driver’s seat and lead your life to where you want it to go.

Side note:  “The US is working on an innovative thorium based fuel system, which means, a tank of fuel that lasts a century!”

http://energy-options.info/2013/12/05/motor-car-concept-will-not-require-fuel-topup-for-maybe-100years/

Anything is possible!

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Appreciate yourself more.

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Black women’s biggest hair problem , is thinking their hair is a problem 🌹🌺🌻

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It’s not lack of confidence holding women back, it’s the myths we tell ourselves

Perceptions about the way working women should behave – including negotiating and having ‘executive presence’ – are part of the problem

Echoes of a conversation concerning this issue held with an acquaintance are eminent and loud.

It is easy to live under a black cloud only expecting rain because, after all, that is the result of a dark cloud. Living under this cloud then limits the expansion of your knowledge which can extend to levels of a detailed understanding that, after rainfall comes sunlight- there are a lot of things involved in a single matter, not everything is single sided. Rainfall is a process of evaporation, one that is continuous and forms part of evolution- everything forms part of a whole. You have to have an in-depth understanding of all processes and way of life. 

So, to say the least, the working world is still very complicated for women though constantly changing. It is up to the individual to understand its dynamics, then choose to fight twice as hard to get ahead with all the myths and gender-based decisions made in the office.

Take the time to know your role, understand it, and then enhance it to suit your purpose, goals, and desires. Refrain from blaming society and its courses.

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Black girls are so afraid to embrace their natural tree of life- The Afro. 

Bewildering to hear a black, African woman say “I don’t have the patience for an afro. I don’t know how you do it, I just don’t know what to do with it.” It’s natural, you don’t do nothing but let it grow. 

It’s even more disturbing when you go to an African hairdresser, only for him/her to tell you they don’t know how to style or handle your hair without straightening it with heat or some chemicals. 

There needs to be a huge intervention. 

I am always encouraging and hoping black girls get over this long- straight- hair- is-beautiful brainwash and embrace their black given gift.

Not only to be black, beautiful and proud but, it is also healthier for your scalp to keep all those chemical burns and damage off your head. It is an amazing confidence boost when a woman is comfortable in her own skin, knowing she does not need to put on someone/something else’s hair to look and feel like she belongs.

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We Want What is Ours !

It is all good intentions to have Africa owned by the majority and “giving back the land to its rightful owners.” It was harsh and inhumane to rob all the natives in the first place, one might feel.

Fast-forward to twenty-sixteen, a time where everyone is “woke” and aware of their human rights. A time where people are not only aware but, are actively claiming back what belongs to them with force. “It is about time!” 

But, are we ready for this claim-everything-back process?

This question is posed with significant and hard-to-ignore factors and realities. One of them being that westernization is a foreign object to us. Even with the decades of infiltration into our extremely cultured soil, westernization has prevailed and subsequently succeeded to live on unaltered.

So, how are we going to erode of this culture that stole from us when it is an intricate part of who we have all come to being?

European & American culture is still monopolizing our African continent. From the food we eat, to the clothes we wear- it is all westernization-influenced. To the very commodity of exchange that we are claiming belongs to the people of Africa, it was all created in the name of foreign culture. We are in complete bondage to the western culture.

So, again, are we ready to claim back everything? 

Our economic system has to be strong enough to withstand and overcome foreign exchange rate declines; food, water, and power shortages; as well as the crumbling and distortions of infrastructure- are we sharp enough to handle all these issues? Probably.

Our biggest problem is greed. Sure, there are smart, educated, daring, and prompt people who are level headed enough to respond to unforeseen twists and turns in the economy. But, what of this greed? Black people did not grow up in the comfort of money and the luxury to spend it. What will happen when all this money falls into the very hands of the people who have been robbed of their riches for centuries. The hunger to fulfill this void trailing back to our forefathers who never got the better end of the stick. How far will people go, and how deep will they dig into the reserves of this new money bank well within reach, to fill this void up?

This is not an intent to demoralize the potential of a black man. It is to point out the need for preparation. There is an evident need for a much more strategist approach to claiming back what is rightfully ours. There needs to be moderation in the way that we deal with these treasures once pieces of it are given back to us. There needs to be futuristic projections on how this “takeover” will play out- a fallback systems for when things get ugly. By ugly I refer not to violence, but to poverty and an unfruitful economy that might fall flat on its face due to the lack of an operational, sustainable growth and success plan put in place. 

I hope we are ready. 

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power to the girls who participated in absorbing the poison from toxic relationships just to be told that they were never enough.

power to the girls who lost themselves and esteem in the process of trying to be enough

power to the girls who woke up with bruises along their thighs and spent nights in beds with broken spines.

power to the girls who could not find the strength to opt out in time because dysfunction disguised itself as love

power to girls who suffer from anxiety and depression in relationships where your body becomes a vessel and your partner can’t understand how much you cave into yourself every time ‘I love you’s’ are spewed.

power to the girls without father’s. i see you, in a world where men will try to steal your dignity, take advantage of your vulnerability and your being naive.

power to the girls who never loved in halves but their last experiences of trauma and abuse turned their hearts to stone.

power to these girls because they deserve to be loved the most.

power to them because, i am one of many

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THIS !!!!

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Black Businesses

I love to support my black folk in anything they do, given it is beneficial to themselves or the community. Seeing a black man or woman try to make his/her life better is such a positive thing to witness. Not only does it strengthen a person emotionally, but mentally as well one gains confidence and gets into a belief system one can live by that promises that “you get out as much as you put in.” In other words, if you work you will get rewarded, and if you work even harder your reward will be greater.

Unfortunately, the economic system is not that supportive. Street vendors or hawkers have good intent. All they want to do is sell goods and make a living out of the money that they make in the streets. But, reality is most of them have no entrepreneurial skills, not to mention any kind of formal education. The city of Johannesburg is congested mainly because of these hawkers. It is not a pretty sight. There is no support system for these entrepreneurs, they just wing it- expose your product to potential customers, and hope someone comes and buys as much as possible from you.

Something needs to be done to help these hawkers. Some formal training, proper sheltering, and a cleaner system of selling their products to the public needs to be put in place in order to help these black businesses grow into something worth waking up for every morning, knowing that the return on investment is high and profitable.

I think this is the time in South Africa (Africa as a whole) where we need to start supporting our black people as much as we can. Any business (given it is legal) at this point and time in SA will do more good than harm, since our economy is not doing very well.