My graduation ceremony was everything and more 🥳
{I’m so emotional 🙈😭}
Video = Summary of my stage moment
Citation + Catwalk + Capping 🎓
I can’t think of a better feeling! 😍
I wanted to replay the moment over and over again…. Same way I have replayed this video 😭🥺💃🤸♀️
Just when I thought God had done everything for me this year, He says “Hold on, I have more in store for you.” 🥹
Title Deeds for Christmas! 😍
A Proud Home Owner 😭😭😭
Fully Paid 🤸♀️🥳💃
DR. YVONNE MAPHOSA 🎓🤸♀️💃
4 University Degrees later and I finally donned the Red Gown 😍🥳
No words can ever explain how I’m feeling. To say I’m elated would be an understatement. I’m so happy and proud. I’m laughing and crying at the same time😭
I earned my stripes🛐
GOD!🙌
Let me re-introduce myself 😁
“My name is Dr. Yvonne Maphosa.
I’m a Kalanga girl from Plumtree.”
Thank you so much for cheering me on, for celebrating with me and for the beautiful messages. My heart is full 🥺🙏
[🎶 Congratulate - AKA
@akaworldwide
]
I have always wanted to give my person the “Five Senses Gifts”, so doing this made me very happy 😍
I just wanted to appreciate him for loving me the way he does, for supporting me, praying for me, being my best friend and always being there for me.
He believes in me more than
1st Graduation- Dean’s List🏅
2nd Graduation- VC Medal (Best Graduating Student)🥇
3rd Graduation- VC Prestigious Award 🏆
4th Graduation (Dipl)- Best Graduating Student🥇
5th Graduation- 1st Female Graduate in the Dept + Change of Title 💃🤸♀️💃
Making Education Fashionable🥳
Hie 👋
My name is Yvonne Jacqueline Maphosa.
I'm a lecturer, a PhD candidate, an aspiring philanthropist, a bestselling author, a globe trotter, a researcher, a blogger and an adrenaline junkie.
I love God, bread, Akon and Coke Zero.
I'm a Kalanga girl from Plumtree 🇿🇼
Mama, I Bought Another Car 😍💃🤸♂️🍾🤩
A present from ME to MYSELF.
To say thank you for keeping up with the long hours and for being kind to myself 🥰
This one is a love letter from YVONNE to YVONNE ❤️
[Of course it's a mini brag/celebration, depending on how you see it 😌🥳]
A 31-year-old man from Karoi has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for having sexual relations with a grade 7 pupil (a minor) and impregnating her.
According to prosecutors, the accused person was well aware that the young girl could not legally consent to such a
Today is my last day as a Miss 🥺Tomorrow, I officially level up!
It feels so surreal.
I’m so overwhelmed but also so very excited and grateful 🥺😭
I want to cry but I also want to jump up and down 😭🥺😭
Goodbye MISS Yvonne…
He is Jehovah Ebenezer 🙌
I got the job!!!💃😭💃
I took a chance and shot my shot, and they said YES!😍
I woke up to a “Congratulations!” email 😭🛐🙏
I prayed so hard for this position and God delivered 🙌
His timing couldn’t be more perfect! 🤩
I just want to scream and run up a mountain 💃😭🤸♀️🥳🙌
Convincing yourself that everyone is suffering in the UK to feel better about being stuck in Zimbabwe is insane.
But whatever makes you feel better, I guess 🤭
It’s God for me 🛐
The amount of work I put into my PhD!
Balancing work, family, life & the Lab
Writing my thesis late into the night
Repeating experiments until I got it right
Running around the world to use high-end equipment
Publishing
Filing a Patent 😍
Smiling through it 🤸♀️
Finally cleared my Apple Cart 🥰
Had to chant: “OM…. I deserve this… YOLO… I work hard… I deserve this…OM… 🧘♀️” repeatedly to convince myself 😍🥹😂
This season I’m giving myself everything I want! 🥰🤞🥰
To Always & Forever 💕🥂👫
Yesterday was just absolutely beautiful from start to finish 😭
Even for someone like me who talks non-stop, I found myself at a loss for words and overwhelmed with emotions throughout 🥹
Just stuck on “I love you so so much…” 🥹
And because baby
DAY 6 - Summitting Uhuru Peak, Mount Kilimanjaro 🇹🇿
I’m the highest person in Africa! 🤸♀️
I conquered the highest mountain in Africa. The highest free standing mountain in the world 😭🙌🛐
I’m yet to tell the tale but for now I just want to celebrate 💃🎉🥳🍾
I really think there should be Domestic, SADC and International prices for all activities in Zimbabwe.
The pricing doesn’t make sense considering the salary of an average Zimbabwean.
What’s the point of having a “beautiful” country if the majority of locals can’t enjoy it?
"He annoints my head with oil.
My cup overflows"😭🙌
I received the VC’s Prestigious Achievers Award.
Renowned academics in the highest ranks decided that I make a significant contribution to the research body of knowledge & I'm a 'High Achiever'.
It's an absolute honour 🤩🏆🥇
What I hate about that landlocked country is that there are no consequences. People get away with everything and rub it in our faces. What's even more infuriating is that they do it with such arrogant impunity.
To make matters worse, some people worship those who get rich off
SCHOLARSHIPS and VISAS
A thread of links and information shared in last night's Space. It might work for you too🕯
[PS: Please DM or comment with links to more scholarships, visa information and/or opportunities.]
A new PATENT in the bag! 💃🤸♀️🕺🥳
I’m so excited 🤩🥳💃
I’m really grateful for the opportunity to innovate and contribute to the field… and make money 😁😝😍
To innovation and owning our work 🥂
DAY 6 - Summitting Uhuru Peak, Mount Kilimanjaro 🇹🇿
I’m the highest person in Africa! 🤸♀️
I conquered the highest mountain in Africa. The highest free standing mountain in the world 😭🙌🛐
I’m yet to tell the tale but for now I just want to celebrate 💃🎉🥳🍾
So yesterday I posted that I'm single (jokingly) 😂. Bae and I had had a very small misunderstanding so he thought my Tweet was my way of complaining 😂
Long story short, he got us flight tickets so we can go away and talk about it 😝💃
#HappinessOverload
You might not agree with me but a salary will not make you rich 😞
Imagine you are settling on getting paid once in 30 days, or getting paid only 12 times in 365 days
You are degreed & sadly you feel like you missing out😢 by not getting paid only 12 times in a whole Year!Wake up
It’s easier to love Zimbabwe when you don’t live here… just saying.
It’s so much easier to spend ‘outside’ money in Zimbabwe and it’s so so much easier to be patriotic when you don’t wake up every single day to the reality on the ground…
Zimbos are so quick tear down their own and most things Zimbabwean … our international image is rubbish yet 90% of visitors are pleasantly surprised about the reality on the ground. We need to do better!
#Zimbabweans
we are all we have.
My heart is full.
You make my life so beautiful 🥹
So many of my smiles begin with you 🥹
Thank you for loving me the way you do 🥰🥹
And I won’t buy plants (now), I promise 🤭😅
Maybe a puppy 🫣
Domestic Tourism is THAT expensive!
No amount of research and planning will change that fact 😭
Have you travelled around Zimbabwe? Researched the cost of holidaying to an average Zimbabwean income?
Let’s not let our privilege blind us to the point of calling others LAZY 🙏
Do you guys think our domestic tourism is THAT expensive?
I honestly don’t think so. I think our problem as Zimbabweans is we are too lazy to RESEARCH and the term PLANNING is not in our vocabulary.
Today is my birthday! 😍
I’m in such a euphoric mood 😁💃🤸♀️
I’m bursting with joy and gratitude, and a renewed sense of adventure 🥳
God has loved me and kept me. He has carried me this far and made the journey one for the books! 🥰
Jehovah Ebenezer! 🙌
📍 Devil’s Pool 🇿🇲
Don’t listen to people who say education is not important.
Go to school.
Further your studies as much as you like/can/want.
Get those degrees, snag those certifications, get that accreditation…
Invest in yourself.
I've been in denial this whole time but the funeral is tomorrow and it's finally hitting me hard.
My little brother is really gone💔
All those big dreams you had mtakababa! 💔
Rest in eternal peace mnawami. Nlondo. Sitsha. Majikijela. Maphosa omuhle.
Till we meet again 🕊 😭 💔
Did you know? Zim and SA passport holders don't need visas to go to Singapore 🇸🇬?
Plus it's not as expensive as people make it out to be.
It's small anyway so 3-4 days and you can jump into Malaysia🇲🇾 next door. Malaysia is far much cheaper
This was day after my detainment😬
Having my mother as my teacher was horrible.
I once wrote my “My holiday” Composition and I described in detail how we flew to Kruger National Park (from the village), saw animals and ate ice-cream every day.
I had never left the village at that point 🤣
I’d read all that in a
So when someone gets ZERO votes, does it mean they didn’t vote for themselves? 🫣
Like no one voted for them? Not even one person? Not even their partner or family members? 😹
I would pack my bags and go and live in the forest.
Witchcraft is dating a 'broke' guy, knowing his financial status fully well. Then shaming him for it and making him feel less of a man😢
And parading his brokeness on Twitter so strangers can bash him😕
We should stop breaking other children😭
'broke' because broke is relative
Renting a car in Harare always turns out cheaper than getting Cabs🚕
Because:
CBD to DonnyBrook = $30 ($60 return)
CBD to JamTree = $15 ($30 return)
Renting a small car = $40 per day (200 km/day)
And finally found garages⛽️ that take foreign cards💃
[PS: Personal experience]
If you had 1 day in Victoria Falls (PART 1) 🇿🇼
1. Morning Game Drive ($60).
2. Rainforest Tour - Guided - $25. Self Tour - $7 locals and $30 international.
3. Hop on a Quad Bike for a Victoria Falls Tour ($75).
4. Sunset Cruise ($40).
My father woke up early today and started the fire.
He woke me up when he had heated my bathing water.
When I was done, he had made us breakfast.
Then we took a walk to the shops; chatting and discussing projects and gossiping about his wife, who gave birth to me 😂
Then he
I’m the highest person in Mozambique🇲🇿🤸♀️🥳
📍Mount Binga- 2436 m
Highest mountain in Mozambique & 2nd highest in Zimbabwe 🇿🇼🇲🇿
[The highest mountain in Mozambique is in Zimbabwe. It’s called Mount Binga but it’s not in Binga, it’s in Chimanimani 😂]
#Hike4Pads
#TravelZimbabwe
Paradise Pool, Chimanimani Mountains 😻🇿🇼
After 11 hours of hiking, I had to SOAK myself in the pool.
The beauty of these mountains is unmatched
We hiked to Mozambique and back 🚶♀️
#TravelZimbabwe
The number of F words I said on the Victoria Falls-Bulawayo road are an unholy number! 🤬
The audacity to collect Toll Fees while the entire Road has more potholes than a ….. ! 🤬🤬🤬
Yeses!!! 🤬🤬🤬
I feel like writing an open letter to ZINARA 😤
At least that shop in
Here's the promised thread on the origins and meanings of some of Bulawayo's suburbs 📃
The list is not complete because Bulawayo is huge 😅
Please feel free to add and subtract, correct and comment and everything in between 😁
I listened to Winky D's interview today. The man is a well of knowledge, humility, honesty, hard work and eloquence.
He takes pride in where he comes from and he's people oriented 👏
I'm a new fan 🤸♀️
I remember the day I called mama on the telephone.
I told her mama I'm getting married.
I could hear her voice on the other side.
She was smiling.
Today it hurts me to go back and say mama I'm getting divorced.
This choice I made didn't work out the way I thought it would…
It’s been quite a journey and
#KwaTerry
restaurant is here!!!
I cannot express how proud I am of my brother, Terry
@terrymap1
Always growing and always humble, and now he is launching his restaurant- KwaTerry in Village 6.
Well done waMai 👏😍
Higher is the only road 🙌