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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
4 months
“To die a slow death because of starvation or disease, or to die quickly because of a bomb or snipers, but to die all the same.” - Tembeka Ngcukaitobi🇿🇦🇵🇸
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
2 years
The feminine urge to protect every girl who is younger than you
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
7 months
anyways, Free Palestine 🇵🇸🇵🇸
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
2 years
you ever pre-miss someone? like you haven't said goodbye yet but you already miss them?
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
2 months
<3
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
2 years
Seeing as Ramadan is starting, here's your friendly reminder not to shame girls who only wear hijab during Ramadan :)
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
2 years
"Just shoot your shot" I would rather die
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
7 months
"I want to remain neutral, I don't support either side" THEY BOMBED A HOSPITAL, HOW CAN YOU REMAIN NEUTRAL!?
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
4 months
no DNA today, only RSA
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
7 months
nice try but no, we stand with P*lestine <3
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@HananyaNaftali
Hananya Naftali
7 months
THANK YOU to the friends of Israel in South Africa for standing on the right side of history. 🇿🇦🇮🇱 #StandWithIsrael
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
2 years
Unpopular opinion: zoos shouldn't exist
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
2 years
So i was knitting in the park and some dude came up to me, introduced himself and asked for my number😭😭😭😭
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
2 years
Iftar with a view
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
2 years
Curfew lifted? I'm a brown girl, that means nothing to me
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
1 year
"that's so girly" I'm literally a girl? what do you want from me?
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
2 years
The urge to go watch Spider-Man again
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
2 years
The South African urge to leave the country
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
2 years
If shawarma has a million fans, I’m one of them. If shawarma has ten fans, I’m one of them. If shawarma only has one fan then it’s me. If shawarma has no fans, then I am no longer on earth. If the world is against shawarma, then I am against the world.
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
4 months
"South Africa should focus on its own issues first" self-improvement and international solidarity are not mutually exclusive the government should 100% be doing more to address the issues within SA but that doesn't mean they should remain silent in the face of injustice
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The Presidency 🇿🇦
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SOUTH AFRICA APPROACHES THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE UNDER THE GENOCIDE CONVENTION WITH RESPECT TO ACTS COMMITTED BY ISRAEL IN THE CONTEXT OF ITS ATTACKS ON GAZA South Africa is gravely concerned with the plight of civilians caught in the present Israeli attacks on the…
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
3 years
Idc how old I am, I will ALWAYS take the tomato off of my burger
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
4 months
my professor asked me if I wanna present to my entire class explaining the icj South Africa vs Israel case cause I'm the only South African in the class😭😭
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
2 years
I PASSED ALHAMDULILLAH I AM SO HAPPY
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
4 years
Everyone on Twitter either wants a cat, wants a baby or wants to get married😬
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
2 years
Send help, my brother taught my parrot to say "SIUUU" and now she won't stop saying it
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
2 years
Idk what I'd do without my siblings tbh
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
2 years
"why didn't you reply to my message?" bestie survival is a struggle for me rn, please leave me alone
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
3 years
Can we please stop shaming girls for only wearing a hijab in Ramadan and encourage them instead?
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
3 years
Do you ever click on the top of your screen at the exact moment someone messages you😭😭
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
2 years
Being in hijab/dressing modestly does not give you the right to judge the way others dress
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
2 years
Culture shocks I experienced as a South African living in Turkey (a thread🧵):
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
2 years
"You're gonna miss highschool" yeah well I don't, I hated that place with every fibre of my being
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
2 years
As a South African woman, the fact that I can walk around alone at night in Turkey without anyone harassing me absolutely blows my mind
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
2 years
When you tell someone something that you're really excited about and they barely acknowledge it <<<<
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
3 years
Maybe my mum's right, maybe this phone really is a distraction
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
2 years
I either call people for 2 minutes or 2 hours, there's no in-between
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
4 years
They're discontinuing Ghost Pops? Excuse me whilst i go cry😭😭
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
4 years
My parrot sneezed and said Alhumdulillah😭❤
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
2 years
The blue doritos is the only valid flavour
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
2 years
When Taylor Swift said " I've got a blank space, baby" my maths paper felt that 🥲
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
1 year
brown dads
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
4 years
I was born 13 minutes after my twin sister and she keeps saying those were the best 13 minutes of her life😭💔
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
2 years
How do I tell a guy that I'm not into him without telling him that I'm not into him?
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
3 years
It's "here feel my hands" weather
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
6 months
"register to vote" and then what?! who must I vote for!? there isn't even one good option
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
3 years
Remember when Cyril said "another pandemic that is raging in our country is the killing of women and children by the men of our country" and then proceeded to do almost nothing about it?
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
2 years
If someone doesn't speak up about an issue on social media, it does not necessarily mean they don't care about the issue
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
1 year
If Morocco loses tonight idk what I'm gonna do with myself
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
2 years
When brown families find out that an uncle is a perpetrator of sexual violence they say its "not my place to speak" but when a women leaves an abusive relationship then all of them rush to give their unsolicited opinions
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
2 years
Having a job is fun until you have to actually use your money
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
2 years
Told someone that I'm from South Africa and they asked why I'm not black😭✋
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
3 years
How can you call them violent when you literally attacked them whilst they were praying😤😤 #SheikJarrah
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
4 years
Hear me out...if a place as fake as Israel can be on the map, why can't Narnia?
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
2 years
Next time a guy tells you "not all men are trash" you should say "you're right, it's just you"
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
6 months
*killed by Israeli Occupation Forces
@News24
News24 🇿🇦
6 months
DEVELOPING | Gift of the Givers' office head in Gaza killed in ongoing conflict
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
2 years
Nothing beats gossiping with your mother
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
3 years
This is so cute but I cannot move past the fact that he used "your" instead of "you're"
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tom holland calling zendaya HIS mj 🥺
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
3 years
So this is happening...
@LeadtheWaveMSC
Lead the Wave - MSC Radio
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Nasirah Kathrada is a spoken word poet and human rights activist from Johannesburg, South Africa. Nasirah is the author of a book that advocates for children’s rights and is now an International Children's Peace Prize nominee.
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
2 years
GUYS MY POETRY HAS BEEN PUBLISHED IN YET ANOTHER ANTHOLOGY I AM SO EXCITED
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
2 years
Me? A brown girl? Being out at night without anyone calling to check what time I'm gonna be home? Wild
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
2 years
YA'LL SOMEONE JUST DMED ME TO ASK IF THEY CAN ASK ME A FEW QUESTIONS BECAUSE THEY'RE DOING A RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT ON ONE OF THE POEMS FROM MY BOOK
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
3 years
Not me being a nominee for The International Children's Peace Prize😭😭😭😭😭
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
2 years
Why is it so difficult to decide what to eat for breakfast?
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
3 years
Can we please stop pretending that Ghandi was a good person
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
3 years
If they don't like dogs: 🚩🚩🚩
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
2 years
So they're not letting Muslim women enter universities in India? That's wild cause a Muslim woman literally opened the first university in existence
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
2 years
Nothing pisses me off more than South African men who know how serious GBV is in SA but still continue to mock it
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
1 year
oh darling all of the city lights never shine as bright as your eyes
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
2 years
The issue is that people don't realise that Palestine is not a religious issue, it's a human rights issue.
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
2 years
@ people who took a gap year, would you recommend it?
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
2 years
Someone give me easy after taraweeh dessert ideas please
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
2 years
My mum: just find a handsome turkish boy and get married one time Me: 👁👄👁
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
3 years
They're literally committing genocide tho😭😭😭
@peta
PETA
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IT'S OFFICIAL: Israel has become the first country in the world to ban the sale of fur! This historic victory will protect countless foxes, minks, rabbits, and other animals from being violently killed for their skin.
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
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sooo, we're planning a social media storm to demand that the SA government expel the Isr*eli ambassador if anyone would like to assist in the planning, please reply to this or dm me <3
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
2 years
I asked my mum to buy me a tasbeeh counter thing and she said "why would a shaytaan like you be making thikr" 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
2 years
First fast tomorrow :) I feel like the Ramadan vibes here are going to be immaculate
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
2 years
No amount of chocy milk can make this pain go away
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
2 years
Congratulate her for what? Traveling to an apartheid state and competing on stolen land against their wishes?
@Sakhilemngadi
Cllr Sakhile Mngadi
2 years
So it’s been 5 hours and still no congratulations from the SA Government? @NathiMthethwaSA will your department be congratulating @Lalela_lali for her incredible achievement at the Miss Universe Pageant? #MissUniverse2021
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
3 years
Next time a guy tells me anything about F1 imma say "oh so like in Mario Kart?"
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
2 years
"Internet connection is unstable" Me too bestie, me too
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
4 years
Am I the only one who randomly puts my cold hands on my family members faces?
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
6 months
waiting for them to expel the Isra*li ambassador also
@SABCNews
SABC News
6 months
The Cabinet has decided to recall South Africa’s diplomats in Israel for further consultations on the situation in Gaza.
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
2 years
"bro code" doesn't mean you excuse your friends who are perpetrators of sexual violence
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
2 years
Constantly have to remind myself that “Verily, with hardship comes ease.”
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
2 years
Nothing weirder than no longer thinking of the place you grew up in as home
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
3 years
Boycott Zara, not just for Palestine but for Burmaa (Myanmar) too!
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
2 years
"SA's" I think it's been very clear that we (including the government) don't support this
@News24
News24 🇿🇦
2 years
SA's Lalela Mswane places third at Miss Universe | @Channel24
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
2 years
"Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die."
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
2 years
The children of Palestine merely dream of seeing another day but I'm glad you're getting to fulfill your childhood dream🤠
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
3 years
IT'S OVERSIZED HOODIE SEASON🎉🎉🎉
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
2 years
The fact that my parents are letting me move out at 18 is wild, I'm literally a child
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
2 years
Can't wait to fix my sleeping schedule after finals
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
2 years
At this point I need someone to literally force me to study
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
3 years
Yoh imagine the people who don't use twitter rn💀💀
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
2 years
"I saw your tweet" okay well unsee it
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
2 years
If you read the Percy Jackson books, you're cool and we're now friends
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
1 year
my friend from Palestine was reading South African news reports with me and he full on said "your country seems terrible, I'd rather go back to my war torn country" 💀💀
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
3 years
Did anyone else grow up being lowkey embarrassed about things like speaking your cultural language or wearing cultural clothes and now that you're grown up you've actually realized that it's actually freaking beautiful? No, just me?
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
2 years
If the SA Zionist Federation is applauding you, you must know you messed up big time 😭✋
@SAzionfed
South African Zionist Federation
2 years
Miss SA, @Lalela_lali responds to the question about going to Israel and whether she regrets it. Her ANSWER is 🔥 Thank You 🙏🕊️🇮🇱👑
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Nasirah 🇿🇦🇵🇸
2 years
**The president of a post apartheid country receives Letter of Credence from the Ambassador of an apartheid state
@PresidencyZA
The Presidency 🇿🇦
2 years
His Excellency President @CyrilRamaphosa receives Letter of Credence from the Ambassador of the State of Israel, His Excellency Mr Eliav Belotsercovsky, on the occasion of the Credentials Ceremony at the Sefako Makgatho Presidential Guesthouse in Tshwane #BetterAfricaBetterWorld
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