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Nombeko Nontshokweni

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Author, Speaker, a trainer and a Life Coach.

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Congratulations to our @saliteraryawards runner up, Nombeko Nontshokweni. Fed and filled by your conscious words mama. Yet to meet anyone wiser @growplusglow. 🤍 by @growplusglow

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Dear Friends, Join me in celebrating my mother @growplusglow ✨

This amazing girl whom I get to call ‘mother’ has been shortlisted for the 2025 South African Literary Awards (SALA) for her isiXhosa (now available in English) poetry collection uNobuntu. 💃🏽🥳🥹🫶🏽

The SALAs are South Africa’s highest literary honor. Over the years, this award has celebrated literary greats like Mongane, Wally Serote, Keorapetse Kgositsile, Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer, Lauretta Ngcobo, Miriam Tlali, Barbara Masekela and many more… writers whose words have “reflected the times”.

To see my mother’s name, Nombeko Nontshokweni, on this years shortlist fills me with awe and WANDA.

Oh mama wam, you’ve believed in this work for so long. God took your pain, and healing and turned into glory and legacy. You kept talking about “this book” for years and years. You remembered your own voice when none had quite heard it as clearly.

Congratulations, ntombiiii. 💐 We are so proud of you, so proud to be yours, so proud to witness your courage filled life. I can’t wait to keep seeing what God has in store for you.

#SALA2025 #uNobuntu #NombekoNontshokweni #Poetry #LiteraryAwards #SouthAfricanWriters #ProudDaughter by @growplusglow

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An excerpt from uNobuntu as we set aside the month of June to celebrate our beloved youth. These are words from uMama wethu, to you 🥰♥️

#uNobuntu #UphiNobuntu #uNobuntuWena #poem #poetrycommunity #bookstagram #quote #explore #fyp taken in Johannesburg, South Africa by @growplusglow

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The morning of my wedding, surrounded by the women who’ve held me, shaped me, and loved me my entire life. My queens—my greatest blessing and God’s most precious gift to me. Grateful doesn’t even begin to cover it. (P.S. just ignore the armpit 🙈)

MUA @beautyby__tina 🫶🏽
#love #weddingday #weddings #bride #2025bride #girls #girlhood #family by @growplusglow

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“Thank you, thank you. You don’t know what this means to me…” - Nombeko Nontshokweni (@growplusglow)

Today, is the day uNobuntu passed and today we honor her. Thank you for such a wonderful interview @bantu_bungane. You’ve healed uMama in ways you have no idea about. God bless you ♥️

#uNobuntu #LinkFM #interview #UphiNobuntu #EastLondon taken in Link FM by @growplusglow

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“We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion…

Medicine, law, business, engineering… these are all noble pursuits… necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love! These are what we stand on.”

#uNobuntu #UphiNobuntu #poetry #anthology #bookstagram #explore #fyp #photoshoot #love #beauty taken in Nairobi, Kenya by @growplusglow

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Never be afraid to dance alone and like nobody’s watching! Danced the last night in Cuba, away 🇨🇺

#uNobuntu #uNobuntuToTheWorld #DSAC #HavanaBookFair #cuba #caribbeantiktok #travel #explore #filmmaking #shortfilm #bookstagram taken in La Habana, Cuba by @growplusglow

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uNobuntu- The Documentary Screening in Cuba 🇨🇺

#uNobuntu #uNobuntuToTheWorld #DSAC #HavanaBookFair #cuba #caribbeantiktok #travel #explore #filmmaking #shortfilm #bookstagram taken in La Habana, Cuba by @growplusglow

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📽️ “uNOBUNTU” retrata a la familia sudafricana posmilenial por excelencia: una hija devota ayuda a su madre a cumplir su sueño de toda la vida de publicar un preciado manuscrito de hace 40 años.

🎞️ Es un documental de 60 minutos escrito y producido por Shile-isipho Nontshokweni bajo la dirección de Khanyo Mjamba.

🥹 Muestra una historia de esperanza y el empoderamiento de las mujeres sudafricanas ante la pérdida.

🗓️ No se pierda la presentación de uNOBUNTU, este domingo 23 de febrero.
🕐 11:00 am
📍 En el estand de Sudáfrica, Feria del Libro de La Habana.

#uNobuntu #uNobuntuToTheWorld #DSAC #HavanaBookFair #cuba #caribbeantiktok #travel #explore #filmmaking #shortfilm #bookstagram taken in La Habana, Cuba by @growplusglow

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