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#SouthAfrica 🇿🇦 We made history! I cannot be more proud to wear this flag and carry the pride of our country in my heart! Let us live and strive for freedom, in South Africa OUR LAND !!!
Special shout out to my second cousin @jaydenadams_23 who did our family and nation proud playing so well with @bafanabafanaofficial !! Bafana Kaofela 🇿🇦⚽️🤎 taken in Seattle, Washington by @ilzegideons
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4 months ago
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Reminiscing… by @ilzegideons
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2 years ago
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What a great privilege to play a role in changing the world 🌍 with @glblctzn , raising billions for ending extreme poverty in our lifetime! Thankful to all the wonderful humans I get to work and partner with! #blessed taken in Central Park, New York by @ilzegideons
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a year ago
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**Happy Heritage Day, South Africa 🇿🇦**

Today isn’t about one culture, one language, or one story — it’s about all of them, woven together into something the world has never quite seen before. Eleven languages. A thousand traditions. One heartbeat.

At Ubuntu Travel, this is the philosophy we build every journey around: *umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu* — I am because we are. Heritage isn’t something you visit. It’s something you’re invited into, shared over a fire, a song, a meal, a story passed down.

So today, we celebrate the people, the landscapes, and the stories that make this home so extraordinary — different roots, one beautiful home. 💚💛🖤🤍❤️💙

#HeritageDay #ProudlySouthAfrican #UbuntuTravel #DifferentRootsOneHome #LuxuryTravel BespokeTravel taken in Cape Town, South Africa by @ilzegideons
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23 days ago
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I think my favourite colour is… 🌊 taken in Côte d'Azur - French Riviera by @ilzegideons
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a month ago
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Amigas! Friendship shared for 28 and 32 years and counting… what an incredible weekend in #guardamar 🇪🇸 with some very special people 🥹🥹🥹
It’s truly incredible what can happen when you just say “Sì… o nò…” 👀 😂 (inside jokes for days) 
Love you girlies.. more to come xo 😘 taken in Guardamar del Segura by @ilzegideons
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a month ago
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#Karlsruhe jou lekker ding!
What a beautiful coming together of women, friendship, God and the art of being together! Dankie sussies vir die #soulful #kuier #fullheart #volhart taken in Karlsruhe, Deutschland by @ilzegideons
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2 months ago
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#MammaMia! Una giornata davvero speciale in Italia, immortalando tre generazioni di donne straordinarie mentre preparavamo gli gnocchi di nonna! Un ricordo indelebile! “Core Memory!”. Vi voglio un bene infinito! Mammie Maria, la tua dedizione alla famiglia ha cambiato la mia vita per sempre! 🫶🏽🇮🇹🤌🏽❤️

#Gnoccidinonna
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#famiglia taken in Roma, Italia by @ilzegideons
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2 months ago
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“Ilze, are you ready?” … the question @alloradecidi asked me in the metro station right before walking out to experience the magnitude of this epic moment!
I was not ready…  today was the day that Rome stole my heart 🏛️🥹🇮🇹🫶🏽 taken in Colosseo - Roma by @ilzegideons
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2 months ago
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A week ago, I woke up to the most horrific news in the most horrible way. “Ilze, I’m sorry for your loss.” “Condolences for your loss.” “Is it true, is Jayden …?”!!

Confused, then shocked, and ultimately paralysed by this tragic news… this last week has been one hell of a weight - the kind I haven’t felt for a while… and this just after his grandma’s passing, my aunt, Marianna.

But this isn’t just my grief to carry. It belongs to a whole community.

Jayden was Ida’s Valley’s own. Before the world knew his name, the Valley did. The streets he played on, the people who watched him grow, the community that poured into him long before he ever wore a national jersey - they all saw this coming. They knew what he had in him.

And when he finally stepped onto the world’s biggest stage, he didn’t just carry his own name. He carried Ida’s Valley, Stellenbosch, and every kid from home who now believes it’s possible for them too.

This past week, the world stood still to honour him - tributes pouring in from every corner, strangers who never met him mourning like family. But nothing has moved me more than watching my own community come together. That’s who he was. That’s what he built, even without meaning to.

Rest well, cuz. You made us all so proud, and you’re not done making us proud - your name will carry on in every young footballer who laces up their boots because of you.
💔⚽🇿🇦 Ida’s Valley to the world

#JaydenAdams taken in Idas Valley Stellenboch by @ilzegideons
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3 months ago
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*Rest easy, Jayden. 🇿🇦🤎*
I keep thinking about how we only truly connected over the past year — messaging back and forth, even during the World Cup, still talking just last week. I never could have known that would be some of our last conversations ...

Jayden was humble. Reserved. The kind of person who let his actions speak louder than his words — and yet every word he did share made it clear how much he loved his partner, Aqueelah and his young daughter, Allaia and son, Jude. That was who he was at his core, long before the cameras and the crowds.

I was so excited to watch my cousin grow — not just into a World Cup player, but into a legend of this game for years to come. Instead, today we celebrate the legacy he already leaves behind. From Ida’s Valley in Stellenbosch, all the way to the World Cup stage — he inspired our hometown, he inspired the youth of our nation, he carried Bafana Bafana with pride and gave South Africa a gift it will never forget.

Rest in power, Jayden. Your name will be spoken for a long, long time in Ida’s Valley and far beyond. We love you, Grootman❤️.

🇿🇦🫶🏽⚽️

#jaydenadams taken in Idas Valley Stellenboch by @ilzegideons
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3 months ago
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Cheers to friendships, wine, good food and great company!

#stellenbosch you beautiful thing you!
Happy 40’s club to the longest lasting friends 🥂 

📸: @dennyjay_2.0 taken in Stellenbosch, Western Cape by @ilzegideons
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a year ago
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