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Paballo Chauke
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Writer•Speaker•Leader|UCT + Oxford👨🏿‍🎓|Passionate about Science + Africa + Education|RT≠Endorsement—OWN VIEWS| #MG200Young|@commschols + @ssrcmellonmays Alum
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    Paballo Chauke
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    Oct 16, 2019
    2019 lessons: 1. You are your own rescue, no one else. 2. Humans are complex, good & bad. 3. Sesafeleng sa thlola- everything ends. 4. Always choose yourself, choosing sides will leave you with an egg on your face 5. Fight. 7. Refuse to wear shame 8.Could be you 9. Life goes on
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    Paballo Chauke
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    Aug 27, 2022
    Viola Davis said that one thing that she learned when she was POOR “Is that you are INVISIBLE. Nobody sees you because you have access to NOTHING. People feel like you're the one who's caused your fate... When you don't have [] you're NOBODY” This truth hit me deeply in my core.
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    Paballo Chauke
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    Mar 5, 2022
    Just landed in London, UK—to begin a permanent job where I’ll be helping to train scientists on genomic surveillance of malaria to combat Antimicrobial Resistance & eradicate the disease. I’m a ball of emotions but I’m mostly grateful & looking forward to the daunting challenge🥂
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    Paballo Chauke
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    Nov 8, 2024
    “Go to work. Get your money. And come on home, you don’t live there”— Toni Morrison talking about the lessons her father taught her about work.
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    Paballo Chauke
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    Sep 8, 2024
    “Sometimes you don’t survive whole, you just survive in part. But the grandeur of life is that attempt. It’s not about that solution. It is about being as fearless as one can, and behaving as beautifully as one can, under completely impossible circumstances.” — Toni Morrison✨❤️
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    Paballo Chauke
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    May 25, 2022
    Guys I interviewed thee Bonang Matheba and was sitting & chatting to David Beckham on camera, in the same studio for the whole day with the director who directed Black is King by Beyoncé Knowles-Carter. What is my life??? No ways fam I’m filled with so much gratitude 🙏🏿 😭🥹❤️🕯
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    Paballo Chauke
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    Apr 8, 2022
    New apartment. New city. New country. New continent! ✨🥂🍾💛
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    Paballo Chauke
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    Nov 27, 2021
    Natasha Thahane merely exposed and verbalised how the world actually runs and works: nepotism, cronyism and privilege is how the elite remain in that class for generations, by looking out for each other. Meritocracy is a myth and lie that’s used to silence marginalized people.
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    Paballo Chauke
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    May 14, 2022
    When I left CPT for the UK I gave most of my furniture, clothes & other belongings for FREE to friends/strangers. Tomorrow I’m fetching a whole lot of furniture from a colleague for FREE. I wasn’t giving things away to get anything back but the universe reciprocates our energy.
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    Paballo Chauke
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    Mar 11, 2021
    Mthokozisi Ntumba’s life mattered whether he had a masters degree or not. I want black people to refrain from toxically using respectability politics to argue why our lives matter. We don’t need to be educated, or be the face of black excellence to have value & not get killed!
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    Paballo Chauke
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    Mar 26, 2022
    Grief is so weird because it visits you during moments of victory and joy to remind you of its dominance— grief finds you with a champagne glass in your hand about to toast your win & it asks, don’t you wish they were still alive to celebrate with you? Then deep sadness sets in.
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    Paballo Chauke
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    Dec 7, 2021
    I don’t think South Africans realise how much trouble we are in. Things are bad — the country is on an incessant downward spiral.
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    Paballo Chauke
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    Jun 15, 2020
    Venda and Tsonga people (from Limpopo) have South Africans of many tribes meting out myriad violence to us. We are at the bottom of the totem pole, with harmful discourses about how difficult our languages are, hypersexualized and seen as less attractive and more intelligent. 1/
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    Paballo Chauke
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    Oct 24, 2020
    A Venda woman with no hair just won Miss SA (she’s the first Venda winner), from a tribe that experiences the most tribalism in SA & is deemed to be ugly. The women are often mistreated & made fun of. Beauty is redefined. This will have ripple effects! This is big #MissSA2020