The dangers of lying about rape. Two days ago a young woman named Khuthi tweeted a story that left many on South African Twitter heartbroken. In a thread of 70 tweets she shared about her friend, Kamo, who was brutally abducted and raped in Johannesburg, South Africa. Love in a time of closet racism. The importance of developing mother tongue.

Being an independent woman is something many of us pride ourselves in. Being able to look after yourself as an African woman is something that many fought to ensure we would be able to do, even have the chance to do. Pulling unwittingly pulling away from what we should be drawn to. As humans do we have a way of contaminating the beautiful stuff? Anyway, onto happier things! So let.