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#Blacklove -Grace & Helena

2/19/2018

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We catch up with Grace and Helena and talk about sister love.
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​I’ve learnt a whole lot being in a friendship with my young sister who is also my best friend. However one thing we have both learnt is that friendship is growth and we grow together, it’s a two way thing we’re we know the love is mutual. It sets the standards for other friendships but nothing comes close to or can match sisterly love. 
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The funniest memory with my sister ...lol. The day her phone went missing at church and after looking everywhere for it we heard it vibrating in the sanitary bin in the ladies bathroom. Without thinking twice I stuck my hand in the bun and pulled her phone out. It was distrusting at the time but now we laugh about it. 
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Our pet peeve... definitely feet! Lol all kinds of feet, we are not fans of feet . 
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Grace: Helena is a very creative person and she’s so full of talents . She’s good at every single thing she’s does, I mean everything!      

Helena : “my favourite thing about Grace is definitely how hard working she is. I don’t really think I have a great work ethic so I admire hers”. 

Because we are sisters we know that we will always be there for each other, there’s some security and no uncertainty. 
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#BlackLove: Zwi & PHindulo

2/16/2018

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​We catch up with Zwi who shares his love for fiance Phindulo, and the commitments they've made to one another.
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#BlackLove: Tawanda & Ruvimbo

2/16/2018

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Today we catch up with Tawanda and Ruvimbo who share their bold love with us.

a) What have you learnt in being in a relationship/ friendship with this person
T: That communication is important
Rue: That there are so many different faces of love – so many different ways of
loving/showing love

What one thing makes this work for you?
We completely agree that it’s our faith in God that makes this work as well as it does –
nothing else. From there everything else overflows: the love, trust, and learning to
compromise – it’s all rooted in the values that our faith keeps teaching us.



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b) Funniest memory with the person
T: This is a tough one. There are so many funny moments between us it’s hard to think of
one. There are regular moments where we make each other laugh – she snorts, drools,
cries, there’s snot even, but I can’t think of a specific memory. We just laugh a lot of the
time.
Rue: The snot thing’s not true by the way. Lol. But like him I can only picture me crying with laughter in different places at the most random of times. There’s lots of moments and I honestly can’t even think of why but we can really take some things to town and back-
there’s just so many things we can laugh about. I make fun of him a lot too though, he’s
currently plotting his comeback.
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c) What is your favourite thing about this person
T: If I’m to pick one (and there are many) – I’d say it’s the way she understands who I am, it makes it easier to love her, and for her to love me for me.
Rue: There’s a lot – I’m going to have trouble narrowing this down. He’s an easy person to
like: even before romance, I just found him to be personable, a real people person – which
is tough for me sometimes because I’m definitely more recluse than he is. But it’s a good
challenge and has taught me to be a little more open (dare I say social?) so that’s good. Oh
and another favourite is that he always surprises me. That’s pretty amazing.

[We also agreed that we absolutely love each other’s openness to trying new things; so our
relationship is filled with the most amazing adventures together.]

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e) What is your pet peeve?
Rue: He definitely knows this one before I even say it: having to wait for him – I really
believe he works on a different clock to the rest of the world.
T: This is not something bad, as in I hate it about you. But I don’t like that sometimes she
doesn’t have enough confidence in herself, that she doesn’t believe in herself enough and
so tends to short-change herself.

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In addition to sharing their remarkable story, Ruvimbo shared some poetry inspired by their love: 

An ode to black love
Good – oh so good –
BLACK LOVE
It shifts the world. Magnificently. Tenderly. Without apology.
Black love has the power to turn you around, from meekness
From scars,
From wars you never knew you were fighting
From histories you never realised you were running from
To victories that leave you wondering what weakness –
Ever kept you from seeking your worth.
Black love is the power of vulnerability
Of seeking truths beyond what the world dictates
Of breaking chains that have bound it in melancholic songs of unworthiness.
Black love salutes the sturdy man – who is forever in his prime and ready to assert his place
While contributing to the upliftment of his fellows.
Black love exalts the steadfast woman – who is not enslaved to borders but reaches
unknown spaces to makes sure her tribe flourishes beyond the bellows:
Of sin, loss, #metoos, inequity and all that dethrones.
Black love is letting go
Black love is becoming
Black love is an assertion of TRUTH
And an uncompromising battle for oneness within self, its mate, and the universe that owes
it.
Black love is soft – but wise – and it’s whole.
Black love is empowered. It’s empowering.
Black love is magical.
It’s simple.
It’s necessary.
Black love is light. And we owe it its full place in this world where darkness continually tries
to tell us it doesn’t exist.
Black love is here. It’s present. It’s rooted. Black love is…
Enough.
[Ruvimbo Gwatirisa]
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#Blacklove: zuzi

2/16/2018

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​We catch up with Zuzi who shares how she has grown in love and reminds us that #blacklove is powerful and should be celebrated and cherished.
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#Blacklove: Chipo

2/15/2018

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In today's feature, we catch up with Chipo - who teaches us what it means to practice self-love over time and how self-soothing can be done in ways that are healing and wholesome.
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#Blacklove: Seno

2/14/2018

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​​In this month of love, we at #Watuafrica are celebrating #blacklove in all its different forms. We are celebrating self love, sister love, brother love and romantic love.
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Seno is a beautiful, talented woman that we have learnt so much about self love from: 
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"Self love has been a journey of acceptance of the essence of who I am. Loving me has meant accepting me, genuinely celebrating and appreciating things I am good at but at the same time being very aware of where I fall short but from a point of understanding not insecurity."
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​"I have learnt that I am a dynamic person. That there is so much to me that it’s impossible for me to limit myself to a box."

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​"I wish I could tell myself it’s okay to be me, there was no reason to hide myself. Younger me felt extremely self conscious about myself and so I hid. I would tell myself not to hide, to show myself to the world with pride."
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​"Externally- I’ve grown to cherish my smile
Internally- my enthusiasm"

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#blacklove: Tebogo & Welile

2/14/2018

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We catch up with Tebogo, discussing love and its beautiful making and imagining together with Welile.
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