Zoya is Life
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An underrated cheat code in life: being easy to work with. Show up early. Be kind. Do more than your share. Be reliable and consistent.
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Normalize saying “I’m not informed enough to have an opinion on that subject”.
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“If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule – never lie to yourself.”
— Paulo Coelho
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10 Mondays left in 2025…
There is more than enough time to start planting the right seeds that will move you closer to your goal.
Remember, you don't enjoy the harvest on the day you plant the seed…
Let’s go 💫
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EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT APPOINTMENT – SASOL
Sasol has announced the appointment of Thabile Makgala as Executive Vice President: People, Safety, Health, Environment (SHE), Risk and Corporate Affairs, effective 1 October 2025.
An inspirational leader and Harvard Business School alumna, Makgala joins Sasol from Rio Tinto, where she served as Vice President for Health, Safety, Environment, Security, Communities and Risk for the company’s global minerals product group operations.
Makgala brings over 20 years of global experience across the gold, coal, diamond, iron ore, mineral sands, and platinum sectors, spanning both operations and technical services. She is also widely recognised as a champion for equity and transformation in the mining sector, having served as Chairperson of Women in Mining South Africa, where she advanced diversity and the empowerment of women in mining.
She holds a BSc Mining Engineering Degree from the University of the Witwatersrand, an MBA in Business Strategy from the Stellenbosch Business School, and completed the Senior Executive Program – Africa at Harvard Business School.
Her appointment further strengthens Sasol’s leadership capacity as the company continues to drive sustainable growth, transformation, and inclusive impact across its operations and communities.
Congratulations are in order!
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Lauryn Hill once said, “Everybody wants to know where you’re going to, ’cause they wanna come or so they think , until they find the cost of it. Until they find out what you lost for it.” If that ain’t the truth. Ppl romanticise your becoming, but couldn’t stomach your unbecoming
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“Part of learning how to make decisions is learning how to live with poor decisions.”
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if you lack emotional intelligence we will never work out for real. i’m not teaching you how to apologize, how to take accountability, or how to treat me with respect. these are basic qualities you should already possess before entering a relationship.
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My grandfather used to say: “Show up on time, with a good attitude, and do what you said you’d do. That’s it. That’s 90% of winning in life."
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Your biological age is the number of days you’ve lived.
Your psychological age is the number of thoughts you’ve entertained.
Your sociological age is the number of contributions you’ve made.
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People rarely see the flaws in their actions when they are surrounded by others who reinforce them. The human mind seeks validation - it craves reassurance that its choices, no matter how misguided, are acceptable.
And when accountability is absent from the environment, so is self-awareness.
It is said that a person becomes the sum of the five people they spend the most time with. This isn’t just a motivational saying; it’s a psychological reality. Behaviours, attitudes, and mindsets are contagious. If someone constantly surrounds themselves with people who deflect blame, avoid accountability, and excuse destructive behavior, they will begin to do the same.
Not because they are inherently incapable of introspection, but because accountability becomes foreign to them. They don’t see their actions as wrong because no one around them challenges them to do so.
Think about moments in life when someone could have admitted their mistake, but chose not to.
Instead of owning their role in the situation, they doubled down, justified, or blamed someone else.
Now, consider the people they spend time with. Are they surrounded by those who encourage personal growth, or by those who enable excuses? The answer is often revealing.
The longer one stays in an environment where deflection is the norm, the more natural it becomes to ignore personal accountability. It’s a slow but certain process - what was once unacceptable eventually seems reasonable.
Self-awareness requires a willingness to challenge one's surroundings. It means recognizing when the people close to you are reinforcing patterns that stunt growth rather than encourage it.
It means asking: “Are these people helping me grow, or are they keeping me stuck in a cycle of excuses?”
If honesty and accountability are not valued in your circle, then personal growth is not valued either.
It is not always about intention; it is about environment. Some people will never see their wrongdoings because they are in spaces that reward avoidance over responsibility…”
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