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South African television personality, beauty pageant titleholder, businesswoman, and philanthropist Basetsana Julia “Bassie” Kumalo is overflowing with happiness and appreciation and celebrated her 50th birthday on Good Friday.
She took to social media to write a long letter detailing her life experiences over the years.
“On the 29th of March, 50 years ago, it was God ordained and anointed that I turn fifty on Good Friday. I was born into the Makgalemele family to my dearly departed parents Ntate Phillip and Nomazizi Makgalemele, their third daughter after Aus’ Lerato and Maniko (Johanna) my younger brother who is the last born of the family Mojalefa was born two years after me,” she wrote.
“I was raised in a loving home where Christian values were instilled in us from a very young age. My father was a bus driver and my mother was a teacher, out of their 8-5 jobs, they were entrepreneurs, formidable and ahead of their time.”
“I gleaned and learned to be an entrepreneur from my parents home. My frame of reference is seeing them work exceptionally hard to put food on the table, clothes on our backs, shoes on our feet and a roof over our heads. My father used to say “Baby girl, hard work has never killed anybody.”
Last supper as a 49 year old. Tomorrow you will be 50. The ride with you has been wonderful my friend. Loving you is so easy and so beautiful and so, so pleasurable. You have my heart Setsana.
— @luphumlongcayisa (@lupingcayisa) March 28, 2024
Our theme song right there. Love Power /Power of Love by Luther.
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She also wrote about lessons she learned in her life journey.
“The fundamental lessons I have learned from my parents have stood me in good stead throughout my life. I am the woman that I am today because of their tutelage and teachings. When I came into public life thirty years ago, I was embraced by the love of a nation, a rainbow nation in the new South Africa. A new democracy, a new dispensation, a new dawn, a new country.”
“Throughout all these years I have experienced a love of a nation in the most beautiful way. The zeitgeist of winning Miss South Africa in 1994 and being part of the first democratic elections was a poignant moment for me. I couldn’t have scripted it myself even if I had tried.”
She also concluded by thanking her family who have walked this life journey with her.
“Over the years, I have been supremely blessed with an incredible family, my husband and my children. What joy they bring to my life. I am one highly favoured woman. On this Jubilee year, marking half a century, I thank the Lord who has carried me through the years. I am who I am because greater is He that is in me than the one that is in the world.”
“My deepest and profound gratitude to each and everyone of you who have loved and supported my Journey of Life. May goodness, mercy and kindness you have bestowed upon me be returned to you a hundred fold,”
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