Thabiso Sekhula
Letter from Limpopo: Thabiso Sekhula says the love for Limpopo that drove her to move back has been returned by the entire province
It’s been a humbling experience and most importantly, it has fulfilled a Limpopo dream that started when we climbed on the N1 and headed to Limpopo and fell in love.
For the past three years, my partner Paul and I have built the brand 1000 Limpopo Secrets. A movement to promote everything Limpopo, the people, the food and the heritage.
It was our love for Limpopo that drove us to move here. I am from here and he grew up in Rustenburg. We met in Johannesburg as journalists. But it was our frequent road trips to my home province Limpopo which were the reason he did not protest when I asked if we could move back when I fell pregnant in 2019.
I had lost my mother in 2017 and wanted to feel connected to her. The best way was to spend my pregnancy in the home I was raised in and it was the best decision of my life.
We started documenting our road trips and eventually decided to start a platform for all our Limpopo adventures. Three years later, we are hosting our first major event – a food festival and we would never have imagined how Limpopo would embrace us and our ideas.
Our brand has received so much love through our radio slot on Capricorn fm and the trips we take to show just how amazing the province is. And the biggest dream yet, uniting Limpopo through food and uniquely Limpopo experiences, is coming to life.
We are hosting our first major event, the kind where you put in lots of money, and other people put in a lot of their money because you believed in a dream and asked them to do the same.
But let me tell you about how it feels when everyone shows up because collectively, an entire province believes in the same dream you do.
It means over 200 people buying tickets to this new idea you have that you banked your all on and moved provinces for. It means having the entire province saying we are right there with you.
It has fulfilled a dream that started when we climbed on the N1 and headed to Limpopo and fell in love.
Our dream is to create spaces for families and each other, places where we belong. Accessible especially for black families, even in rural Limpopo, to spend time together.
It’s shown us that people will support you if your vision aligns with what they care about. And we all care about Limpopo, about family and growing together.
Limpopo said, we know what you mean, we are in. And to this Limpopo girl, it took a village to make this dream come true.
