“Find a Xhosa Friend”: SA Plans Lit 2025 Season Far Away From Home After Trending TikTok Videos
- South Africans have been enjoying and documenting their joyful festive season away from work and school
- Their TikTok content has enticed many to plan an even better summer next year after witnessing how people from the Eastern Cape celebrate
- Mzansi made a collective decision to move to the Bundus and make good friends with the Xhosa people
- An Eastern Cape mom born on Christmas welcomed her babies on her birthday
- Briefly News had a chat with one of Eastern Cape’s residents who spent the festive season in Cape Town for the first time
The festive season is almost over, but South Africans are still partying hard and having the best time with their loved ones.
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Certain families entertained Mzansi with their silly behaviour and bickering after their Christmas lunches.
SA plans lit 2025 season far away from home
People from the Eastern Cape have won the South African imaginary award for the best festive season. The province and its people have proven how much of a great place the villages are during the summer holidays.
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A collection of videos shared a glimpse of how joyful and big the month of December is in the land of the Xhosas. One gent led a conversation where South Africans decided that their 2025 will be lit.
Watch the video below:
Eastern Cape mom born on December 25th welcomes twins
South Africans were warmed by the beautiful news of an Eastern Cape woman giving birth on her birthday. The Citizen shared a lovely article about a mother who celebrated her birthday on Christmas Day with her new twin boys.
Health MEC Ntandokazi Capa in the Eastern Cape announced that the province had recorded 44 babies before lunchtime on the 25th of December.
Eastern Cape resident spends Christmas in Cape Town
Zusiphe, a lady from the Eastern Cape, shared how the festive season in Cape Town is different from the one back home. The lady explained that the reason why South Africans did not know much about the lit holidays in the villages was because it was never well-documented before:
“During the festive season in the Eastern Cape, people drink without a worry, and in Cape Tow,n you have to stay alert at all times because danger could come at any moment. The only danger you would experience is that of two drunk people fighting.”
SA decides to celebrate Christmas in Eastern Cape in 2025
Social media users reacted to spending their festive season in a different province for a lit summer next year:
@Ambrose Twazi said:
“Eastern Cape December hits hard.”
@Hope Matters highlighted:
“Your mission is to find a Xhosa friend for the whole year. Make sure they mention the village when they talk about going home."
@Mamakhé explained:
“Not me watching this from the Eastern Cape, having slept only for three hours and already up preparing to go to another homecoming.”
@user1118375045051 told a lovely story:
“I did my internship in the Eastern Cape, and I’ve never experienced such beautiful Ubuntu. They got a sheep and did a welcome braai for me. People from the Eastern Cape are darlings.”
@Turbo tiara🎀🎀 explained:
“We take December very seriously. Don't come if you're not strong, my brother.”
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