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Who would've thought that from wiping tables, scrubbing floors and yelling "next please", she would end up being a sensation?

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Tshimangadzo Witney Ramabulana is one of the black women who're setting flames and taking space in viral content. The 30-year-old South African has over 2.6 million followers on TikTok.

Witney Ramabulana is an adorable young woman, born and bred in the freshest grounds of Venda. She started school there, but later relocated to Pretoria where she completed her studies. After matriculation she went to Tshwane South College and enrolled her financial management course, but decided to work at a restaurant.

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"I really enjoyed working at MacDonald's, gosh the people were so amazing, and I learnt a lot as you rotate duties. I was a Barista, Waitress, Cashier ,everything and it was fun. I then discovered TikTok late in 2018, but I was not active on the app. I actually saw a Thando Zanele's trending video and was soo curious, as soon as I started being active, I felt really at home as the app allow3ee me to be myself" ,said Witney Ramabulana tailing her journey as a MacDonald's staff until TikTok.

After joining the app, she was criticized, some people called her crazy and immature but little did they know that were harvesting the star to shine. " I had someone mentioned to me that no one will take me serious as long as I continue doing doing these tiktoks, but I did not care as I was having so much fun on the app", she said enthusiastically.

One of the discouraging comments Witney8 received.

Witney had beauty insecurities while growing up, she lacked confidence and she used to describe beauty as being light in complexion. " I grew up hating my skin tone as I thought for someone to be beautiful they must be light skin until I started accepting and loving myself so much that my skin tone became royalty to my eyes. I am a proud brown skin girl" ,she further affirmed.

Witney firmly embracing her brown skin wearing a beautiful dress.
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Being a social sensation has never been easy for anyone as cyber bullies never sympathize daily. Witney handles it by reporting and deleting hate comments in her videos. "I do get bullied a lot, I once had people call me ugly, asking why am I in the app? Hang yourself because you think you have made it in life" added Witney.

Family and people around her are her personal drive as they support and lift her on bad days. She firmly believes that TikTok has changed her life for better as she is being able to take care of her family.

Just to mention a few, Coca-cola, Starbucks and GERT are some of the biggest brands that she works with. Besides being a tiktoker, Witney is a senior financial manager and an interior designer.

She has won and been nominated in so many awards, and this year she has been nominated on the Nickelodeon Awards under Nickelodeon African Kidfluencer category.