Marvin welcomes you to your celebration, as a man. It is not easy being a man. It is not easy to have to know, to have to navigate, to have to juggle, to have to nurture, to have to build, to have to acquire; to have to achieve, to have to excel. But you are...
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Episode 09: How We Lost The Black Man
How did we as black men get to such a state of brokeness? How did we end up being such a terrifying threat to the lives of black women? Is it possible to retrace our history from a spiritual point of view to figure out what actually went wrong? In this episode Gogo Aubrey Matshiqi...
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New BMW 4 Series Goes Topless and We Love It
BMW has finally lifted the veils off the all-new 4 Series Convertible. For the second generation, the German automaker ditched the swanky three-piece metal folding roof in favour of a fabric retractable top. Design The new BMW 4 Series Convertible’s design makes use of the brands new design language which features the prominent controversial grille...
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Marvin Travels: African Cities To Visit This Spring Season
The arrival of the Spring season across sub-Saharan Africa coincides with the opening up of local and international travel borders of more than 16 African countries. Open spaces, a return to the outdoors after #stayathome and immersion in nature are just some of the recent travel trends emerging as a consequence of people’s impatience...
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What to Expect this October 2020 on Netflix
The Haunting of Bly Manor – Netflix Original Series 10/9/2020 From The Haunting of Hill House creator Mike Flanagan and producer Trevor Macy comes The Haunting Of Bly Manor, the next highly-anticipated chapter of The Haunting anthology series, set in 1980s England. After an au pair’s tragic death, Henry Wingrave (Henry Thomas) hires a young...
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As Men, When We Abandon Our Children, We Make Our Enemies Happy.
I am very conscious about my blackness, and have instilled a strong sense of black pride in my kids. They know who they are and they love their skin, their hair and everything about them that makes them black. We need that in this world that works really hard to beat us down because of...
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Cue The Festive Cheer As Netflix Announces An African Original Holiday Special
Hot off the heels of their widely watched film Seriously Single – which had audiences in stitches, Netflix announces that the Ramaphakela siblings will return this Festive Season with their trademark humour on a new 3-episode-series, How To Ruin Christmas: The Wedding. Nothing makes a quintessential South African romantic comedy pop quite like a story...
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Venture Scale: A History Lesson On How Discovery Health Grew From 0 to R2.8 Billion In 7 years
Most South Africans know Discovery for its health insurance business connected to the wellness programme, Vitality. Those 2 businesses are the catalyst for what the company is today & were founded in the first 7 years of the business — the venture years. The story of Discovery is an anecdote of a true Venture Scale business....
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Black Crown launches Heritage Month Collaboration with Designer Palesa Mokubung
South Africa’s latest ready-to-drink Gin and Tonic brand, Black Crown G&T has partnered with Designer Palesa Mokubong as part of their Heritage campaign called #OwnYourCrown. The campaign is in celebration of the country’s rich and diverse heritage and will see the designer work with kings and queens from mixed heritage households to document their stories...
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My Abusive Mother, Let’s Have That Conversation …
Growing up, one would always hear about deadbeat fathers/uncles/brothers and all the abuse they came with – emotionally, psychologically and physically too.