Those who know me, will know that I don’t usually rant about the goings on of the world, as such please allow me to drop a few words into this miasma of perfunctory speech we find ourselves in. Firstly I am a black female South African. So the barrage of constant unsavoury rhetoric aimed at...
Author: Lusanda D Ntuli
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Entrepreneur …
So much can be said about the entrepreneurial spirit, the need to create and advance your dreams. We stand in awe of those who continuously break the mould and reach for higher heights, with only their wit and fervour to excel as their propelling agent, thrusting them forward. I personally am always enthralled by...
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The Dichotomy of Being …
I am what you could call a classic over achiever with control issues. Meaning that I generally have to succeed at everything that I attempt to do, and further more I like to have things done my way. So what happens to a 32 year old over achiever, with control issues who feels that they...
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The Burden of Emotion
I call it the burden of emotion, that “I’m okay” we all like saying when you really are not. You get to a point when you know that the burden of your emotional truth may not exactly get you the sympathy or the shoulder that you are so desperately in need of. There are a lot...
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This Revolution MUST be Televised!
Each Generation is stuck in a past that was not of their making. This concept that some people have that black people are simply complacent and lazy and blaming everything on apartheid – or that thing whose name we shall not say – is a not only maddening, but illustrates just how people were duped...
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Woman, Take your Place …
At my previous job there was an elderly gentleman, who one day in a lift exclaimed ‘you know women were never meant to work, they have never been built for it. They should be at home tending after the children. This work thing isn’t for you’. At the time we were about 4 people in...
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Wits Fees Must Fall a Revolutionary Cry …
So the year is 2015. I remember back in 2002 when I started my University education my tuition cost just under R13 000 for my Bachelor of Arts degree., excluding of course other needs like textbooks, lunch, and travel costs. By the time I did my Honours degree in 2005 I paid about R15000, excluding...
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Relationship PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) …
Friends, can we talk about relationship PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), many of us have it yet we simply brush it off, and don’t acknowledge its effect on us and our future relationships. If you would be honest with yourself for a minute, and look back at your past relationships, what pattern would emerge from...
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Body. Image. Self
When I was growing up I don’t recall ever being told I was beautiful. I sift through memories and the one thing that continuously comes out strongly is how I felt awkward and not pretty. I recall the words used to reference my appearance, and they were never appealing. I am a “Grand Dame Queen...
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Stop the Hate and the Blame …
Let me start of by saying, that I do not agree with a violent route for you to be heard. You can never gain anything by breaking down, or worse still killing someone else to further your cause. Over the past few years I have noticed with much anticipation and interest the growing number of...