There’s possibly no other assumption made about African Belief Systems (ABS) that is more common than the supposed practice of witchcraft. Whenever the topic about ABS comes up, many people use their understanding of witchcraft as reason enough to write off they entire belief system as inherently evil and malign. Unlike religion, people generally assume...
Author: Vus Ngxande
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Language and Black Identity …
Much of what we consider to be our identity can be found in the language that we use. We can learn so much about who we are from how our language is constructed. It is actually quite interesting how language shapes our perception and experiences of the world. There’s a term for it, it’s called...
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Kanye West …
Here is a probably unpopular take on an already unpopular topic based on this article. This is purely my opinion. Kanye West is a Medium. And, most probably uneDlozi. The more the spirit in him fights to be heard, the more it seems that he is losing his mind. But, he doesn’t know that, the...
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Friday …
It’s 4:45pm at the office and you just hit a presentation out of the park and dropped the mic to the content stank faced nod of management and a blushy smile from Thembi from finance. Celebratory after work drinks glint in the golden light of the setting sun and you’re asked if you’d like a...
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Do You Know How To Be uMalume?
When I was in my early 20’s, I was home at my parent’s house during varsity holidays. One morning, I was sleeping in my backroom when my pops knocked on my window and told me to come into the house. When I got to the lounge, I found my niece sitting on the couch with...
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The Dying Screams Of The Moon
Let me start by saying that very often, when you go watch a play, you are very likely to see some familiar faces, faces that you have seen on tv. Yet, what you see on tv is only but a faint glimmer of the brilliant light of those actor’s or actresses’s talent when they peal...
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So, This Visa Thing …
“Eish gents, I can’t come watch the match today. I didn’t get my Visa” “Tjovitjo bafethu! I have my Visa, where’s the party at?” Aah yes, the almighty powerful Visa. A symbol of momentary freedom and the promise of adventure to the many a men bound by the shackles of a committed relationship. Ok, ok,...
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Letters To My Son (Part 2)
CHANGES I didn’t become a father on the day you were born. I started becoming a father years before that day. It was a process that started as fleeting thoughts of what it would be like if I ever had a child. Those moments when I would see a man and his child crossing the...
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1976 – A Country Re-Imagined (Part 3)
It seemed so surreal, the words coming out of the dining room radio. My family and I were huddled around it in a tense silence, stunned. As if he could tell that we were struggling to comprehend what he said, the announcer on Radio Freedom, in an anguished voice, repeated, “They said it was an...
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1976 – A Country Re-Imagined (Part 2)
10 February 1990 I am now 26 years old and ever since I watched the police shoot Tsietsi Mashinini dead, a specific dream has been a regular feature on many nights. It’s about me running in the dust then being shot by, well, me. On this particular night I am roughly shaken from my sleep....