Category: Editorials

Don’t cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me? / Don’t cha wish your girlfriend was a freak like me? / Don’t cha? “Dont Cha” by the pop girl band, Pussycat Dolls seems an applicable soundtrack for this post. We’ve all asked ourselves at some point “What does he/she have that I don’t?” This could...

Before the English and the Dutch treaded onto African soil, fellow Africans had names that 1) were in their mother-tongue language and 2) had symbolic meanings that were unique to the child with the given name. Names like ‘Senzangakhona’, ‘Ntombikayise’, ‘Izintombizakithi’ or ‘Simlindilewafika’ and many more rolled off African tongues like honey dripping from honeycombs....

I remember when I decided to quit my job; it was probably the easiest thing to do but the hardest at the same time. It was easy because I was finally chasing my dreams full time, no more moonlighting. I’ve never been here before; it was the hardest because I was not sure of what...

What does it mean to be black in Cape Town? Where do you fit in? Especially as part of the new emerging black middle class with new ideas and beliefs on what blackness means? How do you express yourself in this very Eurocentric world? Cape Town. It’s one of the most beautiful cities in the...

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...