Category: Editorials

STORY I You’ve been chilling and kicking it with your friend at his spot. Telling stories and talking bs like normal adult men do. A little sip of something iced, a little sniff of something white, now there’s ‘a dragon pumping in your veins’. Maybe it was a dare, maybe a bet about who has...

“I will not cry…I will not cry” Says Sinah, or Grapes – as her family called her. I call her Auntie. An elderly coloured lady who has become more of an emotional presence, than person I know. She says this as she uses my jersey to wipe her tears. Inhaling deeply to summon back the...

I’m anxious about what Auntie is about to tell me. The story of how she ended up living on the street, she had said. I’m anxious not just about the story but also because of the fact that I’m already late for my own farewell dinner. A farewell that I’m dreading because, at the end of...

This is a black Cinderella story, which is amazing because we need to tell our own stories. Salute to Chevelin illustrators from Haiti who are doing a phenomenal job. Chevelin illustration is an haitian art studio and comics publisher, dedicated to drawing and sequential art. Established in 2012 in Haiti, Chevelin illustration is both a...

One day, one day… I remember Stones were soft, red knees shining stoeps bright like Sunbeam Cobra’s sliding across shiny kitchen floors. When old timers rode sticks and grannies sniffed Taxi’s We pushed Ferrari bricks and lived in mud mansions. Dusting of soles so that North Stars shine forever. Before I had her FB profile...

It’s December holidays and as with every year, I’m at my mother’s house in Mohlakeng. It’s a medium sized kasie (slang for township) house 45 minutes outside Jo’burg. It’s around midday and I’m sitting outside the house on the pavement with my 9yr old nephew and his friends. They are telling me what they want...

What do you do when you fail at the one thing that you believe you are best at? When you don’t just fail but you are utterly crushed by defeat in a way that rips out your very heart out? It is the 2nd July 2010 at Soccer City in Johannesburg, the world bears witness to, perhaps, the most...

We are the neglected generation. We are a generation born to seekers. We are a generation born to the wrong people at the wrong time; born to people who wanted the sort of ‘more’ which maternity and paternity simply could not afford, could not provide. We are born to parents who wanted careers, who wanted...

“Cops give a damn about a negro? Pull a trigger kill a N*&%a, he’s a hero” – Tupac Said Tupac in his song Changes which has lyrics still relevant 17 years since it was released. Even though the police officer is not and would not be a hero as it used to be, the death...