It sounds dramatic but the fall from grace is very real. Thabo Mbeki, Robert Downing Jnr, George Best are some of the larger than life celebrities to have fallen from grace with the world watching in disbelief. Mbeki was recalled as the President of South Africa just months before his term came to an end....
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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...
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Life …
Read these first: STOP CHASING PEOPLE’S SHADOWS & ACCEPT YOUR LIGHT So, I’m wrapping up this rant that I’ve been on for the last two posts. I’ve been on this tip of not comparing yourself to other people as a way of measuring your own success. My emphasis has been on the fact that we all lead lives...
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Stop Chasing People’s Shadows …
Some people will not amount to anything in life. Some people’s lives will have very little impact on others. Some people’s obituaries will be a few sentences long. Some people will disappear into memory sooner than the dust had settled on their coffins. When you wake up in the morning, you get out of bed...
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Africa’s Need For A Change In Perception …
Inspired by a slogan I once saw on local lifestyle apparel brand which goes History depends on who wrote it, I felt it important to use the 52nd celebration of Africa Day; one of our founding strides in being recognized as free and sovereign people, as a platform to collectively rethink our brand as Africans....
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Why Do You Believe in God?
I am searching for a religion. Yes, seriously. I am looking for a home for my divine beliefs. Strange, isn’t it? That someone is looking for something that is so, well, common. So common in fact that, having specific faith borders on common sense. Well, common sense, as the quip goes, is not very common....
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The State of Us Address
A few years ago, I had a conversation with a high school visual arts teacher from a school in KwaLanga, Cape Town. She told me a story about one of her students. This young boy was virtually a creative prodigy. Of all the creative disciplines she taught at the school, there were none he didn’t...
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…Of Women, Music and Feminists…
I hate that my ship remains docked; therefore leaving me compelled to live in a complex. Don’t get me wrong, I’m quite grateful for my little house; well, my bedroom really: let’s not exaggerate the extent of my rather shy of 60 square metres abode… Nevertheless, I have to admit that the Universe really threw...
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Are Black People F*N Up The Country?
A few weeks ago a friend and I had one of those news/newspaper sparked chats that most of us hate to have but end up having anyway. The one about the current state of the country. I even had the humorous version with my drunk as land sea horse ‘plane mate’, Charles on a flight. There’s really...
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Living By The DNA Code: Do Not Assimilate
It is hard enough to be an African in a globe that does not genuinely see the continent’s value. It is even harder when we adopt worldly views and behaviourial patterns as if our own were a curse from the Gods, who obviously must be crazy! Africans, be. As an African, I have come to...