I LOVE MY WIFE. This is not some scientific fact but an emotional reality. I love her so much so that I have already been married to her four times, and three more weddings ceremonies are still outstanding. Here is the genesis of my love story: There are two versions as to how I met...
Category: Editorials
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The Birth of a Secret
They made Her sit on the floor on a dirty carpet in the middle of the room, draped around her shoulders was a checkered blanket with tassels at the end, the one reserved for mourning and shame. They sat in 2 semi circles, one half her family, one half his family and all of them justified...
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Ngakabae: The Culling
Subsequent to completing my initiation to become Ngaka ya Setšo, I assumed that life would soon return to the way I had left it. An expectation I also had, was that the relationships which took many years to cultivate would remain unchanged. Eisan, I was fooled by the fallacy of time, completely delusional in my...
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Transformation — the proverbial workhorses have bolted
I spent an entire weekend writing and deleting and repeating the process, trying to find the most diplomatic way to put these words together. But then I thought, “But that’s exactly the problem, isn’t it?” Isn’t it strange that we’re asking this question when the proverbial workhorses have bolted? That we have had to wait...
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Boy Friends …
As much as I love my girls, I have always maintained a healthy circle of guy friends. I have been one of the boys from those days or ridding our bicycles to the clubhouse and basketball courts in Country view. I used to roller blade with the boys (bruises and all), attend rap battles, freestyle...
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Ahmed Kathrada – Then and Now (Documetary)
Ahmed Kathrada passed away in his sleep early this morning – bringing an end to a life fully lived. The ANC stalwart died at the age of 87. Today POWER remembers Kathrada – with a documentary – THEN AND NOW. “When Walter died I lost a father and now I have lost a brother my life...
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Netflix: The Monster That’s Eating Hollywood
Tara Flynn, a rising star at a TV production unit of 21st Century Fox, walked into her boss’s office last August and told him she was quitting and joining streaming-video giant Netflix Inc. The news was not well-received. “Netflix is public enemy No. 1,” said Bert Salke, the head of Fox 21 Television Studios, where...
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Here we go again!
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...
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Sharpeville and Langa Massacres
Let’s take a moment to remember why we’re not working today. It was 1960. Verwoerd’s government had enacted new pass laws saying that black men had to carry, at all times, a dompas, which contained permission from white employers – temporary and revocable – to be in “white” cities. Failure to produce a pass at...
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African Belief Systems (ABS)
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...