Wo khulum’ uwabale amagamakho singabase Mndeni so sang a group of boys a few years ago, as they walked past my house from a soccer match, presumably victorious. I remember thinking I wonder how many of them will play for our national team; make their families proud, become ambassadors of our possibility and rising above...
By the time you read this you will realise something that you should have realised 3 weeks ago :Kuyalaleka mawungena mali. After using your last few notes to fill up the tank. You will be missing the Xmas food you never ate. In agony you will want to pounce your head against the wall,...
This week, learners across the country will return to school for the 2017 academic year. Included in this group of millions of students within our education system, will be 555 of the most privileged human beings in the entire continent – the boys of Hilton College. The College is – by all measures known –...
Marvin reckons New Years resolutions should start in December. He figures it’s a bad idea to jump on the January bandwagon because by the end of March, the wheels fall off. It is generally the same pattern every year because people are inspired but it doesn’t last, there is no momentum. People put so much...
The Alien series has been something on my to-watch list for a long time. There are a bunch of classic movies that I’ve never seen before. For example, I’m a huge boxing fan but I’ve never seen Raging Bull. I have a general reluctance of watching movies that are more than 30 years old or...
The best television series of the 90’s The Wire. Run: 2002-2008, 60 episodes “Sheeeeeeeeeit.” Former crime reporter David Simon conceived his mighty drama as a modern-day Greek tragedy. A morality play set in a drug-ravaged urban hell, where everyone is compromised and the system is broken. Novelistic in scope and depth, it forensically unpeeled each...
iGrootman lama Grootman. Before I can express the tone of this opinion you should be aware of my respect for uCoffee. You only have to look in 2016 to understand where this man is going. You voted him to win Best DJ in the Deep House category at the 2016 Ibiza DJ Awards. He was...
When the truth of his Father’s disappearance is brought to the surface on the eve of his execution, Khetha, a prison warder working in The Gallow’s death-row prison in Pretoria South Africa 1989 must either choose forgiveness or live forever with regret of failing to accept the truth. A Tribal Media House Production in associate...
Amazon on Monday morning unveiled Go, what it’s calling “the world’s most advanced shopping technology.” Here’s how it works: Head to the Amazon Go store (at this point, Amazon has announced one location in Seattle), open the corresponding app, and scan your phone on the way in. From there, you can stow away your phone...
Every generation has an agenda to push mankind forward, to bring forward change. Change is not easy and change is not civil at times. Freedom is not free, never has been and never will be. We are that generation that will take this country forward. We are that generation that has re-defined fame, have changed...