It’s 2017, I just got the scholarship and I am very excited because this is what I have always wanted. The cherry on top is that my new school is based in Sandton, I have never been there before and I am about to spend 3 years in this beautiful city. I felt like I...
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Think About These Before You Start That Business
THE FIRST STEP There is always that exciting feeling that makes you enthusiastically feel like you have it all figured out, whenever you take a bold and courageous step to become an entrepreneur. The reality is that when you are still in the idea and conceptualisation phase, you actually don’t know much about the operations...
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The Liquor Bottle’s Suffocating Throttle.
Why not? I loathe that I reluctantly have to come up with a response to this question everytime I’ve declined an offered alcoholic beverage at a social gathering because a simple NO doesn’t always suffice to many. For a lot of folks in our community, a drink or two is the most common pastime and...
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The Graduate; A Valid Dream
Having aspirations is important when you are from Ekasi, otherwise you will live and die there. It is not a bad thing when you want to spend the rest of your life in one environment. However, I wouldn’t rob myself of a chance to a better life; traveling, and exploring different parts of this country...
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The Graduate; A boy from a village
Everyone has a story to tell, I was born in a small village in Limpopo (Ga-molepo), but my parents resided in Gauteng. So I have spent my life moving in between the two provinces growing up. Attended a catholic school in primary and moved back to Gauteng at the age of 15. Although I have...
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DRUG addiction: A Family Dis-ease
Having a family member who has an ongoing DRUG addiction problem often has a far more severe psychological impact on the family of the addicted person. They are directly exposed to traumatic events that inevitably occur during the many ugly phases of their loved one’s addiction. I can’t imagine anything more painful than to helplessly...
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Young, Black and Under Attack: Corporate Blackballing
Before I begin expressing my views on the subject of ‘’Corporate Blackballing’’, I must declare that this opinion piece is riddled with personal encounters that I have experienced while working in the corporate environment. Furthermore, a few of my peers have also shared similar allegories with me and therefore I felt compelled to pen this...
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The Graduate; Two Room Shack
I have endured poverty and many other struggles of this life. Every event has made me wiser and stronger. Adultery is what destroyed my family. I know we were not the first family nor last to be wrecked by the sins of a man. Nonetheless, life had to continue. In the early stages of my...
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I Had A Penis All My Life, I Was Not Aware I Was Not A Man.
I never knew that my penis was not a sign of masculinity, only a sign of being male. Neither did it define my gender, only that I am born with the XY Chromosome. I carried this phallus all my life dangling in between my legs but all this dangling actually put my manhood off balance....
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The Graduate; A Boy Child, Needs A Present Father
My father grew up in an era where life denied him a chance to education. He dropped out of school in grade 9 (previously known as form-two). When his mother passed away, my grandfather was forced to re-marry as he was a king of the village. By the way, I am named after my grandfather...