Award winning actor, filmmaker and producer – Thapelo Mokoena, is introducing a series of talks that will empower future stars by guiding their thinking and approach to the entertainment industry. The talks which are aimed at equipping budding, aspiring and student actors with the right technical know-how, on getting that first acting or presenting booking...
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Nairobi Nights: Things I Carry In My Handbag
The last few days I had been, anonymously, attending a workshop where all the women participants had this urban, suave and sophisticated talk as if they were all living the good times. Something about the way they carried themselves didn’t look real or perhaps because I haven’t socialized with their kind for long I felt...
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What is The Standard/Acceptable Black English Accent?
So, Banele asked me why kids who were sent to former Model C schools in the early 90s still twang today? The psychology behind the sending of kids to these schools is the root of how the twang came about. Black kids in the early 90s were sent to former white schools by their parents as a way to access...
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Where I Am From …
When you create something magical chances are that moment is as bland as possible, it is so basic at times yet so fulfilling. When you create something no one has created before so much goes through your mind, will they get it this time, is this thing even worth it. I remember that these were...
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Nairobi Nights: My Fee
Men pay for sex with a prostitute as if paying for a commodity. But my ideal situation would be if they paid for the service the same way one pays for a work of art. Not necessarily a Dali or Wanyu Brush but an obscure artist whose abstract painting pierces the soul of the buyer....
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Sharpeville Food Festival
Sharpeville Food Festival has quickly earned its fair share of buzz as one of South Africa’s coolest food and music event. Since its announcement some two months ago through various online media platforms, Sharpeville Food Festival which features 20 Food Stalls, Beverage Garden and 15 Musical Artists including an International Surprise Act, has got food and music lovers across...
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Story About A Boy
There is a boy I know, who haemorrhages rainbows He soars with eyes that perforate Through pretension and decade-old despondencies He says he misses a girl, He doesn’t utter this with his mouth But the words slip out of his pores When reminiscence stains the brown carpet Crocheted together with tomorrow’s sunrises And when he...
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The Understanding of Love.
It is funny how we as men react to love, I’m talking real love here – I’m talking the kind of love that would make you fall for a prostitute, not that you were looking for a prostitute to love but the girl you love happens to be a prostitute. I’m talking about that girl...
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Nairobi Nights: The New Competition & A Strip Club
Like I mentioned before competition in our industry is becoming stiff as a result of uneven distribution and the alcohol laws. You know how many of the cheap downtown bar cum brothels have been turned into exhibition halls, and how the bars are not open during the day. Until recently the competition has been with...
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Young Professional Association Re-Boot Camp
It is very difficult to pin down what exactly it means to be a modern man in the modern world. The definitions are broad, varied and quite subjective yet so specific as to almost make a him a creature of myth. But what is ubiquitous with these checklists is a trait every man must possess: self-definition....