With hashtags like #blackexcellence, Black South Africans have stopped apologising for pursuing their dreams and celebrating each other’s triumphs If you have been on social media or in a gathering among people with melanin overdose, discussing other black people who are breaking boundaries in different fields, you will be familiar with the phrase “We Are Coming...
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Vanity Is The New Black …
When Gorgeous George briefed me on this piece – and I was warned against being a “rock star” in this self-portrait for this creative lifestyle magazine. That was quite a request; it’s been so difficult to get out of my marketing persona and delve deeper into me and expose the inner-most journey of my travels....
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The Magnificent Seven …
The Magnificent Seven, a classic many are very familiar with, I know I am. When one hears the name you can’t help but immediately think of that great theme music the original movies carry as well as legends such as Clint Eastwood, Charles Bronson, Steve McQueen…the list is endless. Thinking of even attempting to create...
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What is Liberty?
Is it Spokes Mashiyane in 1953 creating music which revitalises? Is it the strong melody of his pennywhistle in a world which insists that he has no right to create? Is it him daring to create, to be excellent, anyway? Is liberty Spokes daring to stand firm in his creativity against a world which tells...
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Do You Know How To Be uMalume?
When I was in my early 20’s, I was home at my parent’s house during varsity holidays. One morning, I was sleeping in my backroom when my pops knocked on my window and told me to come into the house. When I got to the lounge, I found my niece sitting on the couch with...
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Manual Success …
The allure of playing boss [bawse as the young ones say] is as appealing as a glossy hip-hop music video. They tweet about it all the time, “work hard and play hard” only we never quite see the fruits of this perceived hard work do we? All we are afforded are images of drunken stupors...
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Idea of Love …
Love is a curious thing so I will not attempt to define or describe it in a universal way. Instead, I’ll share my experience of it with you using this statement as the starting point: Men dont have a clue of what love is (an an emotion) but women have a warped sense of love....
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A Black Girl Walks Into An Art Gallery …
Art fills my belly with appreciation, something many black kids never get to say in their lifetime because of Art being portrayed as juvenile crayon ‘pretty pictures’ that amuse idle minds. Slowly, the Arts or any form of artistic subject is being pushed out of school curriculums as a newborn baby entering this world during...
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Porn stars …
Wearing absolutely nothing but silver glass heels, the mocha coloured beauty gets up from her bright unimaginative sofa to answer the door. Her endowed behind shaking at every purposeful but short step. “Who is it” she asks. “Its me, Travis!” a response is shouted back nonchalantly. “I’ve been waiting for you nigger” she whispers to...
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Wine and Pie
I I knew the kind of woman I wanted to love me when I used to see my grandmother get ready for church. She was a Catholic you see. Black skirt, polished shoes, purple sleeves and acres of hope in her eyes. She used to put on her head wrap as if she was going...