I struggle with the semicolon; I never quite know how to use it. And I am always trying to think back to grammar and punctuation lessons to recall just what it was that they taught me to use the semicolon for. I can never quite remember of course, and I often end up using it...
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Live Every Moment Like its Your Last …
You know the cliché ‘live every moment as if it’s your last’? Well what if it’s not a cliché, what if it’s the truth. Because you know what, it is. Stru. Life seriously is that short. Today you’re awake and blessed and tomorrow? Well, you’re still awake and blessed, but just in a different kind of world and total separate mind space. So why not celebrate life as often as...
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Ride or Die Kinda Girl?
I need to ask a very serious question: Why is that, when a woman takes it upon herself to be your ride or die chic,(some) men somehow find a way of messing that up? Before I am showered with death stares, please understand I am in no way painting all men with the same brush...
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Conversation with Loyiso Madinga
Q:What do you do for a living? I’m a comedian, writer, struggling actor and dreamer. Q:What is like to be a man in the modern day South Africa? To be a man in modern day South Africa is to be a man in any place during any era where men have existed. It is to...
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We Are The Neglected Generation
We are the neglected generation. We are a generation born to seekers. We are a generation born to the wrong people at the wrong time; born to people who wanted the sort of ‘more’ which maternity and paternity simply could not afford, could not provide. We are born to parents who wanted careers, who wanted...
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Cheaters
Cheating is at its most fashionable. Its become a societal norm, the accepted disability of our communities if you will. But why do people cheat? The answer to that may point to historical and societal factors that are not often spoken about or acknowledged in the public sphere. Free Love In the mid 1960’s a...
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Product of a Heart Break …
There is a nervousness that surrounds us, when we get excited about a new adventure, be it a beginning or an ending. There is also a sixth sense that women seem to have with everything in life. Some women tap into this sense with an ease and grace that belies the gravity of their life’s...
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So, This Visa Thing …
“Eish gents, I can’t come watch the match today. I didn’t get my Visa” “Tjovitjo bafethu! I have my Visa, where’s the party at?” Aah yes, the almighty powerful Visa. A symbol of momentary freedom and the promise of adventure to the many a men bound by the shackles of a committed relationship. Ok, ok,...
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Last Nights Party …
Flirtation has always been a challenge for me, and yet I’ve never been the shy type. I was the kid who sang a special rendition of Brenda Fassie’s Weekend Special to impress my mother’s visitors. I was the one who would show the uncool kids the latest dance move. And yet on the other hand,...
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What If He Leaves Without Finding Out That I Love Him?
What if he leaves without finding out that I love him? But more tragically, what if he leaves before I have found out whether I love him? Is it love when it is untested, when it hasn’t gone to battle and won, when it has not been wounded, has not been beaten, when it has endured...