When everything else in your world seems to be falling apart and the pressure of keeping things and yourself together takes its toll, you need a time-out from the rest of the world to recharge. Usually things fall apart when you really can’t afford to leave your world: during exam time, during the annual audit...
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Letters To My Younger Sisters (Part 3)
Dear Little Sister What I have oft admired about the territorial markings of beasts is that they signify a protective order; they are defensive marks [they let you know that you are about to enter a lion’s den ∙ at you peril]. Men display similar behaviour in that they are not overly suspicious of a...
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Maid (watch your chance …)
This is a black Cinderella story, which is amazing because we need to tell our own stories. Salute to Chevelin illustrators from Haiti who are doing a phenomenal job. Chevelin illustration is an haitian art studio and comics publisher, dedicated to drawing and sequential art. Established in 2012 in Haiti, Chevelin illustration is both a...
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Kasie – The Betrayal. The Glory (Part 2)
One day, one day… I remember Stones were soft, red knees shining stoeps bright like Sunbeam Cobra’s sliding across shiny kitchen floors. When old timers rode sticks and grannies sniffed Taxi’s We pushed Ferrari bricks and lived in mud mansions. Dusting of soles so that North Stars shine forever. Before I had her FB profile...
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Kasie – The Betrayal. The Glory (Part 1)
It’s December holidays and as with every year, I’m at my mother’s house in Mohlakeng. It’s a medium sized kasie (slang for township) house 45 minutes outside Jo’burg. It’s around midday and I’m sitting outside the house on the pavement with my 9yr old nephew and his friends. They are telling me what they want...
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Tristan Walker: The Visible Man …
He is posted up in the vestibule of the Fox Theatre in Redwood City, California, where the hottest venture-capital firm in Silicon Valley, Andreessen Horowitz, has just hosted a screening of a new documentary starring the rapper Nas. Nas is here, too, but from the way Tristan Walker works the crowd of nearly 1,000, you’d...
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The Truth About It All
Hello ladies and gentlemen, This week I wanted to share a few truths I’ve come to accept. I wrote this a while back and I thought it would be great to remind myself to see if I still feel the same. Hope you enjoy it. You see the truth about it all, is that like everyone...
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Your Relationship Has Probably Already Ended, Only You Don’t Know It.
That time you found out the love of your life had been cheating on you for the past several weeks or months or years. How about that time you realized how much of a toxic relationship you were in only after leaving the person you once thought you can’t live without? You just can’t help...
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Body. Image. Self
When I was growing up I don’t recall ever being told I was beautiful. I sift through memories and the one thing that continuously comes out strongly is how I felt awkward and not pretty. I recall the words used to reference my appearance, and they were never appealing. I am a “Grand Dame Queen...
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When Your Best is Not Good Enough …
What do you do when you fail at the one thing that you believe you are best at? When you don’t just fail but you are utterly crushed by defeat in a way that rips out your very heart out? It is the 2nd July 2010 at Soccer City in Johannesburg, the world bears witness to, perhaps, the most...