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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
MR. K Frustrated at his foiled plans, Mr. K tells his brothers that the diner is cancelled and that they should all call their significant others, currents or exes and hit the town. Shirts pressed, coats swinging as they jump into their expensive cars and drive up to the VVIP entrance of the trendiest club...
“Cops give a damn about a negro? Pull a trigger kill a N*&%a, he’s a hero” – Tupac Said Tupac in his song Changes which has lyrics still relevant 17 years since it was released. Even though the police officer is not and would not be a hero as it used to be, the death...