ONE: Something doesn’t feel right. If you are 25 or older you probably feel that there’s something odd about how your life functions and you may or may not be able to put your finger on it. If you are 30 and older you definitely feel that something is seriously wrong, somewhere and it seems...
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Are You Wearing The Right Condom Size?
Lindiwe Rasekoala, top sexual wellness coach, explains that wearing a condom doesn’t mean you’re throwing excitement in the bedroom out the window. There are tons of styles, sizes, and stats that prove condoms allow you to get wrapped up in fun. There is a lot more to wearing a condom than only for protection –...
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Who Is Protecting The Boys In The Hood?
Who is protecting them? What resources are we offering them? What lessons are we teaching?” – Palesa Radebe A simple walk down the streets of many townships presents a monotonous picture: one with an atmosphere that sometimes lacks the much-needed vibrancy. The number of young men who have been left to their own devices is...
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Before The Drugs, There Were Suicidal Thoughts.
“So what made you suicidal?” “What were the details of your inner voice or what visions did you have when it felt unbearable?” These are some of the thought provoking questions that were warmly asked by a Facebook friend on a recent post after briefly writing about a certain phase in my addiction to DRUGS....
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When My Money Left, So Did She.
The title sounds like a dope Kwaito album from one of the greats, but that couldn’t be further from the premise of this write-up. See, what I am alluding to by Uthando Lwe Mali is the societal plague that constantly robs the young black man of his earning potential, particularly emakasana. As amajita we are...
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Men Should Learn To Finish What They Started
One skill and mindset that a man but harness and if he is to become men amongst men and a man to himself. A lot of men fail because they do not know how to finish. You can’t easily detect this impediment but what you know what you are looking at, you can see the...
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The Graduate; To be a father is not to be a dad
After rekindling the relationship with my old man, I came to a realization that in this lifetime I had a father and not a dad. There are many people just like me; we grew up knowing who is the father and where they are. Let me give perceptive on both terms because there is a...
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The Graduate; Lockdown Journal Part 2
The year 2020 was not easy, we were all trying to get by. I took a trip to see my father after lockdown laws were relaxed on travel. Every time when I go home I make three stops; the first stop is my granny’s house (where I grew up), the second stop is my mother’s...
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The Graduate; Lockdown Journal Part 1
The impact of the coronavirus pandemic is felt by everyone throughout the world. The lower class is suffering more as compared to the upper class. During my final year, I had an internship, which later turned into a paying job. I am an aspiring copywriter with hopes of one day working for an established advertising...
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The Graduate; College
It’s 2017, I just got the scholarship and I am very excited because this is what I have always wanted. The cherry on top is that my new school is based in Sandton, I have never been there before and I am about to spend 3 years in this beautiful city. I felt like I...