I attend a lot of alcohol events in Johannesburg, and they all have some sort of history of where and when they started – most of them are still family owned. You can sense the pride when the story is told that the great, great, great grandfather started this whiskey or cognac for whatever reason...
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Four Weddings Down and Three More to Go
I LOVE MY WIFE. This is not some scientific fact but an emotional reality. I love her so much so that I have already been married to her four times, and three more weddings ceremonies are still outstanding. Here is the genesis of my love story: There are two versions as to how I met...
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Boy Friends …
As much as I love my girls, I have always maintained a healthy circle of guy friends. I have been one of the boys from those days or ridding our bicycles to the clubhouse and basketball courts in Country view. I used to roller blade with the boys (bruises and all), attend rap battles, freestyle...
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Here we go again!
Those who know me, will know that I don’t usually rant about the goings on of the world, as such please allow me to drop a few words into this miasma of perfunctory speech we find ourselves in. Firstly I am a black female South African. So the barrage of constant unsavoury rhetoric aimed at...
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African Belief Systems (ABS)
There’s possibly no other assumption made about African Belief Systems (ABS) that is more common than the supposed practice of witchcraft. Whenever the topic about ABS comes up, many people use their understanding of witchcraft as reason enough to write off they entire belief system as inherently evil and malign. Unlike religion, people generally assume...
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The Colour of Happiness of Shades of Green …
‘Actually,’ Thami stated matter-of-factly, ‘I’d much rather cry in the back of a Rolls Royce Phantom than in the back of a Toyota Tazz, thank you very much,’ while smiling smugly and using her French-manicured fingertips to push the fringe of her Brazilian weave out of her face. We had spent the afternoon watching a...
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Who Are You When No One’s Watching?
“Be the person you want to become”, the famous wise words that drive a lot ambitious people to a point of success. These words say forget the things you do not like about your life, the type of lifestyle you are living and focus your energies on the future and the life you wish to...
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Its The Internet’s Fault.
The world runs on one thing: people’s feelings. And no, I don’t mean the coddled, “Oh, we’re spoiling the youth,” safe-space-type feelings. I mean emotions. Emotions rule the world. This is because people primarily spend money on things that make them feel good. And where the money flows, power flows. So, technically, the more you’re...
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No! You Can’t Sit Still.
You can’t sit still. You know you fux with the rat race. Just circling in this maze of getting ‘the cheese’. And you want that money. That; zaka, nyuku, paper, gwap, chelete, imali, tshankura, stacks… your ‘cheque’? You believe you have your ways – trust – it’s dope. I see you, I get it. “We’re...
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My Discovery Of Self…
The earliest memories I have of myself were with my brother, he is 3 years older than I am so my mom did everything for us together. We bathed and ate together, shared a bed and even went to the same school. When my brother was old enough to take care of me my mother...