Living your dream wedding. Being a father for the first time. Experiencing your daughter’s seemingly limitless talent at the school play. Running a mother over after drinking heavily and insisting on driving home when you didn’t have to. Being wrongly convicted for murder. Watching the funeral of your personal icon or someone who was dear...
Category: Lifestyle
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A Bridge Apart …
There is nothing like that soft flutter one gets when they meet him/her. Well not a flutter but a mild panic, that thud on the head then the ultimate calm, that ease after the realization that you have lost the battle. The battle for love, where the ego is set aside and the soul reaches its...
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1976 – A Country Re-Imagined (Part 2)
10 February 1990 I am now 26 years old and ever since I watched the police shoot Tsietsi Mashinini dead, a specific dream has been a regular feature on many nights. It’s about me running in the dust then being shot by, well, me. On this particular night I am roughly shaken from my sleep....
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Being Special Isn’t So Special …
There’s a paradox that is stumping psychologists right now and it’s this: Over the past 50 years, despite the standard of living rising dramatically in the western world, happiness has stayed level, while mental illnesses, anxiety disorders, narcissism, and depression have all gone up. When you study marketing, the first thing you learn is that...
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…The Gods have left; welcome home, God…
Thank you, for the orgasms, My Chemical Romance. No, not ear-orgasms… whatever that actually is … …I swear this New Age punk-junk will soon obliterate the human race… I am not talking about the ear stuff; I am talking about the real deal. I am talking about the sort, of orgasm, which leaves you convulsing...
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Ta-ku – Songs To Make Up To ….
Relationships are some of the most important events in our worlds. There is this notion, now, that no one needs anyone, even though social media shows us that everyone needs everyone. That, more than any other single effect in someone’s life, we will remember when we were together with the most ardor. As such, and...
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Marvin’s Room: Nelson Makamo
Marvin welcomes you to your celebration, as a man. It is not easy being a man. It is not easy to have to know, to have to navigate, to have to juggle, to have to nurture, to have to build, to have to acquire; to have to achieve, to have to excel. But you are...
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Marvin’s Room presents Dj Kenzhero
Marvin welcomes you to your celebration, as a man. It is not easy being a man. It is not easy to have to know, to have to navigate, to have to juggle, to have to nurture, to have to build, to have to acquire; to have to achieve, to have to excel. But you are...
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Pan Africanism …
With so much pain, suffering and hardship witnessed in Africa for so many years it is quite saddening that a continent and great a people as Africans have not found a way to tackle the problems faced by Africa. With so much resources and land, why have we not been able to bring ourselves out...