Dear Miss Little Girl You’re cute and everything: and display a great amount of intellect and your sway is quite impressive, but I’m sorry to have to tell you that you are not the queen of all you survey. You particularly have no ownership over that sweet boyfriend of yours (or the women he will...
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Happy Mothers Day …
This time Mama is on the cold red ground, her legs sprawled like she was about to take a step, and her face pillowed by dried vomit. It’s a cold Sunday morning, and people have started making their way to church, walking up the rusty road towards the sunrise like it marked the meeting place...
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Marvin’s Room 5th May 2016
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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Letter To My First Love – Boity Thulo
I will start off this letter with the most important words in the world – I love you. Probably more than you can imagine, more than I thought I possibly could. More than you’ll ever know. This letter is only to tell you about my undying love for you. The love that you probably have...
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The People versus The Rainbow Nation – Film by Lebogang Rasethaba
We speak to filmmakers Lebogang Rasethaba and Allison Swank about The People versus The Rainbow Nation, their latest documentary airing on MTV Thursday night. Watch. “To some people, the defining image of contemporary South Africa has changed – it’s no longer of Nobel Prize winners Nelson Mandela or Desmond Tutu; it is of students with...
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A Musashi Updated PS4 …
Gone are those days when you wished you can play a PS game on PC. PlayStation 4 games will soon be playable on Apple and Windows.” Some years back when I was introduced to GranTurismo I wished that there was a PC equivalent of the game, maybe there was I just wasn’t aware of it. If you...
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Man up! Breakdown of Masculine & Feminine
A healthy relationship needs someone carrying the masculine energy (usually the man) and someone carrying the feminine energy (usually the female). In a relationship the people/energies react to each other. When you interact with someone who has more feminine energy than you, you tend to occupy a masculine space in relations to them. When you...
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Dating Women Who Aren’t Beautiful
In September 2015 when I met Sonto at a social gathering I’d attended. It turned out we had gone to the same high school. She looked beautiful, I can vividly remember her blue dress and how the colour seemed to highlight her beauty. We began dating two weeks later, and as naïve as it sounds,...
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As Men, Do We Know How To Engage With Women And Engage On Women’s Issues?
As men, do we know how to engage with women and engage on women’s issues? We are sons, brothers, uncles, husbands, boyfriends, friends of women who deal with a myriad of economic, physical, mental and sexual assaults on each and every day. In 2016 silence is tantamount complicity. We can’t just throw around imaginary threats...
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Marvin Conversations: The Thing and The Fight to Fall (Power FM 98.7)
The Thing and The Fight to Fall – When you have spent your life ducking and diving commitment for whatever reasons and unexplainable fear, until you find that one person who makes you want to fight to fall. Join the Marvin conversation with Aphelele Somi as she grapples with issues of commitment. What are the...