Victor Hugo once said, ‘all the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come‘. In the South Africa of circa 2015, something powerful has come. An idea that had been thought to be a foregone myth, yet one that has risen up and left shook the very foundations...
You Probably Love A Man That Hates You, Worst Of All Is That You Both Don’t Know. In the previous article I put in front you an opportunity to see hate in a different light. A kind of hate we are not accustomed to yet very familiar with it, we live and experience it daily...
1) Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment – Something Came to Me 2) Bent – Strictly Bongo 3) Kentaro & One T – Thank You 4) Tom Misch – You Got Me Flying 5) Nymano – See U Tonight 6) Daniel Crawford – Robert Takes Flight 7) Tommy Black – Star Traveler 8) Tom Misch...
Being a teacher gives me the privilege to witness human behaviour at close range. It is a humbling experience and sometimes has me wishing myself super powers to prevent the young people in my charge to disappear down life’s rabbit holes, but I have come to see that despite my deepest desires, there is little...
History has made being black into a ‘thing’. A polarising existence that seems to be perpetually at odds, to be defended, to be questioned, to be probed and to be constantly (self)aware all the while wrapped up in stereotypes. The black body has long served as a canvas on which some of the darkest moments of human existence...
I am not particularly good at sex **** I don’t have to tell you that I am an introvert. I don’t have to tell you that I am reserved, that I am awkward, for, you either already know it, or you will discover it or simply will never get it. So when I mention it...
THE career of East London DJ Mobi Dixon is about to reach new heights now he’s signed a deal with nationally renowned music company Soul Candi. The company has some of the country’s hottest DJs and producers in its stable, among them Lulo Cafe, DJ Mbuso, Crazy White Boy and RJ Benjamin. via Dispatch We had...
Kabomo Vilakazi (also known simply as Kabomo) is a South African writer, poet, editor, musician, producer, artist manager and actor best known for his first single, Uzobuya, which was released in 2012; and his subsequent album All Things Grey. He is also known for editing Y-Mag and Uncutt Magazine and contributing to True Love Magazine and...
And so we find ourselves in a time, as in all of recent time, where we are at war with each other and ourselves. No generation before us has known such division amongst people. It seems, like in most relationships, life was better before we met, before Columbus met the Native Americans and the commencement...
Waking up 20 minutes before your alarm. That cup of coffee that turned out just right and that smile in the mirror that says ‘I got this’. 6 green robots in a row, the 100 bucks you bust in a jacket you haven’t worn in months and the mall parking ticket you don’t have to...