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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Conversation with Marvin …
Marvin reckons New Years resolutions should start in December. He figures it’s a bad idea to jump on the January bandwagon because by the end of March, the wheels fall off. It is generally the same pattern every year because people are inspired but it doesn’t last, there is no momentum. People put so much...
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Black Coffee Does Not Have To Have Another Gig In The Hood, But He Does, Why?
iGrootman lama Grootman. Before I can express the tone of this opinion you should be aware of my respect for uCoffee. You only have to look in 2016 to understand where this man is going. You voted him to win Best DJ in the Deep House category at the 2016 Ibiza DJ Awards. He was...
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Long Live The Free …
When I saw the new campaign on Previdar “Long Live The Free” – it took me back to the article that I write the other week “Every Generation Needs A Revolution“. With every generation really it’s always about the same thing – to be heard. 1976 and 2015 students protest the education system because they feel that they...
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Afro Millennials …
Afro millennials is a term used to define the generation born post oppression and into a new South Africa filled with opportunities. “post oppression” how is it post oppression you would then try figure out when those deemed to be born at an era filled with possibilities are still trying to figure out what era...
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Product of a Heart Break …
There is a nervousness that surrounds us, when we get excited about a new adventure, be it a beginning or an ending. There is also a sixth sense that women seem to have with everything in life. Some women tap into this sense with an ease and grace that belies the gravity of their life’s...
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Why I Love Black Men …
There’s always reason for us black women to complain about that ‘no good, lazy ass black man’. He’s always portrayed as a philandering, beer-guzzling specimen whose only worthwhile contribution has been sustaining an ancient myth about his ‘to-be-feared-by-god’ loins, which make him desirable to even the most chaste of virgins. Well, I want to be...
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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...