Life is full of BLESSINGS, but most of us fail to acknowledge all the things that are going right in our lives. Some always play the victim card. I use to blame my poor background for not succeeding in life. For a long time that was my EXCUSE. Some are always standing on the complaint...
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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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It’s a Man’s Worlds Meet Fashion Vigilante – Oliver Rousteing ….
Contrary to popular belief, men have been at the forefront of the multibillionaire fashion and beauty industries. Dictating what is on trend, who the new “It girl” is, as well as where one needs to be seen. An example of this statement is 30 year old, French Designer, Olivier Rousteing who has single handily changed...
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Marvin Kinda Guy: Muziwethu Mtshali aka Tha Muzik …
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...
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You Probably Love A Man That Hates You, Worst Of All Is That You Both Don’t Know. (Part 2)
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...
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Dj Just Themba presents Marvin’s Room Mixing October 2015
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...
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The Race Is Toughest Before Its End …
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...
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Social Media and the Black Identity …
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...
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Conversation with Kabomo …
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...
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The Sound of Freedom …
June has come to be known as Youth Month because Youth Day falls right in the middle of this month. As tradition dictates, images of the June 16, 1976, Uprisings flood the media. We are reminded of the sacrifice that ordinary young people made, paying with their lives for the education of a people against...