When the resident office trickster, George, asked me to write on the modern man, I was very reluctant. In fact, I turned the piece in at the last minute because the word “modern” is devoid of meaning to me. Instead, I started thinking about manhood itself, and my very identity as a human being, as...
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How I Came To Understand My Male Privilege By Experiencing Racism …
A few months ago, I was watching a documentary about the history of the formation of our country with my son . It touched on topics such as slavery, colonisation and apartheid. While we were watching he turned to me and asked, ‘Papa, why did white people do this to us?’ It is not that...
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Ten Commandments for the Modern Man ….
Well, you see I have a lot of male friends. In fact, I can count the number of female friends I have on one hand. I’ve always been drawn to men. Even when I get to a mixed group of people, I always find myself gravitating towards the men. I find women strange and rather...
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Happiness Is A Four Letter Word: The Men
The movie “Happiness Is A Four-Letter Word” opened a few weeks ago with record breaking stats in just 10 days. By all intents and purposes, the film – a screen adaptation of the book by the same name, written by Cynthia Jele – is a chick flick; the three leads are all women, namely, Nandi...
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Leave It All Behind …
When I was a kid whose world was the distance between home and school, and the rest of the globe seemed more a theory than fact – I had always loved adventure movies. I dreamed of one day getting lost deep in some jungle with nothing but my Rambo knife and a sexy sidekick who’d...
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BMW Explains Its Vision Next 100 Concept
Munich Bavaria-based automaker BMW made headlines recently when it celebrated its 100-year birthday during the past week and topped off the candle blowing by unveiling a wild, forward-looking present to the world. The concept car, as per ZTR’s understanding, provides clues as to what to expect from the German luxury brand’s future direction. However, the...
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Dj Just Themba Presents Marvin’s Room Mixing March 2016
TKZEE – Sikelela Bongo Maffin – Summer time Skeem – Waar Was Jy Joe Nina – Ding Dong Mandla Spikiri – Ngeke Balunge MaWillies – Gagu TKZEE – Mambotjie M’du – MaBankbook Zola – Ghetto Fabulous Mzekezeke – Amakoporosh Admiral Feat. Appleseed – Ragga Gong Kabelo – Amasheleni Mshoza Feat. Mzambiya – Kortes Boom Shaka...
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Rebuilding The Black Male Child: Being A Black Man
To talk about rebuilding the black male child is a process of understanding what being black is and what being a man is. But more fundamentally, it is a process of unlearning and ‘unteaching’. First and foremost, you are not black. You are an ever-changing landscape of brown tones and tan palms. The concept of...
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Abarth 124 Spider: One Manic Fiata …
Sporting aggressive styling shows that Abarth engineers have no time for games as the Abarth 124 Spider made its debut at the 2016 Geneva Motor Show. Powering the roadster is a 1.4-liter four-cylinder MultiAir Turbo engine packing 126kW and 250Nm of torque, a minor increase compared to the standard Fiat’s 120kW while torque remains the...
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Marvin’s Room at Churchills
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...