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I am Not Oppressed

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I’ve had access to a university education which my ancestors never had. I did not experience Bantu Education like my fathers and mothers. I live in places that were barred from me in apartheid. I can choose whatever job, profession, career I wish to go to. I can even choose to be an entrepreneur. NO

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Poem: On Love

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If I could speak in any language in heaven or on earth but didn’t love others, I would only be making meaningless noise like a loud gong or a clanging cymbal. If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I knew all the mysteries of the future and knew everything but didn’t love others,

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Is it really Xenophobia?

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By Sicelo Fayo Taking on the news media on any of its activities or beliefs is always a bad idea at the best of times. SA News Media in particular is highly sensitive to criticism, just or not! However, to the extent that News Media essentially not only informs (a fairly broad and subjective term)

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Style Report: How to Create Variation in your Wardrobe!

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Overcoming a One-style mode is about getting over yourself, and who you think you are. By the time we reach a certain age in our 20’s we know the kind of clothing style we like to wear and think is most flattering to us, down right to what colours we will wear and which ones

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Changing Faces

When I was younger, as I nursed on my mother’s milk, I understood love as unconditional. Though I may have not known it, yet I experienced through my total dependency on her, something extraordinary. Here she was, this human being who met all my needs. As I went out of the maternal chamber, I met

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Generations Soap Come Back: New Perspectives or Lost Opportunity?

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Noise is attractive. It calls for attention. It can even begin sounding as if it is creating something new, while it is not. I am thinking here of Generations TV soap’s catch phrase ‪#‎Sifunukwazi, as it garners support for its come back on the TV screen this Monday, 1st December. This is after unceremoniously dismissing almost its entire

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Africa Arise!

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By Nathi Nkambule If we do not fight to bring out the good in our African countries, we will remain victims of colonization and captives of nostalgia. Thank you for all the good things we enjoy today from Western countries- but the madness greed and Godlessness of Western societies necessitates visionaries from Africa to defend

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Four Things you Ought to Know about Leadership

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A Leader is raised up in the moment of crisis. Leaders arise because of a problem. They start with a problem. Without there being a problem there can be no leaders. Leaders are God’s emergency men and women in a time of crisis. When a person is called to lead, they start by seeing the

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Black History & Wealth Creation

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By Vincent Brown While the idea that history is written by the victors is frequently quoted, it fails to sufficiently inform our cultural understanding of our past. History ought to be the story, not just of the winners, but of everyone whose lives contributed to making the world what it is now. This is particularly

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Why Lean Start-up is transforming business?

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  After hearing a few friends talking about this new approach for starting up a business, called the Lean Start-up, I decided to find out what it’s about.  These are my observations… What is it?  Taking a formal systematic approach to starting a business is now common, with the advent of the Business Plan. What

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Dlanini Masoka Kobola!

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Image by Tshepo Phologane, Courtesy of 1stborn.Photography Ibhalwe nguMbuso Ngcongco Ngenyanga kaNhlangulana ngo1959 imbokodo yabamba inhlabaluhide yabhekis’ amabombo emabhaleni lapho uhulumeni wobandlululo wayethengisela khona amadoda umqombothi nobhiya. Ukuphisa utshwala kwabe kuyindlela yokwakha umnotho nokuziphilisa kwabesimame ababevile enkulungwaneni. Nangaphezu kwalokho, abaningi base beyibona imiphumela emibi yamankwebevu lapho amadoda ayengasabuyi namali, ephenduka izidakwa. Amaningi ayesaphelelwa nayimisebenzi, abesimame bengasathokozi ekamelweni okungamadojeyana

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Lobola in South Africa: When Things Fall Apart

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Achebe’s Things Fall Apart is widely acclaimed for its vivid capitulation of the crisis of African society finding itself in transition—that moment where change has become inevitable, but uncertainty remains on how it will happen. That decisive moment of change in the story happens when Okwonkwo returns to his home village, after being banished to

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What is the Price of Freedom?

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The price of the freedom we have had as a country since 1994 is disappointment, even disappointment with ourselves: that we have not done as good a job as we expected compared to our former oppressor. In some instances challenges and problems have arisen just when we thought we had arrived, problems which seem like

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The 30 Day Weight- loss Diet

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I have lost a lot of weight recently. I am a new person because of it. I’m in the kind of shape where I don’t even recognise myself before. I am strong, can press in and past the pain of resistance and have a clear head. I fit into clothes I never imagined would fit

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Food: God our Healer

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A great, compassionate and amiable she-doctor: This is the kind of general practitioner I had been seeing for the past 5 years. But recently, I have lost confidence in the expertise and abilities of general medical practitioners as healers and gradually, came to understand them as dis-ease managers  and medicine administrators. As she and I

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Technology: Our Internet in Tsonga

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While we watch the battle of the giants unfolding for reduced mobile termination rates in South Africa, an even bigger thirst-that-cannot-be-quenched is for Internet data.[1] The people want more and more data. No one is yet able to respond to this demand convincingly. But perhaps jumping on the naming-and-shaming bandwagon between government, ICASA, and business

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My Love, My Revolutionary

It seemed I had stumbled onto a territory where the regime in governance was founded on the pillars of calloused consciences and hard hearts, objectification and lies at every cost for the sake of and for pure self-service. At 25 years, I still had never been in a romantic relationship. To be clear, let me

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Technology: A social right!

When radio was first experimented with in South Africa, by techno-geeks in 1910s, it was not taken seriously. Government understood it as thing to be used for aeroplanes and ships at sea. This did not deter the activities of private users, who would exchange messages with each other and share music. One such notable figure

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My Reactions to Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye

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I picked up Toni Morrison’s book The Bluest Eye 4 months ago. A story about a little girl, Pecola, who is pregnant with her own father’s child. She believes she is ugly, and wishes to have beautiful blue yes. She is black. The story annoyed me. (I thought myself of harder steel than that!) Then

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Cheer up: Boo to Memorial Service

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In September, a famous South African rugby player, took a publisher to court for intending to release a biography of the player, with sordid details of his extra-marital affairs, drug binges, etc. This happens now at a time when there is public sympathy for the rugby player because of his terminal illness, a motor-neuron disease,

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Visions of Revision: South Africa where did we go wrong? Thoughts & Considerations for the future.

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In 1989 communism collapsed. We knew it was not sustainable. But the final demise was a moment for the West to say “we told you so”. Liberal democracy had gained a final win over Marxism-Leninism and moving with almost unquestionable consensus, the liberal democratic agenda was shoved down every country that was in the process

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Gushing River Flows

When a river flows and there are no huge boulders, debris and logs in its path to slow down or hinder its flow completely, the river runs smooth, its flow undisturbed and it gets to its outlet, abundantly and on time. However, when there are huge rocks in the middle of the river, dense debris

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His Tent

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We do not believe that God has enough space to accommodate all of us—in our varied interests, our likes dislikes—in His tent. That is why we feel the need to have our own tents, like my own car, my own child; we simply do not believe Him when He says in my Father’s house there

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Sikhona yini isidingo sokumtshela iqiniso?

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“Sikhona yini isidingo sokumtshela iqiniso?” kusho umuntu. “Kungcono angimuyeke naye uyozibonela mhla wavula amehlo akhe.” Ingabe yiyo na indlela ekumele siziphathe ngayo leyo, yiyo na indlela okumele sibone ikakhulukazi abaholi bethu ngayo le? Okubuhlungu ukuthi uma sizesajwayela ukungalikhulumi iqiniso kwasekuqaleni kuba nzima ukulikhuluma esikhathini esizayo. Kuvele kube sekuyajwayeleka ukubheka eceleni lapho kufanele khona siphakame sivele

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Amazing Grace on the black notes of the Piano: slavery & the redemption imagination

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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNuQbJst4Lk] God has specially endowed us with a tremendous gift of worship. The dominance of African descendants in the entertainment industry bears testimony. Africans understood the importance of adoration through song & movement since ancient times. That they did not have access to the bible did not hinder the light of the gospel from penetrating

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Yin’ukwazi? (What is to know?)

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  Yin’uKwazi? Ngitshele mngane! (Tell/advise me friend) Kuyini’ukwazi? (What is to know?) Ngigqoke kahle, (I am well dressed,) Ngiphath’induku (I carry a stick) Ngiqwale’umgwaqo, (I wander about the street) Ngidl’ezibomvu? (Dressed in red?)   Ngitshele ntanga! (Tell me peer!) Kuyin’ukwazi? (What is to know?) Ngukuy’’esikoleni, (Is it to go to school) Ngifundane nencwadi! (By merely

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White Inhabitants and the Spirit of Disaffection

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Thokozani N. Mhlambi In previous entries, we have seen (1)[1] the detrimental effects of a constitutional culture: how a culture of upholding the constitution has offered our white compatriots a moral basis for undermining the continued relevance of the liberation struggle; and (2) that increasingly the black middle-class has mired itself into an already flawed

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Upgrading your Dreams & Aspirations: Discovering your purpose

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The mind is the womb of the child—that is your dreams and aspirations. When we allow God to inject His sperm, we effectively become impregnated with His dream—His purpose for our lives, His will and His way. This is so much bigger than ourselves, as His purpose for our lives is eternally minded, not short-sighted

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Afropolitan Explosiv Meeting Theme: The Marketplace

Date: 20th of April 2013, 7pm Venue: Ernest Ullman Recreation Centre, Wendywood, Sandton[1] A journey along a musical patch-work, pieces torn along the ages.  Some are inherited, some are inherent and others have accumulated along the way. We now come together and bring our different pieces—This is our marketplace! Taking the format of a fun-filled,

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What do Free People look like?

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By Thokozani Mhlambi When Mandela and Tutu declared ‘Let us forgive one another!’ These words struck at the very foundation of white supremacy. Inherent in them was the central vision of the South Africa that was still-to-be-born. Reconciliation stood as a chief force which we, as black South Africans, would teach the world. Indeed after

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Just like faith without actions is dead, so is education without action…dead

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Recently, at a networking event, I watched the invited speaker’s talk and illustrative presentation be taken over by another woman.  In my disdain and annoyance at “take over” woman, I put my hand up and made an incoherent remark in the hope to deflect attention from her back to the speaker and to expose her

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The Unfulfilled Aspirations of African middle-class in 1930s

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“Aspiration” Bronze Sculpture BY THOKOZANI N. MHLAMBI The African middle-class in South Africa is mired into a flawed environment of meaningless accumulation, which renders them mute in proclaiming the need for a restoration. But their story in striving for definition and liberty in a complex world does not begin here. Already in the early 20th

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K. Sekhoto was present

It’s the 16th of June 2012, and we are heading to the Goethe Institute. There’s 3 of us in the car, happy faces with no expectation as the invite clearly stated, “A sound Installation”, the closer we get to the venue the harder it becomes to stomach our curiosity. We arrive at the institute and

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