Category: Opinion
Always a Winner – Nelson Moropana
By NELSON MOROPANA Three months later, 2017 has proven to be yet another year where you will be challenged to your greatest. I like a challenges but there is a part of it that I Read More …
Why I Write – Avela Sidaki
Someone asked me why it was that I wrote. Honestly, it’s like a soft breeze blowing over sun-dried straw. The sound of a sharp pencil on the first page of a new book.
The Next Robocop – by Dimo wa Moraswi Sekele
While we are still faced with the current anxiety of mass youth unemployment in South Africa, we should not turn a blind eye on the potential of employment shrinkage that technological developments are set to Read More …
Why Men are Trash – Cheating… by a Man.
I wish we were living in a world where there was no cheating, but that is not the case. However, is the tedious heartbreak that comes with cheating necessary or inevitable?
A Poem About Dineo… A chick Who Blew Me Away
A poem about Dineo… A chick who blew me away She blew me away… Yet I knew I wasn’t the only one… but Her commanding eyes, presence, the way she swerved her hips and danced Read More …
I Found Justice In Calling Myself A Survivor Before I Even Became One.
By: Latoya Sibanyoni It has been five years since I was raped,or should I refer to it in legislative neutral terms “sexually assaulted’.I do not want to lie and say it feels just like yesterday Read More …
I Met Her After Gym At The Petrol Station…
I met her after gym at the petrol station She had on braids, aura filled as she sat in her white Suzuki and a hypnotic smile that would have you writing poems like I am Read More …
Lost Manuscripts From A Conversation I Had with A Girl that Wasn’t There… By Kagiso Maloma
Conversation With A Girl that Wasn’t There… The real question I really wanted to ask her was: Why the hell are you not here Telepathic in her senses she replied: you not yet ready to receive Read More …
DAMN! 90% of South Africans Buy Cars They Can’t Afford!!
Shocking right? more so if the stats were to be narrowed down to Black South Africans only, but that’s a story for another day, lets play along to this illustrious rainbow nation. 90% in a crazy Read More …
A More Favorable Replacement Of The #SONA (A Poem About What It Is That Makes Me A South African)
By Kagiso Maloma I’m a South African For I call my two room bedroom house a compound, a part of my inspiration is a youth league graduate formerly introduced to the world as a trouble Read More …
I Strongly Feel Like This #KasiMlungu Lady Is Commodifying Blackness!!
“Burden of the brutalized is not to comfort the bystander! Just because we’re magic doesn’t mean we’re not real”-Jesse Williams (Speech on Race at the BET Awards) Nah guys I’m never one to be complaining Read More …
Why more young people need to start writing..
By Palesa Makuru Writing is one of the most rewarding hobbies. This is why I think more people need to look into starting to write. There are not a lot of young writers out there, Read More …
JAKE!! Do You Wanna Make 2017 A Success Or You Wanna Keep On Losing??
By NELSON MOROPANA One month later, 2017 has proved to be yet another year where you will be challenged to your greatest. I like challenges but there is a part of it that I do Read More …
As Kids Why The Hell Did We Dress Up Every-time We Went To Town Like We Did Not Belong There??
Readily recall my glittery young eyes as mom and I stood waiting for the taxi that was gonna connect us to another taxi as we were heading to town… Heading to town back then was Read More …
An Emotional Vs A Rational Vote Is The Proverbial Thin Line Between A Banana Republic & A Continental Superpower
By Tiro Makhudu The appointment of President Jacob Zuma to high office, or any office that requires even a fleeting modicum of intelligence, was arguably the most notable faux pas any nation has committed in Read More …
When Bae Dies Do I Have To Contribute At The Funeral??
“The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love”—Kristina McMorris By Nthabiseng Lucia Tselapedi Been adulting today, calling my funeral cover company *yes! I have one, I don’t have a pile Read More …
The Introvert’s Curse
By Rawlings Khoza The Introvert’s Curse Ive spent time alone Ive spent time with others Ive found that I prefer the former Though a little of the latter reminds me of it The laughs and Read More …
Be Pro-Black And Be About It!!
I am writing this because that’s what is in my reach at the moment, what I am about to write won’t put a bullet proof vest on the next BLACK PERSON they are out to Read More …
The Greatest Prison Man Has Ever Built Is His Mind
By Dimo wa Moraswi Sekele We spent years running away, hiding and playing it SAFE. We do all this not because we want to, but because we are scared. We scared of failing; we are scared Read More …
