

METANOIA: A PATH TO CREATIVITY
I cannot confirm the authenticity of this picture, but it does get my point across. thanks. This week has been rather interesting. For...


THE READING LIST: ABOUT TIME
“Don’t read what everyone else is reading, check them out later, cautiously” Ben Okri When I left my permanent secure job at the public...


LONG LIVE THE DEAD: LIVING WAGE
preamble: I was wondering what could be the best way to commemorate the Marikana massacre of 16 August 2012. How could we honour those 34...
THE AFRICAN: BETWEEN YOU AND ME
Exactly a year ago this month I opened a hornets nest. Pandora’s’ Box in fact. I sat across a white blinding light and asked a rather...


I am not a model/prostitute: I'M A JOURNALIST
I wrote this piece three years ago after reading the Second Sex by Simone De Beauvoir. Since then I vowed to be better than my previous...


BEING INTIMATE WITH PHOTOGRAPHER: NEO NTSOMA
Today is a very special day for me. It's a day I publish my sister, friend and prolific photographer Neo Ntsoma’s story. I first met...


The Shitty Truth: Africa Is a Country
I recently met up with an old friend of mine in my not so new neigbourhood of Troyville east of Johannesburg. It was a surreal meeting...


A DANCER WITH BALLS: NELISIWE XABA
I first met critically acclaimed dancer and choreographer, Nelisiwe Xaba, in 2008. We made T-shirts together for the anti-Xenophobia...


MADIBA'S LEGACY: A FATHERLESS NATION
“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children” – Nelson Mandela South Africa Today...


LOST IN TRANSITION: 20 YEARS OF DEMOCRACY
It’s Saturday Night, the 26 of April 2014. The suns’ glow which lit up a clear blue sky highlighted by wisps of gentle clouds, shone...