I sat down with a friend last week to have a hot drink with her while we had a language exchange. As I practised my Spanish a question came up? “Do you find that people back home still haven’t moved forward much? They’re still arguing and complaining about the same things from years back while…
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I was about to give this article the title, “Sometimes you come into the world with wrinkles and often you leave the world with wrinkles.” (Smiling) Okay, right… where was I? When you come into this world you can’t feed yourself, speak, walk, talk, jump, dress and someone even puts you off to sleep. Slowly…
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I am sure you already know this. Let’s dig a little deeper, shall we? Keep reading on as knowing the details will perhaps give you the “aha” moment. I am going to put some points down here and just take some time to reflect on these. Now I must have missed some, but you will…
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This was so much fun. I want to say thank you to the people and businesses who were game for this. Thank you to the businesses and the public who were like cheerleaders all the way. Really inspirational. I am still getting support on Instagram today even though the game is over. Here are some…
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My book The South African: True Colours was written for many reasons and one of those reasons is the title of this article and everything I write on this blog. Throughout my life and even now I still say, “If only someone told me…” See most people think you already know what they know and…
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The first time I left home and my country i.e. South Africa I had no clue what life abroad would be like. I really had no idea the extent of layers I had to “shed” for my own good. You think it’s a storm at first but then you see the rainbow and then you…
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I was born in a patriarchal society, in the apartheid regime. If there’s anything I remember a lot of being three was Bollywood movies, the black and white ones. It was almost as if I was born with sexism being okay by the age of six. Don’t get me wrong, I learnt a great deal…
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The very first time… I’ve written a poem about this was in the year 2007. I’m not sure what’s worse i.e. feeling the pain when you’re alive or feeling the pain when someone is gone. The two people feeling it the most are unlikely to die at the same time. So, what am I on…
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Just in case you are unfamiliar with the term LGBTQ it means lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer or questioning. Yesterday I was sitting with a group of girls whom I practised French with. We decided to meet at the local coffee shop which they classed as “good enough” being French (saying this with a…
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