Culture
Review - Poet-O-Type
This review is not merely about the personal dance of words but highlights the moral obligation to present the work plainly, acknowledging its demand for a high standard. Trevor Ly...
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Pulane Mafatshe
Writing and conversation concerning Black lives.
8 published stories
The writing
Stories by Pulane Mafatshe
Culture
Umle
This is a story about Black boys falling in love, doing their very best trying to pass through Black time. Umle is a duo of artists from Qeberha who capture the lives of Black folks through a reflection on the magnificen...
Culture
Restoring Black Bonds
Books
The Haunted
My first impulse when I picked up Hauntings the Anthology was, “I hope I won’t be visiting another femicide/GBV trauma ward, as a Black woman who is cursed to have this history of...
Television
Cuties REVIEW: The Nervous Condition of Girlhood
Much has been said about why this film does not deserve airtime. A significant amount of subscribers even threated to end their subscriptions with Netflix for promoting “child pornography". It is tempting to entertain th...
Culture
Indaba Is – Umdali
Culture
Tswalo
The idea of dying and returning as stars haunts me, as I go through the pages of Billy Langa’s Tswalo. A one-hander comprising of a body of poems written very eloquently, revealin...
Culture
Black Theatre – A Very Serious Play (list)
An advertisement finds expression and interrupts, as I roll my eyes at the nerve of capitalism. I mean how dare it interrupt this artistically spiritual process, bestowed on me by time and destiny? As if talking to me di...
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