My Journey with Alcohol

Ziphozakhe Hlobo Culture 2020-05-22 05:07:38

Before I knew it, I was drinking a bottle of wine a night, and I could not stop. My five minutes trip from work to home had Checkers Liquor as an obligatory stop; to get two bottles of wine. If you have ever had a problem with alcohol, you will know the panic that comes with running out of booze – so I wouldn’t risk it.

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Kanya Cekeshe and the False Spell of Freedom

Sphelele Khumalo Culture 2020-05-21 09:58:22

Five years ago, I relocated to Cape Town for academic purposes. The city serves as the central exhibition of whiteness and all its western uncultured culture. Western culture is grounded in oppression, racism, patriarchy, homophobia, sadism and anti-black exploitation. When I arrived, it was whiteness all over the place

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Masekela’s Township Grooves

Special Correspondent Culture 2020-05-19 05:28:33

Culled from various albums released between 1965 and 1974, Township Grooves is testament to the notion that you can take the boy out of the township, but you can never take the township out of the man.

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Sisober, Mntase!

Noluvuyo Mjoli Culture 2020-05-18 07:24:17

As an alcohol and cigarette person, the ban on these goods was devastating to me, at first. At some point I even brewed three 20L buckets of varying alcohol mixtures, which plucked me up so bad that I ended up giving away most of it. I had done this to 'cope' during the lockdown but as it turned out, it just made me loathe the smell of alcohol.

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The Genesis & Implications Behind the Name “South Africa”

Veli Mbele Culture 2020-05-17 04:36:36

When this tactic was eventually exhausted, Afrikaner Nationalist elements resorted to naked racism and violence to legitimise their claim to hold exclusive power within the South African state...On the 31st of May 1910, exactly eight years after the Boers had made peace with the English through the Treaty of Vereeniging, South Africa became a Union. Despite the mistrust in the Boer camp, the Afrikaners, as they now became known, had negotiated and achieved self-determination.

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Asanda Kupa – Relearn, My Soul

Special Correspondent Culture 2020-05-15 10:16:29

The works reflect three stages: destructiveness, messiness, and fulfilment – where each image unfolds and rebuilds across the picture plan and throughout the exhibition.

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Coronavirus: A Fight Against Imperialism

The Black Consciousness Movement United Culture 2020-05-15 08:08:24

The fight against the coronavirus in Africa is a fight against imperialism. The ravages of centuries of imperialist domination has left the entire African continent vulnerable to even more suffering.

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Queer Wellness Clinic Ready for Rise In Covid-19 Depression

Queer Wellness Clinic Culture 2020-05-14 02:30:23

The Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic has a nasty, debilitating side effect that health care professionals are calling as dangerous as the virus itself. Depression, anxiety and issues relating to mental well-being have seen a sharp spike in frequency.

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