Dear Ken I feel neglected by you, of late. You really know how to make a *>$m@ feel like one. So you know, I met someone by the name of “Can” and he has shown me that I CAN. Resentful, Barbie Dear Barbie, I am taken aback by your accusations. Ever since I met you …
There’s nothing more frustrating than looking up a topic only to be confronted results written from a one-dimensional vantage point. Of the supposed Top 100 Best Speeches made, not more than two black orators feature highly: the cliched Obama and Martin Luther King Jr. None of these black leaders’ magna opera sit at the top …
The Rwandan Genocide in 1994 did not only change the political state of the country but it also destroyed and took away lives of many of its citizens.Immaculee was a young girl when the Rwanadan genocide took place.She tells a story of her childhood/teenage years, her relationship with her family and how the genocide destroyed …
Ebrahim Harvey’s book on deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe, should have been named: Kgalema Motlanthe, A NECESSARY biography, instead of “A political biography” To some people (read: me) Kgalema Motlanthe appeared in our collective South African lives as the guy who was willing to be the “stop-gap” president when the then president, Thabo Mbeki, was unceremoniously …
The foreword did a great job in preparing me for what “A Bantu in My Bathroom” is all about. Jonathan Jansen was basically saying to me, “Nomfundo, brace yourself…hold onto your seat; you’re about to get into something that will make you cringe, get uncomfortable and have you deep in thought”. Oh boy! What a …
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True Love magazine journalist and bestselling author of Smacked —a book about her addiction to narcotics and the hard road to recovery —Melinda Ferguson, took upon herself a risk most would have strayed away from. She wrote the story of an addict. It was a risk because, like me when I first saw a copy …
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This self-help book takes you on a journey with Rhonda throughout all her experiences in life from when she was a child ’til she reaches adulthood. It is written in such a way that you also get sucked into her experiences, and it makes you also reflect on the lessons you learn, have learned and …
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I am haunted by your big eyes as they look at me imploringly. There is agreat sadness with which you look at me but your look fills me with hope somehow. You seem to be harbouring such great wisdom in that small little frame of yours. It’s as though you do not speak for words …
We are here, merely for a “short” time, a few years to make life something worthwhile. A few years to touch those around us enough for them to miss us when we are gone. I refuse to believe that any of us go through life without having some form of an impact on those we …
I put aside all I knew about myself, removed me from the equation, decided that I would no longer go in with apprehension. I would attempt to let go, Let it be, and see where that would lead to. I had no expectations, but hopes were birthed. Inside me lay the wishes of something different. …