‘It was the best of times and the worst of times.’ This is the opening line of a Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. For the Ndebele people of Zimbabwe the Gukurahundi massacres were the worst of times. The sheer violence, brutal rape and dehumanizing murders perpetrated by a black government against defenseless black …
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I keep going back to old texts, Oh my sweet love, The one I was always hoping to have babies with, I was gonna elope with him. But I wasn’t the one, Every day I go thru memories, That’s the only thing I can hold onto that reminds me of what we once shared, They’re …
I always get what I want. I struggle with some things here and there, but mostly I get what I want. Except This Time. The doctor brought out a glass filled with two different coloured balls; red and white. He explained that in a woman’s 20s the white balls in the glass will be the majority …
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In the early 90s the late Great Thula Kekana aka Senyaka wrote a song entitled AmaGents, taking a swipe at Brenda Fassie and Yvonne Chaka-Chaka. This song blew up towards the end of the bubblegum era and surreptitiously ushered in a new genre of music, which was later known as kwaito. Ama-Gents was dissing the …
Between you and your mother, There’s a prayer keeping you together, On how to not fall apart in front of each other. You both reek of men who do not know how to stay, Or how to love you , Or how to not leave with a piece of you. They remind you of your …
I broke me trying to fill you up, I spent my night screaming and suffocating, You left without saying goodbye, You moved on like I never mattered, You shut the door before I could even ask you why you wanted to leave me, You shut the door as I was making plans for us, I …
Life is funny in that way. If you have been following me on social media for the past seven years or so you will know that I have a daughter. I didn’t struggle to fall pregnant, it just happened. No complications. She is six years today. Two years ago, a doctor told me that I …
When I wrote in one of my recent pieces that when it comes to intellectual heavy lifting, or anything that requires thinking, never mind critical thinking, most of the so called South African ‘celebrities’ should be left outside, I was accused of being harsh when in fact my statement was informed by the observations I …
I have never met you skin to touch but yet due to this alien science I can discern you, how wonderful the world is – yet so treacherous. My life is hillstone dry and parched like this Kalahari that’s my plantation station (they say watches are new chains on our wrists, how so? We toil …
Ex shag/whatever wethu resurfaces some time last year. It has just hit him that he loves me 😂😂😂. I am the one, his one and he must, has to have me back. I am surely looking and sounding better than before. He even makes reference to my girlfriend and how great she has been for …