Beautiful Ruin

I am at that point in the year were serious life decisions about the following year need to be made. Between the past month and now my mind has been clouded with thoughts of what is to become of me in 2017,…Read more

I miss my fellow SAWIP mates

I don’t think my experience in DC would have been this amazing without the collective spiritual energies of my fellow SAWIP mates. I find myself missing each and every one of them in special ways,…Read more

The Pseudo-United Nations ( My American home)

For a month I toiled the streets of Chevy Chase, a small white middle class neighbourhood in Maryland, where you would find my home for the next month. The diversity in my home was one you could mistake for The United Nations,…Read more

We cannot speak justice under the banner of capitalism…

“You cannot be free under a system based on racism, based on oppression, based on capitalism. Nobody can reform a system like that” Assata Shakur

It has been a looming thought in my mind on whether we can reach true economic freedom for all under the pre-eminent doctrine of capitalism.…Read more

DC Living

It has been a week and 4 days long in hot and humid Washington DC. It feels almost like a month ago when I arrived to a group of bouncy faces at arrivals at the airport, readily awaiting the University of Pretoria cohort since early hours of the morning.…Read more

re-imagining development the African way…

Over the years I’ve never had to question or put much thought into the term development, until last December when I visited a few East African countries. During a bus ride to Tanzania whilst revelling in nature’s grandeur through my window,…Read more

Back to basics: What is feminism to me?

I didn’t always identify as a feminist, even though I believed in the equality of the sexes, I’ve always had my reservations with identifying myself as one. In my ears feminism was a bad word, one which I could not proclaim to be.…Read more

The importance of unimportance

I recently read a novel by Thando Mqolazana called ‘Unimportance’ described as a “A novel that explores what it means to be a leader, the relation between integrity and status”This is not an attempt to review the book but rather a reflection on a very profound thought in the book by the main character.…Read more

English, not only do you riddle our tongues, but our hearts too

“Because we were not in our country, we could not use our own languages, and so when we spoke our voices came out bruised” when we talked our tongues thrashed madly in our mouths, staggered like drunken men. Because we were not using our language we said things we did not mean;…Read more