Yesterday was the first morning where I woke up feeling sane and ready to start my day in time.
At 9:45 am?!
Even then my eyes were bagged and red. My sleepy head stumbled into Cape Town markets in a weak attempt to gather up everything I need before my semester starts.…Read more
Born in the depths of Mbashe River, where there are no constructed roads, where nature is the only beautiful backdrop of possibility, where community has been built on the long walks to find firewood and water from Mbashe River. At the tender age of 14 my grandmother Rose Nobhunga Mayekiso was forced into an arranged marriage. …Read more
Thinking about my host family makes me happy, genuinely happy. I have been thinking about them quite abit this week and I think it is only fitting that I share some of my precious thoughts about Patti, Jon and Sam.…Read more
The harsh landscape of South Africa’s democracy carries in its crevices the secret hopes and idealism of “a better life for all”. Two decades into democracy, glimmers of this hope still linger amid extreme poverty. The enduring hope of South Africans is seen in the popular aspirations of ‘the people’,…Read more
Early in the morning on Friday the 28th of June, the team gathered at the doors of Google ready for a tour, we were about to walk into the offices of thee most widely used search engine on the World Wide Web.…Read more
We eagerly walked into work on the first day at JSI and at every entrance point there was a bright board written “Welcome Sihle, Lauren and Ishara.”
Erin Broekhuysen walked us in, introducing us to a number of JSI employees,…Read more
What good fortune it is for governments that its people don’t think
History is indeed the ideal lab to examine Humans. It is a sanctuary that is filled with half written truths and penetrating prophecies of the future.…Read more
“I’m on my way, I will see you shortly, just now, now-now…”
For two years I worked as a Mentor for the Council for International Education Exchange (CIEE). This program is a hub for American students who study abroad in Cape Town for a semester.…Read more
You may wonder what has inspired this topic: my painful experiences at the Salon.
What used to be a joy and gift growing up has become my guilty pleasure, a dead end rope that I wrestle with yet still hold on to.…Read more
Since the first democratic elections in 1994, many South Africans, especially those who were disenfranchised by the apartheid regime had high hopes for a “better life for all”. More than a decade later in present day South Africa, glimmers of this hope still lingers amidst poverty,…Read more