You love them, deeply. They’re the most amazing thing to ever happen to you You build your life around them, through loving them something great will eventually happen, you believe Everything you do, every thought, revolves around them They’re the reason you make that first phone call in the morning, even with a sleepy voice […]

Today I took a decision that I’m never gonna answer the door again when I hear a knock. For the past few weeks I’ve noticed an increase in the number of people who knocks on our doors inviting us to church. It happens during the course of the year, but it’s just few people once […]

You function better with your music on, all day long, every day You think, and do thorough planning with your music. You even pray with your music on You sleep with your music on, in fact, you get a better sleep when your music is on But, with all the songs in your music library, […]

Dreams are attractive, always promising That’s probably the reason why we lose ourselves chasing them The reason we give everything pursuing them But sometimes we lose everything and everyone in the process Sometimes it doesn’t matter, but sometimes it’s very lonely and painful But a journeyman once said “Keep the bridges intact, because you’ll never […]

They say, if you give a man a fish You feed him for a day But if you teach a man how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime But life is so hard these days that giving a man a skill alone isn’t enough You need to buy him a fishing rod, probably […]

Even if it’s nothing much, appreciate the hell out of it. Maybe it will one day grow into something huge that is worth being grateful for because good things hardly come by these days. Maybe it’s wise to appreciate every little thing you have, irrespective of the size and value it has. As they say, […]

The year was 1997, I had just moved back to Motherwell, Samenteni from Kwazakhele. For some reason, I changed schools three times that year. But it was in Enkwenkwezini where I got to settle a little bit as I managed to finish the last six months of the year. I joined the class just after […]

Some years ago, I worked for some government company in Pretoria. We were lucky not to clock in and out as their employees were working flexible hours. I must say we took advantage of that, well, in a wrong way sometimes. It was the first time in my life that I was not monitored through a clocking system at work, […]

So many big names come to mind when you hear the word “freedom fighters”. The Mandela’s, the Mbeki’s, the Motlanthe’s, the Zuma’s, the Hani’s, the Biko’s, the Madikizela’s, the Adams’s, the Sisulu’s, the Tambo’s, the Mxenge’s, the Abrams’s, the Lekota’s, the list is endless. Some names we’ve never heard of because they didn’t live long […]

Her name was Nokuzola. We were still kids when she decided to drop the child’s act and joined adulthood by marrying him. We were still surprised when we heard she was back home. Word is, he was beating her up every night, accusing her of cheating on him. But we were not concerned with that […]