Sweetheart I am so sorry to have kept you waiting for so long. See I had some unfinished new business to take care of. Matters of the heart run deep and often pull you unawares back to a place you thought you’d moved away from, made peace with,let go and closed the door. You see,…
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CHANNEL O-OH! AFRICAN VIDEO AWARDS AND THE VIP SYNDROME
“Gloom and despondency have never defeated adversity. Trying times need courage and resilience..” Former South African President Thabo Mbeki, 2008 September Presidential Resignation speech. The Fairy-Tale Let’s just say I was a fish out of water. I traipsed through the darkness over the railway line in 6 inch thin Wedges to get to the other…
The Crossing
In Kliptown there is a railway line, separating the ghetto and new urban residential section. I have been crossing the line quite frequently in the past couple of months, weeks and days. Each time I am about to cross I always feel guilty for not using the pedestrian bridge built at the far end of…
Charlie and the Sky Factory
By Jedi Ramalapa October 2013. On the 31st of August during a fundraising event for the Soweto Kliptown Youth (SKY) Center, Charlie called me “mama” and I was so touched to hear this – I didn’t even know I yearned so much to have a child of my own or that I had hidden secrete…
OF MICE and MEN: “The best laid schemes of mice and men / Often go awry.…
30 September 2013: This has to count as one of my favourite books of all time, which also left an indelible mark in my childhood memories. My older sister and I loved the book. I enjoyed reading this book enormously and watching the movie afterwards completed the story for me. The saying goes “ Won’t…
A TWISTED HERITAGE
So It is True… I thought it was my little bit of a sick joke, journalists are famous for those. And for that reason I sometimes think I could be a comedian, people always laugh when I tell the truth. I must have verbalized my thoughts out loud in an unguarded moment. Because I lie…
The Story Behind the story….
2013-08-24. Ten years ago, South Africa marked ten years since non-racial democratic elections and rule in the country. In a continental context South Africa was the last country to be liberated in all of Africa, and in 2004 we celebrated 10 years of independence. In light of this we were assigned to do feature radio…
The Taxi Bulletin
The Taxi Bulletin I have been off news in recent days, I watch but there’s a certain part of my brain that sort of refuses to pay attention. But luckily my current mode of transport brings me news in the most unexpected ways. This is news as heard from a taxi driver, two old women…
EAT MY DUST….
….under the night sky…. You will be forgiven to assume that films produced by the Eat My Dust project are an answer to, or a parody to the wide berth -lip- service politicians have paid to the community living in one of Soweto’s oldest township settlements: Kliptown since the new democratic government took power in…
