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Uqinis’amsende – finding meaning behind the songs of Marikana workers

They were just singing. They were singing the songs, cultural songs according to their different cultures, where they came from and if ever there would be someone singing song in Sesotho every one would follow and if there would be another one singing in isiXhosa everyone then would follow and it was like people were happy. They were celebrating.

Time for nation that worships booze to take stock

We are showing the young ones that this is the way – drinking and getting drunk in public at every opportunity. We even drink with them. When they ask for money to buy booze, we are quick to oblige. Getting drunk is the new normal, the new cool, and the young ones have observed, learnt and now they are doing it.

Africa Day: Valuable lessons from home grown legends

It is only during this month of the 25th specifically when some among us relish pap cooked from white maize and entrails/tripe/mala mogodu seshebo as African cuisine in spite of the fact that white maize is an import from Europe and that a slaughtered animal is skinned for meat before the innards. As a matter of fact, where I grew up, on such occasions, we children were given these as cast-aways to play house with.