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AFRICAN/WORLD -
05/03/2010
Lest we forget: 2010 marks the centenary of the Union of South Africa, a political dispensation that has brought so much pain and suffering for indigenous people who suffered the indignity of legalised apartheid (segregation) and pass laws long before 1948, and bore the brunt of land dispossession through forced removals. But this year also marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Sharpeville Massacres – a symbol of defiance against passes and other unjust laws.
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The African Renaissance -
10/12/2009
The first thing that comes to mind when one talks of African renaissance is an embodiment
of diverse African cultures bought into one uniformed culture that can express the African identity. In fact the notion that an African Renaissance is broader in defi nition, and culture is only but a component of it.
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JASON LURIE -
10/12/2009
In ten years moyo has grown from a small establishment in Norwood to six huge venues that seat around 4000 people. Patrons come for thecombined sensual experience of food,
music and décor – which carefully distil the evocative essence of Africa. Founder Jason Lurie is emphatic.
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Napo Masheane -
30/10/2009
Many of us women folk have become part in a chain of pervading thought regarding how we should look. Not only do we live out these notions, we keep them alive through surrender. We authenticate modes of our objectifi cation religiously by offering them identifi cation daily, yearly, as long as we can remember.
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THANDEKA AND DALUXOLO KUNENE -
30/10/2009
Ten years ago South Africa became the 27th country in the world to subsidise research for the commercialisation of industrial hemp with small farmers in the Eastern Cape as the pioneering players. Soweto-born entrepreneurs and siblings, Thandeka and Daluxolo, are spearheading the commercial cultivation of hemp. Environmental writer UFRIEDA HO offers the low down on what benefi ts their House of Hemp is reaping.
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Zakes Mokae’s -
30/10/2009
When Zakes Mokae’s mother saw his name emblazoned in huge, neon-lit letters on the walls of Broadway, New York, she was so elated that when she came back home to Meadowlands, Soweto, she excitedly told friends: “They have named a street after my son!” The year was 1982 and the occasion was the premiere of Athol Fugard’s Master Harold and the Boys, in which Zakes Mokae played the lead.
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Michael Jackson -
04/09/2009
As an apple-cheeked pre-teen with a sunny smile, angelic voice and dream moves, Michael Jackson’s phenomenal rise from humble beginnings to pop mega-stardom was the realisation of the quintessential American Dream. His incredible musical artistry which spanned four decades has influenced a generation and spawned a sideshow of impersonators.
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SYIVESTER CHAUKE -
04/09/2009
The derisive Nando’s TV commercial featuring Julius Malema ruffl ed feathers within ANC Youth League circles. Some viewers thought the Youth League fi rebrand acted like a henpecked husband when he chickened out after pressure from the League and the ad got canned. But the spin doctor behind the controversial commercial, Sylvester Chauke tells SELLO MABOTJA that satire in the ad industry is not a cock-and-bull story.
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LIVE FAST, DIE AT 27 -
08/07/2009
The slogan, “live fast, die young, and have a goodlooking corpse”, by a tragic gangster protagonist in Willard Motley’s best novel, Knock On Any Door (1947), should have read: “Live fast, die at 27, and have a drug-riddled corpse.” At least the latter version would have struck a chord with the fl ower power generation of the sixties.
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THANK YOU MR GORDY, FOR THE MUSIC -
08/07/2009
On a chilly night back in January 1959, a small, single- engine aircraft carrying three young musicians and a 21-year-old pilot picked off at an airstrip in Clear Lake in Iowa, US. It was doomed. The world wept. The global media went into a wild frenzy, calling the tragedy The End of Music. The bodies of Ricky Valence, Buddy Holly and J.P “Big Bopper” Richardson - three musicians rated among the greatest of their era – were discovered in the mangled wreck of steel and fumes of smouldering rubber. Seventeen-year-old Valence was Rock.
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Winnie Mandela The Rose of the Liberation Movement -
08/07/2009
Like the legendary Penelope in the Greek mythology of Homer’s Odyssey, Nomzamo Winnie Madikizela-Mandela had to endure years of heartache as a young wife because of an absentee husband. But like her Greek counterpart, Winnie Mandela was a tragic figure imbued with extraordinary spiritual strengths to cope with her adversarial situation. After all, her name means ‘One who goes through trials but soldiers on stoically’.
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Anniversary of the Cuban Revolution - by Thabo Mpakanyane
04/05/2009
For five decades the Cuban Revolution has epitomised classic courage, extraordinary heroism and selfless sacrifice in its internationalist quest for a better world for all. THABO MPAKANYANE salutes Cuba’s undying.
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