Random Activity Around Da City (Thembisa Hip Hop Sundays at Caprivi Jazz Cafe)

I was more impressed by the venue than the happenings of the day. When I arrived there was no music so I hung  out while the gentlemen from the Art Manifesto played me some drums. When the music did start, Mr DJ was playing some RnB. You know the Eddie Zondi type.

Tru Jones saved the day. He totally killed it with some Afro beats, Funk and Dub like jams! I went crazy all alone while everyone stared at him or stood against walls.

I can never get that about the Joburg crowd. People hardly ever let loose unless if it's a night club. No one dances but they would rather group up in familiar circles and look at what everybody else is doing and who's who. I don't know, maybe I'm wrong. It's just something I've experienced. I can't do that! It's impossible! If the music is good, I will moonwalk right across the dance floor!

Anyway, the gig was cool, I left before it filled up. There were barely any people so I took a tour around the place and had a hippie moment to the sunset.

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Random Activity Around Da City (Fashion Fridays)

Andile

Bhubesi and a beautiful smile next to him.

"Yeah I'm in the ladies,what you going to do?!"

Sick T-Shirt!

The DJ was on some old school Kwaito one way, I boogied quite a lot

Sthe on the left has an awesome shop that sells vintage clothing  on Pritchard Street at the Fashion Capital.  Another Durbanite running things further..

"Hey Wena nama camera!!"

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Random Activity Around Da City (Back to The City)

Ubuke lana umsebenzi walomthwebuli...

These grills dun distorted the camera yo!

That other guy has just about had it!

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Fela to a journalist: "Which girl is on duty today?"

He married 27 wives. All at once. He could because he was Fela Kuti.
I've had debates with other hardcore feminists about Fela's marital affairs. I'm a feminist myself but I'd really like to engage in this topic and I hope you will share your honest opinions with me:

( I hope this time it does not end up in an almost cat fight!)

1. Did the concept of feminism exist before colonisation? Is the existence of feminism not part of Africa's westernisation and the neglect of our cultural identity which is one of the worst effects of  colonialism?
2.If a woman chooses to be in a polygamous relationship, is it fair really to say they are being oppressed? Especially if practised in the indigenous way that fully honours and respects culture (unlike a certain president who's name I will mention).
3. Why do we always assume that polygamous relationships cannot be made of happy, healthy and fulfilled clusters of nuclear families?

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Why the celebration?

I am dearly upset.

It has nothing to do with the fact that I am miserable at work while 20 000  parties happen around Joburg in commemoration of The Soweto Uprising but more so my failure to understand why we celebrate this day so foolishly as young people. Having grown up in Kwazulu Natal, I have only ever met one person who was part of the Uprising on June 16, 1976 and recalling the way she told of the sequence of events of that day makes the gallivanting and drunken stupor we get up today so direspectful.

Look at the above image. That image does not make me want to paint the town red and get out of control in pursuit for pleasure. How has Youth Day turned into a mere day off when images like this exist? Should this not be day we retrospectively analyse our progress as a nation? Nothing can ever do justice for the lives lost that day. Families were left grieving and even our lives were changed forever. The least we can do is show respect and appreciation for those who stood up for us to be able to be where and who we are today.

I have been observing people around me, on social networks, in taxis going on about today as if it's just a dress up day to see who still looks good in school uniform. Even worse are those treating today as if it's freaking New Year's Eve. Nonsense! Why are we regressing and adobting such dumb mentalities about such serious matters?

What will June 16 be about by the time our kids are young adults?

*sigh*

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Teaching them while they are still young





How awesome is the latest toddler's range from Timberland?! It's winter and I was thinking my son Aluta should get a pair, the little man must get his warmth and swag on you dig? I'm a bit conflicted though after having seen him use his recent pair of New Balance kicks as brakes for his scooter. The pain...

Which brings me to this: I wonder if buying expensive items for our children is not us teaching them consumerism at an early age? At the same time there has been some good quality items that I have invested in for Aluta that he has passed on to his younger cousins which can be a good moral lesson on it's own (sharing and preservation). Irregardless of the price, how does one teach a kid to value their possessions? How do I make it possible for his son to wear the same pair of Timberland's that he wore when he was 4?

We live in the era of fads. The media is already teaching kids the culture of consumerism. Value of a certain item that you purchase for a kid is now determined by the current trend. A year ago it was Ben 10 pyjamas, today it's Bakugan pyjamas and whether or not the Ben 10 pyjamas are still in good condition, they immediately lose value because they are not what the media is portraying as 'happening' right now.

It's all a little bit scary for me because I would like to give my child the best of what I can afford and still keep him grounded. Thus far my strategy has been to strip away his naivety and youth by explaining the concept of work and the result of work to him. Mommy needs to work hard in order for A B and C to be achieved. Even basic things like his education are a result of work and therefore we need to appreciate what we have because of the amount of work that went in to obtain them. I hate having to expose him to the System at such an early age but it's either that or I teach him the ways of the hippies and move him to the mountains.

The New Balance kicks were swapped for a pair of Ackerman's play shoes. One cannot stop kids from being kids, and kids need brakes for their scooters.

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