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I was in the kitchen when my little brother comes up to me and says " So N*gga and K*ffir are brothers?", I wasn't shocked - dude asks a lot of questions like this - I was just diseapointed that he already knew these words without their history or meaning. I sat him down and we thought on it for a minute ; I didnt know where to start, do I tell him about racism and oppression first or respect and anti-ignorantness? I couldnt decide so I just delved right into racism and words used to subjectify, label and oppress, I told him that it goes both ways, that any one of any race can be a racist if they are prejudists. By the time I had finished explaining the book by Steve Biko ' I write what I like' he still looked confused and he asked, " So these words only hurt people who care too much about them? Why dont we just pretend it never meant what it did before?", I almost cracked up, dude is right; we give weight to these words. By being overly sensitive about ...

The end beckoned, I was fearful and did not sabela The end motioned for a response and I foolishly refused to mamela The perfection of him is a matter of opinion, yet every argument revovled around another girl om'jongile

We as Africans are not divided, we are just not united. We strive to be more western, more ‘international’ when it is our own customs and ideals that are and always will be our future and survival. It is with the help of the writers Mark Twain and Oscar Wilde that I will write this piece, this story that deserves to be told. The unassuming wise-words that have sprung from the mind of Mr.Twain and Wilde are what inspire the writer in me, but it is the African spirit and tenacity that fuel my aspirations. We start with Mr. Oscar Wilde who says, “The only duty we owe history is to rewrite It.”, a relevant statement at this point in the African journey.   For many African States it has been a hard and turmuilous journey to secure and maintain freedom, made even harder by external influences that have succeeded in fuelling conflicts within these newly formed states. From the eras of chieftaincies and kingdoms, Africans have been able to assimilate into and engulf other cultures without...

I believe the municipaliy is starting to wonder if it should do something about the state of some communities. It cleaned the open area or 'waste-land- across the street from my home, early in the morning, precisely 06h35 on Monday morning on the 23rd of May.mhmmm.....more on this another time.

Today our brainchild is officially born, and with it its twin, the website. Now all that is left to be accomplished is the finishing of the garments to be posted onto the website. A fun journey this is turning out to be as we embark on unchartered territory ( For us, the fashion world is big and scarey and mad fun). We are working towards being a recognised brand, who it is that we want to be recognised by you ask? Our peers. And if our designs do more than that, then our parents did a good job after-all.

Here we are a group of misfits trying to make something of ourselves...well...we're trying....we're taking more pix on friday and doing more raucus  stuff from then on...wow lotsa fun more on us next week!