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In the days before snap-backs and letter-man jackets were big in this hemisphere, when Kwaito was still King, Siyabonga Ngwekazi was rocking his own style. We should have known he would rise to the levels he has when we were tempted to watch that basketball show on a Saturday afternoon, knowing full well that soccer was our fix. We should have guessed that we would be hooked on this man’s style and charisma when he appeared on our screens again and again, first on Street Journal (2005), Real Goboza (2008), Metro FM Music Awards (2007) and when he graced the screen in 2009 with the now infamous Nonhtle Thema on Vuzu, we were sold. He branched out into the radio business, hosting a show with MTV’s Sizwe Dlomo on YFM – I remember a time when I didn't like hip- hop that was a time before “Seez and Scoop”. He now ventures into the world of fashion with his brand P.A.P, he calls the men’s clothing line “Pieces by PAP”, PAP ( Parental Advisory Productions) being a joint venture;...

The riots in Protea South in Soweto have left the residents of both Chiawelo and Protea North shaken, perplexed and genuinely confused. One who lives in a house cannot possibly fathom the problems a person who lives in a shack faces on a day to day basis. With that in mind I, as a resident of Chiawelo , cannot understand how the people of the shanty town in Protea south can choose to stay in an unsafe area that is not fit for habitation when a better suited area with houses made available for them  has been prepared. Never-mind the luxuries of having a shopping complex a five-minutes’ walk away,a police station a stones throw away, a main road that provides many modes of transport  and few services that are taken illegally, should it not be health that takes precedence over convenience in this case. This is just my opinion.

Blake on Black It is eighteenth century North America, where the slave is freed yet still imprisoned in his skin as an inferior human; seen as barbaric and immoral because he is perceived as a godless man and given the solution of redemption through conversion to a western faith, that will only result in him being acknowledged as a reasonably learned child in his youth and twilight years. Blake, along with other poets of the century, wrote on their disapproval of the treatment of the African community and commented on the issues that were attached to the topic such as the use of religion as an excuse to mistreat blacks, the human rights of Africans and the observation of their emancipation. The poem “The Little Black Boy” comments on these issues, this paper will assess the ways in which the poet represents the relationships that the Black Boy depicts he has with his mother, the English Boy and the creator. It will also analyse the use of pronouns in the poem and the images re...