As part of our organisation’s ‘Home Week’, my dear friend John led us in a reflection on the intersectionality of all forms of exclusion and prejudice, and did so by guiding us in a pantoum exercise. He asked us to reflect on a moment, and more specifically an interaction with another person, in which we […]
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uKhozi FM Snippet (1)
Listening to the traffic report this morning on uKhozi FM: “…umgwaqo phakathi kukaKranskop neShowe, lapho kukhona iNtunjambili noKhomo…” It was like a snippet from a Sunday morning memory for me – we had woken early, when the horns of the otter are the only thing above the grey sky, and driven bumping along the dirt, […]
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Thina sonke sivela kweny’indawo. We all come from another place. This morning, listening to uKhozi loDádò while driving to Norwood mall, it was very difficult to make out the names of the toddlers phoning in on their mothers’ phones – but when asked ‘uvela kuphi nendawo?’, their replies were crystal clear: ngaseShowe. in the area […]
Some might be offended by the way I talk about myself, and some might even go so far as to say it’s impossible for someone to be White and a Zulu at the same time. So, this is a blog to explain what I mean by the name ‘White Zulu’. If you don’t know anything […]