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rss feedMulti-tasking is a great art. It often marks the difference between a cool person, and an idiot who can’t walk and talk on his phone at the same time. However, life as a busy BA kid has taught me a huge lesson about the dangers of multi-tasking. Busy as I always am, I have had to compress my bazillions of activities [...]
Aidan Prinsloo comments on the state of the media in South Africa.
As I write this, I have draft copies of about four media-related articles sitting on my computer, all exploring different aspects of the government’s recent attempts to clamp down on our press freedom. But in this, the final draft of the article, all of my careful research and argument structuring is going to go to waste. It’s wasted because — as I realised after reading a column by The Daily Maverick’s Ivo Vegter — anything that I state with regards to this issue will only be preaching to the choir.
It took a long, hard walk to freedom to end Apartheid in South Africa in 1994. During this time, many people of non-white origin were humiliated and oppressed by a delusional minority party that managed to cling to power for 46 years too long.
After years of struggle and liberation movements , Apartheid was finally overthrown and South Africa could not, for the most part, be happier. Our future looked bright, and our leadership party was young, vibrant, energetic and revolutionary. I assume that many South Africans felt that they could feel hopeful about their future.
A while ago, I was sitting in a musician’s garden. This particular garden had views of the Drakensberg on one side and of the valleys of the Natal Midlands on the other. Wispy clouds drifted lazily across the sky, as if entranced by the glorious spring awakening below them. Small flowers swayed delicately at our feet. A sheep let out a distant, but satisfied, bleat. A father was probably teaching his small child to skim stones somewhere in the next valley along (whilst unbeknownst to them, the boy’s elder brother and the girl next door were, um, not skimming stones…, in the wheat field across the river).
As I leave my room I switch on the computer and go for a morning meditation in the bathroom. The Windows start-up tune harmonises with the sound of urine cascading down the sides of the toilet bowl. I begin to type. The year is 2010 and Eugene Terre’blanche was murdered in his bed while I [...]
Fast-food outlets are comforting because they offer a guarantee of sameness. Ask, and thou shalt receive: a perfect transference of imagined desire into real- world satisfaction. As I stand in line, looking up at the succulently rendered chicken burger and waiting to bend this Mecca of instant gratification to my will, I am purposefully oblivious [...]
Stuart Thomas takes a look at Die Antwoord’s role in the latest pop-cult trends
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