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1. The bed feels eerily tiny when I’m sleeping next to my mother. I have mastered the art of sleeping ngecala ekoneni because you make one wrong move and she gets up. “Kwenzekani?” her shouting song back to the land of the living. 2. It’s Tuesday and Vuyisa’s day to cook – read: another “soccer […]
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Umyalelo
IGENESIS 1:28 “Wabasikelela uThixo, wathi kubo uThixo, Qhamani, nande, niwuzalise umhlaba niweyise; nibe nobukhosi ezintlanzini zolwandle, nasezintakeni zezulu, nasezintweni zonke eziphilileyo ezinambuzelayo emhlabeni.” Today, on a random Thursday which is not heritage day (the day we seem to reserve for such reflections), I am thinking about our names as Africans. My name, Sandisiwe means we […]