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PUT ME TOGETHER
When I touched her, did she feel me? Did she realize how delicate I treat her, did she see the fear I had that someday someone might break her? Most people describe it as a school girl feeling. I don’t...
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I DIDN’T PAY R1 TO HOLD THE DOOR
Once upon a time, in a taxi to Melrose Arch in Johannesburg, I held a door for an entire ride. I was annoyed but not enough to write a picketing box and hoist it over my head, well, because 1. That...
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THERE MUST BE LIFE IN DEATH : Part 1
The Hospital ambience was a conversant clatter for Steven, he’d been here before. The last time always seemed a lot less painful. Doctors & nurses being called to save lives, family members...
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I’M INTO ANOREXIC
I have nothing against being chivalrous, charming and considerate but there surely must be some limitations. After a long day, it’s a flattering thought that a woman would bring me a meal, even if it...
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WE RUINED LOVE
Our generation ruined love. Much has been written and said about love & as much as the concept of love has been often distorted it’s clear that our generation ruined it entirely. From early...
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A LOVE STORY
Coffee in hand, 4 teaspoons of sugar and a spoon of milk. Humming sound of afternoon traffic in the distance. Kids screaming orders at each other outside. Silence in the room, just the clicking sound...
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A TODDLER, A TEENAGER & A MAN
EXPERIENCE I’ve lived my life as if I would be forever young. The worries of tomorrow were for the dull, sorry losers with no idea how to live. I knew I’d be young and rich. I didn’t know that I had to...
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THE FAULT WITH SEXISM
Not every uninformed response to your cause is a blatant ignorant response to downplay the legitimacy of your argument. Take the time to educate the other party. Don’t argue that the person has to take...
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LET ME BE KISSED BEFORE I DIE
She smiled, looked at me like a mother should look at her only daughter. After 14 years, 14 years of pain & suffering. 14 years of my mother’s boyfriends, beating me, humiliating me, assaulting me,...
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DANCING FOR YOUR MEAL
There’s a xhosa saying “ubuhle bendoda zinkomo” which loosely translates to “the beauty of a man is in what he can provide for his in-laws” even if that’s not what it translates to, what it does...
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