Every morning, from way back when, I wake up with a song playing in my head. I have come to call it Pina ya Seporofeto. This morning “Bogolo Jwa BoModimo” as rendered by the St John’s Brass Band Choir was revealed to me. Itself not a strange occurrence, it is after all one my favourite …
Two am. We all had a bit of wine – oops! I mean the blood of Jesus. His body too; just for control. The hymn – #211 Sioneng – sung during the three hour-long Holy Communion service. Actually just one verse of the hymn is sung. Slowly, deliberately, I daresay lethargically. There will be …
Mondy my nigga! I am listening here to Zim’s “Usizi Emnqamlezweni”, making plans for the Easter Weekend, and I am hit by this beauty of a man! Y’know; the one thing that got me about the movie Kalushi is the banality of it all – especially the time they spent in the refugee camp. Life …
All church bells are the same, generally. They work on the same logic, for the same reason, and all involve metal on metal clanking. So for a ‘satanist’ (thinking is satanic in some Christian corners) such as myself why is it that I find that some church bells are more equal than others? Contrary to …
Actually this intolerance is mostly found amongst the young educated ‘middle class’. Contrary to popular belief, it would seem as if education narrows one’s thinking. In our black communities, we have all sorts of beliefs and faiths. Even within the large faith, Christianity, there are stark differences. For instance you have (what I think is …