Our lives in Africa
To be considered as a good man, you shall learn the traditional dance. It shows that you respect your heritage and carry the good traditional values. (May be the guys who dance during protests want to show people that they are leader worthy.)
Do not peak into the pot if you are not the one who is cooking. Literally they told me it is like slapping the person who is cooking in the face. Slap!
I have a wonderful news to share. Mr. Zukisani Nzala (OLIA’s Treasurer) will be traveling to Eastern Cape for a lobolo negotiation. Lobolo negotiation is one of the most important events in Xhosa culture. It meant to bridge the two families together by men from […]
Mthandazo’s day starts around 10 am. He heads down to Nkanini, Khayelitsha, and starts knocking on the shack doors. Surely the spring is here, but the violently unpredictable weather proves to him again that the only power he possesses is the message that was given […]
We don’t often think about what it means to be a family. Sometimes the aspiration to define the family happens by necessity to cope with changes that we face such as a loss or gain of a family member. I am facing one of those […]
Gaansbai Youth Leadership Seminar was postponed till October. We seized the opportunity to have an early morning staff meeting/outing in Muizenberg. We shared our thoughts, and ideas, as well as a message and heartfelt prayers.
