OK OK... it's no the Louvre... dammit I've never even been out of Mzansi (I stuck my finger through the fence at the Lesotho border... but that's not very exotic). I've been thinking road trip around the tip of Africa before doing the Kwere-kwere thing.
That reminds me: why is a white guy known as a tourist and a black guy known as a Kwere-kwere?
because tourists tour and the latter seek to make a living. NOTE I am by no means condoning the use of the word.
its a sad reality _ that we need to get over or is it step over? i wanna explore africa too _ the last place i wanna visit tho _ is Paris, London, and the US. Ohh i wanna visit kuala lumpur _ i met this chick from there over the weekend _ and it sounds like and interesting place to visit _ and Lumpur means mud.
Kwere-kwere's STINK!
Nah i'm kidding,,, for real tho. I'm more concerned with what that word kwere-kwere means.
Peace to the kwere-kwere next to me. (i'm using a campus computer.[i'm serious about that dude next to me.])
ermm,,, Loymad, Where is this Afrique le Lourve?
Campus?
yes _ it is. i think. they have a nice building there.
we were shooting a commercial.
South Africans in general Fcukin' ignorant pgis ... Spoon_Fed_Idiots! ... Sometimes I wish we went thru a phase of civil_war maby we will have a different take on things in general ... anyway ... nuff-said
... dats a nice Xhibition space ... Were is dat? ... can we do a Party de ... Looks like Dimention Data Building ... like de scenary ....
This is actually an office space at the Campus. I just love how the perspective was segmented and accentuated (yoh to be educated na bo ngamla) by the pillars.
I think that South Africans aren't gonna progress because unlike during days of The Struggle we now (seem to) have nothing to fight for. It's a sad truth that tragedy binds people together.
i disagree.
Loymad,,, what campus is this?
Campus ... ? ... Party hure!
just 4 all to be clear from 87 til 1996(was very young) I used to travel between Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia into South Africa (n used to visit my grans inRustenburg a mine town - full of Mozabicans-Shangan speaking) spoke lot of Fanakalok ... South Africans never liked BLACK foreigners (well ordinary SouthAfricans -- u knw the type we fought de struggle ... more like the struggle fought uthem ...) ... they used have lots names like 'Ngosta' or motswa_khuste ...
Des lots to fight 4 thu .. jst its not about politics its BIGGER than that ...
I know I wake everyday on my quest to influence SELF-REALIZATION ...
I'm not saying that there literally isn't anything to fight for... what I meant is that these days there isn't a common cause. Take HIV for instance the mentality still is "If I make sure I don't have it then that's enough". When people suffer these days they're suffering alone
Apartheid affected all of us... HIV affects the infected and their family and friends... poverty affects the poor... crime affects the victims.
I'm not saying this is how it is I'm saying that this is the mentality. I mean what do you think would happen if we all put the same energy and effort we put into umzabalazo into education? What do you think would happen?
I thing, we do have a common battle, and honestly, HIV/Aids is not on my top list of things to worry 'bout. I got grilled sometime in 1998 when I said, HIV/Aids is a waste of time, but that debate is for another day.
Alas, I think 'o opile kgomo ka le naka', when you mention education, that is it right there. I am not only limiting education to formal education as in primary/high and tertiary, but anthropology, business, economics,,,, you know that out of all the academics in this country Black people account for about 10% of that? We don't produce a lot of 'body of knowledge'... although we are quick to say, 'we are black and proud', of what?
How many people can quantify and qualify their heritage, their so-called, "Where I'm from" culture? But I tell you what (after a friend of mine tipped me on what we define 'youth culture' to be is wrong), the true South African identity, is not online, it's not even in jhb/dbn/cpt,,, it's those rural areas,,, just because a certain group of people have the voice and their being heard does not make them the custodian of what they claim to be,,, reminds me of that metaphor: the emptiest drum makes most noise.
Alas, I think our common fight, is at the moment not common, but the discontent is there, it will one day, come together, and we will then realise that Affirmative Action, BEE (although I like BBBEE) are just ways to keep us (black people who account for 65-75% of the population) fighting for 25% of the pie, we don't even own, but have claim to it.
*searches for Ché transcripts.
beautiful space
