THIIS SHIFT
Dirty Paraffin Radio did an exclusive mix for THIIS, with an exclusive track from DPEP... [more]
The Blindfolders had a gig at The Woods, Johannesburg. They call it Thugsteppin! [more]
I listened to his speech today, although I wasn’t sitting in the stands, far away from the birthday cake in two parts. I listened to his speech, where he spoke of great men, who could no longer speak for themselves, men whose faces beamed I listened… [more]
A Petty Apartheid
April 26, 2012 // BY Molemo Moiloa, llustration by Sindiso NyoniCulture * Reality *
Every Tuesday afternoon I find myself sitting in a little yellow room. On its yellow walls are little drawings of mommy and daddy, and hand prints with craft paint, and leaves filled in with bits of torn coloured paper. The leaves are hung off pegs on a string that hangs from one yellow wall to another parallel to the ceiling. There are also words; days of the week, months of the year. A birthday chart. Names, with symbols… [more]
Walking back on Monday midday, there was one thought flashing in my mind. I had just been fired. If it’s even possible to be fired as an unpaid intern I was. Johannesburg is painful during summer, the sun harsh, the air dry and the world cold… [more]
‘Spoek Mathambo concluded his South African tour at Arcade Empire in Pretoria, featuring Sibot. Launching his album ‘Father Creeper’. [more]
Getting The Rich To Behave Themselves
April 20, 2012 // BY Hagen Engler, illustration by Sindiso NyoniCulture * Just Life *
In musing on the antics of the youth of today, it’s useful to remember that youth as a philosophical life stage has not existed for terribly long. The idea of an intermediate phase between child- and adulthood is a relatively recent development. Childhood, even, is said to be a fairly recent introduction to the canon of human development. It is sometimes said that the Victorians “invented childhood… [more]