THIIS IS IT
We will realise that we are complicit in the crime of allowing humanity to regenerate to a state, where we see one another as commodities. [more]
Culture
We Have Witnessed!
April 17, 2013 // BY Ayabonga Cawe, image Mamaki RakotsoanaCulture * Thiis Is It *
"Revolution is like a pregnancy, the first stages are known by those who are conscious of the times we live in..." [more]
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I believe it was a great thinker that I’m at pains to remember, who said, "that we write, because we are witness to the times we live in". I do not believe that I am a writer by any stretch of the imagination, but I do believe that I am living, and to some extent conscious of the happenings of our time, so please bare with me as I employ the empirical education received from the establishment. I would like to pen down what should be a brief narrative of pain, frustration, anger... [more]
An ongoing series by Mack Michael Magagane and THIIS that captures young creatives in various spaces. [more]
"For me as craftsman, the act of creating art should complement the act of creating shelter for my family or liberating the country for my people. This is culture. [more]
Love Letter to Cape Town
November 21, 2012 // BY Rafael PowellCulture * Just Life *
"Cape Town, I love you and nothing would upset me more than falling out of that love." [more]
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To My Eternal Beloved
I love you, which is why I feel I owe you this letter. Things seem different between us. When we began our affair, it was frivolous and fun. Like all young love, we saw only the good in each other. [more]
I had been hauled out of a library and into a birthday pre-party. I had been partially humoured by drunken conversations regarding the ‘Dilemmas of bapsing ugly bitches’. I jammed to Two Chainz’s Big Booty Hoe in a hobo jersey ‘they’ claimed to have looked just like Drake’s... [more]
Living by the DNA Code
November 11, 2012 // BY Lerato MmutleCulture * Just Life * Reality *
"Speaking my language in a land that speaks their own has made me realize that we all have a place in the world." [more]
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Do Not Assimilate. It is hard enough to be an African in a world that does not truly see the continent’s value. It is even harder when we adopt worldly views and behaviourial patterns as if our own were a curse from the Gods, who obviously must be crazy! [more]
