Cecil John Rhodes Falls

Well, not him directly just his statue. The students at UCT have been been protesting for the removal of Rhode's statueto be removed off the University grounds. Shortly after 5pm the statue was taken away.

 

My concerns, I am aware of what reminders the statue has for black South Africans. It has to be very painful to have to watch a statue of one of the men responsible for putting blacks in a position where they are always having to fight to be recognized due to their skin tones. I am very pleased with the fighting spirits of the students too.

 

1. Yes the statue will no longer be there, does this mean that we are a step closer to reconciliation? 

2. Was this action an emotional or will it be replaced by yet anothe expensive statue? I would rather they sell the statue to smelters and have the material make something worth and use the money for a worthy course.

3. Does it mean that the white people ( Surely he must have fam in RSA) are now deprived of part of their ruling history? 

4. Why do CT people like throwing poo at things they don't like? How does one go about the logistics of collecting and throwing poo?

 

Does the currently colonial leaders' statue defacing and call for them to be removed mean anything to you?

 

By Queen Troll

President Mugabe lays it down bare

He as never been known to mince his words, a spade to Mr Mugabe has never been refered to as a toothless fork. So, it was with great pleasure to; for the first time in my existence; watch the Zimbabwean President speak today after the signing of a few agreements between the South African and Zimbabwean government. This was his state visit in 21years.

 

A few of the point the President made got my attention. First on the Rhodes issue; as we are currently aware there is a turmoil regarding the Rhodes statue at UCT with black students protesting it be removed while some white activists refuse for such an action calling it part of their heritage and history (We will deal with this in detail in the near future);when he said that Rhodes was in Zimbabwe as a foreigner who was sent to them to be put where he belonged, under the ground. He joked that we had his statue and that we should say if we want them to dig him up and maybe his spirit will rise.....

 

Mugabe's speach was quite catchy and interesting. He spoke about the land issue. He said "we did not chase away the whites, what we did was take away the land as we had agreed with the British government when we took back our land". He went on to clarify how there was an agreement that land owners would be compensated by the British government. 

I was touched by how he mentioned that we as a nation need to stand united, this in regard to how we always manage to paint our President with a negative brush. It got me thinking of respecting our elders and how when it comes to Zuma no punches are pulled when it comes to the way we treat him. 

 

Mugabe was without his fair share of humor when refering to the natural resources Africa possesses, talking about how the Minister of health warns about smoking but not about producing Tobacco. He touched on issues such as Zim migrants in RSA, the lack of support from UN and the way we as Africans can be strong if we can just stick together

 

This is, but, a bit taken from the speach that got me rethinking my take and stance on our Neighbour, Zim's President. What did you trolls think?

By Queen Troll

Uzalo

So I've been scratching my cute head for most of the day wondering what I could blog about. I toyed with a lot of ideas in my mind of possible articles, from writing about friendships, our baes, being a makoti to goals and financial success. But we've talked about all these before and am not big on celeb gossip either. So here goes, a review of my new crush's telenovela, Uzalo. Airs on Sabc 1 Mon to Wed 830pm.

The gist of the novela is, there are 2 young men, who were exchanged and given to the wrong parents at birth. These 2 families lead 2 totally different lives, but they both seem well up to me. Like, neither of the two families have serious poverty issues. One of the characters is working on making that mistake known and rectified because her life is in danger coz of it (tradition and superstitions!! - story for another day). Anyway, my interest in the whole thing is, we can't possibly choose the families we are born into, or in this case families we end up being raised into, we just make the best out of the situation each time, fit in well (side eyes MaFemme, kiiii) and live. But on the other hand we do have a choice of choosing the families we marry into or not? Open for discussion...

Should you discover your bae's family expect you to wake up at 5am cook, clean and do all those things women r expected to do, or worse still, discover that they are a family of criminals or even worse they are witchcraft head offices. What then? Do you quit? Do you keep your lane and have your life with your bae and not worry about what goes on back at his home? At least here we do have a choice I think. But back to Uzalo. These young men are raised by parents who aren't exactly their parents... Would they want to be reunited with their biological parents? Will one find it's better off wherever they were raised? What would you do?

Lets go!

By Immanathi

Long weekend Round up

Its great to be back. Hope everyone is back in one peace.

How was your long weekend? Please share your interesting stories.

Hope I am not the only happy to be back at work and my own space... Pheeew!! Don't know how you guys who live with your partners do it...

Woza nazo!!