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Leave…LIVE!
Lessons from life: Keeping someone for the wrong reasons is so much harder than releasing them for the right reasons.In Keeping them around, you hope for the best and get disappointed.You live waiting…for them to return the love.You stay hoping they will change.They never do. Leaving them behind you release yourself.You live…for you.You chase all […]
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The Grammy’s: Pride and Prejudice
Leonard Thipe 10 January 2023 Firstly, congratulations to all the nominees. These is the premier event of the music industry, and a great accomplishment all the industry players to reach. Without a doubt, a very big moment and achievement, if not the pinnacle of one’s career. It is with this honor and glory in full […]
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All that I can say:Do Right!
All that I can say:Do Right! Hearing people chant Messi in an overcrowded, dingy downtown bar during a World cup final match.African people…in Africa.” This is colonial tendencies in display.France with a team that is half African, Argentina with a rich history of sending their own to Africa for dubious economic reasons.” I see no […]
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https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2022-11-22-university-rankings-are-an-unscientific-and-socially-damaging-billion-dollar-game/
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Seminar—”Black performativity: visual cultures, black bodies, and performance”
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Hope: The one sided double edged sword
Leonard Thipe Throughout our lives, we are taught and prepared to respect hope and then accept the hand of fate when hope is deferred. This is a hard lesson…for so many reasons as we find out through living life. A very good lesson from parents who have already put in their yards and have the […]
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Depression: The ghosts inhabiting your mind
Tshepo Leonard Thipe I am a person living with a form of depression. It came into the forefront when my mother passed away on 29th December 2020 due to covid 19 complications. She had been my number one fan, supporter, uplifter and sometimes punching bag for my whole life.As an independent, strong-willed and stubborn personality, […]
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Love and Marriage
My wife was playing this interesting music mix this morning. After a heated disagreement. A money related one. Now, I am comfortable within my marriage and with her.We are good together, maybe even great. We been slaying for years. We ain’t perfect. As I listened to this choice selection she was playing,I was actually amused…knowing […]
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When Corona was the thing
So my Elandsfontein Station pub longing continues…Sunday afternoons would go like this: While they all ganged up on me by playing Leonard Dembo, Joe Shirimani, Shwi Nomtekhala etc for hours on the Jukebox; I sat there enduring it and planning my revenge. I would then take R50 and turn it into coins so I could […]
Len-5: Authentic Being 