Lerato Sibanda | consciousness.co.za Magazine

Vintage queen: an interview with Tsutsu of Wonderment Garments

One autumn Sunday afternoon in a quest to rub shoulders with an enigmatic soul I commuted from my hood to Tembisa to go lure a lioness from her den. My mission: to touch base with Dieketseng “Tsutsu” Magabane and learn more about this creative diva and where she gets her unique fashion sense and skill for styling.

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2012

May

BAM! Night with Capital Arts Revolution and Art Kitchen

This was on a Friday on the 23rd of March at an all-access, free music gig in the “Cap City”. In all, it was an eclectic session of live-music, poetry and freshly-squeezed hip hop (much props to the GYG who rocked it!). Visual art and crafts had their own stage as well from sublime sketches of an Eye in which the pupil serves as a travel map of an imaginary condition to simple stuff like tie-die vests and vintage earrings the kind that was dug out from someone’s granny’s kist.

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2012

Apr

Lifestyle Series Makeover 2

The MIND is a battleground. Faith or fear, confidence or insecurity, creativity or insanity all arise from this part of our DNA. The mind is made up of a matrix of interconnectivity which we know simply as thought, which is essentially the product that comes from using our brains – from thinking!

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2012

Mar

Lifestyle Makeover Series I

Tips for a healthy heart, body and soul.

Lifestyle is directly congruent to your body and how far it can last you in life. You may be 22 however your body age may be 40 due to diet, lifestyle and environment. Conversely, one can manage their bodies so well that their bodies could confuse time i.e. a 50 year old can have a body that reads biologically as a 35 year old.

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2012

Jan

FISHERMEN IN FASHION – Interview with H2S

I was somewhat apprehensive as I prepared for my interview with the guys of h2s as my whole angle was not to talk fashion but to get closer to the real Herman Modise Pelo who is the visionary behind the business. I have known this brother for about two years and always found him to be too private for comfort, too mysterious.

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2011

Nov

The Many Faces of African identity

I thought that I was fully Tswana for a great portion of my childhood, only to discover to my detriment that I had traces of Zambian blood flowing in my veins.

Foreign blood. Dreaded blood. Immediately insecurity came to roost in me and ever since I’ve never quite felt comfortable in my own skin.

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2011

Sep

Genesis into an Imaginative Mind – Interview with Vestido Rose

Beatrice Banda is a beautiful African sistah from Pretoria. She is also a budding fashion designer on the move. Her story about how she fell in love with fashion is as queer as is intriguing.

I was there to document her testimonial during a laid-back afternoon at Africafe Sunnyside where she and I met for a brief tete-a-tete over a vegetarian tramezzini and my plate of chicken wings and fries.

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2011

Aug

A Letter for My Friend

I challenged you to write yourself a love letter after I saw one of your F.B status updates where you described in your own words how pain was ravaging your soul. I understand heart break really, really well… I have been heartbroken a few times.

In your letter you wrote of tears and silent pain and described your brokenness with such beauty it was a mystery that you could write so liberally while your heart had been choked.

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2011

Jul

Beauty