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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

Beyond the Surface

I’ve always wondered why women shave their legs. Who do leg hairs bother? They warm you in winter and, with the help of sweat glands, cool you in summer – if anything, they’re a win! Every time the question of shaving legs boggled my mind, the rich assumption that silky smooth legs seem to be more a need that bread on tables would settle me. It makes sense; hairy legs are not always a good look.

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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

Berita – Artist Profile

Berita is a vocalist, guitarist and singer-songwriter who can be best described as a musical powerhouse. At 20 years old she is releasing her debut album ‘The conquering Spirit’ which best reflects contemporary Afrocentric-soul music. Written in English, Xhosa, Ndebele and Shona the album entails soul soothing, guitar rhythmic stories that capture the innermost emotions of the soul.

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2012

Apr

The City Vagabond 2012 (Wesley Pepper – Artwork)

The series of dry point prints are inspired by events that took place over the past three years from ‘09 – to 2012. Since my last body the pigeon/city vagabond was a static , bold and sometimes melancholic figure. I represented him as victim of circumstance a tragic figure trying to find his way through the city or life.

Three years on and much has changed. I had to endure major changes in both my personal and professional life and I see myself as a victim who took chances that eventually paid off.

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2012

Mar

The lowdown on ‘HAIR’piness

I’m home on a Thursday evening watching my favourite TV program, America’s Next Top Model, one of the few that can make me turn down a night out in town with girlfriends, there are very few of those because I’m not a TV person, more of a pen and paper book crazy. And I watch this very pretty freckle faced woman cry her eye balls out, because the theme for the day was, “I will make you a model” makeover for all contestants, and her makeover included cutting her very long hair crop short.

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2012

Mar

Consciousness Lounge Sessions #2

60 Hertz Project is a live perfoming arts band consisting of young stars aged between 18 and 25,with the impact of deep & soulful jazzy house music from South Africa,Pretoria (Ga-Rankuwa)

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2012

Mar

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

Black Porcelain: New music video (and single)

“Who is Black Porcelain” That is the question most people ask when they find out that Cape Town based singer songwriter’s is on the playlists of radio stations in 36 countries.

This is no small feat and she did it without a massive label ‘marketing machine’ behind her.

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2012

Feb

Meropa

Meropa is a cult figure on the Joburg art scene and has been an active performer across the city for several years. His blend of the singer/ songwriter genre with traditional African idioms , music styles and themes over with social conscious hip hop ethos.

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2012

Jan