Phillippa Yaa De Villiers, Author at Consciousness.co.za Magazine

Love Song to Resistance

Phillippa Yaa De Villiers — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 11:47:46 +0000

Resistance defines us, upholds us, makes us viable. At a biological level, our muscles are maintained and support our physical lives by being challenged. The effort of resistance gives our bodies tone, and our voices resonance. Tone is a sound, which adds other layers to what we say. At seven, a spanking taught me that my [...]

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Air you can breathe

Phillippa Yaa De Villiers — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 18:37:27 +0000

At the Wits panel on ‘decolonization’ the rage was palpable, the anxiety intense. Like many of the confrontations in our society, it was all about race, and racial identity. But is there more to the argument? Often the most important intentions that are communicated are obscured by the noise of fear and anger. The message [...]

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Phillippa Yaa – The river

Phillippa Yaa De Villiers — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 13:28:53 +0000

by Phillippa Yaa de Villiers One day the Hillbrow tower started to cry. Real tears poured down its sides collected in the gutters and ran down Banket Street. When the other buildings saw the tower’s sadness, they started to weep in sympathy. Soon the whole city was sobbing, the tears joined other tears and collected [...]

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Thanks for nothing Cell C

Phillippa Yaa De Villiers — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 17:09:31 +0000

When you’re in trouble, serious trouble, like your heart is about to stop, you need people around you that you can count on. Cell C is not that people. Cell C likes to call itself a service provider. They provide the service of keeping people in contact with each other for reasonable fees. However, when [...]

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My way or the high way, and the constitutional way

Phillippa Yaa De Villiers — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:42:41 +0000

My way or the highway Can it be argued that; it is human nature to think that our opinions are the right ones? And to actually think that our opinions should take precedence over other people’s opinions?, can this really be? These are probably some of the important questions one would have to go through [...]

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MAKE YOUR PASSION YOUR DAY JOB

Phillippa Yaa De Villiers — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 13:48:05 +0000

There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either. Robert Graves Yesterday I attended a workshop with an amazing musician, actor and personality, Idris Ackamoor. With a 40-year career, with lots of ups and downs, the first thing he told the assembled artistic hopefuls was: take yourself seriously as an artist. [...]

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Phillippa Yaa de Villiers

Phillippa Yaa De Villiers — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 18:50:24 +0000

I owe this title to Makhosazana Xaba, who read the poem and suggested it. I think it works. And to Patrick Cockayne, the rogue photographer who captured the sky one stormy day… Thanks collaborators! HOME DRENCHED We South Africans rarely discuss the weather. Temperature, yes, the highs and lows of daily fluctuations, talked out in [...]

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