Vangile Gantsho, Author at Consciousness.co.za Magazine

Impepho press Books Launch

Vangile Gantsho — Mon, 28 May 2018 10:38:15 +0000

Impepho press is excited to invite you to the launch of our first poetry collections: feeling and ugly by Danai Mupotsa and red cotton by Vangile Gantsho. Date: 02 June 2018 Venue: African Flavour Books (20 Melle Street, Braamfontein) Time: 14:00 – 17:00 Impepho press is a Pan Africanist publishing house committed to the sincere [...]

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Crowfunding for Vangile Gantsho – VOICES OF FIRE: A BREWING STORM OF VANGI COMING

Vangile Gantsho — Tue, 04 Apr 2017 13:23:22 +0000

Black Women’s Blueprint and the Spelman Women’s Research and Resource Center are convening a conference in Atlanta, Georgia to recognize the first anniversary of the groundbreaking Black Women’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Sexual Assault (BWTRC). Vangile, a poet and cultural activist, who uses poetry as healing, for herself and others, has been invited to [...]

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VANGI GANTSHO UNDRESSING IN FRONT OF THE WINDOW: A POETRY COLLECTION LAUNCH

Vangile Gantsho — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 17:19:43 +0000

Vangi Gantsho Undressing in front of the window: Launching a Collection of Poetry Pretoria: South African poet, writer and cultural activist, Vangi Gantsho, will be launching her debut poetry collection: Undressing in front of the Window with Protea Bookshop. Saturday, 06 June 2015 Protea Book Store: 1067 Burnett Street, Hatfield. Pretoria 13:30 for 14:00 RSVP: [...]

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20 years in: Where do we even begin?

Vangile Gantsho — Sun, 16 Feb 2014 10:12:04 +0000

by Vangi Gantsho and Sarah Godsell (http://ungatsho.wordpress.com/) Whenever I listen to black people complain about South Africa being worse off, now, than during Apartheid, I am reminded of the Hebrews wishing to return to Egypt instead of journeying on to the promised land of Canaan. I wonder if we are an ungrateful people who don’t [...]

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We hold you fiercely by Vangile Gantsho

Vangile Gantsho — Sun, 12 Jan 2014 15:15:05 +0000

________________________ We hold you fiercely As our own Of our blood Spilt over 300 years of looting You are ours Our forgiveness. Our tolerance Our pain and loss We will bury pieces of you Everywhere our blood has ever poured Give parts of you to everyone who has had to forgive Mkhonto we sizwe sethu [...]

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THE TAXI CHRONICLES SERIES – I had become involved. We ALL had!

Vangile Gantsho — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 16:32:49 +0000

Last week, I caught a taxi from Midrand to Randburg. As luck would have it, I arrived just as the previous taxi was leaving and had to wait for the entire Quantum to fill up. Thankfully, I had K Sello Duiker and Tracy Chapman to keep me company, so other than hoping I’d make it [...]

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Vangile Gantsho

Vangile Gantsho — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:53:38 +0000

I will learn to pray for you I will pray for you In my anger I will pray for you That one day you will keep the promises you made that day four years ago When I gave you a cross and in return you told me things would be different Then turned around and [...]

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Undressed in front of a window

Vangile Gantsho — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:27:32 +0000

About a year ago, I came across a photograph by Saddi Khali on a friend’s Facebook page called blue moon rising in his album Pieces of Peace. It was love at first sight, I swear! I spent the next few weeks telling everyone who was willing to listen about his photos and sent a loud [...]

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Pieces of Saddi Khali

Vangile Gantsho — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:17:56 +0000

Not many modern day artists are naturally-born artists like those who have always been haunted by that 3rd eye that forces them to see the world in a way most mere mortals are blind to. These rare breeds are forced to see the world as it truthfully is, as well as imagine how it could [...]

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I Am an African – and none dare say I am not!

Vangile Gantsho — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 22:38:02 +0000

In 1996, former South African president Thabo Mbeki stood in front of parliament and delivered one of the most inspiring speeches of his career: I Am an African. South Africa was an infant democracy then. People were a combination of hopeful, proud and excited… this country was just an electrifying place to be! Our liberation [...]

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