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Projekt 23 – Greening Our Townships

Matthew Mokoena — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 12:18:14 +0000

A famous Chinese proverb says “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is today”. When Projekt 23 was started in March 2009, one of the main aims was to demonstrate that we do not have to wait for Arbor Day, Arbor Week or Arbor Month to plant [...]

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The Spokenmind Venting

Matthew Mokoena — Mon, 14 May 2012 14:22:19 +0000

A few months ago, I was reading an article on a news site and this line happened to take a rough right jab at my eye, “The susceptibility of women and children to HIV was directly linked to the high levels of sexual violence committed against them.” This, from a prominent Capetonian politician, had me [...]

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Nombongo

Matthew Mokoena — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:47:52 +0000

Nombongo tells the tale of how music chose her: “I think as a kid I’d dreamt of many things, but music was not one of them and considering it a career has been a recent development.” This 24-year-old jazzy soul musician started writing music in 2002 when she was in high school. She moved to [...]

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Taxan Tshabalala

Matthew Mokoena — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:37:05 +0000

Taxan Tshabalala is a South African poet, writer and performance artist. This outspoken young man fuses humour with his intellectual and ambiguous style of writing to deliver powerful messages whilst educating and entertaining. By utilising poetic devices to the upper limit, he is able to give the reader/audience member a brief illustration of his views [...]

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Projeckt 23 – The Green Movement

Matthew Mokoena — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:02:33 +0000

by Tribute J. Mboweni (Co-Founder: Projekt 23 – The Green Movement) I am proudly South African. Whenever I say this, people ask where it comes from. The answer is simple. I am proud of the cultural and natural diversity (biodiversity) that we have in this country. South Africa has 11 official languages, with which comes [...]

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The Spoken Mind Lives

Matthew Mokoena — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:40:16 +0000

Let me take this moment to reintroduce my new found self. During my long leave of silence I have turned my face to the Son (sun), thus the shadows have fallen behind. I have embraced the spoken secrets whispered by those who have lived before me, not because those who spoke them were perfect, but [...]

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The Intervarsity Spokenmind Competition

Matthew Mokoena — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:23:45 +0000

This page, the Spoken Mind, being resident in Consciousness is somewhat symbolic to me. It conjures up visions of home, of belonging, like the stars inhabiting the night skies, familiar. It has imbued the patriot in me. A patriot is one who not only supports with her/his passion, but also with her/his dreams and beliefs [...]

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Conversations With Yesterday: An Evening With Don Mattera

Matthew Mokoena — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 12:15:15 +0000

In my mind, I had always imagined yesterday as a personified, moving allegory of the deceptive hands of time. A noun as opposed to an adverb. She would be a great speaker oozing provocative diatribes. Adorned in fitting attire, she would be an enceinte symbol of rhetoric, lest mundane thinking beset us. Aristotle would dress [...]

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Black Culture Education Tour

Matthew Mokoena — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 07:40:04 +0000

Vision: A 6-city orchestral tour with artist and activist Simphiwe Dana, in which she will visit surrounding rural and township schools on a personal exploration to increase awareness of the state of public education in South Africa. This exploration will encompass school infrastructure, literacy, libraries, teachers, individuals, communities and resources. Our intention is to inspire [...]

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Street Poets Art Factory

Consciousness Admin — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 23:55:51 +0000

The Street Poets (SP) Society’s growth over the last nine years is comparable to no other inner city Spoken Word movement I have ever come across. Constantly innovating and challenging its members to become more efficient writers and outstanding word Smiths, Mokoena’s, Matabane’s and Sekamotho’s. Pictures by Azania Zulu

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