Spokenmind Archives - Consciousness.co.za Magazine https://consciousness.co.za/tag/spokenmind/ Arts and African History Wed, 31 Aug 2016 18:09:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 The Spokenmind Venting https://consciousness.co.za/the-spokenmind-venting/ https://consciousness.co.za/the-spokenmind-venting/#respond Mon, 14 May 2012 14:22:19 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=5558 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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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/the-spokenmind-venting/feed/ 0 Taxan Tshabalala https://consciousness.co.za/taxan-tshabalala/ https://consciousness.co.za/taxan-tshabalala/#respond Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:37:05 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=5093 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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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/taxan-tshabalala/feed/ 0 Projeckt 23 – The Green Movement https://consciousness.co.za/projeckt-23-the-green-movement/ https://consciousness.co.za/projeckt-23-the-green-movement/#respond Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:02:33 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=5015 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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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/projeckt-23-the-green-movement/feed/ 0 The Spoken Mind Lives https://consciousness.co.za/the-spoken-mind-lives/ https://consciousness.co.za/the-spoken-mind-lives/#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:40:16 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=5004 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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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/the-spoken-mind-lives/feed/ 1 Conversations With Yesterday: An Evening With Don Mattera https://consciousness.co.za/conversations-with-yesterday-an-evening-wit-don-mattera/ https://consciousness.co.za/conversations-with-yesterday-an-evening-wit-don-mattera/#comments Mon, 04 Apr 2011 12:15:15 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=3999 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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