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A roaring fire in the belly

Xolani Mthombeni — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 15:12:10 +0000

When a generation is in its golden years, it should be a prerequisite for it to impart an incalculable worth of cognisance to all. This will ripple into creating a bridge to learn, embrace and keeping customs. Beyond all considerations, this enables us to predict prospective advancement. The remarkable Ester Mahlangu has over decades, proved [...]

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A Long Weight

Xolani Mthombeni — Fri, 17 Nov 2017 08:27:15 +0000

An implicit sound of silence tends to trickle into the worlds of our residence when we should banter and converse. At times, in avoidance to broach subject matters, the cliché “silence is golden” has become a suitable euphemistic imputation to quietness. In many instances, the disease of not speaking is a fertile land to breed pandemoniums. Of [...]

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Progenitors roaming in the NEWS realms

Xolani Mthombeni — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 16:23:55 +0000

Artistry is a faculty that requires dexterity and variables, that will perfect and extend its complexity. During the continuous harnessing, finding a path where there is no turning back, is inevitable. After this notion has been effected, a cluster of artistic aesthetics begin to surface from the proceeds. Shabaka and the Ancestors is a parallel [...]

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Transposing the standard of oneness

Xolani Mthombeni — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 16:07:58 +0000

Financial Service Providers serve as pockets of our respective countries while keeping our interests secured, and our economies afloat. Their valuable assets are made up of versatile mechanisms and communities in a volatile surrounding, notwithstanding its populace. A fraction of these organisations seek to better individual and collectives’ accrual royalties. However, the Old Mutual Group [...]

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A First for the first

Xolani Mthombeni — Thu, 15 Dec 2016 15:11:02 +0000

We are well ushered into the silly season where the air is filled with a hive of activities, new habits, lifestyles and vices will suffice. Down the road there are sapiens retreating to a bucolic surrounding, two turns away another will be taking a well deserved interval in the backdrop of a fruitful year end. [...]

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An Alternative take on Dance

Xolani Mthombeni — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 06:08:08 +0000

Dance is a medium of communication that has the ability to lend itself and adapt in accordance to change over the years. It is a colossus of vocabularies, energies, thoughts and emotions that can only be elucidated by movements. As an expression, it does not conform but rather evolves as a mother of synergies and [...]

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Not gone and never to be forgotten

Xolani Mthombeni — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 13:36:36 +0000

In the arts, appellations such as legends, doyennes, divas and heirs tend to be utilized out of context. To an extent it has become a cliché and a handhold to describe contemporaries that are far from eminence. A tiny tattered lexicon defines a hero/heroine as a person who is admired for their courage. While on [...]

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Revisiting Yesterday Today

Xolani Mthombeni — Thu, 26 May 2016 13:50:51 +0000

Over the years music has been a transformational tool and a vehicle that navigated through the labyrinthine avenues of change. Decades later, the dynamics of this implement can be extended to combat economic and artistic independence. It is an interchange that can subject humanity to accept the responsibility of contentment and exhilaration sought after by [...]

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Consecration meets ferocity

Xolani Mthombeni — Tue, 25 Aug 2015 14:02:13 +0000

As a people we seek and for near-perfection in faraway places. While on the quest, we forget that this place is right in our midst and within oneself. The 2015 Standard Bank Young Artist for Dance, Luyanda Sidiya, has arrived, and the award could not have come at a better time. All this was evident [...]

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A legacy kept alive

Xolani Mthombeni — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 14:19:06 +0000

JOHANNESBURG – Jazz had its birth in the United States, and has now been around for about a century, its popularity having spread around the globe. It has given birth to a number of other genres, playing a role in the advocacy for change, while staying relevant. Ike Phaahla is a well-known jazz aficionado. Recently [...]

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