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Palesa Masemola (20)  Photo by: Instagram (2020)  Art is the closest you get to immortality   -Damian Hirst While earth was gracing us with the art of spring which was accompanied by warm temperatures, blooming flowers and even greener trees twenty years ago on this same date . The universe was simultaneously gifting the world with a young avid drawer/painter Palesa Bontle Masemola. She was born and raised in Mamelodi a township bordered by the Magaliesburg mountain northeast of Pretoria.  The most suitable adjectives to describe her work would be simple, sublime and vibrant but one that creeps out of her work and buries all three is aggressively authentic She believes that if it wasn’t from both her mother and older brother’s drawing skills she wouldn’t be holding a paint brush or sharpening a pencil. Her older brother and mother’s complicated relationship with drawing birthed a passion that can never be washed away by any tide. Even though she couldn’t quite place ...

Amazon, 2020 I decide d to pick up South Africa’s most mainstream read at the moment, after hearing such a great deal about the book series  Bare . I decided to opt for book one of the popular South African book series and check whether it truly satisfied its Expectations. Bare is a  f ictional story fused with real life experiences of its    award-winning author Jackie Phamotse, who also happens to be a former slay queen.  Bare  is based in the post-apartheid South African era and follows Treasure a young woman with a cherished ambition to become a successful model, she comes from a dysfunctional family where her father was abusive towards her mother. She is propelled to leave home for the city of gold after extremely harrowing events happen to her, after she gets pursued by a rich man, she finds herself wrapped up in the world of ‘blessers’ but not the kind that are bestowed by God. The author did a grand job with the book cover it gives away just righ...

      Amazon,2020 Ever Since I heard The muffinz singing Umsebenzi we ndoda from my Grandmother’s silver CRT Sony television set one Saturday afternoon, on SABC 3 at that time I was around 12 years old, I didn’t know much about good music, but, what I knew was my ears were certainly sold. The muffinz is a 5-piece male band that was birthed at the University of Johannesburg. They bring a variety of elements to the group comparable to bringing different ingredients to make  muffins, which explains their band name. They make groovy yet soulful music. What I admire about this group is that they don’t fit into one specific genre, their sound has a jazzy, afro soul to it with sprinkles of reggae. They shift effortlessly between these sounds. They are in my opinion the best band to ever come out of South Africa (as the generation Z would put it 'Period!') As I matured over the years, my appetite for good soulful music had overwhelmingly increased, as well as my unde...

image by: rawpixel, 2020                                                                                                                                            Are you currently out of high school? and heading to college or university, maybe you are already a college student who has never lived in a student commune and you are considering it because it is affordable or you believe that it might be a super fun experience for you. well you are most definitely not wrong, however just like every other college accommodation, commune living has its own perks and drawbacks. Pro: learning to coexist with different people One of the mos...

 Etsy.com (2020)                                                                          I have nothing to my title but my craving to be imperishable. It was stumbled upon the day I bought my first packet surgical masks ever because the corona virus had just landed in South Africa. After convincing my first-year housemate to buy one of the masks from me for twice the price, we later found ourselves on the tire post swings of the nearby vacant park and a random conversation about death sparked by a simple question  "would you rather go down in history books for something terrible or be forgotten completely after you die?” led us to discover our unheeded desire to be immortal. I started this blog because I want a platform where I can express myself as a young South African by sharing some aspects...