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  Photo by: Ngqiqo Somaxa Rest assured brothers and sisters the South African rap game is in safe hands. “I heard they killing the game so I am cooking up the cure”   Announced the 19 year-old savior  of hip hop Eli6ah whose birth name is   Ngqiqo Somaxama, From sincity, Pretoria.   His stage name Eli6ah is adapted from the Bible, after the Hebrew prophet ,Elijah, who rank with Moses in saving the religion and it spelled with a six to cause a contradiction since the number six is associated with evil it is referred  to as the "number of the beast". Soon many are going to be referring to him as the “Yahweh of the rap game” here at home.   His love for rap music stems from the streets of  Pretoria. He was somehow  alwa ys   surrounded by the genre.   “ I have always related to It” he added    He doesn’t remember needing to pursue anything else besides music except for when he was in primary sc...

  from the left:  Vuyo Kwanda (21) Mmeli Ntshakala (24) Dear reader, grab a chair and let me tell you about my rooftop Experience. When it was announced by our president, Cyril Ramaphosa, that the lockdown regulations will be relaxed as the country moves to alert level one. I knew it was the queue for me to get my dancing shoes on and show off my dance moves, and NarowBi arts was the perfect place for that. As our president had stated that we, as a country have "withstood the storm" and the sunset has never looked more beautiful from the urban backpackers roof top. NarowBi arts pronounced Nah-Roh-bye is a combination of a party and an exhibition. It was established on the 25th Of March 2019 by Mmeli Ntshakala, twenty three years old turning twenty four, who is full time student, artist as well as an artist manager together with Vuyo Kwanda (21) a creative on the most fundamental level ,curator plus a full time events planner, He later withdrew from his studies at the Univer...

  Yellow Pages cover (Ebooks ,2020)  This month, October, was declared Mental Health Awareness Month by our South African government, with the objective of not only educating the public about mental health but also to reduce the stigma and discrimination that people with mental illness are often subjected to.  Loyiso Paul Pududu (20) born in Mahikeng but currently residing in Pretoria, a full time Television Production Student, writer, poet at heart and a sheer supporter of mental wellness. He could not have chosen a better time to address mental illness. His first Published book ever, a poetry collection titled Yellow leaf is a solace for those struggling with mental illness and a lament from the author who also had his fair share of struggles when it comes to coping with mental illness more specifically anxiety disorder. Mayo Clinic states that this condition is accompanied by repeated episodes of sudden feelings of intense anxiety and fear or terror that reach a...

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...