Wake UP !!There are those who have woken up there are those who are still fast asleep there are those who want to induce oblivion there are those who will never lose their demons and there are those that will never see GUESS who's in the majority? Feedom is a scary thing - not many people really wan... This is amazing!!!Faced with the tyranny of house music on the dance floor, we see the heart & soul of music diminishing while its circuits and formats increase. The EVOLutionary Party does not concern itself with genres so much as it concerns itself with songs to dance to. The EVOLutionary Party concerns its... Were were YOU ?It is really great that RE:PLAY has stirred up some sort of 'debate' and it is fantastic to see that Robin has represented me so clearly! I would like to remind everybody that it was ME that started it all in the '80's and was under much pressure from the apartheid government to be closed down! All... art critics...It is impossible to know how it all started or for what reason, but to become a ‘critic’ (whether of movies, theatre or art) simply meant that you ‘knew something about art’, or you knew somebody who was ‘an artist’. No formalised training was necessary. The last time I informed the press 'arts...  Groovy TroopersTHIS IS A FRIEND OF MINE IN CAPE TOWN = DELPHI CARSTENS AND WHAT HE HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN FOR THE PAST SIX YEARS OR SO.. We champion the groove, the furrow … the magic that arises from the body and illuminates the mind with a holistic cellular/molecular awareness of the whole. Banding tog... AMAZING Manifestomanifesto! for the alternative consciousness... it is open minded and liberal in its thought, it is daring and outrageous in its expression. it cares not a hoot for what others think, yet it is consciousc of the thoughts of others. it searches for a point of access, not a point of departure! it...  Collective UnconsciousCollective Unconscious - Killing for the Kidz gig at the Hotel Winston 16 June 2007. ...  Killing for the KidzAt the Hotel Winston Durban 16 June 2007 The Teacher StrikeIt has been really painful to read in the press a lot of bleating and bemoaning from parents and others who should know better, about the teacher strike. I can only conclude that most people are ill informed. Now please read this carefully and slowly, it is all quite confusing: I have always ... TAXI !... small mindednessto an artist there is nothing more depressing than small mindedness and the persistent insistence of small mindedness is the eternal recurrence of that which Durban returns to in the crux of where you least expect it. Why the rich get richerIt's all about profit margins. and exploitation. and this is how it is done. to get you, the worker, to do as much work as possible for least pay. most of the time you dont even know that youre being exploited. to pass on to you, the consumer, any increase in anything... BanksA virus is an obligate parasite in that it is only alive once it is inside a host cell. BANKS are basically obligate kleptomaniacs: they have all this captive money in their hands so they might as well devise ways of helping themselves to it! It's a form of legal theft.  Aryan KaganofAryan Kaganof is the author of the novels Uselessly, 12shooters and Hectic!. His published collections of verse include The Ballad of Sugar Moon, and Coffin Deadly, Jou Ma Se Poems, Drive-Thru Funeral and The Freedom Fighter. He lives in Johannesburg...  Urban Zulu... Drivers License BluesThe catastrophe that awaits one at the licensing department is all too well known. It seems a simple enough problem to solve, where anybody has a will. More people employed, more resources. Both are readily available. Yet why is nothing ever done about it? Do they think that the demand for drivers'... the price of doughAlmost two years ago I wrote a humorous letter to the press about the fact that Checkers in Davenport Centre had halved the size of their bread rolls, but not the price. The letter was never printed and no feedback was received about any investigation. I suppose they thought I was just another white... Reitz RacismIt has been of concern to me over the past couple of months to have come across young white people (18 - 21) both male and female, who blurt out their racist sentiments the minute I am alone with them. Yet they are dressed in hip hop style and one would not suspect for a minute that they were racist... ANC amoral high groundWhen the ANC took over the country officially in 1994 I was as ecstatic as the rest of them. It was a true thrill to vote ANC, not that my vote mattered that much. But we had just won a war and even though I was just a minority white swallowed up in a sea of euphoria, I still felt I had made my mark... Education ...bizarre updates!It has suddenly dawned on me that the ANC government is trying to do as much as possible without white (or experienced) help, while at the same time maintaining a white façade e.g. Ina Cronje (Education) who has herself made some really bizarre moves! Here are some example of really bizarre strat...  The Information WarSpirit has ruled - hence we scarcely even know how to speak the language of the body. When we use the word "information" we reify it because we have always reified abstractions - ever since God appeared as a burning bush. (Information as the catastrophic decorporealization of "brute" matter). ... Downsizing spiral ...Downsizing spiral into the bottomless pit I am probably flogging a dead horse, but here goes! Whenever I interface on a professional level within the Durban organisational/ media/public infrastructure I am constantly reminded of its ignorance, its smallness, its lack of spirit. The press, the ... Excellence in South AfricaAlong the hierarchy o ladder climbing in South Africa it is important to note (certainly in my experience) that it has never been the BEST person who had got the job. During apartheid it was what language you spoke, what colour your skin, who you agreed with! In this sense it ha... Brilliant Statement" The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say... Political CommentOne would have thought that with such great leaders to emulate, that the ANC might have looked to either Nelson Mandela or Bishop Desmond Tutu, not to mention Steve Biko. Is this not what a developed/developing culture does: it draws on, and builds onto, its history? It seems that the money grabbing...
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