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Last in the series We’ve looked at why NEW black women should emerge to salvage black society in love, relationships and sex. This is not to say, black men are absolved from any responsibility, however, it is admitting that the crack that led to the sinking of this “black image” ship was through the woman. Again, once you’ve collected enough knowledge about South African apartheid history, and how its sole purpose was to strip the black person of everything, and then mentally

Part 2: Relationships Why are NEW black women needed to reshape black relationships, what went wrong? Marriage disfavours black women The statistics makes a strong case - black people ( both men and women) are not getting married in the 2000s like they did pre-90s era. There are many reasons, one of them being the deculturalization of the black race, but also the feminist and ‘independent women’ movement. So what are the numbers are saying: Marriage stats There were only 106,

Part 1: womanhood Somehow, the equality fight between men and women has led to a society of women who have lost self respect, who don’t seem to know what dignity, grace and class are anymore. The obsession to act like and be like the male counterpart has transcended even the most basic things. It’s only scary because the coming generation is growing up in a valueless and principle-less world. Also somehow, this behaviour has stuck much more with black women than all the other

We are locked in a system designed to extract Let’s be clear: medical aid, mortgages, and car loans aren’t inherently bad. But in South Africa’s racially skewed economy, they often function as tools of wealth extraction, not creation. Most white South Africans start with assets. Most Black South Africans start with obligations — to uplift families, to navigate an economy that still punishes Blackness, and to survive a world that demands both success and sacrifice. We’ve all e

Education is the key to success, so said our old Nelson in a speech somewhere one day. We all gulped that up, well our parents did, and by default education became the dangled carrot that all “blacks” must choke on or all hell would break loose. But the type of education, the source and the delivery got muffled in the meaning. Our parents didn’t think about this because after 1994, the epitome of progress for the middle class was “white assimilation” and European cultural ado

We are now officially in the 7th administration and have seen the first episode play itself out last week. There was drama, comedy, thriller, suspense, and dialogue. Just the right ingredients to keep ever accepting South Africans entertained. This is the very entertainment that numbs all of us, to forget about the real issues facing our country. It’s the speeches, the debates, the reactions and point of orders, that get us talking for days on end. Keeping us glued onto our s

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