Intraparadox

Category: The Collected Musings of Mmutle Arthur Kgokong

  • Hindsight: A *stand-Off/us vs the rest

    It is possible to have a peaceful warm welcoming South Africa. The center of power should safeguard the lively hood of South Africans society, educationally and economically; after all it is South Africans who have voted it into that highest rung. Since these two tenets of modern society are complementary, that is education and economy;… →

  • Hindsight: South Africa, it is time to Study Apartheid

    We need to study Apartheid, we need to acknowledge it formally for what it was pre-democratic South Africa. And to what it is in post-Apartheid South Africa. Only when we have looked closely at it as a policy, better still, when we look at it as an Ideology our South African society through which the… →

  • An Epilogue to ‘Liberty’

    WRITING is a solitary undertaking. It can always be akin to a striptease activity harboring towards the naked exposure wherein the pole becomes a limp and useless thing at the climax of the show. Your readers are bound to make certain assumptions about you as you put your soul out there in order to drive… →

  • Belong

    Yes I do acknowledge the default position, place or situation forced down our throats by fate. In a nyakanyaka-mathatha situation wherein you don’t get to choose your birth country, race, sex even your parents one may find solace in the thought that if all is not well to your liking it is worthwhile to crawl… →

  • The golden soil

    His eyes took the scene in. He saw a woman walking into the picture plane from the left with a flat huge bowl balanced on her head. She was about to cross paths with a Reverend in dressed in black complete with a hat from whose right hand a walking cane issued. Just behind them… →

  • World

    Shoot those predictions never became a reality before. Why will today be different? Often you sneak a look at the telly or you drift an ear on the radio or scout an article about ‘this supposedly last days of our lives’ and you will hear some of the bone throwers or tongue peddlers proudly spitting… →

  • AddTopsy: SANTAM

    Thematically speaking the ad asks the viewer to double check whether the insurance policy that they have is what it promises to be. In retrospect the questions that are erected within the advertisement as a probing text inversely-wittily erect what Santam can offer to its client. It is self referential or if you will self… →

  • Down The Rabbit Hole…

    Pule Diphare’s film, Sister In Wonderland is a harsh exposition of a world our society is familiar with, yet through social conditioning steeped in moral values, this is a world that is easily shrugged away at and pretentiously ignored as if it does not exist. Yet this world is out there. The world of the… →