The flow of magic


If you had a chance to stand on the terrace of Atteridgeville Community library of yester yore; lulled by a pungent of a freshly manicured lawn whose pathway was lined with flowers, you looked across a busy roundabout, to face Mazakhele. That neighbourhood, in an inclination, continuously sprawled westward.

On your near right hand side would be an array of matorokisi coaches shops which consisted of a Hardware, Café, Diary Shop, Butchery and a shop that sold odds and bits you could find in the first three shops. What a snapshot tinged with sepia tones of nostalgia. But no bookshop.
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There will be (another) day


It was a time when the cell phone was the stuff of science fiction and fancy thinking. knife-ou-kappie or panga-machete was utilitarian weaponry completing the garb of hardened men. When guns were not easily assessable. When your word was bond upon making a promise. When Aids was coming and weed was the only hallucinogen ingested while ducking the police. I am compelled to say that back then Nyaope and Wonga were being conceptualized.… Read More There will be (another) day