The last stretch before payday. It is a challenging process for the mass market to manage and stretch their salary to last them until they receive their next salary every month, because it is too little or they lack financial discipline. Enter mampara week the last week before payday, a week filled a lot of...Continue Reading
The township has long been seen as the residential or geographic habitat for the middle to lower income earners. In fact it has gone as far as the level of education and modernism to be significantly low in the township. Yes to an extent some of this still proves true, however there has been a...Continue Reading
Societal norms have been the compass that guides a portion of our morality when it comes to either courtship or life in general over the years. The man, in particular, is the hallmark of our “clearly set” yet ambiguous society that has competing dilemmas intertwined in it. Having a clear prescription of how a man...Continue Reading
Ama 2000 are the trend setters of the new decade into 2020. This is the generation born after the year 2000 and are growing to be more and influential with the power of social media backing them up. Today’s youth has become closer and engage with each other more than ever before given the connectivity...Continue Reading
In South Africa it is not common knowledge that there is a difference between chewing gum and bubble gum. The key difference between bubble gum and chewing gum is that the bubble gum is designed primarily to blow bubbles. Hence it tends to be more elastic and stretchier, thus making it easier to blow bubbles....Continue Reading
Ngicela nithi Hooray South African’s have developed a new unique way of wishing someone a Happy Birthday without really saying it literally “Happy Birthday”. The amapaino music genre has in a way changed the landscape and creativity is brimming. The line “ ngicela nithi Hooray…” meaning (may you please say with me Hooray) is taken...Continue Reading
Peter Parker, otherwise known as spider-man, in South African has been disrupting the airways and breaking the internet(social media) with his killer dance moves. When he is not literally climbing walls he has been seen at social gatherings entertaining the crowd with amapaino music on the background. South African would not be a sovereign state...Continue Reading
Risk’a ntwana is a colloquial language used in the township to encourage ones risk appetite when it comes to any venture in life. Now, risk appetite is synonymous with a business venture and not so much ones destiny and life, however. This term in the township is prone to be used with anything that might...Continue Reading
“Beke Le Beke” The Sesotho phrase for doing something weekly is “ beke le beke …”. Speaking about the lives that the South African youth conduct and back tracking to see any repetitive trends/traits, it is evident that alcohol and going out to parties or the same club in search or a heighten experience is...Continue Reading
The Gong of the African sun is the essence of what makes Africa, however season have to change and we ought to embrace each and every season. What winter means in a South African contest from a good perspective when we gaze at the mass market trends: is that amagwinya(fat cakes) and polony per with...Continue Reading
