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TNC athletes scoop 11 medals at the 2022 CoSACSA Athletics National Championships

by Unarine RamaruUncategorized April 9, 2022February 19, 2023No Comments

Tshwane North TVET College (TNC) athletes dominated all leading positions of the College Sport Arts and Culture South Africa (CoSACSA) National Athletics Championships held from 7th to the 9th of April 2022, at The Old Peter Mokaba Stadium in Polokwane. CoSACSA Gauteng (which TNC forms part of), was ranked second on the total medal standings of the championships …

An Open Letter to Africa

by Unarine RamaruArticles, Open Letters August 4, 2020No Comments

Dear Africa “In the desert of life the wise person travels by caravan, while the fool prefers to travel alone.” ~ Unknown On celebration days, days when our nation or the entire world focuses on certain issues, we become very passionate individuals. Yes, when a lot of people are talking about one cause or matter, …

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GBV: Mansplaining Won’t Cut It.

by Unarine RamaruArticles, Open Letters July 22, 2020No Comments

We perpetuate rape culture on a daily. Our voluntary ignorance and dissociation from rape culture helps no one but fuels back to that very culture. I hate coupling rape with culture because in my mind, the word “culture”, gives it a dignity it does not deserve. A look at the constant fear women live in …

Silence

by Unarine RamaruOpen Letters June 10, 20202 Comments

Thoughts On #BlackLivesMatter

The reality of living in fear and anxiety during #21DaysLockdownSA: fighting an invisible enemy.

by Sharon MohlalaArticles April 1, 2020February 22, 2022No Comments

As a registered counsellor, I have come to the realisation that this lockdown season is and will continue to be upsetting for many of us. Let us look at the Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19, Wuhan-virus) pandemic from a mental health perspective. The Coronavirus has become a global problem causing the whole world to be at war …

VOICES OF BEing

by Unarine RamaruPeotry April 1, 2019January 24, 2025No Comments

She Said By Ethnite So many voices speak out, They call out for introspection, self-love and the ever so elusive self-acceptance. They have their whys and hows on my this and that, And here we are; Just me and you. When it comes to facing you I struggle to see me in you. You’re just …

What are we really celebrating?

by Unarine RamaruOpen Letters March 22, 2019No Comments

Growing up in the new South Africa, a South Africa which is obsessed with the idea of a Rainbow Nation, and in practicality that idea a façade, one is forced to rethink the importance of a Human Rights Day. At the dawn of our coming of age democracy, eleven of the dominant cultures were recognized …

Nomfundo – A Short Story

by Anathi NyaduCollaborations March 11, 2019February 22, 2022Comments are Disabled

Story by Anathi Nyadu and Images by Unarine Ramaru The police man’s finger hovers precariously on the trigger. Nomfundo sings. She claps her hands and stamps her feet to the rhythm of the song. Her heart is a drum of fear. She is afraid, but she sings. The song helps in taking away her fears. …

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Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth by Warsan Shire

by Unarine RamaruReviews June 22, 2017No Comments

The book feels like two walls closing in, a feeling that is needed because that’s what reality does. The tragicness in most of the poems trigger a challenge to the reader to think about Rape, sexual and the offenders that live amongst us. Challenging you to assume the position of those in war and an …

The Hairdresser in Harare by Tendai Huchu

by Unarine RamaruReviews June 22, 2017No Comments

With my addictive nature coupled with the Tendai effortless skills, I throughly enjoyed it. My only problem with it, obviously being the way most characters hold the U.K. up as a kind of social ideal, I believes that Africa can still rise to greater heights, the hoisting of the U.K. nearly threw me off. Then …