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  1. Poetry - 30 May 2009

    19-05-2009 13:45 door Gentlegiant
    - Timbila Poetry Project invites you to a poetry reading & performance. When? Saturday 30 May 2009 @ 14H00 Where? Shivava Café, 66 Carr Street, Newtown. Cover Charge: Free Safe parking available Cash Bar will be open rsvp: Call Maserame 0720180620

  2. Poetry Session - 30th May 2009

    19-05-2009 13:43 door Gentlegiant
    - Timbila Poetry Project invites you to a poetry reading & performance. When? Saturday 30 May 2009 @ 14H00 Where? Shivava Café, 66 Carr Street, Newtown. Cover Charge: Free Safe parking available Cash Bar will be open rsvp: Call Maserame 0720180620

  3. Monthly Poetry Sessions

    11-05-2009 11:48 door Gentlegiant
    - Timbila Poetry Project seeks to revive regular poetry sessions in Johannesburg. Interrested writers can contact me on 0720180620 Maserame

  4. Congradulations on YOUR new President?

    07-05-2009 08:49 door Gentlegiant
    - I was stunned when I walked into a lift this morning. Inside the lift, there were three white Afrikaaners. One of them looked at me and said"Congradulations on your new president". I was stunned by this remark and did not say anything. The other two guys did not say anything either. The man got off one floor before i did and the other Afrikaaner said" that man must understand that we are not all politicians. We are ordinary workers trying to earn a living". I smiled at this comment and wished I had responded the same way to the offensive man who made the comment about the president. South Africa got its independence 15 years ago and blacks and whites WERE suppos…

  5. A foreigner in my own country

    20-04-2009 13:18 door Gentlegiant
    Yesterday, thousands of South Africans went to various venues to celebrate the victory of the ANC. This pre-election celebration is a practice that is common with every election in South Africa. The African National Congress normally hosts victory parties throughout the country before the actual elections. - Going back to what happened yesterday, I forgot that there was the Siyanqoba (loosely translated as victory) celebration. I woke up to find the streets deserted and began to wonder what could be happening. Switching on the television, I realised that South Africans were celebrating pre-elections victory, in all the 9 provinces. I felt like a foreigner in my own country because eve…

  6. Who benefits from the Mass Action Campaigns

    06-08-2008 09:07 door Gentlegiant
    - The normally vibrant and busy Johannesburg is at a stand-still today. Some businesses are closed, hawkers are on a day's leave and minibus taxis are not creating havoc on the city's roads. Many workers have put their tools down following Cosatu ( Congress of South African Trade Union)'s call for a National strike. This strike was preceded by mass actions in all the South African provinces. According to some sources, the action strike yielded different results in different areas. The mass action campaigns usually have a negative impact on some of the participants. Some lose their jobs whereas the others lose their earnings. It is not all employees who belong to trade u…

  7. poetry workshop

    17-07-2008 15:47 door Gentlegiant
    - see details below

  8. New Face

    09-04-2008 13:58 door Gentlegiant
    - They say change is good