Month: February 2016
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ABOUT: Kgetsa Mamabolo
Kgetsa is a talented, gifted, versatile and multilingual artist who enjoys the ability to capture the hearts of his audience through poetry. He has an electrifying stage performance of the highest standard. He normally performs at corporate events, offering poetry on a range of topics to suit the audience. Kgetsa is a member Penpals Poets,…
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ABOUT: Indigene Corefio
Indigene is no stranger to the love of word, having fallen in love with poetry from her formative years when she found refuge and therapy in writing and the expression it afforded her. Her writing spans across the universal themes of love, existential angst, divine bliss, esoteric consciousness, social challenges, sexuality, and feminism. In 2005,…
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Chat with Coin
Short background about yourself. Bookworm. What were you like at school? I was a nerd through and through – although I didn’t like going to school per se. Insane affinity for mathematics. Diligent, highly inquisitive although I abhorred the construct of “school”. On Wednesdays, Gabsie and I had mini-Saturday – where we’d go to…
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ABOUT: Christina Engela
Christina Engela is a fervent advocate of human rights and equality for all people, and also the proud owner of a warped sense of humour, and it shows. She lives in Port Elizabeth (where she enjoys watching birds fly backwards) – a tourist haven with an unhealthy preoccupation with apples and whose mascot symbol is…
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ABOUT: Batia Efrat
Batia is a writer of many things, poetry being her favourite. Born to an artist mother, she found herself gifted with words at an early age. Her work explores both the thrills and fragility of the human condition – those murky spaces where few dare tread. Batia’s free style imbues her writing with poignant images…
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ABOUT: Siza Nkosi
Siza Nkosi is a published poet, writer, lyricist, guitarist and a mother who has shared pages of her life-stories on stages with renowned poets and artists. She currently works as an IT Networking Specialist. Her journey as a poet and writer started in 2006, when she was discovered by Abdul Milazi – Editor of Sunday…
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ABOUT: Lebogang Mashishi
“We all need someone to hold our hand, tell us it will be alright, we could all do with a bit of motivation” Lebogang Mashishi’s love for reading and writing started when he was in high school. Over the years, he observed the life around him and with the hopes of making a difference in…
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I WANT MY HEART BACK
The day you dumped me, you forgot to give me my heart back, I was not aware that you did that with intentions of breaking me down. You kept it in your hands and whenever you saw me smiling, heading to my happiness you smashed it bit by bit to an extent that I never…