"Recovering ancient hidden knowledges, as long as we are responsible with them, is important considering how many ills there are in our society."
"What a funny sight it would be to see power dynamics neutralised by something as ordinary as friendship".
Is the articulation of anger helping to create more value around women’s safety, our lives and our needs in relation to the men in our society?
How has our digital communication affected our relationship to the concept of seeing each other’s humanity?
After an encounter on the plane Milisuthando Bongela concludes that: “When given the choice to be right or to be kind, always choose to be kind.”
"It’s not that I wanted to be white. But I wanted them to accept and like me and I was all too happy to jump through the hoops."
"In South Africa, fighting occupies the space between everything".
"In the absence of living on a piece of land with my extended family… I yearn for this kind of connection in my modern life".
"Do I go Winnie or Mandela on him? Urrrggghhhh, I’m just trying to get fit, I don’t want to think about racism right now bletty shet".
"The power we attribute to the people in whose name apartheid was made is perhaps too generous at times and too limited to the power to have things".
"Feelings are at the core of everything we do and yet we do not give them the intellectual, personal and public attention they deserve".
"Being human is not an event. It is a process of traversing a timeline where suffering is as much of a fact as laughter."
"The fridge nje wasn’t an area you could casually visit as and when you pleased."
"I freeze. A few but many seconds pass and I tell Sam that I’m not comfortable searching her."
Iimbali! is a space for stories and other narrative-based social analysis
"I found it very connective and de-isolating, soothing the pain I felt as a child"
Iimbali! is a space for stories and other narrative-based social analysis
Iimbali is a space for stories and other narrative-based social analysis
Iimbali is a space for stories and other narrative-based social analysis.
Iimbali is a space for stories and other narrative-based social analysis
