KGAUGELO MASWENENG | Representation, the mother of ambition
May those elected lead us into the future of contemporary media, with much-needed diligence and wisdom
18 November 2024 - 04:38
The memory of my big sister, Sematsi, and I huddled on my mother’s Gomma Gomma sofas watching Akeelah and the Bee around 9am on Saturdays, while taking turns to check if my father was coming around the corner, is one that I hold dear to me. It was not so much that it reminds me of our mischief but that she thought me a smart, brave and capable girl and this was our way of bonding. Besides the fact that she habitually insinuated our mother picked me up in a trash can somewhere (it took me a while to shake this one off, I won’t lie), she believed in me...
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