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Art of Balance
Search for: Art of Balance career / home / Relationship / Self-care Art you in? I’ve been invited many times to speak on the concept of balance. I think when people look from outside in, they see this person who has it all figured out. As I type this,...
10 Tips For Starting Your Own Side Hustle
1. Analyse your time usage and where you can steal time or cut down activities to invest that time back into your side hustle Before deciding to start a side hustle, it is important to assess your schedule and look for moments in your day that can be...
Trust Your Gut: Gut & Liver Health
My Story I’ve always been one to listen to my body and allow it to cue me towards good health and function. But lately, no matter how much I tried, eating healthy, fasting, drinking plenty water, moving more… you name it, my body was just not happy. I was feeling...
Fallacy or Fact: Working From Home Is Productive
This past year was atrocious to the whole world and at the moment, no one wants to revisit the memories created during the height of the COVID19 pandemic. Nevertheless, that painful period educated many of us. We learnt new words like ‘Zoom dysmorphia,’ ‘Comorbidity,’...
Feb Editor’s Note: Growing in Love Where You Are Planted
Olwethu’s February Editor’s Note.
Review: Happiness Ever After
Director: Thabang Moleya (Happiness is a Four-letter word, The Herd) Screenwriter: Ayanda Halimana Producers: Bongiwe Selane (Happiness is a Four-letter word, Nomalanga and the Witch) Synopsis: The glamorous Happiness friends are back close to four years after we...
Debunking The Myth of Youth Political Apathy
Are the youth dismissive of their blood stained democratic privilege/responsibility to vote? Or has the government misused and abused their privilege and responsibility to serve? We unpack this in today’s blogpost.
Listen To Your Footsteps – Review
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Olwethu Leshabane (@olwe2lesh) (Intro) O: Welcome, come on right in, we have this amazing conversation, as we close off ‘National Book Week’. So, we're going to have a conversation with Kojo Baffoe today, and it's really...
It’s The Answers For Me: Review
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Olwethu Leshabane (@olwe2lesh) Award-winning marketing guru and creative Khaya Dlanga has released his fourth book, ‘It’s The Answers For Me.’ This is definitely a read you can escape to when you turn off social...
Shudu Finds Her Magic: Review
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Olwethu Leshabane (@olwe2lesh) Miss South Africa 2020 Shudufhadzo Musida keeps raising the bar! She has now added ‘Author’ to her many titles. Shudu, as she is affectionately known by South Africans, has published a...
Kinky Roots – Review
Kinky Roots, A Memoir highlights twenty-two themes of the life experiences of Cybersecurity consultant, wife and mother of two Jack Russel terriers, Ingrid Arlington. She begins her journey with her earliest memories of living in Zimbabwe, growing up without her...
Four Female Spiritual Voices To Listen To
If ‘umgowo’ (A South African IsiXhosa slang word which means that one is going through the most/going through a lot) was allocated a season in our lives collectively, it would definitely be between 2020 and 2021. Most of us have lost loved ones, experienced job...
The Women’s Jail at Constitution Hill – Review
As a ‘born-free’ I was desensitised quite slowly to the images and videos showing the violence that occurred during Apartheid. Listening to radio shows and watching documentaries about struggle heroines and heroes painted a pretty good picture in my head of what...
Home2Live – Review
I’ve always had to scold at myself for working backwards with a lot of things. An example of this is the process of formulating an idea and turning it into creative writing. We’ve been conventionally taught to start with a brainstorm, get to the introduction, body,...
Lakutshon’ Ilanga – Review
Although the effects of apartheid are still evident in modern South Africa, I feel quite fortunate to be part of a generation that is privileged enough to still hear personal accounts of the dark apartheid days. Lakutshon’ Ilanga is about a young, black nurse living...
JIVA! – Review
I matriculated five years ago, and it was only after my first semester in varsity, that I stopped reminiscing about my high school days. Our school had a large population of pupils – to give you an idea of this; my class of 2016 had 386 learners – I still remember...
Walking With Ghosts – A Memoir (Review)
Before I tucked into this book, I quickly scanned the synopsis on the inner jacket and close to the bottom, the phrase “…sensual recollections of childhood…” made me chuckle. And that is exactly what I got with this book. The author Gabriel Byrne weaves a...
Disney: My Magic Is Me
I can never get over the excitement and elation of my children in seeing themselves mirrored in TV or digital content. Just recently, I overheard a conversation the two older brothers were and in describing a particular TV character, the explanation included “The one...
Pitcher At The Fountain Of Wisdom – Review
It makes sense to me now why Professor Bonang Mohale wrote an insightful foreword on Simpiwe Masiza's Anthology. While perusing through the anthology, I began forming a mental image of the author, and I started appreciating the wisdom that he afforded us in his...
