A Year Later: 5 Things I’ve Learned Since Quitting My Job

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It’s taken me five days to actually write this post. To be honest, I thought I’d be publishing this post somewhere far from South Africa’s borders, having just sat down for an amazing video interview with an artist I really enjoy. But I am definitely in South Africa. And I haven’t sat face to face […]

Goodbye, Michael, Hello…new fan?

Pam and Michael of The Office. Pic: YouTube

Full disclosure: I’ve never cared about The Office. Not the British version. Not the American version. I don’t know if I care right now but I will say this: I’m blindsided. I never espededit. Rewind. My Dude loves The Office. The American version. On a whim a couple of weeks ago, he decided to watch […]

What it’s like to be in a doccie

South African music journalist, Helen Herimbi, appears in the Yo! MTV Raps Africa hip hop documentary

When MTV Base commissioned an African version of Yo! MTV Raps, I was asked to appear on one of the episodes. It was nice. It was a panel discussion about the relationship between kwaito and hip hop. Shortly after that, I was asked to appear in the documentary that accompanied the series. It was about […]