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Nothing ever promised tomorrow, today

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Its only after your high school years that you realise that the ball of you future is in your hands, and that if you drop it, no one but you will be held liable. I think when we in school we think too much about what you apparantly have planned about a future that isnt certain for some of us. And others sit back and ask Jesus to take the wheel. Let me guess, you think he gon help you out? Well i believe...if you sweat and work hard for your shit...it'll pay off. Eventually. But a few seem to think all thats needed is prayer.... Nah folks its bigger than that. Dont downsize your ambitions just because of minor difficulties or obstacles that can be overcome. Ive learnt to keep a controlable amount of friends. The thing with a shit load amount of friends is that it brings a shit load amount of confusion, hate, and just people that dont want to see you heading up the ladder. -Nceba Thabethe

What Is Acceptable?

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What is acceptable? Are we supposed to dress a specific way, listen to specific music, have specific values. Believe in certain religions, live certain lifestyles in order to fit the bill of what's acceptable? I would be lying if i said we gave a F** but sadly and unnoticely, we do. We preach "live your life the way you see fit!" Or "f*** what all yall mother***** say ima do me!" It's very powerful statements that fill the interwebs and socials but honestly do we practice what we preach? Do we really live life the way we see fit? You feel a certain way when someone says to you that they don't like you. You feel a certain way when someone says you dress funny, you ain't got swag, that's so last season...yadi ya bla bla bla bla bla bla.... People gon always talk and we will not always share the same principles and values. One might not believe in the church or the christian faith as a whole, one might be a born again...who do you think is righ...

Who's World Is This.

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Our brains are a very powerful tool. They take full control of our body operations. The fact that you can read this message, scroll down this screen is functions that your brain process. Without the mind, the body can't operate. Our brains translate what we see with our eyes into our own unique understanding of the world dynamics comes the saying we don't think alike. Our brains are so powerful that it can turn our thoughts into reality. I want you to read that last line i said again and again untill you get tired. No like really do it. Our brains are so powerful that it cab turn our thoughts into reality. Take it into whatever context you want but what I'm tryna say is that the world is nothing but a canvas of our thoughts turned into reality. Everything you see, touch and use which was man made was one, or maybe more peoples thoughts turned into reality. Facebook, twitter, BBM, all these things were.just a dream to someone, today its a neccesity for billions. Like it...

The Art of Giving.

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If theres one thing my mom told & taught me to grow old with, Its the gesture of "Giving". Theres a difference between giving out of the kindness of your heart and giving just because you were asked to. Last night on my way home. A limping, grey headed, old lady was walking in the opposite direction i was walking in. So she tapped my hand and pulled me to the side and asked me for R1, for a freaken R1. Which i unfortunately didnt have, but i gave her R5 which was initially meant for something else (im no millionnaire). This woman's face instantly lit up and glowed, and you could see it wasnt a fake grin but a genuine smile. That really touched me. We tend to take lightly how far a simple gesture of giving the smallest things can mean a whole lot more to the reciever. Well,Rewind back in to the lives we live in nowadays, lives where we only want to give something to someone (even if they not less fortunate) if we ourselves receive something in return. Im no s...

Are You Better Than Me?

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We all have different outlooks on life and different goals. We live our lives differently. Have different belief systems. We value different things, our cultures are vastly diversified. One question. What makes your life better then those around you? Now this is sensitive and quite a complex question to answer cause in todays society people be always catching feelings outchea. What makes your life better than mine? If you can answer that question, you shallow. I mean it. We all want different things from life. Life is an individual journey of ( self) discovery. We are not the same so technically no one is better than the other. I don't care if you got millions, own strip clubs or whatever. We all walk on the same ground, same earth, breath the same oxygen and ultimately drink the same water. Drink your distilled spring water, its still comprises of the compounds hydrogen and oxygen. What I'm trying to say is don't worry yourself about what others are doing or how far are...

Be your own leader.

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People grow up listening to the wrong rappers. Looking up to the wrong idols. Following in the footsteps of others and not paving a clear path broad enough for their own footsteps. Thats why history repeats itself, because we caught up between making something of our lives and trying to be someone else. Its a fact, because we see all these types of people everyday on tv, rapping about shit they dont know, idols shooting drugs up into their systems to find consolement. And then you get those that find being on the other side of law as a hobby. In whatever you do, someone is always watching no matter how big or small you are, so eventually theres going to come a time where people look up to you. Success doesnt define a person's intel . So just stay true to who you are and the rest will fall into place eventually. Nceba Thabethe

Where's Home?

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My cousin said to me apartheid is still alive. I asked him why he believes that. He told me black people are still poor. Then my response initialy was laughter but it got me thinking. Then i said to him as long as there's a black brother driving a Lamborghini...then apartheid is non existent in todays society. We kept on arguing but what i learnt from this was that we don't know much about our countries past, so if we don't know where we from, how will we know were we going? A pastor once said you cannot comment on foreign culture when you don't even know your own. When you don't know where home is, you are a worthless cause you have no origin. In modern terms you like a plastic, you stuff whatever you stuff in there and when you empty, you drift of to other worlds. Today is 16 June. Youth Day, I'm not gonna tell you of the importance and the history of this day but i want you to find out for yourself. This our heritage, this is our culture, this is our id...

Dead Presidents.

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How angry i get when i see how some people act like life was always like this is in South Aftica, that we lived so freely and we chose where we want to live, like people were never oppressed. Im a born free, i might not know so much about the proceedings during the Apartheid or after. But i sure as hell know those were some tough times for the blvck and coloured people of South Africa. Just imagine if you were told that you not allowed to use the public toilets just because of your skin colour. Imagine if you couldnt even walk,chill or even play in a park freely just because of your skin colour. And although all those hard times are now behind us, i still feel the sense of racism amongst the born frees. This shows that some parents havent healed as much as others and feed their off-spring with whatever it is they feed them with, then when they get to school,work, sports or where ever and you see that this person actually doesnt like any other race except his/her own. Im only turni...

Please Dont Shoot Me Down!

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I think of Police Brutality back in the 1970s, when people were still oppressed by the fvcked apartheid government. Comparing the police now and the police of the 70s, not much has changed besides that more blacks have joined the force than whites, but brutality still sticks. We've all heard or even seen how they treat people. Beating them so hard that they land up in hospital or even dead. I watched Special Assignment the other night and they were reviewing videos recorded by these sick-twisted police officers and they were sending their police dogs on a few black men and beating them up so brutally, those videos were honestly disturbing , i mean what the fvck is that? And you would think these are the same people we should call up to come protect us and shit?? I dont blame those that get guns and find justice themselves, its because police officers are just a piece of shit. Truth be told.Not a day goes by without a complaint is filed against police officers from the highest...

Freedom Was Not A Right But Just A Dream

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I think back to 1976, the student march. I think back to Mandela, Chris Hani, Steve Biko, countless people who's blood been shed for the freedom we have today. The countless people like me and you gunned down for the right they believed in, proper education. If the youth of today were as passionate as the youth who marched in the 70s imagine how different the demographics in this country would be today. Well the dynamics have changed and we not under the same conditions. But take a moment to honour the youth of 1976. We actually get a holiday this month because of what they did. They went beyond the point of fear. Fear of death. Do you think you can get to that point where you want something so much that death ain't a factor? That's what i call passion. That's what i call resilliance. That's what i call never giving up on what you believe in. That's what i call heart. In 2014 i doubt what you wanna fight for involves death as an outcome but take the passion...

Freedom Came At A Price

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I cant take my eyes off the sight of a dead man killed while running for cover/ Or those school kids that took a stand to being oppressed by the apartheid but instead got so brutally gunned down/ Bang...Bang... Two shots in his back, now theres a child somewhere living without a father/ Or a mother or a daughter or bright young son/ Crowd roars as more shots are fired/ Boys in blue walking with their fingers on the trigger/ They must be Trigger happy/ We all get trigger happy, but hey we dont all pull the wrong one. More lives lost/ More lives lost/ Now those we lost are looking down at us sitting on Gods shoulder/ Seeking out for vengeance but at what cost? When we all find other things to do because we think about nobody but ourselves/ Wheres the people that used to stand together to go against something/ Ever stopped and thought whos grave you stood on? You got no time for that, right? Well, theres a fine between knowledge and power/ The surface of this earth is a ...

Dont let that dream slip.

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The only reason why your dreams keep fading away is because you dont take time to believe in your own shit... I dont know, maybe you concentrated on school, work, sport, partying, whatever it is that keeps you busy, so much that you dont realise your own life is on hold. I still remember all the Friday nights i had with my friends,chilling around the table ,gettting wired x jamming to some good music. Man i remember those nights like they were yesterday. We used to talk all night with not holding back on anything. We always had a lot on our minds, we were somewhat busy beings with loads of ambitions. You could see in each of our eyes that these okes had big dreams, dreams that nobody could take away from us. We were sometimes business minded.Everyday they came up with different plans x ideas of making money. I used to look at my friends and think "Man if only everytime you had a genius idea, you made loads of cash", i swear, we couldve been stinking rich. People all ...

Destined For Greatness

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I love positive energy. I love positive thinking. I love positive actions. Positive outcomes. Positive people. Then you gonna come with your negativity. You suck. Postive thinking leads to positive outcomes. Simple as that. You'd expect more people to be happy with their lives but we so caught up in our faults and wrongs that we become pessimists. Pessimist by definiton in short is a negative person. The sun shines everyday. We get food on our tables everyday, we at libertity of actually going to school. Your family loves you. Your friends care for you. You beautiful. An amazing person and there's no one like you in the 7 billion people on this planet. No one can smile like you do. No one can love like you do. No one can talk like you do. No one can walk like you do. No one can be like you. So take a moment away from your own flaws and imperfections, guys too. Think about all the great things about you and your life cause you are great and destined for greatness. Stand ...

Every key needs an owner, so does Success.

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You cant tell me you in this world and you are not amongst the many, trying to figure out whats the key to success. Well,Here i am trying to be the best locksmith of my time. Creating every key necessary to unlock the treasure chest buried beneath these self-centered human souls. As long as you tread the face of this earth you cannot justify yourself as free or living freely. You cannot sit back and let people pass you by or run you over because of the power they possess. Sometimes we need to put ourselves in the most uncomfortable positions just to get us further ahead and a lot more closer to our pinnacle(s). I think there are those individuals who are intimidated by really smart, talented people. But for me, surrounding yourself with great talent is the key to success. I remember early this year i had this dream and it has never left me ever since... I was on walking into a huge corporate company looking a job,when I actually entered the building and looked around, I could see...

I DARE YOU

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Think of our country. South Africa. Think of our people South Africans. Think of our economy...broke South Africans. Those who have well don't have enough. Its only a few percantage of actual millionaires in this country. Yeah i said, "millionaires". People get scared when i mention that word because its hardly part of our vocab. Think about it if someone could own a fleet of trucks starting years ago from one broken down Nissan 1400, that small classic shit but a rundown version, what's stopping us. Like i mean our economy is in shambles, corruption is an everyday meal, jobs and job oppertunites are become scarse, there's more tables with no food everynight than the day before. Oh and the quality of our education in our government schools is just downgrading every year. Looks bad hey? Problems....problems...problems...problems, blah blah blah blah...yadi yayaya i could write down to the limit i have of writing characters on this blog of all the problems we got...

Free Thinkers.

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Free thinking means forming viewpoints and opinions that are based on reason and logic and hold water. Such viewpoints should not be influenced by authority, tradition or any principles . People who form views and opinions in a similar manner are called free thinkers. Free thinking emphasizes the fact that we should not follow proposed truths without them being logically valid. It emphasizes on thinking being based on facts and scientific inquiry. The year 1600 marks the beginning of the era of free thinking. David Cross had once said, “Nobody is going to be as bad for free thinking, right- minded individuals than George Bush.” Free thought leads to freedom of thought and should never be confused with free speech. Both are rights in themselves, but the right to free speech has been declared as a human right while the free thinking is not a right. Free thinking is a very relative concept, which people can exercise on their own will. Nceba Thabet...

In a Culture of Pointing Fingers & Scapegoats, whos to B.L.A.M.E?

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We cant deny the fact that we have all been caught up in a situation where you are being blamed for something you didnt do or say. I often hear the term “victimizing” being used. We are accused of victimizing others in lieu of advocating for our own personal desires. In reality, this accusation could not be further from the truth. »When that thought to be a friend of yours finds it easy to point blame at you when you in the headmasters office, for trouble he/she caused. »When your boss uses you as he's/her scapegoat everytime they failed as management. »When your coach singles you out after losing a match. »Theres plenty of scenarios, they just never stop, but what should stop is people pointing fingers and using others as scapegoats for their own failures. To be honest, Nobody should be made or feel like the bearer of blame or punishment that should rightfully fall on others. People should teach themselves that they should man up and take the...

No Amount Of Hustle Is Ever Enough

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When i think of hustle, i think of god. I think of christianity, i think of faith. No amount of hustle is ever good enough. Woah...wait a minute, probably thinking this guy be contradicting himself and all of the picture quotes in the whole entire interwebs. No amount of hustle is ever good enough. You can work, hustle, spend sleepless nights working towards something but then to only realize you didn't achieve what you wanted. How can that be, they say if you give it your all you'll be rewarded....why...? Well typical answer to that, life ain't fare. Not much reasoning to that answer is there. No amount of hustle is ever good enough. Hustle on its own ain't enough. You can sit infront of books all day everyday for that big test, read your work, memorize that shit like its a nursery rhyme but the difference between you passing that paper and failing it is in the moment you enter that exam room. No amount of hustle is ever good enough. You need faith. When i talk ab...

Pick Yo' A$$ Up

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If theres one thing that restricts people from any form of progress, its accepting defeat. We put barries/boundaries before us and make it seem soo hard to get up,dust ourselves and say "Hey Fvckers,Im Rolling with the punches, tomorrow is just another day." Boo_Fvcken_Hoo!!! So what if you got problems that fill up 99 trucks. What we doing is poisoning ourselves by focusing on just our problems and we poisoning those who we tell our problems to. People want to hear solutions... Some sh*t that'll get you out the deep end and put you back to your feet and have success eat out your hand. We live in a cynical world. Controlled by power...yes i said it "Controlled". People have a stinking ass tendency to think that when they got that paper, they automatically control sh*t... Truth is; Whoever has possession of money is being controlled. The world and everything in it is only what you make of it...so go out there and own your sh*t. If you dont have heart,...

Misconceptions

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Misconception     a view or opinion that is incorrect because based on faulty thinking or understanding . Apparently you cannot have problems if you have a starving African child. Apparently you cannot have problems if your parents are still together. Apparently you cannot have problems if you are a white chick           or a heterosexual male. Apparently you cannot have problems if you get good grades or should I sat marks. Apparently you cannot have problems unless someone else justifies them.        The Apparently never end!!!!   Lets not be caught up with the misconceptions of this world, these are just a few of many other misconceptions that we pass around amongst each other. What screws us up the most is the picture in our heads of how sh*t is supposed to be. Heads are clouded with ignorance and not wanting to know more about sh...

The Weather

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I think of our dreams. I think of our passion. How all these interlink with one other. How how dreams always translate with were our passion lies but one question i ask myself always....will we ever make it. Will our lives translate in such a way that our dreams become possibilty. That possibility becomes reality. The future is what we cannot predict. If only we could predict our future the way we predict the weather. When its gonna rain tomorrow, we know we need to pack an umbrella. If its gonna be hot, we know we need to apply our sun screen. Life doesn't work like weather predictions sadly. We only know of the now, tomorrow is unknown but that doesn't stop us from planning for our future. These are thoughts that cross my mind and the question that always pops up in my head....where are we going?... Well  no one can answer that question so should it mean we should quit because we don't know if the sun gon shine tomorrow? Just like weather predictions they don't tel...

Black Consciousness

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I never lived in the apartheid era, i am a born free so race seperation is not something I've been exposed to but i see it all the time. We live in a democratic state. By right we are allowed to choose our own leaders, a contrast to what was happening in past times. Its been 20 years of our democratic freedom. Rainbow Nation is the new drug. They keep on popping that shit but don't realise that its gonna take more than just a couple of banner campaigns and free t-shirts to get over the past. I see with my elders that the hurt is still there. I would sit shocked at the stories they would tell me of the past cause its not what they tell us at school. One of my uncles was shot 7 times and he's still alive today. Point blank when he was at home infront of his family for what? For being black? How do you get over such things and sing and dance along to whatever fucking message they tryna drill into people. I'm not saying we should start a genocide, kill all white people, ...

Technology x Ideas

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Technology has grown and shifted. From big boom box systems hanging over shoulders to walkmans to mp3 players to iPods... We cant disagree that we in a new age of technology. Imagine if an idea shot out a person's brain the same way technology shoots out the industry... Imagine if your ideas were the reason we didnt have to use remotes to control our appliances... Well they can. I believe every idea is good enough to be realised, but the problem lies with us not believing in our own ideas then when someone makes use of them we want to complain and shit. It doesnt matter how small or big your idea is, what matters is what you do with it.

Petronilamm

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“ Action is the driving force of life ” What I would like you to do now is, think of a major goal you have or a dream to have been carrying on the inside of you. To achieve any goals that you have set for yourself or any live your dream, consistent action coupled with patience and persistent is required of you. If you are not doing anything to make your dreams and goals a reality, then all you have is wishful thinking. “Now” and “I will” will be the motivating factor for you to do anything positive in the world and achieve the desired success in life. There is never quite a right time to take action, it is we who should make the time we are “in” the right time. If you don’t make to engage in positive actions that will create the life you want, you’re eventually going to be forced to spend a lot of time living a life you don’t want

Acceptance Speech

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I need to be put in a quarantine because my lines are the disease thats killing people slowly/ But no one knows it yet because they too focused on the root of all evil/ Im Sitting silent in their immune systems, eating them from the inside-out/ I feed on the souls that dont believe that i can one day make it/ Death ? What is death ? Death is my sibling trying to pick a fight with the weak/ If you one of the hundreds thats wondering what im on about/ Then you, my friend, have been defeated by ignorance and killed by selfishness/ Theres no colour in the pictures i paint because i know your eye sight is black and white so everything to you is just the same / I wont forgive you for not understanding me, instead ill stand on you just so i get height advantage when i make it/ I sound angry, dont i?/ Thats just how i feel when potential is lost and never found/ Thats just how i feel when ive grown despite being surrounded by a backward society/ Society is backward but growing for...

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