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FALLACY OF TRUE AFFECTION

Is there really “the one”? The notion of finding true love has become nothing but a distant fallacy of unbeknown true affection, filled with misgivings of pretense and blind thin lines of love and hate, between spending and expenses - mostly due to the lack of honesty with pursued aspirant lovers, or “the one” you with.

Love is an age old thing that we all want to have, craze after, at times knock heads and break legs to get to it, without considering the consequences of being in it and keeping it – a loving relationship.  

Watching etv the other day, an advert that came in as a promo for the station “Everyone wants love”  tingled my thoughts on the subject of L.O.V.E -  are we addicted to the sex and nudity of being, or are we addicted to the communication and the sharing that makes up love?  

Love is a very complicated and complex emotive facet of being, and a personal transverse issue. People fall in love for various number of reasons unfathomed by anything and anyone - differ from person to person.

In others it is really true love – that is a cosmic related affection that can never be explain by those that witness its revelation, as in “Did she really go that far for him?” or “Did he really do that for her?” or “ Are these people in love or mad?” – they could move in a dumpster, and they will still see no one but each other, real love – naïve love. That’s what I call love!

However, there are those of us out there who are not looking for true love, but the false ideal of being in love. We go searching for a lover to carry us financially and not emotionally. We give it up at night and hope he gets through it quickly, because he is not “the one”, then rollover when it’s done and close our eyes in pretence of the reality that will unwrap at dawn – we selling in a good dwelling.

Have you ever sat near a couple that are married but see no camaraderie between them - the man just takes out a big wallet and hands the woman the money, then inwardly growls, a slit perceptive growl, like “Why am I paying you to love me.” She doesn’t even look at him or give thanks. What is going on! No affection! Don’t know about anything, but showing appreciative affection in public makes one appreciates you more.  

What’s  important? The relevance of the situation or the situation’s relevance? Are you in a relationship because you love your partner in spite of everything good or bad around you, and anyone that tries to shake the boat that is carried by that sea of love, thus earn a holistic existence? Or are you in a relationship for the niceties when the nudity is over and done with, thus look to someone else to fulfill the emotional need?  

J Cole and Trey Songz say they “Can’t get enough”. Will people reach a phrase or place where they will be truly enough with their chosen partner, without the laden part. Love matters and has a lot of matters  

A couple can be really happy in the open and behind closed doors and complete each other: communication, emotionally and physically, and reach their relationship's real benefits - longstanding true love.     

WORD TO A NEW TRUE AFFECTION REVOLUTION

By Linda Sakazi Thwala

A GOOD BOOK

Like a good title of a book;

You’ve caught my eye

I have read the first page;

You've captured my mind

Should I read on?

I want to know the theme

You fill my heart

I cannot put this book down

The first chapter is so eloquently written;

I want to know you

A sentence for a sentence

Each metaphor, syllable, euphemism

A tale - the lady that you are;

I wonder about the brackets

Your body so marvelously beautiful

Forget about the exclamation marks

I want to scream your name!

I cannot put this book down

And maybe, just maybe

Not a day too late

I will proclaim

My deepest affection

For thee

This Good Book

 By Linda Sakazi Thwala 

PARENTS WHO USE THEIR CHILDREN AS SHIELDS

A bad relationship can wield a stack of unwarranted nasty warring manoeuvres from two people who use to admire each other, but find themselves fighting an emotional war that leaves no emotional casualties. One of these spiteful tactics is using the child/children as a pawn(s) to make the other partner mentally and emotionally wounded.

Parents who use their children as shields are not only embroiled in a dangerous affair of destroying their own lives, but also stand to annihilate the lives of innocent bystanders that did not ask to be part of their selfish war.  

What parents do in such situations of a desperate ploy to appease their own hurt, and inflict much needed damage to the other spouse – format damaging statements about the other partner to their child/children, or make them respond in an inappropriate manner in front of their children/child. Creating a chaotic verbal confrontation, which leads to physical abuse.

The children end up with a view that their parent is a nothing that can be respected or regarded as an important entity in their lives – even if they were not the ones that initiated the scuffle. This summons more animosity between the couple, an endless circle of abuse.

At times the circle of  ill-treatment resort to name calling on the children/child’s part because their mother or father told them to brand their spouse as such and such. And chose to being insolent and disregarding of their parent’s feelings and property.  The child/children becomes an emotion threat and destructive bridge that can never be crossed – which leads to a partner exiting the relationship/marriage entirely, erasing their children from their lives in the process.   

    

Using your child/children as a pawn(s) in an emotional battle to gain control over your partner  culminates in a lose-lose situation, without positive reprimand.

If children/child goes through life without having experienced a different love or relationship situation and environment besides, the one between his/her parents; grows up thinking that relationships are a repugnant union – therefore the same situation is perpetuated time and again.

The pinches of relationship repression become ever so much harder to surmount, when the child/children turn against you as a parent because of a brawl between you and your spouse, especially when you are committed to being emotionally, physically and financially responsible towards them.   

  

There are better channels that can be used to remedy the situation without resorting to spreading emotional animosity between a child/children and their other parent.           

It is humanly acceptable to feel hurt when your partner or spouse becomes emotionally and physically negligent towards you and your feelings, however it is not acceptable to intentionally turn your child/children against their parent because, you had a fallout with them.      

Parents who use their children as shields in their relationships, end up destroying their own children.

WORD TO A NEW CHILD PROTECTION REVOLUTION

By Linda Sakazi Thwala

EMOTIONAL TIME - WHEN TIME DOESN’T HEAL......

In relationships couples tend to punish each other for the deeds that were committed by partners from their previous relationships. The torment brought on a new loving relationship by a previous relationship despairing experience, carters a weighing emotional encounter that brings a psychological inequity  to their new relationship.

A distressing experience may vary from emotional abuse to physical or both - that was never addressed and dealt with properly to allow the process of healing to take place.  The experience becomes a stigma of failure and shame in the lives, creating a impression of vulnerability in an individual’s personal makeup.

Some individuals, through emotional vulnerability become emotionally dependent on others, either a lover, spouse or family members – at times are most likely expected to fall into the same trap that they were trying to avoid; subsequently the circle of abuse becomes their lifelong effort of rubbing the evasive emotional, and at times clear physical dent from their personality framework.  

An emotional heartbreak can lead to an individual losing the tidbits of their own emotional intelligence, that regulates their emotive aptitude and mental intelligence, thus create a personality imbalance, on their part, leading to an emotionally educed abnormally. Others plummet towards the margins of self-blame.  

The emotional abnormally comes as a defense mechanism in an effort to eradicate the hurt that has created this seemingly immovable dent, which has shaped their entire existence. Therefore, the circle of hurting and being hurt is perpetuated unremittingly – when avoided.              

It is through ‘reflective therapy’ that one may mend from such tormenting emotional heartbreaks, by breaking down the levels and indentations of that psychological and physical abuse. The process of mending does take time, and a great deal of effort if not faced straight on.

On the other hand, it’s funny how time doesn't really heal the most pertinent moment of relationship heartbreak, however renders a moment of reflection and growth - in relation to how it is taken and dealt with. At times the heartbreak is not given enough time of reflection, healing and emotional growth, therefore it becomes an enduring psychosomatic dent to an individual, hence a safety pin is manifested to an emotionally vulnerable individual – any pressure, the siren goes off, to safeguard the soft dent.

There is no total healing to despondent dents of emotional relationship heartbreaks – there is only time and space of reflecting and reaching a point of mental and emotional deducing as to why it happened, and how the dent of heartbreak can be applied to educate one emotionally, in order to avoid carrying it over to your next relationship.   

It’s how you deal with the relationship heartbreak that gives you transcending growth in how you treat your other romantic relationships from the hurt that has altered your perception on love.

WORD TO A NEW EMOTIONAL HEALING PROCESS REVOLUTION

By Linda Sakazi Thwala 

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UNSOLICITED TEENAGE SEXUAL ACTIVITY

The thought of teenagers consorting in unsolicited sexual activities with their fellow peers does not dwell well in my cognitive confines. Over the years, South Africa has seen an increase in teenage mortality deaths, mainly due to guardianship neglect from parents and adults in our communities, to safeguard and instilling sexual decency – help in preventing and prolonging unwanted sexual activity, unwanted pregnancies; thus help curb sexual transmitted infections and permanent sexual illnesses.      

We as a society need to encourage our youth to practise abstinence, over and above protection, for as long as it is possible in their adolescent years and early adulthood. Teenagers should not be allowed to use any form of contraceptive medicine, neither oral nor injected. As it has been medically proven that some contraceptives pills and injections, can lead to irreparable dysfunction to their reproductive system and help spread Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) and H.I.V/Aids.

Some people view sexual education talks and condom use as encouragement to teenagers to be sexually promiscuous, however I beg to differ.  Sexual talks with teenagers, as noted in the media, particularly concerning the ‘reproductive process’ – as to how, why and what makes a young girl, or a woman pregnant, and the consequences of having to carry the responsibility of bearing a baby, hitherto - are necessary.     

  

Young boys need to understand that penetrating a young female peer sexually, comes with responsibilities, and the fundamental responsibility is to ‘Father’ the baby that will be reproduced from that young female peer through unprotected penetration. Including the pain and torments of treating a sexually acquired infection and disease.

Teenage sexual activity and all its ominous concatenations that support it has to be restrained by a well informed and refined parental hand, that knows when to talk and instil responsible discipline.

Concatenations such as television adult viewing restrictions, pornographic internet site surfing, cellphone sexual advertisements, need to be explained to a young unrefined mind as to what they mean, whom they are directed to and why they shouldn’t be watched by youngsters.           

Failing to talk to your child about sex and its concentration elements can and will lead to teenage rebellion, family dysfunction and unnecessary sorrowing moments.

The Media has captured some of these moments – young boys consorting in unsolicited sex during school hours, in their school’s cloakrooms/toilets with young girls. In some of these cellphone captured  sexual encounters a young girl is being shared by two or three young boys in that moment – despicable.

Parents, guardians, community leaders and the media, need to take a stand  in reducing such despicable teenage behaviour. And I do not think that injecting young girls, who haven’t reached puberty with ‘sterilising medication’ (like animals), will help in depleting teenage pregnancies or curb the spread of H.I.V/Aids.

WORD TO A NEW TEENAGE SEXUAL AWARENESS REVOLUTION

By Linda Sakazi Thwala 

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SAKAZI’S REVIEW: QUIETUDE -‘the arrival’

Quietude’s debut album, “The Arrival” is a solid 15 track album (excluding interludes and the outro), blended with a perfect classical sound, jam-packed of idyllic clichés, “taking you back” with borrowed phrases, tempo style and Hip-hop finesse that made the 90’s Hip Hop legendary jazzy genre, with a fabulous piece of vocal narcissism – well done.

Quietude is a Rap fanatic duo of Sello Motsoko a.k.a “Bakdraft” and Pule Pelo “Domino” that has been scrapping, rap battles and enthusiast’s scenes around South Africa – honing their trade in Tembisa’s Hip Hop arena – “1632”.

The duo’s Jazzy, layback feel is a soothing mature melodic vogue that is truly a creative time machine. Although there are some areas that need to be refined which includes own sound originality and a bit of more lyrical consciousness – there’s a resonance of richness and growth in their style.

It is the way the album is structured and delivered with fine clever sampling, that takes a listener to another rhythmic dimension, a celebration of Hip Hop grooves and space. Making a stand on its own.

The featured vocal virtuousness and articulation of Nongoma Ndlovu and Gracia Bolha on “Blaze This Song” and “Things Ain’t The Same” respectively, capitulates this duo’s musical expression of ‘Kasie Hip Hop’ to another level.

My personal favourite, track number 12, “Home of Hip Hop” featuring the ever vernacular lyrically potent, Paragon, is a wordy oral praise of life, charity and hospitality of Tembisa - “iKasie lama Kasie”. With track 4 “Time Travel” summing up the ‘taking you back theme’ saluting the American Hip Hop influences that made Quietude what it is to date.

The Production team includes Cap-Stone, Trompie a.k.a Blcksperm, Mark Watson, Landmarq, Blknght, Nyambz, Lully and Phanatik One - Quietude co-producing some of the tracks.

The album lacks a bit of sound originality, but enough to make all Quietude fans and Hip Hop heads to brake heads and take a bracing flossing word. It is a personal winner and a future prospect to what Hip Hop should be in South Africa. The album is worth every Rand for Rap/Hip Hop lovers – a classic.

One thing for-sure, this Hip Hop duo has arrived and is going places. As they say “We ain’t Rap artists, we musicians...”, giving you enough stuff that grows on you, and leaves you wanting more.

WORD TO A QUIETUDE HIP HOP REVOLUTION

By Linda Sakazi Thwala

Contact Bakdraft @ 0794036613

Email : quietude1632@gmail.com

Websites
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NEW AGE ANIMOSITY BETWEEN THE SEXES

A self-defeating subtle attrition between feminine and masculine forces that has hurled all societies of the globe into an imperceptible separating force; neither black nor white, but gender based - seeking  physical, emotional and mental parity from an age-long chauvinistic, misogynistic force that has untimely aimed to suppress and reign over women without reprimand.

There is an alarming disparaging number of women who are, incessantly leaning towards a misanthropic tendency, mainly due to the type of treatment that has been dish out to them by an equally emotionally negligent masculine force.  

The battle field for this archaic sexist war has changed over the years, however it is still as potent as ever behind closed doors. Autonomy for everyone, in our economic inequitable world, played a unbending role in creating an even more isolating emotive hegemony – feminine power.

“There is nothing more dangerous, than a woman scorned”, in this state, a generation of scorned women and its feminine posterity; an inequality that was paved by egotistical men, our forefathers who saw women as mere things that looked after them and its off-springs without rights. Hence, our modern-day gender prejudices are rooted so deeply that they are hard to eradicate.          

We are still inhabits in the world that has minimal gender equality, and none in some places of the world – however there are those who strive to create a balanced pendulum between the sexes with love and respect for all sexes.

In this new age, Amazonian feminist extremists are creating a new sphere of imbalance, that was influenced by male chauvinism. Moreover with the newly past-centurion acquired economic emancipation. Women have their own birthright voices to influence and shape the future course for their own communities and the human race as a whole.    

We can strive to reach an amicable equilibrium, but there will always be problems, especially when it comes to “class-gender segregation”.  Therefore, women who still hold animosities with the masculine sex, will hold their positions in every societal stance to manipulate and weaken the insidious attitudes of male chauvinism.    

The concern in this, is what is witness in the black community, these days - the black man does not feel appreciated anymore and that’s the general feel in our nation. Man, especially the ones that love their women, feel as subservience to women who hold important positions at work and come home only to act as man-of-the-house, which is a mental, emotional and physical castration.

As a result, we see more and more households that are initiated and managed by single mothers who see man as a justified sperm, a means to an eminent separable end. More and more men see women as sex objects, a cup to have for a couple of weeks and leave to find another – these animosities create a palpable gap that is growing rapidly, within our society. Where the woman is the ‘Mother and Father’, and the man is just a Daddy that inconveniently drops in unwelcome, unloved. Worst case scenario, total neglect.      

Migrant labour in the early 20^TH Century drove a hive of men into the city in order for them to provide for their households, in some cases a whole tribal community. Forcefully, children grew up without their fathers as role models but, as financial sustenance – other men went and were never heard from, living children and wives behind.

Latter-day influences - women own their own homes, thus they have the right to show insolence and disregard to a man that is trying his best to forge a loving life for her and their children. At times a vociferous vituperation of this man’s manhood.  

It is one thing to have a man that is indolent and  therefore chastised by his spouse for his indolence, however another to have a committed man, who is treated like dirt for trying his best to hold his family life together, because he earns less or nothing at all.  In some circumstances these women go as far as hiding food from their spouse – starving them.     

Autonomy has created a new role for women. A role that is abused by others and nurtured by those women who understand the meaning and power of financial influence in their homes, communities and nations.    

WORD TO A NEW SEX-GENDER INFLUENCE REVOLUTION

By Linda Sakazi Thwala 

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