Rabbie Serumula

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#PoeticLicence | China is taking over Africa, and we are smiling about it

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The Chinese did not strong-arm us. We are the ones looking for a quick solution to our economic woes

#PoeticLicence | I am no messiah - Mandela #Mandela100 #MandelaDay

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The struggle was successful because of the role of South Africa’s majority. Not the efforts of one man.

#PoeticLicence | The @Our_DA demons have come to roost #DeLille #DAvDelille

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Voters don’t have the luxury of nursing demons of a political party. They have a whole list to conquer of their own

#PoeticLicence | My sick aunty died after sleeping on hospital floor #NHIBill

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This was her third night and she was terrified of sleeping on the floor again. She would shiver. Gradually faded away

#PoeticLicence | They sang songs whose chorus was banging bullets tasting their flesh #YouthDay

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We have spent the better part of democracy adjusting to awakening. We have spent the better part of freedom exploring temporary access to a class we can never fit ...

#PoeticLicence: Yes, rename Cape Town International Airport to Winnie Madikizela Mandela

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We can’t fly. The least we deserve is an airport named after Mama Winnie Madikizela Mandela. Yes we are yet to earn our wings, but stripes are a different story. ...

OPINION | The needle on our moral compass has rusted #PoeticLicence #CITrobberies

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There they are; our brothers, clad in inadequate body armour for what comes next. They are collateral. This relationship is explosive

#PoeticLicence | They do not want your land of milk and honey in Jerusalem #IsraelPalistine

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People will say you are an artist. How you paint Palestine red with blood

Our mothers conjure magic to fend for us with R20 per hour #PoeticLicence

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When the Living Conditions of Households in South Africa survey still says whites earn five times more than blacks, shut up and listen

Opinion | Another womxn is dead. The killer is a man, again. #Femicide #PoeticLicence

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There is a darkness in putting a hashtag before a womxn’s first and last name. It usually means they are dead, killed by a man.

#PoeticLicence | The Internet made us forget that we are homeless #DataMustFall #FreedomDay

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How many Freedom Day’s will the stench of faeces still live too close to their kitchens?

#PoeticLicence | #AfriForumvMalema

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Déjà vu is when the coloniser puts up a smokescreen to blind us from underlying flaws

#PoeticLicence | #WinnieMandela could only be taken away by Mother Nature

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How many spineless journalists does it take to cause a rift amongst a black people united against the apartheid plaque?Forty of these weasels

#PoeticLicence | #LebaniSirenje’s painting of #WinnieMandela misdrawn

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That dreadful painting of Mother of the Nation, may she rest in poetry, wasn’t your first questionable portrait

Opinion | #PoeticLicence | #SowetoSchoolRape

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They knew a forensic investigation shouldn't have included fingers in their genitalia

OPINION | Lunch boxes have transformed to coffins #PoeticLicence

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We already have nothing, we can’t even Shoprite, yet we are cornered to Pick n Pay for death

OPINION | #PoeticLicence - Journey to Wakanda has begun #LandExpropriation

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There are shacks in sufficient land. Enough has been enough for far too long. We are restructuring. Self-remembering. Recreating

Poetry Column | #PoeticLicence increased grants < increased VAT #IOLonAR

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We, the poor, will again embrace the predetermined Wrath of ragging VAT gods

In #PoeticLicence @Rabbie_Wrote put this week’s politics into poetry #CyrilRamaphosa

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Award-winning poet, journalist and author Rabbie Wrote with poetry ensemble @OpusPoetry puts this week’s politics into poetry #Zumahasfallen #SONA2018 ...

#PoeticLicence | An ode to Nkateko Makete, she was attacked by a 'devil in a ANC t-shirt'

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In our new column #PoeticLicence, poet, journalist & author @Rabbie_wrote puts the attack of a 52-year-old woman at #LuthuliHouse by an #ANC member into poetry

#PoeticLicence, poetry column by award-winning Poet, Journalist and Author @Rabbie_Wrote

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Next time choose your suitor well before you flirt. After having Steinhoff for supper, why wouldn’t Viceroy have Capitec for dessert?

#PoeticLicence, New poetry column by Poet, Journalist and Author @Rabbie_Wrote

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You have left sacred scrolls for us to sing along to. #RipBraHugh

#BcReader: Art, poetry, music, literature all played an integral part in advancing the ideology of BCM

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Of all the song, dance, painting, poetry and plays by Matsemela Manaka, the best sensory experience for his son, Mak, was the rapid clicks from his father’s typewriter. ...

'SA paying for Eskom mismanagement'

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On the final day of the tariff increase hearings, every single person who made a submission opposed Eskom’s application.

Skyrocketing food prices to hit pockets

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The Saturday Star has put together a grocery basket of food and other common items to show the increase and difference in food prices at various stores.