Samanthole Arts Foundation

This picture of me here captured one of the nostalgia painful years of my school life back in Std 5 over 22 years ago. A maths teacher walks into a classroom full of learners and asked who the artist is in the room? All learners pointed at me with much enthusiasm and confidence to match.  He looked at me and said: 'Mfana, are you sure you can draw serious stuff?' To which I replied yes. He was a teacher every learner feared and at times, despised. I thought it was a great moment for me restore my dignity from his countless humiliations exerted upon my direction. Mind you, then coporal punishment was in its mightiest. Each time he punished the classroom for making noise, the whip from his hand became rigoriously firm when it landed on my head, in my hand or at my behind. It is as if he made sure I felt the whip hundred times. He ordered me to come up with two notices/posters of NO SMOKING wherein I drew a cigarette burning and cross the line over it. He directed that

Hamilton Dhlamini le Thulani Mtshweni ba phedišitše bobe bja kgethologanyo ka go ba gona ga bona mo go kgahlišago sefaleng le dipolelo tša bona tša go se tlwaelege. Bokgoni bja bona bja go bapala dipapadi bo bontšhwa ke bokgoni bja bona bja go tšweletša baanegwa ba go fapana - go fetoša dikarolo magareng le ka gare ga lefelo la tiragalo ka didirišwa tše nnyane tša go thekga le ke diaparo. E tšweleditšwe ke Ndlondlo Productions, yeo e laolwago ke Hamilton Dhlamini le sefala seo se laolwago ke Phumeza Damage, papadi ye ya mengwagasome ye mene, Woza Albert, mathomong e ngwadilwe ke Percy Mthwa, Mbongeni Ngema le Barney Simon. Papadi ye ya badiragatši ba babedi e etela Afrika Borwa, morago ga go ruma leeto la Eswatini. E ile ya kgahliša babogedi ba Alexandra Township ka matšatši a mabedi - la 10 le la 11 Ngwatobošego 2023 - gomme morago ga fao ya tšea karolo go Menyanya ya Bokgabo wa boSetšhaba wa Makhanda. Thulani Mtshweni le Hamilton Dhlamini. Pic E filwe ke Khamphani ya Alex

Khonferentshe ya Berlin (1884–1885), yeo Otto von Bismarck a e rulagantšego, e be e le sedirišwa fela seo se netefaditšego go tšewa ka botlalo ga methopo ya tlhago le go rarolla dingangišano magareng ga mebušo ya Yuropa yeo e nago le dikgahlego ka Afrika go hlola mellwane ya boikgopolelo ya beng, go dumelela ditšhaba tše di fapanego tša Yuropa go nyaka mo di ka ikholago ka mahumo le maruo a Afrika. Gregory Vuyani Maqoma o tšwa sefaleng ka go thunya ka Exit/Exist. Gregory Vuyani Maqoma sefaleng. Seswantšho ka Facebook  Gregory Vuyani Maqoma o re fa tatso ya histori ka tiragatšo ya gagwe ya go tantsha ya seswantšho, Exit/Exist. Tiragatšo ye e theilwe godimo ga mogologolo wa gagwe Kgoši Jongumsobomvu Maqoma (c. 1798 – 9 Lewedi 1873) yo e bego e le molaodi yo mogolo wa madira a maXhosa nakong ya Dintwa tša Mollwane wa Kapa. Kgoši Maqoma o ile a golegwa gabedi Sehlakahlakeng sa Robben ke ma-Yuropa ka lebaka la boikgafo bja gagwe bja go šireletša naga ya borakgolokhukhu ba gagwe.