Imagine if Jesus died today, and the leadership would announce his death… Our SG @MbalulaFikile will kill it… a thread. BREAKING: Jesus has passed away. We are seized with the matter. The NEC will deliberate a resurrection strategy as part of broader organisational renewal. This tragic development coincides with our decision to reconfigure GP and KZN. Cadres must remain calm. Izinto z’mehlukile.

Caskets, tears and wreaths (a thread dedicated to those we lost due to covid)

Caskets, Tears and Wreaths

We are running out of caskets and tears, in these long nights were we sit around the table,
eyes fixed to another,
anxious but certain, that the angel of death will come knocking,
this hour or the next,
this kin or the next,
as we borrow caskets and wreath from our neighbors
like it’s sugar for our tea,
they bring with sugar their tears of comfort,
and beg for our promise—

Sunday mornings drenched with fog were the worst. You’d straddle from the kitchen door to the coal barn with the taste of sleep still lingering in your mouth. The few steps I took before dunking my hands into the coal-filled barn were such a chore. Reaching there, I’d pick them one by one as if I sensed the most flammable one’s as I threw them into the yellow bucket that used to contain Mango atchaar. Once filled, I’ll straddle my way back into the kitchen, get the wood and match and fill those into the stove chambers.