(READ TIME: 4:28MINS) As a parent I have been through too much as a country not to vote
I regard my mother as a rock star. The memories I have of her exude energy and passion. She was very political in her youth as she grew up under the apartheid system. She would always share stories with me of how she almost crossed the border going into exile.
Do I regret my choice of study? Most definitely not! I got exposed to a world I never would have been able to access if I never studied this degree. I got to understand the complexities of our dark history as South Africans. I was now a politics graduate and now I knew that politics is purely a power play. That is the very definition of politics: any attempt to gain and keep power.
My Man Crush Monday, Steve Biko, died in prison because he fought to see black people enjoying the small pleasures of life.
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