CBD Mag Issue #3 by CBD Magazine

NOT FOR SALE Issue #3 September/October CBD Magazine | September/October 2014

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Good Food Today Explore you city Heroes My CBD A Splash of Pink Neo Muyanga

CONTENTS

Editorial

Trash to Treasure Satinly Beautiful Do You Campaign

editorial Back in the City after a short stint in the Southern suburbs and it feels great! Mostly. No place can beat the convenience that the CBD allows: this is where it is happening and Fordsburg, Maboneng and Braamfonetin are just a stone’s throw away should one feel like a warm dish of curry, a rooftop party or a crazy night with Jozi’s students.

As wonderful as it is to be back ’home’, the painful cries of a woman in the middle of the night dictate reality. Our CBD is rife with crime, business owners and residents alike are victims to selfish, filthy, heartless individuals who choose momentary gratification over the well-being of their fellow men. Money rules this city, we all scatter around like headless chickens trying to get that paper, not taking the time to greet each other as we walk into the bus or pay for our luxury purchases. We snarl at the homeless men and women who fill our streets like the trash we carelessly toss, not bothering to lend a hand or at least find out whether these bums are worth the effort.

And our police do nothing, or let me say are often too late, as injustices are carried out to helpless women and hard working, honest men as they head home in the dark. Our police drive by as foreigners hijack our buildings, forcing the poor residents to pay handsomely money that they cannot afford to spare.

This CBD can be a monster of a place, an ugly, dirty beast of a city. Yet we say we love it. This issue tackles some of those issues that haunt the CBD (A Splash of Pink), fascinate us about the CBD (Explore your CBD) and different perspectives on how we can recycle (Trash to Treasure) and perceive women (Flo Mokale).

Enjoy!

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Breakfast Easy to make and healthy. Be creative and add some berries, kiwis and litchi. The more variety of fruit in the bowl, the better.

Lunch This summer try to avoid buying lunch at work, instead pack your own lunch. Dump the takeaway for a tasty ham sandwich—you’ll save money and gain your body health points.

Good Food Today Caipirinha

Dessert

As Brazil's national cocktail, this refresh-

Instead of ice cream or rich cheese cake, opt

ing drink is made with cachaça (sugar

for a sorbet instead—it’s extremely low in

cane hard liquor), sugar and fruit, most

kilojoules and tastes amazing.

commonly lime.

Dinner A braai is great option this summer: throw some meat and corn on the grill. It’s a great way to get the men involved and fantastic for your figure too.

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Explore Your City Written by Amandla Kwinana

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City Sightseeing Joburg Red Bus A hop on and off service, the Red Bus travels from Gautrain Park Station, through the Ghandi Square and Carlton Centre, Braamfontein, Newtown and other areas in and around the CBD. Cost: R130 for 1 day pass Website: www.citysightseeing.co.za/joburg.php CBD loves the concept of the City Sightseeing Joburg Red Bus: imagine, you get to see the CBD up and close, spot a cool pub in Marshalltown grab a beer and hop on the next bus to Braamfontein where you can get awesome designer gear the get on the next red bus to Constitution Hill for a history lessonâ&#x20AC;Ś pretty wicked!

Dlala Nje inner city tours Discover the real truth about some of Johannesburg's most notorious suburbs. Challenge the misconceptions of Hillbrow, Berea and Yeoville. Embrace the diversity and be blown away by the culture along the way! Cost: from R180 Website: www.dlalanje.org

Main Street Walks Mainstreetwalks is a concept that encourages people to rediscover the inner City and ultimately Johannesburg. The best way to explore these spaces, like any other city in the world, is by foot and public transport. If you have the imagination to go beyond mere tourist rubbernecking, our guided tours, which start from the Maboneng Precinct, east side of the Johannesburg CBD, navigate a way within and around the City. Giving you direct access to the people and happenings of the community. Cost: R250 Website: www.mainstreetwalks.co.za

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CBD is balling over

this new comic book by one of SA’s most loved young artists, Loyiso Mkize. Set

on a contemporary South African backdrop, Kwezi a 19 year old boy that discovers he has superpowers, and so the journey towards his purpose begins… For more info on how to get your hands on the latest issue, visit the facebook page: www.facebook.com/Khwezicomicbook

Linda Twala Real-life Hero “If you wait for government, you won’t get far. That does not mean the government has not done anything. It has built millions of houses, but it is time for communities to start doing things for themselves. We can’t continue relying on whites for help.” Born in Alexandra in 1944, Twala, a funeral services businessman, has spent all his adult life in service to the people. He has helped save a local crèche and ultimately resisted the apartheid regime’s attempts to obliterate Alexandra from the map. He has used his contacts to help build a community centre that boasts best facilities. During the apartheid days, his home was used as a meeting place for anti-state organisations as much as it was a haven for any in need of respite. For his efforts, the apartheid regime saw fit to torch his house. An entrepreneur for most of his life, Twala readily acknowledges that his peers in business have gone on to amass great wealth, but for him, the joy comes from giving not just his money but his time and contact base for the enrichment of community life. Extract from City Press article by Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya CBD Magazine | September/October 2014

My CBD

Port elizabeth

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Photography by zuko kula

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splash of

pink Written by Amandla Kwinana

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“What is more unjust: to allow buildings to decay and create an atmosphere that permeates of fear, or to use colour to create a conversation about how we can all be a part of bringing said buildings back to life?” - Yazmany Arboleda

Pink tears

seem

to stream from a wounded, dilapidated building as I walk past. This is just one of numerous derelict buildings in the CBD which have been splashed with pink paint. No one seems to stay in them, or at least during the daytime. They are just there. Living in the CBD we know very well what these abandoned buildings represent: muggings. There’s even a video on youtube showing a thug snatching a woman’s bag and running into an abandoned building. Screaming and terrified, the lady can do nothing but walk away. Would you chase someone into a filthy dark building? To my surprise, a New Yorker artist, Yazmany Arboleda, saw these buildings, saw the danger they present and decided to do something about it—and was arrested. This individual and his team decided to identify these buildings and pour pink paint through their windows and turn them into ‘living sculptures’. Their aim was to raise awareness of these life-threatening buildings and the waste of living space and money. Read more on bewareofcolour.tumblr.com CBD Magazine | September/October 2014

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N O U A G

E M Y N A

Written by Amandla Kwinana

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FADE IN: INT. THE ORBIT – NIGHT It is a Saturday, a month-end weekend. The stage is dimly lit. A grand piano sits to the left overlooking the lone guitar and tibla. The microphone stands stand in solitude, shy of the gathering audience. Smooth jazz MUSIC fills the dark venue. A handful of people trickle in, making themselves comfortable on the tables, each with a reserved sign neatly placed atop. Black and white portraits of legendary musicians occupy the grey walls. The room is warm with CHATTER coming from diverse lingo of old and young, dark and light, corporate and creative. FADE OUT: FADE IN: INT. THE ORBIT – DAY Neo and Speech are TALKING aside. SPEECH So the performance is going about struggle songs? Why protest songs? NEO This performance is going to be about the reconfirming of protest songs. The music is the same but the protestors are new. What I’m trying to do with this is… how do we unravel it? How do we compose such music? Why do these same songs still apply even after ’94? What are we going to do about it? Is it just about singing protest songs? Neo and Speech are quiet. They walk off to the piano. NEO (CONT’D) This is about getting people to hear more than what is played. So our role is to connect what they know with what they think they didn’t know.

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Speech slowly nods his head. They both get lost in a moment only they can experience. FADE OUT: FADE IN: INT. THE ORBIT – NIGHT MAPULE stands centre stage and BLOWS into her saxophone. Her eyes are closed shut and her fingers expertly run up and down the brass body.

“our role is to connect what they know with what they think they didn’t know” MAN Beautiful. Beautiful. Galina takes her violin and picks at it, a gay smile on her face. MAN The devil… You know that’s what the violin is in classical music? Neo SINGS, playfully yet with a tinge of pain. He looks like an old man; his face has more wrinkles than there were when he took to the stage. Neo SINGS. MAN Oh, this guy is goooooood. Hmmmm. AMANDLA (chuckles) I told you. FADE OUT:

THE END CBD Magazine | September/October 2014

Neo Muyanga | Revolting Music | The Orbit | Braamfontein 30 August 2014

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Exploring the phases of protestin-song taking apart the hymns that populated the colonial memoir and the laments that accompanied the armed struggle. The band reconstitutes a soundtrack of anger and war given voice by students across the country. Neo’s gig featured Makgabe ‘Speech’ Mothupi, CBD’s Creative Director, as a guest performer.

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Trash to Treasure Written by Amandla Kwinana

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The saying one man’s trash is another’s treasure is often implied to obviously useful things such as clothes and food. Something as simple as paper, though, can become anyone’s treasure in a matter of minutes. Upon arriving in Joburg for the first time a couple of years ago I was shocked at how dirty this city is. Papers everywhere. And the worst part is that I saw people, young and old, tossing papers and wrappers wherever they went, weherever they were. In a taxi, in a car, at the park, waiting in a queue at the taxi rank - I was astounded at this blatant disregard for nature and cleanliness. To me it said that these people are not proud of their city; why else would they treat it with such disrespect? Now, more than five years later and the Joburg CBD is no different. I have seen the government campaign urging people to keep the city clean but who cares? I do. And maybe you do too. Like Michael Jackson so passionately sang, “it starts with the man in the mirror”. Let’s do this— be creative. Recycle.

“In the art form of origami a simple piece of paper can be transformed into anything imaginable. It’s exactly this transformation, which in my opinion stands for many struggles we have to overcome in life. This project will be a great experience for us to share with you. Hopefully it will change public’s perception of origami and make people realize what a powerful art form it can be” - Sipho Mabona

Sipho Mabona - White Elephant

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Satinly Beautiful Flo Mokale Photographer Flo musically shares his rationale behind his execution of nudist photography

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Ah...! Check it...! Check...check...checkit out! Checkitâ&#x20AC;Ś YO! ***BEAT DROPS*** CHORUS Nudity framed as trashy when you are black. That's wack. Sistas seen as sexual objects. That's wack. As if we have no self respect. That's wack. But we've been nude from way back. That's a fact And that's that. VERSE 1 So I decided to go to work. Revisit the forgotten fact. Reveal the truth from this Act. Lights Camera The only action is a Pose, A pause I suppose. Beauty flowing from her pores. True strength not seeking applause. True Religion before the Cross. Afrikan Beauty has always been Boss. But of course. Somewhere we went off course. But I'm not pointing the blaming finger at the cause. I admit it, when I started I was doing it just because. But some how I found a cause. So... CHORUS Nudity is framed as trashy when you are black. That's wack. Sistas seen as sexual objects. That's wack. As if we have no self respect. That's wack. But we've been nude from way back. That's a fact And that's that.

VERSE 2 Remove the image of the video vixen In whatever thoughts your mind is mixing. This is an error worth fixing. No weave. The Natural look is missing. As Natural as my Mum humming in the Kitchen. She also didn't understand the remix I was re-remixing. Until I told her my mission, one day in the Kitchen. I'm trying to kill the Sex When I flex. But between Art and Porn I get torn. But Art in every Heart won. Doubt and fear are long gone. We are singing the same song.

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CHORUS Nudity is framed as trashy when you are black. That's wack. Sistas seen as sexual objects. That's wack. As if we have no self respect. That's wack. But we've been nude from way back. That's a fact And that's that.

BRIDGE ***long Violin strings*** Satinly Beautiful Is the Title and I think its pretty cool ***BREAK*** Sistas are Certainly Beautiful. If you can't see that then you are a fool ***BREAK*** Their Beauty Reigns rather than rule And that too is pretty cool. ***BREAK*** CHORUS Nudity is framed as trashy when you are black. That's wack. Sistas seen as sexual objects. That's wack. As if we have no self respect. That's wack. But we've been nude from way back. That's a fact And that's that

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Hillbrow, 2013

Photography | Wim Steytler

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