mzwakhe is an over rated rectum ranger and he a f***ing criminal too. as a kid i heard his shit and i really would have considered listening to bangra instead of hearing him polluting the airwaves. i know that this seems a bit harsh and cra**, but how the hell can a jailbird be set free and then allowed a public platform to pick up the pieces of his life. i understand the whole struggle thing (no actually i don´t understand!), yes i don´t understand how a convicted fellon is supposed to be celebrated as a hero - he´s a skelm people!
why couldn´t he have done what millions of other men out there are trying to do on a daily basis - wake up in the morning, pound the pavements looking for a job - and not plotting and planning cash-in-transit heists. he had a talent which he saw as a slow process for making money, he could have at least done something worth while. and to piss me off even more is the fact that he was performing at POETRY AFRICA 2004 in durban where a lot of respectable and hard working poets have graced the stage, for me he should have been made to suffer the consequences of his moronic actions. our society has become so advanced that it has managed to cla**ify between a criminal with struggle credentials and a drop out of school criminal with bad grades credentials - the former is easily let off the hook.
there are people like Kgafela oa Magogodi (brilliant poet), Zolani Mkiva (a praise singer), Pitika Ntuli, Lebo Mashile and the list goes on. we could talk about zakes mda, john matshikiza, gcina mhlope and so on and so on. don´t get me wrong, i had respect for him back when he stood up against the system but when you turn into a criminal fully aware of what you´re doing is wrong - well that qualifies him as a complete a**hole to me.
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