Podcast – Cheeky Natives

Rekgotsofetse Chikane: Breaking a Rainbow, Building a Nation

June 28, 2019July 9, 2019 cheekynativesLeave a Comment

“Whiteness seeks to remove us from its embrace because we threaten it. We place its position at the centre at risk when we dare to usurp it rather than simply remain constant in relation to it. Exerting my identity undermines the identity of whiteness. Yet exerting my identity calls into question my commitment to follow […]

Malebo Sephodi: Miss Behave

May 3, 2019June 21, 2019 cheekynatives

Well-behaved women seldom make history.’ Listen to podcast -@malebosephodi writes deeply on the way this quote by Laurel Thatcher has influenced her life and writing. The Cheeky Natives sat down with the magical Malebo Sephodi, author of Miss Behave. Miss Behave is an award-winning text on a Black feminist journey to consciousness. Graceful and so […]

Rosie Motene: Reclaiming the Soil

April 12, 2019June 21, 2019 cheekynatives

Happy 2019!!!!!! Listen to podcast The first live recording of The Cheeky Natives features Rosie Motene talking about her memoir ‘Reclaiming the Soil: A Black Girl’s Struggle to Find Her African Self’. This book tells the story of a young girl born to the Bafokeng nation during the apartheid era in South Africa. At the […]

Nthikeng Mohlele: Michael K

February 7, 2019June 21, 2019 cheekynatives

Listen to podcast “Although this, of course, was not strictly true: I so desired Maureen that at times I temporarily lost my mind, any sense of restraint. That I imagined, with a sudden swell of emotions and enlightenment, how desperately I craved Greek salad: cucumbers. Lettuce, onion rings and baby tomatoes, only dressed with her […]

Pumza Shabangu: Unspoken Truth

February 6, 2019June 21, 2019 cheekynativesLeave a Comment

Listen to podcast “As I lifted my eyes, they landed on some deep chocolate eyes with long eyelashes right across me. Our eyes locked for a few seconds longer than normal. That was awkward, I thought and looked away.” – Pumza Shabangu With the massive success of the fifty shades trilogy, there’s been a renewed […]

Nozizwe Jele : The Ones With Purpose

January 11, 2019June 21, 2019 cheekynativesLeave a Comment

Listen to podcast “I imagined a dying person’s last breath as something resembling an exclamation mark, distinct and hanging mid-air like an interrupted thought. My older sister Fikile’s last breath before she dies is nothing of the sort. There is no rattling noise at the back of her throat. No relentless twitching. No clinging to […]