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First donation complete today. Mpopoma High School received 18 laptops.
In typical fashion I got them to install and arrange them. Too many people to thank at this moment but let's build.
RIP 🙏 💔 ABDULLAH IBRAHIM
Oh goodness Dr. Professor. Genius. Master. Abdullah Ibrahim I don't think there are titles worthy enough to bestow upon you. But what a titan you were.
The first time I heard Mannenberg, I was in Dimbaza with Linda and Thembi Jack. We would dream saying we would all marry doctors. Our children would play on the lawn, our husbands would drink whisky and we would chatter in the kitchen listening to your music. I captured the mood that day in Coloured Diaries: Experiences of an Eastern Cape "Mixed-Breed".
Fast forward to Cape Town and Nathi Kheswa purchased tickets for us to your concert. I felt like royalty sitting in that hall on velvet seats in total and utter silence. I was spell-bound, mesmerized. It was magical. I was to attend another concert at the Wits Great Hall, alongside Caroline Fassie. Again, I was transported to another world of no fear.
Joe, the kids and I traveled by road from Johannesburg to East London and your album, Cape Town Revisted would be on repeat. I would play your music to all my grandchildren from infancy and they would drift off into a deep, dreamy sleep.
Tat' uZulu, Musa, Noepsie and I would travel to Lambasi Bay and Ntafufu in Lusikisiki and your album was also the one left on repeat.
Then came your last concert in Cape Town and with times being tough, I turned to Dr Gilbert Dennis and Dr Iqbal Surve for tickets and fortunately, Dr Survé obliged. But I was conflicted. You were frail, too frail to perform in my opinion but you did.
There's a haunting, but beautiful image of you staring at your reflection in the piano.
When I saw the breaking news, I forgot about my stresses and shed a tear for you.
Rest easy 💔 #AdolfJohannesBrand, rest in peace #DollarBrand and as you exit, rest in eternal and perfect peace #AbdullahIbrahim.
Thank you for the music! Especially now that it reverberates from the Cape to Cairo to Europe, the Americas and beyond. Oh, what a life, what a man. Oh what a genius!
An African giant has fallen. Abdullah Ibrahim has passed on at 91. His song Mannenburg is synonymous with Zimbabwe Radio 2 programmes that played it as background music in the 90s.
I was in primary school then. Zimbabwe's economy had already taken a nosedive and in ICU. I usually came home after school to my father sitting under the bamboo shed, listening to the radio. He usually did this when he was off or on night shift at Dunlop. He would comment bitterly that under Zanu Pf we were doomed as a nation.
We all had hope that one day the brutal Mugabe regime would fall, that the ailing economy would get better.
Two decades later we are still doomed, Mugabe is gone but we have another leader already taking after Mugabe, altering, mutilating and tampering with the constitution so as to illegally remain in power. Zanu pf must go in its entirety.
Back to Abdullah Ibrahim, rest in peace. Fly high for you have played your part in this cruel world.
Your song brings back bittersweet memories. Nostalgia just kicked in. I miss my father dearly.
So long gentlemen. 🫡🫡
Cape Verde's goalkeeper Vozinha is:
- 40-years-old
- Plays in the Portuguese second division
- The reigning European champions can't get past him as he's been an absolute wall
THIS is what the World Cup is all about! 😂