Simphiwe Dana to Celebrate Africa at the Playhouse
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This week we catch up with the one, do when you arrive at your desti- Thai food has knocked all others out the only, SIV NGESI. nation and you’re trying to get ac- of the park. climated? What is your favourite travel desti- First thing I do is put my bags down What is your speciality in the kitch- nation, and why? and even before I clean up, I walk en? My favourite travel destination has and get lost. Getting lost is always Take aways. I can cook very well, but to be the city that never sleeps; the the best way to experience a new I am too lazy to clean up. city that was so nice they had to city. name it twice; the place that owns Describe your ideal night in, and Siv Ngesi…I’m of course talking What for you is usually the best out. about New York City. way to soak up the culture you’re I am a sucker for staying in. Usually It’s absolutely magical and I in? I am in my room naked and watch- won’t even try justify my answer. If The key to the culture of any place ing series, listening to musicals and you have been there, you will under- is the locals. I always make sure I ordering take aways while I cuddle stand and if you haven’t, get yourself speak to and befriend as many locals my laptop. there so you can understand. as possible. If you travel and don’t A night out is always amazing with interact with the locals, you are see- people I love , no matter what we do. What was your first international ing and experiencing only the tip of trip, and what do you remember a gigantic iceberg. What makes life worth living? most vividly about the experience? Knowing that life is all about the My first international trip was to the Flying – love it, or hate it? journey and not the destination and UK in 1993. My mom was studying Flying is amazing. I am lucky enough never forgetting that doing what there and I can still remember ex- to be able to sleep for hours on you love is the key to happiness Siv Ngesi recently travelled Brazil periencing snow for the first time. flights. and success. How now brown cow? language speakers of English. terests and possibly a similar sensibly ter. I often find myself struggling to form may not have the proverbial ink My students are currently in the as theirs. Strange: the pairs are still find the perfect words to convey a flowing in their veins? This affects process of the research presentations either wholly white or wholly black particular meaning or feeling. It can our confidence levels, our readiness Encore part of the course. This is where they and the only two Indian/coloured take me a while to get to the point for the job market etc. etc. choose a partner, choose a topic that girls in the class chose to work to- and my sentences are long and un- I remember when I first sat in a By Rafiek Mammon I sign off on, do the research and gether. And this happens every year. exciting, with even clumsy sentence tutorial at UCT, with my “coloured” [email protected] present it, as a pair, to the rest of There are only two pairs that are structures at times. accent, often thinking hard about us who stand in judgment of their “mixed” – and mainly because on Then, when I hear people speak how I was going to say what I clear- work, according to very strict crite- the day three of the four people in on television – people who only ly knew I wanted to say. My white ust how innate is the lan- ria. Quite a daunting experience for question were absent and therefore know English as the language they classmates of course confidently guage you speak to your be- most of them, I know. However, they had to work together. grew up with and into, and their spoke in tutorials (often offering the ing? The very language you are third year students who wish to But I digress. I wanted to talk economic use of words and sentence most insipid opinions), but it just need to try and make others pursue a career in Arts Journalism, about the innate ability to express structures – it amazes me. I watch sounded right: much like those loud understand;J what it is exactly that therefore it is a necessary evil. And, oneself in a language…in this case, interviews with uneducated gang- Americans, as I found out in later you mean to get across? How much in any case, I have done most of English. I myself am a victim of it. I sters in the USA, or children as young years when I started travelling inter- time have we not wasted in our lives the talking in the first quarter. It is grew up with both English and Afri- as ten or twelve in the UK, and they nationally. because of so-called “miscommuni- a breath of fresh air when they take kaans (in equal measure) around me: speak better than some of our adults. And it takes a long time to over- cation”, or a “lack of understand- over the class. in my childhood home, and I was Then I hear our folk – even some of come this. It takes longer to learn ing” of what someone thought you An interesting part of this exer- primary schooled in Afrikaans and our politicians and other influential some of these language skills, and meant, versus what you actually cise is how they choose their part- my high school education was only people in top jobs – that cannot even longer to unlearn some of these meant? Sometimes it is even costly, ners. I have 21 students. Partners are in English. And while this gives one a speak English properly. Yet they ex- intrinsic characteristics that almost very costly. only chosen towards the end of the good sense of bilingualism, it doesn’t pect me to take them seriously? come as part of our DNA. I ask this because I realise that to first term – to give them a chance specialise one as well as speakers of Is there a fundamental flaw when And I wonder: is it getting better, this day, as a teacher at UCT, I find to get to know one another better, only one language would be. I don’t we force people to express themselves or worse? Is my class of 21 students first language English speakers still thus affording them the opportunity think I am a particularly good writer in a language that is not part of their a true microcosm of where we are at have a huge head start on non-first to choose someone with similar in- or conversationalist for that mat- fibre? Or, those that in the written regarding our linguistic challenges? To advertise in The Next 48hOURS CONTACT: Naushad Khan 021-802-4848 [email protected] May 2016 www.48hours.co.za The Next 48hOURS 3 The Next 48hOURS • Whats On The Playhouse offers a plethora of new theatrical works • From May 5 to 7, ‘The Cenotaph by Gerard Bester and produced by • From May 12 to 20, The Playhouse plores weighty and often controver- of Dan wa Moriri’ can be seen at the Gita Pather.