Tshepho Mojapelo

“Lebitla la mosadi ke bogadi”
― Lebo Mazibuko

“We biblioholics have different priorities. We've got all our clothes in our suitcase in two minutes flat, and then we spend three hours and fifty-eight minutes deciding which books to bring.”
― Tom Raabe, Biblioholism: The Literary Addiction

“Fiela, fiela, fiela ngwanaka.”
― Lebo Mazibuko, Bantu knots

“...I'm actually joining the SRC soon,' Itu said....
'I don't know, Itu...I just feel like these SRC guys are here to cause unnecessary trouble sometimes. Some of us actually want to be in school, and clearly they don't with all these endless nonsense strikes,' Minnie said
Itu sat up on her bed.
'What makes you think they don't want to study?' She shot back at Minnie. 'You do remember that I spent a night in the streets with a whole lot of other black kids who were also lining up in those NSFAS queues. Because just like me who were stranded and couldn't catch a taxi back to Limpopo. Some of those students still got rejected and those of us who were granted loans will leave this university with debts hanging over our heads before we have even entered the workforce. And yet we live in a country that talks about our rights to education for the black child. The same education that we black children of a democratic South Africa still have to bleed to get...”
― Lebo Mazibuko, Bantu knots