Ten things you need to know about Bricks Mabrigado

Bricks on the hot seat! Sorry for the poor quality of the picture. 

Zaziwa has taught us to learn people through their musical journey. Yesterday Pearl Modiadie interviewed "Bricks", who comes from Zola and loves the place very much. Through their conversation, I jotted the ten things to know about Him: 

1. His real name is Sipho Ndlovu.

2.  Brick says his mother didn't give him all the luxuries in life but the only thing he holds dearly from her teachings is respect. His mother taught him respect and he says "people love people who respect." He's glad his mother taught him the one thing that can't be taken from him. 

3. Bricks never met his father but he met his father's family only last her when they approached him during his court case. He says they taught him about his culture and where he comes from.

4. He wants to be remembered as someone who makes other people happy.

5. The one thing he's proud of is being a good father to his two kids. 

6. He doesn't want to talk about his relationship with Elle because they've both moved on."hai phuma kim." He said to Pearl when brushing the topic off. 

7. He makes good friends with women. "The media said I had a lot of girlfriends but I have a lot of lady friends." 

8. He dedicated his love life to a song by jagged Edge, "Let's get married." the song makes him think of the type of person he is when it comes to love. "I wish I could say these words to someone one day." He said. 

9. A song that he wants to be remembered with is Kholwa by Slikour ft Relo and Thokoza Youth Choir. He also wants to do something like this one day. 

10. He loves Zola and is very proud of it and its people. 

The one phrase we'll remember Bricks with is "he bafethu ng'cela a ma flat lapho nithi tjovitjo!" 

Pearl Modiadie and Bricks

Black-on-black Murder? What happened to Ubuntu?

Xenophobia...Where does one start when it comes to this topic? 

Perhaps I should start by it's definition, "Dislike of or prejudice against people from other countries."

So, when people get the news they won't say "certain South Africans killed foreigners", but they will say "South Africans killed foreigners." What does that say about us?

We  are facing a sad time, because some people feel they have ownership of this country and that others don't deserve residence in it. What are we forgetting? Where does this hatred come from? How do we burn other people and smile about it? What happened to power to the people? What happened to Africanism? What happened to helping one another?

It looks like this blog will be filled with questions because this situation is confusing, its disturbing and it's crazy! We are a crazy society and if we are not careful this will turn into South Africans killing one another because of their different cultures.  If we can do it to our African brothers and sisters, then we can do it among ourselves right?

We are forgetting that we were once in exile and our dear African brothers and sisters took us in their countries with open arms and fought with us against apartheid but today we don't want to do the same for them.

We forget that we are not educated or clever enough to manage our businesses and feel jealous when our African brothers and sisters do what we could have been doing but failed to. We are so stupid to forget that we engage in foreign businesses and that we are killing the friendship we have with them.

We forget that life is unpredictable and that this wheel might turn against us one day. The illiterate and uneducated people who support xenophobia (in its every form) don't see what they are doing for the future generation of this country. One day our children will go to foreign countries and they'll be brutally killed because of our ignorant behaviour.

I hate what we've become as a nation. We forget that we are all Africans and that we think we are better than the others which is not the case. The devil is playing with us and he loves it! People need to be educated, especially those in the townships who support this and see it as an activity to push their miserable lives. We are starting a war that we'll struggle to stop.


I am Paballo Seipei and I say NO to Xenophobia.

What is Paballo's calling?

Now and then I battle with what i'm called to do in life. I get lazy when I have to do my work and I know it pays my bills but I feel demotivated half the time. I feel like there's something deeper that I need to discover but not sure what. I feel lost sometimes because I know I'm bigger than what I am now and will achieve greater...Questions are when? What to do? Where to start?

I know that finding a calling comes in different ways to different people. The one thing I know for sure is that everything we do leads us to our calling I'm just waiting to discover mine. I guess I'll keep motivating myself now and then when things seem senseless. I'm not the only one but I'm half way through to discovery.

I am Paballo Seipei, I'm still waiting to find out what I'm called to do. What is your calling?