I’ve got a lot of catching up to do😬 but I have been doing a catching up of a different kind with old friends from my hood ‘Kak-Yard’ aka KYD in Gugulethu. Word has it, it was given the name ‘Kak Yard’ by apartheid police because of the ‘kak’ we use to serve them when they come to retrieve or arrested anyone there. The neighborhood is known is known in most hoods in Cape Town. It has produced some amazing gems and talent such as @driemanskap @vincentntunja to name but two. But it is also has produced some notorious ferociously violent motherf@#&er$. I was reminded through throwback stories how from a young age, we had to learn how to be fierce as much as you were being nice. We grew up with violence, it’s something that we know all too well. Something we could not escape it was and still is all around us. It made me think about the proposal of sending the army to some of these hoods and how I don’t think threatening ‘criminals’ with violence will solve the murderous epidemic that’s ravaging the Cape Flats. We know violence and it does not scare us, it only makes us more violent. I don’t have the answers, but I do have a ton of suggestions, like... #capitalismmustfall 🤷🏿♂️ #fierce #day14 #inktober2017 #inktober #africa #azania #violencebegetsviolence #breezeyokostudio #breezeyoko #dreamingofabetterfuture #moneyistherootofallevil #illustration #ink #afrofuturism #afrofuture #africaisnow #brokenchildren
