Nowadays, in Mphutlane's words

• There is currently a beautiful thread running on Mphutlane Bofelo's Facebook. I just thought I would share it, as it speaks to a very formative and active time in the Arts scene of Durban. Poetry, Literature, Education and Edutainment. More and moreand more. What a place. Nowadays Poets/Izimbongi Zesimanje was a great time. Take a look at how Mphutlane put it. 
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• Every one else has been having their say, as well, of course. Wonderful things.

Mphutlane Bofelo

27 August at 11:59 · Edited ·

The first thing i did when I became a resident of Durban in 2003 was to go straight to the poetry session of Izimbongi Zesimanje/Nowadays Poets and I was welcmed with warm and loving embraces by the brothers and sisters in the word. In the session they announced that that week there will be Slam Poetry Contest and this newcomer registered to participate. The Slam Poetry Contest, which featured ten participants ultimately ended with the vibrant Ntokozo Kid Kunene of the then Black Fist of Garvey clobberingMphutlane Bofelo after they were the last men standing. And the rest is history. With this post i express my love and respect and care , and salutations to these wonderful souls poetic that welcomed me to the Kwazulu scene, my brothers and sisters in the word Phila Myeni, Menzi Maseko, Bandile Gumbi, Mthobisi Mqadi, Coolfire Hadebe, Khaya Maseko,Iain EWOK Robinson. The word and love is the bond that keep us going. Longlive the Nowadays Poets - IzimbongiZesimanje , Longlive Slam Poetry Operations Team, and longlive the sons and daughters; Longlive Poet in a Suit and all circles and platforms of the ETERNAL LIVING WORD that breaks all barriers, barricades, blockades, and borders.

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  Mphutlane Bofelo and my main man, Bullet, and Black Hitlah, Miracles ......

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  Menzi Maseko Andile Mnguni, Ayanda Chamane, Zithobile, King Zorro ...

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  Mphutlane Bofelo Andile Mnguni, my dear friend, and Zithobile Mszwazi -the veteran! Menzi Maseko, where is Zithobile ??

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  Khaya Maseko I never did beat you in a Slam Poetry contest. Man! Once we made it to the finals, and to this day, I think "Damn, what a wordsmith!"

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  Bandy Mkyze This is awesome. smile emoticon

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  Mphutlane Bofelo Khaya Maseko "The points are not the point , poetry is the point" We only call it a contest to generate an audience in this world obsessessed with competition, but ours is the ideal of the world built on cooperation and sharing rather than competition ...See More

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  Mphutlane Bofelo Leo Jansen !!!!

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  Tenzin Tsundue I remember this chorus from the Bat Centre 2005: "The points are not the points, poetry is the point". Amen.

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  Mphutlane Bofelo TTenzin Tsundue that Tibet-Azania (South Africa) exchange we must do even if we may have to do some repossession at a bank or mine to afford it

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  Mphutlane Bofelo Great tell me in advance when he is coming. i have found another creative way of building the Tibet-Azania solidarity , ill inbox you

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  Philani Tys Nombika Long live Nowadays Poets

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  Martha Qumba Long Live!

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  Menzi Maseko Yo Bofelo you mean Keith Kunene

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  Menzi Maseko and I think Jobe KaMatshana aka Xolani Sithole was also a winner at a certain point -

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  Menzi Maseko Kabomo also got a number 2 spot back in the day

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  Coolfire Hadebe yes mi bredda the great susters Khona.. Ayanda Mnguni...Rose waBasadi baPoetry...Bususwa Gqulu(#ngisendaweni) Zithobile .Moonchild..Eric Vavereg Excon. Well Verses for Biko-n-Tosh is upon us to mark and keep.."poetry is the heart of arts"

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  Mphutlane Bofelo Ash-Leigh Lexikon La Foy

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  Mthobisi Mqadi "its not good to stay in another man's country too long" another rasta used to joke at the poetry sessions. I remember you well singing and facilitating poems before asking the group to network us back to Zamdela. then we left for Home sessions... SASO...See More

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  Mphutlane Bofelo that was Ras Naftali , chanting Muta Baruka. Nowadays Poets Izimbongi Zesimanje also facilitated a workshop in Phuthaditjhaba in Qwaqwa, working with Qwaqwa Radio,one of the participants was Sakhile who late came to Durban and became a winner of Poetry Africa's Durbanslamjam. There were too well-attended workshops in Zamdela featuring the first Slamjam to be held there, thanks to there , stregthening the resolve of the guys there to go on building the poetry movement; all these from our own pockets. There was also the Creative Ink Project, which the eThekwini municipality funded and even decalred the model of urban renewal through the arts. Participants included the powerful Siyabonga Lebogang Sikhakhane, two books came out of that project, written by people some of whom have not put a single verse on paper before; We have been all over KZN .....and the new generation has taken Izimbongi Zesimange Nowadays Poets' mission and ideals to higher heights , through a variety of platforms. Let as many flowers bloom- echoing Chairman Mao....the movement is one, the struggle , in our view is one, a more the quest for a humane world...poetry is the vehicle... ideal greater than the platform

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