Pelotona High school a small school in Mabopane which has a high pass rate despite its lack of resources.

MARKET@THE SHED – PRETORIA

 

The Market Shed is a social movement which takes place every last Saturday of the month at central 012 Pretoria, the movement includes Market Shed is focused on Art, Food, Design and Music with a local flavour, aimed at showcasing the talents and initiatives of people residing in Tshwane. The Sheds is a beautiful, old warehouse in the Pretoria CBD where the market started. Since its inception in October 2014 it has become a pop-up market, showcasing beautiful buildings and spaces in the inner city, with beautiful paintings within the warehouse, which can blow anyone who loves arts away. 

All in all there are between 50 and 60 stands at the market with a pop up art exhibition and an open stage where local artists create a laid-back, acoustic, jazzy atmosphere. Delicious gourmet food, craft beers, ciders, wine and cocktails are on offer and shoppers enjoy design, fashion and art to browse, but the vibe at the market is the biggest draw card – a true celebration of the people of Pretoria.

Described as an African urban experience, it merges the best of city markets with the flavours of South Africa’s Capital. Local entrepreneurs, designers, artists and musicians form the bulk of the market, promoting the talents of the people of Tshwane. With so many artists and musicians in South Africa hailing from our beautiful city, the market aims to provide a platform of support for young emerging artists to gain exposure and showcase their amazing talent. For some, the vibe at the market is merely a welcome surprise, but for many more, it is also a proud display of the people’s city’s (often downplayed) creative offering.

 

MARKET@THE SHED – PRETORIA

 

The Market Shed is a social movement which takes place every last Saturday of the month at central 012 Pretoria, the movement includes Market Shed is focused on Art, Food, Design and Music with a local flavour, aimed at showcasing the talents and initiatives of people residing in Tshwane.

Butterflies

There was a time in life when beauty meant something special to Ntando Nkosi. Who was about six or seven years old, just several weeks or maybe a month before the orphanage turned him into an old man.

He would get up every morning at the orphanage, make his own bed just like the little soldier that he had become and then he would get into one of the two straight lines and march to breakfast with the other twenty or thirty boys who also lived in the same cottage with him.

On one Saturday morning after breakfast he returned to the cottage and saw the house parent chasing after the beautiful monarch butterflies who lived by the hundreds in the lotus bushes strewn around the orphanage.

He carefully watched as he caught these beautiful creatures, one after the other, and then took them from the net and then roughly stuck straight pins through their little heads and wings, pinning them onto a heavy cardboard sheet.

Ntando picked up the torn wing and the poor butterfly and then spat on its wing so that he could get it to stick back on so it could fly away and be free before the house parent came back. But it would not stay on him.

He had walked many times out into the bushes, all by himself, just so the butterflies could land on his head, face and hands so he could look at them up close.

Every year when the butterflies would return to the orphanage and try to land on Ntando, he would seemingly try and shoo them away because they did not know that the orphanage was a bad place to live and a very bad place to die… How cruel it was to kill something of such beauty.  

By: Mahlatse Masinamela

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