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Walking on WaterGoodbye 2020... Hello 2021From conspiracy theories, femicide, lockdown, to 'stolen' elections, PPE corruption and remote church, 2020 felt like it was one of those years you’d rather forget. Remembering can be painful, but there are a few things that happened in 2020 we should probably revisit, and a few things we may need to remember moving forward as we try to make sense of what we just went through and look ahead to our post-2020 life.
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Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/walking_on_water_mzansi/ ...2021-01-2931 minWalking on WaterIn conversation with Dr. Sindiwe Magona - Part 2 of 2Author, poet, playwright, actor, educator, activist. Dr. Sindiwe Magona is one of South Africa's greatest treasures. Her books have pushed boundaries and challenged our collective thinking about family, HIV/AIDS, poverty and finding your own voice. In the conclusion of this 2-part episode, Ayanda and Dambudzo have a freewheeling conversation with Mam' Sindiwe on life, writing and all things South Africa.
Links to some key books by Dr. Sindiwe Magona:
Mother to mother - https://books.google.co.za/books/about/Mother_to_Mother.html?id=CZeFWXG4-SgC&redir_esc=y
Beauty's gift - https://books.google.co.za/books/a...2020-11-1100 minWalking on WaterIn conversation with Dr. Sindiwe Magona - Part 1Author, poet, playwright, actor, educator, activist. Dr. Sindiwe Magona is one of South Africa's greatest treasures. Her books have pushed boundaries and challenged our collective thinking about family, HIV/AIDS, poverty and finding your own voice.
In part 1 of this 2-part episode, Ayanda and Dambudzo have a freewheeling conversation with Mam' Sindiwe on life, writing and all things South Africa.
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Stevener - Black Excellence 6002020-11-0200 minWalking on WaterOn Impostor SyndromeHave you ever had the feeling that everyone else is ‘crushing it’ except you? Or a nagging thought when you’ve accomplished something amazing and yet you feel it only happened due to sheer luck or being helped by other people? If every external indicator is that you earned your success, and yet you feel like you've faked your way into the room, you may be struggling with 'impostor syndrome'.
Impostor syndrome is at work when you feel you somehow don’t deserve to be where you find yourself, that you don’t belong, whether it...2020-10-2100 minWalking on WaterLife amidst Covid-19 - Part Two (On history, churches and governments)In part two of our reflections on living during a pandemic, we look at how churches in Cape Town and South Africa broadly have been responding to the situation. Through a retrospective that looks at past plagues, we learn some of the positives and negatives that people lean into during times such as these. We also delve into how governments have coped during this time, speaking into issues such as corruption over PPE and repression of democratic freedoms. There is much to rejoice over in the responses of individuals and organisations to the Covid-19 crisis; however, there is...2020-09-1433 minWalking on WaterLife amidst Covid-19 - Part One (On loss, gender-based violence and racism)Life in 2020 has been dominated by the horizon of Covid-19 which has eclipsed what we would term 'regular' life. While dealing with Covid-19 and the dislocation it's caused, it's not as if everything else in life has slowed down. An uptick of gender-based violence during the lockdown and incidents of racism have also been regular features while we deal with the multi-faceted losses of Covid-19. In this episode, Ayanda and Dambudzo spend some time looking at these intertwined realities and reflect on hope in times like these. Our hope lies in Jesus, our anchor in all seasons of...2020-08-3122 minWalking on WaterPart 3: On #BLM, responses by churches and challenging our theologiesPeople may have forgotten that apartheid in South Africa and the trans-Atlantic enslavement of peoples were justified and authorised not only politically, but theologically as well. The theologians who did this work were not on the fringes, but 'pillars' of the establishment - a number of their works are still required reading in seminaries. While some have examined and repented of the roots and fruit of these and other dangerous theologies, others have uncritically continued to hold to theologies and practices that at best passively, and at worst actively, support ongoing unjust and ungodly configurations of Church and society.2020-07-1015 minWalking on WaterPart 2: On #BLM, police brutality and hypocrisyAs the Black Lives Matter protests unfolded in the United States and across the world after the death of George Floyd at the hands of police, politicians and other leaders here in South Africa echoed the hashtag and decried police brutality. When we witnessed scenes of protestors in the US being beaten, teargassed and pepper-sprayed by police while protesting peacefully, our minds and eyes were drawn closer to home. What does Black Lives Matter mean in South Africa? Does it have resonance here, and are politicians and leaders being truthful and consistent about honouring the lives of their fellow...2020-07-0617 minWalking on WaterPart 1: On #BLM, 'All Lives Matter' and knowing historyFollowing the murder of George Floyd at the hands of police in the United States, protests erupted there and across the world. The hashtag #BlackLivesMatter once again came to the fore, with individuals using it as a rallying cry to marshal support against police brutality and toward reform of policing and dignity for black and brown communities. As those protests occurred, counter-protests also sprang up, and ‘All Lives Matter’ became the slogan for some. What does a sensitive reading of this season and of history yield? Is #BlackLivesMatter a racist call, as alleged by some, or are people mistaking symb...2020-07-0314 minWalking on WaterToday in books...In the last episode of this season, Ayanda and Dambudzo go on a freewheeling journey discussing the books they’re reading towards their graduate degrees, and the various questions they pose about living faithfully, consistently and with accountability. From autobiographies to political theology texts, from intergenerational trauma to our complicity in the exploitation of others, join Ayanda and Dambudzo as they unravel a complex narrative of the contradictions and joys of living in South Africa today.
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Es’kia Mphahlele – Down Second...2020-04-081h 00Walking on WaterWhen your spiritual leader fails youWhat do you do when your spiritual leader fails you? Do you talk to them to pursue clarity and reconciliation or leave the space altogether in search of greener pastures? Caught between cancel culture, our deep desire and need for meaningful community, and the hurt we’re sometimes exposed to in church spaces, how do we live? Join Ayanda and Dambudzo as they try and unravel dealing with church hurt, empowerment of individual believers, forgiveness and challenging one another toward justice in our interpersonal relationships.
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Pr...2020-03-251h 01Walking on WaterLove in a time of patriarchySouth Africa has the highest rate of femicide in the world. Karabo Mokoena, Rachel Tshabalala, Reeva Steenkamp, Uyinene Mrwetyana and so many more women have fallen victim to fatal patterns of male behaviour. In this episode, Ayanda and Dambudzo explore and try to unravel the conundrum of trust and entering intimate relationships while remaining realistic and vigilant about the perils of trusting and being vulnerable, and they offer proposals on how we can begin to embrace a different way of being in the world.
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Walking on WaterOn XenophobiaThe resilience of colonialism and its expression as black on black, Afrophobic violence, has plagued South Africa post-apartheid. In this episode, Ayanda and Dambudzo detail the fatal consequences of creating ‘insider’ and ‘outsider’ identities, challenging the Church to walk in the way of Jesus in creating an inclusive identity.
Resources mentioned in the episode:
Sisonke Msimang - Always another country - a memoir of exile and home
Francis Nyamnjoh - #RhodesMustFall - nibbling at resilient colonialism in South Africa
Emmanuel Katongole - The sacrifice of Africa
Prof. T. Maluleke - Look at the kwerekwere in the mirror
V.Y. Mudimbe - The idea of Africa...2020-02-2554 min
Walking on WaterBlack and Middle Class in the Cape ColonyWhat happens when black people inhabit work, living and spiritual spaces which tend to disconnect them from themselves and their home context? In this episode, Ayanda and Dambudzo explore what is lost along the way toward cultural assimilation, the intricacies of becoming a “better black”, and the double consciousness and self-alienation that can develop in black folk who straddle multiple spaces.
Resources mentioned in the episode:
W.E.B Du Bois - "The souls of black folk"
Frantz Fanon - "Black skin, White masks"
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Special thanks to Stevener - https://music.apple.com/us/album/black-excellence-600-single/13695285492020-02-1352 min
Walking on WaterSexual Violence and the ChurchWith over 40 000 reported cases of rape in 2019 alone, sexual violence is a regular, brutal feature of life in South Africa. Does the Church have the resources and a role to play in addressing this pressing issue? Join Ayanda and Dambudzo as they do an honest deep dive into this question and interrogate our culture and the Church space in hopes of coming up with some answers.
Links mentioned in the episode:
Vuvuzela men in Soweto - https://youth.be/0112WbbfLBM
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