Tsakane Informer

By Lurnay Tshabalala-Mavuso | 04 November 2022 I'M sure we can all agree as students that studying can be a bit challenging or even a whole lot more challenging. We find ourselves being compelled to look at a book for hours or sometimes even page that book for hours not really knowing what you can do to process the information that you need to know for your exam paper. Studying can be a lot easier when one knows how to do it and also when one knows which ways or tools/methods to use when studying. With me here I have a few tips that have been working for me, which I think would work for you too. 1. GATHER ALL YOUR TOOLS This means that you need to gather all the books, notepads, pens and the rest of your stationery together and have them in one place, a place where you can easily reach without having to move from your study place to get something and only come back to losing what you were already trying to process and comprehend. 2. FIND A COMFORTABLE PLACE TO STUDY AT ...

By Lurnay Tshabalala-Mavuso | 03 November 2022 I totally agree that being a parent to a queer child is not easy at all, let alone being a parent. I say this as a queer child who was raised from a family that did well with raising me, even though I never came out (not that there was a need for me to), I never came out because I didn't know who and what I was but the society decided for me and chose to categorize me under a banner that they saw fit for them to put me and at the same time use to ostracize me. What I noticed is that my elders found it challenging to talk to me especially when I reached my pre-teen years and my teenage years (which now have passed). They have had times where they didn't know how to talk to me about sex and how to initiate the conversation. However my mother has always been an open-minded person and so were my late grandmothers. They used media a lot to start conversations with me that they found to be challenging.  Which is not really wh...