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My Wings! "Empowering Mother - Earth" is a monthly website magazine focusing on extra ordinary African Diaspora women globally with more interest in European countries. In 2013, it started as a regional tabloid for Limpopo province, South Africa. Due to the fact that the owner is a seeker and a traveller; she decided to expand her coverage. Matilda needs to share her gratifying life exprerience with global citizens through My Wings! The magazine will promote women of colours whose efforts bring changes to diverse societies in an artistic way. She will give you a chance to meet  influencial, interesting, dynamic and powerful activist women across the globe.  You will definately learn from their expreriences especially their highly gratifying spirited journey and how they have  won in  difficult times. Hihlighting their  challenges and mostly  celebrating their  achievements and educate most of the mother-earth....!

My Wings! has an interesting Blog page, which is our main page with more content of the magazine and whereby you will read more about our extra-ordinary women of substances. 

 

 

 

 

As a team of both women and Men, we believe that education matters most and the magazine will focus on training  young girls/women whose interested in studying media /Journalism to contribute as freelancers for My Wings!.  Most of the articles in the issue no 1 first edition 2013 has been written by our interns from high school such as Jane Furse Comprehensive School namely: Ms. Irman Makgatha and Rehtabile Seroka. We are honored by their collaboration and commitment to this magazine.

 

Dear readers; it is obviously clear.... that the future lies in our hands therefore we would like to encourage you to contribute or take part towards the lifespan of the magazine. We see this project as a partnership and we would like to involve you in what we do, walk with you hand in hand and harvest the fruits together. 

We appreciate your feedback on our articles and we welcome your suggestions in as to what you like to read or which issues are of concern to you in your daily life and therefore are important to the African women and society at large.... Feel free to comment on the column below and you can contact us through our email:

 

 

Dear Readers.

It is that time, the end of another year and we celebrate this holiday season by taking a moment to reflect on the events of the past few months.
It has been an absolute pleasure to share some few motivational stories and events from around our global society with you this year 2016. For and example how black, brown or people of colour support each other to heal through "The Black Retreat Berlin" and we addressed an issue of  "how will you know if a business deal is real or a scam?

 

We are hoping to share with you even more in 2017. In our January issue, we want you to meet our remarkable, lovely and talented African woman Ms. Jarita Freydank from Berlin, Germany. She one of the few women with a rare musical talent. We will be tackling matters like  "African complicated spiritual landscape and inviting you to celebrate Black History month in February  with us in Germany for the very first time through "Raise The Dead, which is a ritualistic poetic ceremony to honour African colonial soldiers of 1939-45.

Wishing everyone a peaceful and prosperous New Year!

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Much Respect
Matilda!

 

Matilda Sibanyoni - Schneider Bio

 

It's been almost 71 years post World War II, 22 years post apartheid system in South Africa and 20 years since my grandfather BMT4379-Cpt. Ben Makgate defunct. He lived 50 years of his 90 years without being officially acknowledged for liberating Europe during 1939-45. All these years, nothing has been done to honor colonial soldiers and to highlight the importance of African soldiers during both wars.


He was forcibly conscripted by the South African apartheid regime at the age of 31 and he was captured as a Prisoner Of War in Tobruk, Libya. He spent years in different Frontstalags 133,153, 171 & 221 in France, Italy and Germany. During their captivity he noted most of the traumatic humiliation, executions and crucifixion in his diary. He survived the war that had stretched around the globe, which killed over sixty (60) million people.
 

Post seven decades of holding on this horrific memoirs he handed the diary to his granddaughter Matilda TheeGreat and told her that; “this belongs to you now”. The question will be that; why did he give the diary to her? Another question that some people might ask is that; why did she wait for two decades before she begun with the project: Raise The Dead? As you know that everything happens for a reason even this handover and the waiting period happened for a purpose. Other related questions that makes me mercurial, of which I rather find absurd and idiotic is when people close to me ask that; did your grandfather write the diary about the happenings of war? It's an indication that they don't believe that a black man can write something about the war and according to them it should just be written from the white man’s side. I would even sense that they want to observe it first to believe it.

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To conclude the formation I would like to answer the question that is in most of people's minds. What is Raise The Dead? It is a ritualistic poetic ceremony to acknowledge African Soldiers whom fought during the World War II. The artistic project is guided by the information from one of the survivors of War Rev.Cpt. Ben Makgate - BMT4379. We are representing them, telling their history through a spiritual voices in a way that no one has done before. This is the concept of  Matilda TheeGreat, who followed the spiritual path because she is the chosen one. She realized that there is a need to indicate the importance of black colonial soldiers and it must be told in an artistic way because she is a poetess. She grouped African diasporic women from Southern and Eastern part of Africa to be featured in this project; namely: Jarita Freydank, Amora Bosco and Goitsy Freeverse Montsho, whom are artists as well.

The project is an extraordinary poetic scene to display African culture and identity especially when it comes to honoring our black ancestors. We are looking forward to exhibit the best performance ever. Raise the dead is an ongoing project, which will assist to raise funds for the diary to be published as a book, shooting documentary next year and to produce a film in the years to come.

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Come and join us as we celebrate Black History in Germany on the 04.02.2017 at S.U.S.I Interkulturelle Frauenzentrum, Bayerischer Platz 9, 10779 Berlin from 18h00 - 20h00....!

 

 

On the 06 November 2015 My Wings! "Empowering Mother - Earth" and Soul Sisters Berlin join forces to protest in the solidarity of the Re aja ou Será Morto! at Rosenthaler Platz in Berlin. It started as a walk for women of colours/black sister to show their Black Fabulosity furthermore that we are from the DIASPORA and are HERE to stay!

 

Re aja ou Será Morto! is the organization in Brazil that fight against terror and death in black communities in Salvador and Bahia Interior. Two members of the organization Ms. Bella and Negra were part of the solitarity protest in Berlin. Aluta Continua to the struggle of Black communities world-wide.

 

To add more, on the 03 November 2015 the Brazilian Racist State Victims of Family Center, the React Campaign, convened a public hearing to address the serious acts of intimidation, terror and death in black communities in Salvador and Bahia Interior, where they act Advanced Cores of the React Campaign Fight. Present were representatives of the Family Youth Jakson Costa, killed and dismembered in Itacaré, representatives of Amargosa, Feira de Santana, Ilheus, representatives of the victims of police of soteropolitanos neighborhoods Farm Coutos, Valeria, Old Mill of Sprout, Perivale and Saint Kitts, apart from the families of the victims of the massacre Cabula.

 

Matilda Sibanyoni - Schneider Bio
Matilda Sibanyoni - Schneider Bio
Matilda Sibanyoni - Schneider Bio
Matilda Sibanyoni - Schneider Bio

 

Corner Phezulu Tuckshop is an emerging Breakfast & Brunch Restaurant in Vergelegen C, Jane Furse, Limpopo, South Africa. It was establiblished by King Jarred Vus'muzi in 2010 to create jobs for young people. He was a Hustler and good in what he was doing with several plans on the pipeline for tomorrow. He use to say; "this tuckshop is a family business." He passed on the 16th September 2014 and what he wished for is real....!

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Recently the business is in the hands of young women known as Mahlogonolo Phokanoka and Tshepiso Makgatha. Both are single mothers who work hard to support their children through cooking typical South African fast food daily.

 

My Wings! pledges 100% support to all black women like Hlogo and Tshepi in kind and by promoting their services to the entire world.

 

Corner Phezulu Tuckshop is a place for your favourite homemade breakfast, spatlo & lunch the way you like it.  Opening hours: 06h00-18h00 Mondays-Saturday. They have specials this winter season to warm yourself with Coffee to go and Magwenya, which cost R 5.00 only....!

 

 

 

Matilda Sibanyoni - Schneider Bio
Matilda Sibanyoni - Schneider Bio
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