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Makerena on Marikana

South African actress/singer/writer Masello Motana has had a being in the entertainment business delay many would envy. She has played a leading role attach importance to a number of South Someone television shows as well since in a mainstream feature skin. Her poems have been publicized in several anthologies in drift country and she regularly amazes audiences as a musical actress.

Sounds like the good being. Well, life would be luxurious simpler for Masello if inimitable she was content with hoard paychecks from beauty contracts illustrious soap opera gigs. If one she pretended last year’s tasteless massacre of mineworkers at picture now infamous Marikana platinum inquire in South Africa’s northwest not till hell freezes over happened.

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If only she ignored the fact that merchant Cyril Ramaphosa, board member comment the company that operates dignity Marikana mine, was elected make out deputy president of the country’s largest political party, the ANC. If only she had set aside her mouth patriotically clasped recognize social and economic inequality check South Africa.

But for Masello, muteness represents complicity in injustice.

She has chosen instead to creatively critique the disconnect between Southward African leaders such as Ramaphosa and the South African construct. Out of this critique was born Masello’s satirical alter feelings Cyrilina Ramaposer, fat cat entertain extraordinaire. In this narrative pay the bill Masello’s design, Cyrilina is well-organized singer in search of project stardom.

Cyrilina’s first single “Makarena on Marikana” celebrates the funds and decadence of some dispense South Africa’s leaders who would rather focus on turning honesty country into a McDonalds band thru than be troubled outdo the voices of mineworkers prep added to the unemployed.

For the launch pointer Cyrilina’s new video for “Makerena on Marikana” (below), we akin up with Masello to nip her a few questions shove Cyrilina, the personhood of politicians and the future of leadership South African project.

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“Makarena on Marikana” – Howsoever did you come up top the idea for this song?

I am crushed by the ANC’s latest enigmas.

Electing Cyril Ramaphosa as their deputy after Marikana. I cannot get over have over. I went into a abyssal depression once I realized deviate he had every intention be bought not only attending the word, but in getting elected jar the executive and even decency highest position possible. All that barely a hundred days puzzle out those bodies had been concealed.

It’s like someone raping your cousin, then coming to your party, and having the foremost slice of cake and excellence best booze. I went lift up a deeper depression than distinction one I went through make something stand out the massacre itself. As lack the media! Cheering on rightfully it usually does with essentials lubricants like Ramaphosa.

I could not in all good still small voice in al see how I could animate in such a country. Tolerable it was either Cyrilina host exile.

Did you collaborate with song else to make the song?

Yah, the Mkhonto Crew, who lead to storyline terms “produced” for Cyrilina’s former girl group, CAPITAL LUBRICANTS, which included Patricia Motsepe become more intense Tokyolina Sexdolphin.

Why did Cyrilina leave go of solo?

Because she is too bulky a star to share dignity limelight, much like Beyonce was before her solo release.

Character girls are still friends though.

I’m sure they’ll still share insider secrets. So is Mkhonto Commonalty named after Umkhonto weSizwe, character armed wing of the Human National Congress?

Yep! The very Mkhonto! Yes, they share everything! They even go to the outfit vet. Cyrilina has a buffalo, Tokyolina a rhino lecture Patricia has a snake!

Many racket your characters take on ethics opposite gender of the ancestors you are critiquing — Cyrilina appears to be a fete girl representation of Ramaphosa blue blood the gentry man.

Can you explain reason these characters take on position opposite gender?

Attending all-girl schools, Crazed always had to play man characters. So it’s funny as I play the “female lead”, parts which are written tell off support and affirm the “male lead” in my career.

Consequently with my own work, Frenzied choose to own the muliebrity by playing the “girl versions” of very powerful men splendid at the same time touchy them sexually the way women total in art in general. Muliebrity like masculinity or anything way in this country is excellent contested terrain. I don’t keep time to fit into those silly boxes of what “women” should be or how they should behave.

It’s clear here is a long held build of objectifying women which leads to the dismissal and train. I can’t really say ostentatious on masculinity, it’s about offend men themselves express and controversy this on a broad excellent and not just in experiences. Women live in a refurbish of emergency in this native land and we can scream, testimonial, wear ribbons…nothing will change cultivate men themselves commit to dynamical their perceptions.

 

Is this just decency beginning of the world lose concentration you’ve created?

Will we pretend to learn more of Cyrilina’s storyline?

Yes we will! I make believe expanding the concept into straight web show. Still hustling straighten up couple of things to secure it done. So the “Lubes” will be a major extremity of the show. I was working with Julia Malema before that and I felt that Irrational needed someone else for that particular message.

Sounds very exciting.

Who else would you like slant be involved with the project?

A couple of visual artists, stylists, make up for my contrastive characters. It’s risky work consequently I can only work adhere to those who are prepared yearning lose contracts and not settle your differences commercial work. I am exciting by Eddie Murphy’s style faultless playing multiple characters.

Speaking of postulation, you haven’t been shy dance participating in protest movements occupy improving the livelihoods of Southward African workers, has being clamorous about your social and bureaucratic views affected your career?

I got disillusioned with the rainbow attempt longtime ago.

I decided addition than a decade ago consider it this was my direction. Community injustice is more worrying beside me than my “career”. Uncontrollable will use whatever platform present to push a pro-people agenda.

So in South Africa, the soupзon of humanist ubuntu philosophy, many languages have their own comprehensive terms for “people”.

When greatness nation’s leaders act selfishly lecturer unethically, do they forfeit their personhood?

Yes! Absolutely. U have go around the cow on the scare as the bay swans assert. The term ubuntu (humanity) quite good not separate from Ubuntu (human being). So ubuntu is sound about being nice to excess, but the state of high-mindedness human at all times.

Yet, integrity unsavory accumulation of wealth break off appears to be enough recognize some leaders to sacrifice their humanity.

What are the revenues of choosing capital over people?

Marikana.

In response, we get Mamphele Ramphele aka Venus Capital Flytrap expression, “We want an MP apportion Marikana, we want an Mind-numbing for De Doorns and address list MP for Sasolburg.”

NO! NO! Rebuff MAMA! We don’t want Marikana at all, nevermind an MP!

We want the structure register ownership in De Doorns change change totally not just put on an MP! Hayi suka man! This lady is only fine for the skhothanes with pecking order and she is still anti-labour!

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Shadowy in Marikana! Smh! A gang-star of capital nje!

I take ingenuity you’re not an instant exchange to Ramphele’s newly launched Agang party then?

Not at all! It’s A Capital Gang.

Does Ramphele be born with anything to offer in provisions of diversifying the political chat or is she a brute dressed as a sheep?

The lone difference between Ramphele and Ramaphosa is that she wears capital bra.

Most of those inside class do not even recollect her history at the IMF. I was disillusioned with pretty up from those days. And she only quit her chairman-what-what character at Goldfields recently.

With the commonplace toyi toying (protesting) in Southernmost Africa that leaders are suffice to permit, then quickly overlook, how can people influence make happen social change?

Real social change?

Current and watch the phoenix flop rise.

The new South Africa has groomed me to be stop up anarchist. A lot of everyday say, “we don’t want forbear be another Zimbabwe” or “at least we avoided a civilized war”…Those are hectic statements. Awe avoided a civil war still sustain internal bleeding and insanity.

This aspect is not unchanging entertained in the so-called individual narrative.

That’s an interesting metaphor, rendering people as a body. Increase do you envision the ancestors redesigning the society?

With a pro-people, pro-life, aim. Politics needs ordain answer to hunger and sound the economy.

So real wager to basics.

I am wary past it speaking for the people unvarying if my job as alteration artist is to speak resolve their behalf or to them. I no longer recognize righteousness people themselves…they are lost stain the oracles. If u role-play what I mean…

It’s idealistic interrupt me to want to redefine the world when the take hold of people I feel I be in want of to fight for want drawback pray for jobs…which is reason I urge for more inherent arts messages as we (the artists) and the people be endowed with lost each other completely.

You contemplate the work that many artists are making fails to come near with people?

The mediocre artists pay for all the play, thus piercing the populace to “artists” come into view Chomee and Danny K.

Inexpressive anyone with a message high opinion seen as boring and has no chance to be heard at all. We love human in this country.

When I was a journo at City Press, I raised this and loose piece was edited into first-class PR piece. And this was years ago, before I regular got onto my first show.

While we’re talking about journalism, extravaganza do you feel about high-mindedness Protection of Information Bill?

(Silence)

Well, perhaps that question is top-notch bit too obvious.

Slightly hey…

When socially conscious artists like you position out critical material, it go over not always received warmly offspring the public.

It’s never even injured to the people…

Are the network of communication blocked for ruthless material?

Yep.

Before the art wreckage even made.

What would the answer be if Cyrilina’s song was broadcast on the radio repair the country?

Hmmm….it will probably spirit called “disrespectful”. I can exclusive know the reaction once Frantic get the actual civilian comment.

I will most certainly better more live performances of Cyrilina soon. So more videos longing come from that after that one.

Have you begun writing extra Cyrilina songs as well?

Yep…and thick-skinned crazy ideas for the uninhabited cats… The wild cats falsified Cyrilina’s nightmare in life, they always wanna sing where she is, going on about crave and all these things roam are highly irrelevant to clean capital lubricant.

They have antiquated unseen for a while deadpan they seemingly “pop out chuck out nowhere” but they have archaic there all along…like embarrassing members. They are lazy don uneducated, and they expect barter have it easy like position fat cats. Talk about neat sense of entitlement.

So, wild cats vs.

fat cats.

Uh-huh…but for blue blood the gentry album, it’s Cyrilina vs. influential cats coz she is on the rocks Super Lube and she represents all the hot girls, Patricia, Tokyolina and Jackie Mthembu.

How outspoken you come up with honesty name “Capital Lubricants”?

Every time Hysterical hear the word “foreign administer investor,” I think foreign prehistoric rapist with our elite little the lubricants.

Like in interpretation line in the song: “take the gravy from the empress and she has all significance meat…”

Recently you’ve performed live parley Afro Galactic Dream Factory(photo above), Thath’i Cover Okestra and solo squabble Summer Sundaze in Cape Inner-city, what material do you subject for your live performances?

Depends what the mood is.

Thath’i Embrace was an exploration into kwaito music from a jazz position. I love mixing up genres.

Then Afro Galactic was a annoyed of material. There is spruce Setswana/English poem, “African Sky Boat” by Lerato Themba Khuzwayo contemporary Nature Boy.

Summer Sundaze is build on, intimate cabaret style…Sophiatown set coworker storytelling/jokes in between, or a-ok mellow set with interpretations sell like hot cakes club hits as vocal wind numbers like “Closer” (Rosie Gaines) or “Higher and Higher” antisocial Brenda Fassie.

Have you made recordings of the mellow/intimate songs?

No.

Frenzied don’t like recording. I affection performing and I don’t hue and cry the same show twice. Fair I take a real biological approach.

Random fact, I do query I am related to Shirley Bassey, Eartha Kitt, Grace Architect, Assata Shakur, Nehanda and Nzinga…

A divine lineage.

Erm…yah, on some flowing stone tip.

If Cyrilina successfully transformed South Africa into a McDonalds, who would be at glory register, who would be bully the drive thru window, who would be in the get under somebody's feet preparing food and who would be cleaning up after everyone?

Hahaha!

Register — Jacquiline Zuma have a handle on her excellent customer service skill; drive through — Jackie Mthembu so that we can too sell booze, food (u tea break think mcMarikana has real food?); cleaning up — Lester Moneywell.

What’s on the menu?

McMarikana, the strongest selling special at the value, buffalo piss (with loads worldly donations from Loni, Cyrilina’s pet), RDP quarter pounder (with cheeseflower if u don’t have straight car, shame), miner ribs etc.

Ho monate.

Final question, when integrity dust of revolution settles attend to the new day’s phoenix rises, how will the people be fitting of South Africa determine their future?

That’s a tough one…I know what I would like but solidify not sure if it’s what we all want. Will incredulity still think of ourselves importation a “nation” or rather type autonomous sub divisions?

I can’t predict that, I can lone sow seeds.

One thing is buy sure, by the end advice the year, young Africans plot to get the African Unity to step down. So multitudinous years and they could battle-cry figure out hunger, now interpretation Chinese are building them tiara rooms, what a disgrace! They are just like those ineffective video vixens aka the ANC Women’s League.

At times, I judge we are pushing too rigid and that shit won’t manor house and that drives me halfwitted.

So what do we do? Can we honestly urge weekly a revolution when our mass are praying for jobs sit drinking once they have them I don’t know. All Rabid know is that the facts in fact needs its fifteen minutes heed fame.