BLOG: ‘Dying Seeds’ (Cape Flats Karma™ – Planting The Seed) by Earl Albert Mentor

BLOG: ‘Dying Seeds’ (Cape Flats Karma™ – Planting The Seed) by Earl Albert Mentor

WHY THIS PLANT REFUSED TO BE PLANTED, WATERED & NUTURED My Journey from Long Street to Main Street I remember at the age of 9 I found myself roaming the streets of Cape Town begging with my childhood friend called Reimpie (grew up together in Petunia Court). Begging was never part of my plan, but… […]

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‘The NOISE in our Head’

Are we good enough? My biggest focus when working with my clients during my life coaching seminars and workshops is this, the fear that you’re not good enough. The fear that you’re not good enough is like a routine governed by negative self-talk that affects everyone, but show up differently for each person. How we… […]

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‘New-Age Gangs & Blood Fangs’ (Corners and Curbs)

  CORNERS & CURBS  ‘This is a wicked world we are living in, you should be like the crack in the tar (consciousness) in order to read the lines in between.’ – Earl Mentor Take a good look at our corners, especially where you will find a green electric box. When I think back when… […]

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Coloured On Coloured Crime: Part 1

“It’s okay if you hate me, I hate me too.” It had been a good 16 years that I have researched the make and break of our people residing in high-risk communities in Cape Town, South Africa. ‘Marginalised People’ having to endure the painful reality that much of what limits us in our lives is our… […]

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Privilege vs Power (My Public Violence Charge)

I am currently reading this powerful book entitled ‘The Prince’ by Nicolò Machiavelli. Allow me the opportunity to open my blog #2 with this powerful excerpt from this book that strongly confirms my sentiments against an unjust system working tirelessly to keep people in marginalized communities under the rod of suffering, and why I am… […]

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‘The Flower Pot’ within a Council Flat

“They forced us into a space and made us hate our own race, by erecting apartheid structures to direct our ways, now mirrors are being broken in Council Flats because we can’t stand to see the reflection of our own face.” – Earl Mentor   The immense irony of “The Flower Pot” built dead-center in… […]

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‘Simple Transformation’

 ‘Simple Transformation’ ‘It was tough growing up with the belief of feeling unloved, unappreciated and unworthy of life-changing experiences as I have had to endure and deal with a lot of emotional trauma in a household beset with negativity. I had three failed suicidal attempts on my life – I tried really hard to take… […]

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