Tsukudu Speaks

  Between Lenasia South and Orange Farm lies a modest settlement of about 30 000 residents that was once part of a cluster of farms like Weilers’ Farm and the infamous Orange Farm. This settlement was municipally approved as a township for Black people in the early 1990s and it would be designated for the generations of “legal squatters” who lived there and moreover, low income black earners. Thus began the process of allocating stands to the many blue collar workers  who would eventually live and retire there for about R27 a stand, that’s R241 in today’s money. The settlement was originally known as Grasmere but would now become Finetown Grasmere. The Beatrice street entrance to Finetown. Finetown is my hometown in which I was born and bred for 16 years before I moved to neighbouring Lenasia South (or Lenz South if you’re a local) where I lived for 2 more years before I left for university.  It was not until I lived in suburban Extension 3 of Lenz South did I see just ho...

When I was young there was this cartoon show I used to watch, probably Teen Titans or so, where one of the main characters created a machine that could solve the world's problems and it worked very well. The machine could independently determine if something was a threat or not and therefore appropriately eliminate it. The machine however, worked so well that it concluded that the biggest threat to the world was humans themselves and like a cleaner who realises the main cause of filth is their employer, it set out to create a pathogen that would wipe out the entire human race because humans were the cause of wars that destroyed the environment, the cause of greed that led to world inequality and ultimately all human suffering.  Now I don't seek to discredit the advancements we've made in the field of machine learning in this article. But am I too much of a township bumpkin when I say; too much too soon? It's impressive how we went from clamouring and scrambling to defea...