Sandiside

  Taking the Jump and being a dreamer This year has been a rollercoaster! This is the time of year when some of us do an introspective of ourselves, our growth, what have we accomplished? Where am I going in the coming year and did I save enough? I have been asking myself about the importance of being self-reliance  and taking the jump into being my own boss. It is an unpopular decision to take the leap without a back plan and leaving a position at work. Self-doubt and fear, as I have found are the killer of dreams. If you accept them as a barrier  you barely accomplish anything in life. I have been thinking quite a lot but not actually doing much. Initially I was going to delve into what I termed my ‘turmoil year', but one of my friend was like ‘what turmoil’? My friend lost two loved ones, a loss of income in this year alone, so what turmoil am I in? So put you big girl ...

Who am I? Possibly one of the most asked questions ever. We are defined by a number of things. Our appearance, what we do for a living, material possessions and our first impressions of the things around us among many other things. However, growing up in a middle-class African family, our hair has always mattered and not necessarily our Model-C accents, which supposedly helped us in what is considered to be, “former white spaces.” My hair – a trending topic of my entire being from my childhood. From my earliest memories, it was pretty clear to me that your hair is a focal point of your beauty.   We are either perceived clean or dirty; depending on how our hair as African girls looks like. Extreme as it may sound, if you think back to what happened at the Pretoria Girls High School when Eurocentric forms of beauty, which are the norm were challenged – your hair is expected to be relaxed or straight. My earliest memories where my hair was curled, coiled or in an afro...

Welcome to SandiSide, my name is Sandisiwe Mbhele, known by my friends as Sandi, I hope you see what I did with the name of the blog. I am a self-proclaimed liker of things and lifestyle, and a foodie, an opinionated, wannabe activist and this blog will be expressing the many sides of my life, whilst living in the city of gold, Johannesburg. I have had an inner battle the past year about who I am, what I want from my life, and where I am going, particularly after I graduated with a post-grad degree, and one year in my first full-time job. This blog is going to be my creative outlet and the many things that I love in my life. I will definitely touch on health and fitness and don't be surprised to see a few posts about politics or current affairs. One to also look out for in the future is entrepreneurship, giving blossoming new businesses the opportunity and space to showcase their work. In my many facets, I refuse to be boxed, I rather be a hat with many tricks up my sleev...