Kugida Amadoda
I would not say this is my project alone, but it is a project which belongs to everyone who is involved and those who are interested in it.
I was born and brought up in the times of Kwaito music, and township streets were populated by Pantsula dance and fashion. Back in my high school years it was a norm for a boy to be Pantsula. Almost every Friday afterschool there will be different crews from different nearby schools, who would gather together and battle with the Pantsula dance. They were called the Skhanda-Men.
Only videos and snapshots were taken by that time, there was no television story about Pantsula made until there was Tjovitjo which played on SABC 1. What was shown on Tjovitjo about the Pantsula culture in terms of dance, fashion and most of the township lifestyle was what is happening in townships high schools and township streets. Tjovitjo got my attention and I was mostly interested in female Pantsulas which was not much of a norm.
This is what made me to start a body of work about Pantsula females. It is mostly focusing on Pantsula fashion in terms of their clothing not choosing which gender it should be worn by and breaking the stereotypes of expecting a Pantsula to be a male. Also assuming that a female Pantsula is a lesbian or tomboy
