Event honours societal role of domestic workers
Titled A Maid Made Me, members of the Hip-Hop group DTIPO, gave thanks to local women.
WOMEN were honoured at the A Maid Made Me event on the Bluff recently. Hip-Hop artist and member of the popular group Durban Til I Pass On (DTIPO), Blak Bornfree, said the aim was to build a legacy for humanity for the future.
“I decided to honour my mother but the challenge for me came in the form of how would I do that. I then thought of the fact that there’s a mother everywhere one goes and came up with the idea to empower young women to be like the mothers we already have. I looked around the Bluff and saw powerful women and everything started falling into place,” he said.
The guests of honour included ward 66 councillor, Zoë Solomon, founder of Forever Trendy, Shozi Browns, performing artist, Khwezi Becker, Felicity Havenga from Pinnacle Skills, engineer, writer and actor, Zamaswazi Shozi, Bluff Clinic manager, Sr Fikile Tsekiso including Nombulelo Damane, Blak’s mother.
Proud to have been raised by a maid, Blak highlighted the often thankless roles that house helpers continue to play. His sentiments are that everybody has had some relationship with a maid in their lives, whether she is a hired help or your very own mother.
“This idea works for so many reasons because two worlds are brought together – often being people of different races and economical statuses. I am honoured to be in the presence of royalty. As much as it is a seminar to empower women, there are also men who think differently like my fellow band members in DTIPO.
“We’re always out and about trying to find the best ways to unite the society of both feminine and masculine. Everybody must know that a maid is not just a domestic worker, it is anybody who struggles but still goes on their knees and prays. Anybody struggling or hustling is a maid because they are working for a greater purpose and this idea is not gender binary,” he added.
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