tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42065993634631986542024-03-13T00:03:40.087+02:00.Journ Tauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08642749138089340355noreply@blogger.comBlogger308125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4206599363463198654.post-80690783420934007002015-05-08T11:52:00.002+02:002015-05-08T11:57:05.954+02:00Use Social Media for Personal Branding<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>Sthembiso Sithole </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Social media is now part of our daily activities and some
users use it for personal branding. Personal branding is all about marketing
yourself and what you do in terms of your career and skills. Amazon CEO Jeff
Bezos breaks it down well when he says “A brand is what people say about you
when you are not in the room”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It’s no secret that most students in higher education
institutions spend a lot of their time on social media platforms such as
Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google Plus. Students spend time online doing
research for assignments and to communicate while others use social media
because it’s accessible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">These platforms are used in different ways for different
reasons, but I believe it is high time that students both in universities and
colleges use them for personal branding. Times have changed and employers want
to be associated with people who have good profiles on social media.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I know many graduates who have used different social
media platforms to build their profiles in order to attract prospective
employers. Some even promote their own work and companies. I remember when I
was doing my second year studies in journalism at Tshwane University of
Technology; I started a website with my friends. The website was aimed to
showcase our work that we did when we were working for TUTfm, RekordNoweto,
TUTLife newspaper and TUT TV news. We also indicated which media houses we will
be visiting during holidays. We asked editors to offer us internships.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I went beyond the call of duty to compile my work in a
form of a book. When I was still writing for The Star newspaper, I gave the
book to the then editor, Makhudu Sefara. How can I forget how Kevin Ritchie,
who has now taken over from Sefara was pleased with my creativity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sibongiseni Abraham Gentsu who studied IT (Multimedia) at
Tshwane University of Technology is one of the graduates who always look for
creative ways on social media to promote himself and his company. Gentsu who is
a Mindset Learn Xtra presenter on DSTV, has his own company called Gentsu Media
Services. The Multimedia Company provides services such as, Social Networking,
Graphics Design, Animation Design, Video and Sound Editing. Without a doubt, he
always make sure that social media is abuzz with what he is doing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">He might not be or not have been in the unemployment list
of graduates, but he is a true testimony that when you use social media for
personal branding, it turns to do well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">With that being said, I am reminded of my first job
interview at the SABC in the Digital News Unit in 2012. That interview took 10
minutes and before it even started, the person who interviewed me said, “I
searched for your name on Google and I am impressed.” Had I not have branded
myself online, who knows, I would not have made it as a digital news producer at
SABC News Online.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This was only the beginning. I got my current job not
only because I am good at what I do, but because of my daily activity on social
media, particular on Twitter. I have used and still continue to use Twitter to
promote my skills and the work of the company that I work for as social media
editor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I am affectionately known as Social Media Savvy, simply
because I know and understand how to use social media. Since I spend a lot of
time in the world of news, I personally believe being abreast with news and
what is happening around me is important. I tweet a lot about news and I have
trended several times. In my profession that says a lot about who you are and
what you are capable of, followers also trust you for delivering news that is
accurate and fair.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">South Africa has so many graduates who are unemployed and
we can’t always blame government for this. Graduates can meet government
halfway by being active on social media, joining relevant job groups, Like
Facebook pages that often advertise jobs. On Twitter there are many companies
and users who share job posts. @TwadioShow and @mobijobsjobs are some of the
Twitter users who often advertise jobs. In conclusion, I reckon instead of
watching porn online or wasting time posting things that are not beneficial to
you or your future, learn more about personal branding as a student and start
branding yourself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sthembiso Sithole is the Social Media Editor for the Mail & Guardian.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This piece first appeared int he MiCampusMag.co.za </span></div>
Journ Tauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08642749138089340355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4206599363463198654.post-32296839694194148602014-08-30T10:49:00.003+02:002014-08-30T10:50:55.760+02:00South Africans & Race - It's the Norm Here<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b>Siphumelele Zondi </b></div>
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Recently I spoke to a mate who studied in China and then the
UK when I was also at university there. We’ve both been back for the same
amount of time and it seems as much as we love our home country, we realise
that there’s that big struggle of race. The mate I am mentioning here is a
white woman. She said to me, “In South Africa politics is in your face, race is
in your face, inequalities that are a result of race are in your face.”</div>
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I am a black man and I realised in UK middle class societies
that I found myself in, my race didn’t matter to a lot of people. I was once in
a casual conversation with two women who were convinced I was British, they
never mentioned my race but were trying to find ways to prove that I am in fact
British and South African. These were white women. Their race is important
because I am writing this in South Africa where race seems is the “thing” that
people judge you on before they realise that you are South African, a good
television producer, Zulu and are a generally nice guy. Yep you are black first
in South Africa and as a result you have to predominantly interact with other
black people and there will be certain perceptions made about you when people
meet you for the first time, before you open your mouth.</div>
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In December I tweeted about a house-breaking in my house. I
realised that white South Africans on Twitter immediately assumed that those
who had done it were black, some were not even afraid to share this until I
tweeted again that the police had come through and the suspects were white.
Those white males were later arrested for a different crime in my area. Because
this is South Africa and to South Africans crime has a race and that is black.
People don’t look at the socio-economic conditions that those people live
under, they do not look at the history and the reasons that resulted in those
people living in poverty and as a result becoming criminals. To them, criminals
are black, male and as a result all black males are suspect until proven
otherwise. To some, their criminality can’t even be proven otherwise because
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This was tested when I was in a pharmacy in Victory Park,
Johannesburg recently. There was a queue and a bench people could sit on when
waiting. I sat down on the bench and as I did, the white woman next to me
quickly moved her hand bag and hugged it. I could see her getting more relaxed
when I stood up and left. I realised that as a white South African, she
believed that I, a man in a shirt, a pair of jeans and a thousand Rand sneakers
could be a criminal. Her son probably wears the same clothes as me, looks like
me and the only difference between us would be race. Despite this, her South
African conditioning would never let her see it at all.</div>
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This is also the case when police, including black police,
deal with black criminals. I’ve been stopped by police who asked me for my ID
to prove that I am South African, I’ve heard of many South Africans who’ve gone
through this. A recent high profile case was that of the son of former Reserve
Bank governor, Tito Mboweni, who was taken to a waiting centre for foreigners
to be deported. I’ve never heard of white South African who’s been stopped on
the side of the road and asked to prove that they are South African. When
living in the UK, I was never stopped by cops nor have I ever been asked to
prove my nationality. The only times I’ve been asked to show my identity in
Britain was when bouncers wanted me to prove my age when entering clubs.</div>
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I remember an incident when I had spotted a parking bay in
Greenside. The car guard stood in the middle of the parking lane, telling me
that I couldn’t park there. He refused to give me a reason until a car that was
being driven by an Indian man pulled up behind me. He pointed at the car and
said he would get first preference and that he wasn’t going to allow me to park
there. I was fuming at this stage until I heard him mumbling to himself about
how he wasn’t going to let a black person park there. This was a black car
guard. I drove off, screamed something to him in anger about how this country
isn’t going to progress if black people like him still see other races as
superior. </div>
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Restaurants and bars in Greenside are also a huge eye-opener
of how we still stay in our little racial groups. I remember a friend from
Switzerland asking me why there was only one other table with a mixed race
group and every other table had black people sitting with other black people or
white people only with other white people. That was the first time I had
noticed that voluntary racial segregation in South African restaurants. This is
something that was again totally different from the British middle class
societies I had found myself in when I was studying there.</div>
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South Africa has a lot of examples that show that the white
race is still considered superior and is the preferred race by many. This is
seen in boardrooms, social set-up of societies and even in voices that are
heard in much of the media. It’s a country that is overwhelmingly black, but there
are many spaces that don’t show this – like when I was in Cotton On in Sandton
recently and realised that all posters have white models on them, it was as if
I was suddenly living in a predominantly white society again.</div>
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As much as issues of race and racism are still an issue that
haunts us, you then get people who are privileged because of their race calling
radio stations to request that South Africans move on and not discuss race
anymore. You get people are privileged because of their race saying we should
do away with employment equity laws that are trying to right the many wrongs we
see in South Africa. At some point, maybe, race will not be the first thing we
see in other South Africans.</div>
Journ Tauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08642749138089340355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4206599363463198654.post-5613611221345526312014-08-20T16:01:00.003+02:002014-08-20T16:02:42.107+02:00Why are SA Women told to Compromise for Marriage?<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Lindiwe Maphumulo</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Women
are shrinked everyday of their lives. As women, we’re made to think that
marriage is the most important goal we should aspire to. Men, on the other
hand, are told to have other dreams and ambitions like heading up organisations,
becoming presidents and making millions. When will we, as women, live a good
life without settling for less and limiting ourselves?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">My
friend and I were having a discussion about this the other day. She was saying
that it would be fascinating if a woman was hit on by a guy and then declined,
but not just with a simple no but gave a thorough list of reasons of her
decision. One of the reasons she could give is that she would like to get a
career going and make her own money. My friend and I were thinking that in the
society we live in, this woman would be called a gold digger and other names
just because of her goals. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">We
discussed this to a point where a man who had been eaves-dropping decided to
join in and turned it to a huge debate. He mentioned that he would have a
problem with a woman who can do things for herself, he would feel that he isn’t
needed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">We
spoke about how he would feel if women accepted men because they can match them
on status and salary as that should be a woman’s prerogative. The man’s
response was that the woman should be happy with any man asking her out and not
judge them on material things as she might not be happy in that relationship,
but we do hear that a lot of divorces happen because of financial squabbles in
the marriage. Would it then not be better to sort this out as people meet,
before the first date even happens.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This
showed me exactly just how a lot of men want women to be. They want us to just
accept any man who comes around and promises the world because we might not be
sure if we will get other offers if we decline that one. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He ended up saying that women don’t know what they
want. I had to tell him that every woman knows exactly what she wants and it’s
just that every man must be patient enough to actually listen to what we say we
want. Everything does not have to revolve around how they want women to behave
or do things.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Our
standards, as women, are lowered to a point where we lose our self-respect because
we’ve compromised for love and marriage and as a result need to rely on men for
money and wellbeing. The situations we end up in are a result of how society
expects us to be, we have to compromise a lot for what is seen as stability and
security. Marriage ends up taking place because of how a woman must be
perceived by society and to be seen to have a holistic life. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I
sometimes feel ashamed of being a woman in South Africa. South African women
don’t respect themselves anymore, we have mix-matched our list of priorities. We
end up working hard for men and how we are going to be accepted by them. Is
this really the kind of women we are want to be? What kind of mothers will we
be to our daughters if that is who we have become? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Let’s
go back to the garden when man and woman were a pair and a support system for
each other. When did we turn against each other? Why is it a problem to men
when women become successful? I wish that women who give advice to young girls
and couples that are getting married would also tell them that men must understand
that women no longer have to stay at home and take care of children; they have
ambitions and careers too. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Women
need a serious push in the right direction and that can come with the right
information from older women because if that information doesn’t come then our
generation will continue losing direction as it has been the case for a while –
after all South African history of powerful women who fought for our rights too. </span></div>
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that there is nothing wrong with marriage but it shouldn’t mean that I should
limit myself and give up certain dreams in order to have it. If that’s what it
means – then maybe the meaning of that institution should be revisited.</span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Siphumelele Zondi</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="https://twitter.com/SZondi" target="_blank">@SZondi </a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Sitting in an
airport in Hong Kong, I had a chat with an Afrikaans South African woman who is
about the same age as I am. The woman and I are pretty similar on tastes in
music and other interests. We both pretty much grew up in post-apartheid South Africa,
but are vastly different on our knowledge of South African movies. One would
think we live in two different South Africas when they analyse the movies we
watch. I spoke about Jerusalema, iNumber Number and The Forgotten Kingdom. She told
me about Grens Pos, Skoonheid and Leon Schuster movies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">We also
differed on our views of employment equity laws as she told me she was changing
jobs so she could work for an organisation that is opposed to Black Economic
Empowerment as she feels her white skin never gave her any privileges. She told
me about how she grew up poor in Bloemfontein and she and her brother had to
get student loans and bursaries to get through university. I asked her how many
white school children in her school or university were going through what she
had gone through and that’s when she admitted to me that she realised her views
could be biased to her situation at home, but still didn’t think that capable black
South Africans should get preference over white South Africans.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">As she said
this, I then told her about the students that I have lectured in Pretoria. Many
of my students have been around the same age as me and were a great eye-opener
of how I should never judge society by my circumstances. The majority of the
black students I have lectured at Tshwane University of Technology are black,
from poor background and would be the first from their families to go through
the university process. There is a huge number that comes from rural schools
which lack some basic necessities and what is basic is schools that were
previously reserved for white students would be a luxury to them. Their high
schools don’t have science laboratories, the majority touch the computer for
the first time at university and some wouldn’t even qualify for a bank loan for
university and the financial aid provided by the government is their only means
of university funding.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">All the
challenges my students are facing today were created by the previous system
which did not see the need for their black parents to go through university,
gave them inferior education, no university funding and limited the number of
black students to go through the university process. I told the Afrikaans woman
who is the same age as me that if the system doesn’t favour capable black
people now and correct the wrongs of the past then the offsprings of my
students would go through the same poverty that my students have endured in
life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I then
shifted to a talk that was given to us by journalist, Fred Khumalo when I was a
first year student. Khumalo told us that he wanted to study Journalism at the
then Technikon Natal (now Durban University of Technology). He was told that he
wouldn’t be allowed because of his black skin colour. He said he had to then
write to the then Education Minister, FW De Klerk who granted him permission to
study there, but the university continued to refuse. He persisted until he was
given permission to do his journalism studies there. He said they even told him
to go to black institutions which didn’t offer journalism. If Khumalo had given
up then and didn’t fight so hard for that education then he would probably be a
security guard, cleaning swimming pools or painting someone’s house. His
children would be growing up in poverty and if they don’t fight like my students
have fought then their children would also grow up poor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I thought at
that point the Afrikaans woman I was speaking to would understand that laws
that favour black people are assisting this country to fix demographics and
correct injustices of apartheid. Even after I told her those stories, she said
she doesn’t understand why white people who are part of our generation must pay
for the injustices caused by the previous generation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">At this point
I then asked her whether she’s ever had to fight for a job, she responded no. I
asked her how much her fees at school were and found out they were in the
thousands – she had ealier told me she grew up poor and yet could afford to pay
fees in the thousands. I also asked her how many white people she knows, who
have been through the university process, can’t find jobs today. She looked at
me and smiled as if to say there are none that she knows.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">At this point
I realised that I couldn’t make her understand that injustices of the past can
only be corrected by this generation because if we don’t then the inequalities
we continue to see will go on in generations to come and the children and
grandchildren of black South Africans will always live in poverty.</span></div>
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Jason Derulo’s new music, when we think clothing store H&M will be coming
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longer period of time.</span>Journ Tauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08642749138089340355noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4206599363463198654.post-42397152751972409382014-05-21T18:28:00.000+02:002014-05-21T18:28:33.442+02:00Share a positive Migrant or Refugee Story<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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homes. They are like you and me who want a safe place to live, to be able to
support their families, have access to education and to be healthy. South Africa hosts some 65,000 refugees and
250,000 asylum seekers. Many of them fled their countries with no idea where
they are going, leaving their entire life behind. Many lost everything
including loved ones and livelihoods and have had to start all over again in a
new place. Each year, on the 20<sup>th</sup>
of June, the world celebrates the courage, strength and determination of women,
men and children who are forced to flee their homes under threat of
persecution, conflict and violence. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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managed to triumph over adversity and restart their lives. A bag of belongings is not only what refugees
and migrants bring to South Africa, contrary to what is generally believed; most
are contributing to the economy, paying taxes and even employing South
Africans. A great number of them have skills like doctors, nurses and teachers
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refugees and migrants often becoming scapegoats for socio economic problems.
However, it is undeniable that refugees and migrants can help diversify
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and migrants can be fairly readdressed; through telling their stories, and
sharing their contributions to the eyes of the general public. The United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) invite
all writers to tell a refugee/migrant story through a writing competition. It can be either fiction or non-fiction.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 16.866666793823242px;"><b>For more about this please visit </b></span></span><a href="http://www.iamamigrant.co.za/" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16.866666793823242px;" target="_blank">I AM MIGRANT</a></div>
Journ Tauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08642749138089340355noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4206599363463198654.post-56054181093693557752014-04-28T11:15:00.000+02:002014-04-28T13:37:18.803+02:00Born in the 1990s With No Memory of Apartheid<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Khothatso</b> <b>Madisa</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><br /></b></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It saddens me at times when I hear stories of how wonderful it was when people cast their votes for the first time in 1994 when all I can remember is being 3 years-old and playing with sand.</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The saddest thing is that I cannot even remember people, not even my parents, coming back home in joyous celebrations from voting stations. All I remember is that I loved plastic toy cars and I probably spend the whole day imitating the likes of Michael Schumacher.<br /><br />Maybe its just jealousy speaking since I would have given everything to be in those long queues with the excited masses eager to cast their very first vote. <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Everything my generation, the generation of 1990s, know about when South Africa found democracy relies solely on what we've seen on the television or heard on radio.</span></span><br />
<a name='more'></a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Because of not having been there, not having had first hand experience on how it was before democracy and how black people had to change directions whenever they would have to cross paths with the white man. We appreciate very little of what we have today.</span><br /><br />I remember a couple of years ago when I was asking my parents about the difficulties of living under the oppression. My father was once arrested for not carrying his Dompass under Pass Laws when he had to work and take my mother through college.<br /><br />But because our generation never went through these hardships, we sometimes tend to take the freedom we have for granted.<br /><br />South Africans will on 7 May 2014 vote for the fifth time since democracy, my generation will be voting for the second time. But because of lack of interest, which stems from lack of knowledge, not many of us will be going to the polls. Those who will be, do not understand why they are going and the significance it has.<br /><br />Those who are not going to the polls, are too good to stand on long queues for many hours, I guess. Only if we understood what it took so that we are able to make that choice today.<br /><br />I remember speaking to one of my peers about how democracy means and somehow the conversation led to cadre deployment we are witnessing in our government. He told me how this is "a turn-off" because this means he will not get employment since he was too young be a comrade during Apartheid.<br />I believe I am privileged because my parents were able to get me through school, which by the way is free for everyone now, I am able to understand the significance of democracy and how without it I would not have white friends (where would I have met them?) and would have to succumb to learning Maths or even English in Afrikaans.<br /><br />Do we then blame such policies for our lack of interest in this democracy and how it was gained or are we too spoilt for choice that we are overwhelmed?<br /><br />I have read on most of the oppression laws and I understand what it meant for black people because </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">My belief is that you cannot fully appreciate something or a situation if you do not know how it came about and the only way to appreciate our democracy is to ask what happened during the struggle. Understand how people gave their lives for the betterment of the black race.</span>Journ Tauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08642749138089340355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4206599363463198654.post-66716026149115284262014-04-22T20:07:00.000+02:002014-04-23T12:51:37.130+02:00It's Been 20 Years, But The Racist Mind Still Has Much Work To Do <b>Siphumelele Zondi</b><br />
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My first memory of apartheid in South Africa was the murder of Chris Hani in 1993, I even barely remember that. At the time my age was in the single digits. I remember my parents watching all news reports about it. I remember his daughters and wife Limpho crying on television. I also remember TV news anchor Noxolo Grootboom crying on television as she was an eye witness who had seen what had happened from her house which was next door to Hani's. I don't remember much else from that day and I didn't really know who Hani was until the day he was brutally murdered. I also remember his massive funeral that made me think that's how big all funerals are supposed to be.As I grew older I obviously learnt who he was and how his murder could have changed South Africa's road to democracy.<br />
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A year later I had a conversation with my father. It was the evening of the 26th of April in 1994. My father was preparing to vote for the very first time the following day. I asked him who he would want to win the election. His response was, "Anyone, just not the National Party." </div>
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Then there was 10 May 1994. That's the day Nelson Mandela was sworn in as president. It was a huge affair and all black people were happy. I also knew Nelson Mandela was the right man for the job, but I just didn't know why he was. Then my mother's white colleagues started leaving South Africa for Australia. Every once in a while my mother and her friends would discuss stories of colleagues who were planning to leave the country. They didn't share in the same joy of a free and democratic South Africa that gave black people equal rights.</div>
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Then I fast forward to today. The black man has been in power for 20 years but from time to time we read of people who use the word 'kaffir' an equivalent of 'nigger' in America. A story that made big news two years ago was of 20-year-old model Jessica Leandre. Because of her age, she probably would have no memory of apartheid. Then recently we heard of Ericsson firing an employee for using that word on Facebook. There are other instances which then show that as much as we tolerate each other in public spaces, such words are still used by parents when they talk to their children.</div>
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It's been twenty years and we're constantly told to celebrate and publicly hold hands as we've come a long way. We have come a long way, but we should also be told to work on ourselves. Parents should probably be told to check themselves before speaking in front of their children because if that doesn't happen then we will have many future generations of Jessica Leandre's who feel their skin colour should grant them certain privileges and they can use words like 'monkeys' and 'kaffir' when referring to black people.</div>
Journ Tauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08642749138089340355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4206599363463198654.post-65960768562129030372014-03-22T13:44:00.000+02:002014-03-22T13:44:20.775+02:00Ngxokolo's MaXhosa Range Impresses Joburg Fashion Week<div class="MsoNormal">
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Heavy knitted, patterned, warm, pure mohair and Merino rich,
wooly garments from skirts, cardigans and dresses in traditional Xhosa designs
and colours defined what could be the most outstanding collection at this year’s
<a href="http://www.afi.za.com/" target="_blank">Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Johannesburg</a> taking place at the <a href="http://www.saconvention.co.za/" target="_blank">Sandton Convention Centre</a>. <o:p></o:p><br />
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South Africa is a country with 11 official languages and a few more others. It's cultures differ from region to region and city to city. That's probably why it is often
difficult to really describe what is truly an authentically South African
design or collection. Maybe it's also as equally difficult to say what is authentically African. Many are likely to say it is something they can
relate to, garments which perhaps remind them of their childhood, or what their
elders wore in the 1970s, 80s and maybe the 90s. Another group of South Africans
would take some of their styles from Europeans. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I’d like to focus on the former. On its second day of showcasing
just a handful of the country’s top fashion designers, fashion heads had the
opportunity to see and buy what we could be seeing on the shelves in seasons to come. I must add, I do not know much about fashion, but I know a good piece
of clothing when I see one. Collections ranged from ready-to-wear outfits, to one-time
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On Friday night, a stunning knitwear collection closed the
night’s proceedings, <a href="http://www.africanknitwear.com/default.aspx" target="_blank">MaXhosa</a> by designer <a href="https://twitter.com/LadumaNgxokolo" target="_blank">Laduma Ngxokolo</a>. His show started by a
video touching on a topic that is hard to swallow, Xhosa tradiional initiation and what it means
to be a man. His vision was to create a modern Xhosa-inspired knitwear
collection that would be suitable for amakrwala (initiates), who are prescribed
by their tradition to dress up in new dignified formal clothing for six months
after initiation. <o:p></o:p></div>
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His was the first to receive nearly, a first full house,
drawing a big crowd at fashion week thus far and also a standing ovation. His
garments tugged at emotions and the strings of an entire audience, that Africa Fashion
International’s chairperson, Dr Precious Moloi-Motsepe personally went backstage
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African, while she held the wooly, heavy garments in her hands. She even made a
gesture of one nearly running away with the garments without “paying” for it in
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York fashion week say about Laduma’s collection? For now, I think it’s best we sit back and
allow Ngxokolo to make his statement and conquer the world.<o:p></o:p></div>
Journ Tauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08642749138089340355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4206599363463198654.post-81104266043658512262014-01-17T11:38:00.001+02:002014-01-19T12:29:03.809+02:00When You're Gay in Nigeria<strong>Martin Chinagorom</strong><br />
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<em>With the passing of Nigeria's anti-gay bill into law, Martin Chinagorom was inspired to write this piece and in his words: “My writing is not gay activism. I write so that people may know that life is hard for these guys already. The best we can do for them is a little tolerance. With the bill and all that has happened thereafter there’s close to an anarchy in this community and as a nation we have enough demons already that we do not wish to add this the list.”</em><br />
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When you’re gay in Nigeria,your whole life is one collosal creationary displacement. You should have been born in Europe or some place in America, not here. Maybe He’d tossed you in Africa hoping you’d land in South Africa but you look in the sky and it is a green-white-green.You go to the mirror and a square-in-a-round-hole stares back at you. You’re an anomaly, your very existence is an abomination.<br />
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For all you have heard about your forbidden feelings no one has been directly spotted to be the same as you and no one has checked in with you. You conclude you are alone and carry your ton weighing sexuality lips-sealed, it is a burden breaking your neck that you cannot put down nor mention. It is a live coal that burns in your mouth that you cannot spit out. Then you journey through a spell-casting novena and make many resolves, but six months later you are where you started. Gay!<br />
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The more you think about it the more you feel caged, lonely. You want to be in touch with what you feel, you want a sampling. But you find yourself with no canvass to paint out the emotions. Those like you keep to themselves and before long you take to porn, ignoring the females and ogling every bump of muscles, every fleck of hair on the stallions. That is the picture in your head when you go to the bathroom for water and soap and an addiction builds, slowly.<br />
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After the kiss you battle thoughts of eternal damnation and do more novenas, more self-abasement but give them up soon you realise they did not make you less gay. And then a whole new world emerges on social media. You realise you have been stuck in ages past after you had those epiphanic chats on Facebook: two guys commending your looks and asking for your cell phone number. But you cannot, should not have guys making gay advances through an account where brothers and sisters and relatives and colleagues are listed and information says Interested in Women. So you create a phoney Facebook account and name it something silly, something to draw in like-minded guys. You name it ‘Fine Gboy’ and use a provocative profile picture, a headless shot of your chiseled abdomen maybe. You block out all gay suggestive profiles on your main account and request friendship of same through the phoney account where everything guys happens and information says Interested in Men. And there you select friends like you are picking Adani rice . No effeminate-looking/acting dude. That’s an abomination within the sacrilege your life already is. It is like contacting hepatitis B after a HIV+ diagnosis. No students, too much drama. Just working-class, safe! On your fake Facebook you are introduced to gay websites. You sign up on both and plunge deeper into the cultic hide-and-seek game being gay in Nigeria is. Soon you are meeting guys located far and near, people like you, men seeking men, and you bless the Lord for internet. Social media comes and communication is more spot-on, guys are even closer; only you are horrified by those guys who have filled in gay or bisex as their sexuality on Badoo where they could have left the row blank. This is Nigeria!, you want to remind them.<br />
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Gradually you hit the big 30 and the question of marriage becomes inevitable. Your friends tell you how they have to work up an erection to fulfill conjugal responsibilities to the ladies they have spoused. You do not envy them. You do not blame them. This is Nigeria! Everyone gets married. Everyone must have a child. (Maybe you should marry a lesbian, you have seen some on some websites). And for a fugitive moment you consider fleeing to Europe. You discard the thought. But you pick it right up when one morning you wake up and on the TV hear the debate on the senate floor. Not long after, your sanctimonious senators anathematize everything gay and slam a 14-year legislative seal on it. They have no idea they’d just poured fuel into a raging fire of gay hate and signalled an era of terror for you and your kind. Heterosexuals invade your cabalistic social media luring your brothers and experimenting all sorts of evil on them. They are brutalised, raped, robbed, blackmailed, humiliated on the streets and in work places but they take it in good stride cause it is a lesser evil than the 14 years imprisonment against which they cannot make a fuss and which their antipathetic assailants quote for justification. You hear of those stoned in the North, and of those whom are forcefully exorcised. Quickly you deactivate your profile and are wary of even previously trusted gay acquaintances. You get irritable at the lie you see you have to live forever.<br />
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Nigeria, all 923,769 sq km of it, becomes a claustrophobic space, it closes in on you. Now frustrated by it all you hate even the air here and wish wings to carry you across the Atlantic. You make up your mind to leave. You decide Europe. Or maybe America.<br />
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<em><strong>Martin Emeka Chinagorom </strong>is currently living in the United States of America where he is doing a Master's of Theological Studies at Liberty University. He is a graduate of philosophy from the Pontifical Urbaniana University Rome. He grew up in Onitsha Nigeria where his family still lives. When he’s not reading he’s trying to dance or trying to write. He’s available on martinchinagorom@yahoo.com.</em>Journ Tauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08642749138089340355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4206599363463198654.post-43243677551768790462014-01-15T08:36:00.001+02:002014-01-17T11:16:45.093+02:00Where’s the Youth to Facilitate Change Like 70s Youngsters did?<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By Cyril Skosana<br /><a href="https://twitter.com/TS_Cyrus"><span style="color: yellow;">@McCyrus_Skosana</span></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The youth of South Africa played a colossal role in the course of the struggle, scrapping face to face against the apartheid regime that kept the black race and its youth subdued for an extensive and utmost regrettable period. As documented in historical books, music, documentaries and films; it is unmistakable to say that the youth deserve extended credit for a democratic country we inhabit. <br /><br />The role played by those who took the forefront in fighting against a system that sought to oppress the black race is of much significance. We could use it today, don’t you think? Here’s the pickle, there’s always a consequential pressure that naturally emanates from winning a battle. If you win, you need to keep your guards up to hold on to your throne. As you would expect, a loser will not by any chance rest after suffering loss. A good way to celebrate victory –according to my insignificant opinion, is protecting your position in any undertakings you may face. That being said, I have no doubt whatsoever for believing that our heroes stand weeping as they gaze at us from the heavens –if they do exist. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a name='more'></a><br />As the new-youth, we seem to have a little, if not nothing to offer into conserving the triumph. Are our fore sisters and fore brothers disappointed at us? I think they have a right to be. We have grown to be a youth that, on the face of it, has nothing if not a little to treasure for the next generations. What kind of a history are we going to write that shall be read 200 years from today? On which accomplishments are we going to be applauded for? Perhaps a generation that sat and watched from a distance when its nation fell apart? After this country attained freedom two decades ago, the youth give the impression to have taken a life-time break from swaying virtuous change and remaining relevant to the newly freed nation. </span><br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">During a time where we as the youth should have attached ourselves to our parents and suck wisdom and knowledge from them, we drifted away and took a back seat to observe from a distance. If we are the multitude of this country, then aren't we therefore supposed to be part of the decision makers about political and socio-economic issues of this very nation? Our involvement in erecting a country we desire to live in appears to be none existent. We have lost touch with our kingdom. If the youth is the one that is heavily hit by unemployment, inequality, illiteracy, substance abuse and more other socio-economic challenges, then what steps are we embarking on to correct the pandemic we face as the youth? </span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />Within the political zone, we have attested the birth of a political party that is referred by media as a leftist and radical party. The birth of the <a href="http://www.economicfreedomfighters.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: yellow;">Economic Freedom Fighters</span></a> (EFF), spearheaded by the popular Julius Malema, ousted <a href="http://www.anc.org.za/" target="_blank"><span style="color: yellow;">African National Congress</span></a> Youth League President, seeks to challenge the 2014 voting season. It’s a party that seeks to act as the voice of the poor and mostly as the voice of the youth of this country. Nonetheless, the question still stands; is it going to manage to stand against the old-timer parties that have enough time to grasp the dynamics of the political landscape in South Africa? <br /><br />At a guess, say the voting outcomes goes against the party’s campaigns or aspirations, are we going to have any part that will respire the breath we exhale? Let’s rather assume that you don’t think the EFF has your best interests at heart, do you have an alternative political party that you think will address your needs, as the youth? As much as I wish the response could be affirmative, but it is apparent that there isn't any. The question remains un-reciprocated; where’s the youth to foster change just like the youth in the mid-70’s did? Where has our astuteness faded to? The stimulus and potential that lies within the youth is of inordinate prominence. <br /><br />Our effort is necessary and our participation could inspire changes of necessity, it may be not all of them, but there could be a transformation if we come to the party. Playing a part in discourse might lead to untangling solutions for challenges we face as the country. After all, this country belongs to everyone who live in it, possession comes with responsibility.</span></div>
Journ Tauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08642749138089340355noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4206599363463198654.post-81797205810391076272014-01-15T07:51:00.003+02:002014-01-17T12:33:18.382+02:00Insta-ville: the home of the fabulous<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mpho Raborife<br /><span style="color: yellow;">@<a href="https://twitter.com/MsRaborife">MsRaborife</a></span><br /><br />So I recently visited the photo-sharing site known as<span style="color: yellow;"> <a href="http://instagram.com/instagram"><span style="color: yellow;">Instagram</span></a> </span>to check out a few pics posted by a friend. For those who do not keep up with changing trends, Instagram is an online photo-sharing, video-sharing and social networking service that allows its users to take photos, images and videos, then apply digital filters to them and share them on this application and other social networking sites. <br /><br />While I was visiting Instagram, I saw handles of some other people I knew, so I decided to see what they were sharing too. <br /><br />At the end of my Insta-browsing (because Insta is now a prefix right?) I was left depressed and felt like I had shrunk to a the size of a cube of sugar. These people live such glamorous lives! Well that's what their profiles tells me. The lighting and photo-shopping extras help too. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />That was yesterday. I've since viewed a few more profiles and realised that its all subjective, some people use this platform as an online album and take pics of random, and real moments in their lives.<br /><br />Some on the other hand, from the little that I've seen, use it as a platform to show or flaunt what they have, how much they have and all that they can do, that you can't. <br /><br />Maybe I'm just jealous because I don't even qualify to have an account, let alone the lifestyle to keep updating that account.<br /><br />So I'm going to sit in my Instagram-less corner and deal with the life that's infront of me, not the one inside a mobile screen (because that's where us touch-screen-less people see these things).</span></div>
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Journ Tauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08642749138089340355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4206599363463198654.post-25611068171328955172013-08-30T14:08:00.003+02:002013-08-30T14:10:32.422+02:00Joburg Doesn't Accomodate Pedestrians as it Should<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><strong><span style="color: #666666;">Siphumelele Zondi</span></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I never
thought I worried about livable spaces until I returned to Johannesburg from my
studies in the United Kingdom. On return to Johannesburg, I decided to leave my
car at home on several occasions, I would walk in the suburbs to catch minibus
taxis and from time to time walk around the city centre as well.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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that in 2013, Johannesburg still doesn’t have pavements in many areas. This is
clear mostly when I jog as I would have to figure out how to avoid cars in
certain places in the suburbs. What I am happy about is that there are more and
more people who decide to leave their homes and walk around the burbs. I hadn’t
quite realised this about this city as I, like many Joburgers, would hop into
my car to drive to malls and friends’ houses.</span><br />
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realised that people in this beautiful city spend too much time indoors and don’t
experience the beautiful weather that we have, the many parks around our city
and the nature that we have been blessed with. After hopping into their cars,
people then drive to malls. A mall is also an enclosed space that doesn’t allow
people to walk outside to experience the weather before walking into another
shop. London and Brighton in England and Helsinki in Finland showed me the
beauty of streets that are on the side of the road. These streets would often
have massive windows allowing people to window shop from the roadside. This
would add to the beauty of these cities, especially on sunny summer days.
Johannesburg doesn’t really have that; at least middle class areas don’t have that.
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will change soon. The Gautrain has been introduced for the middle class that
never wants to walk on pavements and only see the sun when driving in their
cars. The problem is that people are not walking to train stations; they leave
home in the morning, leave their cars in the train station parking and then hop
on the train. Some get people to drop them off at the train station, get on the
train and then end up near a mall or work in Sandton or Rosebank. They don’t
even walk a step further than the station before finding buses to take them to
other destinations – a waste of good weather.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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has some beautiful buildings. Often these buildings are behind high walls. So
even as I walk on the city’s pavements, I seldom get to see beautiful buildings
as they are closed off. That is why I love the Goethe Institute Building in
Parktown as it can be seen from the side of the road, has no wall behind it and
it’s easy to walk into the building when I need to do something there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Joburgers to ditch their cars and solely use public transport as there are
areas with inadequate public transport. The city has an amazing nighlife, but it's how to return home once one has been out that becomes a problem. I realised this on a day I decided to
take a taxi from East Rand Mall, hopped off at the Noord Taxi Rank and then
walked across town through Park Station to the Bree Taxi Rank. It was early
evening that day and I realised that taxis to the suburb I was going to were
running out. After a certain hour in Johannesburg, it becomes impossible to get
public transport to go anywhere; this is something that needs to be fixed if
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Journ Tauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08642749138089340355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4206599363463198654.post-43200345510734959562013-06-16T09:53:00.000+02:002013-06-16T09:53:15.223+02:00Saluting Single Fathers Working Tirelessly for Their Kids<b><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Sphiwe Masilela</span></strong></b><br />
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Have you ever thought of how you would have turned out if you were raised by a single father? There are many kids who have and are being raised by their fathers.
While there is no substitute for that motherly love, they say they could
have not asked for more given their circumstances.<br />
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In January alone, the national office of the family advocate which aids
families in legal arguments relating to children opened more than 1400
parental rights cases from fathers wanting greater access to their
children. And this is proof that there are good fathers out there who are taking
responsibility for their actions. Although there are challenges along
the way in raising their children, most fathers say playing both father
and mother roles was challenging. But it is
a role they would not trade for the world.<br />
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And the kids say their fathers have worked hard to fill the void left by their mothers.<br />
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A 51 year old, Paki Joseph Mashego, has two children – a boy and a girl.<br />
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He said there were plenty of challenges but the outstanding one was when
his daughter got involved in relationship and he did not know how to
advise her.<br />
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“I did not get any assistance from anyone. And the challenges were hard
for me but I had to be strong for the sake of the kids. I wanted them to
have a better future than me. I had to balance our finance, work and
time for my kids. I also have to go to school
and see how they are coping,” Mashego said.<br />
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Mashego, who works as a bus driver, said he was proud to announce that
his daughter is now a policewoman and his son a paramedic.<br />
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“My daughter was open with me. She could call and ask me for toiletries
because she understood that her mother was not there to take
responsibility.”<br />
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Refiloe Mthembu was raised by her father and has fond memories of her upbringing.<br />
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She said her father was a straight talker and that is what she admires most about him.<br />
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“He is candid and he doesn’t pretend and I think I took my honesty from
him because if I do not like or want something, I say it,” Mthembu said.<br />
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She said she wished she had a relationship with her mother too. Not
because her dad was not doing enough but because her mother’s presence
would have complemented the love.<br />
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Fathers4Justice is a rights organisation with at least 34000 members
across South Africa. It campaigns for children to have joint and equal
maintenance and contact with both parents.<br />
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It also provides fathers – and mothers – with legal and psychological advice and referrals to support groups.<br />
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Fathers4Justice takes a hard line on what it calls “outdated legal practices” that automatically gives custody to mothers.<br />
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A 2011 study by the Institute of Race Relations revealed that 48% of
South Africa’s children grow up without their fathers. Against this
backdrop, the rise in fathers who fight for their rights is being viewed
as a significant step toward parental equality.<br />
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It is imperative that fathers take responsibility for their actions all throughout the land.<br />
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Happy Fathers’ Day!<br />
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* The article first appeared on The New Age newspaper on Friday the 14<sup>th</sup> June 2012Journ Tauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08642749138089340355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4206599363463198654.post-34345504636539662192013-06-16T06:35:00.001+02:002014-01-17T13:40:20.001+02:00Michaelhouse Nearby but Majority of Kids Walk Distances in Cold Weather for an Education<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Last week I
was in the area of Nottingham Road in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands and I met an
old man who inherited a massive farm in 1990, he has built a hotel in a certain
part of his farm, donated a huge chunk of land to the Crane Foundation and has
built decent four-bedroomed homes for families he says his ancestors found on
the land over a hundred years ago. He also does a great job in ensuring that
indigenous ways of the Zulu people are promoted and even has a Zulu traditional
healer in his hotel spa. But it’s the land that made me think, it mainly made
me think long and hard because I spoke to the man’s son who said he went to the
extremely expensive Michaelhouse College which is nearby, he also told me that
his sons also go to Michaelhouse. After he had
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Those
catching public transport complain of frost that makes the area cold. I spoke
to a woman with a car and she said she had woken up late and had arrived late
for work because it was just too cold for her to get up, walk to her bathroom
which has warm water and get into her car which has a heating system. The many
kids I saw on the streets of Nottingham Road don’t have such options, they can’t
decide that they will get up late and not brave the cold when they need an
education. Their parents never inherited huge amounts of land so they can have
options in the economic system their ancestors were not a part of and didn’t
create. If they want a better future, they must just accept that it will be
hard for them. They must accept that they will walk the long distances and
their hands will get cold in the morning as the body walks up during the long
walk to school.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">We are
constantly reminded of 16 June 1976 as the reason we have this youth day. This
reminder tells us, the middle class who are also children of the middle class
to be grateful to those that paved the way in 1976. While these reminders come,
we forget that the struggle for an equal or a better education still continues.
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I saw in Nottingham Road, kids who are braving harsh conditions because their
parents want them to have a life better than they could have, Their parents don’t
own land, they don’t have much of an inheritance for them if they have any at
all. The land their ancestors were found on is the land they still live on
today, only it belongs to someone else. Often it belongs to someone they work for.
Some even expect that the employer will also give a job to their kids one day.</span></div>
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Road area would be going to schools with no science or computer labs, their
education is at a disadvantage compared to the education of the many people who
have inherited land or inherited businesses because of the structure of the
past. It’s 2013 and while we discuss the issue of textbooks that don’t get
delivered by the government, we should also be discussing the issue of how
unequal education is for kids in the rural or semi-rural areas. As I observed
these kids who walk distances in the cold, I then looked across and saw the big
yards, sports fields and massive gates of Michaelhouse, a school in their area,
but a school they’d never have access to even in their wildest dreams.</span>Journ Tauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08642749138089340355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4206599363463198654.post-87354650121687827262013-05-27T12:13:00.003+02:002013-05-27T14:22:05.220+02:00Two lands, two histories. One story of strategic organizing (Video)<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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Tshepo Tshabalala<br />
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Mkhuseli Khusta Jack organized a consumer boycott in 1985 in the city of Port Elizabeth, South Africa, which helped end racial apartheid.<br />
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In 2000, Oscar Olivera was the spokesperson for a popular resistance that stopped the privatization of water in Cochabamba, Bolivia. The resistance was known as the Cochabamba Water Wars, a struggle against the privatisation of Bolivia's water, including its rain water.<br />
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In 2013, they met face to face and shared their stories of strategic organizing with the scholars and professors of the School of Authentic Journalism, of which I am an alumni.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We are a generation that chats a lot, but we also lack
the knowledge our ancestors had. We live in a time where there is so much
technology that provides us with information. Our ancestors didn’t have such
luxuries. One need not leave their bed in order to access a library as some
have many journals and ebooks available on the internet, the internet that
moves with us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Our elders also hold information that we desperately
need, but in our belief that we know more – we tend to not want to breastfeed
this information from them. If we feel we have breastfed from them, then maybe we
have lost what our forefathers had passed to us. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What our ancestors had that we seem to lack is knowledge.
We are a generation that lacks knowledge. We live in an era which is so advanced
that it has surpassed our average intelligence. Our forefathers had perfected
skills of communication –listening, decoding, encoding and giving a response–
which is what we seem to lack. You’d hear of information that was shared around
the fire. That information led to medicinal breakthroughs on this African
continent as medicine isn’t a new invention that came from the west. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Those before us always sought information to feed their brains.
Community news was well known as women would meet as they did laundry on river
banks, as young men would be herding goats and cattle together and when the
time of communal taps came – that became a new meeting place and new method of
information sharing. Now we sit in our homes and with the click of the button
get on Twitter, Facebook and blogs and think that we now know more than other
people and we know more that our communities. Sometimes in 140 characters, we
feel we have received knowledge. Information isn’t quite the same as knowledge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Our ancestors were abreast with affairs that involved
their people and surroundings. They weren’t quite concerned with stories about
those in faraway places, people they would never meet. The young ones shared
information with their peers, because they knew that, “knowledge is power.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We are a different generation. We are a generation that
speaks at once while no one is listening. We all have opinions, we share them
on social networks and we don’t want to be told and we don’t want to listen,
all we want is to tell. What’s important is that we are receiving friend
requests and are getting followers, it doesn’t matter whether we are receiving
or sharing anything of relevance with those people, what’s important is that we
have shared the information and they have followed. It’s like a celebrity obsessed
culture as all that matters is that we can feel like stars with “followers” who
could be called fans in tweleb circles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We are the most fortunate generation; we are just too
blind to see it. We have access to what our forefathers didn’t have, and if used
well, we could find ourselves swimming in a pool of knowledge that can change
our lives for better.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This is a digital era. A period of possibilities. We have
information in abundance in front of us. All we have to do is to have desire in
us for growth, ask and read as much as possible. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Any normal child, at about the age of three four, reaches
the asking period, that is the time when the brain quickly develops and in need
for growth. We have reached that stage as human beings; unfortunately it seems
to have faded as we grew older.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This has led to a “chattiest generation” that we see
today. What is bizarre about this generation is that we often don’t know what
we are talking about. The digital world has opened public space for us to
converse, but we are failing to communicate. We make noise that falls on deaf
ears. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Due to not seeking right information, we fail to engage
in thrilling conversations; hence we digress to vain discussions. On digital
spaces that we could use to change the world, we chat about TV dramas,
celebrities, and the most incredible party we’ve just attended at the weekend. </span></div>
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sharing information and knowledge, but due to that we have lost what our
forefathers tried to instil in us, we have deviated to conversations that
offers us nothing, yet actually wasting our time on social networks discussing
meals and types of alcoholic beverages.</span>Journ Tauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08642749138089340355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4206599363463198654.post-58126471085358242602013-05-20T09:24:00.000+02:002013-05-20T09:25:45.533+02:00Some Black South African Still See Superiority in Whiteness<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">From January
to March I was privileged to work with an American agency that brings
volunteers from the States to South Africa. One of their main goals is to learn
about South African culture and we learn from them. I was teaching a group of
three the XiTsonga language and working as a translator for them in rural
communities of Limpopo. In between sessions we had cultural sessions where we
taught them about our way of life and they told us about theirs. I realised
that as much as there are differences, it’s the similarities that surprised me
more and showed me that humans still respond to human emotions, no matter where
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The young
Americans would get to stay with host families in the rural areas. African
Americans later raised their concern of how white people in the group were
preferred over them, simply because race.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It didn’t matter that the young Americans were all bringing similar
skills to the area and much needed help. One host parent complained when she
realised that she was to host an African American. She demanded that the person
that was to stay in her home be switched, just so she could host a white
person. African Americans felt degraded as a result of the rejection.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">This has
surprised me with issues of race and how some of our people in the rural areas
still believe in the superiority of a white person. This is something that
apartheid taught us, but we didn’t realise how hard to change what we had been
taught by the master would be. It is stuck in the minds of many who still
believe their inferiority to white people, people who think a brush with
whiteness would give them bragging rights within their communities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Africa Day
will be celebrated when this week ends. We shout about how free we are from
chains of colonialism, chains of apartheid and how we, as South Africans, can
now attend schools with white people. But I wonder how long it is going to take<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>time to remove the damage from the mind as
prejudices from generations before us are passed down to us and we would then
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">As I wonder
about a mind that is still colonised in our rural areas, I also worry how those
young African American volunteers must have felt when they faced rejection in
rural Limpopo. I wonder about the story of South Africa they are going to tell
back home and I worry that that they will feel fooled by the media that told
them about people that have moved on and see no skin colour, I worry that they
will think Invictus lied to them and they will see that the rainbow nation
doesn’t really exist as long as the black man sees themselves as inferior to
the white man.</span></div>
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can also only hope that one day, that family from Limpopo can start seeing
themselves as the same as a white person and can also start to realise that
there is an honour in receiving a black guest.</span>Journ Tauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08642749138089340355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4206599363463198654.post-14290679647428016122013-05-02T15:09:00.000+02:002013-05-02T16:28:24.555+02:00“A cold war of As and Twangs”Rudolph Nkgadima<br />
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As young a boy growing up in Thokoza, a township in the East Rand, South Africa, I always envied my peers who went to Model C schools in town or the suburbs. This was not because of the beautiful school buildings they had or the wonderful stories they would often narrate to us about sons and daughters of "so and so" they schooled with. What made me envy them was the way they spoke English with that distinctive manner of pronunciation. <br />
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Their "English" was the pride of their families. They would often be paraded when visitors came over and would be asked to show off the best possible twangs to guests who would exclaim in all kinds of excitement. <br />
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Every parent in the neighbourhood wanted to have kids like that; I also wanted to be that kid. It didn't matter that I was a straight A learner at school - I didn't have the accent and thus wasn't quite like them. According to everyone in the township the British Queen's language was a symbol of status.<br />
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Such inclinations made me angry and despise my own but more especially I felt that my intelligence was insulted. I didn't understand why township folk could not celebrate my straight A performances at school. This was the beginning of a lengthy journey of trying to find the twang. <br />
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Until I got to varsity I always thought that for me to be taken seriously or regarded as smart I should strive to learn to speak English with that accent. But I got the shock of my life on realising that the "smart" kids who laugh at everyone based on the posh nature of their accent aren't as smart as I had initially thought. I realised some in class would focus on how they speak rather than the content of what they say.<br />
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It was the beginning of great things, it meant that I could freely and proudly speak my views without a sense of inferiority, it had dawned on me that the queen's language is not a symbol of intelligence but merely a language.<br />
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The twang still eludes me but I have come to terms with that and I can proudly say I'm relieved my parents invested in my education, not the twang.<br />
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On that same token I urge everyone, irrespective of colour or culture, to respect and be proud of who they are. The person sitting next to you might not have the ability to communicate in English but that does not reduce them to a lesser human being than you.<br />
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Meetsi, Moya, Mollo (Water, Spirit and Fire) ALUTA CONTINUA!</div>
Journ Tauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08642749138089340355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4206599363463198654.post-54168760770574466052013-05-02T07:45:00.000+02:002013-05-02T16:30:00.664+02:00Soap Operas Lie, Journalists Aren’t Rich & Glamorous, But do an Important Job <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Kgothatso Madisa</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Ink that runs through one’s veins is a cliché often used when referring to journalists, but some don’t get into the profession because of the love for writing or because of the passion for chasing a story and the adrenaline that comes with being in conflict zones like Somalia, Mali and places like Marikana when it got heated in 2012. You would get those who get in it because they think there are massive salaries that come with seeing their names as newspaper by-lines, with hearing their voices on radio or seeing themselves on television. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">University students often don’t do their research before enrolling into journalism programmes. Some think there is a glamour that comes with the job and that is often perpetuated by television dramas and soap operas that glamourise journalism. Some of the prominent programmes that have done this include Generations, Hard Copy, Isidingo and Scandal. There we see journalists that dress in fancy clothes and live in beautiful homes. They would go to high profile events from time to time and are, especially in the case of Generations, their story often ends up in newspapers too as they are socialites. Well none of that is true and the life of most journalists is a broke life. I started working as one recently and my eyes are slowly opening up. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"Do you want to die broke?" That's one of the questions I was once asked. I broke the question in two parts when it was asked. The first part was the word ‘die’, not many journalists die on the job but we have heard of many that have. It’s often common in war zones and Africa has its hot spots like Somalia. We also hear about the death and or attack of journalists in countries fighting drug cartels such as Mexico and Colombia in South America. The job can definitely be a dangerous one. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The other word I took literally from the sentence is "broke". I now realise that in journalism, passion for the job overrides the love and need of money. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">That being said though, I’ve realised that there are many journalists in South Africa who, despite their love for the job, would leave the profession for better paying jobs in the private sector of government communications. They are not wrong for it, some just realise that they want to be able to feed their kids, send them to good schools and buy nice houses. None of the above is often possible in the journalism profession unless someone is quite senior in the job and they spent twenty or more years proving themselves. Family security is also important despite the passion or the thrill one may get when breaking stories. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yes there are stubborn ones who choose the life of near poverty just so they can get the scoop, get sent to a dangerous area or go undercover in order to expose corruption in seats of power. These are people that don’t mind compromising family and working irregular hours, weekends and holidays just so they could help in the protection of our democracy. I received a taste of this when I worked a full day on Christmas. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So here’s a tip to a new journalist, don’t believe Africa’s most popular television programme, Generations, as the glamour journalism has there isn’t what you get in industry.</span>Journ Tauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08642749138089340355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4206599363463198654.post-17758251961822120132013-04-29T17:05:00.002+02:002013-04-29T17:06:43.775+02:00World Economic Forum on Africa 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The 23rd World Economic Forum on Africa, under the theme "Delivering on Africa's Promise", in Cape Town, South Africa, will provide an important platform for regional and global leaders from business, government and civil society to deepen the continent's integration agenda and renew commitment to a sustainable path of growth and development by addressing themes including accelerating economic diversification, boosting strategic infrastructure and unlocking Africa's Talent.<br /><br />The Forum takes 8-10 May 2013.<br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/vOrIbuQAPRw?rel=0" width="640"></iframe></div>
Tshepo Tshabalalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02990038181048763641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4206599363463198654.post-58066940544065075122013-04-29T16:23:00.001+02:002013-04-29T16:56:46.228+02:00Violent Society Blocks South Africa's Lesbians From Fully Celebrating Freedom<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Thanduxolo Buti</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I believe
that freedom is a right that should be enjoyed by everyone and not only by a
select few. As much as South Africa has worked hard in ensuring human rights,
but hate crimes and corrective rape seem to overshadow the many achievements
and strides made by government. The LGBTI community continues to be robbed of
the chance to fully enjoy their right to freedom. As much as there are other
reasons to celebrate this month, I can’t help but think of the society that
still lives in fear even with nineteen years of freedom.<br />
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Last week I met a young handsome lesbian in Thokoza. Mbali has been lesbian all
her life and growing up she would only play with boys because for some reason
she felt more comfortable around them. Being a lesbian in a township had never
been easy for Mbali and faced hate and discrimination daily in her community.
As she grew older she became exposed to the ugly side of being a butch lesbian
in the township, she would hear of violence and rape towards lesbians. “You
know now as much as I am proud of my sexuality, I constantly live in fear. I
don’t even trust the boys who are close [to me], my friends anymore because of
fear of what they might do to me when no one is around,” she says. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">As a result
of her fear Mbali, like many other lesbians, chooses to live mostly in confinement
and hardly attends social gatherings. Mbali’s fear was further escalated when a
close friend was raped and murdered. Her body was found with broken bottle
pieces inside her vagina. “I mean these people are still walking freely around
here even after they killed my friend.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“This is not
fair at all because I too want to live freely without worry or fear of what
might happen”. After talking to Mbali, my theory that we have a long way to go
to freedom was further heightened.<br />
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Through my work as an arts and lifestyle journalist, I have become acquainted
with some of the bravest lesbian artists. These are the artists who have taken
the role of sparking dialogue through their work to make sure stories of young
lesbians are heard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They too have
sharpened their knives to fight for freedom as people of the LGBTI community.
One of these brave young artists is award winning dancer Mamela Nyamza who has
been labelled an activist because of her work for the LGBTI community. <br />
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I spoke to Nyamza when she was in Johannesburg to perform her piece, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I Stand Corrected. </i>In the piece she
addresses the escalating issue of hate crimes and corrective rape in her
beloved country. She asks with the piece: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4206599363463198654" name="OLE_LINK2"></a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4206599363463198654" name="OLE_LINK1"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;">“What happens when you
kill me because of my sexuality? Am I corrected or do I just die?”</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Nyamza says that
South Africa has a long way to go before members of the LGBTI society are truly
free. She says as a result of that, she is constantly finding new ways to join
in the protest for freedom. She further explains that although she loves
performing her pieces to various audiences, she would however forever cherish the
day she joined other LGBTI protesters and performed her piece <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Kutheni </i>outside the Johannesburg
magistrate court. </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidsWFEJKP2T1adje8Hxaf578vW76FaDwa1a3SMCVccT0IoiklcPgrLvp3IJnbRSOCc7rXDG1AVmKK6v3yoN3TCXmgyr9TYAD3Q0y7zIxMdWA_yJVA1d_dbjI8iFYn0q8bjzLlR353tMs8/s1600/What+happens2-4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidsWFEJKP2T1adje8Hxaf578vW76FaDwa1a3SMCVccT0IoiklcPgrLvp3IJnbRSOCc7rXDG1AVmKK6v3yoN3TCXmgyr9TYAD3Q0y7zIxMdWA_yJVA1d_dbjI8iFYn0q8bjzLlR353tMs8/s400/What+happens2-4.jpg" width="400" /></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">“The stage is usually
where I protest but that day I joined the masses because I was tired of us
being killed. The message was so much stronger because it was within the
protest. This country needs us to speak out because the LGBTI is still not
heard and as a gay artist I bravely take on that role”.<br />
<br />
Index award winner for freedom of speech Zanele uses her work to fight for the
freedom of the LGBTI community in South Africa. Through her photography she
depicts the world of the LGBTI people in South Africa. Speaking to her recently
she expressed about our violent communities. “South Africa is the best country
and I am proud to be a South African,” she says. “Although South Africa has the
best constitution and gay rights in the world, violence is a huge problem.” <br />
<br />
It’s through these conversations that I came to decision that I wouldn’t
celebrate Freedom Day this year. It’s difficult to celebrate achievements made
when I strongly feel that South Africans are still turning a blind eye to the rights
of the LBGTI society. Why is it that even with nineteen years of Freedom we
still have a society that still lives in fear of living free in their country? Freedom
should not be for all and not only for those that society has approved.</span>Journ Tauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08642749138089340355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4206599363463198654.post-12050292650609080562013-04-25T07:19:00.000+02:002013-04-25T09:47:36.395+02:00My Mother, Common Story of Black Women under Apartheid – Cleaning People’s Homes; Democracy Grants me Freedom of Choice<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Sibusiso
Banda</span></div>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/AwesomeSBU" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">@AwesomeSbu</span></a></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I
don’t remember much about days before 27 April 1994, when South Africans of all
races voted for the first time. I remember that my parents were excited about
going to vote, I just didn’t know why. I was four-years-old at the time.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My
story is that of post-apartheid challenges as I was being raised by my mother’s
wages from the domestic work she did. She was good at it to and always hard
working. Despite her circumstances that were never easy, I don’t remember my
mother requesting us to be anything more than ourselves. She never fantasised
about lawyers, doctors or accountants in the house. She knew that ours would be
a story of freedom of choice that black people didn’t have before and I have
exercised this choice by going to Tshwane University of Technology to study
journalism. </span></div>
<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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I was offered training by Media 24 in Cape Town and have turned that down as internships
offer little wages to either pay rent or buy food, doing both with that stipend
is near impossible. So I’ve turned down work I know I would have loved because
of those circumstances. I also understand that as I face those challenges, I
can’t complain too much about them because the opportunity that was offered
would not have been made to people like my parents when they were younger
during the hard days of apartheid.</span></div>
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that realising the struggle I’d have in relocating to another province, I then
applied for another internship with my university in Pretoria and I was given
the internship. Persistence is something I also picked up from my parents. They
also put me under immense pressure when they decided to name me after Nelson
Mandela, the good thing is that it’s only a second name (or middle name to our
friends that butcher the English language, the Americans). </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I still want to live
in Cape Town and will be saving this year so I can make a huge effort to take
up opportunities that come up in the Mother City. At least TUT gave me work in
the field I am interested in, I have to help chair second year students with
their diary meetings for broadcast journalism practicals, assist them when
editing their video footage and produce their news bulletins. It’s not with a
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I
don’t deny the challenges that other young people have, I acknowledge that
South Africa has high rates of unemployment. We can sit, discuss these,
complain and then not realise that some people have opportunities to change
their circumstances as I have. Some people can apply for government student loans
and study, only repay these when they get employment. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Freedom
has given us choices our parents would only have dreamt about when they were
our age. Let’s use these various options.</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Boikhutso
Ntsoko</span></div>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/ThatDudeBeeKay" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">@ThatDudeBeeKay</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Has
Journalism become about a writer's name/by-line or piece to cameras? And no
longer about serving the original purpose of disseminating information. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
engaged in an article a few weeks ago about the decline, or "death"
thereof rather, in traditional (newspapers, radio and television) journalism
and the super incline, or hostile takeover, of the new super power, digital
(online) journalism. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">What
interested me more in this article was how they mentioned that the death of
traditional journalism was not imminent, but intended. The quote says,
"Print journalism was not meant to subside. We as journalists killed the
tradition by taking articles, putting them online for people to read, for
free."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">My
question from this was why? And from this, I could really just derive one
answer. This heavy transition is caused by more and more journalist worrying
about their names, by-lines and reputations and forgetting the original purpose
of journalism. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">As
a journalism scholar myself, I am in a very vulnerable position to witness what
the future generation of information bearers are going to be like. Throughout
my years of study, I've realized more and more future journalists who are lazy
to go and search for information, not just for stories but assignments as well,
research. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I've
witnessed more and more future journalists who, deliberately fail to meet
deadlines, who DON'T want to read, debate, engage, share thoughts and ideas,
future journalists who are afraid of their own drive and abilities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And
I've witnessed the hunger in these future journalist's eyes to have their name under the headline of an article. So much that they're willing to harm the
next person for that byline or Piece to Camera.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Now
what scares me is that these journalists that I speak of have entered the
market and are writing and presenting for professional media houses. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
was taught that one excels in what they practice. So if these people carry this
hunger into established media houses, will the hunger die, just because they're
in a professional environment?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Understand
me, I am fully aware that at the end of the day media houses are businesses and
businesses succeed based on trends and developments. But that's just it, media
houses are businesses NOT journalism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">We
cannot, honestly, have such a futile profession be dictated by egos and prides.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">A
former lecturer of mine, Gideon Tebid would always say, "I cannot
over-emphasise the need for you to acquire new knowledge quickly." It
makes sense now. In a generation that doesn't understand the history, and fails
to acknowledge the present, how can they ever predict the future of the
critical slaughter that online journalism will bring?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mr
Tebid would always mention, I remember in a lesson about propaganda, that once
journalism goes viral, the power and responsibility of disseminating
information no longer lies with the journalist and his media house, but with
EVERYONE who can access the internet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">With
the development of even more smart phones, and the need for less effort to
access information. In an era where the general public, who have no fundamental
knowledge of the ethics of journalism, are able to tweet about an accident they
see, or record a video of it and post it online, do we see journalism
succeeding in that market? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Even
better, do we want to put journalism through that kind of mediocre? Where
everyone is their own journalist? Where every Tom, Dick and Harry can report
what they deem as news?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
repeat, I am all for development, but the smarter man is aware that development
comes with proper and prior planning. You cannot just jump into such a market,
with numbers and reputation being your only motivation. You need projections
and planning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Which
brings me back to the purpose of my article, the issue that journalism, or
traditional journalism for that matter will die because more and more
journalist are worried about their names, pride and egos to see what that is
doing to the future of journalism. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Everyone
is so concerned with themselves that NO ONE wants to contribute to the greater
good!</span></div>
Journ Tauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08642749138089340355noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4206599363463198654.post-68133814222165806422013-04-23T08:40:00.000+02:002013-04-23T08:42:07.199+02:00I Push a Wheelbarrow for 5km to Fetch Water as South Africa Celebrates Freedom DayZanele Ngwenyama<br />
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<span lang="EN-US">I am from the rural areas of Bushbuckridge
in Mpumalanga and as South Africans in the cities I started living in when I
left home for my studies celebrate the various freedoms that came with our
democracy nearly two decades ago, I feel areas such as the one I come from have
very little to celebrate. People from villages in the area get tricked every four
to five years during national and municipal elections as representatives of
various political parties would promise the poor a better life, a life where
they also don’t have to live in fear because there would be better policing.
They often believe these promises that are seldom or never met.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">As South Africans from the rest of the
country celebrate the milestone of 19 years since our parents voted for the
first time, my province of Mpumalanga has announced that two municipalities
have been placed under administration. This is the same province that has
failed to produce favourable Matric results despite all the tweaking and
changes that happen which are done so it is much easier for high school pupils
to pass. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We get the lowest pass rate in the country so no, the government’s
reduction of the pass mark to just thirty percent hasn't helped us. It has also
become common to hear news reports about Mpumalanga pupils who get caught
trying to or having cheated in their national exams and a lot of the time it would
become clear that it would be with the help of adults that would have passed
their Matric. There is no freedom in the knowledge that someone in authority
would leak a paper to high school kids just so they can pass a subject they wouldn't have studied properly for. In fact, that is a trap.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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When our municipality was placed under
administration I also heard that we owe millions of Rands to the water board
for a resource that is a basic human right. This basic human right has caused
problems in other parts of my province as recently while watching <i>The Cutting Edge</i>, an investigative
programme on SABC 1, I realised that like us, some other people in my province
have no running water in their homes. This has resulted to them fetching water
from communal taps and where there are no communal taps, they would drink what
has been found to be toxic water from the ground which has caused diseases in
some people. Authorities ignore their pleas, deny there is a problem and that
any disease is caused by contaminated water they are forced to drink because of
negligence by some municipalities.<br />
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<span lang="EN-US">Whenever I am home in Bushbuckridge, I know
that I must always return to basics of pushing a wheelbarrow for 5km to fetch
water from a communal tap. This is something people of my rural village don’t
complain about anymore, it is what people do and have always done. To them,
things just are what they are and they feel powerless. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I can almost guarantee that if
Bushbuckridge was in Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal or perhaps the Western Cape, some
of these problems would have been fixed. The media would probably assist in
getting them fixed. Daily in the press we read stories of the plight of people
in the outskirts of Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town but it is not daily that
we would read about specific rural areas. We read about the rural areas as if
it’s some generic place with problems that are the same and thus would have a
common solution. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Our freedom hasn't even granted the people of the rural areas
access to the media as journalists don’t go there. They sit in their
comfortable homes and drive out to stories that are easy to reach. If they came
to areas such as my home town, Bushbuckridge, then maybe they would have a
better understanding of what people here go through on a daily basis.
Thereafter they would have a clearer picture of what they are asking about when
they talk of the rural areas when questioning authorities sitting in the Union
Buildings in Pretoria or in parliament in Cape Town. While the media is free to
publish any story it has investigated, the impoverished are still largely
ignored.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In 2013 we read about how a black man is
now on par with the white man, often we see results in seats of power. But
those results don’t reach areas like Bushbuckridge where there are black people
who also suffered under apartheid. They suffer today still, nineteen years on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Journ Tauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08642749138089340355noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4206599363463198654.post-40522361726742317802013-04-22T17:04:00.000+02:002013-04-22T17:04:17.481+02:00Tomorrow’s Leaders will either be conquerors or be conquered<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">LIVEOUTLOUD CE, Mike Eilertson. </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A few weeks ago I had the opportunity of attending <a href="http://www.tomorrowsleaders.co.za/">Tomorrow’s Leaders Convention</a> where founder of <a href="http://liveoutloud.co.za/">LIVEOUTLOUD</a>, Mike Eilertsen spoke about how tomorrow’s
leaders utilised strategies from yesterday to affect today’s results. Eilertsen
used an example of Genghis Khan. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He talks more about how to be a successful
leader through applying lessons he learned from Khan. But these lessons remain
important, especially for a modern world that is changing at a fast pace. There
is a few lessons you can apply in your life outside the journalism career.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"Khan was a leader "who did more with less". His army was smaller and less sophisticated, yet he routed the nations of the Middle East and China despite being a member of a tented nomadic Mongolian tribe who had never seen a a city, a stonewall or a well. His success can be attributed to one thing i.e. speed, both physically and strategically."</span></span><br />
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/64051842">Mike Eilertsen</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/capemedia">Cape Media</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.</div>
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