MUSEUM!

I visited the Queenstown and frontier museum...Check out what I saw

Wild life!damn they look so real

Black slavery history( behind me, figuratively and other wise)

Sister sister:-)

My lovely sister and best friend...Nondwe Mpendulo

The beauty of my isiXhosa traditional garp

I went to the Queens cassino park crafts exhibition last week sunday and was amazed by the talent of the rural women fo the Queenstown area. I could see from the way they showed us around, there's a certain to significance and reason behind each creation they have.
(In the Picture)hand made women models in IMIBHACO (Xhosa traditional women gear)

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My mentor, senior journalist at The Rep

Int'wentle iyanconywa

I started this whole blog thing just to voice out my opinion.And I'm achieving much more than I anticipated. I've manage to get my friends to start blogging. It's such a great feel to notice that I've contributed something positive to my friends.

(pitty most of you can't comment because of the difficult posting steps of blogspot, but just follow all the steps uzoba ryt )

My people let's keep on sharing information. After all an uniformed society is a dead one. Let's keep writing.

S.Sobona's work(The Rep editorial cartoon)

Wow!South Africa has come a long way. We are a democratic state, with everyone equal regardless of race and culture. Most South Africans have high hopes and big dreams for the country. But working for a community newspaper(The Rep) has opened my eyes to an appauling incident. There's a part in the paper where we do vox pox, with local and national politics being the main focal point. In a vox pox we are expected to get views and opinions from a diverse group of people, from different races and cultures. Throughout this process of getting people's opinions and views, I've noticed that white people don't give a damn about what is happening with our government and politics. Two weeks back we did a vox pox on the issue of former Eastern Cape premier Nosimo Bhalindlela being removed of office. We took to the town hoping to get people voicing out. The first White person that we(me and Athenkosi,Rhodes university journalism student) approached was shocked that we were representing a newspaper. She said "I thought I was being mugged". That was the most degrading thing anyone has ever said to me. from there she didn't even want to comment on the issue, which I didn't have a problem with, but was shocked by her judgement on us. I was shocked to hear that I look like a mugger. I see myself as a decent looking young woman ( even though I don't walk around with pencil skirts and stilletos) and I can say the same about Athi. I asked the lady why she thought so but she just loughed it off and said "never mind". Why wouldn't I mind? What is it in me that looks like a criminal? then the old cliche` comes about: Is it because I'm BLACK?but anyway the point of this post was on the lack of knowledge of what is happening in our government and politics in white people in Queenstown. So we went on with the program, spoke to few people got their opinions. For the sake of diversity, we tried different races. The two white people we aproached didn't even know who Bhalindlela is. The other said all these( I don't know who he was refering to) people don't know how to run a country. He suggested there should be a 'clean up', starting from state president. I asked myself why would he want all of them cleaned out if he doesn't know what their positions and duties are. From noticing that none of the white people knew who Bhalindlela is, just for interest sake, I aproach some more people for my own understanding and research. Only one participant knew Bhalindle, but she said she thought she was still the department of the education minister. Even though Bhalindlela left that position a while ago, I considered this to have been a positive responce. Two boys from the town's boys high thought Mandela was still president. That was the funniest of all the responces. I mean come on!Mandela still president?!That was classic.

( I know you're asking yourself why I targeted white people, but there aren't many races in this town, there's black and white people and a few Indian shop owners)

Well I don't know who is to blame for this lack of knowledge. Is it us the media? Is it ingnorance from white people?

THANK GOD IT'S FRIDAY! T.G.I.F( danger!)

The last day of working and school day of the week always brings excitement to people. To some it marks a time to unwind and relax. To others a time to spend with family. but amongst my fellow youths, it marks a time to party and go clubbing. Which includes DRINKING and DRUGS. Then a question crosses my mind: When did binge drinking become so popular in our generation? This is an issue faced by many countries. Alcohol has become the main source for fun in our youth these days. Social gatherings are now considered boring without booze. I believe all this is a result of popular culture. At this day and age, people idolise what they see in movies, T.V, celebrities and reality shows. All these mediums seem to be the benchmark of what's in and whats not. At the moment being out of yur sanity seems to be popular. In every tabloid magazines there are reports of Hollywood celebrities being jailed for D.U.I(driving under the influence). The most controvasial being Paris Hilton's case last year. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying people are imitating this, but influencial people like her have a bit of an impact.

Binge drinking results in impared judgement, thus leading to sleeping around, reckless driving and complicated health hazards. All these blemishing and tarnishing our future.

A CHANGE MUST COME

Ukhwelo lityala!!

The invitation

I have started this page to see if there is anyone willing to join me and start a new on-line magazine. I got an offer to start this mag, but the catch is I have to get the youth to paticipate by writing social commentary, voice out their opinions, share their dreams and teach one another. The content is not restricted, one can write about anything, send pictures, paintings, fashion tips just anything one thinks would be interest to the young and hip people out there...

Talk to me
zona88@webmail.co.za

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Now that you got it!What you gonna do bout it?

Everyday we dream about different things(atleast I do) contemplate plans to make them come true. To some of us it takes a long while to get what you want. But when we eventually do, the excitement somehow wears off. That bringing out the question: Now that you've got it,what do you gonna do bout it?I have always wanted to be a journalist all my life. Now I've got the break to really become the JOURNO, but it's not as rosy as I imagined it would be. Of coarse I knew that it involves going out there and looking for news, but that doesn't interst me anymore. Maybe it's because I work for a small newspaper in a small town. Don't get me wrong,I'm not saying I'm giving up on my dream, but hey if this is what I've been chasing all this time, then I didn't know what exactly I was chasing. I am dedicating my time now to get a clear understanding of my dream.