New Miss Vicks café crowned ahead of Miss SA

 

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Miss Vicks café is an annual event that takes place during spring in Soshanguve block TT, it’s usually held at Vicks café where they enable young girls to showcase their talent. It’s is an event that took place ahead of the crowning of the new Miss South Africa 2021/2022, as South Africans are waiting to see their new Miss south Africa Miss Vicks café paved a way by hosting its third miss Vicks annual event.

Despite challenges such as covid 19 Vicks café successfully hosted its event under consideration of covid 19 regulations, the event was held at Vicks café where, Khutso Mokonyane was crowned as Miss Vicks café 2021/2022, Khutso Mokonyane was rewarded with an amount of R2000,00 cash, a certificate of appreciation, and gifts such as flowers and a sash.

 Like any other pageant, Khutso Floral was awarded as the first princess of Miss Vicks café 2021/2022 who was rewarded with R1500,00 cash, flowers and a sash. A TUT soshanguve campus student Summer Shipalane became the second princess of Miss Vicks café 2021/2022 and was rewarded with R1000,00 cash and gifts of the same nature as the other models.

The event was not limited to the queen, first and second princess but Kurhula Mashaba was rewarded as an ambassador of Vicks café 2021/2022 and she was awarded a certificate of appreciation and R500,00 cash price. On the same event Buhle Tshabalala was crowned as the best dresser, the contestants were also tasked to create social media pages where their followers can make comments and share their pictures, and Ceila Monyai was awarded with a public choice certificate, and a sash. Miss popularity was awarded to Khutso Mokonyane.

“the event is not only looking at the models but upcoming artists, we invite them to come and perform” said Vicks the owner of Vicks café and an organizer of Miss Vicks café. “we organize such kind of events to enable girls to showcase their talent and keep them off the streets” he added.

The mood was overwhelming and participants were excited and believe the event was a success, the second princess of Miss Vicks café Summer Shipalane said “the ladies were ready and I am happy to be crowned as the second princess and the event was a success”

“I believe in women empowerment; I believe we as women should be empowering each other more than we’re pulling each other down” said Miss Vicks 2020 kgotlelo Sethedi who’s also an organizer of Miss Vicks café. Sethedi is a student and an entrepreneur who lives around Pretoria who believes and work on giving out what she has, as she runs an organization that helps the needy around Pretoria.

 A journalist is a not a celebrity 

30 may 2021

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                                    Mthobisi Mkhaliphi a senior journalist at the SABC

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Mthobisi Mkhaliphi (34) is a senior journalist at the SABC Mpumalanga, Mkhaliphi started as a sports reporter in the community radio station in Durban. His dream was to be a hard-news journalist that is when he decided to move to Mpumalanga province where he joined the SABC as a hard news reporter.

Mkhaliphi’s dream to become a journalist surfaced when he was doing standard eight (8) which is grade ten in our modern days, he always wanted to make it in the engineering industry either electrical engineering or motor mechanic because he is a multi-talented individual, he can fix cars and do electrical related jobs without a formal qualification during his spare time.

Mthobisi Mkhaliphi matriculated in 2005, he enrolled in a private college in Durban where he studied journalism and completed his Diploma in Journalism in 2009. In 2015, Mkhaliphi was awarded as the best journalist in Mpumalanga. “On my side, the best achievement is to see change, people getting help after reporting a story,” said Mkhaliphi.

“One of the challenges I faced was to be threatened by a politician after I had covered a story about her and she was not happy about it,” said Mkhaliphi when asked about the challenges he faced as a hard news journalist.

Mkhaliphi looks upon great legends like Victor Mpho Molefe the current sports presenter at Ukhozi FM. He likes the way Molefe presents his show and his style of questioning guests or sources. This all started when he was listening to one of the SABC radio stations Ukhozi FM “one day I was listening to Ukhozi FM, it was six o’clock (18:00), the presenter was Victor Mpho, “I listened to him and the way he presented the show and I was inspired,” said Mkhaliphi.

He said his favorite bible verse is “Philippians 4:13 “I can do all through Christ who strengthens me”. His interests and hobbies include music, it is his wish that one day he can play his recordings on-air (playing the guitar), travel.\ Mkhaliphi is a football lover, he is an Orlando Pirates fan.

“As a journalist, you will be required to work beyond the call of duty. A journalist is not a celebrity but a servant of the voiceless; your story should be known before you are known,” said Mkhaliphi.

 

Manganye restores hope of Soshanguve youngsters

 

24 May 2021

 

                                        Thomas Manganye owner of Falal gym.

 

The youth of South Africa is faced with many challenges, this includes the high rate of unemployment, crime, drug abuse and many other socio-economic related challenges. The challenges go as far as affecting communities like Soshanguve and other places, despite these challenges Thomas Manganye from Soshanguve block F managed to rise above all obstacles and vowed to help the youth of Soshanguve.

Manganye has taken a stand to open a gym in Soshanguve community hall popular known as Falal, it is a place where young people gather for activities that include bodybuilding and fitness, amongst other things Manganye is committed to keep the youth off the streets and save them from drug abuse, Manganye says they have managed to save three young people from drug abuse in the recent years "in our community we have a serious problem of drugs, it is a major problem'' said Manganye.

The recovery of Luyanda Khanyi (20), who was a drug addict is also an example of the good work done by Mr Manganye. Khanyi says he was using drugs for the past three years since 2018. "My friends introduced me to drugs'' said Khanyi. Luyanda Khanyi is currently enrolled with Tshwane North College doing electrical engineering. Khanyi said drug abuse is a serious problem in Soshanguve and he will not advise a young person to take drugs, he further mentioned that drug abuse made his relationship with his parents unhealthy.

 

                                              Luyanda Khanyi beats drug addiction.

Khanyi is not the only young person assisted by Mr Manganye, other two young men are also tertiary students in Pretoria central who were at school by the time of the interview. Young females from Soshanguve also took part in the programs at the gym of Manganye, Vuyisile Baleke is a young girl from Soshanguve “the gym helps young female to stay off the streets, maintain a healthy lifestyle and stick to our diet plan" said Vuyisile.

Vuyisile believes that the government must make interventions on programs like this one "they should provide more gyms, hire people to work in those gyms as a way of tackling unemployment for the youth of Soshanguve in particular'' said Vuyisile.

The program of Manganye Thomas is not only focusing on the gym but it is a vehicle for those who are less fortunate to get what they have desired for a long time. Manganye is also working with the community forum of Soshanguve to raise funds and make donations for school children who do not have shoes and school uniforms.

Somizi bullies journalists through his followers

 

 As South African citizens we have an obligation to respect and uphold to the principles and interests of our constitution which consists of the bill of rights chapter two of the constitution of the republic of South Africa. According to the constitution of the republic everyone is entitled to freedom of expression in section 16, which does not extend to propaganda for war, incitement of imminent violence or advocacy for hatred that is based on race, ethnicity, gender or religion and constitutes incitement to cause harm. I openly agree with the statement “Somizi was wrong to publish a journalist’s contact information an ask followers to invade her privacy”.

Somizi’s action was wrong at all angles and it must never be encouraged because he was inciting violence towards the journalists, because his followers indeed did exactly what he instructed them to do, according to recent reports the journalist have received number of threats from people she doesn’t know.as a country we are battling with the spread of gender based violence cases, where women and children are kidnapped and brutally killed and some go missing without a trace.

Somizi was reckless on his comment because as a public figure your right to privacy becomes outweighed ,he should have known that by now because he’s been in the media industry for so many years as he claims that the journalists invaded his privacy ,firstly he is the one who announced to the public that he is getting married so journalists received the information and now they are interested to know how true are the rumors that he is divorcing his husband ,all he had to do was to confirm if it is true or not. Instead he advocated violence towards the journalists.

The primary responsibility of a journalist is to report news truthfully as much as possible as stipulated in the codes of conduct, accurately and fairly. According to my view the journalist afforded Somizi a fair chance to state his side of the story instead he attacked her.

The position Somizi finds himself in is that of a public figure, his role in the society is to bring peace and influence people to act in an acceptable way and, he should have known that as a public figure your right to privacy is limited on the bases that the public always want to know what is happening in your life so our journalists must do their job, which is to seek the truth and clarity on issues and confirm rumors because that’s how journalists make news. Somizi must never behave or think that he is untouchable, the public has the right to know about his life and he is unlikely to succeed on lawsuits regarding privacy related matters.

 According to news24 Somizi admitted that he was wrong by sharing the private contact information of the journalist but he is not willing to apologize and he is not going to, which directly tells us that he has no morals and no respect for other people’s rights.

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