The Golden Apple

Mandy proved to be the best female comedian in the country on Friday, 21 Oct 2016. She gave a stunning 45 minutes set! Mandy on stage   H er opening sequence was creative, admirable and new! She told a hilarious story of how she came to Mbabane through a mix of her voice and music tracks. The tracks included Sands’s Vuma, Ncandweni and Spirit Of Praise’s Khulul’ugcobo being the last track where she said, “Ngako ke ngiyacela Nkhosi kutsi namuhla … Khulul’gcobo!” This is what the stage looked like.  That opening sequence alone made me forget that the show started 1hour 30 minutes late. What’s shocking is that they connected the sound and lights after 7:05pm, the time the show was scheduled to start. Nothing signified that there was a show happening inside the theatre club. No ushers, no signage, not even someone checking if we had tickets to the show. I also think they would have done something about the stage décor. So many times I wanted to leave but I ...

I am no politician but I have interest in politics and I am no journalist but I love journalism.  One of the images I captured. I am writing about my first experience supporting the Students Representative Council (SRC). Since starting varsity in 2015, the struggle did not always seem for my benefit and the previous SRC did not really try to generate issues amongst students.  I did not feel the need to support other students as they fight for their living and book allowances especially as a private and not government sponsored.  3 weeks ago I was touched to the core! The SRC was fighting a good cause. Amongst the issues were unqualified lectures, lack of Wi-Fi, chairs and classes. This truly worried me, so I supported my SRC... the SRC I voted for to represent me. Everything that happened from the 1st day of striking excited me. I felt like reporting everything live but out of fear I did not.  When our SRC got suspended shem! Our blood boiled. I felt t...

  #NoBRaDay #BreastCancerAwareness   When I logged in to Instagram this morning I got to learn that today was no bra day. Well, I did not think much of it until now (14:00, Thursday 13 Oct 2016). This is an image of a cancer survivor  #NoBraDay is trending world-wide on twitter so I got curious and  I clicked to read. Ladies are flashing their ‘coconuts’ (a word my guy friends use when they talk about breasts) and hash-raging #nobraday.  While browsing through and seeing comments and images I got to know that No Bra Day is actually a breast cancer initiative of raising awareness for the importance of breast cancer screening, recognising the symptoms of breast cancer and regular self-examination. This campaign encourages woman to leave their bras at home on October 13 th . One of the twitter posts. I like that a man is saying this.  Had I known this before, I would have done the same and probably posted on Facebook ab...