The Golden Apple

I am sure a number of people have heard or read about Farai Foundation. Here is the lowdown. Farai Foundation is a non-profit organization that operates exclusively for charitable purposes to support education in Southern Africa. It is concerned with putting Africa on the map and in essence Swaziland. This year, Farai Foundation marks its 5 th year in operation and 4 th charity event. Here is a list of other events organised by Farai Foundation in association with partners in charity.        1.    Zimbabwe, Thronhill High School, 2012 where a R220 000 basketball court was constructed. This was a joint venture event between Farai Foundation and Gridbow Engineers. The basketball court               2. Swaziland, Msunduza Primary School, 2013 where the school was cleaned, and E10 000 worth of items were donated. This was proudly supported by Bellcrack Engineers, Umnovu Concepts, Happy Valley Hotel, Mbaba...

Farai Foundation Charity event is yet again coming to Swaziland and with much exciting news!  HRH Prince Majaha delivering his speech HRH Prince Majaha has been announced as Farai Foundation patron. Farai Foundation founder Farai Chabata announced this at the preparations meeting held on the 18 th of November 2016 at the Happy Valley Hotel. Farai Foundation Swaziland charity event crew The meeting was held in preparations for the Farai Foundation charity event scheduled for 3 December 2016 at Ekwetsembeni Special School in Mbabane, Swaziland. The meeting in progress  The shy, humble and well collected Prince thanked those in attendance for coming through and supporting such an initiative to help others. He mentioned that many will be blessed and will see what everyone is doing as a blessing. He hopes and knows the event will be a success and encouraged team work in order to have a successful event. HRH Prince Majaha  is passionate about u...

Rovine Communications closed off the month of October with a Fitness for Breast Cancer campaign.  The students take a group photo with Noah - Phela Live Wellness Centre fitness instructor   The attendees doing some squats   The 7 Limkokwing University students took it upon themselves to bring in Swaziland Breast and Cervical Cancer Network (sbccn) to educate fellow students about breast cancer. Through research they leant that Fitness can help fight off Breast Cancer, hence the event ‘Fitness for Breast Cancer'.  The event commenced at 9:30am at Limkokwing University grounds, on the 31 st of October with aerobics session conducted by Phela-Live Wellness Centre fitness Instructor Noah. Nolwazi showing how to self examine your breasts.  Clad in black Limkokwing University T-Shirts, the group of students were smeared with pink paint as an indication of self-love in relation to Breast Cancer. The students seem to enjoy the session as they w...

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...

No words, pictures or videos can express the exact feeling that I got from this adventure. Swaziland has beautiful places and many are unknown or a bit expensive. Swazi Trails has the most exciting packages ever! They are quite pricey for me so I had them on my bucket list like down there, lol. Looking all clean as we were about to leave for the adventure I told my dear asian friends about it and they were excited! We booked the adventure caving for the afternoon, 2pm. We arrived at eZulwini Swazi Trails offices at around 12. We had lunch under the shade and then proceeded to make payments. On the screen were pictures of previous cavers and it looked exciting enough. Up we hike!  We were then made to leave our car, bags, everything including cellphones. We were told our tour guide will capture the moments. Our tour guide, Mseni, is a very chatty chatty young man who enjoys his job. They had a double cab car which we boarded and went up to Gobholo Hills which are s...