Zuma painting defaced

A person stares at the defaced the spear painting of President
Jacob Zuma

Courtesy: http://www.timeslive.co.za/

Isn't this abuse of artistic freedom?

An art fanatic stares at The Spear portrait by artist Brett Murray showing
 President Jacob Zuma's genitals 

• Picture courtesy of The City Press Online.

A better, brighter future Sipho Goes Harder than EVER!!!



Sipho Siluma makes a door.



Bruce Mbingeleli

Most people will start off their businesses in street corners, while others start their Empires in the comfort of their own houses.  Sipho Siluma (36) from Tembisa regards his township and closer urban areas as the best places to market himself as carpenter for his growing business.

 Since 2005 Sipho has been a familiar face in his community. Relating to Corporate companies, to ordinary people in townships to suburbs in his area, they have really shown interest to the ambitious carpenter. Every day he wakes up and heads to his clients who want their doors, kitchen, TV stand and ceiling to be fixed or renovated.

“When I started this business six-years ago I knew what I wanted to do and it was  going to be easy for me. Hence my  love and the passion of drawing  and fixing of equipment. This is when the thrive within me increased for what was once ahobby became a career,”said Siluma.

Siluma said the majority of hisclients are people who live in the suburbs and a few from corporate companies.

 He said his decision to develop his business venture in the township was motivated by a desire to get new customers and to improve his business to be locally-known and recognized.

“I realised that when I was still working for a company called Set-In-Stone, that is when I was still in training in dealing with derking, eletricity connection in housing, tiling etc., so that’s when I started my own business and I have learned  much which acknowledged and implemented it and have gained it from my working environment”.

Now he is working hand-in-hand with his friend Gift Makuebua. It has becomes more convenient for him since he has extra hands helping him out.

” The business is growing with its full potential,”bragged Sipho.

 Carpentry is not an easy job, but Sipho has made it easier through his hard work and determination.

“At times it’s not so easy doing the job we are doing, I remember during the Soccer World Cup things were not on our side because we did not get any customers which was bad for business and for us too.”

 Siluma and Makuebue are sub-contractors. They said they are happy and satisfied to be working as sub-contractors rather than working for someone and being paid peanuts.

Their main concern is how most people (especially youth) are not business-driven despite financial pressure we are facing in our country, but that is not the issue regardless of that “you can pursue anything in life without always thinking of money” Siluma concluded.

Uncompromising Motion, Everyday Is a Show for Us…





Spinners and drifters unite in Soshanguve to showcase their talent.

 Bruce Mbingeleli

The Soshanguve Spinning Palace (SSP) held an event that took place this weekend at Block F industrial site, which brought down the curtain to one of the closest-fought spinners, drifters in Pretoria.

This was the very first opening event of 2012, car enthusiast from Soshanguve, Ga-Rankuwa and Mabopane came out in their numbers to support the SSP; this was highlighted as one epic event due to the number of spinners and drifters from Gauteng who were also part-en-parcel of this occasion.

“ I’m really happy with the organizers they way they organized the event, I’m overwhelmed with the attendance of the people and I’m so excited that I’ll be showcasing my skills, and the adreline rush that you get when people are screaming for more when your inside the car it’s really amazing” said Ricardo Carls who lives in Johannesburg, Florida.

 Spinners who attended the spinning event went all out in entertaining the people, by performing different types of stunts which left some of the masses amazed, shocked by the way the spinners and drifters did their stunts, somewhere hectic but truly impressive. The stuntwhich caught people’s attention was the way the tyres were place and the drivers had to do drift around the tyres, once they’re in the circuit the spinners had to do maneuvers up until their types blow up. “It’s really not difficult in spinning a car inbetween tyres it’s all about timing and controlling your car and knowing when to step on the pedal, and using the steering-wheel and knowing when your about to turn” said Carls.

Model abuses her freedom of expression on twitter



Model Jessica Leandra Dos Santos

 Lebohang Pita
@LeboPita

Jessica Leandra Dos Santos made headlines after her racial spat on twitter last Thursday against a black gentleman at her local supermarket. "Just, well took on an arrogant and disrespectful kaffir inside Spar. Should have punched him, should have," She tweeted.

This tweet landed her in hot water after she was stripped off her 2011 FHM model of the year title and lost her status as a brand ambassador for QuickTrim SA.

Was is necessary for her to use the K-word?According to several publications it was a step too far especially at a time when South Africa had just celebrated 18 years of democracy.

As an influential individual in SA and a prominent figure in the modelling world she should have known better.South Africa is just 18 years old and to abuse her freedom of expression in such a manner calls for order to be restored.Her racial spat will prompt her followers whom are mostly white to normalise the word in a country that endured 48 years of racial discrimination.The defunct draconian apartheid system still runs deep in many Africans' veins.The scars are still visible and this insult does not help but aggravate the division between black South Africans and white South Africans.

A friend conceded to me that such individuals should just go stay in Orania where they will be able to enjoy their own freedom and practice their racism freely.Candidly speaking,a person of normal intelligence will not show her anger in such a draconian way and Ms Leandra crossed a boundaty she should not have crossed.

Some South Africans say NO TO RACISM!!!!

It waits to be seen whether the forever active Afriforum when it comes to racism will open a case against her.Black South Africans are waiting anxiously and should the Afriforum do the right thing,it will prove many who are of the opinion that the lobby group represents whites or Afrikaners wrong.

Aspiring actress Tshidi Thamana echoed the late former ANCYL President Peter Mokaba's sentiments that all white people should be killed in retaliation to Leandra's spat."Dear Mr Peter Mokaba ... I wish All White People were killed when you sang 'Kill The Boer' we wouldn't be experiencing @JessicaLeandra's racism right now," Thamana tweeted.

This feud proves that South Africans are angry and I agree with political commentator Moeletsi Mbeki when he said intellectually and mentally South Africans are going backwards.

But why are we so angry as a nation?

Pictures courtesy: www.google.co.za
Qoutes courtesy: www.news24.com

Rest in Peace dear leaders

Lebohang Pita

@LeboPita

 Former communications and public service and administration minister Roy Padayachie.The minister died in Addis Ababa,Ethiopia,whilst attending an African Peer Review Mechanism seminar.South Africa has lost a leader who served the country with dignity and utmost respect.It is with great sadness that SA  mourns one of the pioneers of the new methods of communication that have reached the previously disadvantaged communities. Government will never be the same without you, may your soul rest in peace.



Sicelo Shiceka, affectionately known as Comrade Sicelo to staunch ANC supporters died on Monday April 30 after a long illness. A former co-operative governance and traditional affiars minister, Shiceka was fired last year after Public Protector Thuli Madonsela  released a report which found, among other things, that he had abused public funds. Be that as it may,we can't deny the fact that Shiceka served the people of SA with purpose despite his personal interests. May your soul rest in peace.

Pictures courtesy: Google

How digital media has changed our lives

The invention of the digital media marked a new era for communication. In the past one would walk miles to deliver a message or had to go an extra mile in order to find information about a particular topic. The internet has made all that accessible in an instant. Imagine what you were going to do without the internet in a profession like journalism, where information is more imperative than anything and every fact has to be accurate….

Until the World Wide Web came into being, the era of information was born because it could now be accessed instantly and easily largely due to the fact that it could be stored on the net in vast amounts. Then came the invention of devices that enabled people to extend their ability to communicate, when in the past communication was often  halted by certain barriers and the digital media introduced reforms that made it easy to communicate without facing challenges.

Who would have thought that a small object like a USB flash disc can store a large amount of information? Well, that is true. Blogs have enabled citizens to raise their concerns about all the social ills they face on a daily basis and the online encyclopedia has made it easy to access information about particular individuals.

 We are now able to communicate beyond borders, thanks to the new media.

 The world now is a global village because of the internet and this has made trading between countries much easier. Imagine what the world would be like without the internet?

 Today we have been introduced to social networking with sites like twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn etc. having taken the world by storm.

The 3^rd edition New Media guide by Terry Flew is a must read in order to know how digital media came into being.

 Courtesy: New Media guide 3rd edition and Google.