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MUSIC IS OUR LIFE!  Andrew Gininda The Spharaphara music crew Loxion Spharaphara is a group of young boys from Tsakane extension 13. They were born and grew up in the township. They met from the township and they decide to come up with the group and start making music. “We stated Loxion Spharaphara (their group) in 2008, there were three of us when we started the group and they asked me to come up with a name we will use so I came up with Loxion Spharaphara and they loved it,” said Mamfengu who is one of the group members. Mamfengu said they (him and the group) were motivated by listening to popular hip hop musicians and they decided that they can also do what those artists do and that’s when they came together and come up with the group. They have three albums named: Friday the 13th they released in 2009, Boom vibe they released in 2014 and Senza kanje the released in 2015. “I used to dance and that made me come home at night so I decided to follow music an...

AFRICA DAY CELEBRATION This is a day that is celebrated continental by all the countries in the continent of Africa on the 25 th May of every year. In some countries such as Ghana, Lesotho, Zambia, Mali, Namibia and Zimbabwe this day is regarded as a public holiday while in all the other countries it is celebrated but not regarded as a public holiday. Asked about this day, members of the community had a lot to say about wat this day is and what it means to them. Sbongile Nyembe, a chef at Blessings Social Development Centre said that Africa day to her means that working together as Africans and be united. "every in the world where there are Africans, they should know each other and be united”, Nyembe said. Mr Mnisi, a teacher at Buhlebemfundo secondary school in Tsakane said Africa day to him means celebrating African culture and tradition. He also said that it means celebrating their Africanism, “Africa day to me means celebrating the diversity of African continent as...

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What really matters........... Money or love? Andrew Siboniso Gininda Does having a lot of money make one better than other people? It surprise me to see that just because one does not have all the money in the world he has to be punished for that. A certain man tries all his best to make sure that he provides for his daughter but just because the mother of his baby is from a family that can afford whatever they want, this poor man has to suffer for that. I used to think that all mothers want fathers to be part of their children even if they (the parents) broke up, I though they wanted their children to grow up knowing both their parents. I always knew that most fathers just decides that they don’t want to be part of their children’s lives but now I am confused when I see or hear a mother telling the father of her child that he will never see his child again and he must stop visiting that child. The worst part of it he is being told all that because he is not from a reach fami...

Good or bad idea? Andrew Siboniso Gininda According to Radio 702 South Africa will introduce a Chinese language called Mandarin in public schools. I have followed the comments that were made by most people concerning this issue, some people thinks it is a good idea that this foreign language is introduced because South Africa and China are working together in economy so this will help to make communication easier. So also says there are learners who want to have their future abroad so if they learn how to speak this language it will make things easier for them especially if they go to countries whereby this language is spoken. But there are always mixed feeling about everything as other people think this is a very bad idea, I think they also have point though considering what they are saying. This people says learners in our country are failing to speak their own African languages so how will they learn to speak a foreign one? We should start by mastering our own languages be...