Malema visits Jabulani

Chief in Commander addressing the people.

EFF Commander in Chief (CIC) Julius Malema graced the people of Jabulani, Soweto with hope and promises. On a breezy and cloudy afternoon a hoard of EFF "Fighters"gathered next to Soweto theater as they anticipated to listen to their leader address the people. As we all know on the 3rd of August 2016 local government elections will be taking place and its more likely to see familiar faces of our politicians in the townships. Malema claimed he will go house to house in Soweto to listen to the people and respond to their problems.

Photos: Palesa Mohlamme

Young and old people were part of the crowd that waited impatiently to get a glimpse of the CIC, and when mother earth blessed us with rain, finally the man of the moment came to address the people. Residents expressed their adversities about house title deeds, lack of service delivery and dissatisfaction of the current councilor at the area just to mention a few. But I ask why don't we ever see political leaders way before elections or long after then. I hear people talking good about their leaders but where are they when we need them the most?

Residents raising their concerns

It so happens for us to be there for them when they need our votes. I guess we also should expect President Zuma to grace us with his gratifying presence. Get this though, I am not paid by a white person to write what I like. I am a child from the township and I know first hand the struggle that we face as Black people, and I get to wake up to it every morning and everyday of my life. So I know what I'm talking about. We need honest people. We need to stop fighting amongst ourselves and rather build each other for the better. We need to teach ourselves how to fish so that we can survive and sustain ourselves le sechaba sa rona.Yoh! I just got carried away there. Moreover, its heart breaking to see our politicians making meaningless promises to our elders and the youth, anger is brewing within us and its brewing bitterly and faster than expected. But who am I to judge anyway, maybe, Malema might teach us how to fish?  #MishMash

Reaching Greater Heights

Clothes For Charity organised an event at Food Zone, Rockville, and the aim was to raise social awareness on giving back to the community and contributing to the social development in our townships. Clothes For Charity is a non-government organisation (NGO) and it relies on public funds or charity to function and they donate clothes to orphanages and organisations that deal with homeless children. Thabo Mbongeni Mdluli from Protea Glen is the founder of Clothes For Charity, the organisation consists of other nine amazing young people, who believe the Power is in our hands to make things happen! They organise events to spread the massage of giving back and supporters donate clothes in order to attend the party. I attended their last event on 12 December 2015, and I must say that it was an awesome party. #Picnic4Hope

Photos by: Palesa Mohlamme

Gifted Child gave an amazing performance 

(From left) Man-K Ramela is one of the founders at Charity for Clothes.

Fans giving support.

Magents..

Veronica Khoari is also one of the founders at Charity for Clothes

Good Heart Foundation ladies doing it for themselves!

Ladies having a picnic for hope.

Furthermore, I would like to congratulate the whole crew of Clothes For Charity for their exceptional work and a positive impact on the society. I would also like to also encourage young people to be role models and mentors to the young kids out there, and promote Ubuntu in our society. I hope more epic parties will continue this year and more people will support this initiative. For more information about the organisation check them on Facebook as: Clothes For Charity - Charity Drive.  Stand up Soweto, Stand Up!

Elevate

My favourite place to relax and unwind is at Soweto Theater. Believe it or not it was my first time attending theater, so I came across to the Creatives, Art lovers (Like myself) and Artists. I love taking my camera along with me where ever I go so that I can capture every moment and spread the love. Beautiful Batho join me as I unfold my captured moments and embracing my world. Welcome to my world!

Photos by: Palesa Mohlamme

Local Artists at their Best, Beautiful painting indeed.

Izingane Zoma gave an astonishing performance at Soweto Theater






During my visit at Soweto Theater I had an opportunity to see Izingane Zoma performing, and like we always say, "Local is lekker". Lets support local artists!

A day in a life

I had the privilege to meet the most  "influential person in the world", according to Times magazine. And I must say that she is the most amazing public figure that I have ever met. She is humble, calm, elegant, sophisticated and a very kind woman. I had an opportunity to share a room with her and take photographs of her. Indulge and enjoy photographs of Advt. Thuli Mandosela.

Photo by: Palesa Mohlamme

Public Protector, Thuli Madonsela at Aurora Girls High at Zola, Soweto.

Mish Mash at its Best

Random Late Night pics

Photos by: Palesa Mohlamme

What I love about photography is I get to embrace and manifest myself. More and more epic pictures will be posted and who knows you might see yourself in my blog.  Love and Peace...

Pulling punches against Drugs and Alcohol Abuse

By: Palesa Mohlamme

                                              

Boxing Tournament at the Life skills development center                    

  

Photos by: Palesa Mohlamme

Two young girls were part of an exciting boxing tournament that pulled punches against drugs and alcohol abuse at Noordgesig community centre, in Soweto. The LDAC in partnership with the Noordgesig Evangelistic life skills development centre and Soweto Young Boxing Association are behind the great initiative against drugs, alcohol abuse and skills development. Thirteen judges were present at the tournament that included Teboho Ledwa, a former South African boxing Champion. 

The life skills development center was filled with local supporters and star attraction boxers from Noordgesig, Central Western Jabavu, White City, and Dobsenville. The tournament opened with the under 15s challenging facing each other, with the first round of the bout, getting off to a storming  start much to the delight of the fist cuffs fans Anele Duduze from Tshepisong who weighed just 11 kg, ,romped to a first round victory against Tankiso Monyobo from Soweto. 

The bouts were three rounds and the boxer fought with passion and showed discipline for the beloved sport way beyond their age throughout the tournament. The LDAC and skills center host their social and sports events without any financial support from the corporate world. They rely on locals who folk out their hard earned cash to keep this worthwhile initiative going. Coach Raymend Mshifane, from Mshifane boxing development is one of the many 12 coaches involved in the tournament. He trains young people to take up boxing to keep them from social ills such as crime, nyaope and abuse of alcohol. 

Elders in the community like Noma Naude, 59, is a keen and active supporter of the campaign. She sold refreshments and food during the tournament. “I have been running a kitchen soup for twelve to fifteen years and I cook for three hundred to three hundred to fifty people every Thursday at my house. I receive support from church collections and I also cook for the people at my church”, said Naude. 

The organisers of the tournament slammed the killings of two police officers gunned down on duty in Dobsenville last week. The pair from the family violence, child protection and sexual offence unit hero shot by a gang of armed me. To date a shocking 62 officers have been killed in the line of duty this year, bring the violence prevailing in the country that the organisers also highlighted into sharp perspective.

Battles in the digital world

Breaking Bad concluded an audience of 10.3 million viewers, Facebook and twitter raced to tell views media about the throngs who shared their reactions to the show on their social networks. Facebook and Twitter both see the social conversation around television as a way to increase use of their sites and win a bigger piece of advertisers', and they battle the title of the nation's digital device. The old-fashioned television has become to the internet-era- social networks, particularly Twitter, hence today television is a favourite topic for users, while using social network to comment and share topics.

 

Battle of the giants

 

 

The average audience for Twitter messages about a TV show is 50 times the number of people posting messages about the show and it has been found that heavy Twitter activity around a popular broadcast can drive more people to both the show and Twitter. Therefore, Twitter is a powerful tool to keep the conversation going and collaboration between traditional media and telecommunication leads to rendering the same services to the audience.

Hashtags on Twitter are building global discussion on a wide array of important issues, and they are becoming a tool in education, with a good example being #birdclass, the tag used by students in a bird biology class.

 

The future of television

In terms of the future of television , young people want television to be personalized to react to them and which travels the globe with them. Television is evolving as are other channels and its going to become more social because it has to, these changes will fundamentally alter how marketers will get their message to people. According to Razorfich white paper research, the future of television will become personalised and offering programmes to the audience interest, trends and mood. Therefore, choices and preferences will influence other people, and people will become channels. television will be portable and travel with people because of a cloud technology and people will be able to purchase with their television, and lastly it will allow people to create programming content and it will be served on demand and it will be categorized then shared with family and friends.

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