INTERNATIONAL MOTHER TONGUE



Tsonga Culture:Tinyiko Moreni (20)



1, Tinyiko Moreni (20), 1^st year Language practice student from Telkom Residence said “Tsonga culture represent who I am and without it there will be no peace. I wore Xibelani, Vuhlalu and Yele (T-shirt) to present my culture. In my culture we believe and respect ancestors more than anything”. 078 004 6636

Venda Culture: Gudani Ramavhuru (19),

2, Gudani Ramavhuru (19), 1^st year Language Practice student from Telkom Residence said “Culture is other part of my heart, and it says everything about who I am. Yes I’m proud to be a Venda girl”. 071 225 7832



If we could only have a decent Football committee, surely this Nation was going to be on Top of the African Football rank

Opinion peace

We’ve many talented young players in this Country, but due to political interference players like Sam Mabelane (23) and Lucky Modisakeng (21) from Soweto, Phiri can’t be on National team because they’re under privileged.  Sam Mabelane said “We’ve been training with lot of local teams and whenever we hear about trials, we go there without a doubt because we know what we can do”. However, the passion of the ball jugglers is dropping bit by bit but that doesn’t stop them from what they believe it’s God’s gift.    

Despite not having sponsorship, Sam and Lucky travels from Soweto, Phiri to Pretoria, Sunnyside in order to showcase their skills. Sam further said they’re trying to market their selves; maybe someone can introduce them to one of professional clubs.

It is very saddening to see Government intervention and spoiling the game of football. SAFA need to invest in the next generation of players because, for all the heart and passion the current crop of Bafana players showed, they just aren’t good enough to compete with the rest of Africa. There seems to be plenty of light at the end of the tunnel for the South African, especially as the South African Football Association’s bosses are considering giving Gordon Igesund the head coaching position up until the 2018 World Cup.

But while we are all still gutted about Bafana’s exit, what is SAFA doing to develop the next generation of South African football stars?

The problem at the moment is that the country doesn’t have world-class players because of a lack of development structures at grassroots level.

There is this misperception that the PSL is a strong league, at a level where we can pick a competitive Bafana team made up of only locally-based players. But while the league is strong on the financial front, the quality has been poor over the last few years.

The facts that players develop so late in their careers have got a lot to do with the lack of specialised coaching at age-group levels.

TURKEY BOY SWEAT WRESTL AGAINST ALMIGHTY GERALD

Gerald Chauke a member of Soshanguve Zenzele Wrestling Group, in a red costume gave Athur Eginc,blue costume from Turkey a tough time earlier February during the opening of Tuks Youth Wrestling in Pretoria, Hatfield. 

Gerald Chauke (17), from block T in Soshanguve gave Athur Eginc a tough welcoming fight at Tuks Sports Centre, Pretoria. The young man looked nervous when they announced that he’ll be wrestling with one of the Yaman’s wrestlers on Cadets mat 6, Athur. “Yes I was nervous but I’d a good feeling about the fight because my first match in mat 5, I won it within two minutes”, he said.

Following the first simple win, Chauke received devastated tackles from Athur which resulted in the match ending up with 5-3 points win. The centre started to get more and hotter when Yaman wrestlers shouted “hold him Athur, hold him”. Chauke didn’t hesitated and suddenly he made the temperature low by pulling Athur’s head down.

Chauke’s coach, Thabiso Molemo said “the tournament is a good start for the wrestlers to acquire their skills and be able to face fast, and active fighters”. “It all started here at Tuks because it’s the home of Sports in Pretoria” He added. Many wrestlers got opportunities to face tougher wrestlers from different weights. 

DRIVEN BY PASSION, EMOTIONAL INTELLEGENT, AND KINDNESS

Journalism Academic Mentors at Tshwane University of Technology attended three days’ training workshop at Soshanguve South Campus on 5^th - 7^th of February 2013. The students are empowered with skills, tools, and techniques to help freshmen and current year students. 

Back row: from left to right; Kgothatso Phatladira, Tebatso Mogaladi, Tondani Takalani, Alfy Makhubela, Mandla Mbekwa, and Trevor Hlongoane.

Front row: from left to right; Sebongile Nhleko, Zipora Radebe, Leila Matsombe, Noxolo Sibiya, Zizipo Mbeki, Pumla Jiyane, and Sandra Obuote.

TEBATSO MOGALADI 212431907. INTERNET II, ONLINE JOURNALISM IN SOUTH AFRICA

1, News24 http://www.news24.com/Multimedia

Design’s pros

The website has its own uniqueness which differentiates it from other online publications and it has creativity. The layout of the blog is well strategized and they used colour nervy blue as a background which crab audience’s attention. The texts are structured in such a manner that a weak eye sighted person could see what is written due to their mixed colours (White, Blue, and Red).

Design’s cons

Although the background is attractive, there are some texts which are coloured in white whereas the background is light white. So the blog becomes blurry and surely there’s no one who would like to read something which will bring bad result in his/her eyes and they repeated colours.

Videos

Sound is one of the important tools in video footages; the News24’s video sounds and visuals quality are well edited and clear.

Audios

News24 focused more on images and videos rather than audios. While I was busy analysing the blog I expected to see audios of some interesting stories. They don’t have audios

Images

The pictures found in the website are well captured, resized and cropped. There are able to tell the reader without any written words. If the photographer was/is a freelance in this matter he/she will be highly credited because of their good pictures. Most of the images have different bar line, which means the publication doesn’t rely on one photographer.

Mail and guardian http://mg.co.za/multimedia/

The website’s homepage colours are red and blue which crap the audiences. Red and Blue is mostly Christian’s colours, so the layout artist used these colours in purpose to attract everyone.

Design’s pros

The website’s design is simple and straight to the point. It represents the publication very well because you can see by the design of the publication that mail and guardian is not a tabloid or an entertainment publication.

Design’s cons

It is boring the website lacks creativity and uniqueness

Videos

The videos lacks originality and the publication takes time to upload recent videos.News24 upload interesting videos for readers to watch daily in one’s personal space. The visual quality of some of the videos has poor standards

Audio: Poor service by not having audios in the website.

Images

The leading stories are combined together in a form of a video where all pictures are showed in a slide show.

City press http://www.citypress.co.za/multimedia/

The use of different colours, the way the stories are organised has positive impact on the readers. The moment you go to the website the first thing that comes to one’s mind are the words “read me, read me”.

Design’s pros

The website is well designed, the design artist took his/her time to come up with colours that will be influential to the public and yes, their idea of using bright colours works accordingly.

Design’s cons

Too much bright colours sometimes could lead to boring staff. Serious formality attracts old aged people and minority of youth.

Videos

The videos uploaded in the website have good visual quality and the sound is very clear, they are well edited and structured in a manner that one could tell the market target of the publication

Audio

 It lacks sound audios and the stories are posted without sound bites.

Graphics

The graphics are understandable and clear to the public without one asking many ‘Whys’

Pictures

Beautiful and clear pictures which shows the quality and ability of the photographers in the industry. Pictures that will take your breath away, all the pictures tell a story. Photo essays are used.