Posts by Amanda
Congrats to the YCAP Virtual National Championships Finalists and Winners 2021
Through a climate change project a group of students from a junior school in the Eastern Cape managed to feed their fellow students with food from the school garden, thus addressing food insecurity in their community. The group of students from Ncihana Junior Secondary School did this as part of a project for the Youth…
Read MoreEmpowering young people to be creators of change
Empowering young people to be creators of change
Read MoreAn Ode to Music
The peerless, Zonke Dikana sings “Ndingaba yintoni na? Ngaphandle kwakho mmino which directly translates to “Who am I without music? –These are more than just lyrics to this classic jam but a lived experience to me. My life continues to be a beautiful unveiling story that constantly leaves me awestruck. I have had my share…
Read MorePutting yourself first, unapologetically
I was raised in a small village that is set in the heart of Zululand, steeped in Zulu heritage and culture. An African ethos was inculcated in our psyche from a very tender age, and this happened organically without any formalities and one common value we were raised to know, is Ubuntu. Most of the heads of…
Read MoreWhat’s in a name?
“Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?”— Terry Pratchett. As Black Africans it has become common especially with our contemporary generation that we feel offended when someone asks the meaning of our name, and the commonly offered response is “why should my name have a meaning” —…
Read MoreEmpowervate Poem Writing Challenge 2021
Well done to the 61 entrants who sent in their poems for this social media competition run by Empowervate on the topic of ending bullying. The quality was amazing overall and we chose 10 winners instead of only 3! The top 10 get R30 airtime, third place gets R50 airtime, second place gets R75 airtime…
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