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Sunday, August 28, 2022

Julia Aphane

JULIA APHANE AKA "JULZ"

The Princess of Baroka ba Masha Nkotwane. The first born daughter of Mary and Molefeng Masha, married by the Aphane's. Known for her successful career as a prominent government servant and official, she was born of royalty, a Princess at heart.

“Do it the best or leave it”

~JULIA APHANE~

ABOUT JULIA APHANE

Mme Julia Aphane is a South African singer/song writer, poet and recording artist. She was Born at Ga Masha Sekhukhune, as the princess of Baroka ba Masha Nkotwane. She is the first born daughter of Mary and Molefeng Masha, and got married by the Aphane's. Apart from her successful career as a professional in the Executive Council of Limpopo; she is proudly a princess. Behind lies a colorful and musical artistic personality, one that aims to be one of the most majestic voice of the voiceless. Apart from her successful career as a prominent government servant and official. Behind the professional, prevailing offical, lies a colorful and musical artistic being. The South African Traditional Music Award Winning Artist (SATMA) Julia Aphane.

1. Mrs Aphane Pheladi Julia, born in 1966 April 20th. Sekhukhune, currently occupied as a teacher. Loves Reading For pleasure, touring, writing learners books, editorial work for language books and Literature works proficiency.

2. Mme Aphane Pheladi Julia passed her matric (Grade 12) in the year 1984 at Ngwaabe High School, and continued her studies at DR CN Phatudi College Of Education and obtained a Degree/Diploma in Secondary Education in the year 1992. She went on and furthering her studies with Unisa doing a national Diploma in Public Administration.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Julia Pheladi Aphane was occupied as a teacher at Mogashoa Primary School during the years 1990-2006. While also pursuing her passion for authoring and creating new literature works and products for both the education and art sector. She then was promoted as HOD for language in the year 1994.

OCCUPATIONS

1. Assistant Director (Public Participation Officer at COGHSTA) in the year 2007

2. Deputy Director (Office Of The Status Of Women) 2008; Office Of The Premier.

3. Deputy Director- Government and Administration Cluster (Limpopo Executive Council Unit) 2010 -2016

JULIA’S ARTISTIC WORK DURING HER TIME AS THE GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE SINCE 1996

Mrs JP Aphane was elected and appointed as the Sekhukhune Arts and Culture Committee Member responsible for Talent Search, in search for pupils talented in music, drama, storytelling and poetry and enhancing such talents. Attended Action School of Drama at Thobela FM by Mahuma Paul Rapetsoa. She Founded Mogashoa Primary School Drama and Poetry Group which was provincially recognized and booked by various government departments in their variety of campaigns, e.g. Gender Based Violence, Water safety, Environmental Awareness etc.

1999

Mrs Aphane Worked tirelessly with the University of Jyvaskyla European choristers from Finland in relation with their music research conducted in selected schools in the district of Sekhukhune. She did it collaboratively with Joel Legodi and Dr of Musicology, Kenneth Lebaka, a lecture in University of Pretoria and a world traveler in his research in regards to the South African Cultural Music.

2000

She presented Music and Poetry during the Women Empowerment Programme rolled out by the Department of Public Works, Limpopo.

2002

She Established the Music and Poetry Group named Ben Mary – named after her mother, Mary and father, Ben. Nominated by Read Project as the Read Leader and Teacher for storytelling in Sekhukhune Education District and then certified as Read Project Good Story teller.

Wrote Oh South Africans! – A Poem which was published by Institute for African Poetry and was included in the book called - Poetry Anthology of African Verses.

2003

Granted permission by Sekhukhune Circuit Office as per her request for motivating learners doing matric, specifically those in dysfunctional schools (Schools producing poor results), through poetry and music. Her class attained three positions. One in Drama, Poetry and Storytelling all for two years in succession during Sekhukhune District Arts and Culture competitions.

COMPETITIONS

1. Presented music and Poetry in the National Children’s Day at the Gauteng, Midrand, Eskom Conference Hall.

2. Hosted music, Poetry and message of support during the Provincial Children’s Day held in Limpopo, at Orighstad Leboeng.

AUTHORSHIP CARREER

2014 – 2015

Mrs JP Aphane wrote the following learners books which were translated in the following languages:

Sepedi, Tswana, Afrikaans and English.

• Le nna ke na le bokgoni – Grade 5

Le nna ke na le bokgoni (Grade 5)

• Thekenolotši mogwera wa potego – Grade 5

Thekenolotši mogwera wa potego (Grade 5)

• Bere le mahlajana a gagwe – Grade 5

Bere le mahlajana a gagwe (Grade 5)

• Letsogo le lengwe le hlatswa le lengwe – Grade 5

Letsogo le lengwe le hlatswa le lengwe (Grade 5)

• Ekaba e tloga e le nna yena yo? – Grade 5

Ekaba e tloga e le nna yena yo? (Grade 5)

• A re Šogeng Thari Grade 4

A re Šogeng Thari (Grade 4)

• A re Šogeng Thari Grade 7

A re Šogeng Thari Grade 7

VARIOUS SONGS AND HIT SOUNDS OF THE SATMA AWARD WINNING ARTIST JULIA APHANE

FROM 2002 – 2019; RELEASED THE FOLLOWING ULBUMS

• The Reformed South Africa

• African Rennaisance

• Wa Maloba Music Album

Wa Maloba

• Serurubele

Serurubele

• O Mosadi Ke Mosadi

O Mosadi Ke Mosadi.Part 3

• mosadi ke mosadi part 01

• mosadi ke mosadi part 02

• mosadi ke mosadi part 03

I Don't Care

• Mosela Part 02

FOR MORE INFORMATION, BOOKINGS AND CONTACT:

Polokwane Review Newspaper:

Julia Aphane_Polokowane Review Online Article

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Contact:

Julia Aphane

+27 82 818 0932

Trevor Mabunda

+27 84 549 8070

Email:

juliaaphane2@gmail.com

mabundatrevor@yahoo.com

MUSIC AWARDS

• The best Sepedi Music Album Award Achiever.

The South African Traditional Music Awards (SATMA) Archiver.

REFERENCES

Florina Sebola: Programmes Manager Thobela FM (082 228 3190).

Mogale Nchabeleng: Head of Admin, Office of the Premier Limpopo (072 120 3364).

Maxwell Thamagana Mojapelo: Presenter Thobela FM (082 407 0625).

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Julia Aphane

“Do it the best or leave it”

~Julia Aphane~

Wednesday, July 29, 2020

MAHLATZE VOKAL

MAHLATZE "VOKAL" MATJIE

Destiny can be delayed but it can never be denied” so “I’m the living testimony of my destiny"

From a passionate singer to an aspiring business man.. With no musical back grounds from his family, he became one of the most passionate singers hailing all the way from the city of Polokwane in Limpopo to the City of Joburg.

Mahlatze "Vokal" Matjie started singing in church at the age of 14 and performed at most of the community events, schools and weddings. His passion grew when he sang at the funeral of his late father at the age of 17 from a song (I love you Daddy) by Ricardo and Music has since then became the biggest part of his life as that made him realise that his singing was his calling.

He moved to Joburg to study a Diploma in Civil Engineering in 2001 after matriculating from Mohlakaneng high School. In his studying, he auditioned in acting in 2002 and got a part as a lead character in the Musical Play called Livitup with a fellow actress Khanyi Mbau a now S.A Celebrity where he made his first appearance on television on a show called Morning live and the play went on for a year where it got performed at the Johannesburg Nelson Mandela Civic Theatre.

Television has then became a part of his everyday life when he entered Coca Cola Pop Star for 2004 and made it to be selected one of the top 20 male singers in South Africa and the 34 year old was then known as “the guy with a guitar”. The very same year he performed around in Johannesburg as a solo artist until he formed a group called MUZO on the 15th October 2004. The group came with a unique style in the music industry from the dress code which he incorporated and the Pedi lyrics which they performed unsigned with the great Music icons in the industry until they met with their producer and mentor Selaelo Selota, the well known guitarist, producer and composer. MUZO released their debut album a year later on the same date of the 15th October 2005 and the launch made a huge success to be covered by television shows such as Selimathunzi, Afro Cafe, and Morning live.

Mahlatze has performed with MUZO all over South Africa and the neighbouring country Swaziland and has been on television shows such as (Yo Tv, Afro Cafe, Selimathunzi, Morning Edition, Morning Live, Backstage, All You Need Is Love, Channel O, Gospel Time, and most of the National and Community Radio Stations), till 2006 when the group restructured its members but he remained the core of the group as he was the founder. MUZO LEGACY was then an idea of a company to be formed as to be a drive behind MUZO as a group to carry the LEGACY of the Music and fashion sense that MUZO started.

Mahlatze "VOKAL" Matjie

Musical And Business Man,

Based in Polokwane, Limpopo.

MUZO LEGACY was a company that was founded by Mahlatze "Vokal" Matjie and formally registered in 2010 to create an awareness to the society about the fashion, music and motivation which he says, "in a long term this will also grow to bring more ideas and it has been said that this will be a movement that will be unstoppable in order to make individual dreams come true".

Mahlatze as a name could be defined in many ways as the actual name was derived from a Pedi language meaning “Luck”. but he always believed that no luck just comes but only his name would be defined as “Blessings” from the one above. This passionate singer and business man has dreams beyond measure as he believes that his Father is omnipotent and no sky is the limit cause his dreams are also beyond the sky on its own. You will enjoy the journey as the dreams will unfold in the process of Mahlatze and together with MUZO LEGACY.

For More Information/Bookings/Following

Contact:

(+27) 72 495 0450

EMAIL: mahlatse@muzolegacy.com

mahlatse@muzolegacy.online

TWITTER:

https://mobile.twitter.com/mahlatsemuzo

FACEBOOK:

Mahlatze Vokal Matjie

INSTAGRAM:

https://www.instagram.com/mahlatzevokal/

WEBSITE:

www.muzolegacy.online

GOOGLE:

https://g.co/kgs/T3WhBg

MAHLATZE "VOKAL" MATJIE

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Monday, July 6, 2020

THOBELA FM'S LAELO MAHLO

THOBELA FM'S
LAELO MAHLO

"Cry If You Have To But Remember to Stand Up And Wear Your Crown. It Doesn't Matter How Many Times You Fall But How You Stand Up And Do What You Failed To Do Matters More.

~Laelo Mahlo~

KE SELAELO NGWANA’ A KGOŠI. MOGASHADI KGAREBE YE KGOLO YA BAHLALOGA.

Laelo Mahlo

SEPEDI MUSIC AWARDS 2020

A Young Vibrant Leader

Ms. Laelo Mahlo, is a child parliamentarian who participated in the 2015 Nelson Mandela Children’s Parliament (national level). She was further elected by her peers as a Provincial Child Ambassador for the Limpopo Province, in 2015 responsible for a voice for children and youth in the province. She has made it to the national level of the Nelson Mandela Children’s parliament for the 3rd time in a row, standing up for children’s rights.

The Nelson Mandela Children’s Parliament is a platform for children of South Africa to voice their concerns in a parliament setting and ultimately take part in decision making processes on issues that affect them.

She is the junior premier of Limpopo and is also a member of childline Limpopo junior Manco (committee) as a mini social worker.

In 2016 Ms Mahlo mentored children and youth from her province in preparation for the children’s parliament hosted at the Legislature in Northwest. She volunteers as a peer counsellor and educator for the community of Moletjie and the province at large. Her responsibilities as a child ambassador included motivating learners in schools and providing the necessary assistance during exams. Ms Mahlo, conducted radio interviews about the outcomes of the 2015, 2016 and 2017 children’s parliament and activities that were implemented after the children’s parliament. She continues to mentor and support children and youth in all 7 provinces and has successfully produced a report for the ambassadorial role she carried out in her province. In the year of 2017, she also facilitated the youth parliament under social development, save the children and oliver tambo 100 years celebration in Cape Town and continues facilitating.

Two years ago early (2018), she was recognized by the MEC of social development in the province, Hon Mapula Mokaba-Phukwane and Deputy minister of social development, Hon Hendrietta Bogopane-Zulu for taking leadership initiatives.

MEDIA TITTLES OF LAELO MAHLO:

Professional Events Mc
Brand promoter
Radio presenter at Thobela Fm
Motivational speaker
Debater
Upcoming Dj
Poet
Children’s and women’s rights activist
Feminist
Entrepreneur
Philanthropist

Ms. Laelo has excellent debating, facilitation, presentation, public speaking, report writing research and Leadership skills. She has demonstrated planning and team management abilities. Further, she is extremely organized, reliable and innovative. She can work independently in a highly pressuring work situation, she is a hard worker and a diligent young woman who is dedicated to her studies, work and child development.

Her previous experiences amongst all is being featured on Yotv (about her journey to the parliament), singing at the state theatre and participating in the world scholars cup and actually making it to the top 2.

Laelo Mahlo And Gaddafi The Poet

SEPEDI MUSIC AWARDS 2018

She started Radio at the age of 6 when she used to visit Lesang bana by J.J menu from there she became a guest at teen zone till 2015 when she was blessed with the show state your mind and now is a proud Presenter of a show named Teen Zone on , Saturdays from 08:30-09:00.

Young Vibrant youth leader

For More Information/Contact Or Follow Laelo On:

INSTAGRAM:

TWITTER:

FACEBOOK:

EMAIL:

http://www.thobelafm.co.za/sabc/home/thobelafm/shows/personalityprofiles/details?id=b422524d-ca0d-47c6-982a-48ea961649dd&title=Selaelo%20AKA%20(Lealo)%20Mahlo

Ms Mahlo Has A Huge Sense Of Humour And Integrity

And Came Up From Humble Beginnings

LAELO MAHLO

Ms Mahlo, Friends And Colleagues Donating Food Parcels During Covid19 SA Lockdown.

In Her Majesty's Words

"CRY IF YOU HAVE TO BUT REMEMBER TO STAND UP AND WEAR YOUR CROWN. IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW MANY TIMES YOU FALL BUT HOW YOU STAND UP AND DO WHAT YOU FAILED TO DO MATTERS MORE".

~Laelo Mahlo~

Ms Laelo Mahlo is also a passionate football fanatic who’s looking forward to starting a football developments academy soon in partnership with Tlou Segolela sports development.

She Also volunteers as a peer counsellor and educator for the community of Moletjie and the province at large "Limpopo". Her responsibilities as a child ambassador motivating learners in schools and providing the necessary assistance during exams.

Ms Mahlo one of Dikgadi tše di nnyane tša ka Mošate wa Bahlaloga. Which is translated as "young Princesses of the Royal Bahlaloga clan “

In all her aspirations in life, with her far most Royal humour. Laelo Mahlo is also an activist for equal rights of the "LGBTQ+” community abbreviated as (Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, Transgender And Queers).

A Philanthropist and a caring Princess at heart.

KE MOKWENA MOILA LEHLAKA. MOROKA A MEETSE A PULA!!!!

AGEE MOKWENA WEE!!!...

LAELO MAHLO

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Tuesday, June 16, 2020

REMEMBERING THE YOUTH OF 1976

YOUTH UPRISING

CELEBRATING

44th ANNIVERSARY

In 2020

REMEMBERING

THE YOUTH

OF 1976

TAKING IT BACK WITH IAM'ART'LIMPOPO

Hector Pieterson being carried by Mbuyisa Makhubo after being shot by the South African police. His sister, Antoinette Sithole, runs beside them. Pieterson was rushed to a local clinic and declared dead on arrival. This photo by Sam Nzima became an icon of the Soweto uprising.

LocationSoweto, South AfricaDate16 June 1976; 44 years agoDeaths176 (with some estimates ranging up to 700)Injured4,000VictimsStudentsAssailants South African Policeman

Students from numerous Sowetan schools began to protest in the streets of Soweto in response to the introduction of Afrikaans as the medium of instruction in local schools.[2] It is estimated that 20,000 students took part in the protests. They were met with fierce police brutality. The number of protesters killed by police is usually given as 176, but estimates of up to 700 have been made.[3][4][5] In remembrance of these events, 16 June is now a public holiday in South Africa, named Youth Day.[6]

THE UPRISING

On the morning of 16 June 1976, between 10,000 and 20,000[14] black students walked from their schools to Orlando Stadium for a rally to protest against having to learn through Afrikaans in school. Many students who later participated in the protest arrived at school that morning without prior knowledge of the protest, yet agreed to become involved. The protest was planned by the Soweto Students' Representative Council's (SSRC) Action Committee,[15] with support from the wider Black Consciousness Movement. Teachers in Soweto also supported the march after the Action Committee emphasised good discipline and peaceful action.

Tsietsi Mashinini led students from Morris Isaacson High School to join up with others who walked from Naledi High School.[16] The students began the march only to find out that police had barricaded the road along their intended route. The leader of the action committee asked the crowd not to provoke the police and the march continued on another route, eventually ending up near Orlando High School.[17] The crowd of between 3,000 and 10,000 students made their way towards the area of the school. Students sang and waved placards with slogans such as, "Down with Afrikaans", "Viva Azania" and "If we must do Afrikaans, Vorster must do Zulu".[18]

Mashinini was born in 1957. He was a bright, popular and successful student at Morris Isaacson High School^[1] in Soweto where he was the head of the debate team and president of the Methodist Wesley Guild .

A move by South Africa's apartheid government to make the language Afrikaans an equal mandatory language of education for all South Africans in conjunction with English was extremely unpopular with black and English-speaking South African students.

A student himself, Mashinini planned a mass demonstration by students for 16 June 1976.^[1] This demonstration which would become known as the Soweto Uprising lasted for three days during which several hundred people were killed.

Having been identified as the leader of the uprising by the South African government, Mashinini fled South Africa in exile, first to London then later to various other African countries, including Liberia where he was briefly married to Miss Liberia 1977, Welma Campbell.

He died under mysterious circumstances, possibly of homicide, in the summer of 1990 while in exile in Guinea.^[2] His body was repatriated to South Africa on 4 August 1990 where he was interred in Avalon Cemetery. His grave bears the epitaph "Black Power."^[3

The police set their trained dog on the protesters, who responded by killing it.[19] The police then began to shoot directly at the children.

Among the first students to be shot dead were 15 year old Hastings Ndlovu and 13 year old Hector Pieterson, who were shot at Orlando West High School.[20] The photographer Sam Nzima took a photograph of a dying Hector Pieterson as he was carried away by Mbuyisa Makhubo and accompanied by his sister, Antoinette Sithole. The photograph became the symbol of the Soweto uprising. The police attacks on the demonstrators continued and 23 people died on the first day in Soweto. Among them was Dr Melville Edelstein, who had devoted his life to social welfare among blacks. He was stoned to death by the mob and left with a sign around his neck proclaiming "Beware Afrikaans is the most dangerous drug for our future".[21]

The violence escalated, as bottle stores and beer halls—seen as outposts of the apartheid government—were targeted, as were the official outposts of the state. The violence abated by nightfall. Police vans and armoured vehicles patrolled the streets throughout the night.

Emergency clinics were swamped with injured and bloody children. The police requested that the hospital provide a list of all victims with bullet wounds to prosecute them for rioting. The hospital administrator passed this request to the doctors, but the doctors refused to create the list. Doctors recorded bullet wounds as abscesses.[13][20]

The 1,500 heavily armed police officers deployed to Soweto on 17 June carried weapons including automatic rifles, stun guns, and carbines.[13] They drove around in armoured vehicles with helicopters monitoring the area from the sky. The South African Army was also ordered on standby as a tactical measure to show military force. Crowd control methods used by South African police at the time included mainly dispersement techniques.

CASUALTIES

The number of people who died is usually given as 176 with estimates up to 700.[4] The original government figure claimed only 23 students were killed;[22] the number of wounded was estimated to be over a thousand people.

CAUSES OF THE PROTEST

CAUSES OF THE PROTEST

"Black South African high school students in Soweto protested against the Afrikaans Medium Decree of 1974, which forced all black schools to use Afrikaans and English in a 50–50 mix as languages of instruction.[7] The Regional Director of Bantu Education (Northern Transvaal Region), J.G. Erasmus, told Circuit Inspectors and Principals of Schools that from 1 January 1975, Afrikaans had to be used for mathematics, arithmetic, and social studies from standard five (7th grade), according to the Afrikaans Medium Decree; English would be the medium of instruction for general science and practical subjects (homecraft, needlework, woodwork, metalwork, art, agricultural science).[7] Indigenous languages would only be used for religious instruction, music, and physical culture.[8]

The association of Afrikaans with apartheid prompted black South Africans to prefer English. Even the Bantustan regimes chose English and an indigenous African language as official languages. In addition, English was gaining prominence as the language most often used in commerce and industry. The 1974 decree was intended to forcibly reverse the decline of Afrikaans among black Africans. The Afrikaner-dominated government used the clause of the 1909 Union of South Africa Act that recognised only English and Dutch (the latter being replaced by Afrikaans in 1925) as official languages as the pretext to do so.[9] While all schools had to provide instruction in both Afrikaans and English as languages, white South African students learned other subjects in their home language.

Punt Janson, the Deputy Minister of Bantu Education at the time, was quoted as saying: "A Black man may be trained to work on a farm or in a factory. He may work for an employer who is either English-speaking or Afrikaans-speaking and the man who has to give him instructions may be either English-speaking or Afrikaans-speaking. Why should we now start quarrelling about the medium of instruction among the Black people as well? ... No, I have not consulted them and I am not going to consult them. I have consulted the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa …"[10]

The decree was resented deeply by the black populace. Desmond Tutu, bishop of Lesotho and later Dean of Johannesburg, stated that Afrikaans was "the language of the oppressor". Teacher organisations, such as the African Teachers Association of South Africa, objected to the decree.[11] A change in language of instruction forced the students to focus on understanding the language instead of the subject material. This made critical analysis of the content difficult and discouraged critical thinking.[12]

The resentment grew until 30 April 1976, when children at Orlando West Junior School in Soweto went on strike, refusing to go to school. Their rebellion then spread to many other schools in Soweto. Black South African students protested because they believed that they deserved to be treated and taught equally to white South Africans. A student from Morris Isaacson High School, Teboho "Tsietsi" Mashinini, proposed a meeting on 13 June 1976 to discuss what should be done. Students formed an Action Committee (later known as the Soweto Students' Representative Council),[13] which organised a mass rally for 16 June, to make themselves heard.

REMEMBERING

THE YOUTH

OF 1976

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Monday, June 15, 2020

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Tuesday, June 9, 2020

PONANI OCEAN NINETY FIVE

PONANI OCEANS NINETY FIVE

Ponani Mukhansi aka Ponani Ocean Art age (25)..Is a nkowankowa born artist, outside Tzaneen in the province of Limpopo. He started art in his early years at the age of 13, as a hobby. And got inspiration from other artists, they inspired him to persuade art as career.

PONANI OCEAN NINETY FIVE

Ponani specialize in portraits and does them to earn a living, he usually travels across provinces such as (gauteng, Durban, limpopo e.t.c.) to meet with new potential customers/clients.

Oceans has met with the likes of celebrities such dj fresh and Rick Ricky (cotton fest) he has exhibited his work in polokwane arts gallery and some of the work he did is still to be found displayed there.

By PONANI OCEANS NINETY FIVE

Ponani is also an artist with many creative, artistic traits specialities and knowledge, such photography, modeling, and dancing. Art is his way of life