Khanyi Dhlomo shuts down Ndalo Media for Good.

It pains us in the media fraternity to learn of the complete shutting down of Ndalo Media, the company that has been bringing us Destiny, Destiny Man magazines, DestinyConnect and ELLE Magazines. 

Ndalo Media is one of the few successfully black owned Media company in South Africa and it was founded by Kanyi Dhlomo who cut her teeth at True Love Magazine. 

The Comapny (ndalo Media) started experiencing financial difficulties earlier this year, this after it failed to pay for its printing debt of R13m with CTP Printers. The debt prompted CTP Printers to haul the company before the Gauteng South High Court to force it to fork out the money.
Now staff have been briefed by Kanyi Dlomo herself about the winding down of the company before month end of January 2019. But she has promised to ensure that staff' salaries are paid and everybody is prioritised regarding the monies.

It is so disappointing and frightening to learn of another failure of a black owned entity at the behest of our economy. Just when so much encouragement is placed upon young people to start their own businesses, a business owned by a successful, educated female entrepreneur falls down so hard. Even thou nobody really knows the real reason for Ndalo Media's downfall, But it is painful that such a promising company has to face this setback. Now we have an additional number of unemployed youth and adults who will be joining the queer of job searches. How sad a situation that our country has to face at such a delicate time.

We can only pray and hope that somebody out there will come at the rescue of Khanyi's Ndalo Media and save those jobs before the end of January, 29th, 2019.

THABANG MAUPA DIES HORRIBLY

Just as he was about to tuck in his car with his wife, death in a form of several bullets ripped through his body and he died instantly. This was how ANC Ward councillor Thabang Maupa, 49, met his mysterious death!
Apparently
the Councillor at the time of his death, he had just finished helping his wife to close their liquor restaurant situated at R37 Road, Riba Cross Village outside Burgersfort in Fetakgomo Tubatse Local Municipality, Sekhukhune District of Limpopo Province. When they had climbed in their car and ready to leave, an unknown man approached their car and started firing several shots at the car, killing the Maupa and injuring his wife who was with him in the car.

SAPS in Tubatse have confirmed his death and a huge reward is being offered to anyone who can assist with the arrest and conviction of the culprits.

The deceased family said, they are still reeling in shock, and are trying very hard to come to terms with the tradegy that just hit them. No one had anticipated this but it has happened, said one of the family members who wished his name not to be mentioned.

The police have confirmed that they are investigating a case of murder and appealing for anyone with information to come forward as soon as possible.

Take back our forefathers land.

Something is brewing in South Africa, as good as its variety of ingredients, it is emitting an intoxicating smell. So many sober minded people are turning into drunkards daily as they continue to inhale this toxicating smell coming out of the brew.  The issue of Land is grabbing attention from all angles and the narrative points to an unfavourable direction. Land is sought at every angle but so far the hasn’t been any pointable action from the powers that be. The election of Cyril Ramaphosa at the 54^th Conference of the ANC heralded a vigorous pursuit to the land issue and many, particularly black South Africans drank to the well as he (Ramaphosa) kept scoping out the contends.

Let me say up front, I support the idea of expropriation of land without compensation, even thou it goes against the prescripts of the constitution. However Ramaphosa should know that, those who took away the land wont give it back without a fight and definitely the will be casualties along the way to claiming that land. It will be naïve for the Government to talk expropriation of land without compensation on the same breath as without compromising the economy, food stability and marginalisation. South Africa must expect the economy to be shaken, food stability to be challenged and minorities to be marginalised as government expropriate land without compensation. But lets face it, those whites when they took our forefather’s land; they also ignored the economy, food stability and marginalisation. In fact they never cared at all, all they wanted was to grab as much land away as possible now why should we care?

When the apartheid regime in the Eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga) sought the fertile land in the then Mashishing region, now known as Lydenburg, they pushed and shovel the swatis and Pedis people who had dwelled on that land for many years. The Swati and Pedi people had established themselves on those sprawling mountains of the bushveld. The formed small scale farming activities which were flourishing, their cattles and goats had ample fresh lands to grace, multiple water streams to drink from and a beautiful nature to enjoy. Those people were living among each other, as diverse as they were in peace and harmony until a white man arrived. Their economy was tossed aside, food provision destabilised and deeply marginalised by pushed and thrown into disarray. Those white men forcefully removed, uprooted from their land, chased down the bushveld escarpment my forefathers without any consideration or mercy.

The Marais, De Kocks, De suissas and their companions occupied that land without any shame. They settled on the land from the mountain top all the way down to what is known today as Motsepula. Those white farms in Motsepula are built on land stolen by force and violence from our grannies and no mercy was shown to them. Burgersfort and Steelpoort are two towns build on land stolen from my forefathers with impunity. President Cyril Ramaphosa I hear you when you say, we must expropriate land without compensation, but it should be done without endangering the economy, food stability and all, however it is going to be impossible sir. I don’t expect you to understand the humiliation and shame suffered by my forefathers, but again South Africans cannot be expected to play nice with the whites when they didn’t in the first place. They continue to occupy almost all the fertile huge land in our country while we the rightful owners and heir continue to live in squalor.

Lets move fast, expropriate land including Motsepula, Burgersfort and Steelpoort without compensation, then we can come back to worry about the economy, food stability, etc. we cannot continue to be subjects in our land, live at the mercy of our colonisers and beg from those who oppressed us. Black people who were chased violently away from their land in Mashishing, Motsepula, Burgersfort and Steelpoort expect it back. This government dare not disappoint the many South Africans, including these Swatis and Pedis, who placed their hopes and faith in its hands.

Dear Mr. President....

Yesterday I watched you on television trying to convince us how the ANC NEC has error in elbowing you out of government. I also watched as you kept on maintaining that you have done nothing wrong. Mr. President, you continued to cry and reason with every issue that you discussed with Mr. Cyril Ramaphosa (even thou you tried hard and succeefully not to mention him by name, but I knew you meant him.)  you went on and on how you talked and agreed on ways in which the two of you are going to work together, introduce him to the SADC and BRICS Leaders, because you knew this leaders thinking. When you said this, to me it sounded as if, Mr. President this leaders won’t take Ramaphosa seriously if “you” don’t introduce him properly.

You spoke and said so many things on that national television but what really caught me is when you said, you have done nothing wrong and asked the ANC NEC to furnish you with evidence of wrongdoing. This you asked after the NEC decided to recall you from government and you had refused.

Well I thought I should share with you the narrative on the ground so that you get the grip of things and don’t become ignorant anymore. The people of South Africa are further up with you, your cabinet and your leadership. They simply want you gone! They accuse you of selling their country to an Indian family called the Guptas; they believe you are so corrupt together with several of your ministers that they don’t wish to see you at the Union Buildings any more. Mr. President since you took office, your government has been mirrored in controversy after controversy. You are the first president with first times for everything that is not right.  You are the first president to laugh at every turmoil befelling this country, you are the first president to preside over a state filled with incompetent ministers, the first president to lose every legal case before a court of law, first president to throw every individual that defend and defy you under the bus. First president to face more than “700” charges, first president to survive more than four motions of No Confidence, and still show no concern at all, first president to appoint a minister for four days and then remove him. Mr. President, you’re a survivor no doubt about that but your also a tainted man. You have caused your party to lose every city in which you and them live and work.

I think it’s a little immature for you to now rock up here and claim you have done nothing wrong. Yes, it may seem so on the basis of legality but hey! President your image and your actions are good enough to ask for your resignation. Leave Mr. President while you still have a little bit of your dignity still intact. The party cannot continue to be associated with you or your carhorts. That Indian family you thought are your best friends went way beyond and crossed an uncrossed line, subsequently messing up your presidency. You gave them too much power and made them feel as if they are running government instead of you. President you shouldn’t have done that at all. I know they took your son, gave him a job when nobody wanted anything to do with him.

Just resign Mr. President and go home to Mahlambandlovu to rest from all this attacks and hatred the nation harbours over you. Trust me; nobody wants to see you continuing as president. Even the so-called Transform SA cannot transform nor save you. They don’t represent anybody significant that South Africans know. You will be fired even if you refuse because as I write an axe is wielding in parliament in the form of a Motion of No Confidence in you. This time you WON’T survive it because your defenders have been runned over. Your life as President end today, right now before 12 O, Clock and no one is going to sympathise with you. Your time is up, your record is brocken, your totally defeated this time.

I hope by the time this letter finds you Mr. President; your senses would have prevailed and hopefully done the right thing. You would have resigned and saved yourself the embarrassment of being pushed out on the streets with all those heavy bags you still have to carry heading back home to KZN. I wish you all the best as you pounder on your next move.