After a degree at the University of Cape Town, she lived in London for five years, starting her career in digital advertising, but didn’t find it too glamorous, so returned to South Africa, and with a little help from “a family member” (who she has to repay in five years), bought the Bloss &amp; Co business in 2014, turning entrepreneur at 30 and building it up.
Her “affordable luxury handbags” are available in tony boutiques in Parkhurst and Dainfern. They are also at her Parktown North showroom, and their USP, she says, is personalized service, the cappuccino and warm environment.
A company of three employees, including two other partners, they source the leather and metalware from markets in China. Going forward, there are plans afoot to manufacture in South Africa and collaborate with local talent, as they did most recently with South African botanical artist Kelly Higgs, who designed beach bags for them, showcasing South African fauna and flora.
Blackie’s structured posh totes in bright colors are the most sought-after.
“Our vision is bright colors and versatility – a backpack that can be used as a clutch and sling bag; a clutch that also turns into a cross-body bag. What we have found is that the SA market does not follow what happens in the catwalks of London and Paris. It comes down to practicality… They are bags that look luxurious but don’t cost R50,000 ($3,120).” A genuine leather Bloss &amp; Co bag would only set you back R2,499 ($156), so it’s worth a look.
Blackie married a commodities trader in December last year, but she has a busy year planned: to roll out a luxury range in Lagos, and a “sophisticated” Afro-chic line in London.

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The Millennials

<h3>Thato Kgatlhanye, 23</h3>
<h3>CEO, Rethaka</h3>
One day, when you wake up to a rubbish bin that tells you when it&#8217;s full and needs to be emptied, it will probably have been designed by Thato Kgatlhanye, CEO of Rethaka. This is her wish. Her company already produces recycled schoolbags that double as solar-powered lights children can use to study in the evening.
From Mogwase, a small town 40 minutes outside Rustenburg in the North West province, she’s in the process of creating a business empire out of waste.
She founded Rethaka at the age of 18. It now employs 20 people, with nine volunteers, and supplies its products to the likes of Standard Bank, Red Bull, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Unilever. The company exports to Namibia, Turkey, the UK and Brazil. The aim is to expand to 24 African countries.
“Our company is set up to be a leader in Africa, in the transition towards a circular economy, where we look at waste as a resource and use it to remanufacture products. At Rethaka, we say we’re resourcing Africa’s future,” says Kgatlhanye.
Her mother is a nurse who managed clinics in their district. Her father is a taxi owner and driver.
“The quiet tension between their careers built something in me way before I knew who Thato would be,” she says.
“Yes, I am an entrepreneur like my father, but I also have a social conscience and that can be attributed to my mother. I’m not just in business for profit; I’m in business to do good.”
Kgatlhanye’s parents had to deal with her independent mind at a very young age when she chose all the schools she attended from grade four onwards.
After graduating from the Vega School of Brand Leadership, Kgatlhanye was offered an internship in New York with marketing guru Seth Godin.
“This changed my life. It gave me a perspective of what was possible. I think being in a city like New York, you start thinking of yourself being capable of doing anything. All you have to do is make a decision on what is it you’d like to do, and kill it,” she says.
Kgatlhanye is killing it. She has won several awards, from the Samsung Student Excellence Award in 2014, third place in the SAB Foundation Social Innovation Award, to finalist of the Cartier Women’s Initiative Award in 2015.
With this bright young mind, anything is possible. Get ready to listen to your rubbish bin.
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<h3>Aisha Pandor, 31 
Founder, SweepSouth</h3>
With Aisha Pandor’s down-to-earth demeanour, you would never guess how much she has achieved at such a young age. Her tiny physique is just as deceptive. She was the Vice Chairperson of the Karate Club in 2006 at the University of Cape Town, where she completed her PhD in Human Genetics.
Pandor, the daughter of South Africa’s Science and Technology Minister, Naledi Pandor, and Sharif Pandor, received the David and Elaine Potter Fellowship and the South African Women in Science Award for her thesis on retinitis pigmentosa, a type of hereditary blindness, and research on a therapy that may cure other hereditary diseases.
Because she has powerful parents, some might feel Pandor’s achievements were handed to her.
“My mother was the minister of science [when I received an award], but she had become the minister of science after I started studying science. My mother didn’t write my thesis for me. I sleep four hours a night; my mother doesn’t sleep for four hours doing my work. I work incredibly hard,” says Pandor.
“My parents were activists and teachers. I didn’t grow up rich but I have parents who believed in empowering their children. It’s the nature of the upbringing, I feel, that put me at an advantage, not the label behind my mother.”
In 2013, Pandor dumped her management consultant job to start a business with her husband, Alen Ribic, who is a software developer. They formed SweepSouth, an online service that provides domestic workers and cleaning products at the click of a button.
The business had a rocky start with no external funding for more than a year, forcing Pandor to sell her house and car.
“I had a negative bank balance multiple times. I have a child and I was honestly worried if I was going to be able to pay school fees, and you can’t keep asking family to help you. There were times, from an emotional point of view, where I felt like I can’t do this anymore,” admits Pandor.
She eventually got funding after pitching the business to angel investors at a conference in Cape Town. In June last year, the couple spent four months in the United States after being selected to join a business accelerator program offered by global venture capital seed fund, 500 Startups. SweepSouth has created thousands of job opportunities for women, the vast majority of whom were unemployed.
After successfully navigating her way past various pitfalls, Pandor wants to be a role model. She wants to mentor young South African women who want to clean up with their businesses.
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The millennials

<h3>Claire Reid, 29 
Founder, Reel Gardening</h3>
South Africa is experiencing the worst drought since 1982, leaving farmers in debt worth billions of rands. Could Claire Reid’s gardening solutions be the answer?
Reid discovered her “revolutionary planting method” at the age of 16 when trying to earn pocket money growing a vegetable garden and selling the crop to her parents. That’s when she realized gardening was no child’s play.
“I would put more seed than necessary, I didn’t know how far apart or how deep it was. The whole thing was frustrating,” she recalls.
Frustration gave way to fortune. Her teacher encouraged her to enter a competition simplifying gardening, based on marking small areas of ground with biodegradable color-coded paper strips encasing organic fertilizer and seeds at the correct depth and distance. The paper helped save up to 80% of water. The project won her a gold medal.
The Department of Water Affairs sent Reid to Stockholm, where she became the first South African to win an international award, beating 28 other countries.
“All of a sudden I was being sent overseas to represent South Africa and being given an award by Thabo Mbeki [former South African president]. It was quite a whirlwind time being nominated for Checkers Woman of the Year while I was only 17.”
Reid studied Architecture, Geology and Civil Engineering at the University of Pretoria. While on internship, she landed a project with Anglo American that took her to Marikana, an area that needed her gardening skills. She pitched the idea to Anglo American that gave her a start-up loan to form her company Reel Gardening in 2010. A social enterprise that employs 10 mothers from diverse backgrounds, it has been rolled out in 280 schools. Though its focus is online, new mom Reid has recently set up operations in Kenya. The company has sold products in the UK and plans to expand to the UAE, Japan, South Korea, Canada and the US. In November last year, she also made it to BBC’s 30Under30 list.
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<h3>Bonang Matheba, 28 
Media entrepreneur</h3>
She beams down from billboards in South Africa, is a presenter on two premier TV lifestyle shows, was voted the most stylish and sexiest celebrity in the country, travels the world rubbing shoulders with the rich and famous but if fate hadn’t intervened, Matheba would be teaching pre-school children English. That was her dream, even with a distinction in matric.
“I am a Cancerian, I am a nurturer at heart. I love children and I just wanted to work with them but the wind blew me in a different direction and I’m really grateful, now I can’t imagine my life doing anything else.”
Matheba grew up in Mafikeng, in the North West province, surrounded by a family of academics. Her mother, a business executive, a stepfather lawyer and her professor father, were initially concerned when she didn’t follow the academic route but eventually made peace with her choice when they saw her focus and passion.
“I used to sing and dance and I loved being the center of attention from the age of seven or eight. I got attention from everyone, including my aunts and uncles, because I was the only child and grandchild for the longest time.”
At age 15, destiny would see her enrolling for a television presenting course. She was ushered into the world of television through SABC2’s Manhattan Fantasy but it was the music show Live on SABC1, with seven million viewers, that launched her career. She became a regular voice on YFM radio, and is now on MetroFM. Her popularity and exposure would soar to such heights that she became the first face of Revlon outside the United States.
None of this came easy for a woman with over a million followers on Twitter and over half a million on Instagram. She was turned down at least 25 times on auditions before her first break. Live rejected her six times, YFM ignored seven of her demos and Metro four.
“Top Billing as well, I went through an audition after an audition after an audition. You know with me I’m very resilient. There’s always a voice at the back of my mind that says push, push. People say no to me so many times but I’ve learnt that they are not rejecting me as a human being, it’s just that at that particular time I’m not what they are looking for,” says Matheba.
She also runs Bonang Matheba Entertainment (a production company) and has a lingerie line with Woolworths.
“Entertainment has a very short life span. For me, longevity has always been a very big part of it. The only way you do it is by expanding [your business] because, let’s face it, I won’t look like this for the rest of my life and I understood that from a very young age.”
The year 2016 for Queen B, as she’s known, is about giving back. She is sponsoring a young lady who wants to study her master’s. In September, she will be taking girls from across the country to a seven-day motivation camp.
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Caution: Millennials At Work

It was controversial feminist writer, Maggie Young, who in describing her generation, best captures the DNA of the millennials.
“We lost the genetic lottery. We graduated into terror attacks and wars. We are often more educated, experienced, informed, and digitally fluent than prior generations, yet are constantly haunted by the trauma of coming of age during the detonation of the societal structure we were born into. We will have less money to buy the material possessions that entrap us. We will have more compassion and empathy because our struggles have taught us that even the most privileged can fall from grace. Our hardships will obligate us to develop spiritual and intellectual substance. Maybe having roommates and buying our clothes at thrift stores isn’t so horrible as long as we are making a point to pursue genuine happiness.”
Corporates and governments are tripping over each other trying to understand Young’s generation. The manual on millennials has proven to be somewhat elusive with tons of studies on this generational group that despite reporting on some common themes, have not nailed what makes millennials tick.
What we do know is that the term ‘millennial’ is about as old as the average millennial, coined in 1991 by Neil Howe and William Straus, in their co-authored publication: Generations: The History of America’s Future 2584 to 2069. They described millennials as people born between 1980 and 2000. This generation is also commonly referred to as Generation Y.
Millennials matter because they make up the world’s largest generational group since the soon-to-retire Baby Boomers. The first cohort of millennials is in their early to mid-30s, at the beginning of their careers, and will become an invaluable engine of the global economy in decades to come.
Millennials matter even more in Africa.
The African Development Bank has reported Africa has more than 200 million people aged between 15 and 24, about 65% of the continent is made up of millennials, making it the youngest continent in the world. Demographic forecasts show that this figure will double by 2045.
In just four years, three out of every four people in Africa will be on average 20 years old in Africa.
While millennials may be dismissed as a generation obsessed with selfies, they also seem to be intent on being part of finding solutions to the world’s biggest problems.
The 2015 Deloitte Millennial Survey highlights millennials are tuned into the purpose of a business – what it should do – as much as they are tuned to the impact of the business – what the business is actually doing.
Millennials are increasingly disconnected with traditional approaches to the workplace. They are easily turned off by stiff corporate structures and working within silos. They want dynamic work environments, they are not keen on putting in the slog of years working the corporate ladder, they believe in rapid succession, and they value mobility over the bum-on-seats approach. These insights are pulled from extensive research done through a survey administered to over 4,000 graduates across 75 countries by KPMG to understand what millennials want from the workplace. Although the survey was done in 2011, the insights will continue to shape corporate talent strategies for years still.
What millennials want out of the work of experience is like nothing before that. Top of the list of headaches is that old reward and recognition systems aren’t retaining millennials in their positons. Millennials subscribe to “loyalty-lite”, happily hopping between employees.
The unparalleled access to the internet and mobile phones is part of the millennial DNA. This generation has no concept of the world before technology. They take as a given that you can have a movie theater, your next taxi ride, and your diet all in your back pocket.
The Wall Street Journal in Millennials: Love Them Or Let Them Go reported millennials don’t just view social networks as a communication tool but as a global language that embeds them in various communities. Interestingly, despite the uptake of social media connectedness, millennials still value family and friends even though they will overwhelmingly engage with them on social media platforms.
Millennials value education and are more likely to spend more time investing in their education than the previous generations. The manual on millennials is still missing but if the statistics shared by the World Economic Forum that millennials are increasingly becoming the biggest influencers in the world, that more than 50% of the world’s population is under 27 years old and rising to 70% in Africa, it needs to be written. Yesterday.
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– The writer, a millennial herself, is a senior anchor on CNBC Africa, and presents the show Young Money on the channel.

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The  New Biz Kids On The  Block

<h4>FORBES WOMAN AFRICA: Why are assertive men known as bosses and  bossy women known as bitches?</h4>
Anele Mdoda: It is a double-edged sword. When women get to higher positions, they harden a little and are justified in doing so, because as a woman you have to work twice as hard for half the recognition. It is easy for men to be laid-back because when a man makes a mistake, it is simply an individual making a mistake. When a woman in her individual capacity makes a mistake, then it is all women who get painted with the same brush. She is not incompetent because she made a mistake, but rather because she is a woman.
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<h4>FWA: What green room conversations do the all-female cast of Bitches Be Back have about the men?</h4>
AM: We discuss men and everything else. When we did the photoshoot, conversations went from where I bought my dress to what we are going to have for lunch, Tumi’s new hairstyle and Celeste’s one-woman tour. Men think we talk about them all the time. We do not.
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<h4>FWA: What qualities do you most admire in your female colleagues?</h4>
AM: Accountability, constant growth and a constant flowing river of creativity.
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<h4>FWA:What do you most hate?</h4>
AM: Our eating habits.
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<h4>FWA: Will a female comedian ever get a chance a la Trevor Noah? Is stand-up comedy still male-dominated?</h4>
AM: Yes we will get a chance and yes comedy is still male-dominated. Show me a profession that isn’t.
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<h4>FWA: What is the most overrated thing you’ve seen?</h4>
AM: Anger on social media.
<h4>FWA: If you were to die and come back as a thing, what would that be?</h4>
AM: Water.
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<h4>FWA: Your advice to women with stage fright or fear to speak up in the boardroom?</h4>
AM: If it matters to you, speak up, even if you tremble, and no one has ever died from hearing a ‘no’ so ask anyway and lastly, there is not a person on earth who is not nervous to speak publicly. NO ONE! They just conquer that demon daily.
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<h4>FWA: Fifty two percent of the world’s population is female. Why is it still a man’s world?</h4>
Because women allow them.
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‘Men Think We Talk About Them All The Time’

Cold. Expensive. Concerning. These words have been the top three words I have used to describe our most recent visit to the 47th edition of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
The beautiful snow laden ski-town, nestled in the Alps, played host to over 2,500 delegates from across the globe. Present were heads of state, political leaders, business executives, members of civil society and the like, who braved sub-zero temperatures to explore the theme for this year – the 4th Industrial Revolution and its impact on economies.
But this year, the conversation on robotics and artificial intelligence was over-shadowed by a myriad of concerns – the global market environment and its negative impact on the “Africa rising narrative” and of course the minimal attendance of women at the meeting.
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Where are the women?
Over the last few decades, the participation of women at the forum has improved, albeit at a slow pace. This year, only 18% of contributors were women, a slight improvement from the 17% attendees in 2015. But are our voices being heard? Yes. Several panel discussions and side events were held at the meeting to truly understand the economic impact of empowering the fairer sex.
Bea Perez, Global Chief Sustainability officer at Coca-Cola, reminded us why corporates like the soft drink manufacturer continue their focus and investment in women.
“We know women drive the economy. When they participate, they also give 96 cents of the dollar they earn back to strengthen their communities,” said Perez.
Also in attendance at the forum was a woman who holds the purse strings to Africa’s largest economy – Kemi Adeosun, Nigeria’s Finance Minister. So too, was Mary Barra, the CEO of General Motors.
They join Davos veterans Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s Chief Operating Officer, and Christine Lagarde, IMF head, among over 500 outstanding female leaders from every part of public life.
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Global market concerns
The global market environment got off to a rickety start in 2016. The world’s attention remains fixed on the change in growth models in China – away from infrastructure to a consumption-led economy, the United States, which has managed to show signs of marginal strength in its economy and begun to raise interest rates in December 2015, and the commodity price cycle. With the price of oil at 12-year lows and the prices of base metal commodities like gold, platinum, iron ore and copper significantly weaker, emerging markets are bearing the brunt of these pressures.
Such pressure was evidently felt in our exchange rate. With one Swiss Franc (CHF) at R16.74 at the time of our visit, a simple meal of a burger and coke set me back CHF21.50 or around R370 – enough money to provide a meal for a family of four back home.
Despite the market volatility, Oscar Onyema, CEO of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, remains confident that Africa plays home to equity markets which continue to see interest from investors, regardless of the global market conditions. “We just have to ride the cycles,” he said.
These sentiments were echoed by Nicky Newton-King, CEO of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.
“We have got to understand that there is a new normal out there, low growth in an uncertain global world, good investment opportunities will come, but we still have a chance to compete with our global peers,” said Newton-King.
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Give us hope!
With all the negative sentiment, one would think this would deter investors. While the leaders of these global companies continue to monitor the headlines, they are concerned but not discouraged by the current economic cycle.
“I think it depends really on your time profile for your investments, I think there’s a growing interest from people who have a five to ten year view of what they want to be investing in to actually go to Africa,” said Geoffrey White, CEO of Agility Africa.
“We are long-term investors, with our roots in Africa – South Africa to be exact. Despite the challenges at a macro level, we see the needs of the consumer and we are providing them with the service, we will roll out capital prudently,” added Ralph Mupita, CEO of Old Mutual Emerging Markets.
While the challenges are clear, Africa is still on the agenda.
And, perhaps, as the conversation continues to evolve and the participation of women increases, the message about our continent from Davos will be warm, inclusive and exciting.
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– The writer is a financial journalist and senior anchor with CNBC Africa.

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Is The Africa Rising Story In Jeopardy?

Almost half of Kenya’s population has no access to clean water, according to the World Bank.
Waterborne diseases, such as cholera, typhoid, and hepatitis A, can ravage poorer communities; with women and children most at risk.
Three companies, Jaguar Land Rover, ClimateCare and Vestergaard, are trying to eradicate this problem by supplying schools, in Bungoma County, an agricultural region in Western Kenya, with water filters. The hope is that the children will not get sick if they drink safe water. They’ll then not miss school, be more likely to get good grades and increase their chance of seeing a brighter future.
It’s one of the most underdeveloped areas of Western Kenya. Infrastructure is almost non-existent. The buildings I entered had no plumbing or electricity. The houses and schools were made of mud, wooden poles and corrugated iron. They are dark and humid, like an oven baking in the sun.
The heat inside each classroom is stifling, each small desk is shared by three children – they barely have enough space to write. Many of their uniforms hang from their slight bodies. Parents are forced to buy uniforms that are too large so the children will grow into them. They need to last for years.
Bungoma is an agricultural region. People are reliant on water from nearby streams or boreholes. Both sources are often contaminated by pit latrines.
The harsh elements in Bungoma contradict its natural beauty. The land is green, with small hills rolling as far as the eye can see. Large boulders are littered everywhere. The soil is red and rich in nutrients, making it easier to grow crops. Almost every house has maize, beans or bananas growing around it.
Poverty is rife, buildings are basic or falling apart, and although the main road is tarred and in decent condition, the rest are muddy and inaccessible by car.
Cars are rare anyway. Motorbikes and bicycles are the main form of transport. All are fitted with cushioned seats above the rear wheel to transport passengers. The makeshift taxis swarm along the roads. It seemed chaotic to me but they understand how the system works, and despite my fear, I never saw an accident.
Chicken and goats roam along the sides of the road, past the many spaza shops, cellphone airtime and data vendors, and bike repair shops. These are the most popular businesses for a community that relies on entrepreneurship to survive.
While delivering a water filter to one of the schools, a handful of us walked down a slippery and steep muddy road to a spring at the bottom. We passed women tending their crops, crushing maize or making bricks in large homemade clay ovens. Some are less enterprising though.
A 24-year-old man, spotting us walking through his neighborhood, was intrigued enough to leave his group of friends and the quarts of beer they were glugging. His intrigue soon turned to incredulity when told the filters were for the school and not his home. The fact that his four children would benefit from the filter did not placate him. He told us he needed one because he was poor. His lack of income, though, wouldn’t stop him from having more kids. He said he hoped to have three or four more.
Life is hard in Bungoma and any help is appreciated.
“My biggest hope is to be educated so that I can pass my exams and go to university and look for a job. My biggest challenge will be money, it may be the reason I will not achieve my dream,” says Vivienne Wafula, a shy nine-year-old schoolgirl.
Sharon Cherubet Chepkwemoi, the head girl at her school, dreams of becoming a doctor.
“I want to fix the many challenges that people here face,” she says.
She’ll need to go to university to achieve this.
“My parents are farmers, but they are not that rich, so it will be a challenge.”
Both girls are smart, ambitious and resourceful. Sadly, neither Wafula nor Chepkwemoi are likely to escape the grip of poverty in a part of Africa forgotten by the rest of the world.

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Beauty And Boulders  In Bungoma

It’s a scorching day in Johannesburg when we meet Busisiwe Mdletshe, clad in a chic knee-length dress and black heels. At 35 years old, she has a resume that would take as many pages to list her achievements.
Mdletshe owns a swanky accounting firm in the city and has a corporate profile few can dream of. But it was hardship that made her what she is today.
The eldest of eight children and born to a factory worker father and a mother who worked as a domestic helper in a small village called Engonyameni, south of Durban, in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal, Mdletshe grew up poor, very poor.
Very early she knew her ticket out of poverty was to stay focused at school.
Encircled by rolling hills, acacia trees, gurgling waterfalls and natural forests, the idyllic landscape of Engonyameni could have made anyone laidback about their dreams.
Not her. Mdletshe today leads her own company, BtmtCapital, which specializes in accounting and tax advisory services. Her focus is to ensure full tax compliance. She inspects the tax impact of investment and retirement decisions and also looks at the tax and foreign exchange effects of offshore investments.
Prior to starting her own company, Mdletshe served as tax specialist and auditor at South African Revenue Services (SARS), where she led a team of investigators.
“Having gained experience from Mercantile Bank and SARS, I realized there was a niche in the market. We needed to provide a service to those who evaded tax, without intention, but [for] lack of understanding [of] compliance,’’ says Mdletshe.
Her most recent achievements include a radio slot with Metro FM and Nongoma FM, where she offers finance and investment tips.
Although Mdletshe is now immersed in the high-powered world of business and living the sophisticated city life, she says she will never forget her roots.
“When I work at my company and earn profit, I get happy, but when I see the foundation bringing change to the youth, I get satisfied,’’ says Mdletshe of  her BusiM Foundation, an initiative she says was inspired by a return visit to her hometown and the schools she attended that pushed her to strive for success.
“In my village, there are a lot of people who would pass matric but won’t pursue their studies further, due to poverty limitations and lack of funding for university. As a result, they end up having babies or get married or attract diseases or get involved in drugs.”
Her own life was far from perfect. Mdletshe’s parents were never married and lived separately.
“I was constantly moving between relatives and that motivated me to remain focused at school.”
After finishing matric, Mdletshe secured a place at university to study accounting, but couldn’t enrol for lack of money.
This was until her stepmother advised her father to secure an early retirement from his factory job and withdraw money from his pension fund to settle her university fees. Her father, stepmother and cousins joined hands to fund Mdletshe’s education. And this despite the fact that there were seven other siblings to feed.
“I was frustrated a lot but that did not demotivate me, I still knew that in order for me to get out of that situation, I needed to make sure I do well and get my degree,” she says.
Mdletshe obtained her bachelor’s degree in accountancy, auditing and taxation from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, and followed it up with a couple of postgraduate degrees.
Going forward, Mdletshe wishes to support the Department of Education to ensure pupils who achieve the targeted pass rates pursue their dreams at the tertiary level.
She aims to host career expos every year where professionals from institutions can offer guidance to pupils. And the first of many initiatives towards her vision began in April 2015, when a number of academic and business stakeholders assembled in Engonyameni in support.
“For me, I saw us breaking poverty in that area,” says Mdletshe.
The foundation has raised up to R40 million ($2.5 million) worth of bursaries through its partnerships and has awarded top achievers in the KwaZulu-Natal region. Mdletshe had the mind to work hard. The millions followed.

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An Account Of Poverty And Profit

When you come home after a long day at work, wouldn’t it be nice to just relax in the living room and savor your Friends reruns on Netflix, or just listen to your favorite playlists, saved on your smartphone over wireless speakers? And if you feel like continuing Friends in your bedroom, just take your tablet and pick up where you left off.
Now that Netflix has expanded globally, including Africa, you can do just that when you get home from work. Video-on-demand services have become mainstream with ShowMax leading the way with its popular R99 ($6) a month offering since 2015. And most recently, we’ve seen the bigger players launch their own music streaming services, like Apple Music and Google Play Music.
The first thing you need to do is make sure you have a decent net connection. A minimum 4Mbps ADSL line is recommended to stream content properly, with a big enough data cap to get through the month; uncapped is recommended for larger households or heavy users. If you have fiber in your area, sign up immediately. A good tip would be not to stream over 3G/LTE as it is very expensive; to prevent this from happening, enable streaming over WiFi only.
Next, you should trial the services that interest you. If you’re looking for TV series and movies, you can take a look at the following VOD services: Netflix, ShowMax or MTN-owned VU.
A basic Netflix account in South Africa costs R129 ($8), and catalogues differ vastly across regions. Another option is ShowMax, which offers offline play, handy if you find yourself traveling and need to catch up on TV. If you’re an MTN customer, the advantage of signing up with VU is that the data for streaming over 3G is zero-rated, meaning it’s free. You can subscribe for a weekend pass for R39 ($2); a month-to-month for R99 or just rent movies from R15 ($1) upwards. Make use of free trial periods to gauge how much data you use, or how long it takes to buffer.
If you’re undecided about which service to choose, check with your partner or family on what shows interest them and who offers a wider selection to cater to everyone’s needs.
If music helps you unwind in the evenings, you should consider subscribing to a music streaming service, because nobody actually buys music anymore. You can subscribe to Apple Music, Google Play Music or Deezer. All three music streaming services will cost a monthly fee of R59 ($3.7), for an individual, and let you stream as much music as you want.
If you’re already an iPhone user, it makes the most sense to subscribe to Apple Music, which has a three-month free trial and a family sharing option. Similarly, if you are on Android, Google Play Music would be the best option.
A unique feature is the ability to upload your own music to Google’s cloud and listen to what’s available in the existing catalogue, plus your own music seamlessly. If neither of these options appeal, Deezer is an excellent alternate, with over 40 million tracks in its library and a 30-day free trial. You can listen to music ad-free on your mobile, laptop or tablet. Choosing the ‘right’ music streaming service all boils down to a matter of preference.
Now that you’ve subscribed to various services, you want to be able to watch TV conveniently in your living room. A great way to start is with a smart TV. Samsung has excellent offerings, as well as LG. Make sure you purchase newer models (2015 and upwards) as they do support apps like ShowMax; and have plenty of ports (USB; HDMI). If you’re splashing out this year, opt for a 4K-resolution TV because you want it to be relevant years down the line.
The best media-streaming device currently is the new Apple TV (2015). You can download apps such as Netflix, YouTube, and even games; and play content wirelessly from an iDevice using AirPlay. You can also play a two-player game of Crossy Road with your child in the evenings. Google’s Chromecast or a Roku streaming device (various models available) are other options if you’re not tied to one ecosystem. All these devices plug into your existing TV, either through HDMI or USB and add another, more user-friendly layer.
Now that you’ve subscribed to various services, having good sound helps you enjoy it a little more. A wireless soundbar is a great addition to your living room. There are various options available from Samsung, JBL, or LG. You can even opt to go with something premium from Bang &amp; Olufsen. There are many options available but the key feature to look out for is Bluetooth or some sort of wireless connectivity to your existing devices, and preferably USB ports; to plug in an MP3 player if the need arises.
A few final touches to your smart living room would be energy-efficient ambient light bulbs that you can control via an app, and air-conditioning. The Elgato Avea bulbs work on iOS and Android and let you choose from different moods (cherry blossom, mountain breeze, magic hour, etc) for different times of the day. Samsung air-conditioners with inverter technology means it consumes less energy while keeping costs down, and you can set timers.
Clearly, it’s time to scrap the morass of wires concealed under duct tape in your living room.

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Inside The House Of The Future

They call her Titanium because she is tough. Three years ago, doctors diagnosed South African extreme fighter Shana Power with a pulmonary embolism; she had 28 clots in her lungs and was lucky to be alive. Never do any form of training, you are on a drug for life, they said. Warfarin was the drug prescribed for her.
“It’s a very serious drug and you have to be very careful when you are on it,” says the 23-year-old Power.
Three years after that disturbing diagnosis, in late 2015, the crowds cheered under the bright lights of the cage at the GrandWest Casino and Entertainment World in Cape Town as she landed a spinning back fist to knock her opponent to the ground.
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It had been a long fight for Power, her first win was against the odd disease. She thankfully opted for a second opinion that changed her life forever. She was told the infection was not genetic and that she was going to be able to overcome it afterall.
Thereafter, Power, born and raised in Johannesburg, trained hard for a year, and made her boxing debut as an amateur in 2013.
“That boxing fight wasn’t just a boxing fight, it was a fight that I had fought for my life, I had overcome adversity and I still was able to do something that people told me I could never do,” says Power.
In 2014, in Cape Town, Power made her amateur debut in extreme fighting, a platform for Mixed Martial Arts (MMA), turning professional as one of very few women.
She had always enjoyed sport like hockey and soccer, and being the only female, finished high school playing in the boys’ team.
“It is nothing new to me, being the only female at Fight Fit Militia gym.” The gym in Sunninghill is an extreme fighting and training facility.
“I started learning about the sport, the culture, the community and what mixed martial arts was, once I started getting involved, I wanted to challenge myself and see where I’m at because I’m constantly competing against males, I wanted to see where I ranked against females and that’s when I asked if it would be a possibility if they would let me fight; from there, it just progressed from amateur to professional.”
At the GrandWest Casino and Entertainment World, Cape Town, where Power made her professional debut, she was also ranked number one in South Africa after she won against England’s extreme fighter Kirsty Davis. It was a highly-anticipated fight.
“It was the way I won my fight that created hype about it, I couldn’t have been happier with that performance. It was a spinning back fist that started off the finish, it was a TKO [Technical Knockout].”
Power says it was her best fight ever because of the experience and the performance.
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Extreme Fighting Championship (EFC), the organization that allows professional athletes to compete in MMA in South Africa, is yet to release the titles for the female divisions. There are a few women who have made their debut and are waiting to be considered for the titles. Power is a flyweight (57 kilograms) contender. If she wins the next big fight, she will be top of the list because there are few women in the sport with her willpower and winning streak.
Power’s favorite technique is Muay Thai, a combat sport that uses elbows, knees, kicks and boxing as well.
“I enjoy and adapted to that discipline better because mixed martial arts used about three or four techniques. Brazilian jiu-jitsu was a very challenging discipline for me, but as time progressed I felt I was starting to understand it more so therefore I’m starting to enjoy it,” she says. Power emphasizes that it takes a lot of hard work to get what you want, and whenever you are stuck or are not progressing, she advises aspiring extreme fighters to just look back and see how far they have come.
“The will and the strength to keep pushing [is important], so just don’t give up, and keep going after your dreams,” she says. It took courage for Power to overcome her illness to become a knockout in her chosen sport. It would take even more courage to step in the cage with her.

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Blood, Sweat And Cheers

It was just after the crack of dawn that my tracker and I were hacking our way through the thick undergrowth of the Odzala-Kokoua National Park in the Republic of Congo (also Congo-Brazzaville). Soon we could sense the presence of a large group of gorillas. They were foraging for roots, shoots and termites while a few were high up in the trees in search of fruits. Out of nowhere, a pair of brown eyes was suddenly gazing at us from behind the undergrowth. It was a young juvenile male, also very curious. He stared, blinked and then emerged from his seclusion, almost as though he wanted to greet us in his abode.
This moment could not have happened but for over 17 years of hard work by researchers who have helped habituate gorillas to human presence. This difficult process has been accomplished by the sheer skill of the famous BaAka (pygmy) trackers. Unlike with the mountain gorillas, the habituation process of western lowland gorillas has proven difficult because of several factors: limited visibility in the lowland forests, difficulties following gorilla tracks through the dense forest and across the long distances that they travel.
The Odzala park in Congo’s remote north-west is one of Africa’s oldest. It is 13,600 square kilometers of pristine rainforest and an integral part of both the Congo Basin and the TRIDOM Transfrontier Park overlapping Gabon, Congo and Cameroon.
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Covered in forests, rivers, marshes and swamps, the park receives 1,500 millimeter of rain annually. The TRIDOM is the first three-country transboundary area to become a World Heritage Site and is one of the largest blocks of pristine tropical lowland forest in the world.
As the juvenile gorilla approached me, two other members of the group, a young female and another male, peeked through the undergrowth. The three of them were fast approaching me. While my heart was pounding with excitement, I was reminded by the tracker and forest companion Zephron that we had to maintain a seven meter distance from the animals, lest we transmit human diseases. So I had to backtrack with a heavy heart while still covering my face with a surgical mask.
My tracker understood their movements and soon positioned me in a different location. His tracking experience came to play as the huge silverback male emerged right in front of me. Known as Neptuno by the researchers, he was 35 years old, handsome, big and 380lbs to boot. He managed his group of 16 gorillas by leading, protecting and showing them prime feeding grounds. Neptuno was keeping a check on me while ensuring his group’s safety. Soon, the other 15 members filed past me. Some stopped to look, others rushed while a few sat down to observe me. Neptuno was with the young and either led the group or stopped to ensure their safety. He was known to charge human beings when threatened.
Odzala Camps was launched in 2013, boasting the highest density of gorillas in Africa including seven habituated western lowland gorilla families (about 105 gorillas). Visitors encounter 11 species of diurnal primates including chimpanzee, De Brazza’s monkey, putty-nosed monkey, grey-cheeked mangabey, crowned monkey, colobus monkey and moustached monkey. The area includes birdlife and herds of forest elephant and dwarf buffalo.
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I am one of less than 750 visitors to have experienced this park. Access was impossible prior to 2013. It took a long time for Spanish primatologist Magda Bermejo to win the trust of the Ndzehi people as they had seen western lowland gorillas in the rainforest being poached, hunted for trophies, or shipped off to zoos. Eventually, when she earned their respect, the Ndzehi packed up their whole village and moved with Bermejo to Lossi, home to the largest population of gorillas in the Congo, to help her with her research. Their intimate knowledge of the rainforest and gorilla-tracking skills proved invaluable to Bermejo’s work.
A recent census of the gorilla populations in equatorial Africa was thought to be 100,000. In 2004, there was an Ebola outbreak in Odzala wiping out 90% of the resident population of 10,000. Because of these outbreaks, the International Union for Conservation of Nature updated the status of western lowland gorillas from “endangered” to “critically endangered”.
The gorillas are still being hunted for their bush meat and the young sold as pets; five percent of the species is killed each year. Commercial poaching of chimpanzees, forest elephants, and western gorillas results from increased amount of commercial logging and infrastructure. The Wildlife Conservation Society is working in the Congo and surrounding countries to limit the bush meat trade by enforcing laws and also helping the local people find new sources of protein.

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The planet of the Apes

I will never again say I can’t do anything!” declares 14-year-old Kyle Grant from Mitchells Plain, a crime-riddled township of Cape Town. This young dance student has just witnessed the exhilarating New York-based Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s (AAADT) mini-performance for school children at the city’s largest theater.
Similar sentiments were repeated by youngsters throughout the weeks this modern dance company was on tour in South Africa. By night, the professional dancers performed to standing ovations by paying audiences. By day, the artistes, many who have danced on the biggest stages of the world, taught in cramped classrooms and community halls. They traveled into townships to welcome groups of wide-eyed youngsters into theater rehearsal studios for hour-long lessons.
Over and over they would repeat the maxim which company founder, the late Alvin Ailey, who in 1958 created the dance company rooted in African-American culture, lived by: “Dance came from the people. We must take it back to the people.” The dance company does just this. It moves past the plush seats and well-heeled audiences and down the byways to halls with broken windows and children with holes in their socks but dance in their souls.
On a damp spring morning at Bonga Primary School in Gugulethu, a township 20 minutes from the Cape Town city center, children crowd into a studio created in a small shipping container. Young students of iKapa Dance Theatre gaze at the elegant form of Samuel Lee Roberts, company dancer and former student of the prestigious Juilliard School in New York. His energy is infectious and soon he has them doing head rolls, rises and turns.
“Are we having fun? You guys are brilliant, when I leave you are going to take my job!” he says to the bouncing, and giggling, children.
Artistic Director, Robert Battle, whose elegant shoes fill the huge ones left by Ailey and his successor, the acclaimed Judith Jamison, watches from a corner.
This tour is his first to Africa and one that has touched him.
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“The community outreach program has been cathartic. It’s definitely the most crystalized and distilled version of what Alvin Ailey wanted the company to be about. Every dancer has just cried or been completely transformed and informed about what they can be. This lets us know that what we do matters,” he says.
Down a corridor, former gangster, Yamkela Bambata (21), is helping AAADT dancer, Michael McBride (21), translate his instructions into Xhosa. He eases between arching arms and squeezes past desks pushed against the wall. A senior dancer with iKapa, Bambata has a moment of disbelief that he is assisting AAADT dancers.
“This means a lot to me. I’ve been Googling them and watching their videos… When I saw them arrive I thought: ‘Is this real?’”
Bambata, who says he was born to dance, was caught at the age of 13, like many other township children, in the violent grip of a gang. But dance would prove to be his escape.
“It gave me the power of knowing what I want. When I dance everything just goes from my mind. Whatever you are going through, dance will help you get through it,” he says.
It is something that is unwittingly echoed by AAADT dancer, Jeroboam Bozeman. Tall and muscular, he co-teaches a class of Amoyo Performing Arts Foundation dancers at another venue the following day.
“When did you start dancing?” asks a student after the teaching session.
Bozeman’s story floors the children.
“For years I didn’t speak. I was mute. I was silent. I experienced something so traumatic that I made a decision not to speak. Dance is what got me to speak – nothing is more fulfilling than what dance brought me. But you have to be constantly working, every day, 24/7 to be great,” he says.
This is the beauty of the dance theater’s program. It reaches out and offers something beyond how to extend a leg and balance on tiptoe. It gives children hope. It also imprints the fact that with effort there is much to gain. It’s a message that Revelations, Ailey’s masterpiece, with its theme of moving from slavery to freedom, does every time it is performed.
Hope Boykin, a company dancer for 15 years, may be short in stature but she is a giant in spirit. The downbeat exterior of the hall in Gugulethu, where she is conducting a masterclass to senior students, belies what is happening inside. Boykin is guiding them through a series of moves from Revelations.
“This is your drama, your fears, your troubles and you are going to get through them,” she urges. “And ladies, make sure you don’t get stuck behind. Remember: small is a state of mind!”
And with that, heads lift, confidence grows and the energy shifts from people being told what to do to dancers finding their own feet and wings to fly through the air.
Theo Ndindwa, co-founder of iKapa with his wife Tanya Arshamian, reflects on what the AAADT program means.
“It’s like seeing ourselves in the future. We want the children to get that from seeing them. I trained in the townships through NGOs. I’ve been down that route. Dance has the power to change individuals. It teaches discipline. It’s very hard work. We come from a hard country. The government must provide rooves over our heads, but it is art that fuels the individual to carry a community.”
Four days later, the city’s Artscape Theatre is brimming with hundreds of schoolchildren. The velvet curtain rises revealing a dancer slowly moving in a twinkling dress to Duke Ellington’s rhythms.
“Yoh!” shouts a youngster. “Is it real? I can’t believe it!”
Chrishande Maarman, 17, who has traveled overnight on a bus from a small town 500 kilometers away, is ecstatic.
“It was amazing to see them live. It has inspired us to be and do better. If I work hard I know I can do it.”
It is these moments that transform lives. Thomas Cott, AAADT Senior Director of Marketing and Creative Content, knows this and is a happy man. He has watched Ailey’s vision unfold in South Africa.
“Even if just one child walks away and thinks ‘maybe I can be creative’ we have succeeded. If we can help them think of other possibilities and just give them the self-confidence, it has worked.”

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Changing Lives One Dance Step  At A Time

In a decade of dancing, I’ve experienced so many magical moments; it leaves me wondering what else I can contribute in my life and career. One of those moments was a surreal juncture in my fledgling dance profession. I stepped onto the stage of one of the most beautiful theaters in the world. I was asked to represent my nation as Holland played host to a meeting of greats. At a tender age of 20, I was center stage.
In 2002, the South African embassy in The Hague hosted the Faranani! concert at the Royal Carre Theatre in Amsterdam, at which the late Nelson Mandela was the guest of honor. Faranani!, meaning togetherness in the Venda language, was a concert promoting peace, reconciliation and unity between South Africa and the Netherlands, a relationship spanning 350 years. I danced for Madiba and the Dutch royal family with a company of acclaimed South African artists. Through the arts, these two nations commemorate the past.
For the royal family and the rest of the Dutch audience I might have been a symbol of the unusual, the unexpected act of an African woman in Europe dancing a Russian classic. In my heart, however, I was dancing for Mandela and South Africa. I felt like a cultural ambassador crossing borders, inviting audiences to journey with me until the last few breaths of The Dying Swan. As a ballerina, this honor represented  my country’s struggle against a colonial past as well as my struggle to beat the odds as a black woman on pointe in a tutu.
It was a high point in my career and the wonderful memories stick with me to this day. A sense of duty stirs inside of me, sparked by the opportunity to dance for a global hero while on a mission to unite.
Today, a world away, I find myself fulfilling this duty at a dusty makeshift primary school in a township I called home. Alexandra, in Johannesburg, sets the stage for another kind of Faranani! concert in schools for thousands of culture-hungry children electrified by ballet performances in their playgrounds. This is part of my journey as I keep working to take my art and craft outside the garlanded stages of glamorous theaters.
As we mourned the passing of the father of South Africa, I felt the weight of history on my shoulders. That service to my country, which began at the age of 20, continues in celebration of Mandela’s legacy. Inspiring children in the townships is a humbling responsibility I take with pride. The future of these children will be determined by the choices they make and the freedom to believe they can achieve whatever they put their heart and mind into. Following your passion and working towards a dream becomes possible when the struggle of the past is broken. I hope that I can help the children realize that the destitution of a township can result in the beauty and grace of a ballerina.
Touring the world and dancing for dignitaries has its allure, but the shows in Johannesburg are the ones that are most fulfilling. Ballet helps to develop the image of South Africa, a country once segregated from the rest of the world, and entices an international flair to Johannesburg.
Making history is dancing on home soil as the only South African ballerina in galas with the New York City Ballet. Forging peace and unity is dancing on a stage with friends from Kiev and Moscow amid the recent unrest between Ukraine and Russia. Coming home is my affirmation of a passion for a nation that can use ballet to create Faranani!.

Tag: February 2016

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