This piece is in direct response to an article by Ismail Lagardien titled ‘Mogoeng is not just wrong, he is also dangerous - mainly because people take him seriously’ published on the 15th of December 2020 on the Daily Maverick’s website.
Tomorrow, Friday 27 March, marks the beginning of South Africa’s 21-day lockdown. We truly do find ourselves in uncharted territory. President Ramaphosa and has cabinet have been working around the clock to install drastic measures to ‘flatten the curve’ of the coronavirus pandemic.
Richard Branson’s “Screw It, Let’s Do It” is a great, quick read. I recommend it as a starter to 2020, because it truly does pump you up and get you going with some easy life lessons. You can easily implement them into your own life, hassle free.
It’s been a minute since you and I last chatted. Life has been busy but that’s no excuse. So let’s get to it shall we?
“My wife cries anytime she puts a plate of food on the table. Then she says she once again forgot. It’s not nice. Me too, every day, I think of him.”
Many years ago, whenever I got my hands on a weekend newspaper, the first page I’d turn to was the one which displayed the level of the major fresh-water dams in South Africa by way of graph and percentage.
I have been fortunate so far with opportunities that radio has led me to since starting out in 2015. Listening to the latest music, meeting artists and an opening of perception are just some of my experiences to name a few, but the latest one would be stepping into the TV world.
We live in a high-speed, interconnected society. What we say online in South Africa can be seen and read almost instantaneously in Australia. This is the power of social media and the internet. The technological improvements over the recent years have impacted the way protest movements have been run. So much so that one could argue that social media dictated to the masses as to what was the plan of action. We therefore take a closer look at how #FeesMustFall mobilised the masses through the use of social media. There are always pros and cons to something, but in this instance, under the perspective of mobilisation, the pros outweighed the cons dramatically.
“What are students protesting about now?” – sound familiar anyone?
