Can the ANC January 2026 statement address event be inclusive this year going forward... Vul' isekele Khongolose

 

On my way to Mama Winnie's funeral in 2018

Happy New Year, everybody and welcome to 2026.

Yes, if you are residing in South Africa regardless of which political party you belong to.

The ANC January 8 statement is something that we all look forward to.

The ANC and DA beads that the Gogos and I made

Hate them or not, but the governing party and its president who is automatically the president of the country must give us some direction on what to expect this year…. A local government election year.

So, with those in mind.

 I   thought let me start with an issue that has been bugging me for years since I have returned to Johannesburg.

MK Youth hard at work in Alexandra Township

The party’s exclusivity to the community and the people on the ground. Now. I am not talking about those that left the party but the ordinary citizens who are still loyal to the party till this day but are not included to big events such as these.

We all know that the year start when the ruling party give us the people of the country its vision for the year.

 Or it used to start then before 1994 and the early years after.

The EFF was amongst the first customers of our business and they bought beads in bulk

But since my return to the city of Gold which is close to 13 years now, I hear nothing about this event. Trying to get to the party itself has been a mission. Let alone the Women's League and the local foot soldiers.

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There is absolutely nothing you hear about this annual event or any other works of the party so that you can participate also.

                                                                                The mining town of Klerkdorp

No noise or buses carrying people over to the venue like in the old days. 

OR Tambo and Nelson Mandela were the president of the organisation

 Even  the event is not effectively communicated so that everyone can be or feel part of it. Or maybe reject being part of it yet having being informed about it.

                                                        Stillfonteing Gold Mines

In these days, what I have observed is that you are merely excluded and not informed. Maybe gass talked as some may say now.

Chief Albert Luthuli was the president of the ANC

Before we go further, let me tell you readers about  the history of this event with Google's help and some of the books I have read in the past.

                                                            Election Day 2019... National

The origins of the event sterms from the organisation, the South African National Natives Congress(SANNC), now known as the African National Congress (ANC) having being formed on January 8, 1912. 

The original founders of the ANC in 1912

The founders, John Dube, Sol Plaatje and Pixley ka Isaka Seme wanted to unite Africans against the discriminatory law like the Land Law Act of 1913 which gave blacks 13% of land and 87% was distributed to the whites at the time.

                                                    Star Fm, a community radio station in the North West

The practice of releasing majory statement were made popular by the then president, Oliver Tambo in 1972 during his exile years in Lusaka Zambia where he detailed strategies, themes and call for actions against the then racist regime.

Winnie Madikizela Mandela kept the organisation alive when it was banned in SA

But even before O.R. Tambo took over the leadership role. In the 1950s when Chief Albert Luthuli was in leadership.

People dropped everything to hear what the chief had to say at Freedom Square, this despite of government harassing him with banning orders that would forced him back to Natal even before he could speak to the people.

Over three decades of democracy and I  would be lying if I said I knew where and what the event was about over the past few years since I left the newsroom.

A week ago, I went pass the Chief Albert Luthuli House, the headquatters of the ANC to get information.

I get it, people were on leave it was the late days of December2025. The security knew nothing about the event and only a flyer advertising accommodation for the event in North West that I got a glimps of where they will be this year.

Over the past few years, there's absolutely nothing you hear from the organisation itself. Especially when you have restricted means of communication like me.

I think, I last listened and heard from the president, Cyril Ramaphosa when he was crying for people to send, that was way back in 2018 if I am not mistaken.

I think, the conference was held in Bloemfontein then.  

After, the bullies of the organization did their thing so much that all my businesses came to a halt.

 My property was destroyed, I was stalked, I received death threats, I was humiliated and all sorts of lies were spread to a point that everything I had built and done for myself without the help of anyone will take years to rebuild.

But I am grateful for the social grant that I am currently on even though had my business not being destroyed, I would have been far even with my law studies.

Thank God NSFAS agreed to fund me last year, but writing the Unisa exams were made difficult and some subject impossible to even seat for. 

So my promised ten years free and compulsary education from the 150 page of the Reconstruction Development Programme of the party was also somehow disturbed.

 I pray that they let me continue with my law studies this year as Iam really keen on the modules local government, land and housing, education, family law etc.

Anyway, don't read this and think I am all made at the ANC. 

Just after Covid19, I’ve been trying so hard to get involve in the community work with the ANC or the women’s league but the party seems to be very far of.

Even when you go to councilor’s offices and introduce yourself, your intentions and what you are about.

Still you are treated like a hungry outsider and the people that I have been in contact with have made it clear that the organization is now for the black elite.

If you have no money, you have no business in the ANC nor would your talent, skills, knowledge or resources can be used in this mighty organization.

The attitude is so disturbing because some of the Pioneers and Jevuniles of the early 80s and 90s came from these communities with no money but strong spirit of   brother hood and looking out for each other regardless of background.

The education about the South African black history before the 1994 election seems to have been a wasteful exercise now.

 Especially when the black English men and women in power don’t know and can’t relate to the struggles of the same black community in which they grew up in.

 Some of the contributors to this little change come from those that are hired to provide service in the township but ignore their duties and run after bribery.

 Money that further halt the slow progress in these areas or do unfinished work yet they claimed to be capable of doing the complete job.

Worse, the millions received for numerous tenders through connections not even a cent will go to even buying a child in that community  school shoes.

What monied black men did not have before 1994  was covered by the contribution he made to the community then.

  The community also helped support his businesses.

There was a servicing of each other not the exercise of Lordship over the other due to the money, the car they drive and where they stay.

 There were no orphans due to the struggle as the church and the ANC women’s league automatically became an eye of those families.

Hence many like me, ended up with many fathers and mothers. While my mother was inprisoned and the other exiled for their political roles in the ANC.

 I gained parents who  were not my  biological parents but the respect I had to give to some of these men and women was equal to that of both absent parents of mine.

Yes, there was status and we all prided ourselves when a black men or children of the township had done well as if we all made some contribution to their achievement.

 

 But there was not much of showing it off, undermining and I’m better than you kind of vibe which is quite common now.

Back to the January statement, I hear this year it will be in the North West.

A two hours drive from Johannesburg and where the gold, a resource that God bless South Africans with but became a curse at the same time as visitors became too greedy to share.

It would be so nice to have buses available to everyone who want to go from all areas of Johannesburg Township.

There are children who don't even know what a mine looks like let alone a mining town and what those people are about.

  When I was in Port Elizabeth, I attended one conference that was held in East London.

 Though, I was in the media.

 I opted to drive to East London with the masses from Kwa Zakhele township.

The bus atmosphere is the best, to and fro, the endless debates about what was said and what could have been touched on and informal planning on how to exercute some of the plans to go with the vision of the party.

The sightseeing is also beautiful especially when everyone is looking forward to the place or I was looking forward to the East London beaches and we ate kotas and full meals after the event.

So my humble request to the party is to at least make the address available to everyone. 

Even those with no internet, radios and tvs. 

The news of what needs to be done must reach even the low class citizen of this country.

 

Manga Manga church business SARS, CRL intervene. South African Council of Churches where are you?

BOOK SIGNING... Signing one of the books I purchased at the churche's bookshop

Merry Christmas everybody, I hope you are enjoying the festive season with family and friends. 

FAMILY PICS UNDER A CHRISTMAS TREE... My son and cousins used to take pics next to their tree

From a junior pastor who is still at Bible College, still trying to awaken some of the South African Christian watchdog bodies.... After die warm klap ek het van die kerk, ek soek dae mense, hulle moet kom en help my deurmekaar kop. 

I miss the old South African Council of Churches. So much that I'm  gonna be remixing  Chico Twala's song soon and  "We miss you  (SACC) where are you? Until I get satisfactory answeres about this place of worship.

I mean, its been years since I was  trying to fit the  missing puzzle. Years of trying to get answers and understanding  on how we ended up commercialising everything  about Jesus in South Africa.

Tinny Tots... Kuhle first class in children's ministry.

How we as South Africans have allowed  racism, bullying, financial abuse, power abuse, gender based violence(GBV) and the abuse of the poor, women and children using the name of the  Lord Jesus and even God himself without any shame at all.

At the Rivers Church main church which I helped build

Do you mean in less than 31 years, we have quickly forgotten our God? 

What He can do that the intimidation by the bullies at this place of worship has paralysed us with fear so much that it is hard to reprimand them. Even when they publicly flaunt their racists acts in a country that has fought for years to end apartheid?

Rivers Church leadership, staff members and even congregants.  If they trully worship the Lord my God.

MY CAR Toyota Etios 2012 model that was damaged in the churches parking lot.

 If they are true Christians representing the Jesus Christ, the one who is birthdaying soon. Then they should be the ones serving and guarding the Christian ambassadorship close to heart. Worse if they truly know the history of South Africa and its religous practises.

 As a child who has grown up in Christian surroundings, being a Christian is something that you are in church and outside.

AFTER SUNDAY SERVICE THINGS... Kuhle and my little brother Xolani, he accepted Jesus Christ at Rivers Sandton, he died November last year 

The Christ like character is not a publicity stunt, or front that is carried for few minutes only in a multi million building of Sandton on Sunday.

THE LAST SNAP CHRISTMAS 2022 ... A snap next to a Christmas tree at Rivers Church

But something that you are even in your community, at work and wherever you go. You do not even need to announce that you are but your work and how you carry yourself should be different from how other people do things.

So, I did attend this church on my return to Johannesburg. In 2017, I was made partnership.  I volunteered, joined their connect group, worshipped with my money and even invited amongst others, my family to the church yet I was treated like a Pariah after I lost my job.

DISMISSAL LETTER.. In one of the services in 2018, Pst Andre Olivier preached about people resigning from job and claiming dismissal. He made an example that was so similar to my case which I shared with my connect group at the time.

To make matters worse. The claim from my former employee  that I had resigned because I was refusing to pay for a parking ticket somehow find itself in the Sandton pulpit where more than 3000 rich congregants of the affluent church heard of someone (me) who resigned for a parking ticket and claimed to be fired.... How undermining and humiliating was that?

IN 2023 the CCMA gave me an enforcement order to serve the company. The labour court and CCMA found the company in the wrong.

Anyway, the senior pastor of the church did not mention who that person was that Sunday. But gossip does spread like wild fire even in the place of worship too.

I know some pastors and congregants will come in for his defence that I am not that special to be mentioned by a rich pastor of  a richly blessed soil like Morning Side, Sandton.

2019 SISTERS CONFERENCE... So I supported all their event including the annual Sisters Conference of Africa 

But the remarks were made during the same time as  my court case. Stupid me had shared details, I mean blow by blow account of how things had unfolded in the company with the connect group I belonged to then. 

At the Rivers Foundation volunteer station

My Brothers and Sisters in Christ who would help me pray over this storm. This attack from the devil himself. Not knowing I am actually reporting to the devil himself and he is smilling at my defeat and waiting to finish me off.

 For your information readers, a connect group is  also known as Bible study group in Christian circles.

 (Please see the link)

https://africanbeadsstories.blogspot.com/2019/04/a-church-where-everyone-is-vip.html

Soon after the service word spread and some of the church members began throwing unwanted remarks and gestures mocking my stupidity. "People think we are rich you know" were the common remarks made to my son and I. No other means of moral support was to be given to this vulture.

HANDS THEY NEED... Me volunteering at their Rivers Foundation in Kelvin. I was fired over the use of a  mop in 2023 and helping another new cleaner

The staff  even went as far as searching my bag when I was volunteering at the foundation. The security broke my cellphone screen, I was still using a Samsung JP 5 purchased after I got rid of the car. At one time, they organised me a man to walk with me after the 5pm service. This was someone, I did not know and the arrangement was made in such a way that to me I felt as if someone thought I was a prostitute of some saught.

ALEX TEENS... With Alex teens who came for a workshop at the foundation. The announcement was made for us all to come and volunteer, only I and one of the mothers of the girls came to assist with snack for the girls. None of the staff, majority foreign nationals came.

This is after I had gotten rid of the car. I didn't know who was following me and why was I being stalked and receiving death threats. For my son and I safety, I felt it was safe to get rid of the car before someone kill us in it.

 So, as a person who grew up in South Africa pre democracy and know how active churches were in our community. 

GRADUATION DAY..... Commission day with the founder of JBC Rev Nat giving me the certificate of completion

The actions of this church has left me with many questions. I tried seeking answers from the church itself for years. But by December last year, I had given up. This was a month after  giving them a letter from the Johannesburg Bible College inviting the church to an open day and also maybe enrol the members to their classes if lack of knowledge is perhaps the reason of this kind of treatment.

HANDLING THE WORD OF GOD CORRECTLY ....Courses offered by the College for all ministry practitioners

A pastor  Roeitha Weyers confirmed by electronic e-mail that the Rivers Church  did  receive  the letter  last year November.

 I had hand  delivered to the church via an intercessor during one of their Sunday services last year. Yet I did not see any of the members or staff in the Kelvin and Alexandra  class.

So, with all that I have tried with the church on my own. I still have many un answered questions. I only heard from the pulpit last year, through a preaching by one of the junior pastors  that they wont even say sorry or admit wrong. Even when they know they were  wrong.

I'm guessing their richness, the church building which I also contributed in building as well the other campuses built in Durban, Kylami during my years there are making them too high to reach low class citizens like me. 

The Foundation gave me and my son these beads just after Covid19. My son needed school admission then after two years of none schooling. Eventually the Gauteng department of Education took him. The church didn't assist in taking him back to school instead we were laid off from volunteering claiming the place was now dangerous for him.

So based on my experiences, I have some questions where in the Bible did God asked Christians to threaten their brothers and sisters in Christ? Where and when did Paul or Jesus gave us status as Christians? How does the Bible call us to treat women and children? I wont even ask about finances, I hope this will be covered in details during my Bible studies next year as well as community involvement and church administration. But all these are questions that I have.

ASKING QUESTIONS AT THE ALTER..... I asked the questions again during their Miracle Offering Service of 2023 , this time on a piece of paper that I sent to the alter and kept a copy.

I still regard myself as a Christian even today. As a black law student too. Hence how the church have been treating not only me but its surrounding community of Alexandra Township had also been complaining.

My Baptism at Rivers Church in 2017.... I was laid off from the Foundation of the Church in 2022, the staff claimed to be needing time to prove beyond reasonable doubt that I was attending their church. 

According to some of the residence, they were chased out of the Rivers Foundation too by a group of foreign nationals employed by the church. This after they had also been helping the church voluntarily.

One of the things that drew me to giving money to their foundation and later offering voluntarily services was the work they claimed to have been doing with the Gogos poor children of Alexandra township.

Listen, I have been all over the that township with the hope of spotting the work done by the church or the people that it helps, till this day. I have not found people.

Though I came close in 2022 when one of the Zimbabwean national woman with two children and claiming to be from Emfundisweni Primary School. A school in 13th avenue , I think. According to the sisters who was able to get clothes, groceries and other business skills offered by the church. Her son went to the school and the foundation delivered sanitary pads for the school children.

Happy to finally able to get a beneficiary of the church, I ran to the school after volunteering. With the hopes that my suspicions of the place of worship will finally be laid to rest.

To my surprise, the high ranking school official didn't remember the foundation at all. They even gave me a list of all the donors of the school. Some came through government but nothing nadda from the Church or its foundation.

Yet the school was listed on the board as amongst the beneficiaries of the sanitary pads donated monthly.

I don't know about you but there are things that I can't just be  sweeped under the carpet.

 Especially with the emotional, financial scars and brokenness that they live you with. 

The recent judgement by Labour Court and CCMA

It is even worse that these are intentionally caused by the very same place we often run to for answers. Only to be moered and sjamboked like child under coperal punishment.

Or even worse, as a black person.

BIBLE COLLEGE GRADUATE....

So much that, no pastor can help me to answer those questions hence my last resort was the college.

 Maybe next year, I will be allowed to complete the course and come back with clear answers of what the role of the church is to me as a member.

When someone from my family dies, what is the role of the church? Not just any church but the one that I have been supporting whilst working and not working. Should a church lie to solicit money from the public and if found doing that who must call them to order?

I went to the CRL commision with my concerns during Covid19 and in 2022. I have done all the ground work asked by them and I have  even tried linking the church to a college.

Alex peace community meeting

In 2023, the church aided illegal immigrants of a building in  Johannesburg CBD. With no radio, cellphone and any means of communication. I helped at the centre to sort out clothes for the victims of fire.

On my return, I learn from the community of Alexandra that the occupants of the building had been asked to move several times by the government because the building was a health hazard. But they have been refusing for many years.

Meaning the church is working with lawbreakers.

Today the South African government is busy trying to clean the city, Johannesburg where one of our talent, Dj Warras was gun down. 

 Did Jesus approve of this? Is it part of the South African Constitution when was it added?

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Bayityile ikuku ka Tamkhulu uTwala ooMakhulu base Alexandra Township eRhawutini

Eyisika.... Umnumzana uTwala ehlula ikuku yakhe 

Ibingumyadala wombhiyozo kwi sixeko ekuthiwa yi Alexandra Township izolo, xa uTato oMkhulu welali egqiba iminyaka emashum asibhozo ananye yeminyaka.

Pan Africa Mall enika elixhego lingu Twala amabhakete ayi 1200 okutya

I traka  ngee traka  bezigilana kwi ndlu yelixhego kleviki. Ziza ziphethe izipho ngezipho zokubhafisa  lo mfo.

Imini yakhe, uqale ukuyibhiyozela ngolwesibinini kwi Cawe ka tatu Bisho Nhlanhla Nhlapo ebizwa ngoba yi God Never Fails.

Apho, iqonga wayecula nalo likwaba liqonga lika mama wakhe, Midnight Harmonies, likhe lacula livuyisa oomakhulu kwaye naye ngale mini yakhe yokuzalwa.

Kuba imini yangolwesibini ibimfutshane, uphinde waphinda kwakhona sele bhakelwe ikuku yi Pan Africa Mall kwanye ne Talis Property and  Redefined Property Group.

I Pan Afrika Mall ikhuphe amabhakethe okutya a ngaphayo kwe 1200 ukuze lo tata anike oomaKhulu bakhe.

Lomfo uyabathanda kakhulu ke lamaxhegwazana akhe.  Kwaye ne ntombi yakhe yokugqubela uGcina uthi, utata lo wakhe akasanqandeki xa esebenzela abamakhulu.

Khroqo ngemigqibelo yofika lo ka Twala ekhupha impahla no kutya ukuze lamaxhegwazana elelali akwazi ukutya nabantwana babo.

Yofika ebanika iiblumasi kunye nee mpahla banxibise izizukulwana zezi zuku lwana.

Nge  AfrikaTikkun yakhe ubathatha bebancinci abantwana abafake esikolweni. Abase kwi camps baze bafumane nemisebenzi.

NgePhuthaditjhaba yakhe, uyabagcina aba nakekele ngokuba nika yonke into abayifunayo wade wabakhele ne kliniki.

Othe wavelelwa sisifo, uye amcedise apho akwaziyo khona. Njengoba ngolwesine kuye kwavela umphanga womnye umama. wathi ezinye zezinto ezikhutshwe etrakini mazibalekiswe klo mzi uvelelwe sisifo.

Uyewaxelela abantu base Alexandra ukuba baze banga yeki ukulwela unhlaba wabo.

Wabaxwayisa nanga ngok'ba kukho bantu abathi umhlaba wase Lanbro Park nase Frankenwald abantu base Alexandra fanele bakhuphe R15000 for wona.

"Xa ungasebenzi wena kuqala, uzoyifumanaphi lomali? Lamhlaba ngowabantu base Alexandra Township qha", litshilo ke ixhego elifuna kwakhiwe elinye ikhaya labantu abadala kwalapha kwesisi xeko. Etsho exelela omnye wabantu base  Redefine properties Group, Talis Property Fund and The Afrika Mall staff.

Klo nyaka umbiyozo walomfo ubuxhaswe nayiyo i Zanele Mbeki Foundation, Gift of the Givers, Shoprite.

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The President turn 81 and urge the youth to continue the fight for Alex land

 

Cutting the Cake...Twala share his cake with those who came to celebrate with him

Our father, the President of Alexandra Township has urged the youth of the oldest township in South Africa, to take on the baton from where he and others left of in the 60s.

FATHER...The president of Alex celebrated his 81st birthday

"I hear report that the land in Linbro Park, and Frankenworld  have been taken by other people,' says Bab' Linda Twala.

He was addressing the community who came to celebrate  his 81st birthday at Bishop Nhlanhla Nhlapo's  God Never Fails (GNF) church on Tuesday this week.

Helicopter ride on the cards... Twala speaking about the importance of kids riding a helicopter

Though, the turn out of sponsors at this year's annual celebration was affected by the G-20 event which was hosted in the country last month.

But the Gift of the Givers Foundation, The Zanele Mbeki Foundation and Shoprite were part of the sponsors that turned out to make sure that the senior citizens of the township received their food parcels and enjoy the activities of the day.

The food parcels for the grannies who came to celebrate Ntate Twalas birthday

Before he addressed the youth of the township, he first asked the community to come on board donating money so that the children of Alexandra township can have educational tours which include helicopter  rides.

"These children need to be exposed to such as this will broaden their minds," he said.

Another elderly showed appreciation for Twala's role in the struggle and how he was constantly harassed by the security police for hiding and feeding the youngsters then who rebelled against the then apartheid government.

According to google search, Frankenworld also pronounced as Frankenwald is a major urban development

site slated for massive affordable housing projects to of about 30 thousand units.

The project is designed to address a massive housing shortages, intergrade communities and support Alexandra's de-densification involving developments, public participation and educational initiatives by the Wits University.

The project also aims to transform unused land into a new city hub. It currently faces challenges like legacy land disputes and environmental concerns.

According to Nelson Mandela's long walk to Freedom and advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi's The Land is Ours, the land was forcefully taken from the Xhosas, Zulus and Basothos during the  first and second Anglo-Boer War. Zulu's tried to fight men with swords and guns with spears and shield.

The Battle of Isandlwana and the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 | Sky ... https://share.google/images/PQLMveLs2SVNFl8DV

The Basothos tried to negotiate for the land lost after the war but their pleas just like the Xhosa and Zulus  were ignored.

 Instead the Xhosa King of that time, King Sandile was stripped of all his powers and were transferred to Charles Brownee, an Afrikaaner who didn't like black people and was ready to shoot and kill anyone they didn't like.

King Cetshwayo ka Mpande was forced to exile.

 Up to 1994 white South Africans used to celebrate the defeat of the great Zulu leader, Dingane at the battle of Blood River in 1838 on December 16. 

While Black South  Africans mourned the day of the massacre of Zulu impis(warriors or soldiers) who fought Boers with guns and they only has  assegais that time.

 

Three Cakes for an old man

It is said that the water of the nearby river ran red with blood of the impis who were trying to protect their own land. 

Centuries later after  decades of the formation of the African, National Congress(ANC) and exhausting all avenues of peaceful protests and demonstrations with the nationalist government on black matters including land.

The ANC military wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe frustrated by the racist government launched their first attack on it using homemade bombs which destroyed power stations, government offices in Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth and Durban.

All the efforts was  to try and get their land back from the  white man.

Speaking at the celebration on Tuesday, Bab' Twala said there were people demanding that Alexandrians must first earn R15 000 a month can in order to occupy the space.

 "Where are you  going to get that kind of money if you are unemployed? 

That land belong to the people of Alexandra Township. We fought for it and got it back way back in 1967," said Twala.

According to google search, Linbro Park, a mixed-used area adjecent to the township is known for its logistics/industrial zones and developing residential areas serving as key part of the Alexandra Renewal Programme (ARP) that built infrastructure like  water reservoirs and roads to upgrade living conditions int he dense, historically disadvantaged township.

The celebration continues at his centre, in 16th avenue today.

Rage of Angels by Sydney Sheldon

 

Leaving Alexandra Magistrate Court after a protection order victory

When I first read this book , I was a teen trying to figure out what I wanted to do with my life career wise..

The film Range of Angels.. The book was turned into a film

 I was really into art but living with my father that was not a career.

Leaving the Johannesburg High Court after the victory to have my lights switched on by my body cooperate 

Whether I ended up being a famous actress or singer. To him then, that meant I was going to end up being a drug addict so a back up career plan was needed.

                                             Fake court documents have been doing the rounds

But my other fathers- Yes, I lived in a community with many people who fathered me- probed me in the fame game. 

Cover of the book, from the internet

"What are you going to be famous for?

New advocates sworn in at the Johannesburg High Court in 2024

When the people see you, what are they going to celebrate about you?  They asked. 

So my back up career was law. Journalism or writing was something that came naturally to me  so little did I know that that was something that can do and make money out of it. 

One of the stories I did while at the Sunday Times

Yes, in my era, Nelson Mandela had just released from prison and had gone from being in prison.

Attending a family law workshop at the Alexandra Township offices of ensAfrica 

 He was a lawyer before he went to prison and became active in politics. One of my favourite South African  actor, Joe Mafela was doing a killer job as an interpreter of a law firm on SABC comedy, Going UP. 

Jennifer the main character in this book had paved the way for me.Besides growing up in a Christian Community and having a very religious background, I knew many father Ryan who will make my career an easy path.

With Adapt founder Mam'Khumalo

In this book, father Ryan is a clergy man whose clients, mostly people who are outcasts in the society are never in the wrong.

As father Ryan would tell you, there were either the victims of their background, upbringing, society etc. 

At one of ADAPT community outreach programmes

It is never really them but their surroundings that made them do the things that got them in trouble and Jennifer as a budding lawyer had to somehow find a way to help them from the harsh justice system.

                                               Joe Mafela on Going up interpreting for Mr Clover 

Jennifer's father was a lawyer, she used to help his father with little administrative work during school holidays to earn extra cash.

A short lived victory.

However, she falls in love with the profession and goes into it with the innocent hunger for justice for everyone regardless of their financial status in the society.

She enters the Lion's den the first day, few hours after she was sworn into profession within a few minutes her reputation was tarnished by a mafia who took advantage of her innocents and stupidity as an intern.

                                              Sokhulu and partners on Sabc was a tv series focused on law and educating the SA public on the new constitution.

Not to mention her unfortunate fate of reporting to an arrogant boss who didn't forgive easily and was always revenge hungry. But she rise from her humiliation, thanks to few good people that believed in her.

One of them is a lawyer that didn't act based on people's assumptions and media reports.

My favourite actor, Zweli on Sokhulu and partners

But he went all out to investigate all the claims labelled against her. He used common sense.

PS... Please note that this is our last book this year. I won't be able to write anything about books until next year. I'm off to writing exams. I might do stories every now and then, but will continue with books next year. I hope you enjoyed by selections, looking forward to your feedback