How do you step from the top of a 100-foot-pole?



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People have the mistake of being prejudice; this is likely to become a bad habit as it will affect your mind-set negatively.

If you always or rather often approach anything with that 100-foot-pole stuck in front of you, then whatever you do is destined to fail.

Before you make a judgement about a certain thing, rather get to the bottom of it or put yourself in that position and see if you have been able to survive it.

Lauryn Hill to Wow audience at Cape Town-Jazz Festival



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 The beautiful Mother city is to come to stand still this weekend, as the world is jetting in for the 13th Cape town International Jazz festival(CTJIF) taking place from 30-31 March at the Cape town International Convention Centre(CTICC).


The two days event will have a line-up of 40 International and local artists to perform. Multi Grammy Award winner Ms. Lauryn Hill has been confirmed to be performing at this year’s CTJIF; her performance will take place on Saturday 31 March 2012 at the famous Kippies stage.

Tickets are reported to be sold out for both dates, non-tickets holders are advised not to take chances by the gates as there will be non-available and they will embarrass themselves.

To all going to the Jazz festival,please charge your camera’s battery full and enjoy the beautiful music!!!

Do ex-convicts deserve a second chance?

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With a criminal record on your curriculum vitae and served prison sentence must be difficult to find employment. I believe that everyone is entitled to find employment or be given a second chance in life.

I strongly believe in giving someone a second chance, ex con’s always find it hard to settle back in the communities as they will have to earn their trust back and make them believe that they have changed.

Finding a job is another big hassle, management always want to protect their existing employees interest as it would be hard to hire a person who served under a violent crime, there’s a chance of that person might still be volatile. Someone who is a financial offender or embezzled money will not come as an asset in the company as it will be risky to hire them in the financial positions as the risk of being tempted is too high.

On a general statement, ex-con’s have the potential to be extra dedicated and motivated employees who can be grateful to their employers who might have taken a chance on them.

First thing to remember is that each individual is different and must be treated as an individual not just simply an ex-con. This people might have accumulated educational, vocal skills and growth when or before prison that could be an asset to the company or community. Nature of the crime also needs to be examined as in when the date of the sentenced was served for employment purposes.

We all deserve a second chance when we do wrong, why not also grant it to the ex-convicts as they might have changed during their sentence.

We are what we do



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 Things that we usually do define who we really are. People might find it hard to believe this but yes “We are what we do” your personality matches up your professional and social life.

Everyone is fighting for recognition, we go all way to boost our ego’s or try as hard as possible to be accepted by our group of friends. We allow our image to do the talk for us as we are always wondering if what others may think of us instead of being realistic to ourselves. The places we live in symbolizes what kind of things we get up to, what kind of life style do we lead. Sometimes people can generalise yet some can work out true or positive as defined.

We are usually judged by what we do, and the kind of people we hang out with as people will always expect you to drink or go to clubs if your friends do that, yet friendship is not only about that, there is more to it……..

Most people if they see that you’re vulnerable can use that to their advantage in making you believe that you are what you do, e.g. some societies are failing to differentiate actors character/stage name and to their personal life. As most believe that Michelle Botes who portrays the character of “Cherel de Villiers” on Isidingo she’s nothing different to her, at some occasions she got attacked for that.

I leave you with this question, “Are we really what we do?

 

We are afraid of the wrong things

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Are we really afraid of the wrong things? I am genuinely afraid of certain things in my life, they make my blood boil and even give me a rush sometimes. When reasoning with this headline I think of human beings not taking control of their lives and at some point that become one of their unknown phobias.

We are afraid of failure, as it always feed our minds with negative thoughts that we won’t be able to achieve all our life desires, the inner voice always speak soft and slowly and say we will succeed either way of what come against us.

We are so afraid to die because we know God doesn’t approve the life we are living in this world of sins, what can be done so that we shall be ready to die anytime from our precious lives to go live the eternal life that the almighty has kept for us?

We are afraid to take an HIV test, yet we don’t use required methods to make sure we don’t have to go that route by keeping away from unsafe sex, touching other pupil’s blood without covering your hands. People need to take full responsibility of their lives by getting away from the wrong things.

Let’s face all the wrongs things with the positive thinking to overcome them.

Realistic about Abortions!

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When the word abortions come into mind I think of many things. In South Africa abortion is legal, and it is a personal and private choice for anyone to go ahead with it.


At some communities when they hear that you had an abortion you will be judged or ill treated as if you are some bastard that does not deserve to live. Females who make such decisions should not feel obligated to explain themselves to anyone else as it is their democratic right to do so and their body that they need not be accountable to anyone but themselves.

My research has led me to many different views; fact is that women who do abortions are from all racial, ethnic, socioeconomic and religious backgrounds. When I brought the topic to my res mates I almost got bitten off because we all had different views and feelings about it. One lady stood up and said” women use abortions as the method of birth control, she won’t feel pity for anyone who has to go through it and it’s against her morals and beliefs”.

According to (Guttmacher Institute – 2003) some women are forced into having abortions by their partners, husbands or their parents because they do not believe in having a child out of wedlock and you could embarrass the family in the community, for others it’s pretty simple as to not liking the baby daddy, not ready to be a parent and could be raped and don’t want the child, and I strongly agree with the rape incident, who want to raise a rape child that will always remind you of the worse night of your life?

My views are neutral to the situation. We all have our reasons when engaging into something, I therefore say “Do what will make you happy and forget about what the next person is or will say to you”.

Fish falling from the sky

We are in 2 years and a quarter in 2012 yet South Africans have already had it hard. From the beginning of the year we have been experiencing bad rainfall that seemed like little fishes falling from the sky.

Few provinces from the 9 have suffered the heavy rain storms that left a few homeless. As we thought it was over, the weekend of March 02 proved us otherwise when an earthquake by the name of Irene hit the community of Northern kwa-zulu natal. People were left homeless and the nation is shattered fearing if it won’t happen again or be like Haiti.

I can’t swim to save my life, imagine when I will have to on a pool of smelly fishes that have fallen from our lovely and beautiful sky.

Home sickness!!!

I have always wanted to be an explorer, as was fascinated by the beauty of my country and I vowed that I want to tour South Africa and see all the country’s best sites.

Cape Town has always been the best province, because from the side of town I’m coming from (Mpumalanga- Nelspruit) sounds like an overseas place. Now that I am here I miss my family most that I wake up in the middle of the night cry and woke everyone up at home to get rid of the homesickness.

I would like to advise all that be sure when you decide on relocating because homesick can cause a lot of strain on your life and academics.but still we need to get out of our comfort zone and lead the independent life in order for us to grow and find out what we really want in life.

I’d like to say goodbye to homesick, hope you won’t come back to haunt me as I am willing to make the best of my life without my parents supervision.

What is the colour of the wind?

When the question come in mind, we all look around and ask ourselves, what do they mean when they ask about the colour of the wind? It does not have any visible colour effects but the work that is does is incredible and marvellous.

The colour of wind is the feeling and our conscious minds that automatically prepare the body when it’s windy (movement of trees), as you will know what to do without being told. Wind is nature no one can go against or try to put a colour to it. It is one of god’s miraculous works, like love, you can feel but not see or touch. Land and sea we don’t know where it starts and where it end or how was it created? That is the nature we must nurture.

Let’s love, appreciate our nature.