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           Image by : Antonio Muchave  Lurnay Tshabalala-Mavuso - Senior Reporter | News & Affairs | 29 January 2025  TSAKANE SECONDARY SCHOOL, one of the local high schools in Tsakane, Ekurhuleni has been quite a popular school with news headlines of learners committing suicide each year. Each year the school gets it's new trend with a story of a learner that has either committed suicide, abused or died suspiciously. Even though there is that, parents do not cease to register their children to this school even with it's numerous scandals and the image that it now holds. Learners share very sad and traumatic experiences and sentiments about the school and others shared that they cannot wait to get to matric, so that they can leave the school and never come back. While some are worried that as they observed the current tragic events, they worry about even seeing themselves completing matric at this school.  With another tragic ...

  JOURNEY WITH MASUPA, AKA KING MARS  Lurnay Tshabalala -Mavuso   mytsakaneinformer@gmail.com  MEET - MASUPA SEKABATE aka KING MARS   Masupa describes himself as a very quiet, chilled and laid back person, who grew up in a household filled with nothing but love, laughter and a lot of music. Masupa is a proud son of the soil and does not shy away from acknowledging his ancestors and worshiping God his creator. Masupa Sekabate is from Tsakane Extension 17 and is a local citizen and not forgetting to mention that he is a local creative too, who is about to become one of the country's best vocalist and musician. Let's dive into the conversation that we had with this incredible young man.  Who is King Mars?  King Mars is a Singer, Songwriter, Vocalist and Musician. Born and bred in Tsakane, popularly known as Mashona. King Mars is a child of the Bakwena tribe. A person who is so embedded in their culture and traditions.  Why are meeting in Kwa-The...

  OPINION-PIECE   (picture source ://SOWETANLIVE) Lurnay Tshabalala-Mavuso | Senior Reporter | Columns & Opinions | 23 October 2024  It is just yesterday when Springbok captain Siya Kolisi and his wife, Rachel Kolisi announced on their instagram pages that they are divorcing. The Kolisis shared these news via a shared post on their instagram pages, where they state clearly that they have set down and reached to an agreement to go separate ways with their marriage, but continue to be good friends and co-parents for their children's sake, they also agreed to remain good business partners as they together run the Kolisi Foundation. Now so much has been said by the media and by people via social media, which makes me realize that people do not really understand that the Kolisis had no obligation to let us know of this decision that they have taken which affects their personal lives, but because they are public figures they have decided to share respectfully what they woul...

(Isithombe sithwetshulwe yi://africatimesmagazine) Lurnay Tshabalala-Mavuso | Umbhali oMkhulu | Amasiko Nobuciko | 24 kuMandulo 2024  KUWUSUKU olubaluleke kakhulu kwelase Ningizimu-Afrika. Usuku lokubungaza indabuko kanye namasiko abantu abenzinhlanga ezahlukene kuleli. Ngenkathi yobandlululo kwadaleka isehlukaniso esikhulu sobuciko babantu abantsundu, kanti ke loku kwadala enkulu ingxabano phakathi kwezinhlanga ezahlukene zabantsundu, kakhulukazi phakhathi kwesizwe sakwa-Zulu kanye nesizwe samaXhosa. Engingeke ngingene kakhulu emininingwaneni yakhona ngoba ngangingekho ngaleso sikhathi, kanti futhi engikwaziyo kungamahlebezi engiwezwe ngo gogo no mkhulu enginganaso nesiqiniseko sokuthi ngempela lokhu abangitshela kona kwaku yikho na.  Izinhlanga ezahlukene kuleli zibungaza lolusuku ngokukhulu ukuziqhenya, loku kubonakala ngendlela abantu abagcoka ngayo ngaphambili kwalolusuku kanti futhi nangalo lolusuku. Lapho abantu bagcoka khona izimvunulo ezikhomba imvelaphi noma indabuk...

  HELLO READERS!  I would first like to thank you for your kind support in reading and engaging with Tsakane Informer from the day it was established, launched and announced. The numbers are overwhelmingly beautiful, thank you so much!  Growing up I have always had a good knack for good stories and this was evidentiary to my teachers and peers in primary school, where I would suggest which stories to turn into plays even when they weren't plays. I have always had a skill of writing and narrating stories in a way that can be relatable to the people and in a simple manner where the approach to the story and the characters would just be a snap of fingers. I started reading from an early age, 5 years to be precise and this was driven by the fact that I wanted to learn English so badly that I spent most of my time in the community library reading, plus being bullied made me shift easily from the outside into my own world, which has always been books and fictional characters. I...

  Lurnay Tshabalala-Mavuso | Senior Reporter | Community & Youth  | September 2024  Founders, Nkosikhona Emmanuel Matshomo (CEO) and Christianity Msithini (COO),  have raised the flag of change way up high as they have hosted their second Annual Sash Ceremony for the Mr & Miss Ore Incarnate South Africa pageant, as they were crowning their finalists with sashes on Sunday the 15th of September at The Lounge in Kwa-Thema, a township in Springs, Ekurhuleni. As community leaders and youth mentors, both Matshomo and Msithini are always looking forward to taking the next step in empowering and educating a boy and girl child and changing their lives too through pageantry, which is not just about beauty but about youth empowerment, community leadership and future leadership.  Mr and Miss Ore Incarnate South Africa, focuses on youth empowerment through programs that consist of workshops on variety of skills development, character building as well as model trainin...

  (picture://TheCitizen//)  Lurnay Tshabalala-Mavuso | Political Reporter | Politics | September 12, 2024  Ramaphosa finds himself being held by horns, as parties who are part of the GNU(Government of National Unity) and other opposition parties, are against the Basic Education Laws Amendment (BELA) Bill that is to be signed publicly by him tomorrow , 13 September 2024 at the Union Buildings. The signing ceremony was announced on the 11th of September by the office of the Presidency on their media site. From then this has had the likes of Steenhuisen and many others unsettled and unhappy as they are in a fight to have the bill not signed by the President.  DA's John Steenhuisen has expressed to the media that he is not happy and not in support too of this signing of the Bill. This causes a hiccup to the coalition as parties who form the GNU are questioning the intention of this signing. By many including Steenhuisen, this is viewed as Ramaphosa's way of showing them ...