Youthzones

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Loyalty and Honesty

For sure in life there is nothing better than self honesty and being loyal to oneself and to others. And is definitely sad to leave under self-deception and illusion. Is like chasing the wind. The true warrior is the one who does what is right, just and fair and have a good heart and motives when no one is watching. To be loyal and honest to one 's commitments and work hard. And to remember one reap what you sow and nothing in life shall go unseen, even if doesn't come now but it will come one… Continue

Added by doctor mabila on September 1, 2011 at 12:50pm — No Comments

EQ

This morning in Diepkloof Soweto, we had fun: playing football and chatting. The local guys were there as well as some visitors from the UK (Andy and his boys). Firstly, the British boys were not bad at football and I think they were nice. We quickly gave them nick names: Walcott, Eboue, Malankane/Yaya, Crouch, etc. They were cool. Not the rioting type, it seems :-) The experience overall was good.

Yet there were a few reality checks, that convinced me again poverty is not about money…

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Added by Schalk van Heerden on August 31, 2011 at 4:00pm — 1 Comment

Youthzones and ABI

I'm sure you've all seen the exciting news that took place yesterday in Johannesburg. ABI has generously given Youthzones more moola to continue to reach out to everyone within the Youthzones and to start 4 new sites. This means more friendships, more networking, more tournaments and more FUN! Thank you to everyone who came to support. It was good to rub shoulders with CEO's and just to see that anything is possible. Three Cheers to the Youthzones. You can catch the event on DSTV 200 or… Continue

Added by Masiphilile Dlamini on August 30, 2011 at 8:22pm — 1 Comment

Take a closer look....they are human before they are children

Afternoon. I am abit emotional as i am writing this because..well i have been thinking alot i guess. I dont have alot of references on my c.v because i dont have a list of fancy companies that iv worked for. My experience refernce however tells a diferent story. Pity i cannot attach that to my c.v though hahahaha. I stumbled into teaching,yep!it is something that was the furthest thing from my mind because we all know the drill....teachers dont make money....the whole over worked and under…

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Added by goitseona mathibe on August 12, 2011 at 10:09am — 2 Comments

Womensday in Soweto

I was privileged to spend Women’s Day in Soweto.

No - I did not attend any women’s gatherings, listened to no speeches about how women should uplift themselves, or claim more power for themselves. I spend most of the day next to the football field, watching Diepkloof and Freedom…

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Added by Suzette van Rooyen on August 10, 2011 at 1:32pm — 4 Comments

Equal Opportunities?

Everybody do their few minutes on Mandela Day which like lead SA might be cute, or is it just a way for things to stay as they are with some legitimation added to the story? The Madiba everyone celebrates asked for an ideal where "all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities". We like the idea of harmony and no crime, but what are we doing about 'equal opportunities'? I watched Carte Blanche about poor black youths attacking whites who do mountain biking. Now, I NEVER… Continue

Added by Schalk van Heerden on August 8, 2011 at 7:25am — 2 Comments

Thin line between Good and Evil

I am writing this blog dedicating to my cousin 's 10 year old baby who accidentally was hit with a stick and the baby was admitted at the hospital. As I am writing this blog, he is late. He was hit by his uncle, Walter, who is my cousin and the brother of the mother of the baby. Walter and his sister had argument about their younger brother who just came from the mountains and his presents and somehow the sister slapped Walter who apparently had a stick on him, he instantly reacted by trying to… Continue

Added by doctor mabila on August 7, 2011 at 9:30pm — No Comments

Responsible... For what?

I have been in Somerset East for three weeks now and the thing that stands out most is that there is a problem with taking responsibility. And then I don’t mean the responsibility of who takes care of what, but the responsibility we have to ourselves. The first and most important thing which you need in order to achieve something in life, is to take good care of yourself. Everything you do has an effect on your environment and therefore the first priority lies at the outcome of your own…

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Added by Thijs van den Berg on July 30, 2011 at 8:53am — 3 Comments

Manica Football

This weekend GDM palys Matchedje of Chimoio in Chimoio on Saturday at 13:00 , Junior team plays Vumba's Junior at home in the same day at 15:00

B team plays oon sunday at home against third place 11Brothers

Mercado central 21 Points
GDM-B 20 points with one game in hand
11 Brother 20 points

Added by Paulo Massingue on July 28, 2011 at 2:13pm — No Comments

Thank You

Nothing can express how I feel about the historic day yesterday after the lads from Siyabuswa, Libangeni and Coveregence Partners went to tour Johannesburg and end up watching the Vodacom final game together in Coca Cola Park. The spirit, the laughter, the sharing of Jokes, sharing of ideas, lifestyles etc is just what Mzansi should be irrespective of the socio-economic classes, gender or racial differences. Big thank you to Brandon, Idan, Portia, Yoli and the team for not just giving… Continue

Added by doctor mabila on July 24, 2011 at 9:25am — 2 Comments

Air pollution

Schalk and I went to train to one of the informal settlements in Benoni area on the 28/June /11. We arrived there around 16h30 but you could barely see someone in a distance of over 60m simply because of the coal smoke coming from the shacks. Things got worse when we started training with our new family because one could inhale the smoke deeply and even my friend started coughing. The lovely people in this settlement have no electricity hence they choose to go for this alternative to keep… Continue

Added by doctor mabila on June 29, 2011 at 3:30am — 3 Comments

Control

One of the recent years' issue bothering me has been the issue of control. I always witness how much damage as individuals we cause out there by getting into people's spaces thorough control. And in some unfortunate instances some individuals respond by self protection or rather say fight or lose it through temper ad hence most end up doing damage or offense and end up into violence or jail. If it doesnt end up either that way, you either make one feel like dirty simply because one can be… Continue

Added by doctor mabila on June 20, 2011 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Reading Clubs

I would each one of us to help start a reading club in thier communities. I am helping my girls in thier reading club. This has helped them a lot. They even practice public speaking and do mock enterviews with each other..

Added by Herzilet Dube on June 18, 2011 at 10:01pm — 3 Comments

Learn Stuff and win R 8000!

Youthzones, through its website, www.youthzones.co.za is launching a Life-Skills Competition. The competition is based on football or netball teams using the Youthzones Life-Skills Menu, which is available online, through email or in hard copy.

On 8 December 2011 a panel from FSSA will evaluate entries and choose 3 winners: The overall winner receives (for their team) R8 000…

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Added by Schalk van Heerden on June 13, 2011 at 3:45pm — 1 Comment

Ambitious

Today the world we are living at is very tricky. People are killing, stealing and destroying people 's lives(directly and indirectly) for money and so called 'survival'. We are enriching ourselves through destroying our own brothers and sisters ' lives. We tend to value more, the material, money, our egos, our foolish ambitions than our fellows' lives and worse our own lives. Where is the loyalty today, honesty etc. Today is money first and we shall see later in terms of morals. No more… Continue

Added by doctor mabila on June 11, 2011 at 9:00am — No Comments

hello guys, what do you think of the new bafana bafana puma jersey?

Added by Theto Marutlulle on June 9, 2011 at 4:11pm — 4 Comments

Rudolph live on Carte Blanche

Schalk and I were overwhelmed when we saw one of our humble friend, leader, FSSA Board member, Rudolph talking about how to make to make SA a better place to live and why individuals behave in a certain and all these were deducted from his amazing research. I personally being a victim of the circumstances in SA as everyone and coming from challenging environment and exposed to lot of things he was talking about, I was just nodding my head every second agreeing with everything he said.…

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Added by doctor mabila on June 2, 2011 at 12:43pm — 1 Comment

Public drivers and Policemen in action

Judgement day as it was called (21 May 2011), a day which can be always remembered in South African football. Jane furse was not different ,the public drivers took on the policemen in a beautiful game of soccer at the new artificial ground. It was a warm afternoon in j-town when the drama of the beautiful game took its toll. People loved it and i couldn't agree more myself.

Added by Theto Marutlulle on May 22, 2011 at 9:00pm — No Comments

Caring for Growth

I like to think the youth of today, has the ability to contribute tremendously towards their development. As I go back in time and gaze upon the triumphant stories of people who made the best of what they had, whose spirit lives on to inspire us today, I believe that we too can still write our own triumphant stories. They are the heroes that we look up to as role models and legends, but they didn’t start out with celebrated victories. They too were just like me and you, starting out in life… Continue

Added by Bobo A Sotiya on May 22, 2011 at 2:38pm — 3 Comments

A LEARNIG CURVE.

It was one of the expirence that i will never forget when we had visitors from sandton,to come and chill with us for a day as i learned that i am not so different from them as i expectet,the guys were down to earth with us and eve played soccer with us on a thorny and roky field,it was as if i was chilling with with my pals from siyabuswa,even though it got a bit acqued when we started with a life skill question session but i was impressed with the guys they know s.a & some of the problems… Continue

Added by michael maphanga on May 18, 2011 at 1:32pm — 1 Comment