IT was four days of learning and exchanging of ideas among young people from different parts of Gauteng and limpopo it was all happening in University of the Witwatersrand(parktown campus), it was a 4 days program that was so informative, we were taught:interviewing skills,audio profile,audio commentary,audio debate, on location reporting and how to make a PSA(public service…

This can sound as a biblical teaching but this just came after taking so much time with my self-reflecting about life and all that it throws along the path that i take in day to day basis and i thought i have to share with my FAMILY. most of the time out of fear i was unable to initiate things thinking what if this thing is going to fail, how is people going to…

KICK THE STIGMA OUT as the theme of my event we used sport to raise awareness and attract large number of peopleand raise awareness about drug abuse it was so amazing created a vibe in the extension 6 there was top 4 for the under 15, we did also introduced life skills so that they must not just come here to play but also take something home with them it was Hungry…

The story was p ublished on pretoria news today, i was so touched about it and thought i just have to share this with everyone.

16 August | 09:22



By LALI VAN ZUYDAM

Pretoria - Would you leave your four-bedroomed house…

On monday the community of stoffel park hosted an event that was so successful the resident of the community welcomed the visitors in warm hands from the parachute to helicopter rides mixed with listening to classical music it was a day well spent and a memory that will never fade in  the mind of the people of the community. it was a dream come true to most of the young lads who got an opportunity to ride around mamelodi with a helicopter just want to say thank you to protea coin for doing…

we were busy at work with the guys from Real kings fc in stofel park cleaning the place were the super shack is situated when we started hearing a sound we started asking ourselves where is this sound come from when we look in the sky a big machine was coming to lend in the soil of stoffel park,people started screaming and taxi'S stopped to witness what was going to happen today in stofel park.we left what we where doing and run to the ground and the people who were around followed us as if…

it was a very wonderful moment to spent a night with hungry lions under 15, in soshanguve they came here to play a tournament wherein other teams from different sides of tshwane was here to show case the talent that they are having i was so happy to be arround this young lads they where camping in a school sleeping on the floor and hearing stories from each…

The second training organised by laureus was held at Wits parktown campus  it was four day that was filled with alot of…

I got a privilege to travel with doc to steelport when we where on the way i was just busy building my own puzzles about what kind of a place is steelport am i going to fit in with the players all this was the questions that i was asking my self and when we got there all where answered when i received a warm welcoming from a mother mama joahaness wow what a mother indeed friendly we set in a fire she started telling us stories some where emotional and the others were funny they named  black…

Yesterday i received a call from moses in mamelodi extension 6 he told me to come to his place to assist him since all the players from the academy we played with in our passed community exchange event were kicked out of the place that they were staying due to mis-management of funds by the owner. when i arrived there my heart was in pain cause i saw young boys 17 of them sleeping in one place some where even crying because they told me that they were supposed to be writing their exams they…

what a Saturday,sdala was celebrating her 21 birth day yesterday i went there to support her to my surprise when i got there i saw  my name on the program to say something about sdala as a friend at first i was so nervous cause i did not prepare anything but since public speaking is what i love when my time came i stood up and grabbed the mic i talked about all i know about sdala and talked about three kinds of friends in life which are:1Undertaker, this are people who are…

My heart is torn apart when i see what this deadly drug is doing to the life of the youth in different communities, young people are having good visions about their life but those dreams will never be fulfiled because of being addicted to nyaope .in mamelodi i spend most of the time talking to the addict what worries me is this guys are so talented a God given talent some are…

IT was a very fun weekend indeed, three site of youthzones met in one place to play soccer and learn from each other it was kameeldrift and olievenhoutbosch the visitors and the host which is mamelodi, even thou it was abit cold that did not stop the fun to continue.the people of extension 6 came in number to support their team and that really showed me that indeed sport unite people friendship among players were created. There was a top 4 match that were played there we invited a from town…

There are people that have prematurely concluded that you’ll never be anything…they   only know where you come from not where you are going. And there are also people that are convinced you are too weak to win…they have only heard you cry  , they have never heard you pray. There are people who are ready to look down on you…they only see how low you stand they don’t know how high you are aiming. There are people who will leave you as soon as you hit a low point of despair…they overestimate…

Yesterday visited olievenhoutbosch to do life skills and computer literacy with the players, what really striked me was the way this players united they really take each other as brother and sister.i spent most my time with Dino showing him how to compose an email and signing up on youthzones while doing that we were chating about life and he told me that he…

it was a greate pleasure for me to be part of 2013 laureus YES programme, i met other young lads from all over south africa who are coming from different organisation.to my surprise i met a girl named nontokozo from the same organisation that i come from we mingled a little bit even thou i controlled my crazyness along the way,big up to lungi she was always there to answer my…

In the past weeks as i was going arround the townships checking teams and doing the programs,i realised that most of the townships take their failures as the block for them to succeed in life instead of them taking failure as a steping stone so that they can be the ones who are going to change their family background. This question was always on my mind so i justfelt like sharing this with everyone. 

Most of us have a problem with our self image. I think the root of the problem…

yesterday i was at olievenhoutbosch with doc,while i was there i spent alot of time talking with some players about what they want to become in future what really touched me was that most player really are knowledgeable and know what they want in life and they dont take their family background as a block for them to go forward as one of the player told me that ''me i take my family background as a motivation for me to study hard so that i can be the one who can change it,i know is difficult…