Viljoenhof Residence Indigenous Games

The Indigenous Games were proposed by our ex President Thabo Mbeki and were launched by Minister Ngconde Balfour in 2005. Since then Department of Sport, Arts and Culture are still on the right trek to make the games popular and to promote active and healthy lifestyles. They are fighting unwanted behaviour by engaging youth in these games.

The games that were on the programme were Kgati, Intonga, and Dibeke.

The challenge is to trace and bring this rich indigenous heritage to life for everybody to share and actively join in games like Iintonga, Morabaraba, Jukskei, Dibeke, Ncuva, Khokho, Diketo, Kgati and Drie Stokkies.

Viljoenhof Residence hosted these games on Saturday, May 26, 2012. The main aim is to keep students active and feel at home away from home.



 The Residences that participated was

St. Peters Square

, Catsville Residence, Bellville Campus and including Viljoenhof. I am glad to announce that I was the part of the team that organised the whole games as Viljoenhof RSA.

There were six co-coordinators from Department of Sport Arts and Culture, a Sport Lecturer from Mowbray Campus. Sound System Dj “Oosh” from UNIFM and his assistance. The games were fantastic. Yeeeeeeppeeeeeee……

Try a cliché



http://www.wikihow.com/Rejuvenate

Using a feature such as an overhanging
branch to frame a nature scene can be a visual cliché.



It could be worse if I had never had a chance to further my studies. I am so glad to be in the stage I am in today although there are some amendments to be made. It bothers me to know what I like but because I am suffering from self-esteem I feel like it will never happen. I am hoping that since I am now writing about it sort of trying to talk about I will be able to attempt what I like and forget about who will say what?

http://www.wikihow.com/Rejuvenate

  

It is only time will tell all I need is to be patient and focus towards my goals. By doing so I will not fall the wrong way all I begging is to differ from who am I one day.  Why do I think I am a failure where will be success? Do you think in these successful people today no one ever felt the way I am feeling today. I doubt. If so that means I will make it one day.

This is the hardest phrase for me but what about the ones that I have already pass by? Even this one is going to pass.

Feelings follow behaviour

Change is coming
http://www.123rf.com/stock-photo/behavior.html

Feelings follow behaviour in both ways positive and negative. If you have a feeling of being well educated you just follow that feeling and make sure that it is fulfilled. You struggle by all means to make sure that you are studying. Also if you have a feeling of being drunk you buy alcohol and drink to be drunk. If you are doing negative things you need to change behaviour and if positive you need continue doing the good things.

Peacock Stock Photo
http://www.123rf.com/stock-photo/behavior.html

This is true hey; but this needs you to be strong and say I need to do this and I can do this. Sometimes you feel board and sometimes you feel fresh anything that you do in this period will be agreeing with your feeling which results into following the behaviour. At a particular stage you need to accept that change is good. There are certain stages that we also need to believe that are possible in everything.

Mood of the flower power in the 70.
http://www.123rf.com/stock-photo/behavior.html

Drought follows after rain scarcity therefore feelings follow behaviour. This is by means of a feeling following behaviour. Some things in life are not easy to get. Finding a job, taking care of our extended families and the rest is not an easy task.

While my bones and flash are still strong what have I done for myself?



www.strongimages.net



Hypothetical speaking we need or we expect magic to happen to our lives and just woke up the next day rich. There is nothing coming easy for a real man. To achieve goals is not about being an armed robber or a gangster and woke up the next day with thousands of money. It takes some strength, perseverance, dedication and commitment for a really man to be what you deserve.  We are misunderstanding things an example the fact of the foreigners that come to South Africa in large numbers, we have the perception that they are here to take our jobs, to our brothers they are here to take away their wives but the big question is what do I do for myself by the time my bones and flash are still strong in my body?



http://www.123rf.com/stock-photo/blame.html



 We end-up putting the blame to another people irrespective of it is your mother, father or anyone that you think is having a responsibility towards you. We are forgetting something that there is a stage where someone needs to think about what s/he has done for him or herself.  There is a tendency that poor and people from disadvantaged background with lack of education they choose what types of jobs they can be employed in, if not they better stay in the location doing nothing but a problem to the dedicated ones. I personally I started to work in Cape Town as a domestic worker in Grassy Park with Grade 11 qualification. From there I knew that that was not me. When you read this blog try to find out in other posts that I am today……. What have you done for yourself? Do not put blame to other people if you have never tried? Xenophobic attacks, armed robber and gangster’s are suppose to be the last things you have ever thought of.     



It is better to practice a little than talk a lot.

As Pubic Relations student that recently graduated for diploma I think it is better to practice a little than talk a lot. I am now desperately looking for a Non-Profit Organisation NPO, Non-Governmental Organisation NGO or any company practices Public Relations to volunteer in order to gain experience.   I believe that NGO’s can help to gain the practical knowledge rather than talking a lot that I have National Diploma in PR while I cannot do practical work about it.

www.shutterstock.com/s/volunteer

www.shutterstock.com/s/volunteer

This could be a big opportunity for me although it might sound very funny to people who expect to be really employed. Me too I want to be employed but meanwhile that chance is still far away from me what do I do to help myself. I wish any job opportunity that comes across finds me on my way there. What do you think? Do you think I am pathetic? Do you know of any close NGO for me to volunteer please write me a comment I will have a look and check my disadvantages and advantages.



http://www.canstockphoto.com/images-photos/volunteer.html



The little practice I will get will mean a lot to me as in English they say “Half a loaf is better than no bread” do you agree with me?  I wish one day I can be able to promote mutual understanding, to be able to persuade individuals and groups with full confidence. I want to see me being able to help communities, being able to gather the information about the problem and address it with the help of Public Relations.   

What could be the best lesson for a human to be strong?

Is it not to be child of a depressed single parent and be brutally abused by such parent? How about being a single parent you, yourself? Could it be so dangerous to work as a domestic worker and move to be a security then later to be a graduate hopefully taking steps slowly to success?

All of these mentioned above seemed to be very inspirational. I always tell people who seemed to be losing hope that Engineers never built a bridge in one day and finish. Land Surveyors have started by doing their own bit, Civil Engineers followed the sequence. All I am trying to say here is that my bridge took me five years to cross over to CPUT to be called as who am I today.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bbcworldservice/3220673907/

http://www.myspace.com/thehardlessons

Perseverance, commitment, dedication, faith and lastly throw your hope in him are the only tools an individual may use in this journey. It’s a pit that now I have forgotten the Poet wrote a Poem when I was in Grade 6. “Oh life is Toil, Love is a trouble, Reaches will flee and Pleasures they dwindle and nothing is as I would wish it to be.”

The poet was revealing to those who wanted to listen that everything is about hard work. Hard work does not kill but it is coming with good results. Thank you to you poet that is what I learned to be strong!!!

  

Wedding-Cake-in-the-middle-of-the-road

I wish I cannot make this too much personal. Gone are those days I used to dream of the Wedding Cake in the middle of the road. Those were the days before the father of the only child I have was shot in a neck on a Sunday by his cousin and passed away on a Monday December, 2002. When he passed away I was here in Cape Town working in Grassy Park as Domestic worker. He passed away recently after he graduated at Border Technikon as an Electrical Engineer.

He had a small business in rural areas of Nkondlo Location Engcobo, Eastern Cape. The story is as follows: He fixed the TV of a neighboring village by the day the proprietor came to collect it he was paid the balance. It is said his cousin came in and borrow some money and he said “Cousin this is only six hundred and please do not forget that I have a little child to be supported his mother is not around she trust that I will do what I can” the cousin acted as if he understood. He then later shot him.

If he never died I should have been saying something else about the Wedding-Cake-in-the-middle-of-the road. I knew that he was up to something one day but then I was so unfortunate in this earth but in heaven that was my fortunate because God does not do things without a purpose.

http://imikimi.com/main/view_kimi/cwjk-21Q

 In the memory of you “Ndiphiwe Dalasile” I learned this lesson from the book of Jonah Chapter 4 verse 9 “Is it right for you to be angry about the plant?” I answered like a stupid and said in my heart “yes it is right for me to be angry, even to death” And the Lord said you have had pity on the plant for which you have not labored, nor made it grow, which came in a night perished in a night.

In Xhosa language the meaning of the verse is “Ukhathazwa yintoni na sisihlahla somhlavuthwa ongasikhulisanga ngokwakho? “Jonah Chapter 4 verse 9”

Rest in Peace Mqwathi, Dikela, Noni we will always miss you mommy on behalf of our son Lutho.