Metrofm's Unathi Msengana and the touchdown 326 team are not scheduled to air

Popular radio station - metrofm released a statement saying they have not scechuled the 326 teamdue to an explicit interview they had  with a sex coach on air. This comes after the open letter written to Unathi Msengana who is accused by a blogger named Namhla of being rude and arrogant on air.

Both Unathi who host the breakfastshow slot and the 326 team which is on the afternoon drive time  slot are being investigated.

For the past couple of weeks, a blog titled 'Diary of a zulu girl' emerged on the popular networking site - Twitter. The blog was telling a tale of a girl who has just recently moved to Johannesburg to pursue her Law degree at a higher institution, but hardly a week while she's there, things take a wrong turn for her.

The badly written  blog where the writer certainly lacks functional English grammar delves into the life of a young women named Thandeka, where after a week in Johazzardousburg, she's experienced the high life of partying, sex and the pressures of having to constantly put up a facade.

Along with her friend which is called S on the blog in protection of her identity, the writer tells how S had financial freedom courtesy of her Nigerian boyfriend - Gorilla as he is named. However, S was not only Gorilla's girlfriend, she slept with Gorilla's friend.

The story focuses on Thandeka's life and all the drama she is currently faced with. I'm still on chapter 19 at the moment and I will definitely post the review.

It's quite an interesting story, but turn a blind eye on the grammar.  You can also read it on http://diaryofazulugirl.tumblr.com

Society, let’s raise men who promote gender equity.

Almost two decades into democracy, but we still live in a society where women are seen as punching bags or people that need to be overpowered. Patriarchal societies have created devious men – men who see fit to rape and kill powerless women and girls like Anene Boysen. Men who see fit in beating women to a pulp and still claim they love them. Men who engage in killing corrective rape with the hope of ‘curing’ lesbians. What kind of men are we raising, society?

Women have been subjected to abuse and scrutiny all their lives, and frankly, it seems as if it is not about to end soon. Reports of the malicious rape incidents have sparked great debate in different sectors of society. To add fire to the fuel, the infamous sushi king declared on national radio that he dated students during his days as a teacher. South Africa, what is happening to our fellow brothers?

As if that’s not enough, our blade-runner allegedly shot his girlfriend and killed her. These kinds of incidents have been trending in our society. To date, we hear reports about more women being raped and killed  as if it has become  a norm to do so. With our first-world constitution, brutal attacks continue to rise as if the law is non-existence.

Whenever tragedy strikes, we vent our frustrations on twitter by voicing out our opinions. Clearly, as twitter users we believe the problem could be solved in mere 140 characters or less. I doubt it! We need to do more than just tweet, in fact, let us all teach children about equality. It starts with us, young adults and adults. Let us normalize the fact that men hurt, too. They cry. They care and most importantly, they talk about how they feel.

The chronicles of a black man with an 'old-white English' accent...

I always thought I had a horrendously big voice, and because of this, I never used to speak often. I remember when I would speak with this hoarse voice of mine, people would suddenly start wondering where is this big voice coming from. I didn’t understand what the fuss was about.

As a person who went to a multi-racial school almost all my life, I could speak English - perfectly. Although, at times, there would be moments of ahh…and mhh…I articulated my words carefully and spoke fluently. I didn’t understand why most ‘white’ folks would forever ask me the question: ‘where are you from?’ It made me feel uncomfortable, as if I’m from some poor boy with barely accented English from the poorest of poor African countries.

Even though this question made me feel insecure, it also created a lot of unanswered questions in my head. In 2009, I had a 5 minutes conversation with ‘white’ lady over the phone. She knew me before the phonecall and had never bothered to interrogate me about my education. During our conversation, she blurted questions such as; ‘where are you from, which primary and high school did you go to?’ Having answered those questions, she wished me goodbye and dropped the call. More unanswered questions came to my head!

After this call, I went on to ask my fellow ‘white’ friends about my voice and what’s wrong with it. I know back in primary school I used to get teased a lot about how big and ugly it was, I hoped and prayed that the situation I had back then was not catching up with me in my adult life. Alas, it was not. My friends told me there was nothing wrong with it.

In the year 2011, the questions popped up more often and mostly, it was either ‘white’ or ‘coloured’ folks who would forever pose the where are you from question, and mostly, with such ease this time, I would say I’m from South Africa. After having told them, they would complement me and say you speak nicely. I was stunned! I didn’t believe them at first. My voice has been horrible since my adolescence and only in 2012 am I hearing these comments. Rubbish, I thought.  But then again, I wondered why a lot of white folks get along with me very well. Is it my voice or my personality? I know I’m not the coolest kid in the block, so it should be my voice or maybe not.

A few weeks ago, two ‘white’ ladies asked me the where-are-you-from question. As much as I was tired answering the same question over again, I opted to give them my now mastered answer: 'I'm from South Africa.' When they heard I’m from South Africa, their reply was ‘you have that old-white accent’ and another said: ‘oh…such an educated young man.’ Don’t know what these meant but this very same question has continued till now and people would forever say I have a voice for radio. Even a friend of mine once said; ‘I could listen to you converse all day and I would never get tired of it’. So, any radio people out there…hook a brother up.

A night of Blitz patrollie

On Thursday night I attended the premier of the South African movie Blitz patrollie hosted by Remy Martin. The event was held at the lookout, at the VnA waterfront brought media personalities and Cape Town socialites out to party.

The movie which includes comedians such as David Kau, Kagiso Lediga, Joey Rasdien is a comedy based on the a high-profile politician who is into the business of drugs dealings with a powerful family called the Naaidos.

After a series of unsuccessful arrests, they eventually raid the minister’s house which was filled with bodyguards, and they managed to uncover the underground drug production which was happening.

I don’t want to give away too much information. The movie opens in cinema on the 10th of May. Please goes out and watch it and you’ll definitely enjoy it. 

Dineo returns with season 2 of her reality show…

Radio jock turned reality show star is bringing season 2 of Dineo’s Diary back into our screens again.

The first season kept viewers into the tv screens with the heated arguments Dineo had with her family, trying to get into the music business and working on her company – Brains at work media and also working on her fashion label, Luv dr.

“I wear my scars with pride, they are a symbol of the journey. They said it was the end, but this is my possibility” said Dineo in her promo which is aired on Vuzu tv.

I look forward in seeing the show and what else it has to offer. Catch season 2 of Dineo’s diary on the 10th of May channel 116 Vuzu tv.