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Her passing has left a void in the music fraternity, especially jazz. “We’ve lost a great musician whose art- istry was never really appreciated. She was a good singer and composer, but was never recognised,” said saxophonist Patrick Pa- sha who sang with Mama Nomzamo. Mama Nomzamo’s band member and friend Vuyelwa-Qwesha Luzipho, also a di- va, described Mama Mkhuzo as some-one who was always smiling and whose voice resembled that of the US diva Ella Fitzger- ald. “Like me, she was brought up in a singing family and was married to another musi- cian, her late husband, Jamani “JJ” Skwey- ana, a guitarist with whom she sang, re- corded and toured South Africa.” Qwesha-Luzipho said they formed Metro Jazz Queens aka The Jazz Divas with Nom- zamo, Dineo Lebakeng, Welekazi Mosia and later were joined by Thandeka Marwanqa and sang jazz to entertain Nelson Mandela Bay music lovers. “We enjoyed singing together and we complemented and supported one another – unlike today’s artists who pride them- selves on competing with one another,” said Qwesha-Luzipho. She added that Mama Mkhuzo loved peo- ple and enjoyed singing even if there was no payment at the end. Being a family of musicians, mama Mkhuzo taught her children music. Before Sindiswa, Nkululeko and Monde passed on, they also sang with her especial- ly some of her compositions, said Qwesha- Luzipho. Reverend Pasha agreed, “We believe Umhlobo Wenene FM does have some of her compositions.” A memorial service for mama Mkhuzo is planned for sometime next week. Nozuko Mbopa said the family will lay mama Mkhuzo to rest after a funeral ser- vice scheduled to take place at St Peter’s Anglican Church near Loyiso High School in Zwide Township on Saturday 25 June. It starts at 9am. Mama Mkhuzo leaves behind three grandchildren, nieces and nephews. Jazz diva mourned Port Elizabeth Jazz Diva Nomzamo Mkhuzo has died at the age of 78. PHOTO: SUPPLIED South African comedian, Sifiso Nene, brings his successful “Baby Mama Drama” tour to Port Elizabeth this month. The comedian, who was the first winner of So You Think You are Funny in 2009, will be at the Boardwalk’s amphitheatre on June 25. Read more on page 4. 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PORT Elizabeth Jazz Diva Nomza-mo Mkhuzo (78) has died.
The lady of soul whose voicecaptivated thousands of music
lovers for more almost six decades, both asa solo artist and member of a group, is nomore.“Our aunt became very sick last Wednes-
day. We were shocked because she was al-ways a lively and joyful person despite hersuffering from diabetes. We rushed her toDora Nginza hospital where she was admit-ted and breathed her last breath on Satur-day,” said Nomzamo’s niece Nozuko Mbo-pa.According to Mbopa, MamaMkhuzo cele-
brated her birthday with family on 23 May.She ate her cake and sang. Little did theyknow that it was her last with them.Mama Mkhuzo lived in Gqomose Street,
Zwide.Her passing has left a void in the music
fraternity, especially jazz.“We’ve lost a great musician whose art-
istry was never really appreciated. She was
a good singer and composer, but was neverrecognised,” said saxophonist Patrick Pa-sha who sang with Mama Nomzamo.Mama Nomzamo’s band member and
friend Vuyelwa-Qwesha Luzipho, also a di-va, described Mama Mkhuzo as some-onewho was always smiling and whose voiceresembled that of the US diva Ella Fitzger-ald.“Likeme, she was brought up in a singing
family and was married to another musi-cian, her late husband, Jamani “JJ” Skwey-ana, a guitarist with whom she sang, re-corded and toured South Africa.”Qwesha-Luzipho said they formed Metro
Jazz Queens aka The Jazz Divas with Nom-zamo, Dineo Lebakeng,WelekaziMosia andlater were joined by Thandeka Marwanqaand sang jazz to entertain Nelson MandelaBay music lovers.“We enjoyed singing together and we
complemented and supported one another– unlike today’s artists who pride them-selves on competing with one another,”said Qwesha-Luzipho.She added that Mama Mkhuzo loved peo-
ple and enjoyed singing even if there wasno payment at the end.
Being a family of musicians, mamaMkhuzo taught her children music.Before Sindiswa, Nkululeko and Monde
passed on, they also sang with her especial-ly some of her compositions, said Qwesha-Luzipho.Reverend Pasha agreed, “We believe
Umhlobo Wenene FM does have some ofher compositions.”A memorial service for mama Mkhuzo is
planned for sometime next week.Nozuko Mbopa said the family will lay
mama Mkhuzo to rest after a funeral ser-vice scheduled to take place at St Peter’sAnglican Church near Loyiso High Schoolin Zwide Township on Saturday 25 June.It starts at 9am.Mama Mkhuzo leaves behind three
grandchildren, nieces and nephews.
Jazzdivamourned
PortElizabethJazz DivaNomzamoMkhuzo hasdied at theage of 78.PHOTO:SUPPLIED
South African comedian, Sifiso Nene, brings his successful “Baby Mama Drama” tour to PortElizabeth this month. The comedian, who was the first winner of So You Think You are Funnyin 2009, will be at the Boardwalk’s amphitheatre on June 25. Read more on page 4.
IN a bid to boost maths results throughoutthe Eastern Cape, a group of academicallytop-performing Grade 10, 11 and 12 mathsteachers, all from disadvantaged schools,have been selected to mentor and assist oth-er teachers in their districts, and also helpwith structured exam revision.
A total of 150 teachers identified as “leadmathematics teachers” in the province havejust completed four days of training througha programme jointly run by the NelsonMan-dela Metropolitan University’s Govan Mbe-ki Mathematics Development Unit(GMMDU) and the Department of Basic Edu-cation.Training took place at the Coega Village
Conference Centre in Port Elizabeth – anda further four days of training are plannedfor later this year.“In each of the 23 basic education districts
of the Eastern Cape, a number of teachershave been identified to assist their col-leagues at underperforming schools,” saidGMMDU head Professor Werner Olivier.“We want to empower a cohort of selected
in-servicemaths teachers to turn around theachievement of mathematics outcomes inthe province.“The lead teachers will share resources,
boost content and encourage teachers to getinvolved in various extracurricular classes,like winter school programmes, while alsousing innovative digital teaching and learn-ing resources that have been developed byGMMDU.”DumaNcanywa, the department’s chief di-
rector: skills development, said the leadteachers would work closely with districtsubject advisers.“In the coming years, the department will
also be setting up similar support structures,including the establishment of professionallearning centres, for Grade 7 to 9 mathsteachers, to enhance the quality of teachingand learning in these grades.”Cecil Heradien, subject adviser for mathe-
matics (FET level): Port Elizabeth district,
said the Eastern Cape’s lead teacher initia-tive – the only such initiative in the country– would greatly benefit both teachers andlearners.“It will help teachers become more confi-
dent in teaching curriculum content tolearners.”As the only maths subject adviser in the
Port Elizabeth district, Heradien overseesabout 200 maths teachers at 80 high schools– which makes it difficult to provide individ-ualised support.Lead teachers will now be able to form
small cluster groups with their peers, whichwill address this challenge.He said the project would also exposemore
teachers to using technology in their class-rooms.
“Not only will it save time (drawingsketches), but it will also help learners to bet-ter visualise the concepts.”GMMDU has run accredited mathematics
content and skills upgrade programmes(Mathsup) for more than 700 Eastern Capeteachers over the past three years, and thelead teachers have beenhand-picked as thosewho performed at distinction level, withinthis group.Each of the teachers who attend Mathsup
receives a laptop with GMMDU’s innovativetechnology-linked teaching and learningprogramme (packaged as TouchTutorTM),which has been developed in line with mod-ern learners’ learning requirements.It is used not just to boost their own under-
standing of the maths curriculum, but also
as a teaching resource to be used in the class-room.TouchTutor includes video lessons, inter-
active PowerPoint presentations, assess-ment (with feedback), language support anda host of other digital features, fully alignedwith the Grade 10 to 12 syllabus. It offers thesame for physical science teachers.GMMDU runs Mathsup in parallel with its
flagship incubator programme for selectedlearners with potential, where learners re-ceive TouchTutor on a tablet, which they canuse after school hours as a “personal tutor”.There is also a desktop model – which in-cludes TouchTutor on PCs – which has beenintroduced at more than 100 schools in theEastern Cape to assist learners outside of theincubation programme.
Teachers initiative to improvemaths results
A group of 150 top-performing maths teachers from disadvantaged high schools across the province attend training, equippingthem to be “lead mathematics teachers”, who will be able to assist and mentor other maths teachers. Co-leading the initiativeare (in the middle of the group) Prof Werner Olivier, head of the Govan Mbeki Mathematics Development Unit (GMMDU) atNelson Mandela Metropolitan University, and (to his left) Duma Ncanywa, the Department of Basic Education’s chief director:skills development. PHOTOS:SUPPLIED
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A PRAYER service in honour of the retiredsportsmen and women of Nelson MandelaBay will be held at St Stephen’s AnglicanChurch in Grattan Street, New Brighton,this Sunday, June 19, at 9am.
The service is held onFather’s Day to givethanks for the ability of the legends,who areby farmostly fathers, to come together to re-vive sport in the townships, said MandelaBay Sport Legends committee spokesmanStan Mosia.Mosia thanked St Stephen’s for agreeing
to the use of its facility. He said they hadagreed in unanimously as a committee thatthe church was central, had the capacity tohost large numbers and saw their missionand vision.According to Mosia, legends membership
is open to all sports stars of yesteryear whowere 50 years old and above, whether theyhad participated as athletes, coaches or ad-ministrators.Currently their membership is predomi-
nantly made up of sports heroes and hero-ines from the townships of Nelson MandelaBay.According to Mosia, the service is aimed
at giving blessings to the revived structure
whose primary responsibility is to uniteBay legends to revive sport in the town-ships and cut down on drug and alcoholabuse through mass participation of theyouth.“We have decided to bring together all
former sporting greats from various codesin order to contribute towards existingsport development programmes in our are-as,” said Mandela Bay Sports Legendschairperson Themba Ludwaba.Ludwaba added that they were opening
the invitation to all other sportsmen andwomen who might not have heard abouttheir existence.Mosia said that, among other things, they
visited and gave support to ailing sports he-roes of yore, letting them know they werenot alone. He said they would also pray forthem and ask God to give them strength.Mosia urged those with sports blazers towear them.He said MPL Sugar Makina and Buffalo
City-based Safa NEC member Zola “Waji-ma” Dunywa would also be present withguests from the spheres of politics, businessand education.Mosia said former Bafana Bafanamanag-
er Dunywa was happy to take the idea oflegends coming together to revive sportright across the province.
Prayer service for sport legends to be held
Sports legends Mthunzi Mapitiza (left) and Sipho Tyatya who are also church elders will beexpected to attend the prayer meeting on Sunday. PHOTO: NCEBA DLADLA
Professor WernerOlivier.
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PORT Elizabeth police arrested four sus-pects in connection with armed robbery andillegal possession of firearms and possessionof suspected stolen property last Friday.
Police spokespersonCaptain Sandra Jansevan Rensburg said the suspects were be-tween 23 and 29 years old.
Police recovered a firearm, a hijacked ve-hicle and stolen property.It is alleged that at about 6am on Friday
a 30-year-old complainant was walking inLeyland Street, North End, when a whiteBMW passed him by.The vehicle then turned around and
stopped next to the man and one suspectpointed a firearm at him while two morearmed suspects got out of the vehicle and
took his laptop bag and cellphone.Mount Road crime prevention unit mem-
bers circulated information about the vehi-cle involved in the robbery.At about 8am, members of the PE Flying
Squad spotted a similar vehicle in the DealParty area with four occupants inside.They followed, stopped the vehicle and
searched it.“The members recovered a firearm and
further investigation revealed that the vehi-cle was positively linked to a hijacking in Al-goa Park last week,” Janse van Rensburgsaid.The suspects were questioned and the
house of one of the suspects was searchedand the stolen laptop and cellphone belong-ing to the complainant was recovered.The suspects are expected to appear in the
Port Elizabeth Magistrate’s Court soon.
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“She may have scars and bruises, but shecontinues to present a smile on her face.She might have had a difficult time grow-ing-up, hurt in a relationship, a singlemother, emotionally in pain, yet she con-tinues to be a woman of strength.”
With these words printed on invitationcards to a Women Enrichment Evening,women from all spheres are encouraged toattend the event. It is organised by Nonz-wanga (Sylvia) Thisani, a former educatorand now local businesswoman, caterer andowner of Rainbow Guest House & Tours.The aim of the event is to have speakers
from different areas to motivate, assist, em-power and refresh women to be the bestthey can be in our society.“Women have the potential of changing
our society for the better. Women can influ-ence youth to be better and responsible citi-zens. Women can set high performancestandards in the work area,” said Nonz-wanga.“Some of us as women had very rough up-
bringings, some rough relationships withfamily, colleagues or partners.“We are supposed to raise kids, nurture
them and instil values and norms in theirlives, excel in our roles as mothers, sistersand wives.“This evening is meant to inject somemo-
tivation, empowerment and appraisal forwhat women have managed to do and en-courage the ones that have thrown in thetowel to get up and continue with the jour-ney of purposeful living.“I come from a broken family. It was not
easy. My mother was not educated, but shetaught me to be an entrepreneur,” saidNonzwanga.“She supported not only her children, but
also her community by knitting jerseys,making dresses, and selling fruit andfood.”Nonzwanga said a person’s past follows
you. Therefore it is best to address circum-stances and situations affecting you nega-tively and focus on embracing the good.“Emotions have a tendency to build-up
in us. When confronted with an incidentrelated to your past, one often emotionallyover-react.“Most of us are displacing emotions. If
you are hurt by your partner, or by some-one you love of someone at work, you oftenhurt someone else out of pure frustration.And this is exactly what is killing a nation.“Life taught me hard lessons. I have
learnt about forgiveness and righteous-ness.“I am now stronger than my past - and
it is time to give back to fellowwomen. Thisfunction is also to thank God, our Creatorfor His grace.”The programme include performances
by African Drumbeat who will playmarim-ba instruments during the arrival ofguests as well as during the programme.Pastor Hlungulu from the Assemblies of
God in Langa will handle the openingwhere-after the guest speakers will take tothe stage.Topics will include women in business,
abusive situations, teenagers and drugs.The key speaker will be Vuyo Lekheleba-
na, a counselling psychologist.The Women Enrichment evening will be
held on Friday, July 8th at 17:30 for 18:00in the Uitenhage TownHall. The dress codeis smart casual to formal. Tickets are R180and available at Rainbow Guest House.
)For more information call 041 966 2310,083 594 9310 or e-mail [email protected]
Eveningof inspiration forwomen
Uitenhage businesswoman Nonzwanga Thisani, is hosting a Women Enrichment Evening at theUitenhage Town Hall on July 8th with the aim to encourage women being the best they can.
PHOTO:HEILIE COMBRINCK
A 40-YEAR-OLD Port Elizabethwoman was arrested and policeconfiscated 1 950 Mandrax tabletswith an estimated street value ofR97 500 as well as a large amountof cash last Thursday night.Performing Operation Lock-
down duties, the members of theintervention team had successful-ly executed a search warrant at ahouse in Tshangisa Street, KwaN-oxolo, Bethelsdorp, police spokes-person Colonel Priscilla Naidusaid.The suspect is expected to ap-
pear in court soon.“Good community policing in-
cludeseradicatingthesaleofdrugs
as well as arresting and chargingmajordruglords,”Naidusaid,add-ing that the policewere committedtoclosingallavenues fordrugdeal-ers and syndicates.“The SAPS continues on a mis-
sion to root out the illicit trade ofdrugs in the Northern Areas ofPort Elizabeth,” cluster command-er Major-General Dawie Rabiesaid.“We shall ensure that these
criminals have no safe havens.”He urged members of the com-
munity to continue providing tip-offs to the police in order to maketheir neighbourhoods safer.– NCEBA DLADLA
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PORT Elizabeth dudes SimpiweGadla, Chumani Ngolonzi andPhumelela Matika, who call them-selves KMG, a group singing hip-hop (spaza flavours) will presenta show at Daku Hall, Kwazakhelethis Youth Day, Thursday, June16.
Admission to the show is R10.The group, from Kwazakhele,
will appear on BayTV’s “Big I Up”starting at 4pm to promote theirmusic.
Formed in 2012 by two members,GeeMusic and Mr Blue, KMG aimsto deliver good music to entertain
the crowds and pass a message toinspire people, said Gadla.
Last year they had been joinedby Kingprince and had an oppor-tunity to open for hip-hop starRicky Rick in Durban.
GeeMusic said, “The KMG triois known and respected in thecommunity and our specialproject with the hit song, Jaiva, ismaking waves. We are getting pos-itive feedback from the crowdswherever we perform.”
According to GeeMusic, KMG’srinks (meaning lyrics) speak kasi(location) lingo which the majori-ty of their audiences, especiallythe youth, understand.
Asked what was different from
their hip-hop and other hip-hopcurrently in circulation, Gadlasaid,: “Ours is a mixture of Skhan-da and cramp.” He said it was pro-duced by Mr Blue. He said theirmessage was clear. They talkedabout issues people knew about asthey sang about township stories.
GeeMusic (Gadla), Kingprince(Ngolonzi) and Mr Blue (Matika)say they have arrived with the re-lease of their first complete inde-pendent project after finishing ademo at Zonke Bonke studios inMotherwell.
“We are now pushing an 18-songmixtape which is available on MP3and our Facebook Page: kmghay-ikwamagxaki.
Hip Hop group KMG ready to share their music with people of the metro municipality. PHOTO:SUPPLIED
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POPULAR South African comedi-an, Sifiso Nene, brings his outra-geously successful “Baby MamaDrama” tour to Port Elizabeththis month.
The comedian, who was the firstwinner of So You Think You areFunny in 2009, has been packingout venues across the countrywith the show which is his firstone man production.
“Baby Mama Drama” is basedon a strong observation madeabout single parenting issues. Acasualty of single parenting him-self, Nene’s aim is to change theperception that parents are mon-sters. Touching on some sensitiveissues and featuring stories fromhis own youth, told with his char-
acteristic humour, Nene will havehis audience rolling on the floorlaughing.
Nene has come a long way sincehis humble beginnings in Empan-geni in KwaZulu-Natal. Since win-ning So You Think You are Funny,he has won several awards includ-ing the Satmas for the Best Indige-nous Comedian as well as twoComics Choice Awards which arevoted for by the audience.
In addition to travelling thecountry making people laugh, hehas also made a few television ap-pearances and acted in DavidKau’s comedy film Taxi Ride in2012.
“Baby Mama Drama” will beheld at the Boardwalk’s amphi-theatre at 8:30pm on June 25. Tick-ets cost R120 per person at Com-puticket.
SifisoNene brings BabyMamaDrama to the Bay
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YOUNG people in Nelson Man-dela Bay should brace them-selves for a cultural festival thelikes of which have never seen inthe city before.
This is according to MandelaBay Arts Council chairpersonMonde Ngonyama.
The Nelson Mandela Bay Cul-tural Festival is scheduled totake place at the Port ElizabethOpera House from July 27 to 30.
Ngonyama, who is also the Op-era House general manager, saidin assisting the development ofarts and crafts they had startedwith checking the amount of tal-ent available.
This, he said, was based on thepremise that: “To develop talent,you don’t assume depth of talentor lack thereof, you have to startsomewhere and on our part westarted with the talent showcasein December.”
This had been aimed at deter-mining the amount of skill avail-
able and the need to advance thearts.
More than 100 prospective per-formers attended the two-roundauditions held around the metroand about 30 finalists were iden-tified.
Ngonyama mentioned, howev-er, that there were concerns thatthe timing in December had notbeen good owing to some hope-fuls writing examinations andbeing unable to attend auditions.
“We then decided to have amop-up soon to check whetherwe haven’t left some of the starsbehind,” he said.
He was certain, however, thatthe talent they had identified sofar would stamp its authority onshow-business in the not-too-dis-tant future.
“So far, we are very excitedwith what we have,” he said.
This development of arts waspart of the creative economy theArts Council had sold to mayorDanny Jordaan as part of thenine-point plan investmentstrategy, he said.
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ONE of six children born to poor butloving parents in the town of Moko-pane in rural Limpopo, John Ram-mutla, knows what it is like to growup in difficult circumstances – buthas never allowed this to hold himback.
The newly-qualified civil engi-neer, who is a Project Manager inTraining at SANRAL, believes theyouth of South Africa can bringabout the change this country needs– and he is starting with himself.
John (23) has just organised thesecond SANRAL-supported SouthAfrican Youth Leadership Confer-ence, in partnership with NelsonMandela Metropolitan Universitystudent association, Believers LoveWorld (BLW), to inspire the youth tocontribute to socio-economic devel-opment in South Africa.
The conference, held at NMMU onMay 23, was attended by nearly 500Grade 12 learners from three town-ship schools in Port Elizabeth and130 NMMU students and workingprofessionals, including SANRALemployees.
The conference was also live-streamed to three other universitiesin the Eastern Cape – Fort Hare,
Walter Sisulu and Rhodes.It followed the highly successful
inaugural conference he ran earlierthis year in Limpopo, for 1300 uni-versity students and learners.
“I’m really passionate aboutSouth Africa and its development.As a nation, we have so much poten-tial and talent. Someone has to goout there and exploit that talent andinspire people to act. This is my con-tribution – to inspire others to seethemselves as critical instrumentsin bringing about social and eco-nomic development in South Afri-ca.”
John believes there are two mainissues affecting South Africa’syouth. The first is unemployment,and the second is alcohol and drugabuse. And it is these problems thatlead to the majority of the country’ssocial problems, including rape,robbery and violent crimes.
Instead of looking to governmentfor solutions, John believes youngpeople should see what they can do,by becoming business or social en-trepreneurs.
“I encourage the learners to startnon-profit organisations (NPOs) toimprove the lives of others. I encour-
agethemtostart theirownbusiness-es, to create jobs, and I give them thesupport they need to do this. Wheth-er you are 16, 17, 19 or 20, you canstart a business.”
Regarding the problem of alcoholand drug abuse, John said youngpeople should set up organisationsto help their peers.
“It’s easier for a young person tolisten to another young person. It’smore impactful than listening to apoliticianandthechancesofsuccessare greater.”
John said a lack of resources andbeing over-burdened by responsibil-ities were often used by the youth asexcuses for apathy – but he believesthey can achieve despite this, just ashe did.
John himself has been a social en-trepreneur since school. With a flairfor maths and science, he and someclassmates used to tutor learnersfrom other schools, due to the short-age of maths and science teachers inthe area. “In Grade 11, we were tu-toring Grade 12 learners. That’s howpassionate we were.”
Once they matriculated and wentto university – John with a full bur-sary from SANRAL – the group
wanted to continue to make a differ-ence to Limpopo learners.
So they started an NPO called“Enlighters Edu-Solutions” andthey expanded it to include careerexhibitions. It continues to run todate.
This year, John started a secondNPO, Hi-Africa, for the purpose ofempowering the youth through na-tional conferences and summits.His long-term vision is to run theseevents across Africa.
He is “truly, truly grateful” towork for a company that is deeplycommitted to developing communi-ties and leaders, and encourages itsemployees to do the same. “SAN-RAL is wonderful. Allowing me torun this project and by sponsoringthe events, shows SANRAL’s com-mitment towards nation building.”
John said what kept him goingwas his deep faith, those who sup-port and mentor him and his pas-sion to see the country’s youth mo-bilised to make a difference. “Youhave to be passionate about whatyou do, and you have to be commit-ted – then you’ll know what to do.You’ll get ideas and you’ll be in-spired to act on them.” – REPORTER
Young leader organises youth conference
John Rammutla. PHOTO:SUPPLIED
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THENew Age Events company will presentthe third instalment of its Millennium Fri-day Show sponsored by Red Bull at theKwaDwesi Stadium on July 1.
New Age Events, which caters for sports,arts and cultural events, including fashiondesigning and tourism in the township, in-tends to go big with this event, accordingto co-founder Masixole Ngesi.Masi, as Ngesi is affectionately known,
said he and his co-founding colleague, SihleMabindisa, had started the company inJanuary because of their love for sports,arts and culture.Their events are held monthly to ensure
that new artists get a platform to showcasetheir talents each month.“We were also concerned by the number
of local artists who do not necessarily bene-fit from their creativity because of a lackof opportunities in the city,” he said.This platform, they believed, would en-
sure that local artists did in fact practisetheir arts and be paid for doing so.“We are doing this for the artists, some
of whom were breadwinners at home andwho because of a lack of such events wouldbe despondent and resort to wayward be-haviour like doing drugs and crime, Ngesisaid.Theywere hoping that with this platform
the artists’ talents would be exposed tolarger communities for support and possi-bly to talent scouts who would identify andopen doors for them.Ngesi said he believed New Age was cre-
ating an opportunity for musicians, poets,artists and fashion designers to shine.Fans will be able to vote for the Best Per-
formance of the Show, with the winner tak-ing homeR1 000 in prizemoney, Ngesi said.The show starts at 2pm and admission is
R10.
NewAgeevents exposesnewBay talent
Masixole Ngesi, aka Masi, is leading a crusadeto assist up and coming artists from theKwaDwesi area to shine. PHOTO:SUPPLIED
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THE finalists of the 2016 Winter MusicalTalent Show, organised byAudio Rage Pro-ductions and hosted at the Boardwalk willhave the chance to perform live in the finaltalent showcase to take place at The Board-walk Amphitheatre on Saturday, June 18.
The show, to start at 5pm, is open to thepublic which is encouraged to come downand experience Port Elizabeth’s exception-al performing talent.Aspiring singers, musicians and bands
took part in the auditions that were heldon June 3 and 4.The talent competition encourages
emerging performers – including singers,instrumentalists, rappers and a capellagroups – to showcase their talent for achance to win great prizes.Prizes include demo recordings and stu-
dio work amongst others.Tickets to the final show cost R60 per
person and R30 for children under 12 years
old.Event organiser, Teegan du Preez said,
“We want to unearth some of the hiddentalent which we know exists in Port Eliza-beth and give them an opportunity to per-form.”For more info, contact Audio Rage Pro-
ductions on 041 365 2891 or 082 619 3567.
Singers andmusicians invited to entermusical talent show
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SASOL League Coastal StreamLadies games took place recent-ly with some sides losing crucialgames in their bid to maintaintheir league status.In the battle of the Nelson
Mandela Bay sides, ManchesterBabes shared a 1-1 draw withMustangs Ladies at Jabavu Sta-dium in KwaNobuhle.University of Fort Hare gave a
good account of themselves de-spite succumbing 2-0 to Bir-mingham City Ladies in front oftheir home supporters in Alice.
Golden Stars could not shineover Thunderbirds Ladies whothumped them 8-0 at GelvanFields.City Lads who had been cam-
paigning for a long time in theSasol Ladies League gave thenewcomers SophakamaLadies abaptismal of fire when theyhanded thema4-0 defeat atChev-rolet stadium.
Sasol LeagueCoastalStream Ladies results
Mustangs Ladies Head CoachMarlon Louis is with his players.PHOTO: SELBY MADIKANE
SELBY MADIKANE
PHUMZILE Kilambe Mathumbu silenced thesupporters of his former side Peace Loverswhenhe scored an odd goal for YoungTeenag-ers against them during their PEEFA Pre-mier League game at KwaDwesi CommunityGrounds on Sunday.
The game was balanced with each sidesearching for an opening goal. Lots of goldenopportunities were missed by the two sides.Thematch officials had to put in extra effort
as it was a fast-paced game which producedplenty of fireworks.The supporters of these sides kept on sing-
ing – which motivated the players to fightbravely.Teenagers’ fans were sent into raptures
when Mathumbu came up with a long-await-ed goal late in the second half.United Brothers devastated their neigh-
bours Crystal City with a 2-0 win.Real Lion salvaged a comfortable 2-0 win
overHillside.Young Idols humiliatedPEEFAPremier League’s oldest side Real Aces 9-5.Aces were one of the PEEFA sides who had
a rich history.To the dismay of fans, the Young Bucks vs
Sophakama game was regarded as a deadgame as both sides did not turn up.
PEEFA First Division results:
FC Winners 4-1 Real Lion BYoung Aces 2-0 Soweto Stars
Kilambekills his former teamPeace Lovers
Peace Lovers FC gave a good account ofthemselves when they took on Young Teenag-ers. PHOTO: SELBY MADIKANE
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ELEVEN Attackers could not even scorea consolation goal when they were humil-iated in their two SAFA Nelson MandelaBay Women’s Regional League games atMotherwell NU 2 Stadium on Sunday.
Following their dismal performancethis season, Nobuhle Ladies drubbed At-tackers 12-0 in a one-sided game.Attackers seemed to have lost confi-
dence in them as the high-riding High-bury Ladies whacked them 18-0.As things stand, Attackers conceded 30
goals in their double-header. So far At-tackers are one of the sides in the regionalleague who have conceded themost goals.Kuyga Ladies, who are the newcomers
in the regional league, keep on losing alltheir games. They were drubbed 6-0 by
KUBS in their first game.Despite putting up a good fight they lost
2-0 to NMMU Madibaz in their secondgame.Madibaz showed their good fighting
spirit when they won their second clash4-0 over Vuku Wanderers.Continental Express also had a good
weekend after they won their two games.Express defeated Bodene Shatterprufe
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Other SAFA Nelson Mandela BayWomen’s Regional League results:
Continental Express Ladies Football Club with Head Coach Mondli Nyosi. PHOTO: SELBY MADIKANE
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FOLLOWING their 2-0 win over MajorChiefs on Saturday, Golden Aces are theZWIFA Ntando Tours and Transport Pre-mier League’s new log leaders.
Aces came to the game level with 29points with Zwide Pirates. Pirates’ partywas spoiled by Kuyasa United who heldthem to a 1-1 draw.
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let down by their side after it was ham-mered 8-1 by their neighbours Gal City.The much-improved Camper United se-
cured a well-deserved 4-2 win overMorningStars.Shooting Stars beat Young Killers 2-0
while Real Crusaders thwarted Zwide Celt-ics 5-1. Shooting Stars shared a 1-1 drawwith Sophakama. Strikers United also hada 1-1 draw against Swartkops United.
ZWIFA First Division results:Everton 0-2 Young BrothersMighty Heroes 0-0 Manchester City BHungry Lions 4-2 Real Crusaders
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HUNDREDS of football loving sup-porters braved the chilly rainyweath-er conditionswhen Showvillage Unit-ed Brothers June 16 Annual Tourna-ment games took place at MotherwellNU 9 Stadium over the weekend.
The tournament started off with around robin stage and it will end in aknockout stage on June 16.
The tournament is played by eightteams which are divided into twogroups.
Group A sides are Real City, RealStrikers, Royal Bucks and IkamvaMovers while Group B sides areShowvillage, Manchester FC, Liver-pool (from KwaZakhele) and High-land Spurs.Thewinners’ prize is R3 000; a float-
ing trophy and 20 gold medals whilethe runners-up go home with R1 000and 20 silver medals.
In the opening gameReal City tookRoyal Bucks to the cleaners when
they thrashed them 4-0.City’sgoalscamecourtesyofZukis-
ani Vayo, Sakhile Nkewana, AphiweMayana and Sipho Senteni whileThozamile Magwala came up withBucs’ late consolation goal.The defending champions Ikamva
Movers drew 1-1 with Real Strikers.The hosts played to a 1-1 draw
against Liverpool. Manchester FCdrew 1-1 with Highland Spurs. RealStrikers defeated Royal Bucks 2-0with Movers defeating City 1-0.
Royal Bucks midfielder Sinawo Tokwetackles Real City defender SakhumziNkewana. PHOTO: SELBY MADIKANE
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SHOWVILLAGE United Brothershosted the June 16 Juniors Annu-al Tournament atNelsonMandelaFreedom Peace Park in Showvil-lage on Saturday.
The tournament was playedstraight in a knockout format byU/13, U/15 and U/17 teams.
Thewinning teams in each cate-gory will walk away with a float-ing trophy and gold medals whilethe runners-up will be presentedwith silver medals.The finals will be played at Nel-
sonMandela Freedom Peace Parkon June 16.
The full results of the juniors:
U/13 Quarterfinals:
Ikamva Movers 2-1 ShowvillageFC Motherwell 0-2 Lion CityValencia 2-4 Channel PortoLiverpool 3-2 Manchester FC
U/15 Quarterfinals:
Manchester FC 2-0 Motherwell UnitedLion City 3-2 ValenciaChannel Porto 1-3 Ikamva MoversShowvillage 2-0 Liverpool
U/17 Semi-finals:
Manchester FC 0-2 Young BrothersShowvillage 1(4)-1(5) FC Motherwell
Results of ShowvillageUnited Brothers June 16Juniors Annual Tourney
Showvillage United U/15 players and their Head Coach Mthuthuzeli Nyarashe. PHOTO: SELBY MADIKANE
FANS who came in their droves to JabavuStadiuminKwaNobuhleover theweekend,watched Nobuhle-Despatch Football Asso-ciation (NODEFA) League spectaculargames.
In thePremier LeagueCity Friendswentdown 2-1 to Temptations with KUBS losing3-1 to Really Rangers.Chelsea overcame Uitenhage Black Aces
2-0 while Manchester Babes defeated Fear-not 2-1.Jamaican Stars supporters whimpered
when their side was drubbed 5-1 by GoldenChiefs.YoungCalliesearnedanoutright3-0victory over New City Stars.Amarhamba United gave Highland
Spurs a 3-0 hiding. Eleven Stars outplayedCity Style 3-0whileYoungCosmosdefeatedStokes United 5-2.In the First Division Young Brothers
earned a narrow 5-4 win over ArgentinaStars.Mighty Teenagers were awarded soft
points over Flamingo who did not honourthe game.All City Stars shared a 2-2 drawwithRes-
ervoir Strikers. Young Pirates whackedThemba Really Bucs 7-3.
BlackVultures overcame Young Culture2-0.CityFriendsB lost 2-1 toUnitedBrothers.– SELBY MADIKANE
Fansenjoy spectacularNODEFALeaguegames
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IT was a crunch time when PESundowns salvaged a hard-fought1-0win over StingingBees in theirNew Brighton Football Associa-tion Sedgars Sport PremierLeague scintillating clash at NewBrighton Oval Stadium on Satur-day.
Sundowns, who are a side withanever-say-die spirit did not showany respect for Bees who had re-
Downs kept on knocking on thedoorofBees.TheVukusidehadanabundance of easy scoring chan-ces throughout the entire game.Sundowns striker Zolani
Ndlebe was the luckiest playerwho had the most glorious oppor-tunity, but the striker could notmake the chances count for hisside.
In the 65th minute Sundowns
central defender Luzuko Jonasshowed his strikers how to scorea goal when he unleashed a shotthat beat Bees goalkeeper.
After scoring a goal, Jonasmar-shalledhisdefencewell.Bees triedto reply but it was too late.
CCXCallies who have had a tor-rid time this season, suffered ahuge defeat of 8-0 to NEBFA Sed-gars Sport Premier League erst-while champions Dodgers.Young Lions could not roar
when they were drubbed 7-0 by
Bush Bucks. Despite losing 1-0,Friendly City gave Red City a runfor their money.Roaring Tigerswho areNEBFA
Easter Tournament runners-up,cruised to a 2-1 win over EasternJumpers.WinterRovers,whohadashaky
start to the season, edged out PERovers 2-1.City Lads beat Boast Pirates 2-1
while Red White City went down2-1 to their neighbours City De-fenders.
Downs tame Bees
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PORT Elizabeth’s Lungisa Jikaniwill fight Gauteng’s Warren Jou-bert over 12 rounds in a fight forthe latter’s South African champi-onship at Emperor’s Palace,Kempton Park, next Friday 24June,
The two fighters will be lockinghorns for the second time afterJoubert whose known by the mon-
iker “The Warrior” won the lastfight for the then vacant title inApril 2015.
Joubert lost the title to GrantFourie in his first defence a fewmonths later.
He then beat Jason Bedeman onpoints and called Fourie for a re-match in a contest that includedtheWBA Pan African Super Light-weight title in March this year.
Joubert (with 33 fights, 24 wins,11 byway of KnockOut, four losses
and five stalemates) reclaimed theSA title after a hard fought 12rounds against his nemesis.
As things stand, the EasternCape Junior Welterweight cham-pion Jikani, alias Naughty, re-mains the mandatory challengerfor the title. This is after he foughta drawn battle against Asanda Ja-cobs of KwaNobuhle in Uitenhage.
“The boy (Jikani) is ready. Un-like the first fight, where we stillbelieve we were given a raw deal.
Jikani is well prepared this timearound,” said Jikani’s mentor Cai-phus Ntante of Walmer “We’ll gothere and bring the title home,whether it is on points or a KnockOut,” said Ntante.Ntante’s camp remains the only
one in NelsonMandela Bay to holda championship belt. His mini-fly-weight charge Siphosethu “TheGift” Ncisana holds the WBF in-ternational title while newlycrowned Nozipho Bell won the SA
Female Junior Lightweight title.“Joubert will not see what hit
him. Jikani is hungry for successand after being motivated by hisstablemates – who are champions– he sees winning this title verykey for his club and Nelson Man-dela Bay,” said Ntante.He said Naughty had good spar-
ring from the likes of Lesley Hope(EC Light heavyweight champion)and the star Lightweight pugilistAnele Msimang.