Ziyaw'eDurban online mag

Welcome to our long anticipated first issue of Ziyawa-e-Durban online Magazine.

DJ Vumar is the cream of crop! Making headlines his new album out we can’t help but share in the excitement of yet another Durbaniterocking the national charts so scroll to (pages 32-39 ) to uncover the super sizzling DJ Vumar, we managed an exclusive scoop withthe busy heavy daily schedule DJ. His album is out in stores grab yourself a copy DJ Vumar and Friends Vol.1.

It’s all about getting up close with socialite-Ville in Durban so check out the latest trendy news on DJ Sandra (on pages 11-15) hegave us the 411 on himself as we drilled him with our personal favourite 20 questions talk about a person that was just born to do it,spot on!

We have a tribute poem to the anchors of humanity our splash on Life’s Jewels focuses on women in society that are our icon & rolemodels (on page 66)

Please take a browsing spree to our fashion highlights (on pages 44-51) and much more on offer.

Don’t miss out on our “Outside the Convention” piece where we capture a talented creative that makes you think outside the box withcontrasts of his work (on pages 18-23).

While you at it how about some drool on the eye candy unwrapped on the Durban shores gents (page 43) and for the ladies we won’tplay you mind you it hums like a bird (page 57).

So let’s dip in to our first scoop which will make for a chunky intake. Special thanks to the magazine team for all your hard work &sleepless nights it’s all water under the bridge now it was worth the sweat.

This is Ziwaya”e”Durban’s Magazine first born of many more editions to splash your screens, till next month.

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DECOR

Real Name : Anita Makhathini

Birthday : 22 September 1992

Occupation : High School Student, Part time Model & Promoter

Age : 17yrs

Anita gorgeous & with a bubbly personality was born and raised

Pinetown. The 17yr old is currently doing her matric at Pinetown

Girls High. In her spare time she enjoys running and netball she

enjoys outdoor activities, she also has a love animals

Anita enjoys her social time with friend, with flair to socialise and

meeting new people which is one of the reasons she enjoys her

part time jobs which involve part time modelling Ice Management

Models & Promoting for Happy Faces Promotions Agency.

Family time is also precious to ambitious beauty, She goes on

to express that like most young people she has dreams she

would like to accomplish one of her most immediate ones after

matric is to join the airhostess academy since one of her may

passions is to travel the world & what more convenient &

economical way to see the world not just a pretty face.

FASHION

My favourite time of the year is when 31st Durban

International Film Festival opened at the Suncoast Casino.

Having growing bigger and become the meeting tree for

the world and especially young African filmmakers. The

opening film confirmed the view I had held on South African

cinema for more than four years. The view I had is that

South African cinema post-apartheid is about people

tracing. Some travel to their roots, some trace lost family

members and some trace themselves inward.

Khalo Matabane’s first feature (Filmography; Conversations

on a Sunday Afternoon, When We Were Black) film State

of Violence is more about dealing with inner demons for

his main character then it is about the ‘State of Violence’.

While our violent past is the actual demon that haunts

Bobedi a.k.a Terror,(portrayed by Fana Mokoena) it is the

cycle of violence that is kept when we fail to go back into

ourselves every time we witness or participate in a traumatic

or violent situation. Not blaming Apartheid State of Violence

only looks at the life of Bobedi when he witnesses his own

relative kill brutally ‘comrades’. When this relative is court

in a vigilante manner and necklaced with a tire, young

Bobedi is the one who pours petrol over him and lights

him up. Later in the years a successful BEE, one night a

balaclava wearing young man breaks into his house and

ties him down as he kills his wife. This sends Bobedi in a

blood thirsty hunt for the killer. And when he discovers

that his young cousin JQ did this the inner conflict intensifies.

I am one of those who have often felt that our violent

nature as South African ‘black’ men is always

misrepresented as just gangsters fighting for respect,

violence to us is not as those Hollywood influenced

filmmakers make it. I have in the past been against films

like Tsotsi, Jerusalema, Hijack Stories for the way they

tend to make violence seem like a dis-ease of the poor

black man. Khalo seems to put perspective in out ‘State

of Violence’. Having myself seen and heard many in the

early 90’s burn to death in a tire necklace horror (of cause

you cannot run away once it begins because you get

accused of being a spy running to the police) I realised

that my fear of violence comes with that understanding of

real horror however I would feel that if my family is

threatened I have to display the same brutality I witnessed.

While most people might find the film incomplete or lacking

the ‘grand’ conclusion, it adds to the South African cinema

a much needed view of the violent African male in South

Africa.

Maybe we should ask nothing from Khalo but celebrate

that the long held image of a young black man as a drunk,

gun crazy, blood thirsty gangster can take the much more

understandable ‘victim’ of horror or victim of the violent

struggle against apartheid.

State of Violence is written and directed by Khalo Matabane.

Cinematographer : Matthys Mocke

Cast : Fana Mokoena, Presley Chweneyagae, Neo

Ntlatleng.

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