Meet my friend

Meet my friend Tumie the star.

A spontaneous lady who loves make-up, especially the Smokey eye. I met this beautiful soul in high school and our paths crossed again in University. I would describe her as an introvert and a hard-core feminist , who funny enough is very loud around people she knows, Boitumelo is the kind of person who knows what she wants in life and she works hard towards achieving what her heart desires. She wants to one day be the next ophrah and have her own talk show, she records herself as if she is interviewing people, she says that studying Media brings her a step closer to achieving that goal. Her favourite line is allow, of which she mentions unnecessarily, this lady eats a lot and thank God she has good genes, Last year Boitumelo fell pregnant of which wasn’t part of her plan, she felt as if her world was falling apart and she felt stuck and had disappointed herself and her family, despite the situation she was in. my star returned to school to continue with her studies and she is now  doing her  final year, what I learned from Tumi is that perseverance and determination will keep one going despite the circumstances you are facing. She travels daily  to and from Bloemfontein and never has she once missed school, her passion for school is out of this world. Her fear is not being able to achieve her goals and she loves Beyonce and sings and dances along to every song.

life on campus

Life on campus

I had the opportunity to attend an art exhibition on campus and what a beauty it was. The University of the Free State has an art gallery, Johannes Stegmann Art Gallery situated at Sasol library. On 09/04/2014 was the official opening of the annual student art exhibition, the title this year is OCULUS which is the Italian word for eye. The event was well attended, Dean of faculty of humanities Professor. LJS Botes was also present.  when entering the gallery, we were welcomed with music by a live band. Before the procession, attendees where served snacks with wine and juice. Students who study B.A degree in fine arts created the master pieces, wanted the audience to be aware of how they view art.  Angela was the mc of the event, she started off by greeting the attendees and then went on introducing the guest speaker Elrie Joubert,  a lecturer at the Department of Graphic Desig, Joubert mentioned that the main idea behind the setup of the exhibition, it is divided in two categories: man-made objects and nature, on the left hand side of the gallery where man-made objects and on the left is was nature, it was said these two sides where communicating with each other and at the back was self-portraits symbolising that they are staring back at us. It is amazing on how a lot of effort is put on the set up of the gallery on would think they just placed them there. The main idea of the student exhibition is to give art student the opportunity to showcase their work and get recognition, some of the paintings were up for sale ranging from R115-3000. The exhibition will run until 2/05/2014, it is open for public.

live band.

gallery

Back of the gallery

Elrie Joubert giving a speech

The painting caught my eye.

my take on things

South African entertainment industry: 

The entertainment industry is labelled one of the most cruel industry to join, it is said that it is not for the faint-hearted. entertainment industry we are talking about radio, television music. The scene from south Africa entertainment industry is not accommodating on new talent. be it you are in music acting or just presenting. we see the same faces everywhere, let us take Pearl Thusi for instance, she acts, presents and she's also on radio is she really talented? When South African celebrities are questioned about why they get involved in so many activities they say the industry requires one to be versatile. I believe one should specialize on a single craft and be perfect in it. Taking a look at Hollywood, you will not see Charlize Theron being a radio deejay or presenter, they go on radio to be interviewed not to do the interview and we wonder why Hollywood is big? It is big because they look for talent and not the already famous celebrities. South Africa has the national school of arts and AFDA where young hopefuls go to study to be presenters, actresses radio deejays, these kind of schools do not come cheap a presenting course costs roughly R.5000.  These graduates are being exploited because should they get a presenting/acting gig it will be a brief appearance and they get paid less. However the industry somehow exploits the musician too in an interview Brian Themba, who now also act, mentioned that he wishes for a day where South African artists are not just opening for and international artist in a music concert instead these international artist should be treated in the same level with local artists when there are called to perform in south Africa.