TIMELESS MAGAZINE Issue 02
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Welcome to TIMELESS MAG, we speaks to an ever-inflating audience of diverse, young creative South Africans. If you have to put the our audience in a box and profile them, you'd find a racially diverse group of ingenious, intelligent South African males & females, aged anywhere
between 18 and 50, residing in Urban & Rural areas with access to internet via cell phones, desktops & laptops; and hungry for fresh, unrestricted perspectives on the South African experience.
Our aim is to produce the most relevant South African culture mag that interrogates, reflects and represents Southern Africa cultures, influential individuals, music and reality . We talk credibly with an influential, discerning, creative & racially-integrated segment - majority of young South Africans.
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TI M ELES S MAG ISSUE <strong>02</strong> OCTOBER 2017<br />
<strong>TIMELESS</strong> MAG<br />
WHAT YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT BEKA NTSAN’WISI<br />
By Godlive Masinge - Image sourced online<br />
Rebecca Beka Ntsan’wisi was born in<br />
1968 at Nkowankowa outside Tzaneen<br />
in Limpopo. Born to a father<br />
who was an educator and a school inspector,<br />
Rebecca Beka Ntsan’wisi believes in<br />
the power of acquiring knowledge like her<br />
late father.<br />
Rebecca Beka Ntsan’wisi started her education<br />
at Nkowankowa Primary School and<br />
matriculated at Hudson Ntsanwisi High<br />
School, which was named after her father -<br />
a man who had contributed to the improvement<br />
of the community. She went on to<br />
study music at the University of Venda.<br />
Rebecca Beka Ntsan’wisi, who is aptly<br />
known in Limpopo as “Mother Theresa”,<br />
has done a lot for the poor and povertystricken<br />
communities of this region. She<br />
has advanced colon cancer but this has not<br />
stopped her from serving the community.<br />
Together with the Department of Health,<br />
she has formed a support group to help<br />
those who are suffering from cancer and to<br />
dispel the myths of witchcraft which are<br />
prevalent in some of the communities. She<br />
works with people from deep rural areas,<br />
promoting healthy living and education.<br />
She has also assisted in bringing technology<br />
to the villages by arranging computer<br />
donations to schools. Currently, there are<br />
students from these rural areas realizing<br />
their dreams at the universities of Wits and<br />
Limpopo, all thanks to her assistance.<br />
When she joined the SABC in 1996, she was<br />
employed as a librarian assistant. Management<br />
realized she had the potential to become<br />
a good presenter who would be a bridge<br />
between the listeners and the station. She<br />
was then tasked with the responsibility of<br />
heading the station’s social responsibility<br />
programme. Despite her chronic illness, she<br />
has proved to be a live-wire, finding solace in<br />
helping the sick and the needy through her<br />
popular programme.<br />
As a radio presenter, she is able to talk to<br />
many listeners who phone in to discuss their<br />
problems. She then contacts the business<br />
community or health institutions for help.<br />
Among her many achievements was her<br />
assistance to the Mozambique community in<br />
Giyani to bury a fellow Mozambican whose<br />
body had spent six months in the mortuary<br />
due to penury. She was also instrumental in<br />
building houses for women in Mariveni & Dan<br />
Village. She initiated a number of developments<br />
in rural areas to assist local<br />
communities and has opened an office in<br />
Polokwane for youth development initiatives.<br />
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