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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<strong>TIMELESS</strong> MAG<br />
By Godlive Masinge (Dj Gibbz) - Image sourced online<br />
TI M ELES S MAG ISSUE <strong>02</strong> OCTOBER 2017<br />
THE JOURNEY OF DJ SOUL CRUSHER OF MUNGHANA LONENE FM<br />
By Godlive Masinge - Image sourced online<br />
"My Mom inspires me; she taught me that<br />
everything in this universe is attainable through<br />
sheer hard work, and no pain, no gain.<br />
Bongani Meriam Sithole, affectionately<br />
known as DJ Soul Crusher on stage<br />
and radio by her fans was born on the<br />
06th of December 1987. She hails from<br />
Dinga Village in Malamulele, spent most of<br />
her childhood at Stinkwater (Pretoria) and<br />
now residing at Mankweng. DJ Soul Crusher<br />
is currently presenting "Gongomela" 22h00 -<br />
00h00 Monday - Thursday and "Xiseveseve"<br />
22h00 - 00h00 on Friday at Munghana<br />
Lonene FM.<br />
She is vibrant, funky, entertaining and has a<br />
very charming voice. While she was at<br />
Titirheleni Primary School, she used to participate<br />
in puppet and talent shows and continued<br />
at Mbhanyele High School where she<br />
attained 3 trophies for English Impromptu<br />
and prepared speech. Apart from the<br />
already mentioned achievements, she was<br />
also awarded one trophy for Xitsonga<br />
Impromptu speech, one for talent & puppet<br />
show motivational speaking and thirteen<br />
certificates ranging from excellent academic<br />
performance, poetry, speech, debate, public<br />
speaking & acting. She also led the English<br />
club and she was also motivating fellow<br />
learners during morning devotions. She<br />
matriculated in 2004 and always obtained<br />
position one/two in class. In 2005 she<br />
enrolled for a BA degree in Communications<br />
studies and Acting; and graduated in 2007.<br />
Her radio career kick-started in early 2005 at<br />
Radio Turf while she was attending orientation<br />
classes as an English news reader & a<br />
presenter until early 2010 where she attained<br />
two trophies and two certificates for<br />
being the best entertainment show presenter<br />
in 2007, she then joined Pro-Ads SA as a<br />
Game Store Radio Announcer for two years,<br />
then went to Jacaranda for seven month as<br />
a freelancer news reporter. In February<br />
2011 she joined a newly formed community<br />
radio station in Tzaneen, GT FM as a<br />
presenter & a news reader where she read<br />
news in English & presented a late night<br />
show called "Make the Circle BIGGER". In<br />
June of the same year she was promoted to<br />
the Programmes Manager position because<br />
of her hard work at the station. Hence she<br />
believes that everything in this universe is<br />
attainable through sheer hard work.<br />
She has been an MC on various events such<br />
as Letaba Expo, Giyani Show & various road<br />
shows, corporate events, she also adjudicated<br />
the British parliamentary debate in<br />
Howard College at the University of Kwazulu<br />
Natal. "My Mom inspires me; she taught me<br />
that everything in this universe is attainable<br />
through sheer hard work, and no pain, no<br />
gain. I am very passionate about radio and I<br />
believe failure is the egg we break to make<br />
an omelet of the future & I’m a hard worker.”<br />
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