QUOTE OF THE DAY

                                      '' Education of a journalist is education of the masses''

                                                     -Aaron Akwete, Malawi Journalist.

GAZZA

 The Namibian active musician. Lazarus Karandu Shiimi is a Namibian male artist who is popularly known as gazlam, the king, groote. He released an album in 2004 by the name Tanauka meaning turn which contained a hit songs '' Shidolodolo'' of which it was awarded as  the best collaboration of the year by Sanlam NBC Music award.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge5853_at6U.

I was only 10  when Gazza released his first album and i would remember writing  Gazza Music Production (GMP) on almost  at every shirt i had.i was and still a fan of Gazza i really love listening to his musics as his music  have a variety of different genre.Gazza is one of the Namibian artist whose music is defined as as a mix of several influence namely kwaito, dance hall, reggae and hip hop. Apart from the above Gazza was the first  Namibian artist to receive six awards in one evening (sanlam NBC music awards)in 2006 in addition to the six he later received three award  at the Namibia Music Awards (NAMAS). Currently his new album titled pumumu is still trending across the Southern Africa music circuit with the hit song ''Get It On Tonight and Abangani Bako ft. Emtee Saudi''.

Because of his hardworking and producing good quality songs and music videos he now have a very big number of fans including both youth and adults. he is really doing a great job in the music industry. Gazza tries all his best not to disappoint his fans furthermore he is putting Namibia on the map.

                                                              FRIENDSHIP.                                                                                   

                                                

Getting  a person to call a friend is quit easy but to find a true friend  might take you miles.

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
Ann Landers

The Benefits of Friendship

Benefits of Friendship

Spending time with friends is deeply gratifying for most people, and it carries some surprising side effects:  not only does it improve your mood and self-esteem, it also reduces stress and lowers your risk for terminal illness!

Maintaining friendships can be hard during those middle years, when work and family often take higher priority – but for a longer, happier, more fulfilling life, it’s certainly worth the effort.

Friendship is an excellent prescription for all kinds of physical and emotional pain. The Mayo Clinic reports that friendship can “increase your sense of belonging and purpose, boost your happiness, reduce stress, improve your self-worth, [and] help you cope with traumas, such as divorce, serious illness, job loss or the death of a loved one.¹”

It’s no surprise, then, that most people greatly value their friends, and often turn to them first in times of crisis, even before spouses or relatives.

             Place that I enjoyed visiting as a young child.

It was under the influence of my elder brother that I liked visiting this place. Village was not my place to be as I was born and raised in the city. Hence living with a brother I could not have any other choices therefore to go with him to the village during holidays was a must.

I did not have any idea of why he liked the village so much or perhaps just because he was born at the village that’s why he could not spent a month in the city without visiting.

This was a small village called kasote which was situated at the outskirt of Okavango region just a few meters from the kavango river. At the age of 6 I and my brother paid a visit to the village and to my surprise I enjoyed village life like never before. After a two weeks of stay at the village I met a boy by the name John he was my best friend I liked him for this reason we had the same personalities. Apart from John I also met three naughty boys Kangongo,Wambala and Yombi though they were elder then me I still call them naughty because every evening this three boys had I private gather and they would call me to teach them Afrikaans. They would say things in their vernacular language of which I did. Furthermore there were days they asked me to sing in Afrikaans.

My grandmother was one of those people that made my days at the village. She liked me more than her other granddaughters and grandsons and was hated by my fellow brother and sisters. I think she liked me because I didn’t stay close to her and she could only see me once or twice a year.

She was in her seventies yet she looked young and strong. She had three fields of crops of which she planted yams beside this she also had a mahangu field.

I enjoyed village life and I was so angered when my brother told me the night before that we would be living the next day. This time around I didn’t have any reason to stay behind although I wanted to, because school was to commence within few days. After our arrival in Windhoek I could stop thinking of all the fun I had in fact the the love I received from my grandma. My grandma was my love. Village was the place I enjoyed visiting.

welcome to the world of happiness

Good life after struggle.

Thomas lived in a small town called Usakos about 15 years ago. He lived with her wife Taleni with their five years old daughter Sarafina.

Thomas was employed at a filling station in Karibib as a cashier while her wife could accumulate fire wood which she used for cooking as well as for light during night and she could sell some for an income. Karibib is a town situated 30 km east from Usakos. Thomas was commuting to and from work with a bicycle.

After being employed at the filling station for a period of five months he noticed that he worked overtime hence his income remained the same. He had a thought of resigning at times however because of his background he kept on working. Two years past Sarafina was enrolled at a government primary school. She was a very hard working girl and due to her commitment his father worked his fingers to the bone to help her.

She matriculated at the age of 17 and she was awarded a bursary to study Journalism and media at the Open University of Tanzania[OUT].The course of her choice as she had been dreaming of being a TV presenter.

However she was not told by her parents that she was awarded a bursary, they kept it as a secret because they wanted to surprise her.

On a Sunday night after dinner Thomas called her daughter together with her wife in the sitting room .Sarafina was scared because his father had never called her before. His father started by starring at her with wrinkles on his forehead as if Sarafina had done something wrong. And he eventually started the conversation and this were his words’’ Sarafina I have got for you a job and you will start working as soon as possible’’. she was browned off to hear this from his father and in a calm voice she replied’ ’daddy I had made it to university I would want to study further and I still want to become the TV presenter that I have been talking about all this years’’.

Her mother with a smile on her face whispered ’’my daughter we are aware about that but, the fact that we don’t have money to pay for you tution fees you should just start working so that we start saving. Sarafina was angered by this.

Amazingly his father told her that ‘young lady congratulations it’s time for you to fly’’. Her mum started laughing Sarafina was confused at the moment. She did not had an idea on what his father was talking about.He further told her that the Social Security Commission had award you a bursary to study further. Sarafina was very excited that she started packing her things and she was ready to go. This was probably her first time to have a flight.

Two days later she went to Tanzania. She studied for a four years honors degree in journalism and media. She experienced a lot and her four years of staying there became like twelve months. After completing her studies she returned to Namibia and was employed at NBC as a TV presenter.

After working at NBC for a year she bought for her parents a house in Swakopmund and she was transferred to work in Windhoek .Sarafina is now as wealthy as Bill Gates.