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Ancient Monarchy, Firetown’s no 1 reggae music promoter through the works of Lava is back pon top a tings. This time around they are rocking 2010 in a local raggamuffin style and fashion.
Ancient Monarchy reggae tour poster
We are pushing local reggae music to the maximum by taking the artists to the people. Reggae music in South Africa is under strict media shutdown so it is tought to be a reggae music promoter, you have to start from zero.
South Africans may be having a high cellphone penetration but that does not instantly translate to mean that communication is accessible to the ordinary citizen.
A young Grahamstown resident browsing a cellphone
According to a brief survey conducted by the Chair of Media and information society at Rhodes University school of journalism in about 100 Grahamstown homes and residents in Joza township in the end of 2009, it was discovered that although a lot of people have access to mobile handsets, they seriously cannot afford airtime, receive bad service and technical quality sound. This also impacts negatively in their lives.
Almost 85% of the survey respondents said they use a free 10 letter word customisation call ‘please call me’ offererd by the mobile service providers or dial and drop for someone to call back. Other than that, their cellphones work as a clock, a receiver handset with minimal or no outgoing calls at all.
Plz call me
Sebenzile Sankobe , a local resident and member of the Unemployed People’s Movement said,
”the inability to comunicate ‘like a disease that will disable you to reach a certain point in life because once you miss some opportunities in life they will never come back at least for as long as you live”.
Just before the fall of last tattered piece of the purple poster signalling the Grahamstown tour by the English dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson.
LKJ concert poster
As sights, sounds and flavour brought by this odd concert by the well travelled poet dwindle into the world of forgotten.
LKJ and Dennis Bovell Band in Grahamstown
I feel the need to add one more line to this story already told to highlight a crucial role played by local bands and the audiences in this concert.
I could not believe my eyes as I saw Grahamstown listed amongst metropolitan venues like Durban, Cape Town and Johannesburg. Read the rest of this entry »
Bobotical views
Bobo Starliner, a well known Rastafari artist based in Mdantsane has been visiting the Grahamstown festival for the past three years or more to showcase his art paintings.
Currently he is working on his 2010 presentation for the Grahamstown national arts festival under the theme called “ Mdantsane landscapes”. Read the rest of this entry »
One Grocott’s Mail newsroom legend dates from before the arrival and widespread public access of cellphones. It says that every morning when Madikane woke up and opened his door there was a short queue of people waiting to tell him about news tips or photo taking opportunities of different kinds.
Madikane Jelu - 1974-2009
Fast forward to present day, a considerable number of people in Grahamstown felt comfortably connected to the media if they had Madikane’s number, valuing it above the any newspaper or journalist or editors telephone numbers.
Madikane received news tips from as far as Peddie, Bathurst and Port Alfred, Bisho and King William’s town. He had connections from Bhisho high flyers to the lowest commoner in Grahamstown. Read the rest of this entry »
Music for Charity event
Akulalwa eRhini ngale mpelaveki eRhini njengoko iAncient Mornarchy isiphathele umnyhadala womculo wereggae ngomgqibelo 24 October eThe Tunnels eRhini edolophini. Read below in English Read the rest of this entry »
Ikhoba lecwecwe lika X Nasty elithi Ubom
UXolile Madinda, ogama lakhe leqonga lingu X Nasty ohamba negqiza leDef BoyZ naye uzibonakalisile ukuba unetalente kumculo buciko (hip -hop) ngokushicilela icwecwe elingoma enye ethi Ubom ngolwimi lwesixhosa.
Lengoma ikwasetyenziswe ukuba ibe sisandi somboniso weqonga Ubom ,okwaququzelelwa uphuhliswa apha eRhini.
Sekulithuba u X Nasty ehamba esenza iintshukumo ezichaseneyo nesini (gender activism) ,ukukhuthaza imfundo nenkqubela kulutsha eRhini nakwindawo ngendawo.
Fingo Revolutionary Movement and Sosac in action
Oku ukwenza ngemibutho abe nenxaxheba enkulu ekusekweni kwayo iFingo Revolutionary Sisonke Movement ne Sosac ((Save Our Schools And Community Initiative).
Konke ke oku ukuvakalisa ngomculo weHip hop. Ubom ndingathi yisingle esifuna ukuyipusher kwiradio idlalwe kodwa ibe inequality nepackage eyi good quality. Yisingle ebonakalisa ukuba umculo ingaba yinto ephilwayo.
Xa uqaphela ingoma yokuqala iye isisxelele ngezinto ezidibanisa ikhaya, elandelayo uJudas Theory ithathe lengoma yokuqala iyise kwelinye izinga aze Udlezinye ashicilele, utsho uNasty.
“Ubom yisingle esiyipushayo ukwenzela ukuba abantu bayazi xa kuphuma the full album ungalindela ntoni”,
utsho uNasty.
Abantwana nabo bafumana ithuba lokuthetha
Xa ebuzwa ukuba leliphi icala elithatha ubukhulu kubomi bakhe phakathi kwentshukumo (activism) nomculo uthi,
Dlala mapantsula
“Kunzima ukuzahlula ezi zinto zimbini, iactivism indinika icontent okanye uvuthondaba. Xa ndihlala phantsi ndibhala, ndibhala into endiyiphilayo. Zizombini ezi zinto ziphana amandla.
Ndivakalisa ndifundisa ngemiba yeentshukumo ndisebenzisa umculo.
Ndimenywa ngaphandle kweRhini ukuza kucula ndisele ndidibane nabanke abashukumi (activists) sabelani ngolwazi nangomculo.”
Uthi icwecwe elipheleleyo elizakuba negama elithi “The power of X”. UNasty uthi,”U “X” usetyenziswe ngeendlela ngendlela lihlabathi lonke.
”Abanye bamsebenzisa ukuvota, ukukhetha ukungavumelani, ukwakha amazwe nokuwachitha. Ngeli cwecwe ndizakuba ndibona amandla ka X.”
UNasty uthi kancinci kancinci iRhini libonakala liwulungele umnyaka ka 2010 kwicala lolonwabo njengoko kwimisitho ebikho kulonyaka uqaphele nokuba abantu sele bekwazi nokukhupha imali ngokumamela umculo.
Kutshanje uX Nasty uthe wazimanya ngeqhina lomtshato nesithandwa sakhe sobom uNomalanga Mkhize kodwa uthi oku akunafuthe lakumsusa kwiintshukumo zakhe.
“Ndicinga ukuba lonto ingatshintsha ubumna, kwaye mna nesithandwa sam sadityaniswa ngulo msebenzi kuqala”, utsho uNasty.
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