Masingita Mzilikazi Masiya

Author of The Right To Mourn, a poet, a friend, a brother, a thought. Here is a man who has dedicated his life to writing from the heart and living life passionately.

I first met Masingita when he had cornrows on his head, earrings on his ears and pants that sat right below the designated position. He was the epitome of an upcoming hip hop king not forgeting his over sized sneakers. Today he has a bald head, no trace of earrings on his ears despite the evidence of previous ear piercings and a fashion sense only known to a man who has been around the block fashion wise.

He has an imagery of the vision he has for his life as a human being.

He has a blog by the name "thoughts in transit" whose vision is to introduce the market to my writing via the blog and thus establishing a relationship with the reader pre, through and post book buying. He owns a publishing company called Lefoko la kgosi which means your word is king.

His passion for the finer things through the spoken word led him to write a book called The Right To Mourn after his father's death, he calls the book a conversation. he is the sole founder of the company but now co-owns it with Joy Mathebula who looks into marketing and Khayalethu Ngoma who does the graphics.

He has an eye for fashion and has a personal designer Zanozuko Skorzch Sithetho,who tailor made his suit for his book launch on the 09th of December 2012 at The National Library of South Africa in Pretoria. 

The suit is a representation of what the client requires out of his clothing; the simple elegance of a gentleman.

Nature is one of his most favourite items to look at on mother earth and what better way to show his love for fashion and nature than in this custom designed picture courtesy of Kgaugelo Emmanuel Kganyago.

He has an ear for music and classic music takes the cup,and one would wonder what he was doing with this bass guitar below beats me.

 Central Baptist Youth Department Winter Camp was very interesting

Masingita is a born again christian who fellowships at First Winterveldt Baptist Church,he is the vice president at Central Baptist Youth Department's region under the Baptist foundation of South Africa.

The pain of loving someone who does not love you back

The pain of loving someone who does not love you back

I met him over six months ago
Tall. Dark and oh! so handsome he was
The epitome of authority and manhood
He is a man

I dreamt of how he would caress me softly
How we would spend endless nights cuddling and talking about
all that we have together
How He would breathe the same air as I

Call me all night long, whattsapp me through out the day
And love me carelessly
I dreamt that he would take me home
And make me his wife
I would carry his kids and be their mother

We would live together, be together
And taste the forbidden fruit in the confines of
a circle around my finger

I felt a strong sense of security, I became vulnerable around
him: told him everything,: I gave myself over to him
I did not feel ashamed to pour out my heart to
him because I did not see room for disappointment

I lured myself to him
Only to find that he does not feel the same about me
I was crushed: Became bitter and went into a zone of
void: I felt all alone and I got mad at love.

I felt as though what I lived for had gone down the drain
I had no reason to love anymore.

Now here I am over-sensitive and over protective of my heart
And here I am signing out
I do not want to lose my boyfriend because of insecurities
I got from the past.


I am letting go of all the anger, bitterness, rage
and hurt of not being loved and I am moving on to
love the one who loves me too: Me.

I cannot allow "his mistakes and my faults to overshadow my
judgement and make my current boyfriend pay for it.
Yes! I am fell hard for you and hard! I was rejected
So now I know where I stand and I have accepted it
And I am moving on.
 Such pain is not good for my heart

I take a bow and bury all bitterness
I miss the old me who had a sense of humour
and did not take everything to heart.
well she is back with a BANG!

LEGGO
From the heart
Caro-on-the-grind

 

Venting Fridays is a poetry platform to be recogned with

VENTING FRIDAYS IS A POETRY PLATFORM FOR ANYONE WITH A STANZA TO RENDER

Ever wanted to spit some thoughts through poetry or read what other people have to say? If this is you, then social networks are your solution.

Tshepang Sekgororwana has a stage name Sthesh,which is his alter ego because he is naturally an introvert. It all goes back to his persona, venting out is where Sthesh comes out to play with words. He started voicing his poems as status messages on Facebook where he would post a stanza.

This grew to be a group called Venting Fridays. He almost quit writng because the emotions were becoming real and he would have gotten involved in his emotions too much but his passion for poetry helped him overcome that.

Tshepang describes VF Clothing as ; "The VF Clothing Line is not an innovative brand, but rather a re-innovative brand that aims at reclaiming and elevating Urban Street Wear. It bares the very essence of the highly vocal and opinionated youth. The Slogan is : "we venting on fabric"

The group's aim is to grab a larger audience and seeking validation, he invited people to the group to speak up and co-operate in his making his dream a reality. The name VENTING FRIDAYS came in 2012, it was inspired by Kanye West's Good Fridays: where Kanye posted a new song every Friday for eight months straight. In 2008 Tshepang wrote a book called 'The journey through words volume 1' which is currently being proof read by Millicent Shirindza.

Katlego Matjila is Venting Fabric's First Male Ambassador and Tshepang's close friend.

Tshepang has four manuscripts in the pipeline which have not been published yet. And here is the man himself:

No eagle can ever snatch his dream away from him

Venting Fabrics came as an aftermath of the success that Venting Fridays has become, the clothing line ranges from caps to t-shirts to hoodies in all sizes and clours. Here is an example of some of the designes of Venting Fabrics. He gives acknowledgement to his ambassadors among others:

Katlego Matjila, Obakeng Makweya, Mashadi Motiang, Keogotsitse Matabane, Matshidiso Motumi, Nothando Mathibela, Gomolemo Bessie, Sarah Komane, Themba Manaba, Tsholofelo Matabane, Karabo Modise, Reabetswe Matabane, Cindy Barnett, Ntebogeng Matabane, Lerato Ramogama, Nthebaleng Twala, Tshepo Mokhethwa, Kgomotso Maponyane, and Kgothatso Matabane.

Venting Fabrics has over 20 ambassors made up of people who carry the same vision as Tshepang

As the ambassodors have shown us,there are different designs of the logo that he came up with Kelebogile Letsholo and Naledi Mhangwane from Mamelodi who is a graphic designer. He gives a special  thank you to NERD REBUPLIC:  

Who ensure that Tshepang's designs are forever on point and pleasing to the customer.

A group called Agape Youth Movement whose Mission is "aimed at bringing a transformation in the lives of many people around our communities to equip them with social, academic, financial and spiritual skills" sourced Tshepang on Venting Fridays and he took part in their first annual poetry session.

Tshepang recieves a certificate of participation at the AYM poetry session.

He was featured in Rekord Noweto, a community newspaper that lives to inform the people of Soshanguve,Ga-rankuwa and Hammanskraaal. His video is available on youtube called Intro by Tshepang.

Tshepang is currently studying Geography with Unisa,he studied Geography and Geology with the Universtity of Johannesburg. His uncle,David Sekgororwana is the man who has made all of these dreams come true through his financial contributions into Tshepang's business which is currently paying for his fees at Unisa.

Big ups to the uncle for caring for his future generation. He is highly grateful to Katlego Matjila (close friend) and Jay Lite (of JF Design and Services) who made VF Clothing possible.

David Sekgororwana

People are having mixed emotions of disbelief that a young,black man form the location can make a name for himself through poetry and clothing.

Mashadi Motiang and Katlego Matjila

Currently the future holds a photoshoot for Venting Fridays and Venting Fabrics which are ran on seperate terms but work together as a unit.  

The theme of the photo shoot is Reclaiming the streets. The bigger picture is to re brand our childhood and adolescents of today must see what they are missing out on. it is a form of social responsibility platform, indigenous games will be played.

Kelebogile Letsholo

And his last words were "I'd like to thank everyone who has been behind this movement, from the poets who have been posting their poems, to those who have been appreciating the poems, to the VF Clothing ambassadors for endorsing the brand and to those who have spent the rand copping the brand, thanks to the maltitude for the magnitude of support, I forever stay in an altitude of greatest gratitude!'

From the heart
Caro-on-the-grind
xoxo