Something Nice with Dinano

#MaselloMotana #SomethingNicewithDinano #Democracy #Activism #LandReform #KingLukaJantjie #LukaJantjie #Colonialism #MthokozisiNtumba #FeesMustFall #CyrilinaRamaposer #DigitalVibes 

Artist Activist, Masello Motana talks about what is wrong with our governance systems.   She also gives her opinion on the whether democracy is the best governance system for South Africa. 

On this interview she also explains the role of art and artists in political activism. Masello is of the firm belief that black people need to stop blaming white people for their hardships and start working towards unity and African governance systems.  Her latest work is a street performance where she re-enacts the killing of Mthokozisi Ntumba by police during the recent #FeesMustFall protests in South Africa. 

In the play, she explores and questions the power of the state, its role in providing education and the power of the police.  Masello is clear about what she wants to achieve with her art but maintains that she can only create work that stimulates our critical thought, but what we do with those thoughts is completely up to us as consumers, as citizens.   

She also has a rap artist persona, Cyrilina Ramaposer, where she raps about topical issues in South African politics, check out her latest single Digital Vibes featuring The Crocodiles -  https://soundcloud.com/user-523630727/digital-vibes-by-cyrilina-ramaposer-the-crocodiles

#SomethingNicewithDinano #LandReform #Colonialism #KingHintsa #Bambatha #EWC #SouthAfrica #LandDispossession 

Performing Artist and Land Activist, Masello Motana has taken the fight for land in South Africa to new artistic levels. Her dramatic depictions of key historical moments in the dispossession of blacks from their land is profound and artistically captivating.   

In this interview with Something Nice with Dinano, Masello vividly paints the cruelty of colonialism in Africa and the history of land dispossession in South Africa, from an Artists perspective. Masello Motana is an actress,singer and street performer in South Africa who is not afraid to challenge the status quo through her art.  

One of her recent works, The Three Beheaded Kings focuses on the murder of Kings, Hintsa, Bambatha and Luka Jantjie. She held a demonstration outside a public hearing where South Africa was embarking on land hearings on the proposed changes to Section 25 of the South African constitution.   

The proposed changes seek to give government the powers to expropriate land without compensation (EWC).   Motana also did a dramatic interpretation of a "court case" where Luka Jantjie was tried for refusing to move from his ancestral land.  

In this conversation, Motana also looks at some of the laws that cemented the fate of black people as they were forcefully removed from their spaces.  

The conversation on land is important in Africa as the continent continues to deal with the effects of colonialism stemming from the removal of many native African people from their homes.   

Recently in Namibia, the German government has committed to pay reparations for the brutal genocide of the Herero and Nama people in the southern African country. 

South Africa and Namibia have a lot in common on the issue of land dispossession as the two were previously ruled by the notorious apartheid regime of South Africa.

Part 2 of Something Nice with Dinano with Owen Ndlovu, Business man, hustler and intellectual property rights activist, Ndlovu says he is now in talks with the SABC to sort out the issue of Ingoma eyahlukanisa unyaka (Song of the year). 

He is also working on a business system to help artists track the rotation of their songs on radio stations. 

The system will help musicians to rightfully claim their royalties through the correct channels to benefit fully from their intellectual property rights.

#OwenNdlovu #SomethingNicewithDinano #IntellectualProperty #IngomaYonyaka #IngomaEyahlukanisaUnyaka #SABC #SongOfTheYear #UKhoziFM   

In this two part interview, Owen Ndlovu says he is not a broadcaster but an entertainer. He says his background has pushed him to become a better person. A street smart hustler, business man and sports entertainer .   

Ndlovu was born in Soweto but moved to Newcastle in 1976 during the Soweto Uprising when he was only 4.  

He says growing up poor was motivation enough to make success of himself. He attributes Cyril Bongani "Kansas City" Mchunu and Koos Radebe as his early influences for wanting to get into radio a dream he soon realized after coming back to Johannesburg when he obtained his matrix certificate.   

His broadcasting journey started at Soweto Commumity Radio to YFM and later UKhozi FM and SABC 1, Soccerzone.   In this interview with Something Nice with Dinano, Ndlovu talks about influencing youth culture at YFM and money lessons learnt along the way. He also talks about almost becoming a musician with Dan Tshanda and Dalom Kids after he was influenced by Zulu maskandi group Soul Brothers.

#SomethingNicewithDinano #OwenNdlovu #SoccerZone #SportAt10 #SABC #YFM #Maskandi #SoulBrothers  

With a career spanning less than 10 years in the media industry, it is hard to believe what Spitch Nzawumbi has accomplished in such a short space of time.    

From campus radio to Africa's biggest broadcaster, SABC he has managed to host shows on both television and radio.   Now a government communicator, he says he is only getting started. 

In this second episode of a two part interview, Nzawumbi talks about his future plans career-wise and also dabbles on what he indulges in during his spare time.  

Spitch is also passionate about mentorship, saying it is one of the things he wants to get more involved in as he grows in his career as a communicator.

With a career spanning less than 10 years in the media industry, it is hard to believe what Spitch Nzawumbi has accomplished in such a small space of time. 

A born story-teller, it is no surprise that he managed to host some of SABC's top current affairs programs before reaching the age of 30.  In this interview with Spitch Nzawumbi, he talks about his upbringing, his relationship with his grandmother and how God's providence has played a major role in directing his career path in the communications and media space.  

Nzawumbi says with every opportunity that has been presented to him, he always imagined himself in that position and lo and behold, he would end up where he had imagined he would be. This is an inspirational interview about how a rural boy conqoured the South African media space.   

From hosting Ilungelo lakho on SABC 1, to current affairs programs on #SABCNews​ channel 404, to entertainment as a DJ on Umhlobo Wenene (UWFM) Sijikilanga, Spitch has seemingly done it all. But he says "I am only getting started."

Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, Cardano, Polkadot, Doge….the future of money is here. HardC0re Crypto  aka Grey Jabesi, is a Bitcoin and Altcoins trading guru, Content creator and founder of Crypto University. 

His journey on the path of seeking financial freedom drove him to quit his job, sell his car and invest in Bitcoin back in 2016.  

He says, after this move, the market crashed, and people laughed at him, he help his crypto investments and it has paid off. Now he owns a crypto app platform in Malawi and runs an online institution, Crypto University, where he teaches people about investing in Bitcoin and Altcoins. 

In this interview, he explains what money is, what crypto currencies are about and how they changed his life and elaborates on Bitcoin beginning.

20 year-old Lithemba "TheBigDeal" Dyantyi is someone worth knowing. He is the founder of Cape Town based comedy skit content creators who have built a name for themselves as Xhosanostra Skits. 

Originally from eDutywa, in the Eastern Cape, Lithemba Dyantyi moved to Kayamandi, Stellenbosch to join his mother in 2006.  He later opened a YouTube channel where he posted skits by himself, but soon realized that his content was not popular. 

He says "In the early stages I could only get like 15 views...I was disappointed but never discouraged."    

After my lonely efforts I decided to collaborate with my friends on my street, and we would do content that reflects on the lives and stories we experience on a daily basis.  

That slow start soon turned to success after he roped in his friends and created classic comedy skits like Ezam Kum, Bad buddies and Bra Dan the Barber.  

Lithemba and his crew call themselves - Internet Gangsters and are leading the pack in comedy skit content creation and number one in Xhosa skits creation.  

Checkout Xhosanostra Skits - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTKqP0KbvbRlnGKzcwfrWAw

In part 2, Solomon Izang Ashoms, an investigative journalist who has been exposing the powers behind prophets and bishops in the Christian church tells of how  fake prophets and pastors are recruited.  He calls out, what he calls charlatans; so-called prophets who are out to make themselves rich through staged prophecies and miracles. 

Solomon, who also runs a youtube channel: Solomon’s Temple, says confronting Bushiri on his fake miracle – walking on air left the controversial self-proclaimed prophet giving explanations that did not make sense.  With years, investigating and exposing these fake prophets, he has managed to figure out how they work. 

For example, Ashoms says Alph Lukau is a master of staging miracles to such an extent that he hires people to memorise scripts and act these made up stories at church as genuine miracles. He says these people also use the pulpit to intimidate people who question their authenticity.   

On this episode, he also exposes the truth behind Jay Israel’s fallout with U.K. based Zimbabwean, Uebert Angel.