The young, yet established brand, Futureline, designed by Langa's very own designer, Lulama Ntisa, is scaling up by welcoming an additional branch that involves entertainment.
Realizing the need for a platform for local
artists and entrepreneurs to showcase their brilliance and to be noticed, Futureline
Entertainment came to light.
Lorenzo ‘’Le-Lo Thee Illest’’ Samuels has been involved in the music industry since Grade 10 at Lentegeur High school in Mitchells Plain. At the age of 15, he started with a group called “Xoduz” where he started writing his own rhymes where he started as a hype man and began to adopt flows and learnt a lot from other artists.
He then became infatuated with growing the music industry and now owns his own label called Orion – The Rising Star. The entertainment agency is set to release a development programme, in aid of helping young aspiring artists in all forms and walks of life to bring them to greater heights, offering several programs and making sure they reach their desired goals and destinations.
His latest single, ‘’Cape Flats’’ speaks about
the daily struggles of what we have to face on a daily basis, such as
gender-based violence, drug and alcohol abuse, gangsterism, etc.
PICTURED: Bush Radio's Jasnine Roberts with Le-lo The IllestMax-Hoba is a South African Afro-Soul World Music Artist, born and raised in the Free state, Welkom. He started off as a Hip-Hop vocalist but is currently doing his things as an Afro-Soul singer.
With regards to his new album that was released on the 27th
July 2020 called “Beyele” (The Journey Continues) he decided to base it around
the things that influenced him as a child. Most of the songs in this albums are
influenced by his upbringing, Music and just in his community.
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Max-Hoba says his initial plan was to release his album in
March 2020 but what contemplating on if he should release it now or wait until
this whole Covid-19 pandemic passes by, but couldn’t wait any longer and
released it in July. He also saying that people we living in a digital world,
he thought it was best to release it as soon as possible.
He believes as a creative person, says that this Covid-19
pandemic has given him the opportunity to exercise doing things differently. He
just recently did a virtual show but had a limited number of people that could
tune in. Max-Hoba also says he still get the same energy from the audience as
he would do in an actual live performance and he is somebody that depends a lot
on exchanging energy with the audience.
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Max-Hoba tries to keep his music as authentic Southern
African sound, so he features with multiple artist from the North, South, East
and Western parts of Africa.
You can find Max-Hoba’s album on every single digital
platform you can just Google “Max-Hoba - Beyele”
You can find Max-Hoba on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @Max_Hoba
Presenter: Mkhuseli "Khusi" Veto
Producer: Clayton Daniels & Renato van Schalkwyk
We were speaking to Marcelle du Plessis the Fundraising and Communications Manager for Mdzananda Animal Clinic she mentioned that she thought during the lockdown they would be expecting a lot of stray animals to be brought in because people lost their jobs and not everyone will be able to maintain their pets, but people had more time to spend with their animals.
The covid-19 pandemic is hard on them they lost nearly R200 000 every three weeks they had a lot more expenses due to things becoming more expensive and now their clinic is packed full so they have a lot of animals that need help and they do not have enough hands to deal with all of the animals and what they’ve also experienced is that the economic impact on the public they had many many monthly donors who had debut orders set up and they were donating R100, R50 and whatever they could afford a month and unfortunately people had to start cancelling those debut orders so its most definitely having an effect on them.
Marcelle mentioned that the government doesn’t support animal welfare they mainly support humanitarian organizations which is understandable cause we have a lot of human struggles as well, the support that the government gives on a local level is that once a year they’ll respond to a sterilization campaign they help to get the animals sterilized to help with overpopulation but they as an organization cannot apply for funding by the government what they doing right now is they’re reaching out to the public, they’ve just launched a campaign which is called PAW MEMBERS so you can become a PAW MEMBER and this means that you will donate a monthly amount that is R20, R50 or R100 whatever you feel that you can donate and then you become a member and this means you get a certificate and a birthday card.
The Paw members are the blood flow of their organization helping them monthly to carry on moving and this specific campaign currently is that they hope to find at least 1 000 PAW MEMBERS each donating R100 a month and if they can achieve that then their finances will be stabled and will be set for a good amount of time in the future.
Presenter: Mkhuseli "Khusi" Veto
The
People's Health Movement South Africa
Tinashe T Njanji the Coordinator for PHM-SA (the People's Health Movement South Africa) “the People’s Health Movement notes with deep concern the political, economic and social crisis.
Tinashe
pointed out that they still in difficult times due to the corona virus pandemic
and there’s a lot of focus on the virus where there are still other diseases
that are still out there and the focus are all on the corona virus and the
other diseases being neglected.
As an organisation
they’ve hosted a lot of discussions Virtually as they are not allowed to have
meetings in person due to covid-19 regulations.
Tinashe
says it would be nice to have a 24hour clinic but South Africa lack the man power
because if we open clinics 24hrs now then the country would be like shooting
themselves in the foot as they do not have enough resources to maintain that
kind of work.
Tinashe
also had a e message for the President of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa saying If
the president was in front of him he would say our communities are in need of
more community health care workers, because our community health care workers are
doing multiple jobs at once they save a lot of lives while saving a lot of
money the country also health care workers that can go door to door but for now
the workers who are doing that kind of job they do it all on foot they go up
hills and cross river in rural communities some get attacked by wildlife or
criminals.
These
workers need to be equipped and recognized for the brave work they doing for
the community the first step would be having decent salary, better working
conditions and most importantly Tinashe wants most of these workers must be
permanently employed and Africa needs a health system that caters for the poor.
If you
want to read more about The People's Health Movement South Africa (PHM-SA) you
can find them on:
https://www.phm-sa.org/
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Presenter- Mkhuseli "Khusi" Veto
Producer- Clayton Daniels & Renato van Schalkwyk
Matthew Sylvester also known as M.A.T.T is a song writer and Music Producer based in Cape Town, South Africa at Retreat.
M.A.T.T got introduced to music at a very young age, his father was a DJ back in his younger days, which influenced him tremendously. He was surrounded by different types of Music and by the age of 12yrs, he started to write his own music then when he was age 17yrs he had his first live performance. That’s when he made up his mind that this is what he would want to do.
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M.A.T.T get respect
from his local community in Retreat but says his main audience is Worldwide and
has fans in 69 Countries.
Matthew does Music as
a full time job and this is his only focus at the moment.
In the past 2 months when
Covid-19 Lockdown started, he released 3 songs already that reached over 200 000
streams for all three, the Pandemic was as an Advantage for him to get more
listeners worldwide.
The concept behind
his song “Grateful” got it when he travelled to Los
Angeles and was very grateful for that opportunity, because It reminded him
that you can do whatever you want to do as long as you can keep being
persistent.
Regarding the second song that we played on
the show “Expensive Taste” was inspired by him walking in the streets of New
York and seeing a beautiful lady along the sidewalk and thought, “Expensive
Taste”
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| Matthew Sylvester also known as M.A.T.T |
His EP (Extended play) will be released at
the end of October 2020 which is called the “Good and the Bad” consisting of
multiple songs.
M.A.T.T says he is grateful for the people around him that keeps on
supporting his career through the up’s and down’s and making sure that he keeps
going.
You can Follow Matthew Sylvester on Instagram and Facebook @M.A.T.T_Music or
contact him via email which is Journeyrecordsmgmt@gmail.com
You can also find his songs on Sound Cloud and YouTube @M.A.T.T
Sound Cloud - https://soundcloud.com/universalmattmusic
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqMZtXLsj0bR_OIXvwF3TMQ
Presenter: Mkhuseli
Veto
Producer:
Clayton Daniels & Renato van Schalkwyk
Siseko also known as Skidy, is an up and coming Hip-Hop Artist situated in Cape Town, South Africa in a Township called Khayelitsha.
In 2019 he
started a music career for himself but was has started writing his song lyrics
all the way back in 2009. He believes with his Music career he is moving into
the right direction.
In 2009 he
and his friends started saving money so that they could buy themselves
equipment to produce music, and when they got all the things they needed few
years later, he says they had no knowledge about recording music but have
learnt overtime.
Skidy says
is family is very supportive of his music career and always keeps in contact
with them no matter the distance. At first they were very surprised because they
didn’t know that he was into music.
He is also planning
of releasing an album early 2021 and will proceed doing live gigs. The music he
creates is mainly trying to tell a story with in it.
Bush Radio
89.5fm is the first Radio Station to play Skidy’s song called “Shoot” and “Do
you Remember” on the show called The Morning Cruise.
Follow Skidy
on Facebook and Instagram @SisekoFabianer and his Music is found on Spotify and
ITunes
Bhabhisana Baby Project is celebrated 5 years in 2020 since
its establishment in 2015 speaking to Ms Faizah Toefy one of the co-founders
of the Bhabhisana Baby Project. The project consists of “highly skilled therapists who recognised the need
to help babies who come from underserved communities with early intervention
during the critical 1 000-day period.”
In
2015 the physiotherapist, occupational therapist, and a speech and language
therapist they were all working at the health sector before the
establishment of the project. That’s when they saw the long waiting list at the
hospital because there was high demand for therapy and people were waiting long
for it, Ms Toefy and her team felt babies were missing out on the
critical time, the world-wide research was showing stimulation on the first
1000 days of the baby’s life’s give them the best possible chance of developing
the brain, so they wanted to zone in on that first critical period on the first
1000 days of life. So they decided they will start this NPO and they will treat
babies while the parents are waiting for the appointments at the state hospital
they will give them that therapy so they don’t miss out on the critical time. During
the Announcement of covid-19 and when the lockdown rules where announced the bhabhisana
project was worried they won’t be able to see the babies because they used to touch
and hug them that’s how they work they will miss out on this time. Since most
of their patients travel by public transport and the babies are small and also
had some issues at the hospital which is why they needed therapy and they
couldn’t let them travel by public transport and put them at risk. So they
started using social media like WhatsApp from Video calls and sending videos to
parents on how to do the sessions with the babies. All the parents who usual
come to Bhabhisana had to have WhatsApp those couldn’t have access to WhatsApp
had to use neighbours phone or family members phone so everybody can have
access to WhatsApp. Bhabhisana Project was sending training videos via whatsapp
the parents were also sending back videos on how the babies are doing, to show
if they following properly the training video’s the organisation is sending
them. Then the therapist would analyse these videos and work out what the
babies need the NPO also provided some internet data for parents who can’t
afford it since they raised money for data cost and they managed to stay fully
in contact with the parents.
On
the 5th October 2020 Monday was the first day they saw their first
baby since March 2020 when Lockdown started. The NPO offices are at 179
Belgravia Road, Athlone, 7780, Cape Town, South Africa its easily accessible
with the public transport for the community’s like Mitchellsplain, Langa,
Nyanga, Gugulethu, Meneberg almost all the cape flats communities. They also
started a Satellite clinic at Hout-bay so that parents don’t travel so far;
they also have different connections from clinics to day hospital’s in
different community’s. The hospitals where babies are born the organisation has
a relationship with doctors to do follow ups for babies who had difficulty when
born then they refer them to the NPO since they would be identified as a high
risk baby. The process would be to work with the parent, on what is the problem
with the baby until they identify the problem. Bhabhisana also provide training
to the baby clinics for nurses the need for therapy for baby’s is getting worse
that’s why the NPO started the satellite clinic, now during the Covid 19
pandemic the therapist who are based at the hospital are helping out for the
covid -19 pandemic which makes it vulnerable for those parents who need the
therapist for their babies.
The
organisation is in need for money so they can keep the project going.
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The Contact
details for the Organisation its:
+27 82 924 2965
Producers: Clayton Daniels & Renato Van Schalkwyk
Theatre Arts is a small
independence theatre space in observatory Cape Town South Africa, the space is being used by
a lot of artists, the theatre arts started in 2009 they based in the Methodist
church in observatory, they had to close doors due
to the Corona Virus Pandemic in March 2020. They reopened in June 2020 under
strict protocol.
Caroline Calburn is the director at Theatre Arts, she mentioned that things are different due to covid-19 because cleaning is a bit pricey, they used to clean twice a week and now they found themselves doing it every 3 hours every day, a lot has changed they have to work with a lot more awareness they are not a space that can allow a huge amount of people they could only allow maximum 17 people and that’s before the pandemic restrictions.
For them its more about
the audience to view the performances and a job opportunity for the artists, the
artist has been out of work since lockdown started in march, the amount of
money made in June was a lot more than a food parcel, things are getting better
more people are coming in and the audience is growing.
Caroline thinks live
theatre is the safest because a live performance is roughly 15 minutes and she
feels it’s better than being in the cinema for about 2 hours in a closed off
area during the theatre performance on a break you can go outside and enjoy the
fresh air and while away someone is cleaning and sanitising so when you get
back into the area things are sanitised and ventilated, it’s about keeping the
audience in a safe and clean environment, The audience loves the clean
environment, It was very emotional for the cast to be back on stage doing live
performances.
They didn’t want to create a season that is 1 or 2 shows but
it’s difficult being interactive during these covid-19 times. Theatre Arts is
an Experimental space for Artist especially in Cape Town even though artists
from other provinces come and showcase their skills.
The shows that would be showcased from 10th
October 2020 until 5th December 2020
The series starts on 10 October with
Craig Leo and Robin Kirsten’s NOTHING IS HERE featuring Unmute Dance Company and Ukwanda Puppets
and Design Art Collective. From 14 to 18 October, RaféGreenpresents MODORENAI. This is
followed with CWAKA from 22 October, directed by Qondiswa James and
developed in collaboration with a stellar creative team. Shirley-Anne
Bezuidenhout presents SYNDESI from 11 to 14 November, with Megan Furniss and Louise
Westerhout rounding off the series with MURMURATIONS from 2 to 5 December.
Tickets
to all performances cost R100 and can be purchased at https://theatrearts.co.za
Producers: Clayton Daniels & Renato Van Schalkwyk
Odwa Mbira also known as E.M.O.W, is an up and coming artist based in Cape Town, South Africa from the Township called KTC in Nyanga.
The
genre of music EMOW does is Hip-Hop, his music is motivational to whoever
listens to it. He also mentions the word “Activision” where he also states his
music is there for people to act towards their vision in life. Started doing
music since 2006 started with Kwaito music.
He always adds his traditional flavor into his music, just so that he doesn’t lose his identity. Ever since he started his music career, he got some very good responses from the community even though Nyanga is one of the dangerous Township in South Africa where he grew up and it hurts him seeing people dying but despite all those Challenges which is why he tries to motivate children to get out of that situation. Because “the more you speak positive things, it’s more likely to happen.”
The
Covid-19 Lockdown has affected him in a positive way. He used this time to find
himself by putting more effort on writing songs. That made him more confident
about his work and passionate, he doesn’t let anyone bring him down. Even if
somebody doesn’t like his songs there is always somebody that would listen and
appreciate his music. E.M.O.W is not a Signed Artist but work with other artist’s
in the Industry.
E.M.O.W’s
new EP (Extended Play) would be released soon, which goes by the title “In No
Mood to be a Slave” on the Show we Played his Latest Single called Idlozi
(Ancestor) (which will be released on the 15th October 2020 Thursday)
and Bush Radio 89.5fm is the first station to play his song on the show called
The Morning Cruise.
You
can find him on Facebook and Instagram @EMOWZA.
Presenter: Mkuseli Khusi Veto
Producers: Clayton Daniels & Renato Van Schalkwyk
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