TEACHERS ARE LEADERS TOO

Today, I just came up with this topic ''Teachers''. This is because I was and am still worried the way people take teachers and teaching as a whole, it's embarrassing, it a fact that without teachers we are nothing, so today I felt like I need to share something with you guys so that we take our ''teachers'' seriously especially when they are doing their work. On my own opinion it is very wrong, we know how to write our names, I know how to read english properly, I am blogging right now because of my teachers, these people need a mutual respect infact, they play a huge and different role(s) in our lives, to make who we are, they produced people like Doctors, respective churchmen, chartered accountants, artists, nurses (etc), so why are we looking them as if they are nothing? While they have their degrees, masters, honours degree, doctorates? Does this make any sense? unfortunately the answer is no!!! Here is just a definition of a T.E.A.C.H.E.R


TEACHERS PLAY VITAL AND DIFFERENT ROLES

• The fact is also that teachers play a big role in our lives, they are not just there to teach our learners or either to teach us but they become our parents at school, pastors, even in our community, during the day. They motivate us, inspire us , guide us.They also become our role models, in  my case I was inspired by my former class teacher in Grade 9, Mrs Shabangu, she made me realise that I will be a good teacher in future but besides that, I was also passionate about teaching, I was also teaching our class mates ,I used to write on the board even after school to see if am I able to use a chalkboard. I've been teaching Grade 9 last year, and I heard one of the learners saying ''I love my teacher''. To me that's sounded so interesting hey.

LETS RESPECT OUR TEACHERS:

• Respecting our teachers will not just mean that we are able to study but it also improves our listening skills and also will help to benefit those who are studying here I mean they will benefit academically, great academic performance can be archieved if we are listening clearly to our parents, remember they had dreams too like us. In most times we just take them as our friends and forget that they are our parents too.  

 
  (Pictures have been taken from google images)

Lastly, we need to thank our teachers as I said, congratulate them for their outstanding work that they did to us, lets appreciate them for guiding us, and making us, we are here today because of
them, their role is wonderful. Just imagine, if we didn't have teachers in our lives. You and I WERE not be able to :

• Read and write

• Counting from 0 to 10 atleast

• Speak english 

• Even to study.

So why are we treating them like this?
Why we take them for granted?
Lets appreciate their presence as well as their effort

Thank you for reading this blog remember you are also welcome to comment and give us a feedback about this article via email: mxoemkhize@gmail.com
or you can also find me on twitter as: @mxolisimkhizeh
Till next time ma-afrika amahle

THE ROLE OF COMPETITIONS IN OUR LIVES

Hi friends,

I know it a public holiday, you are spending your day with families, friends, (etc) even alone hey it's cool but this week I wanted to come up with a unique topic, that you never realized before,I thought as much, and I said let me spread the word about competitions for today. I know the question is: What about them? Uhm, this article is basically about my experiences about competitions and is about motivating you if you never tried to enter any particular competition and or tried but you  didn't win anything. 

 I personally believe and know that competitions do exist, here are some of my experiences: It was February this year I just won my self an Adidas voucher for about R500 and got this from BeaverCanoe, BeaverCanoe is also available at Mega City, Bridge city (etc),

(Beavercanoe Logo,google images, You can also like their page on facebook and follow them on twitter @BeaverCanoeZA)
That was the best gift I've ever received, besides I do this on weekends (entering competitions) when am refreshing my mind and am telling you it works, what we only need is be patient only. Recently, I won a pair of urbaners headphones too, this sounds great too

Really there is nothing which motivates more than winning in any competition, I also won things like Pep vouchers, Airtime and many more gifts, now you can say ''congrats Mxolisi''. I take competitions as the way of thanking customers and either another way of giving back to their customers (businesses).

There are some of the KEY things that  you must consider in most competitions:

• Ensure that you have your email: Most competitions will require you to have an email so try to create your email eg. gmail email account
• Winners are randomly chosen in most times: This mean that you have to be patient, your time is coming 
• Remember: Ensure that you check your email daily, in case if you won
• Make use of social networks to find more competitions: Here am naming like facebook, instagram, twitter, newspapers (etc)
• Don't try to overdo it, speed kills
• Again keep on trying, Good luck!!!

Once again, I like to thank alot about compliments, comments that I've been getting last week you guys are the best, remember am also on twitter @mxolisimkhizeh
My email: mxoemkhize@gmail.com
Thank you, till next time!

Changing Lives through REAP Programme

It was 2011 August, in Grade 12 C, the day that changed my life completely, I was in a classroom like every learner in a class  but busy revising my favourite subject, Accounting. Our class teacher Mrs Shabangu, called me, I was nervous, I felt like I did something wrong but she proved me wrong though, she asked me about any plans that am having for the future, I didn't know how can I respond to her because I knew that my mom, won't be able to afford university fees. She then told me about REAP Programme, explained to me more information about how it works.Who knew? I was chosen to have an interview with REAP Student advisors. Then on Friday, my principal Mr Madlala, told me that student Advisors known as SDA's from REAP Programme, will be at school to have an interview with me if I really need this bursary or not, fortunately I passed that interview and was shortlisted after that.

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 My first year started at Ukzn-Edgewood Campus on 2012, February, It was a stressful year, am telling you, The peer pressure, living life without parents' guidance, no one cares in this place, at the end of the day you need to know where you coming from and believe in your dream, REAP Programme, student advisor Ms Pinky Mathonsi became a friend, sister, mother to me, in case where I needed any assistance she was always there. My life became a blessing more and more, the support that I received on a daily basis, I must say REAP student advisors are the best, they are professionally trained too. Some of the requirements that we are REAP Students need to do:

• Attending workshops

• Participate in a community service only for 3-5 days 

• Attend monthly contact session with our student advisors

• Continue to study hard in your studies

• Participate in any particular sport or either organization from your campus

By these above mentioned requirements, you are a fully member under REAP Programme, I've done all of this too, now the benefits of being a REAP student: This is a full cost bursary, you don't pay any cent, it pays for accommodation, residence fees, sport, you communicate with many people, attend various student development sessions which also help you with many things. Besides that everything depends on how you handle you self, your dedication, hard work pays off.

I also believe a lot in motivation, it helps. Reap programme has been a best friend to me, remember work-hard and dream

Ukzn’s graduation will always be a success and it’s inspiring

As far as the Ukzn’s graduation ended, I thought I must share this article with you hopefully you will be inspired too.  Our parents taught us different things, from morals to “ubuntu”, and also a respect but there is that one common thing that  they always want us to have, they worry themselves alot about this, it’s “Education”. Our parents also motivate us, guide us and play a huge role in terms of who we are and what we want to be. We grow up having our own dreams that we will like to have in future. We know that University Of KwaZulu Natal is one of the best university in our country, last week I was honored to attend a graduation ceremony at Westville Campus on Thursday, 10 April 2014  with my colleague from Enactus-Ukzn,Jennifer Dube. I must say I was so inspired and motivated to see the graduates with their gowns going there and there,up and down, smiling to one another, they were excited and walking with “pride” and what I’ve realized is that our university is so diverse, its accomodate everyone.


Westville Campus graduates (image from Ukzn’s facebook page)

From social networks like twitter, facebook (etc) Ukzn’s graduation was trending since from 6 April to 15 April 2014, that excitement, pictures showing how proud people are about our graduates was just amazing, meanwhile according to @TrendsmapDurban on twitter, the #ukzngraduation was trending too. One of the student at University Of KwaZulu Natal, Bongie Phungula on facebook posted ”angisahali jeso” meaning that she can’t wait for her graduation in next few years infact just one year as she is a third year this year, she was so impressed. She was also one of the students who were watching the graduation on a live stream, am glad that I was one of them too, since Monday to Wednesday. Some of the graduates who made us proud at Ukzn this year amongst others were: Lindiwe Sibiya, Luthando Bhengu, Nokwanda Hlengwa, Shauntelle Khumalo, Ntando Magaba, our former Src president for 2013, Sibongiseni known as ”De Klerk” Dhlamini from Edgewood Campus, Sibusisiwe Nomthandazo Nkosi from Howard college and many more. Meanwhile the one who made history in University of KwaZuluNatal, by being the youngest Medical Graduate Dr Sandile Kubheka, graduated with his MBChB degree from UKZN’s College of Health Sciences at the young age of 20 was also the part of a successful graduation in the year 2014. I therefore had a nice and successful interview with some of our graduates, here is our interview with the graduates.

Nokwanda Hlengwa, a motivated soul 

According to Nokwanda, it took just one week to prepare for a graduation ceremony. I also asked who and why did she take this course?  And she answered ”I always wanted to be a teacher from my childhood I was then inspired by my former high school teacher who taught me History, he made me realize that I can make a good teacher.” Same thing happened to me like Nokwanda, I was inspired 
by my Accounting teacher, Mrs Shabangu who also assisted me emotionally through motivation.

I then had an interview with Lindiwe ”Leen” Sibiya and our interview goes like this:

She looked stunning in her gown, Lindiwe Sibiya

Wow congratulations for your graduation, now tell us: Who and what inspired you to take this course?
She then replied: ”No one inspired me I loved teaching since I was a kid I used to play teacher when I play with my mates from there I knew teaching was my passion , so when I got the M.P bursary it was a bonus I was so happy”. Great stuff, Lindiwe.


Some of the graduates below: Nomaswazi Ndummy Dube and a friend were very excited


Lastly I had another amazing interview with Tintswalo Ngulele, she is also one of the respected and an active member from Enactus-Ukzn, and our interview goes like this:




Again well done Ms Ngulele for being a graduate of Ukzn, please share with us: Which course are you in?
she said ”I am currently pursuing Bcom Management Honour Degree”  this sounded so interesting to me I further asked, How long did it take to prepare for this wonderful and memoriable day then answered ”It took me about a month to prepare but solid preparations were finalized in the last two weeks, its unbelievable hey, when I asked her why she took this course out of all,she said ”I’ve always been big on communication and had an interest in business during my high school years. I wouldn’t say I had an inspiration but I looked through the UKZN prospectus and B.S.S Management and Communication sparked interest, upon researching on it , it made sense.This made me realize according to Tintswalo that she is also keen to find information and is also willing to find more
Followed by Mr Bhongo Mtshizana from Edgewood Campus, he is one of the graduates who were very excited about the graduation, the day before the graduation he then posted a picture on facebook.

He is also one of the graduates in Ukzn, this shows that if you work hard, your dreams will definately come true.  These are people that will now change lives in our community. According to one of the graduates from Westville campus stated clearly that it takes dedication, hard work and a support from different people especially from our parents and friends even a community as a whole. I then read few quotes and I liked this one, “A dream is your creation vision for your life in the future, you must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown”-Denis Waitley, (www.positiveoutlooksblog.com)

 From above all, and from the interview I’ve had with our graduates, I was more inspired and am glad that in few months I will be one of the graduates in Ukzn. Remember to surround yourself with positive people if you want to succeed.

I will like to thank you firstly for reading this blog, and like to thank also the above graduates who worked with me in this article, you are a star guys, and well done you left a mark in our history, till next time.

Thank you remember am on twitter as @mxolisimkhizeh

my email is: mxoemkhize@gmail.com