Celebs Who Lost Weight Last Year

I imagine one of the most difficult things in living your life under the watchful eye of thousands of supporters is going through personal stuff with them beside you. With the advancement of media and sometimes inaccurate gossip columns, theyare privy to information about youand ready to give an opinion on how you should live your life. It doesn’t matter whether you are interested on what they are going to say or not the work that you do dictates such.

Vathiswa

 Media is known to be unkind to big women and to make matters worse they are often portrayed in a negative way. But it should be comforting knowing that the most influential and wealthiest Black woman in the world, Oprah Winfrey isn’t immune to weight woes and harshness from ‘concerned’ fans. Home Affairs, Shooting stars, Generations (she had relevant cameo role, as mamfundisi, back in the KhensaniMoroka days) actress and radio presenter


Vathiswa Ndara has amazingly shed some pounds off. And my wish for you woman is to show it all off. The yummy dark beauty, Zabalaza actress Mbali Ntulihas lost some few kilograms incredibly. You can actually see she has followed the right measures and wasrewarded with a beautiful toned body in return. Women who don’t have much weight to lose often look horrible after embarking on that journey. You honestly don’t see that in her. Keep it up girl. Like her fellow Zabalaza colleagueMbali, ZandileMsuthwanawas never big but has shed some unwanted fat too.

Mama Ruby/Slindile announced in a reputable magazine early last year that she plans on kissing her big self goodbye. But like Gospel singer HlengiweMhlaba who lost … we don’t really see the difference in their before and after hitting the gym pics. To your consolation ladies I’m also battling with my own weight issues. It’s not easy being fuller figured (size 10) but you inspire me to push harder and squat my cellulite away. Maar AusieHlengiwe, I don’t think people judge slightly overweight women who eat ice cream boo. That’s insane, if they side eye you for indulging every now and then in a hot Johannesburg day suwara sana.

Pearl

 Pearl Modiade who presents Zaziwa and Mzantsi insider has lost a noticeable amount of weight but I like the voluptuous Pearl who used to go by the name “The Real Black Pearl” but dropped it after the equally stunning Pearl Thusi hijacked it. (That Proverb and Prokidkinda beef). Gosh it feels like I’m perpetuating a rumour. Forgive me ladies. But that’s not for me to decide what suites her best. I was tempted bazalwane to list those who look horrible with their new weight, but that is plainnasty. And I would have loved to include guys in this list but y’all ain’t losing weight my bros except for Bouga love and his Bootcamp peeps. Great work guys.

Y’all Still Wrecking Homes?

This isn’t a new subject but it affects our societies badly. Something needs to be done or said. If we keep quiet and do nothing about it, kids will grow up thinking it’s normal for a married man to have a side chick. 

With kids’ growing tendency of idolising celebrities who aren’t really role models but people who are still finding themselves and some losing themselves, it’s hard to just watch and not say a thing! They have seen how the SenzoMeyiwa and Kelly Khumalo drama unfolded and how Kelly shamelessly showed off her baby bump.

Marriage is a blessing from God and the institution needs to be respected. And we can only show respect by not being a side chick and meddling into things bigger than us. You might ask whyare we expected to respect something whilst the very same people who should be honouring and protecting it are the ones luring young innocent girls with expensive gifts. The answer is simple do not fall into the trap of joining losers in their misery. Love and respect yourself enough to shield your soul from unwanted baggages that will do you no good. We all know they won’t leave their spouses for you. Even if they do please don’t be the reason of a failed marriage. Yes things were probably going wrong long before you came into picture but distance yourself from such situations.

Let’s be the new breed that doesn’t rely on men for financial assistance. Let’s not find solace in destroying other people’s lives. Don’t be the person to “shakeup” people’s marriages. If they have problems and need a distraction the counsellors’ room should be the first step not you. I was so thrown back by my friend’s response to a discussion we had. He boldly confessed that he would openly cheat to his wife and she should be okay with it. I was even stunned by the way he said it and how he told us a story of his cheating grandfather and the pain he caused his grandmother. This is a university student better off a Christian. Ndamatsheka!

So many TV shows have been created, magazine articles written to make us aware of the dangers of getting involved with married person but nothing seem to reach our ears. We’ve of its consequences but no one dares to stop. Like sir Isaacs Newton says to every action there is a reaction. You will give an account to God for actions. Phalakahle.

When to Compensate

People generally struggle with compensation. Some overcompensate to make up for lost time or to fill a void. Others do not even bother with compensating for what needs to be compensated. Either way compensation needs to continue regardless of our understanding. There are some instances where I feel people are just abusing being reimbursed for example a family I know lost their bread winner after he was ‘mistakenly’ shot by a wealthy man. They decided to settle the matter out of court and agreed that the man must deposit a substantial amount of money to that family every month instead of going to jail for murder. The rumour was that it wasn’t his first time and he just pays people off. I faulted the unemployed family because your circumstances can’t force you to turn a blind eye like that. I know even the harshest sentencing won’t bring your loved one back but you can’t be taken advantage of. It is understandable for parents who wants to be paid (intlawulo) by a boy who impregnated their daughter out of wedlock. Culturally that reinforces respect and builds friendship between the two families in a clean slate. Child feels acknowledged. And children will grow up knowing they cannot do as they please with their bodies whilst they still depend on their parents. It served as your conscience and had to own up. It goes out without saying for road accident victims. They need to be refunded to pay for medical bills and the expense the accident might have cost. Same applies for those who got arrested wrongfully. Not only did they lost time to make money, be there for their families, they probably have emotionally scars that can’t be fixed but can only be compensated.

Precious Kofi A Stay at Home Mom

Precious with her son on her back

We came to know her as a vibrant, petite model, presenter,and actress from Cape Town that rocked Afro like no one’s business.
She exited the TV world gracefully by presenting and producing Precious Africa. A show where she travelled Africa and showed us the most historic places in our continent like Mali’s Timbuktu and the ancient churches in Ethiopia.

But lately I’ve been touched by her outlook on life and her positivity in general. She paused from the bussle and hustle that comes with the entertainment industry and got married and moved with her hubby to America where she stays with her in-laws. And has a one year old baby boy.

What intrigues me the most about her is her maturity and her grasp of what it truly means to ‘do you’. Some of her colleagues from the entertainment industry are probably drowning in debt trying to impress their peers but yena she lives a total different life.

 There are many lessons to be learnt from her. She had a promising career and once you’ve reached where she was, it is only expected of you to break new grounds and be the IT but she shunned it all or so I think. Ungathi she has found her purpose and true self.

 Facts About Precious

•  Bay of Plenty (Actress) 
•  Keeping it Real with Precious (Presenter)
•  Game show on SABC (Presenter)
•  EMS Music show with Wright Ngubeni (Presenter)

My Eastern Cape Experience

I have decided to honour my promise

and blog about my experience of spending four full years in the rural part of the Eastern Cape. And it’s only fitting to write it whilst I’m still on my December holiday in this beautiful land of my intimates. My stay wasn’t planned. I was supposed to study in East London but I had misplaced my report and understandably I couldn’t enrol at a city school on time so I ended up attending the village school. They accepted me with the agreement that my old school would reprint my report card. I’m not going to lie having an aunt that practises her teaching profession there smoothed the entire process. With all that sorted out I could be seen with my new uniform and forward self in the assembly with other kids but I wasn’t singing my lungs out like the rest of them. Back in my previous school in Cape Town, in Gugulethu to be precise, we didn’t sing like them. Later on I would learn it’s not only the singing that’s not alike but the education is a little inferior too. They had a small section in a corner of a classroom that was known as the library and good Samaritans would donate books every now and then. So one Friday afternoon we were called out to polish one mud-built classroom with mud mixed with cow dung (uRhida). Like expected I was lost. I didn’t know what to do with myself. So I just stood aside and watched tjo that was a huge mistake on my side as that draw the attention of one most feared teacher there. She rudely told me to go get fresh cow dung and help out. It’s then it dawned on me that my life has changed. Did I mention that they still practised corporal punishment and they’d assig boys to get a stick/cane in the nearby bushes? In Cape Town, teachers feared beating children because of a law that abolished such harsh punishment. It was often mocked as umthethokaMandela. Adapting at home wasn’t hard. My village is electrified and has running tap water so fetching water from the river was out of question. We occasionally collected wood from the forest. And I enjoyed doing so and I remember my first inyada was so big and I couldn’teven lift it higher than my shoulders and had to embarrassingly remove some wood to make it lighter. I remember my aunt asking meif I’ve stayed in a village before. Mdanstane where I spent some of my adolescent years isn’t a village. There is a book I later read and related with in High School called Comfort Herself. She was orphaned at an early stage in her life and had to stay at an orphanage and later with her grandparents at a different setting but she easily adapted. That was me but the difference is the fact that my father is still alive and I never stayed at an orphanage. Her resilience saw her surviving in new environments and that’s me.Thanks to my upbringing in the Eastern Cape, you can throw me in a deep end and I will learn quietly how to swim like a pro.