Who is Shoeshoe

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Myself at the GCIS Parliamentary Studios

In 2004, while I was supposed to be focussed in completing my National Diploma in Electrical Engeneering, I stumble into radio. That was the last of electrons and nutrons for me. How disappointed my father must have been when I told him I will not be persuing the dream of trying to buld circuits.

My Radio Life with Zibonele 98.2 FM

Radio Zibonele is basically the place where I can say I found myself in terms of what I wanted to do with my career. It influenced so much of what I have become today.

Radio Zibonele is a Community Radio Station Broadcasting from the Township of Khayelitsha.

I started off as a seSotho News readear at the station. I vividly remember my first day. It was a Saturday, and On-Air was the patient Ben Daza. I stumbled and bit my tongue untill I was reduced to tears. News that were supposed to have been read in for 5 minutes, took me 15 minutes. I had to cut the last two stories because there just wasn’t time. If not for Ben and Phetho Ntaba, who was at the time a veteran of Sesotho news at the Station, I would have left those containers we were broadcasting from and never came back.

I grew in the Industry, under the Supervision of Siyabulela Mqikela, in fact, I must try find out where he is.

A year and few months down the line, I was insulted by General Bantu Holomisa, in a Live Interview during the 2006 Local Gov Elections. The General bluntly said to me, I must go back to school, that I was incompetent and unqualified. Little did he know that, I had never sat behind the desk and learnt how to ask questions. He did later apologise, that all that matters to me.

For one that is as ambious as I am, it is never easy to sit in one place. Oppotunities presentd themselves and I left the station. But Radio Zibonele will still remain the one wall I craweled on and became me.