As We Were Saying...Vol 1. Issue 2

YCA Phase Three: Provincial FinalsPROVINCIAL CONTEST CALENDAR

Date Province Town Time

Sat, 16 AprilSat, 30 AprilSat, 07 MaySat, 07 MaySat, 14 MaySat, 14 MaySat, 21 MaySat, 28 MaySat, 04 June

GAUTENGKWAZULU-NATAL

MPUMALANGAWESTERN CAPE

FREE STATEEASTERN CAPE

LIMPOPONORTHERN CAPE

NORTH WEST

JohannesburgPietermaritzburg

NelspruitCape Town

BloemfonteinBisho

PolokwaneKimberlyMafikeng

08:30 for 09:0008:30 for 09:0008:30 for 09:0008:30 for 09:0008:30 for 09:0008:30 for 09:0008:30 for 09:0008:30 for 09:0008:30 for 09:00

Female 64%

Male 36%13-17 18-24 25-34 35-44 45-54 55+

11%

36%

12% 0.98% 0.49% 1.5%

0.49% 0.98%3.4%

25% 6.3%

Countries Cities Language

181 South Africa14 United Kingdom3 Germany1 France1 Denmark1 India1 South Korea

49 Cape Town34 Roggebaai19 Midrand19 Sandton14 Pretoria12 Slough

147 English (US)57 English (UK)

1 French

The Young Communicators Awards Facebook PageThe YCA Facebook Page currently has what Facebook calls 205 lifetime users and 209 users. Who are these people? Check out the graphs below to see who our users are, based on February/March’s usage! There have also been 70 new fans for the period February/March, keep it up!

Gender of YCA Facebook users.

Geographic spread:

Age

Editorial

The workshops have been run and Phase Two is done, all in what seems to have been the speed of sound!

The facilitators did what they could and now the ball is in the learners’ and teachers’ court. The vari-ous Department of Basic Education District Offices now have the responsi-

bility of running the regional rounds in order to select the learners who will rep-resent the regions in the Provincial Contests.

Phase Three is indeed upon us! The MUNSA team has been hard at work: caterers had to be briefed, venues had to be organised and facilitators had to be ready to en-sure that all workshops were a success.

Facilitators had to travel far, to rural areas, on

dangerous roads, and ensure that the workshops turned out a success. Check out the photos on the last page to see what a journey the YCA Workshops have been, for everyone!

Once you are a part of YCA, you will forever want to stay connected to this revolutionary ini-tiative. Giving back and empowering the youth with the gift of communi-cation is worth more than any pay cheque I will

ever receive!

Good luck to each and every participant, Event Manager and Provincial Co-ordinator - we are in the last stretch of YCA!

Lots of loveMarine

Should you have any ideas, queries or com-ments regarding YCA PR you can contact me:

Email: marineopperman@yahoo.comFax: 086 662 5835

On the 8th of May, 2010 Nwabisa read out my name as the KZN Provincial Winner. I was commissioned with a hefty and mam-moth duty to go into nationals and acquire as many skills and learn as many tricks of this trade.

So my attending of the national competition was not solely for my own personal advance-ment as a speaker, but to accomplish the task embedded upon me by my province.

On February 19 of this year it was with great honour and pride to go back into the depths and pits of KZN to

entrust and empower my people with these qualities.

The process of transfer and contact with the learners and teachers had to be the most beautiful and eye opening experience of my life. To see how the students yearn for such events and empower-ment. It made me see how much of an im-pact such programmes have on people.

One teacher said to me that YCA is the highlight of the year. It never gets better than this for the learners, and this year’s plan is to go all out. Their re-gionals even have prizes for the learners.

For some, the highlight would just be going to the outskirts of the province, spending over 12 hours on the road to and from V r y h e i d , d r i v i n g 1068km in two days, traveling through all kinds of weather.

potential successor, with the necessary skills I have acquired from my fellow national finalists of 2010 and the MUNSA family, as well as teachers.

Hopefully they can go back to the classroom and manifest the skills they have acquired and impart them to every single student they come in contact with.

NDUMISO MNGOMEZULU

Passing on the knowledge

For me, however, the true highlight was going through all this just to equip the future, the leaders of tomorrow. To equip the learners, and my

Driving 1068 km in two days, roughly 534 km a day.

Driving in fog at 40 km/h.

The YCA Facilitators’ Work-shop held at St John’s Col-lege in Johannesburg was the prelude to a flurry of emails, calls and coordi-nation as part of the pre-paratory process for the Limpopo and North West workshops. Traditionally, these provinces can be quite complex to coordinate given the locations which almost pry into Zimbabwe and Botswana.

As Murphy must have his law, the workshops in Lim-popo and the North West fell on consecutive week-ends and I anticipated that by the end of that process I would be a few strands short of sanity and probably not the friendliest creature in my house.

There was a relay of com-munication between the DoBE representatives in Limpopo and the North West and intense negotiations with caterers

in the weeks leading up to the workshop. Bonolo Cebe was incredibly helpful and this process has refined our clairvoyant abilities.

Well before the sun had spilt out the night on Friday March 4, the team of Lim-popo Workshop Facilitators took to the road with alacrity and enthusiam. Kgothatso Mampa got taken on a Formula 1 race through the twisted mountains of Tzaneen with his partner in crime Zain Patel.

Daniel Sher and myself discovered that 5fm goes where even Vodacom doesn’t connect as we scoured through the famous Hendrik Verwoed Tunnel en route to Dzanane.

The team executed a swarm of electric workshops and each of us, from the learn-ers, to the educators, to the facilitators ourselves grew tremendously. In keeping with the ground-breaking flavour of

the North, Zinhle Mkhabela and Matsetsebale Tleane closed the Jane Furse workshop with a powerful belting of the National An-them.

The following week, another team of facilitators set out incandescent with energy and skill to the North West. Despite trying desperately

era crew who are collating snippets of the YCA journey for a promotional DVD.

As the Provincial Co-ordinator for both the North West and Limpopo I can confidently attribute the successful workshops and phenomenal growth that we enjoyed on this journey to the amazing team spirit and the unequivocally potent guidance I received from Abdullah, Nwabisa and Me-hfooza.

The most coherent capture of my experience over the past few months is peeled out of ‘Alice in Wonderland.’ In response to the curious caterpillar’s question; “who are you?” Alice replies; “at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.”

NABEELA KAZEE

Nabeela in “Wonderland”

to convince me that they re-quired a passport to get to Taung, Kgothatso Mampa and Ishmael Mbetse facili-tated 2 fantastic workshops and this was matched by a dynamic and enriching set of workshops facilitated by Bonolo Cebe and Sibusiso Khoza.

The Rustenburg workshop was met by an excited cam-

“Despite trying desperately to convince me that they required a passport to get to Taung...”

CongratulationsFrom the Team’s side we would like to con-gratulate Public Rela-tions Officer, Marine Op-perman and North West Provincial Manager forSAASTA (Another MUNSA project), Lesley Masibi for their recent achievements.

Marine has been cho-sen for the NWU Potch debating team. They will participate in the Nation-al University Debates on 8 and 9 April 2011.

Lesley is a contestant on the SABC’s One Day

Leader.

One Day Leader is a show that seeks the very best young lead-ers in South Africa, that tests them thoroughly in an exciting reality format. The winner of

tions of leadership. The grand prize includes an internship in the offices of the chairperson of the NYDA and the Presi-dency.

The show has been running for 5 weeks al-ready with just over two months left to the end of the show, the contest is heating up.

One contestant has al-ready been eliminated, Vanencia Vollenhoven. To keep Lesley in the lead, you must sms 6 to 41852 every Tues-

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the series will get the opportunity to effect change and to gain experience in posi-

day between 6:30pm and 7:30pm; also join his one day leader fan page on Facebook: Lesley Masibi (One Day Leader).

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Workshop Photos

Note: As mentioned in the first As We Were Saying, MUNSA is rebranding and will soon be a part of The Collective Genius! Be on the lookout, you can never be certain when the revolution will hit you....