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TK, grew up in Soweto as Tsakani Mhinga. Her father is Chief of the baTsonga tribe in Limpopo, making her tribal royalty. Mhinga was the eldest in her family. She won 3  SAMA awards during her life span for Best Composer, and best R&B Artist (Black Butterfly) 2004, Best R&B Album (Tsakani-Eject Yo'ASS) 2002, Best R&B Album (TKO)2001 and a Metro FM nomination (Best R&B Artist & Best Female Artist). On 27 February 2006, Mhinga was found dead by hotel staff, after she failed to answer their calls. It is suspected that she had a drug overdose. She died at the age of only 25,  and she had a son. This article was inspired by Power FM which was honouring her over the past weekend by playing her music. #Insight spoke to TK's fans because it been 10 years since she passed on. Princess Khoza said "Tk had a soulful sound, she had a unique and distinctive voice, she was one of a kind. I wish we could have her back". Mosima Rafapa said "I

I am an African. I owe my being to the hills and the valleys, the mountains and the glades, the rivers, the deserts, the trees, the flowers, the seas and the ever-changing seasons that define the face of our native land. My body has frozen in our frosts and in our latter-day snows. It has thawed in the warmth of our sunshine and melted in the heat of the midday sun. The crack and the rumble of the summer thunders, lashed by startling lightning, have been a cause both of trembling and of hope. The fragrances of nature have been as pleasant to us as the sight of the wild blooms of the citizens of the veld. The dramatic shapes of the Drakensberg, the soil-coloured waters of the Lekoa, iGqili noThukela, and the sands of the Kgalagadi, have all been panels of the set on the natural stage on which we act out the foolish deeds of the theatre of the day. At times, and in fear, I have wondered whether I should concede equal citizenship of our country to the leopard and th

Andile Hamilton Khumalo is a young, handsome, full of life F.C Cape Town soccer star described by his fans. Khumalo was approached by the soccer team Amazulu in 2010 to be their striker and midfielder as he was doing his final year at the University of the North West in 2010, studying Sport Science. During the year of 2014 his contract with Amazulu expired and later in the same year he joined F.C Cape Town and is currently contracted with them. Khumalo is involved in project that uplift the youth in his community of Madadeni, a township situated in Newcastle. In 2011 he started the "Andile Khumalo Challenge", a soccer tournament that is now held annually to help and inspire kids and the youth to be in sport. He recently launched "The Andile Khumalo Foundation", it aims to also help the disadvantaged youth who are in sport in the area. Khumalo is the eldest with three siblings, he was raised by a single mother Nompumelelo Thwala after his father  Sipho Khumalo pa

Award winning journalist Gia Nicolaides addressed the Tshwane University of Technology journalism students on Friday. Speaking about her recently published book "Reporting from the front line" Untold stories from Marikana. In her address to the students, she goes back and relives her journey during the Marikana massacre that took place in August 2012. Nicolaides says that when she took on the story, she thought to herself it just another protest. Little did she know that it would make international headlines with 34 people gunned down. Nicolaides emphasizes that the mine workers were standing up for themselves, they didn't want to be affiliated with any Union (AMCU/NUMSA). "The mine workers didn't want to be interviewed by journalist especially female journalist, at one point one of the female journalist of E.NCA was threatened with rape but that didn't stop me  from getting the story" Nicolaides stresses that "you should be patient until you get