#Insight

Monde Somzana holds his book Ashes. He was born in Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape; he was raised by a single mother. When he was 7, he moved to East Rand in Gauteng with his mother. He has a younger brother Anele and a little sister Bongi. He went to Jongimfundo Primary School in Vosloorus, he then proceeded to William Hills High School in Benoni, that where he matriculated in 2008. He then went to the University of Johannesburg to do a one year course in Computer Science in 2009. In 2010 he enrolled for a New Venture Creations at a school in Vosloorus known as MACE for two years. In 2014 he registered at Tshwane University of Technology to study Industrial Design. He said he choose this course because he likes to do all things at once. “I have been reading for as long as I can remember,” said Somzana. He started writing poetry and use to post it on a page that he created on facebook. He said “from poetry I transitioned into writing a book because of the recurr

Christopher J Ndonga His father and mother met in the military just after 3 months of dating they got married. After two years, Christopher Jongamawawa Ndonga was born in Pretoria at the One Military Hospital on the 1 st of January 1995. He was later moved to live with his paternal grandmother in the Eastern Cape at Mount-frere for 10 years. He came back to live with his parents after his grandmother passed away. His mom and dad later left the army. He continued with his primary education at Uitsige Primary School in Centurion. “I didn’t know English when I moved to Pretoria because of the poor education system we had in our village, I had to attend speech therapy in order to perfect it,” said Ndonga. He participated in various sport but excelled in rugby and was selected to play for the Junior Blue-Bulls rugby team when he was in Grade6. He scored himself a scholarship to play rugby and study at Pretoria Boys High School. “It was a privilege for me to get a