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Pat's Tasty Kasi Chicken

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            Pat's Tasty Kasi Chicken         Vonani Maluleke the co-owner, frying some meat at Pat Chicken. Pat Chicken is a local franchise in the section around Soshanguve known as the LKK. The place is owned by two individuals Patrick Ratlhalelane and Vonani Maluleke. According to the co-owner Vonani Maluleke, the main person behind the concept of starting this kind of a business was his partner, Patrick. “He felt that there was a need for some local food that is well prepared and ready for the people to buy since most of them preferred chilled stuff,” said Maluleke. Maluleke said that Pat Chickens had no funding at all that they had to dig from their own pockets and also do some fundraising to start the business. After seeing that there is potential in the business, they decided to draw a real plan for the franchise. According to Maluleke, their mission is to open other branches of the same business in other different places...

Winterveld's Youth Empowerment Program.

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                              Winterveld's Youth Empowerment Programme. Princess Mosikare from Mabopane is a student from a known organization Katekani Community Project that was founded in 2015, located in Winterveld. Miss Mosikare talks about how this community project has helped her improve her life. “I started late February,2021. The content of the Life Skills that I was attending was very impactful in my life because it is all about personal development, communication, and job preparedness. So, I learned about how to make a CV, to communicate, how to develop myself because I was a shy person, now am better and able to communicate with other people,” said Princess. Princess Mosikare one of the students attending  at Katekani Community Projects Katekani Community Project is an organization made to empower the youth of Soshanguve as a whole. This organization offers the youth with four perspective p...

Unsupervised Lockdown House Parties

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  The President released a statement on the 1 st of June telling the people of SA that the rules of lockdown have been eased a little bit. The sale of alcohol was resumed and people were now allowed to move around, go to work and some schools were reopened etc. What really came to my attention is that, after all those things the president said about easing up lockdown rules people started hosting house parties left right and centre and to my own understanding this kind of action could be the one that leads to the number of people getting affected by this pandemic increasing. I am stating all this because once you get infected by coronavirus you won’t instantly see its symptoms; it will take a day or 2 to experience coronavirus symptoms. I am not against people having fun because we have been indoors for a long time but a little bit of thinking before doing something would help us get through this fight. Some of these house parties are not really supervised because people are n...