By Thabiso Modiba My name is Thabiso Modiba and I grew up with my two sisters, mother and father in rural Limpopo, Mabopane district. And I’m the only guy, the first-born. It was tough, with no electricity and running water, life is tough. The only truck that brings water is the one from the municipality…
Around 60 private security guards in riot gear were used to “moerskont” and remove nine protesting students in the early hours of Tuesday morning from Solomon House, according to the students. “They moerskonted us to a point where we could not see,” said Wits Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) chairperson Vuyani Pambo. The students, who are…
While sporadic protest action continues at Wits University main campus, some students have braved the demonstrations and heavily armed security guards to come and register for the 2016 academic year. Some students were nervous about registering while others were just happy to have completed their registration. Returning BSc student, Alexis Shumba, said her registration process has not…
Academics have responded strongly to the statement issued by Wits stating that they should respect security protocols as laid out by private security companies or risk facing the chop. Last week Wits issued a statement to staff members warning them about violating “security protocols” related to fees protests with possible termination. “Some staff members have also tried to…
I finally managed to reshoot all the footage I had lost previously. And I must say it looks better than what I had previously. So, I’d like to send a shout out to the person who deleted my multimedia off the server- you are a blessing in disguise. Thank you to the participants of my…
Today was a bad day. I had an interview arranged for my new video shoot and one of my interviewees told me he can not make it. As a result I’m only interviewing the race master today.Its quite difficult to work with other peoples time- a humbling experience to say the least. I’m stressed out and…
I am working on my final draft. Last night I went to shoot my last bit of footage at the drags. I managed to get some awesome footage of the drags and the cars that come there to race. The racemaster was super My written feature is very close to finished. I am now focusing…
On Friday October 23, myself and Katlego decided to go to the Union Buildings with Franz Kruger. We arrived just after the Wits buses transporting students got there. The #FeesMustFall movement reached its peak and students from other universities across the globe joined in the movement. Needless to say, I did much running and ducking…
I’ve received feedback and tracked changes from Kenichi and I am working on making the changes. The ending of my story hasn’t played out the way I would have liked it to so I’m improvising. My video shoot was interrupted on Wednesday night when the police made an appearance at the drags. All the cars…
I was meant to have shot the second part of my video on Wednesday night but one of my interviewees couldn’t make it to the shoot plus it was raining cats and dogs in Joburg so I had to cancel the shoot. Feeling a bit frustrated and anxious because I didn’t want to have to…
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