From Stage Dancer to TV Star: Zandile Ngobese’s 22-Year Artistic Journey Leads to Breakout Role in Prime-Time Telenovela

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In the vibrant city of Durban, where creativity thrives, Zandile Cynthia Ngobese’s artistic journey has spanned over two decades. Though she has been a fixture in the arts for 22 years, it wasn’t until 2022 that Zandile started to gain recognition as an actor. With captivating roles on popular South African soap operas and telenovelas like Umkhokha, Imbewu, Uzalo, and Usiko, she’s quickly making her mark in the entertainment industry. Zandile’s career in the arts began long before her TV debut. As a dancer and backing vocalist, she shared stages with South African legends including Hugh Masekela, Thandiswa Mazwai, and Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Her passion for performance started in her youth, excelling in speech and drumming during high school, even earning the opportunity to perform internationally in England. In 2006, Zandile deepened her craft by training in theatre under Jerry Pooe, taking part in productions such as King Dini Zulu and Kamasa. Her diverse talents from acting, dancing, and singing became the foundation of her freelance career, where she thrived as a choreographer and dance instructor in both traditional and contemporary styles. Despite the challenges of being a freelance artist, including delays in payment, Zandile remains passionate about her acting career. Currently, she plays a role as Maximba, an elderly church leader, on Umkhokha airing on Mzansi Magic. This prime-time role has proven to be a major breakthrough for her, showcasing the TV acting can offer. Zandile’s advice to aspiring actors without formal qualifications is simple: “Resilience and consistency are the roots of success. With dedication and the right mindset, nothing is impossible.” She encourages others to pursue their dreams relentlessly, and always carry themselves with respect and dignity. Her journey proves that with talent, persistence, and hard work, even the most unlikely dreams can become a reality. Journalist: Sindi L Photo: Supplied

PKG Moja Cruise Beach Soccer

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The Moja Cruise taxi operators were playing a beach soccer tournament at South Beach which began on the 20th of April 2024  and ended on the 21st of April 2024. The aim for this tournament was to create awareness of road safety and the importance of good driver behaviour while promoting a healthy lifestyle.  Philasande Made the coordinator from Durban Central explained the purpose  of the event that it was to appreciate and acknowledge the work done by taxi drivers everyday “I am the coordinator of Durban Central I also play for Ningizimu 2 Hlokomela, I am under Hlokomela. Basically todays event was to recognise drivers and showing appreciation for what they do on the road and it is also them who drive our cars as owners everyday. So we appreciate everything they do their work is recognised and treating passengers in a good manner we are thankful about everything that is why we will have a driver of the year award, showing that we do acknowledge and recognise all they do” said Philasande Made. The champion of Moja Cruise enlightened more about the moja cruise event that was held at Durban South Beach “here at home today we have games which started yesterday awards from Moja Cruise by loving what we do. we  should come together as the taxi industry  and play more games like these and also fight with the violence in this industry  and award Moja Cruise drivers because in the transportation industry we have Moja Cruise, uber, meter taxis, SAPS, ATA, Metro police we built this to celebrate Moja Cruise” said Sphiwe Mbhele.  I am taxi driver from uMlazi stated that this would help him gain more kids to transport to school ” This event will help me soo much interms of getting noticed by people in order to get chidren to transport from and to school” said Nhlakanipho Zulu. The captain of eThekwini police force commented that as the police force they were also invited to play with taxi drivers ” I am a captain for police eThekwini municipality we as the police force were asked to be a part of this event since we work with drivers each and everyday on the road to participaate in this big event” said Bheki Mnqele. The taxi driver from Lamontville commented that this event would help streghten the relationship between taxi driversfrom different regions ” we are here to buld a relationship as drivers. This will help us interms of getting to know each other and not disturb each other on the roads because we are from different regions because we will now know each other and there will be mutual respect” said Felenkosi Mngadi.  There were different games in this namely Tug of war which was divided into 3 sections(Tug of war 1,2&3), Relay, Soccer. Thcre were 8 groups of teams each group making a combining a number of 32 teams. The winners of Tug of war 1 were South 2, winners of Tug of war 2 were Durban central and winners of Tug of war 3 were Durban west. The winners of Relay were Metro police. The soccer runners up were Durban west and the winners of Soccer were Durban Metro Police.  The 32 participants were Municipality Durban west main Ningizimu 1 scholar Ningizimu 2 drivers B Ningizimu 2 drivers A Ningizimu 1 drivers A Ningizimu 2 scholar Greater north drivers B Ningizimu 2 main Durban west driver B Durban central driver A Greater north driver A Greater north scholar Durban central main Ningizimu 2 OPS Durban west OPS Ningizimu 2 Hlokomela Durban central OPS Durban west Hlokomela Greater north main Durban central Hlokomela Durban west drivers A Metro Nningizimu 1 Hlokomela Ningizimu 1 main Ningizimu 2 drivers B Durban central scholar Greater north OPS Greater north Hlokomela Durban Central Driver B Ningizimu 1 OPS Durban west schoolar.     

SANTACO KZN AGM Report 2023/24

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SANTACO KZN chairperson : Mr B.B Zondi South african National Taxi Council the largestest transportation Industry in South Africa had a KZN Annual General Meeting Report for 2023/24 at Durban Olive Convention Centre under the theme “building partnership for social and economical empowerment”. The purpose of this Meeting was to update all member of SANTACO KZN Committe about what they have done in the past year. Mr B. B Zondi the Chairperson of SANTACO KZN said ” they want to implement cashless  system into taxis he then stated that they want to work on the issues of drunk driving and also pointed out that with the rise of women being raped there will be an installation of hidden cameras in taxis“. He then pointed out that there is a taxi already being tested on the roads which is designed not to start if the driver is drunk.  Mr Abner Tsebe presidence of SANTACO was also in attandance of this AGM Report where he praised SANTACO KZN for the amazing work that they are doing. Mr Tsebe said ” other provinces should look at KZN as an example but not compete with them”. SANTACO is working on giving powerful structures to women without contesting with men said Mr Tsebe in an interview with Voice on the move. Hlokomela Champion KZN also in participant of this AGM pointed out that they did a number of  Rank visits to check on the condition of taxis and the rank itself. There was also support shown by the secretary of SANTACO Mpumalanga province Mr Sibanyoni who described SANTACO KZN as part of the mouth peace in the taxi industry. SANTACO works hand in hand with the government where they will be a cate of action for safety of the people. SANTACO KZN is also part of building partnership for social and economical empowerment. The chairpeson of SANTACO womens desk Mhle Mjoli in an interview said that women do not choose to be in the taxi industry but they get in because they are left with this business by their deceased husbands. “There has been a growth in women entry in this industry as women are also trying to make a living for their kids” said Mrs Mjoli.  SANTACO in partnership with Icebolethu, Sky is the limit, Siyazithula, TRSA, Dunlop, ABSA, Altrack, Forrester Toyota, RAF, Halfway group, Toyota SA, VUM, CTU, SA Taxi finance, Standard Bank, Ukwakhile, TETA, Department of Transport had a successful Annual General meeting for the year 2023/2024.