Unleash your inner poet!

Sunday World-Khomanani Poetry Contest 2005!

Enter the Sunday World-Khomanani Poetry Competition and win loads of fantastic prizes including a car, cellphones and airtime from Cell C. Each month, for five months starting July 2005, Sunday World andKhomanani will set a positive topic about HIV & Aids and invite you to send in your poems.

Each week the best poems will be published and eachmonth a winner will be chosen by a panel of judges chaired by Sunday World editor and award-winning poet Abdul Milazi.

The monthly winners will have their poems read live on radio and will stand a chance to win the poet of the year award and a grand prize.

Send your entries to Sunday World-Khomanani Poetry Contest, PO Box30316, Wibsey, 1717. E-mail entries can be sent tokhomanani@sundayworld.co.za or faxed to 011-4714164.

They can also be submitted by phone on 084 194 7636, give your name, phone number, then recite your poem (cell phone rates apply). Check out Sunday World weekly for topics and let those creative juices flow!

submitted by Gary Cummiskey

Wanna be a Wine Fundi?

Poetry & Wine Tasting @ Trans Africa Express, the BatCentre - Durban

Wine Fundi wine course for only R80 per session or R320 for the full course. Join us for professional tuition by Sydney Buthelezi - learn to know and love your wines.

Monday, 13 June 2005 @ 7pm – Red Wines
Monday, 20 June 2005 @ 7pm – White Wines
Monday, 27 June 2005 @ 7pm – Rosé & Sparkling wines
Monday, 4 July 2005 @ 7pm – Sherries & Ports

Limited seats available, so please book immediately! RSVP with Marita - 332 0804 or 084 7014566

Course includes manual, wine, light snacks, poetry recitals - u get a certificate to show for it too (HA!).

- brought to you by TransAfrica Express restaurant, Natal Wine Merchants and YOUNG BASADZI PROJECTS

Please email us at youngbasadzi@webmail.co.za or phone Marita - 031 332 0804 for bookings.

YOUNG BASADZI - the cold winter...

SHO! #^$&! Durban is chilly guys …it's a cold winter this year!

The beginning of May saw us start the Poetry sessions on Thursdays at the BatCentre. From running a session with only 5 attendants, to having 12 beautiful women who are keen to just be heard, is indeed an experience! It is a good feeling when I see the regular faces come back, as it reassures us that we are certainly doing something right.

The regular Saturday poetry spot on P4KZN Radio has also been going since the beginning of April, and we are still enthusiastic about this. We hope that it will get to a point where we do not have to wake up early on Saturday mornings to be in studio, but will have a recorded run of our work(what a pleasure).

Beginning of June also marks a completion of our Zulu project, 'Amandl'embokodwe' and we are soon to be working on a collection of poems in isiZulu. I will keep you updated on that as soon as we start working on it.

TransAfrica Express Restaurant, at the Batcentre and the Natal Merchants Wine will be hosting a wine tasting course, with YOUNG BASADZI PROJECTS proudly hosting the poetry. At R75 per evening, or R300 for the entire 4 evenings - you get to be a wine fundi, with a certificate nogal to prove it.
RSVP as there are limited bookings available -starts on Monday 13, June 2005 from 7:00 to 8:30pm.


ANYWAYS, more good news is that I have made arrangements with my main financier up above and HE assured me that he's put aside the rest of the R15 000 to publish 'I Write'. So July (which also marks the 1st birthday of YOUNG BASADZI PROJECTS) will see 'I Write' come into life. I AM EXTREMELY on edge, and can not wait!

'On Dreams' should spring in September - and with the beautiful work that has been sent to me, this is going to be another stunner of a collection.

So basically - I hope June finds you warm with a Cup-a-Soup, a piece of paper and pen to ease away the cold.

Please keep me notified on what you are up to: youngbasadzi@webmail.co.za.