COPE comes to Rhodes University, South Africa

COPE is busy launching branches of its youth and student movements. About 340 students attended the meeting in spite of the heavy rain and power outage on campus minutes before the meeting started.

Anele Mda, COPE’s youth convener, Lynda Odendaal, the second deputy president and, Smuts Ngonyama, head of policy, were ushered into the gas lamp illuminated Barratt Hall. But power was restored about 30 minutes later.

After the meeting I interviewed four students. Two said they supported COPE, one was undecided and the other one supported the ANC.

Yesterday I, Thandeka Mapi and Floyd Musekwa, my fellow prospective reporters, were ready to cover the ANC meeting which was supposed to be held at the same hall. The meeting was cancelled.

Tsuai's pix

Tsuai's pix

Tsuai's pix

Journalism is for me

On Friday last week I quit my job as a public servant in the Gauteng public works department to take up the City Press Percy Qoboza Scholarship that I was offered after I applied and was interviewed.

I will be doing a Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism and Media Studies at Rhodes University this year and next year I will be working as an intern at the City Press. Thereafter the sky is the limit.

From Tuesday I have been coming to Media Park to get a feel of the newsroom and how reporters and journalists work.

Today we went to the printers, Paarl Gravure and the distributors, NND24 to get an idea of what happens to a publication from the time it leaves the offices of the newspaper until it reaches the reader.

On Saturday I'll be leaving for Rhodes University in Grahamstown. I love this career and I want to work as a reporter.