Nomalungelo Dladla : A
ANOTHER day, another Style edition brought to you by yours truly. What excites me the most about this week is the opportunity to produce yet another wonderful edition of Style, with exciting features and really informative pieces.
This week our cover and leading character is a lady who doesn’t need much of an introduction due to the impact that she has had locally.
I am speaking of none other than songbird Nomalungelo Dladla.
Wherever she is, she breathes life and energy! Whatever song she breathes life to becomes legendary.
Her face, her name and her beautiful, soulful and eccentric songs have become a household name.
Unlike many artists, she uses her birth name as her stage name and that has just worked for her!
Make sure to look at where she speaks about her time in the industry and how she has survived for so long.
On our page three of Style, we have a brand new feature that you have to love, Style will be raiding people’s closets and getting to know what four items, or even more, the featured individuals treasure the most.
The first raid will be of Nick commonly known as Nick the mafia, who is an events coordinator and lover of fine things. Do you still stop by page four and read the book recommendations that we always have for you there?
This week Mlondzi came through for us again and I actually managed to browse through the first recommended book, ‘Maye! Maye!’ by Sipho Sithole.
This book will let the reader into the world of migrant workers and how they have used their culture and heritage to reimagine and create a new socio-economic order through the production of cultural goods and services.
This is the story of Kwa Mai Mai; an economic trade zone that has captured the imagination of people who dared to dream.
We also have a role model to look up to this week and it is a sports woman.
Nurse weKhantri brings us the best of the best news from the social streets on this week’s edition of the plug.
There are more features in store for you even this week and we hope you enjoy reading this edition as much as we enjoyed compiling it.
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