Imbali Ward 19 Youth Desk

Hi family we have some exciting news!

On the 28th September we will be having our first annual Afrikanization Of Beauty Cultural Pageant under a new concept and theme: UNOBUHLE WOMDABU NENGOMA

This year in celebrating our Heritage we will have a Traditional pageant and Ingoma competition and it's all going to happen in one day.

Full details and poster is coming but better prepare yourselves now because time waits for no man.

Please share with a friend and tell that friend to share with his/her friend.

"In the communities that we live in,Who Raises The Black Boy?"

Greetings family,we've been closely following and assessing the behavioural petten of boys within our community,crime and drugs are the biggest challenges and horror that continues to haunt young boys,the saddest part is seeing them becoming heartless killers,terrorizing the community.

This is highly informed of course by the socio-economic conditions that we live under but also the negation of programmes that focuses on the development of boys,especially in instilling good morals and ethics in them,the society has been too focus on girls and women(which is not wrong)and this created a vacuum and negation on the side boy-men development.

We would like to announce that on the month of May we will be hosting: ISTHEBE SAMADODA (A Frank Conversation with Black boys)

The aim and objective of this programme is to create a safe space for men,young and old,to engage and share wisdom on things that concerns men and the society as a whole and find possible solutions on how they can positively change the communities they live in,especially on how to combat this new destructive gangster-culture that has shadowed and haunting our communities.

Topics to be discussed:

*How To Raise A Black Boy
*Challenges Of Growing As A Boy Without Your Father
*The Deliberate Systematic Exclusion Of Black Men In The South Afrikan Economy
*Afrikan Culture and Men
*Responsibilities and Duties
*The Psychology Of A Men

These are some of the topics to be discussed on the day and if as young boy or grown men you'd like to add in these topics please feel free to inbox us your suggestions.

A poster with full details is coming in the upcoming days.

Greetings family!!

We would like to announce that the Imbali Youth Desk will be part of thee biggest book launch in this country,Socialism Nomuntu Omusha by the forever greatest author of our generation,Moloadi Wa Sekake.

From all corners of South AfriKKKa to Soweto theatre,Socialism Nomuntu Omusha will win.

*Late Post*

Greetings family,we're sorry for this late post but we'd like to thank everyone who became part of the 1st annual Ubuciko festival Amapiano Dance Competition.

It was indeed a success and that was all made possible by y'all🙏🏿

Congratulations to our winners:

Umkhamba Rocks- 3

PMB Dance Squad- 2

2K Piano Dance Crew- 1

A special thank you to our judges and programme directors.

Till we meet again on our next programme: Love,Respect and take care of yourselves.

We are now counting hours to our 1st annual Ubuciko Festival AMAPIANO Dance Competition!!

Final list of groups competing and entertainment:
Amapaino groups: 2k PDC,PMB Dance Squad,Madamara Squad,Mkhamba Rocks,Smooth Sliders,Golden Walkers

Entertainment:
*Traditional dance and Ingoma*- Osala Bebona,Ubuciko Cultural Group,Amavusamlilo group

*Theatre groups- Brothers and Sisters theatre group,Team Of Hope

Poetry- Hostel

Music- AconBoy,Andiswa Mnyandu,Vibe Switcher,PROODY.

We hope to see you all tomorrow as we celebrate our art and artists in their different categories.

As we are counting down only 2 days left to thee BIGGEST Amapiano Dance Competition,celebrating the 1st annual Ubuciko Festival!

Amapiano groups that have been added on the competition are:

Mkhamba Rocks
Smooth Sliders
Madamara Squad

Entertainment:

Osala Bebona(Traditional dance and music)
Ubuciko Cultural Group
Andiswa Mnyandu
AconBoy

Registration for Amapiano groups will be closing Friday,so make sure register in time!

The official countdown has begun 3 Days left to the biggest Amapiano Dance Competition celebrating the 1st annual Ubuciko Festival.

Meet two of our judges:

He needs no introduction within the entertainment industry,some know him for his "Cool cat song" on the Idols singing competition wooden mic,his name is Manzini24hr.

Our second judge also needs no introduction within the dancing industry,he has won many dance competitions,choreographer at Unexpected Boys,his name is Monde Dion.

Tomorrow we will be releasing the names of other two judges who will be adjudicating our Amapiano Dance Competition.

Greetings family,as we're getting closer to our biggest Amapiano Dance Competition,we want to announce the groups that will be competing and those artists who will be entertaining for the day.

Groups to compete:
PMB Bhenga Squad
2k PDC
PMB Dance Squad
(Registration is still open)

Performers of the day:
PROODY Seku Late Music
Vibe Switcher
Amavusamlilo cultural group
Hostel
Magic Man
(Registration is still open)

We would like to encourage the dancing groups who have not registered to please register whilst the process is still open because late applications will not be considered.

We will be announcing our judges tomorrow.

Greetings family,the registrations are still open to AMAPIANO dance groups who'd like to be part of the competition and also to those who'd like to showcase any type of talent they've got,please contact the number on the poster WHATSAPP ONLY!!

This week we will be announcing the judges and we can assure y'all that it's people who know their story.

Last year Sukuma Comprehensive high school was faced with a lots of challenges where we even saw students protesting and the mainstream media was there to capture every moment and Sukuma was trending.

We are proud to announce that Sukuma obtained 93,6% matric pass rate for the class of 2023 and we hope to see the mainstream media also making this positive image trend.

Congratulations to the teachers and students of Sukuma,we are very proud.

Last year there was video that went viral in social media,showing some students of Zibukezulu Tech High who were smoking under a shelter just near their school,this video got so much attention from people,its trended for weeks.

We are happy to announce that Zibukezulu Tech High obtained 100% matric results for the class of 2023 and we hope this positive image of the school will also trend and get all the necessary attention.

Congratulation to Zibukezulu Tech High,to the teachers and students you did an amazing job,we are very proud.

Congratulations to the matric class of 2023🎊🎉and to those who did not pass,it's not the end of the world just try again.♥️🖤💚

Greetings family,as promised here is our February programme and we are so excited to host our 1st annual Ubuciko Festival as a dance competition.

For the groups that would like to join please note: There is no registration fee needed
You'll have to register the name of your group in the number on the poster(WhatsApp only)
We have limited space for the groups.

Note: Other artists will be given a platform to showcase their craft(Music,Acting,Ingoma,Painting and drawing),they also have to register on the same number.

We will be giving y'all more details as time goes but for now let's make sure we register and start rehearsing.

Greetings family and hope everyone is ready for 2024!!

This will be an exciting and busy year as we will be adding more programmes on our calender.

February we will be having the 1st annual of Ubuciko Festival and we have an exciting concept but we will be announcing everything in the upcoming weeks.

Greetings family hope y'all are good and the festive season is treating softly!

We would like to first thank each and everyone of y'all who supported our programme from the beginning of the year, without your support and commitment, we wouldn't have been able to make those programmes a success.

We would also like to congratulate all the students who have progressed to the next grade and to those who didn't make, don't give up, there's still a chance next year, just make sure you put more effort, study and commit yourselves.

Next year 2024 we have exciting, big and better programmes..

Imbali Youth Desk members with Coach General (a men who worked side by side with Coach Taya Mtewu for many years) and the son of Coach Taya, Fanazi Nxumalo,they received the certificate of honour on behalf of Coach Taya.

This was our proudest moment because the presence of these two brothers means the presence of Coach Taya himself.

This was the player of the tournament in netball under 21:

Amanda Msibi

We say congratulations ✊🏿

This was the player of the tournament in under 15:

Alwande Sotetsi

We say congratulations to her✊🏿

The Imbali Sports Festival was supposed to be a one day programme but because of the high number of teams who participated it ended up being a 2 days.

The soccer results were:
Under 15

Heroes FC vs Imbali Stars United
InterCity Academy vs Imbali Lodge
The finals were played by: Heroes FC vs Intercity Academy
Heroes FC were victorious becoming the winners of under 15.

Under 21 semifinals
Imbali Stars United vs InterCity Academy
Amabhotela vs Imbali Lodge
The finals were played by: Imbali Lodge vs InterCity Academy
Imbali Lodge were victorious becoming the winners and champions of Imbali Sports Festival.

We have to recognise the coach of InterCity Academy, Coach Thondo for the beautiful work he's doing with the boys in his team, becoming number 2 in both age divisions,we salute you Coach Thondo.

The netball results were:

Under 15

Thunders got position 3,Super Eagles 2 shows the winners were Imbali Lodge Tehuis.

Under 21

Super Eagles got position 3, Black Wolves 2 and the winners were Imbali Lodge Tehuis.

We are very proud of Imbali Lodge Tehuis netball team because they were able to show us that they do not allow conditions define them, understanding that they've been subjected to no electricity for full 2 years,the conditions of Imbali Lodge are okay at all but their performance tells a different story, they are committed, dedicated and they're united.

Congratulations to Imbali Lodge Tehuis netball team.

We would like to thank everyone who made this programme become a success, from the coaches of soccer and netball teams,referees and netball umpires,Musa Dube (for sponsoring with sound system), the department of Sports, Arts and Culture (for sponsoring with soccer and netball jerseys, trophies and medals), the people who came out to support but most importantly we want to thank the soccer players and netball players because without them there's no Imbali Sports Festival.

We thank the team of Imbali Youth Desk for organising such a powerful and beautiful programme.

*Official Statement*

We will would like to also point out that everything we do is out of love for our community but also the realisation that as young people we cannot wait for people to do things for us,we have waited for far too long while our community,in particular young people continue to degenerate into inhuman behaviour and attitude, terrorizing the community, stealing,robbing, and even killing people of the community, so this made and convinced us that it is only us and us only as young people who can change these conditions.

We put our energies,ideas, time and even resources in making sure that all these programmes become a success and we're open to anyone who'd like to support the cause of trying to emancipate and develop our community.

We will also like to thank everyone from the community who continue to support the work that we're doing.

We will be releasing the results of Imbali Sports Festival and without any fear of contradictions,it was the best tournament we've ever witnessed.

*Official Statement*

Greetings family we would like to clarify a few contradictions regarding the Imbali Sports Festival.

When organised the festival last year we had confined it to a ward, where we only allowed teams of Ward 19 only to participate as we were trying to revive our ward but this year we chose to open the festival to other teams outside the Ward 19, teams around Pietermaritzburg.

As the Youth Desk we always have concept for our programmes because we believe conceptualising helps in giving the programme direction.So with this year's festival we chose to honour one man who played a critical role in youth development programmes,in particular grassroots football development.

We proposed this concept to one member of his family (we will not mention the name for protection),he loved the concept and gave us his full support but the mistake that we made was not doing a follow up and request to talk with the elders of the family (of which we did not know that they're still around), the Nxumalo elders and that led to a point where the family was not even aware that there will be such a programme.

The guy we spoke with did not consult the family and we also did not do a proper followup and for that we would like to issue a formal apology to the family of Coach Taya Mtewu, the Nxumalo family (his brothers, children and parents),we are young people and at times we do need guidance because we do mistakes not realising.

To the people who worked with Coach Taya who wanted to be part of the programme but could not because of the contradictions that we've mentioned,we also like formally apologize, our intention was not to exclude people.

Good news is that the family came to us on Saturday,in particular the older son of Coach Taya Mtewu and we were able to sharpen the contradictions,we gave him clarity and he understood our intentions that we come from a place of trying to respect and honour his father.

Greetings family, today we're finishing up our Imbali Sports Festival, today we're playing soccer semifinals and finals.

In netball we were able to finish yesterday and we crowned the winners but we're still going to officially announce them.

Come out in numbers to witness Ushukela that we have in grassroots football.

In the food section tomorrow we have Shaz who sells very delicious and affordable food, make sure that you check out her stall!

Family there's been a change in our fixture, Ithubalethu FC is no longer part of the festival and it has been replaced by Stars United FC

As we're faced by a heatwave in Pietermaritzburg, tomorrow's weather being 34°c please make sure that you drink lots of water and stay hydrated.

As staunch believers in supporting local and youth owned businesses,we decided to buy water from , this is a very progressive Black owned business.

We're now counting hours to the big day!!

This is the fixture and we salute all these teams, from coaches to players, we've seen how committed and passionate they are when it comes to football.

You don't want to miss this,so make sure that you come early.

The first game kick off at 09h00

Count down 2 days left!!

Tomorrow the fixture will be posted on this page and expect nothing but fire 🤞🏿

Don't miss out, bring your camp chair!