Young and gifted

Young and gifted caters to one’s personality, the small, the big and the just too AWESOME! We make sure you are motivated by these young and hardworking people. Let us have a checklist for this one, and when you are done reading you can go through it again:

ü  Motivated

ü  Humble

ü  Motivator

ü  Educated

ü  Young

ü  Gifted

Musa Mthombeni, he even gave us his green book name, “Musawenkosi Mthokozisi Mthombeni” I’ll give him an ‘A’ for ‘Awesome’ for that. 24 years of age, born and bred in the Vaal. Musa is a former Yotv presenter, and has graduated and is doing practicals at a hospital in Durban.

Before Musa became a presenter on Yotv, he would go to the studio and be part of the audience like most people who would have loved to be part of the Yotv family. His TV career started in 2000 when he was in grade six, where he would do links on Yotv land with Itumeleng Bokaba, he then went on to doing shows with people he refers to as “the bigger kids” the likes of Cc, Carly and Salae.

Everyone grows up, part of growing up is widening your horizons, moving on to bigger things, hence Musa left Yotv during his third year of University.

Starting with Vow FM for 2years, he then sent his demo to Yfm and got his own slot called the reload. Musa describes his radio experience as a ‘fun’ experience; he enjoys doing shows at odd times of the night as he prefers to do something that will not interrupt his studies. I hope you are seeing the pattern here, books before everything else!

Media and medicine, this seems to a very different combination more like ‘weird’. Today young people wouldn’t want to go study something like medicine after they have entered the entertainment industry and there being light. 5 years of University studying medicine, Musa is now doing his final year making it the 6^th year and this means that he will be giving back to the community by helping those that need help. Young and gifted indeed!

“The one thing that gets me up every morning is that I know why I’m doing this; I know I still owe my parents a house, I have a little brother who will want nice things and I have to give back to the community”, a young person who puts other people before them? Wow!

Musa in three words: life-loving, curious and loving.

Message to young people:

·         Introspect

·         Make goals

·         Plan for your goals

·         Get to work

If he had the power to change the world he would change “the youths view of themselves, we expecting things to happen, yet we are just sitting and doing nothing”.

Musa quotes a friend: “Run your own race”, do what you feel is best for you and stop looking at what other people are doing.

Go back to our little checklist, double tick it if you dare, I know I did!