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Getting Down To Fashion up and running is no easy task. Nor do I believe will it become any easier. But, everyone needs to start somewhere and this is where we make our mark! How does any publication stand out between the famous Glamour, Cosmopolitan or Elle? Well, I present to you; Down To Fashion! Recently, Tamen De Lange and I won the annual business competition at the Faculty of Economics hosted by EDC (Enterprise Development Centre). The EDC is a platform or “bHive” where young entrepreneurs are catapulted into the future by lending them resources to achieve their dream. Together, Tamen and I came up with a fashion magazine called DTF Down to Fashion. DTF believes fashion should be affordable, that’s why we created an affordable fashion-trend guideline for students from students. DTF inspires runway fashion at an affordable price, inspires change and inspires students to be the change. However, achieving this goal hasn’t been – and still isn’t – an easy objective. Believe it or not, winning the competition was the simple part. It is what follows that scares us, and is probably what can make or break DTF. But we won’t give up; we will reach for our dreams and achieve what is most desired. The idea of DTF sprung from the belief that students do not know how to dress to fit their personality. They dress to fit to the trends, or to fit in. But like I said, it’s not about achieving greatness. It’s about standing out! And why not stand out by expressing through fashion. Artists have music and painters have paintings. Shouldn’t fashion also be a form of art or a form of expression? In the end what is most important is trying to follow your dreams. Obstacles may come your way, people might laugh in your face and try to convince you that what you are doing is impossible. But ignore them and keep pushing on. That’s what we did.
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I cannot thank everyone enough for the immense support during the making of DTF magazine. Especially the people that invested in DTF with blood, sweat and tears. It is true what they say, “Money can’t buy happiness”. Because as I am writing this, I can honestly tell you that I am flat broke, but I am happy. I hope that in the future DTF will touch lives, not only through fashion empowerment but through inspiration. Inspiring people to chase after their dreams and to not rely on a “snooze button” for the rest of their lives. There are few words that can describe the appreciation and excitement that I have for DTF’s future. “Every night I used to pray that I’d find my people, and finally I fount them on the open road. We had nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore, except to make our lives into a work of art”
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This quote is what inspired me… So be an artist, not a dreamer.
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I found myself in the bowels of the beast So, I took my time to start writing this feature article – the one about the whole Oppikoppi Bewilderbeast soirée. Oppikoppi, for the unacquainted, is the annual national musical and cultural festival held on the outskirts of dusty Northam, Limpopo, sometime in August - I say “sometime”, for time is, after all, not a matter of concern when you are confronted by a quasi-post-apocalyptic landscape. The entire experience can, unsurprisingly, be summarised in a paragraph (one sentence in fact), but for someone of my talkative nature and sober-minded sense of observation, it would seem a mockery to simply review Bewilderbeast with pronouns like “dusty, dirty, DIRTY and demonic”. En route to Northam, my dear friend, accomplice, butler and chauffeur – let’s call him Jaco ‘Hangballas’ in order to protect his already tarnished identity – seemed like a tattooed race car driver with Tourette’s Syndrome, randomly bellowing a succession of swear words and the
word “Oppikoppi!”, as if he was Satan himself. Being a “Koppi”-rookie himself, Hangballas was pleasantly smug when he heard, through a preceding spiritual connection to the lost Belly of the Beast that is Oppi, he hit the nail on the head in terms of the united views that kindred souls share on the festival grounds. Into the early hours of the morning you could hear the echoes of “Oppi–F*****–Koppi!” throughout the campsite. Perhaps this was a true-to-the-spirit take on the traditional game of “Marco Polo”, because the campsite was shrouded in darkness and drunken disorientation. One could very easily get lost in the maze of dust roads leading to revellers’ tents (yours truly, suffering from nyctalopia – a fancy name for being “night blind”). Swearing and lost souls in labyrinths aside, this is a festival of music, love and camaraderie. With its no less than five stages, boasting some of the crème de la crème of both local and international musical freaks and geeks (the ever intriguing Bittereinder and legends Mango Groove highlighting the line-up), there certainly wasn’t
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a week after its occurrence, seems to be captured in nothing but a t-shirt, a wrist band, and dust buff... All of the unity is now seemingly forgotten, the festivities even more so. All that remains is dust on our shoes, scrawny bank accounts, big talks of how baked the “individual” was and inanimate objects to prove that we were in the Belly of the Beast. Jaco and I left on Sunday morning. My silver Tazz – whom we named Kashmir for God knows what reason – was wrapped in a blanket of dust, minus a left indicator. This is what comes from being selfindulgent pleasure seekers.
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Cigarette in my mouth, dirty as shit after not showering for three days and an odd sense of freedom blowing in from an open window with the melodic country sounds of Shovel and Rope’s “Birmingham” keeping spirits alive, the emotions I experienced was bittersweet. Staring at the Sweet thorn trees as they rushed by and at the (predictable) clear blue sky, I was distracted by a thin cloud of white smoke in the atmosphere. “Dude, Koppi was f***** hard,” is what Jaco says. I just nod, my eyes on the white cloud, the soul of Bewilderbeast, ascending to the heavens... BJ Venter
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The Power Of One, Be The Change Kutlwanong Block 2 Community Garden Clean Up The Team Up to Clean Up team is starting to turn Odendaalsrus and Kutlwanong upside-down. Saturday 3 August the team was up early cleaning a community garden in Block 2, Kutlwanong. This garden was build by Mr Abel out of his own pocket and desire to contribute to the community that he lives in. Kutlwanong is an informal settlement thus the infrastructure is very poorly developed and with high water & electricity fees it is hard for Mr Abel to maintain the garden. Mr Abel uses this garden to earn an extra income with wedding ceremonies, Funerals and other parties but last year the Matjhabeng Municipality decided to dig a sewage channel right through the garden. So now the garden is split into two and the one side of the garden cannot be used or accessed because of the sewage running through it.
Clean Up team hopes this can be utilized as a pilot project, that can be copied in other parts of informal settlements. Firstly empower the community economically and to make the people proud of their community. To make this project a success the Team Up to Clean Up team needs the following things: 1. Wood or building materials to build a small foot bridge over the sewage ditch. 2. 5000+ litre water tank yo build rain catchment system to water the garden. 3. Fencing or any material that can be used to build a proper fence around the garden, to keep unwanted people or animals out of the garden. 4. A few garden statues or ornaments to beatify the garden and also to ‘expand’ his business to attract people to take photos at the garden.
The Team Up to Clean Up’s mission is to assist Mr Abel to clean the garden and restore it to previous If you would like to assist us in helping Mr Bbel glory so that he can again earn an extra income please contact us at 0769850333 or igortel2000@ and support his family better. The Team Up to gmail.com.
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