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Jessica Nkosi took over the Fresh Breakfast this morning.

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This morning all rounder, Ntando Duma, joined The Fresh Breakfast on her way to work! Yes at 05:40 she was on her way to work, talk about being an over achiever.

Mpho Maboi asked Ntando how she maintains her beautiful body and she attributes her amazing physique to her awesome metabolism because she literally eats anything. They even discussed pregnancy and what cravings she has, bananas are at the top of her list.

In response to the backlash she received after she announced her pregnancy via an online magazine interview, Ntando sets the records straight. Ntando relates how she felt after discovering she is pregnant and confessed exclusively that she actually popped the cherry the day after her uMemulo and was in fact still a virgin when she did uMemulo.

“To have uMemulo yes you have to be a virgin but i was a virgin when i did my memulo. Funny enough exclusive things on METRO FM I actually broke my virginity right after uMemulo. The day after.”

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“My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.

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Sphe and Naves joined the Fresh Breakfast team to make a HUGE announcement and debut their new single “Believe”. Listen to the interview below

My name is Thabang Molaba. I am South African by origin. In just 22 years of age, I have become an aspiring ambitious Artist & Student, by that, I mean I am involved in Media Arts which are Modeling, Acting, Styling and Choreography.

 

photo credit: Ice Models

As a Model, I am signed with ICE Models, which is based in Johannesburg. As an Actor I am signed with Legends Performers and Artists Management, also based in Johannesburg.
I recently completed my Diploma in Logistics & Supply Chain Management in Tshwane University of Technology based in Pretoria.

I recently moved to Johannesburg to pursue these here my passions and grow with my craft, Modeling, Acting, Choreography, Styling and any form of Media Art.

I am currently taking one-on-one acting classes with a very big actress and acting coach in the industry.
I know for a fact that I am an influencer of the masses, that is also a goal I’ve set for myself, to inspire and influence the masses. For verification:

ICE Models webpage: www.icemodels.co.za
IG: @thabangmolaba_
Twitter: @ThabangMolaba_
Facebook: Thabang Molaba

Thabang Molaba.

Kwesta popped by early morning on Good Friday for some fun with the Fresh Breakfast

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MADE is a new feature on the AM Edition with Adil and Marian, that celebrates self-made South Africans that beat the odds to make a success of their lives.

Mr Peter Thapelo Sebilone, the Executive Chairman and founder of Ntsu e Ntsho , a black industrialist, a true visionary who started the Ntsu e Ntsho Group of Companies.

He was born and bread in Petrus Steyn, a small town in Free State. Good family values are an integral part of his story. He is a 44 years old,married with two children. His biggest breakthrough, that sets him apart from other businessmen was when he acquired his first major contract with the Free State Department of Education.
The contract was awarded to EduSciMat a business that started as a family orientated structure, he transformed the business into a multi-million rand international corporatized entity.

This is how the story unfolds:

He is armed with a Diploma in Business Management that he aquired in London, while enroute as a executive producer in music , something he was extremely passionate about. He left the music industry and bought his first manufacturing company,manufactoring plastics, but due to lack of passion in the field and low demand in the product, he closed the factory.

The entrepreneurial bug set in at an early stage of his working life. He started the group from scratch with his own resources. Patience became a virtue.

Supplying stationary to public schools became a launching pad. Improvement of mathematics and science learning techniques led to the conception of the science and maths lab initiatives. This led to the birth of portable science-laboratories. The portable laboratories soon graduated to permanent new laboratories. This meant that classrooms had to be adapted to suit the needs of maths and science labs. The concept, which was ground breaking at the time, found resonance with the Free State Education Department. The North West Education Department and the Lesotho Education Departments followed suit. Efforts are underway to extend this concept to other provinces of the Republic of South Africa, Zimbabwe, Swaziland and Nigeria.

The success of the laboratories gave birth to other business opportunities. These included the establishment of a tablet manufacturing plant, training and development in the education space, building of assembly lines to promote the local economy, development of e-learning content material, risk solutions with regard to supplied material and the specially adapted classrooms and infrastructure development projects.

As the business grew, it became inevitable that the different projects be housed in separate companies. Subsidiary companies were then launched. All are owned by the executive chairman and are currently self- funded. The group consists of Eduscimat (Pty) Ltd, Eduscimat Risk Solutions (Pty) Ltd, Emeritus Training Academy (Pty)Ltd, Matla A Ntsu (Pty) Ltd, Eduscimat International Holding (Pty) Ltd and Enlight Techno Solution , they all form part of the Ntsu E Ntsho Group Ltd.

Though the first major contract was concluded in 2008, the executive chairman’s business experience dates back to the pre-2008 era when he secured stationary supply deals at public schools. Whereas Eduscimat (Pty) Ltd started from humble beginnings with the executive chairman as the inaugural managing director, it now boasts a staff compliment of ninety four dedicated professionals. Each subsidiary is run by a managing director.

Partnerships have been forged with companies in India, Portugal and Singapore. Designmate, which is based in India, is an IT partner on the solutions that the group offers. JP, an entity based in Portugal, assists with the assembly of customised tablets. The Singaporean partners assist with the content material that is being offered to schools.

The group subscribes to the words of Kofi Annan: “ Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family”.

The group’s vision: To become Africa’s premier leader in the knowledge space by providing innovated and value added solutions to our clients.

The group’s mission: We are committed to producing the human capital of the twenty first century that is responsive and competitive to labour market opportunities by providing high quality products and specialised solutions throughout the value chain of the education space.

See Thapelo’s interview on the AM Edition on METRO TV below:

METRO FM: So, Masechaba, let’s just assume that I know nothing about you, okay? I’d like to go from the top. I mean, I know that you’re here. you obviously have a big personality and a big fan following, etc. I mean, where did you start? Where did it all kick-off?

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METROFM: We’re here today with Lerato & Dineo right after the very first episode of The Bridge, ladies, how did it go?

Dineo: Good, good.

Lerato: AMA-ZING! How can you say good [laughs], I’m kidding, but come now [laughs again]

Dineo: You see guys how I get bullied on this show [laughs even louder]

Dineo & Lerato: Good is not good enough [both laugh]

Dineo: No, but seriously, good is an understatement. It went so well. We’re both very happy with the show and with our atmosphere. We’re working the studio together and just so glad to be killing it together.

METROFM: And you know, there is a production team, helping out bring the new show to the fans. Can you give us an idea about the structure of the show, the content and what the future holds?

Dineo: Well we’re sitting with what can only be called a very good problem in that we have too much content. We’ve got content overload and right now with the show being new it still has a lot of older features that cannot be moved or edited just yet. So we’re still finding ways to usher in the newness without destabilising what was…

Lerato: So the first hour of the show is very much about user interaction and then the second hour of the show is very chilled but still based on that user engagement, for instance, users own the playlists and they can select their own songs etc.

Dineo: And we still put content out there that the fans can still engage with. I think in the future we’ll probably see some more consistency in the structure of the show vs what it is now and I think it’s accurate to state that we’ll likely still find there is a bit of an evolution to play out.

Lerato: Absolutely! I think you may find the show getting a little more informative and especially if you continue listening through the week you’ll find a few more new features making their way into the show.

METROFM: Cool! So in wrapping up what do you think of the new website and it’s new features such as the live chat. Do you think it’s going to add a new dimension to the show?

Lerato & Dineo: Absolutely it will!

Lerato: Yeah, I mean, during #AskAMan there were a lot of people talking and chatting to us through the live chat functionality and it’s definitely going to give more power to the user in terms of how they choose to interact with us.

Dineo: And it gives the production team a good opportunity to come up with content around new features such as on Friday we have a hottie coming in who is going to be manning the live chat feature. You know a celebrity hottie who will have to do whatever the listeners ask…

Lerato: Well not everything [laughs]

Dineo: Yes, not everything! [both laughing] But this person is going to talk to the fans and it should be fun.

Lerato: And it’s just one of the new features we’ll be phasing in over the course of the new week. So there’s lots that the fans can expect over the coming days and weeks. We’re both very excited.

METROFM: Ok, thanks for your time ladies and congrats on the new show, great name by the way!

METRO FM: So, sitting here with Prudence? What is your official title, Prudence?

Prudence: Well, some call it “The executive producer,” but I’m the content producer of The Great Escape – the new content producer of The Great Escape. Only started on Monday, yeah.

METRO FM: So how long had The Great Escape been going for before you got involved? Just to give me some context here.

Prudence: An idea? Let me see… I started off here at Metro FM as the producer of ‘The Touch Down’ and at the time Amon was on between twelve and three but, at the time he was with Thato, and I think they called it The Secret Ingredient, TSI, yeah… So, it was TSI with Thato and then they changed the name but Amon stayed when Siphokazi joined Amon.

METRO FM: So how long ago was this?

Prudence: I started in 2011, right here on Metro FM. Amon was here at that-during that slot 2011 but, the name changed but Amon has been there so he’s the founding member [Laughs].

METRO FM: So, he’s the furniture? One of the mics sitting here?

Prudence: Yeah, yeah!

METRO FM: Okay, look, form a fans perspective, what they don’t know about, is that, and I have only been proven to this in the last few days, is that you hear everything on the radio and it sounds spontaneous and it sounds like everything is just, you know, top of the head sort of stuff, however, there’s producers behind the scenes here. Give us a day in the life of a producer. What does it take to get one of these shows airing?

Prudence: Okay, so normally it takes a lot and the production normally takes a day prior the actual show. So, uh, pre- the day. So, let’s say, uh, maybe on a Monday the show is gonna end between twelve and three, on Sunday, I as a producer will then start gathering then the content or get an idea of the kind of content we’re gonna be covering.

METRO FM: So, for the entire week or?

Prudence: No, for the next day. For just three hours.

METRO FM: So, Sunday is a work day?

Prudence: Yeah! Every day is a work day because you have to obviously foresee what’s going to happen, so what happens is that you’re gonna plan for the entire week, entire month and the day. But you don’t have to be putting everything on paper, like jotting it down word for word for the month or week, but for the next say you’d have to. So, for the next day you’d start gathering content that you would put into a script and obviously, there’s a skeleton that we utilise because everything needs to happen at a particular time because obviously there’s news, there’s Sports at the Top of the Hour, uh, sorry, uh, geez, The Great Escape. So, from twelve, one two we have our news and sports and uh, ten-past, twenty-past, twenty-to, ten-to, that’s the ad break and then we would have everything in-between and then obviously making, uh, provision for songs and content that needs to then be added. Because with everything that I’ve mentioned, that’s then we would then slot in the content and the content would depend on the day.

The days are themed so, you would decide that on Monday you want to cover current affairs, Tuesday lifestyle. So, it depends. And obviously in terms of the features. Each show has features of that segment that you do. Either on a regular basis or a daily basis. Those are called features. So, you would then, put the script together in accordance to what the show is doing for that particular day and then find content. So, its interviews, getting the person that you’re gonna be interviewing, getting the profile and, uh, putting a structure of how the interview will go. So, having a direction for the interview so that is not really nearly over the place. So, it needs to be structured, coming up with some of the questions and obviously getting competitions. Competitions we get them from sales.

METRO FM: Oh, from commercial enterprises, etc.?

Prudence: Yes. Exactly. So, we put the competitions into the script, knowing where exactly they would go and then obviously then put the fillers, which is like the links, maybe we’re gonna chat about what’s happening on that day. So yeah…

METRO FM: So, like the new website a million times a day?

Prudence: Yeah! New website, exactly. So, that’s how we’d put the whole show together.

METRO FM: Okay but, obviously, this all very collaborative with the hosts, right? Or is this more like you create a structure of which you then you work with them to sort of fill that structure, so to speak?

Prudence: Okay, ordinarily, what happens as a producer, you would have a conversation with the presenter and the host that this is what you wanna do and you need obviously their buy-in, because obviously they’re the ones that are executing, so normally, I would then come up with everything got the show then, uh, get their buy in, they check and when they are happy – thumbs up – we execute and at times they would obviously then contribute and then I would utilise that, add it to the script and then we are all happy.

METRO FM: Okay, cool. So, coming back to what I think the most important part of radio is, but is also subjective, how is the playlist put together? Who puts together the tracks? How does that all work?

Prudence: Okay, so there is a music compiler. That’s the music department. So, we don’t even touch it down here and people are not aware of that. We don’t touch the playlist, unless obviously have features that are music features, that’s where then we would have to add songs, change songs around, switvh them up, but that is for features, but in terms of the entire track-listing for the entire day or the entire show, it’s the music complier.

METRO FM: Okay, so, we’ve got a far better perception of what goes on behind the scenes. Uh, I mean the great escape. It’s really cool man, I mean there’s a lot of chemistry that goes on between those two, they are a good pairing, right? How is it working with them? Does that chemistry extend to the backroom?

Prudence: It does, it does. Oh, before I forget – so, we mentioned what happens prior to the show in terms of production, but during the show, the producer now becomes a director. So, you direct the entire show, make sure they follow the script as is, especially in terms of time. Playing ads on time is vital, because you know clients are listening and they’ve paid a lot of money for that so you need to make sure that ads play on time and music is played in accordance to what is on the playlist and if it means we have to drop certain things to accommodate others, that exactly what you do. So, you direct. Also, ensuring that things don’t go overboard like an interview. Sometimes people get excited, especially as a presenter, because I’m also a presenter, you lose track of time, then you carry on with an interview – you’re not seeing the time – so, the producer also plays the role of being the director in ensuring that things are done appropriately. Calling listeners to make sure that they are participate in topics or for competitions. Make sure everything runs smoothly. There are actually multiple roles put together into one, hence they would actually call it an executive producer.

METRO FM: You’re the mother of the show, you keep the kids in line, right?

Prudence: …and you know what’s the funny thing, normally the producer is the youngest in the team but, they mother everybody. But yeah, the great escape is awesome. The good thing is that I’ve worked with the team already. I’ve stood in a couple of times when the previous producer was not around. So, I’m familiar with the team, with the structure of the show. Although we will be making a couple of changes, just to add that ‘Prudence Spice’ but, the chemistry is amazing. I know Amon and Pearl separately, individually in our own personal capacities. So, working with them is just amazing – they are amazing people generally. On a professional front, they are very professional so it makes work seamless, smooth, lovely and I guess we are all very open people, spiritual people, so we get along on a lot of fronts. So, it’s been a very exciting. I know, it’s been three days, but I’m loving and I know by next year, this time, I’ll still be saying the same thing.

METRO FM: That’s great, that’s awesome.

Prudence: …and they paid me to say that [laughs].

METRO FM: Okay. Ending off the, I guess, my final question to you is, uh I admit I don’t know that much on how the radio works, but I believe you have your own show as well on the weekends. Is it pretty unique-a-case that a producer has their own show as well? Is it, you know, do producers generally have a day job and then a night job? How does this work?

Prudence: Okay. To be honest with you, they go hand in hand. When I joined Metro FM, my background was of a presenter. I was a presenter before I was a producer and then I went back to presenting and its quite normal to come across a producer-slash-presenter. It happens in TV and it happens in radio. I know I’m not the only one here at Metro FM. Okay I’m a content producer, so there’s also Naked DJ, he’s the technical Producer of the front row and he’s also a presenter on his own show, The Audiogasm and with me the producer on The Great Escape, presenter of The After Party. I can’t think of a lot right now but I know a lot of the producers have stood in as presenters right here on Metro FM, even on TV it happens. Sometimes they even present insets that they produce. It’s a package deal. Like me, I’m a trained speaker, so I come from a speaking background so going into production was just the business side of it. And yes, most of us here at Metro FM, we have a lot of things that we do on the side. You find a lot of the presenters have office jobs, not necessarily in the corporate world, but we do other jobs. So, it’s very usual and normal to come across that.

METRO FM: Okay. So, fans what we have to take from that is the producers are the swiss-army knives.

Prudence: and especially the females. We are going to take over this industry! Presenters-slash-producers, we are taking over.

METRO FM: there you are. Bring it on. Stay away, she can fight!