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Kopano

Young, Black AND gifted...Being beautiful is just a bonus!!!! img src=http://www.millenniumcampaign.

About Me

Black and beautiful, Black, young and Gifted, Talented and Loud!!! Ok the facts... I'm currently doing my third...er fourth year BCOM: Accounting Sciences at the University of Pretoria. I also write part-time for various publications. You might have seen my peices in Rootz, Sawubona, Saturday Star, The Star, Hype magazine, rage.co.za, millertime.co.za, Student Choice and Campus Times (Mail and Guardian). Yeah, an out-of-work wannabe journo... Google me to see some material!!!! I also used to be on radio on Top Stereo 93.6 FM (TUT's Campus radio station, talking hip hop. Before that I was on Trans Africa Radio and in 2004 I was at Tuks FM...now I am again a budding radio DJ...WATCH THIS SPACE!!! oh I am also a Sunday School Teacher at a Methodist Church in my hood..I deal with the teens..drama drama drama...

My Interests

love to run my mouth, read horror/thriller fiction and watch football, cricket and horror/thriller flicks! And of cos MUSIC!!!!

I'd like to meet:

Oprah Winfrey...Duh...Strong black woman..pity about the beef with Fif, Luda, Outkast

Music:

Hip Hop all the way...Jay-Z, K.West, T.I (The biggest crush!!!) and my PTA hip hop fraternity (you know who you are) oh and Corrine Bailley Rae..she is the truth..so is Vivian Green and Maxwell...Anita Baker..classic ish!

Movies:

How To Lose A Guy in Ten Days (Yes I know its a chick flick..build a bridge!!!) and those kinda movies that change your life forever! Pursuit of Happyness, Magnolia, Vanilla Sky, United States of Leland, Shawshank Redemption, Fight Club, Butterfly Effect, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind... You gotta walk away a better person..The flowers should atleast smell sweeter and the grass should be a tad greener!

Television:

Oprah...Duh and Reality Shows (so sad!!!) oh and Scandal on e-tV (its the real shit!!!) and lately Desperate Housewives..is it just me or is the third season-the best ever! oh also love Girlfriends..its on a black wave tip and I love that it reminds me of my own zany black bitches!

Books:

Anything by Christopher Pike and John Grisham ..And John Connolly..oh and Paulo Coelho....Again think..but also Candace Bushnell..such wit is a gift!

Heroes:

My mother (what a rock!!) and my late Gogo (RIP, Miss you like crazy!)...oh and Oprah..Duh again Dr Gary Zukav..of late..what an inspired man

My Blog

You haven’t lived, until you’ve tried...

If you haven't tried, you haven't lived.... That's from 'Meet Joe Black'... Those are heavy words which apply to so many situations... I mean couldn't we jus give up and wait to die because life can b...
Posted by Kopano on Sun, 25 May 2008 04:12:00 PST

South African Music Awards 08...My take...www.rage.co.za

..TR vAlign=top> ..TR> its been out a minute..if you missed it... ALL THE SAMA 08 WINNERS send link to a friend | archives | print..TABLE> Kwaito star Kabelo was once again the host of the sho...
Posted by Kopano on Tue, 20 May 2008 04:41:00 PST

Daddy issues... Is that what it is?!

This past weekend made me glare right into the face of my issues... Issues I thought I had handled or at least put a lid on...during therapy i happened to hook up with a guy who is like over deca...
Posted by Kopano on Tue, 06 May 2008 04:19:00 PST

The Circle of Life... Er Joy...

The concept of life is in itself ingenious... Absolutely brilliant... The concept of a world, with people in it who embark on a rite of spiritual growth via much trial and error... Those very lessons ...
Posted by Kopano on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 05:06:00 PST

If you didn’t know, now you do (random facts about me)

I posted this as a comment on Lyfestile's page ...check out what he said on the following link.. http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&f riendID=40189072&blogID=167430404&M...
Posted by Kopano on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:25:00 PST

It Don't Feel Right...

I’ve often wondered how two people that like eachother can go from that to ’separated’. Now Usher’s track of the same name pops into my mind. How random but certainly fitting. ...
Posted by Kopano on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:43:00 PST

THE LOWDOWN ON WHAT MEN REALLY WANT...www.studentchoice.co.za

..> more of what I do...the new website is up..so do check it out... www.studentchoice.co.za   ..> She Said - Varsity Relationships 1 December 2007..> This column has been written by Ko...
Posted by Kopano on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:06:00 PST

Was that my gut or fear talking?

I hate being right. No seriously. I’m sucha cynic and pessimist and realist that I’m near hopeless... And being right only compounds that....do I have a killer instinct or a paralysing, co...
Posted by Kopano on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:43:00 PST

DJ Cleo profile...www.rage.co.za

EGO OF STEEL send link to a friend | archives | print Kopano Marumo Things are so severe that DJ Cleo wouldnâ¬--t know who to holla at, in the event of a tyre puncture. â¬--I donâ¬--t like keeping fr...
Posted by Kopano on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 04:20:00 PST

Bitchin...the human condition...

As I write this, Im in another mother of a queue at the University of South Africa- Unisa... Its not as long as yesterday's...but its a mother nevertheless...the third in two days. Thats what people d...
Posted by Kopano on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 06:21:00 PST