I’ve very recently opened up my very own web blog!!!!!!! Well…. For anyone who has any previous knowledge of me, this indeed is a shock of note. I have been known to be a tad phobic when it comes to technology…it’s been the bane of my existence ( on some scale)

This ofcourse, is slowly becoming a thing of the past for I have finally decided that ‘I have had it up to here, with this perceived limitation. I have decided to conquer this here mentioned ‘fear’… and throw caution to the winds!!!!!!!!! 
 

I have to admit that I have been extremely excited by the prospects of having  a new space to air my thoughts, ideas and maybe even feelings. As exciting as this new process I am currently starting is, I cant help but feel that it is quite unnerving at best. 

I have been harbouring, nursing and attempting to hide an almost chronic fear of computers since time immemorial to no avail. Although I have been honest with myself about having this particular issue, I have not really ever tried to understand where it even stemmed from.

The day I decided to go on, and open a web blog, was a day characterized by the feelings I imagine one associates with coming out of a  closet. I felt as if it was my moment to come clean with myself. This is no easy feat, as it involves introspection, understanding and acceptance of many things that previously I had not even dared think about, let alone, speak of. I’ve been developing a life long relationship with denial of my self, my innermost needs and sometimes even my thoughts and feelings, this worked for me in its strange way, until it didn’t work any more. I needed a change!!!!!!!!!!!

So… this is one aspect of the many changes that have been occurring in my so called life, every one of them as important as the other. I found myself between a rock and a hard place, I had to do something about it and life seems to have given me very little choice, so I decided to honour it, to do what I’ve always hoped to do, but never did, to try new things and experience new ways. It has been and continues to be quite a journey. And that is how I have found my self at this particular juncture.

Welcome. Ndiyanamkela. 

About Me!!!!!!!!

Where do I start?

What about me?

Well… this for me, is not as easy as what one may think it is. It is rather an interesting challenge, one which I’m extremely excited by, because once I’ve got this completely figured out, I will be glad to share it with you.

For now, I will tell you a bit about who I know my self to be. 

Well, earlier on this year, my husband  and I started an audio production company, Voxpop Africa media in South Africa, Cape Town. It required for us to start up a website where we could establish our web presence. In the process of creating the content for our website we came across the part where we needed to write ‘About Us’

It was quite a process, we realised that we would be required to be very clear and specific about what facts to put there as well as how we wanted to come across.

This was a  fairly intensive process, one I don’t want to repeat in this case. 

Let’s put it this way, if I had a sound track to my life at the moment, it would be ‘Life’ by Desree, at the risk of sounding corny.

My favourite expression and one that has been most dominant in my life so far is ‘throwing caution to the winds’

This, I dare say, has been what I have for some reason found my self doing, all to go back and chastise myself for having been that silly to actually ‘throw caution to the winds’ instead of exercising caution.

I would love to be a cautious person, however, I can’t say I have been. It wasn’t for lack of trying either.

Infact, I  am the kind of person who after having ‘thrown the caution to the winds’ I would belatedly ask myself, ‘now why did I even go and do that’ this, I guess, is where I learn  my lessons on forgiveness. I must say that so far, I’ve often had a whale of a time when I dared to just be… 

My name is Amkelwa Viola (Mbekeni ) Kapanen.

I currently live in one of the most beautiful and impressive Cities I know, Cape Town.

My husband and I run an audio production company Voxpop Africa media, it is our pride and joy. We both, my husband and I, have a passion for radio and the written word. I am an avid reader and an enthusiastic speaker, hence  I have spent the last few years working at a radio station as a talk show host and also dabbled in film production with a dear company called iliso film productions.

I am the proud mother of a phenomenal little man, Lwandle, I have never known or beheld such beauty until him. He is the sunshine in my life.  

My academic qualifications are a degree in B A Communication Science from the University of Free State, in Bloemfontein, Free state province.

I am the eternal student and intend to one day, enrol at a prestigious institution to further my learning. I cant wait for that day to come. 

I was born in a small town, kuTsolo, in the former transkei, in Eastern Cape, South Africa. I don’t  have that many memories of my time in this little town, for my parents soon moved to the then capital of the transkei, Umtata.

This is where I went to my first school and built my first memories. The stay in Umtata for my brother and I didn’t last long, for we were soon relocated to my mother’s home town, Mt Fletcher, somewhere between Natal and Eastern Cape.

We lived here in a small village, Ezingonyameni, for a number of years, until we returned back to Umtata.

I went to a number of boarding schools in Eastern Cape, matriculated at a girls school in Queenstown, and moved on to the Free state province for my higher learning.

After graduating from the University of the Free State, I relocated to Cape Town, my heart’s desire.

I have had many experiences in this Cape town, some wonderful, others challenging, in all the years of being in Cape Town, this has been the greatest year so far.

I have found the greatest joy in living and working with my husband.

It has been a long and winding road for me to arrive at this juncture, I am so very pleased to be here.