The News would like to wish a warm welcome to Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) student, Thato Monesi, who will be joining the team as an intern.
“Hi, I am Thato Monesi and I was born and raised in Ga-Rankuwa, Pretoria. I’ve always known that someday my life would be in the lines of media. I was always that kid who wanted to know everything about anything around him. ‘Inquisitive’ is the word that best describes my childhood personality.
“However, after I completed my matric, journalism wasn’t where I drifted to immediately. I enrolled at TUT for a national diploma in information technology [I know, why didn’t I go straight into journalism right?], well I was deceived by my Math knowledge and thought I could face that qualification.
Two years into the qualification, I wasn’t myself, waking up everyday with a sad cloud over me. Those were the worst days of my life. I wasn’t happy.
“I then spoke to myself and told myself that we need to fix this. I then enrolled for my calling, journalism. With my hobbies that include writing, reading, and engaging in community work being part of my studies, I’ve never been happier since. I wanted to be a journalist not only to be involved in everything that concerns my community, I wanted to be a voice for the people whose opinions are not heard, I wanted to change the world with just a pen and a notepad. I knew the power that journalists had as well as the responsibilities that come with it. I was born for this and I was finally studying towards it.”
Fast forward to the year 2020.
“I am now an intern at the Krugersdorp News. Writing this article for the community I will be engaging with feels good; I am so excited to write for the community of Krugersdorp. I will be telling human-interest stories, doing crime reports, doing profiles on the pioneers of this community and many more.
“Like Helen Keller said, ‘Alone, we can do little; together we can do so much’.
“I’m thankful for the opportunity to tell your story.”
