The Record welcomes intern, Avumile Seela to the team

My name is Avumile Melusi Seela, I’m 22 years old and was born in Johannesburg West. I started my educational journey at Bosele Intermediate School and did my Grade Seven at Patrick Mashego Primary School. I finished my matric in 2020. I’m currently in my third year studying journalism at Tshwane University of Technology.

My passion for journalism started at a young age as I would listen to Lesedi FM every morning before going to school. My friend’s brother was working as a radio presenter and DJ. We would listen to the radio and start imitating him as a presenter; that built an interest and motivation to study media-related careers. Post-matric, I was stranded with an unplanned gap year and started doing commentary on our local football games.

After a long year of misfortune, I was accepted as a journalism student and I was ready to hit the ground running. At first, I couldn’t believe it and was not sure if I was going to survive. After a few months, I started my own online news company, Informants Media, where I was writing hard, political, health, and sports news. I managed to create a website for my unregistered news company with the help of my lecturers and friends at the university.

I’m currently an intern with Caxton Local Media at their West Rand branch. I’m looking forward to learning new skills and adding value to the existing team. My goals are to become the voice of the voiceless and regain the public’s trust in the media. I want to become an active young journalist by overturning the journalism interest I have had for years into a long-life professional career.