last issue for now

As we go to the poles as South Africans, many for the first time, I hope we all go with informed minds and vote for a government that will be for all and that will benefit all South Africans regardless of race, gender or culture. We as South Africans, more so the youth hold the future of our country in hands and in our votes.
This Issue of W.O.T is called “ Making moves”, it is all about young people who have moved out of their comfortable zones and have decided to do something with what they have been given (talent). Woman Of Tomorrow has always stood for young women becoming all they are meant to be. With South Africans choosing their ruling government for 2014, I hope that this will make more young people  want to take charge of their own lives. God has created greatness in all of us and all we need to do is make the move and He will direct or steps.
Woman of Tomorrow is getting bigger, so I had new talent working with me on the issue, on top of the regular contributors. As you grow you need to start making decisions about your life and your enterprise, sometimes things work out and sometimes they don’t, but we need to make space to improve.
 So, i hope that issue will inspire you to be the best you can be and also inspire you in your faith.





Becoming a Personal Brand

I am sure we all have heard celebrities calling themselves a brand, what does it really mean? It simply means they  are a business, their names are trade marked and any one who wants to use their names needs to pay. Many celebrities have built empires from their names alone, like Oprah, Beyoncé and Bonang.
How can you become a brand, how can people invest in you for being you? You need to ask yourself a few questions before walking into any meeting, before stepping out on any stage and before speaking to anyone.
What is my personal brand?
 What do I want people to see in me and hear from me?
What will they take away from meeting me and talking to me?
 What impression do I want to leave in their minds?
Can they identify my personality?
And are they willing to invest in me?
These are all important questions when building your personal brand, when you have the answers to these questions and when people  react according to how you want them to when you are in an interaction with them, then your brand is well established. But if there are still some open holes in some of the questions, you need to work on closing them.
 Big business hardly ever hire individuals with no personal brand, you have to stand for something and your personality needs to visible. Companies are looking for assets and not liabilities. When you know your brand, you are likely to be more confident in yourself and your abilities and that translates well in interviews.
 There a many different type of personal brands, your personal brand may be a happy brand, someone who is always happy and always smiling and laughing. That type of person attracts many people, because people want to be around laughter and happiness, some brands and serious and intellectual. You need to understand who you are for anyone to believe in you and believe you.
So before you step out to the world, step into yourself and find your own brand.
Editor's Column
Perfection
I don't really believe in perfection. There has only been one man on record who was perfect, who was without fault or sin, that was Jesus Christ the Son of God.  As people we can never fully reach the level of perfection that Jesus had, in fact it is impossible. Forgiveness of sin makes you clean and perfect yes, but it does not mean you have never done anything wrong.  The idea that you need to be perfect to be a Christian is a wrong and obscure one. God knows each and everyone of His children and He requires nothing but trust from them. God is not calling perfect people, but He is calling the imperfect, the broken and the ones that seem lost in there paths, minds and in there lives, He honestly does not care what your past is or where you where last night or what you where doing, He just wants you the way you are and He just needs you to trust Him to change you as time goes.

 Beyoncé says in her song "Pretty Hurts" "perfection is the disease of a nation". Perfection is an idea that has lost its meaning in this generation, it's measured against someone’s or something’s else’s flaws, as if that makes you better than the next person. So many people have an idea of the USA as this perfect country a land of opportunity, but people don't realize that even the USA is a country with its own struggles, with its own people in poverty, with its own crime and imperfections. That is one thing I learnt on my trip there, there is no perfect country, every country is a working progress just like people. We are all on a journey of self-discovery and seeking perfection. We are all on a journey that never ends, life is a constant lesson, it is constantly rotating, no one ever really gets to the end, even in death there is life and until the final judgment we will be on this journey.
I know I hate it when someone thinks I’m perfect just because I’m born again, I’m far from it. I'm a Jesus freak that is still on her own journey, with her own battles and imperfection she fighting. I try to show people the type of person I am so when I get angry or annoyed people will not get surprised. They’re no reason for me to act perfect when I know I’m not. But I praise and worship my God with of my heart and pray for Him work on me, He know all or weak points and He works on them with us.
Learn to love yourself and accept yourself, allows God to help you on this journey of life. Perfection is a disease of dying world, don't die with it and do not judge with it.



 On the of 15 March 2014 at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University Vertas Residence study centre South Campus. Woman of Tomorrow Africa foundation hosted their first Seminar in the Port Elizabeth. There were thee speakers, each amazing in their own right. There were 40 young women in attendance. Read more..

Woman of Tomorrow Foundation
 Woman of tomorrow is an NGO/online magazine that aims on motivation, inspiring young God fearing female leaders for tomorrow. It connects woman of yesterday, today and tomorrow. Creating a sisterhood bond, where they learn from each others experiences, providing mentorship for young girls all over South Africa and Africa.
We focus on skill development, teaching then business skills and value of education. We teach then about positive attitude and self esteem. Creating a forum where we can talk freely about issues facing you African women and women in general. We believe that women are power and successful and we want our girls to believe that.
The NGO teaches our girls the value of giving, helping out those in need and charity work. Charity is very close to the NGO, we want to help create sustainability in the homes of the poorer percentage  of South African households, by having programs that the NGO help create and monitor.
We also have an online magazine, that is used as a young female lifestyle magazine, that is used to speak to the women of, yesterday, today and tomorrow. We are hoping to have it in print by 2013 December.
http://wotfoundastion.wordpress.com


W.O.T had an interview with new kid on the block, TV and radio presenter Bongiwe Mnikina. She is a young bundle of bliss, motivated and making moves.


This 17-year-old grade 11 scholar from Victoria High School in Port Elizabeth is making buzz in PE. This Port Elizabeth native grew up in New Brighton in the hands of her grandparents, whom she attributes to helping raise her.

She is young, energetic and a go-getter, “I'm quite a Drama Queen with a Capital "D",” she says. Her favorite class is her drama class, no wonder she has chosen a path in media. She is a musician, playing the saxophone and singing in the school choir, but that is not all this young talent does, she is also a model, signed under a P.E agency. Her modeling has taken a break while she peruses her TV career as a presenter on Bay-TV.

Television has always been a dream of Mnikina. From a young age she saw herself on television, “ I don’t know how or when but I told myself I’m going to be on TV”. In 2013 that became a reality, when Mnikina and three of her friends where invited to be guests on a local PE TV station, Bay-TV, she says that after that appearance, her dream was reaffirmed. She tells me seeing people like Bonang Matheba (a South African, TV and radio personality), makes her hunger for it even more, “ She made her job look so easy and it takes a pro to do that,” she said .

In December 2013, Mnikina and her four friends where invited by Bay-TV to do a screen and chemistry test, for a new show the station was doing, called “Young and Beautiful”, a show for teenage girls, talking about issues affecting teen girls and covering events.
The show's creators and producers loved how the girls worked together and that is how it all started.

Mnikina, would love to study Media and Communications in university, growing her knowledge in Media. She is also involved with Bay-fm. A local PE radio station, where she won a competition out of 500 entries where she won a three months contract with the radio station and a bursary.
Although she enjoys radio, Mnikina’s main focus is television. With Port Elizabeth’s media industry so small, she would love to enter the media field of Cape Town. She says if she had the opportunity, she would leave PE for a bigger industry.
In the future she sees herself still as presenter entertaining, "I'm all about entertaining people" she says. Her parents are supportive, although she is on TV, she says nothing has changed much; she says they have become more strict, teaching her that balance is vital. Her career should not clash with school work.
“You don't have to be liked by everyone at the end of the day you not money!” Mnikina said.



 Do you really know Jesus or.......?

 I know with no doubt that my God lives, I don’t doubt or think twice about it. It hit me, the same way I believe in My God, the same way I know that God is God and there is no other god that is greater then my God. In my belief that only my God is the one true living God, that is how many other religions view their religions, that is how they see their gods and the same way I love my God that is how they love their gods, they feel or know that no winds, storms or pain can remove them from their god or gods. So what would make someone want to believe in my Jesus in my God, what makes Him that special that would make someone believe in Him?
That is a very important question, what sets you and your Jesus apart from the rest of the religions and gods? I was speaking to my friend Simile Mboto, who posed a very striking question, “who is God? How do you tell someone who God is, and makes Him greater or better then their god right now?” She carried on to ask if I would be able to explain God to an atheist. Interesting questions, really as much as I know about my God, how much do I know really, what can I say that can make some leave their gods, which I believe aren’t real, but they believe they are, why Jesus? How would I explain Him?
As Christians we are so complacent in our walk with God, we are ok with knowing God for ourselves and everyone can figure it out themselves. Maybe it’s not that we are complacent, but it may be from our own ignorance. See when Jesus died He died so that we can know the father and know Him to the fullest, no half way or knowing Him the way your pastor knows Him, your pastor can not determine you relationship with God and he/she should never be put in charge of your relationship with God.  People are always looking for a middle man when it come to God, but the idea of Jesus and Christianity has never been religion, which offers you a middle man, but the idea and reason for Jesus, was for a direct and personal line to God.
“Christianity in essence is and
has never been a religion.”
How would I explain Christianity to someone who does not believe in Jesus, someone who already has his/her own ideas about god/s? It is the knowledge of the word; Jesus says in Matthew He is the word. How do you introduce someone you yourself don’t know, someone  you depend on someone else to tell you about.
Christianity is like a friendship, when you get introduced to someone for the first time and you bump into them again and again, you start getting acquainted with them, a relationship starts to form, you start pinging them on facebook or whatsaping them. You start spending time with them and getting to know them, until you get to a point when you start calling them a friend and when you call them friend, you make effort in visiting, calling and attending all their events. How do you get to know your new friend? By talking to them, having a cup of coffee, making time for them and investing in that friendship. When someone asks you about your friend, you confidently tell them who she/he is, how she/he is, you know where they from, their parents and siblings, and if something incorrect or not true is said about them, you stand up for them with confidence and no doubt that your friend would never do what has been said.
This is how we need to be with Jesus, you need to know so much that even an atheist becomes confused in his/he own belief of lack of belief.  Someone who is of a different faith needs to want to know more about this Jesus you talk so freely and confidently about. When they ask you what He has done for you, that should not feel like a trick question, no question should feel like a trick question. Ask God to know Him more, to give the desire to read the world more. The word is Jesus and Jesus is the word. And until you know really know Jesus/the word, you will never be able to stand up for Him or tell someone the truth about Him. That’s  why you find so many people following Pastors so religiously, because they don’t know God., they don’t know the truth about Jesus.
by: Sinazo Mtshengu