Five influencers to follow on social media.

Bonang Matheba.

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Bonang Matheba… (Age 27)

Bonang Matheba is a South African television host, radio personality and is known for also being a business woman, she started her career at the live amp studios (SABC) and upgraded majorly as she is a host of the most glamorous watchedshow Top Billing on Sabc3. Bonang Matheba serves to be an inspiration to a lot of young people through her achievement’s with 959k followers on twitter. Bonang uses the social networks as a platform of motivating young people, owning a handbag range of her own and as an ambassador of the Revlon she has added on her tag by being one of the woman who has her own lingerie collection with Woolworths called the B* distraction.

Minenhle Dlamini.

Minenhle Dlamini … (Age 24)

Minenhle Dlamini is known for being a television host and an actress, she began her career when she won the live amp presenter search, she used all the opportunity that was around her wisely, Minnie has 814k followers on twitter and she uses the social network platform as a space to motivate and inspire young people , Minenhle has recently started an innovation which touches young people’s lives by "sending a girl to university" this innovation began when she shot a calendar in New York last year, each individual that purchases a calendar is giving a chance to send a girl to go to varsity, this shows how much education is important to this young lady and to think how many people cannot afford to send their kids to university because of financial problems she has just decreased that number and stress to some people. This gives you more reason to follow her on social networks.

Dj Sbu.

D J Sbu… (Age 38) Name: Sbusiso Leope.

Sbusiso Leope well known as Dj Sbu is a radio personality and a business man and he also has his own show on sabc1 called Friends like These which goes live every Sunday at 6:30. Dj Sbu has just published his own book called leadership 2020 which is filled with a lot of information on how to become a leader a successful business man or woman it targets mostly young entrepreneurs. Dj Sbu is currently focusing on his latest  proudly South African energydrink called ‘’MO-FAYA’’ this energy drink is not just a drink for Dj Sbu it helps takes a child to varsity as well as we know how Dj Sbu is involved in community projects now he is playing a huge role taking kids to school. He is an interesting person to follow on social media with 35.9k followers on twitter it shows how greatly he is known for the work that he does.

Lira.

Lira... Name: Lerato Molape.
Lira is a song writer and a singer she started singing at the age of 16 and was noticed by the age of 18, and was signed by Arthur Mafokati at the age of 20 under 999 records, she is a multi-platinum selling and a 8 times SA award winning artist Lira refers to her music as fusion of soul. Lira empowers every women to love themselves as she started a 30 days love yourself challenge which began in the month of love February.This challenge is for every woman to wake up everyday and tell yourself you beautiful no matter what you have and look beyond your stretch marks with 249k followers on twitter Lira has targeted many young souls.

Trevor Noah... (Age 31).

Trevor Noah.

Trevor began his career at the Sabc studios where he was an actor for Isidingo in 2002 age 18,Trevor then hosted his own radio show called Noahs Ark which was on YFM he also presented a show on Sabc 1 called Real Goboza a gossip show and also became the spokesperson and consumer project agent for cell c. Trevor has perform all over South Africa for his show Blacks only comedy his stand up comedy shows included: the day-walker -2009, crazy normal-2011, the racist -2012 and its my culture 2013, with 1,92m followers on twitter Trevor has reached out to many people and fans on his shows he talks about our everyday challenges of  our lives which is the reason why many people want to go out and see his shows.

This may be brief but these are my five influencers to follow on social media. Do these influencers have a positive or a negative impact in your life? Give me feedback on what you think.

Hip hop Trends

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There is no doubt that hip hop music was on a lower level before the advent of Cassper Nyovest , he came into the industry knowing very well that he will change the hip hop game in a major way even though within his change he created bad blood between him and his fellow mates which also included a well-known hip hop star who has been in the entertainment industry for a while AKA. Cassper Nyovest dissed AKA on his song titled “Phumakim” this song caused a lot of controversy between the two rappers and even got to a point where it was reported that AKA and his guys pulled a gun on Cassper Nyovest at the LIVE amp studios where they were meant to be performing at the same show. Cassper Nyovest did not take it very nicely as he quickly updated his fans about the incident and that cause the two rappers to trend on twitter as they were intrigued by the situation that took place.

                                        

Aka and Cassper
squashed the beef.

This was an ongoing process because of the way it blew out of proportion. Everyone on twitter and instagram who followed the “BEEF” that was going on between these rappers made them want to include themselves into the situation. For example if Cassper Nyovest would post something negative about AKA people would respond and tried showing which rapper they supported that greatly affected peoples views and attitude towards buying their music and also they showed their perspective of the situation through social media. It also influenced me into wanting to listen to their music cause I was curious about the big deal which was trending on our social networks everyday. The people who called themselves fans and still do had to remain and show which rapper they supported. The funny part about the whole beef is when the two rappers decided to squash the “BEEF” it left everyone hanging I will just say the followers who supported AKA  were left not knowing whether to start buying Cassper Nyovests music now since they have finally made peace or continue to support our day 1 main man who has been in the game for sometime.. well I like them both I did not take any sides from the begin I just listened to good music I truly don’t understand why they started beefing and causing all this negativity between them but it was a great opportunity for them to get sales on their albums and trend on twitter and other social networks. But i just want you guys to think about this was this whole "beef" a publicity stunt??