Monthly Archives: April 2009

No Sugar-Daddy For My Girl (BONA)

April 21, 2009 – 10:00 am

Mbali Mlotshwa and her mother Bongi share more than a mother and daughter relationship. They are also co-stars on Soul City. Mbali plays Lulu, the HIV positive young girl with a sugar-daddy and Bongi is Lihle, Tefo’s wife. “Although we haven’t shared a single scene on screen!” laughs the 40-year old actress. Read the full [...]

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Malawians say men prefer women who are skilled in bed

April 20, 2009 – 10:56 am

We recently published an interview with Proud Virgin, a PR professional who says that she chooses to remain a virgin until she marries. While some of our readers supported her decision, and even applauded her for it, there were many young women who were worried that she is going to have sexual problems when she [...]

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Help me teach our youth (reader letter)

April 20, 2009 – 10:30 am

A letter from Pretty Sithole touches on so many important issues about love, sexually transmitted infections  and HIV that I thought I should share it here with everyone. The response may also provide some guidance to many of you who would like to do something to help your community to fight against HIV, but you [...]

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Metro FM/OneLove Competition Raises Awareness

April 17, 2009 – 9:11 am

Thursday 16 April 2009: Using Soul City’s winning edutainment formula, HIV prevention was given a boost in March during the OneLove competition held during the Thomas Show on Metro FM. Each of the five competition winners bagged a cash prize and listeners were exposed to the serious messages underlying the OneLove campaign – that having [...]

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Getting To Know The Soul City Cast: Xolile Maluka

April 16, 2009 – 8:00 am

  In this week’s installment of “Gettting to know the  Soul City cast,” OneLove chats with the  bubbly Xolile Maluka, who plays Dineo on Soul City series 9. Xolile has a long history in the performing arts, but the role of Dineo is her first TV role. So she was very enthusiastic about landing the [...]

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Do long-distance relationships work?

April 15, 2009 – 7:28 am

During our research on multiple concurrent partnerships in Namibia,  most of the people that we interviewed said that long-distance relationships do not work. What do you think?

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Sindi Zwane talks about keeping her husband safe

April 15, 2009 – 7:15 am

Sindi Zwane is a mother, wife and enterpreneur from Swaziland. She’s also a role model in the OneLove campaign. She says: I’m a one man woman Failure in life is not when you fall; failure is when you choose to stay down. I’ve had down moments but I chose to turn that around. With respect [...]

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