Children and parents find happiness in Maskots festival

Fun lovers believe that if the Mascots and Kidz Festival 2019 directors keep hosting the event, criminal activities committed by young people in the Nzhelele area and surrounding areas will decrease dramatically or even disappear.

At a festival that was attended by over 7 000 people, this was the general consensus from the majority of fun lovers at the Mphephu Resort on Saturday.

“We have never attended or witnessed a festival of this nature before, where people do not fight among themselves but rather focus on having fun and enjoying the festival,” said an attendee, Ms Ndivhudza Nengwenani. “I came here with my three children and one granddaughter to play and have fun. We pray that we have this kind of festival at least four times a year.”

According to Nengwenani, even teenagers were now accustoming themselves to mascot activities that they could engage in instead of roaming the streets. The festival is hosted by VCC Music and the organisation's managing director, Mr Tshilidzi Bobodi, said that the management wished to thank all people, young and old, who had attended the festival.

“We are humbled by the marked growth of the festival, both in numbers and the kind of activities that we make available to the children and their guardians,” Bobodi said. “We always aim to please the attendees, and when we hear that they are happy even after the event, it makes us happy too.”

The Mascots and Kidz Festival, through its diverse activities, aims to stimulate children's minds and educate them.

Entertainment - Date: 12 October 2019

Tshifhiwa Mukwevho

Tshifhiwa Given Mukwevho was born in 1984 in Madombidzha village, not far from Louis Trichardt in the Limpopo Province. After submitting articles for roughly a year for Limpopo Mirror's youth supplement, Makoya, he started writing for the main newspaper. He is a prolific writer who published his first book, titled A Traumatic Revenge in 2011. It focusses on life on the street and how to survive amidst poverty. His second book titled The Violent Gestures of Life was published in 2014.

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