I have fought a canis white domination and I have fought a canis black domination I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunity. It is an ideal that I hope to live for and to achieve but if it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. I was born and bred in a place called Gafusi which is in Guanda, Matabelil and South. I am a poet, an imbong. Maybe just to understand what that means. An imbong, this comes from our history, is a praised poet basically. An imbong used to be the king's public advisor, the king's praised poet or the king's public advisor. So the king is not naturally very close to people, to his people. And the person who is close to his people is the poet. And the poet normally would praise the king, you know, and I treated people gathered and the poet says, oh, king, you are great, you are this, you are that, you have conquered. But the poet also has the capacity to say, oh, king, but if you are killing everybody, who are you going to rule? When I look back, my mother played the role because each time I went to hunt with my dogs, I, I, I, dogs, one of them I remember was called Tata, meaning take. Each time I brought a rabbit, my mother would shower me with clan praises, you know, and, and I think that is the beginning of my poetry life. We are pretty much a product of our environment naturally. At, at has the capacity to either build or destroy. Very easily, at his powerful, but it has the capacity to either build or destroy. I believe my art has been instrumental in trying to build harmony among our people. Some of the work that the works of ghetto youth or ghetto youths resonate with people because get these ghetto youths are literally living with people and they are articulating issues that affect people every day. Issues that are a reflection of what the society is like. An artist is more powerful than even a politician. Their work is bound to be listened to more than the work of a politician. And as a result, an artist becomes dangerous if they are, if he is not careful because whatever they say, people are bound to listen to it. I think my art has tried to play its role in cementing relations among our people. I personally grew through television, I personally grew through radio, through newspapers, basically the media, but at that time there was no social media. Right? Art had to be good in order for people to get attention from the people. Art had to be good. So the first thing is that art had to be attractive to people in order to get people to listen. In 1998 I decided to establish something called imbon, talent search, which by the way was supported by heavos. Right? For some time, for a long time probably close to 10 years. And first of all I was training youngsters. That has been a very helpful platform in mentoring these youngsters. It has worked very well and it has been helpful because you are talking from generation to generation. I want to advise youngsters in the arts industry that honestly if you want to do well in art do not approach it from the money point of view. I think passion is key to art. I did not go into art with the intention of making money. It was my passion. I was enjoying the art and in the process money slowly came along the way. Oh yes, the other very important thing to consider in this business is the issue of diversity. As an artist I think you should be able to invest in this business. We have seen that during a time that we have experienced now which is the COVID-19 affecting the whole world. Most artists have nothing else but art. They have nothing else they are holding on to but art and that's their passion. But I think that it is also important for artists to invest and diversify because if you do not do so, you may be faced with challenges because you have to feed your family, you have to cover basic human needs. So issues of diversity or economic diversity within the arts industry are very key.