ROWING up in the Khokhwane area in Elandskop, Bongeka “Mbongikazi“Zuma (24) never knew that one day she would become a poet. An office administration secondyear student,Zuma released her first CD containing poetry last Wednesday. The CD has 13 poems, which are all Zuma’s original work. Speaking to Echo, Zuma said it was her primary school teacher who identified her talent. “When I was in Grade 7 at Langside Primary School, we used to have a talent show at school every Friday. I chose to do what I thought was motivation but my teacher told me that it was poetry. She told me that I am very talented and that I should continue. Since then I have never looked back. “I started competing with other schools and as I wrote more poems, my love for it grew stronger. Now poetry is my life,”she said. She said that releasing a CD this year was not part of her plans but her fans encouraged her to do it. “Every time I finished a performance they would come running to me, asking for my CD, which I did not have. Because I didn’t want to disappoint them, I took a decision and went to a studio. It took me only two months to finish because I already had so many poems that I had