Matt Tsolo talks Early Bird Breakfast Show on Radio DUT

Journalism first year student and Radio DUT DJ Matt Tsolo.


Matt Tsolo’s sense of humour combined with his quick wit and spicy shade is why the 19-year-old is host of one of Radio DUT’s important shows, the Early Bird Breakfast show.

Every morning from 7am to 9am, listeners are treated to this journalism first year’s funny but yet insightful show before they start their day.

Talking about his show Tsolo said: “The Early Bird Breakfast is an upbeat, energetic and entertaining show to tune into especially because it has to make the listener’s day every day.”
The pressure of presenting a morning show does not bother Tsolo who co-hosts with two other presenters.

“I love co-hosting this show, because it defines who I am. I am always happy, smiling and energetic. Working with my co-hosts Luyanda Ndlovu who presents sports and newsreader, Sinoxolo Mhlatshana makes things extra special for me because we bring the same amount of energy on the show.” 

The free spirited Free State Province born DJ, who left home for Durban at the age of 13, has always been an inquisitive child but the thought of a career as a journalist or radio presenter never crossed his mind until high school.

“When I got to matric, the radio bug had poisoned me, which resulted in me turning down my University of Cape Town offer to study occupational therapy and apply for journalism here at DUT and I am having fun, added Tsolo”.


Describing himself, Tsolo who believes he was born for radio said: “I am success driven, I know what I have to do to be a success and I do not compromise when it comes to that.”

-MONGI KHANYILE

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Fashion’s Khaya Mchunu receives award from DUT Council

Department of Fashion and Textile lecturer, Khaya Mchunu was awarded the Council Award in the engagement category at the Durban University of Technology’s Staff Awards held at Steve Biko Campus. Mchunu facilitates a community engagement project where second-year students collaborate with a sewing circle from the Durban CBD called sewing for Africa. The sewing group comes to Brickfield campus and partner with students for design development. The previous projects were done Mchunu himself whilst he was mentored. “The DUT version was a paradigm shift where I switched roles to being the mentor, he said.” The learning objective that he had for the project was to enable his students to see themselves beyond design students but most importantly as active citizens and agents in social change (which is a graduate attribute of the institution) said Mchunu. “A method to exercise such an objective, I imagined, is by breaking the notion of the university structure as an ivory tower
Read more

Journalism HoD Awarded Erasmus mobility scholarship at Valladolid University in Spain

Image
Journalism's Ayesha Mall.  Durban University of Technology’s (DUT) own Ayesha Mall, travelled to Valladolid Spain where she lectured students at the University of Valladolid. Journalism Head of Department Ayesha Mall said, I spent time at the University of Valladolid in Valladolid, Spain where I taught journalism students and engaged with Journalism academics and students. “It was a pleasure to meet the staff and students. The students asked a lot of questions, which led to wonderful and critical engagement,” said Mall. Dr Torres is an academic in the journalism department at the University of Valladolid. “It was an absolute pleasure to reconnect with Dr Alicia Torres who has spent six weeks with DUT in 2016,” added Mall. Since childhood I had wanted to become a journalist. I’ve always been interested in journalism, communication and the media, said Mall. “My family follows news and current affairs avidly and there have been always critical discussi
Read more

Graphic Design Third Year and BTech students showcase their work

Image
Btech student, Karl Ludick. Graphic Design programme recently displayed their 3rd year and Bachelor of Technology (BTech) students’ final exhibition held at City Campus. The third year final exhibition consisted of 13 projects. Namely, DUT Art Gallery rebranding and awareness campaign, gender based 30 second advert, OXX T-shirt design, courier packaging, animated gif and online campaign, Baron Samedi Spiced rum campaign, Poetry Africa poster, editorial spread, IJusi Afrika Typographika, history publication, Durban map, Goldpack packaging, Instagram diary, self-branding and Behance online portfolio . Third year student, Samela Hlophe said, “The approaches on each project differed depending on what the brief required. But I maintained my style throughout, which is use of balanced colour themes and layout.” Hlophe said he learned a lot from DUT and is ready for the field. “I learned about strategy, concept is key, be authentic, hard work beats talent, never compare yours
Read more