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Flamboyant Prince of Spice, Reza Oh My! Some interesting questions here My moment with Reza Mahammad Reza Mahammad The Spice Prince by Yashika Ramautar YR: Where did your passion for cooking and food begin? RM: In many ways it began from staying with family in India, learning to make jams and all sort of stuffs. I used to help my mum make samoosas by filling it up and so on. Then with the restaurant business, my father passed away when I was 15, so I did a Hotel Management course, and then went straight into the business. I do love it, its fun but a lot of hard work too, and I tend to bring the fun out of it more than anything else! When you enjoy what you do, its like art or music where you can be expressive, and I love that. YR: Is there any part of being in the kitchen that you don't like, and why? RM: IThe thing is that,if you are doing something, then you've got to do it at the end of the day. For me every aspect is as important, from ...

Courtney "Scott" Smith, is a local street dancer from Wentworth, who dreams of one day  opening  dance academies all over the country. He believes that teaching youngsters the raw cultures of street dancing, will take away many of the negative perceptions many people have about street dancing. Southern Star caught up with  The Scott, just to find out a little bit more about what he wishes to achieve in the future. SS: When did your dance journey begin? CS: Well, everything began when I was about twelve years old. I used to dance with my cousins, doing small imitations of Michael Jackson for our family. When we started getting a bit better at it, we were given the chance to do proper performances at weddings and stuff like that. I did that kind of stuff for a while. When I was in my Matric year of High School, I formed a duo with another aspiring dancer in my area and not long after that, we were both recruited to one of the Bluffs best crews Prime Effect. Since the...

Kagiso Ledgia is well-known in comedy circles. Having been on shows like The Pure Monate, often featuring on comedy DVDs and so forth, Lediga has finally opted to do his one-man show. The Weekly Gazette-Glenwood's Se-Anne Koopman caught up with Lediga while he was promoting his film last week and got to find out just a little more about the raspy-voiced funny man. SK : Who is Kagiso Lediga? KL : I don't know where to start… I was born about 33 years ago in Pretoria. I am a comedian. I make movies and television programmes and I am funny! SK : Where did you spend most of your childhood? KL : In Pretoria SK : When you began comedy, it was during your studies. What did you study and did you finish? KL : Yeah, I was studying Drama at UCT. I was also involved in comedy, even at University and it just continued from there SK : What inspired your love for comedy? KL : I guess comedians… Other comedians. When I was a kid I used to watch Woody Allen movies and thought this ...