Originally from the UK, Live Magazine is a new SA-wide youth magazine title that launched across the country in mid-November.

We are now looking for a marketing and advertising professional to develop, follow-up and close advertising leads, create and grow partnerships with brands, come up with creative brand solutions… as well as mentoring a young team of marketing interns.

Working with the MD and Project Director, you’d be responsible for developing leads, building relationships with relevant brands and making/ closing deals for display ads and co-created editorial.

You’ll need to be dynamic, ambitious, persistent, with a thick skin, proven sales experience, a good sense of humour and ability to pick up the phone and make things happen. A good knowledge of the youth sector and thick address book will be a huge advantage. A burning passion to make the world a better place by using your professional skills would also help…

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ABOUT LIVE MAGAZINE SA

Live Magazine SA is a quarterly publication originally from London: a glossy youth magazine featuring an inspirational mix of gritty youth culture and information, advice, career guidance and things to do for a mainstream urban youth audience.

The twist: everything in the magazine is produced by young people themselves, from the commissioning and editing, to the design, layout and distribution. Its mission: to give life-changing skills development and employability training for its participants, and to educate tens of thousands of young readers with an inspiring, engaging and entertaining mix of arts, culture, sports and fashion mixed with hard-hitting youth issues and crucial information and guidance for young people.

Seed funded by the Shuttleworth Foundation, Live Magazine’s first edition hit the streets in mid-November – giving opportunities to a core team of dedicated young people from less privileged backgrounds to take ownership of their own publication, and provide relevant and credible youth content for hundreds of thousands of young South African readers.

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Salary based on experience.

To apply, please send a CV and covering letter to gavin (at) livityafrica (dot) com

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Meshack Nchupetsang, in his Westlake workshop

“I’ve always seen my problems as challenges,” explains Meshack Nchupetsang, entrepreneur and owner of Eyethu, who is holding court in his shipping container, fully kitted out as a mini bike workshop with state-of-the-art tools and parts. We’re in Westlake, a small township that sits cheek by jowl with an exclusive golf resort, one of the most upmarket high schools in the Cape, and Pollsmoor prison, where Nelson Mandela was incarcerated. When he explains that he saw his poverty as an opportunity, we’re not entirely sure how to respond, jarring as this does with so much of what we’ve heard over the last few weeks.

It’s mid-morning on June 16^th: Youth Day in South Africa – in honour of young people who died during the Soweto riots of 1976 – and a public holiday. There’s a Sunday morning feel as both coloured and black inhabitants in this mixed community go about their business.

Our interview with Meshack is scintillating. He’s a born marketer and story-teller, who tells of the familiar pilgrimage from the Eastern Cape to try and find a living. Initially sleeping on the streets, he managed to find voluntary work in a hostel and gradually worked his way up to paid work, building his own shack, and then eventually landing a job with a corporate company.

Losing this job in the wake of September 11^th, he decided to start his own business fixing and renting bikes, and now runs a successful workshop which he is hoping to scale up into Khayelitsha and other townships across South Africa.

Attending to customers

This is the flipside, the lighter side of the moon. Someone, albeit older than most of the people we’ve spoken to, who talks of positivity, perseverance, initiative, ingenuity… how when he had his first proper job interview, went in convinced on taking control of the conversation, and asking questions about the company’s ethos and culture (and apparently ended up in an hour-long chat about families with his interviewer). As we talk, he manages to serve two or three customers in between sentences, hopping out to have hasty conversations in Xhosa, pumps a tire here, checks some brakes there.

Our questions today, in the context of my research, are: What makes someone like Meshack different? What forges that innate strength, conviction, inspiration to keep going, to rise up? Having a dream, self-respect and self-motivation, is what he would tell young people today to hold onto. But he admits that this motivation often only comes from family. In his case, a mother who would ask him whether he wanted to eat his friends’ shit.

“When I imagine eating my friends’ shit,” he explains with a glint in his eye, “I get so motivated.”

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