Entle Katsikatsi kept winning against all odds

By: Zukhanye Qabe

Twitter: @JustZukhanye

Email: zukhanyeqabe11@gmail.com

Entle Katsikatsi (24) from Mdantsane, is finally ticking her Wishlist and might not stop anytime soon. Katsikatsi, who is currently doing her Honours degree at AFDA, is a middle child in a family of three.

Image: Instagram (@entle_katsikatsi)

Since she is the only girl in-between two boys, she highlighted that makes her the princess of the family.
Her moment started when she got her first radio gig at Mdantsane FM, but she mentioned that her very first moment was when she got a call from her deputy principal to prepare a speech to thank guests on behalf of her peers in matric.

Back in primary she was one of the kids who where very good at athletics and sport oriented. All she wanted to do was to represent South Africa in sport, she highlighted. Still in primary she was fascinated by YO-TV presenters but when she thought about it, the dream felt out of reach and a bit unrealistic to her considering that she is a girl from Mdantsane.

‘‘I started getting compliments about my modelling body, TV face and radio voice in high school,’’ she said. It was a now or never for Ms. Katsikatsi as she started from then to partake in all entertainment industry related activities and never looked back.

The way Johannesburg is portrayed in the media almost pushed her parents not to allow her to go and pursue her dreams in the city of gold. She sat them down to paint the vision she had and how her life would unfold during her varsity days.

She said in her broadcasting days, it was more than just being behind the mic and delivering a good link. She loved how good she would feel leaving work knowing she made someone smile out there. Like any other person who is in the limelight, its either you get bullied, or your freedom is taken away. Ms. Katsikatsi had to pay that price too, she went through a phase where people would use her name for entertainment, where bullies knew if it had her name, it would make numbers.

She then mentioned that they would bully her based on the fact that people who get booked to dance do not have a future. She draws inspiration from different people in different ways, but her mother is one of the biggest inspirations. In the entertainment industry she is inspired by the likes of Yarees Mabokela, Buhle Geleba and Slulami Bunu who she once worked with. Bonang and Anele Mdoda’s success story is also one of the places she gets her inspiration.

The most challenging lesson she has learned thus far is that friends and family can only do so much for you. If you don’t get up to make your dreams a reality then that is all they will ever be, just dreams.

The video compiled and attached below, its one from her work as a video-vixen.

At the moment she is busy focusing on her studies, and she believes that she has not done anything much in her life, but she wants people to remember her how she made them feel.