Komtseng Social Experience Ltd (pty) was founded on September 28, 2017, in Mahikeng by Kabelo Monaki (28) and Omphemetse Dichabe (24). It is a firm that offers Afro Sundays and TRAPVSYANOS (Trap vs Amapiano), both serve as venues for artists and business owners to gain opportunities and exposure from higher-performing individuals and businesses.
"Komtseng Social Experience is a company that hosts meaningful events for craft makers and unites young people with talent, it has produced many artists and business owners in the arts field, and it has gotten a lot of young people opportunities from stakeholders who are bigger than us," said Kabelo Monaki, one of the founders of Komtseng Social Experience.
While Afro Sundays have been going on for four months, this year's seventh annual TRAPVSYANOS event will be held at Komtseng Social Experience. Afro Sundays are awareness-raising activities for national cultural heritage sites. They are a hub for tourism, arts, crafts, poetry, music, and environmental issues.
"Afro Sundays is an event management, tourism, and environmental affairs hosted by KomtsengSocialExperience and Mahikeng Foundation and projects academy in partnership with 3rd scape edition, SABC4 Media PRODUCTION, SOBAESTRO's Cafe, Mob studios, and other stakeholders around Mahikeng," Kabelo explained.
According to Kabelo, Afro Sundays focus on tourism, particularly historic places/areas, to grow and educate youth about culture, art, music, poetry, local dramas, and crafts in places such as (museums, cultural centres, parks, reserves), and other 723 cultural sites in the North West province.
Artists who have profited immensely from attending the Afro Sunday events are Moagi Dlamini, a fine and visual artist and proprietor of Dlaks art studio, and podcaster and graphic designer Karabo Lekgetho.
"I think there are two sides to the community benefits from Afro Sundays. On the consumer side, I think Afro Sundays offers unique experiences different from the specific events held around Mahikeng. It is both a market and an experience because you can see paintings, music, and clothing. To approach the people they wish to explore prospects with, creatives have the opportunity to introduce themselves to the appropriate crowds,” said Karabo.
"Working on the Afro Sunday event has given me clients and piqued my interest in event planning," the author says. I now have access to the appropriate clients. I have received employment offers from Afro Sundays, so it has given me the proper exposure,” he concluded.
Moagi describes the Afro Sunday experience as fantastic since it allowed him to meet various young artists, some of whom are in the same field. "The event organizers do their best to bring together young people of various abilities so that people can get to know them and their work. This positively benefits the community by preventing youth from losing hope due to unemployment and believing that there is a platform that can assist their campaign or promote different abilities of the youth and grow the community," he concluded.
Moagi claims that the event gives artists visibility to the globe and inspires them to keep working hard to achieve their goals. He also claims that exposure has benefited him personally because people know Dlaks art studio through those events.
"Our goal with our African tribes is to expand the market and grow potential clients." We want to grow the event and culture, encouraging young people to study more about black history," concluded Kabelo.
