User:Ngwenytp/Penny Thabile Lacoste

Penny Thabile Lacoste (02 August 1984) a poet and an Emalahleni Fm Presenter, real names are Thabile Hessie Penelope Ngwenya born in South Africa in 1984, in a little town called Nhlazatshe, parents names are Gladys "Nomthandazo" Ngwenya (mother) and Sipho Johannes Ngwenya (father), she is the second child of three her brother's name is Mxolisi Ngwenya and her sister is Ntombifuthi Ngwenya. She is a mother of one son whom she says she leaves for his name is Noah. She started perfoming arts way back in High School at Greendale in Witbank with a High School Production of Iphi Ntombi that's when she discovered her love of art she always had talent to entertain but she never thought she could. She went on to do drama in tertiary at Wits Tech in the drama club whilst she continued with her ND: IT studies, she was interested in poetry at that time even before she new she could write (Shall I compare thee to a mid summer day: Shakespear) was one of her favourire poems of all times, she was just writting and not perfoming in 2006 she started perfoming at Horror Cafe where acollective Soul to Mouth then use to hold their poety sessions with the likes of (Flo Mokale, Valentine, Quaz, and many more gracing their stage ) next to her friend Boitumelo Bokala they started to perfom and grew from there. In 2007 she moved back to Emalahleni and after a while she decided to hold her own poetry sessions the first one she held was at The Pavillion in 2008 which was a sucess fused with Jazz, The second one was at the Emalahleni Civic Theatre where she also invited Se'skhona to capture the moment it was held in 2008 in August to celebrate woman's month the likes of Flo and his friends and other locals such as as Third Worls Species made it an even more sucess. Now she is having poetry nights every Thursdays at 8pm at Lounge45, its at Emalahleni in town next to Park Cafe, she invites all local poets to come and strut their stuff the movement she has created is growing fast at Emalahleni and more Mc's and Poets are coming out to show themselves, she also gives opportunity to musicians and all up and coming artists. She works at Emalahleni Fm 98.7 (the best companion in the city) as a presenter, her slots are Saturday 6am to 9am Sunday 9am to 12pm, tuning in to her is but a breeze the music line up she has is relaxing to the mind and she realy does rock behind the mic. This lady when interviewed about her achievennts thus far and her role to the youth of Emalahleni she just smiles and says "I do it coz I love it".