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Year End Awards 2025 Welcome to the 2025 Mzansi Avenue Year End Awards! Our tagline for this year is Secure The Win we don't just get into ẞspecific industries to be irrelevant players, we want to set a standard, leave an impressionable mark and be one of the best to ever do it. So we celebrate those who went out there and won big in their professional lives. Aim. Strike & Celebrate. Breakout Star Of The Year: Mawelele A man who understands his voice, he moves in rhythm like an expert who knows what he's doing. Smooth and keeps it interesting. An active singer who is captivating. With just a verse you're pulled into his library of music, ready to hear more. His work such as Answers the EP, tell us that he's only going to get bigger because he's one of the best vocalists and is what we've been missing on the scene, a male talent who is into the swoon worthy hits.  Artist Of The Year: Faouzia With just porcelain I think she stole the s...

Entertainment Avenue: Winx Club Reboot, what went wrong? Promotional Poster featuring the Winx Girls . Rainbow S.P.A This is one of the biggest franchises to ever come from Italy, created by Iginio Straffi who had a dream to create a magical girl series taking inspiration from his wife and women in entertainment such as Britney Spears ( Bloom ), Stella ( Cameron Diaz ), Musa ( Lucy Liu ), Flora ( Jennifer Lopez ), Tecna ( Pink ) & Aisha (Beyoncé).  The show first premiered in 2004 produced by rainbow and was a hit with praise for its mature themes , unique yet criticized art style at times. The transformations and music were iconic signatures for this brand, initially planned to last for 3 seasons, due to popularity and demand there was a 4th season which saw the Winx girls embrace adulthood, maturing and facing another threat in the form of the wizards of the black circle , everything seemed to indicate our girls are growing only for a new partnership wit...

Faith Avenue: Christianity and Legalism by Apostle E.K Thulare Unsplash Images/ Sasun Bughdaryan Welcome back to our Best Sermons of 2025 series as we End the Year with a bang. We've been taught so much, equipped with wisdom and an awareness of identity we operate from a point of power and a firm faith knowing the authority we've been given is unmatched.  Grace Encounter Church March 9th 2025 Sunday Service  Title: Christianity and Legalism Legalism is the law. The Apostle opened up with clarifying the difference between Legalism and Christianity and how we'll see they operate in the church, among Christians. The application and characterization. We dove right into this scripture to kick things off: John 8:3-11 GNTD [3] The teachers of the Law and the Pharisees brought in a woman who had been caught committing adultery, and they made her stand before them all. [4] “Teacher,” they said to Jesus, “this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery. [5] ...

Faith Avenue: Trusting God even in Silence (Top 3 Sermons of 2025 from Grace Encounter Church) Unsplash Images/ Priscilla Du Preez  Good Day and God bless Aveneurs around the world. From your guy Aaron in Mzansi we bring you a delicious and Godly feast aimed at filling you will all that is Good and is from God. Apostle Thulare shared this back in March (2nd 2025). It details how God's silence isn't rejection nor a sign of abandonment as God has assured He'll never leave nor forsake us. Let's dive right into it, shall we? Grace Encounter Church March 2nd 2025, Sunday Service  By: Apostle E.K Thulare The Apostle opened with the following: During God's silence we should remain in the truth He has taught us; Patience and perseverance are required. You need to persevere, during hard times  We have to sit and keep still when God is quiet.  When God is silent, no matter what you do, nothing will move Him to speak. During a silent season, it doesn't mean God isn't a...

Entertainment Avenue: How To Ruin Love: The Lobola - Desperate Deals, Cows on the Highway and on the loose, A Love that wins no matter what!  Promotional poster. / Netflix  A Burnt Onion Productions .  The first installment was a brilliant and unforgettable experience, love was in the air, there was family chaos, a lot of breaking the fourth wall to famous TV tropes done right. We found ourselves rooting for Kagiso (Bohang Moeko) and Zoleka (Sivenathi Mabuya). Their story had so much depth, layers of complexity yet simplicity as in the we fight, break up just to makeup was beautifully executed. The 2nd season however struggles to walk, it takes baby steps as in while it has effective and swoon worthy moments, there seems to be not much to tell this time around. It feels minimal, stripped as if it's toned down and the way everyone is scattered is alarming. It almost felt like a different show with its overall tone. Zoleka didn't become a meme (her running gag wasn't as o...

Avenue Lifestyle: The Wrong Call. When Sin comes Knocking. Pexels Images/ Alex Gonzo This is an extension of a previous article talking about temptation, the wrestling that comes in which often has with a rude awakening that resistance isn't just a simple no and walk off, at times our opponents get in our way, the offer on the table keeps trying to lure you in for another bite or lucrative deal . Toying and tasking your emotions, a manipulative play that is often devastating. It's like a taunt on how weak you are, close to giving in so you can be a pleasurable trap that robs you of your joy. It was sin that brought about condemnation over all mankind so imagine us continuing with it, unable to break free because we find it hard to let go, those urges to watch pornography, hit up that sneaky link as today's society calls it, to give in one more time to masturbating, it's always that voice that seems to mean well "just this once, give in today, then you...

Avenue Lifestyle: He/She Loves Me, But.... Pexels Images/ Jonathan Borba We find falling in love easy, it's like precooked meals you don't get to start from scratch, so this often leads to laziness and complacency. Forget the TV tropes, time to get real, there's no disclaimer of fictional characters. We step in at times without clarity just in it because the person we admire is either good looking or just has an outstanding quality that is used as a foundation for the entire relationship and looks can't carry all the weight of two people plus insecurities, uncertainty, compromise, concern, love, attention, commitment and etc. it builds up like bacteria and then starts destroying it all.  What do I mean? You love each other but there's a limitation. The journey only leads to a motel and never a home, a promise ring that holds no value, a commitment that is insincere. He/She loves you till someone new, who seems better than you comes along and you're ...