Boxed up: the final episode

“At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person.

Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.”
This is an interesting quote I came across this week as I prepared to write this column. For those who may not be aware, this is the final edition of the tongue in cheek review of the state of the local silver screens. It is a new decade and we need to venture out and try other avenues.

We need to expand. This quote gives me courage to walk away into something new (er I mean a new column) with a smile because I know I have changed a lot of lives with Boxed Up in as much as the viewers have also helped me grow as a columnist by their honest and critical views with each week.

We have both been sparks that have lit each other in dark times when Swazi TV was Sleepy TV and we needed something to wake us up.
The current Times Managing Editor, at the time the Entertainment Editor, conceived the idea of the Boxed Up column in 2003. The column made its debut on Friday May 2 2003 and it has been running for about seven years. When Mbingo called me over he told me he wanted to expand the TV Weekender page.
His request coincided with my constant nagging to ‘please, please’ have a column in the Times and he then created Boxed Up.

While I initially wanted to write about romance and the love life I never had but wished I did as my first feature he felt that my strength would be television. I was from a strong television industry background having worked for Ultimate Television Productions and was part of the team that later worked at Channel Swazi when its first signal hit Africa and certain parts of Europe.

He felt my experience of television, both in Swaziland and South Africa, where Channel Swazi would be based sometimes, was rich enough for me to interact with other viewers, have them articulate their concerns as well as air my own analyses.
Wow, what a success it has been! That is why when we spoke about something new for 2010 I did not think twice.
Well let’s not waste any tears, if there are any tears to be shed let them be tears of joy.
The end of something is undoubtedly the beginning of something new.

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