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Dear Actresses
Stop sleeping your way to the top! You deserve better, and you know it. You are worth so much more than you are being offered. Stop giving in! Stop selling yourself cheap! Our film industry will not grow as long as there is the presence of dirt within the industry.
To those who have been offered roles because of what is in between their thighs, and not because of their talent, LISTEN: You are a woman. Respect yourself, respect your body, it is not a playground. It is God’s Temple. “Wathinta abafazi wathinta imbokodo”. Stand strong, show us your inner strength. Let no man use you!
All those directors who offer you a role just because they want to use you for their own sick pleasure, turn your back on them. I believe in you, God believes in you, too, and in the talent He placed within you. Start believing in yourself, too. Believe that you WILL make it, no matter how long it takes; that you WILL get a role because you are good at what you do in front of the camera or on stage.
If you choose to continue to sell yourself cheap, sleeping your way to the top, please stop acting, because it simply means you do not believe in yourself and the gift that God has blessed you with. The director you are sleeping with will get to a point where he will be tired of eating the same cake, and then he will throw you out for new flavour. That will bring you a lot of stress, anger, shame and frustration.
Actresses, I am not doing this to blacken your name, but I am doing this because I care for you, and I respect you and your talent. Stand with God, let Him lift you up to the highest level, allow Him to lead and you will not go wrong.
I love you all!
Happy Women’s Month.
Wathinta abafazi wathinta imbokodo!
By
Andile Ndaba (Ndaba the Poet)
