BY AMANDA MABUZA
MBABANE– Yesterday, the Eswatini Positive News (EPN) welcomed its first-ever set of Journalism interns from the Limkokwing University of Creative Technology doing their final year.
The EPN publication has joined the country in empowering the youth and they have done so by welcoming and inducting the interns from the above-mentioned institution. The interns are set to report on the different news bets for the next three months.
The final year LUCT students were thrilled to finally begin their internship program because according to their academic calendar, the internship is the last semester and they expressed excitement as they are also close to graduation.
The internship is supposed to last for a whole three months, from June until early August. After the completion of their internship, they will then graduate and be ready for the corporate world.
This is also good news for EPN as well as this is going to be their first experience to groom young journalists and assist them to accomplish their dreams of being future story writers and reporters.
The students who have just recently joined Amanda Mabuza aspiring Web-Journalism student, Princess Mahlalela who is also a female aspiring Journalist studying Web-Journalism. A set of two male students are Bongumenzi Mlotsa and Mukelo Magagula.
“It is clear that this company has a wealth of experience so I want to use my time wisely during the internship and get as much out of it as possible, so basically it is pretty exciting to be here” stated Mahlalela.
One of the male interns, Magagula said he was also happy that he was one of the fortunate students to get accepted for the internship program.
“I am ready and determined to learn about this career I have chosen for myself’’.
