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The Vuyo Raymond Matinyana Fund is supporting youth from Nelson Mandela Township (Nemato) in South Africa. It is mainly focussing on education with a Student Project and a Computer Project. The fund is based in Holland and named after Vuyo Raymond Matinyana who started the projects. Raymond was born in Nemato. He studied Drama at FUBA in Johannesburg. He joined Up with People - an inter cultural art education programme in the United States - for a year. They toured the United States and Europe with a show called Rhythm of the World. He then moved to Amsterdam, Holland and played with Tribal Countdown, a band with African and Dutch musicians. Later he formed his own band: Afro Vibes. The band played various traditional South African styles of music in different indigenous languages. He also performed as Miss Thandi with the Afrovibes Band in a music theatre show. Raymond started a CD recording project Suka. In 1999 Raymond started the Afro Vibes Foundation to bridge and enhance cultural relationships and exchange between South Africa and the Netherlands. The foundation had it's own South African multimedia arts festival every year around June 16 (Youth Day in South Africa). Raymond also started a fund that benefits young people from his township Nemato to further their education moraly and financialy through donations and sponsors. This fund is now called the Matinyana Fund. This website has frames. You need to upgrade your web brouwser to watch the full website.
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