Malawi’s BBA Hotshot Sipe to promote Agriculture issues and wants to start Acting as career
The
last woman standing in this year’s show Big Brother Hotshots Sipe intends to spearhead
issues of agriculture particularly on changing people’s mindset and negative
perceptions they have on agriculture.
Sipe
whose real name is Sipherile Chitambo says was inspired by message from Africa’s
well known artists Fally Ipupa and Diamond Platnumz who entered the house and spoke passionately to the Hotshots about
making agriculture sexy and encouraging the youth to get involved with looking
after and living off their land.
Sipe
said this upon arrival through Kamuzu International Airport on Wednesday
evening from South Africa where she stayed for 63 days in the Big Brother
house.
“I
have so many things that I want to do…, and I cannot wait to see what
opportunities will present themselves for me. But mostly am going hard on agriculture
because I still feel that both men women and youth should do more on that.”
Said Sipe “Because as much as we would think that it is just agriculture, it is
a future for everyone and we need to move forward”
She
lamented that foreign agro-product traders are ones benefiting from agriculture
because they come to buy agriculture products then back to their countries to
process them into various products and pack them and later sell the products back
to Malawi at unaffordable price to the farmer.
“This
is one thing I learned in the house and this is a thing that I would really want
emphasize on. I would talk about this and push it as hard as possible.” She said
She
said the show has impacted her life greatly and would like to take acting as her
career. She said the passion came when she felt pleased with herself after
performing a task involving writing a play script which she acted upon.
“I feel this season was more about talent and
challenging one to do something. I never knew I could be a comedian but Big
Brother show gave me a platform to act. The show played a major role to my life”
she said
Sipe
also mentioned that her experience in the Big Brother house was a mixture of
good moments and bad moments. But thanked fans for keeping voting for her till
the last day and said though she failed to win the money she is still a happy
person.
Chimwemwe
Nyirenda a Multichoice Marketing Manager
commended Sipe for representing well her country by displaying good manners and
expose Malawian culture to Africa and the world.
Nyirenda
encouraged Malawians to vote for their representatives during these games for
Malawi to have more chances of winning Big Brother money one day adding that supporting
neighboring countries will also help in forming a regional block of supporting
a candidate who might one day be a Malawian housemate.
“This
year’s show had mixed reactions” said Nyirenda, he mentioned the change of the
house which he said affected a lot of things including reducing number of days
from 90 day show to only 63 days and the losing the money by Malawi contestant
who reached the final stage of the competition.
“So
next year it will be now tenth season of Big Brother so obviously when ten is a
magic number we expect a lot o changes but next year the show will be back and
I think this time around the show might be bigger and probably the biggest
ever” assured Nyirenda
Natasha
also known as Mama Africa a Malawi’s former Big Brother housemate came to
welcome Sipe and encouraged people to vote for contestants and not just
watching the show and criticizing their representatives.
A
Tanzanian housemate Idris emerged the winner of 9th Season of Big
Brother Africa show which ended on Sunday December 7. Malawian housemates Sipe
and Mr.265 failed to bring home $300,000 prize.
This
coming Friday there will be a welcoming party for Sipe at Amazon in Lilongwe and
on Saturday there will be another event in Blantyre.
