Ntuthuko Myende Better known as Ntiyi. He was born in Mthwalume Kwaqoloqolo Odadeni on September 25, 1997.
He grew up herding cattle and studied hunting. he grew up in a degraded environment without electricity which made him like radio because there was no tv.
He eventually fell in love with broadcasting and Djying. He loved Dj menace the king of oldschool Djs he always wanted to be a dj like him. at the end of the year he used to go to the event Mgababa beach picnic with the boys around him to go to the event he would go to see Dj menace there. because he believed that when he finished school he would be a DJ.
while he was a student he was a very inferior student and some of his classmates, especially matriculants, laughed at him.
He even told the students that when he finished school he would be famous he would be a DJ he would go into entertainment and he asked them not to look down on him.
When he rented a house to study matric, the boy he lived with junior mhlangu would come with a laptop and teach him to be a DJ.
he was also watching videos on you tube because he didn't have the learning equipment to be a dj.
2017 he went to study agriculture in Emlazi v ecoastal collage because he grew up with livestock in his home and they farmed.
he used to live with his uncle and he used to study and be a DJ at the clubs in Umlazi on the weekends.
At home, the financial situation was not good and he had to stop studying because there was no money and he had to buy food, clothes and rent because in order to get money his mother had to borrow it regularly.
after he stopped studying he met Dj menace and they connected on facebook as friends. They met at an event that was then a coastal music experience where they met for the first time and Ntiyi was the first to become a Vip.
Dj menace welcomed him and said he would go with him on stage and perform and that's when he met white media who also took him
He then went with Dj menace to his gigs which made him connect with many people and he became well known.
White media also took him to events and hotels or to other provinces like Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga & Eastern Cape.
Then he was shooting pictures at the events and a DJ the white media has raised him so much and made him travel by plane. The founder of the white media liked him and always wanted to see him grow in the industry.
His parents sent him back to school to study and said they would sell the cow. went on to study to become a creative broadcaster and graduated from Ugu youth Radio 93.4fm.
His mentor carla ligas advised him to work hard at a young age and start his own thing he left because he wanted to start something of his own to make money and then he worked with 1kzn tv channel 261, he sold pork. because he had a passion for selling cattle and bonsmara was interrupted by a lock down.
The pigs gave him money and he started tourism on a local mountain that had always been called Emsikazi Mthwalume Tourism. He started this thing and it shocked everyone.
He already had the support of tourism, it just turned out that it was something that was waiting for him.
www.emsikazi.co.za