The Radio Workshop:
Giving Young People a Voice

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Welcome to the Radio Workshop podcast! In this week’s episode, we join you as you go back to school after your nice long holiday. We take a visit to the school tuck shop and see what they have on offer. Then we talk about something that many people experience at some point in their lives—bullying. We take a look at a film about bullying in a South African primary school.  Then, as always, there’s this week in history. Stay tuned!

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Welcome to the Show

Radio Workshop host Lesedi Mogoatlhe welcomes listeners to the show.

The Radio Workshop broadcasts every Saturday at 12 noon on SAFM. Visit SAFM’s website for information about how to find their frequency in your area.

Lunchbox Bullies

If you’ve ever been bullied, you know that it can make your life very difficult. There’s a new documentary film called Lunchbox Bullies that looks at bullying in a South African primary school. Directed by Nadiva Schraibman and Nhlanhla Mthethwa, the film gives a human face to bullying, and shows how deeply it can affect young people. 

Lunchbox Bullies was screened on SABC1, and at the Encounters South African International Documentary Film Festival. For more information about the film, contact Nadiva Schraibman at nadivas@gmail.com.

If you have a story about bullying, write us at info@radioworkshop.org.  We’d love to hear from you!

What do you like to eat?

Today we’re talking about healthy eating…at your school, nogal! We’re off to the school tuck shop!

For more information on Heart and Stroke Foundation of South Africa’s tuck shop programme, visit their website.

This Week in History

Find out what important events happened this week in history!

For more information about the history of Liberia, visit the Global Connections website.

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Aletta Dhlamini, Yumnah Jackson, Refilwe Tsumane, and Richmond Sajini (Photo courtesy of UNICEF)

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Welcome to the Radio Workshop podcast!

This week’s episode celebrates Nelson Mandela’s 91st birthday!  Mandela was born on July 18th, 1918, in the Eastern Cape.  We bring you an audio birthday card from four South African teenagers who just returned from representing South Africa and UNICEF at the Junior 8 Summit in Rome.

And, what does it take to learn how to play a musical instrument? Find out as Anele Mhahlahlo introduces us to his violin. Then there’s this week in history.  Stay tuned!

No time to listen to the entire show? Pick and choose what you want to listen to below! Or subscribe to our iTunes podcast to get full episodes delivered to you every week.

Welcome to the Show

Radio Workshop host Lesedi Mogoatlhe welcomes listeners to the show.

The Radio Workshop broadcasts every Saturday at 12 noon on SAFM. Visit SAFM’s website for information about how to find their frequency in your area.

Learning the violin

What does it take to learn to play a classical musical instrument?  Today, seventeen year-old Anele Mhahlahlo introduces us to his violin.

MIAGI (Music is a Great Investment) promotes music education for children and youth as an effective tool for social upliftment. For more information about MIAGI, visit their website.

Happy Birthday Nelson Mandela!

Today is Nelson Mandela’s 91st birthday!  Mandela was born on July 18th, 1918, in the Eastern Cape. To celebrate Mandela’s birthday, the Radio Workshop spoke to four young people who just returned from representing South Africa and UNICEF at the Junior 8 Summit in Rome. Aletta Dhlamini, Yumnah Jackson, Richmond Sajini, and Refilwe Tsumane recorded this audio birthday card for Madiba.

For more information on the Junior 8 Summit in Rome, visit UNICEF’s Voices of Youth J8 Website.

This Week in History

In this week in history, we have an important birthday, an anniversary, a visit to outer space, and some great local music!

To see video footage of Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the moon, visit the Washington Post’s 40th Anniversary of Apollo 11 Mission website. As Armstrong declared, the landing symbolized “one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind.”

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That’s it for this week, join us next week for more from the Radio Workshop. We hope you’ve enjoyed the show. Feel free to leave a comment below.  We’d love to know what you think!

Click here to listen to previous Radio Workshop podcasts. And click here to subscribe to our iTunes podcast to get new episodes delivered to you every week.

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Welcome to the Radio Workshop podcast!

This week, we’re going to be taking a look at the rights that you have as a child living in South Africa. And we’re going to visit an exhibition that’s currently on in Cape Town that shows where those rights have come from, and what children have to say about them.

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Welcome to the Show

Radio Workshop host Lesedi Mogoatlhe welcomes listeners to the show.

The Radio Workshop broadcasts every Saturday at 12 noon on SAFM. Visit SAFM’s website for information about how to find their frequency in your area.

The Child Gauge

A few weeks ago, the Children’s Institute at the University of Cape Town released a report called the Child Gauge. It’s got loads of information about how much money the government is spending on schools, or supporting poor families to make sure that their children can get an education. The Child Gauge is aimed mostly at adults and people who are responsible for looking after children in our country, but we thought we’d let you know some of the things that it says about children in South Africa.

For more information on children’s issues in South Africa, check out the UNICEF South Africa website.

Champion of the Child: Janusz Korczak

One of the first people to argue that children had rights was a Polish doctor and writer, Janusz Korczak.

We went along to the Annex at the Iziko South African National Gallery in Cape Town where there’s an exhibition about his life and work. We met some young volunteer information officers who are there during the school holidays.  We also spoke to the Director of the Holocaust Centre, Richard Freedman, who told us more about this remarkable man.

For more information on Janusz Korczak’s fascinating life, click here!

Life and Art

In response to learning more about the life and work of Janus Korczak, young artists from the Frank Joubert Art Centre created wall hangings that highlight the rights that Korczak said all children should have. We met some of these artists and asked them about their art.

And you can see these fantastic art works, as well as the life story of Janus Korczak at the Champions of the Child Exhibition at the Iziko South African National Gallery Annex. It’s free and its on display until July 25th.  For more information, visit Iziko’s website.

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That’s it for this week, join us next week for more from the Radio Workshop. We hope you’ve enjoyed the show. Feel free to leave a comment below.  We’d love to know what you think!

Click here to listen to previous Radio Workshop podcasts. And click here to subscribe to our iTunes podcast to get new episodes delivered to you every week.

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Welcome to the Radio Workshop podcast!  Today’s show takes a look forward to next year’s 2010 FIFA World Cup, and also a look back to the history of soccer in South Africa.

On the heels of the Confederation’s Cup, everyone’s wondering if South Africa is ready for the big event next year. And just in case you’re not a soccer fanatic, we’ve got you covered in this episode.  We take a visit to the theatre!

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Welcome to the Show

Radio Workshop host Lesedi Mogoatlhe welcomes listeners to the show.

The Radio Workshop broadcasts every Saturday at 12 noon on SAFM. Visit SAFM’s website for information about how to find their frequency in your area.

Learning through theatre

We take a trip to the Green Point Stadium Visitor’s Centre in Cape Town and check out what they’ve got on offer. Believe me, it’s much much more than a construction site!

We also take a peak at their one-person play called “The Greensman.”  Actor Apollo Ntshoko inspires us to take an interest in the history of the Green Point Common, and talks about performing in this powerful production.

For more information about the Green Point Stadium Visitor’s Centre, visit their website. Also, visit the City of Cape Town’s 2010 gallery for regular photo updates on the progress of the stadium!

2010 Update

How much work goes into orchestrating an event like the 2010 FIFA World Cup?  Let’s find out!

For regular 2010 news updates, visit this South Africa 2010 website.

This week in history

In this week in history, we give you a mini physic’s lesson, take a look back at an important undercover meeting, and talk tennis.

Want to find out more about South African history? Visit the South Africa History Online website.

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That’s it for this week, join us next week for more from the Radio Workshop. We hope you’ve enjoyed the show. Feel free to leave a comment below.  We’d love to know what you think!

Click here to listen to previous Radio Workshop podcasts. And click here to subscribe to our iTunes podcast to get new episodes delivered to you every week.