The Radio Workshop:
Giving Young People a Voice

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Welcome to the Radio Workshop podcast! In today’s programme we meet the first captain of the South African women’s soccer team, Banyana Banyana.  Desiree Ellis tells us about her experiences as a soccer star, and offers some advice for young people wanting to make it in sport—or anywhere for that matter!

But first up on the show, we take a visit to the Field of Play exhibition at the District 6 Museum Homecoming Centre in Cape Town. 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.

Field of Play

Let’s find out about the history of soccer in Cape Town, as we visit the Field of Play exhibition at the District Six Homecoming Centre.

Want to know more about the District 6 Museum, and the history of District 6 in Cape Town? Visit the museum’s website!

Desiree Ellis

Our next guest scored a hat-trick—that’s three goals in one game—in her first match for her country.  She continued with a remarkable career at the highest level of the game for ten years.  Let’s meet Desiree Ellis, the first captain of the South African national women’s soccer team, Banyana Banyana.

To find out more about Desiree Ellis’s life and career, read her profile on Fifa’s website.

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Welcome to the Radio Workshop podcast! On today’s show we’re talking about women in music. We take a look back at the life, music, and legacy of Miriam Zenzi Makeba.  She died last November at the age of 76.

But first up on the show, we chat to a rising musical star. We meet Pretty Yende, the 24 year-old opera sensation from Piet Retief, Mpumalanga. Find out what inspired her to take up opera in the first place!

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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.

Pretty Yende

24 year-old Pretty Yende is about to embark on a considerable journey.  The young opera star got a scholarship to go study music in Milan, Italy. Today we hear from her about her journey thus far, and find out what it takes to make it as a musician.

Do you want to study music? Pretty Yende is a student at South African College of Music at the University of Cape Town. For more information about bursaries and entrance requirements, visit their website.

Mama Afrika

Miriam Zenzi Makeba died on November 8, 2008 while performing in a concert in Italy.  Her musical career started way back in the 1950s, and carried on until her death. Makeba’s imprint on the world goes way beyond her music.  Find out more!

To find out more about Miriam Makeba’s music and to see lots of photographs of the singer, visit the Miriam Makeba Trust website.

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Welcome to the Radio Workshop podcast! On today’s show we’re talking politics. As young people we often don’t have the opportunity to give our opinions about the issues we face.  But today, we meet some young people who recently made their voices heard—and the world was listening to what they had to say.

UNICEF sent four young South Africans to the Junior 8 Summit in Rome last month. The J8 is a yearly meeting where young people from across the world gather to share their views on global issues, and make recommendations for how to deal with these issues. We’ll meet the J8 delegates, and find out more about the summit a bit later in the show.

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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 Junior 8 Summit

UNICEF sent four young South Africans to the Junior 8 Summit in Rome last month. The J8 happened at the same time as the G8 summit, which brings together the heads of state from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The summit was an opportunity for these young South Africans to make their voices heard—and to represent young people worldwide.  The goal was to get world leaders to hear their concerns.

Today we meet the four South African UNICEF delegates: Aletta Dhlamini, Yumnah Jackson, Richmond Sajini, and Refilwe Tsumane. And yes, that’s Richmond in the photo next to President Jacob Zuma, shaking hands with US President Barack Obama!

For more information about the J8 Summit, visit UNICEF’s J8 website.

My view of the world

Aletta, Yumnah, Richmond, and Refilwe were all winners of last year’s Albert Luthuli Young Historians Oral History Competition. The competition gets learners to do oral history research on a topic that interests them, and to present their findings. For more information about the competition, click here.

We asked each of the J8 delegates to give us their thoughts about things that matter to them. Here are their “audio commentaries.”

Richmond Sajini, 16: “Ordinary people like me can make a big difference…”

Refilwe Tsumane, 18: “You are who you are because of those who came before you…”

Aletta Dhlamini, 17: “The one moment he was around, and the next, he disappeared…”

Yumnah Jackson, 17: “Why does poverty exist?”

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Welcome to the Radio Workshop podcast!

Sunday, August 9th, is National Women’s Day.  Women’s Day commemorates the march of twenty thousand South African women of all colours to the Union Buildings in Pretoria in 1956 – that’s 53 years ago! Today we find out about one of the women who led the march in 1956, Lilian Ngoyi.  And later in the show, we get some expert opinions about what makes a good judge. 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.

Audio Profile: Lilian Ngoyi

Women’s Day commemorates the march of twenty thousand South African women of all colours to the Union Buildings in Pretoria in 1956. The women protesters collected more than 100,000 signatures from around the country and they delivered bundles of these signed petitions to Prime Minister J.G. Strijdom’s office. One of those women who led the march in 1956 was Lilian Ngoyi (pictured above).

That feature on Lilian Ngoyi and the 1956 Women’s March was produced by Carolyn Dempster for the South African History Archive and the Sunday Times Heritage Project.

Career Focus: Judge

We spoke to the former Minister of Justice, Enver Surtee, and to one of South Africa’s most famous human rights lawyers, George Bizos (pictured above), to find out more about being a judge. 

For more information about the history of Constitution Hill, the home of the Constitutional Court (and a former prison!), visit their website!

This Week in History

Find out what important events happened this week in history!

To find out more about the Zulu leader Cetshwayo (pictured above), visit South African History Online.

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Welcome to the Radio Workshop podcast! This week it’s science, science, science! Because it’s National Science Week, from August 1-8. Does science get you excited? Are you a future physicist, biologist, or geologist? Well if the answer is yes, today’s show is just for you. 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.

A Visit to the MTN Science Centre

First up on the show, we take a visit to the MTN Science Centre in Cape Town.  We meet up with science educator Fikiswa Majola and find out why she’s so passionate about science.

Want to see what’s on at the MTN Science Centre? Take a look at the monthly schedule of events on their website.

Climate Change

What do rising sea levels, melting ice caps, and crazy weather have in common?  They are all effects of climate change.  Today we find out about what climate change means for our world, and what you can do to help change the situation.

If you want to get a copy of the “Smart Living Handbook,” visit the Youth Environmental School’s website.

For more information on climate change, get a copy of UNICEF’s “Climate Change and Children.” Download it from their website by clicking here.

This Week in History

Find out what important events happened this week in history!

For more exciting South African history, visit South African History Online.

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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.