The Radio Workshop:
Giving Young People a Voice

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Welcome to the Radio Workshop podcast!

On today’s show we’re looking ahead—looking ahead at your future. And now is a good time to start thinking about what’s around the corner.

Many high school learners often wonder what they can do to get ready for university while they are still in school. And today, we’re going to find out.  

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Welcome to the Show!

Radio Workshop host Mbali Vilakazi 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.

Getting ready for university

Dr. Paula Ensor is the Dean of Humanities at the University of Cape Town. A dean is in charge of a faculty – or group of departments – in a university. She is the person who makes sure that everything runs smoothly. We asked Dr. Ensor to offer some advice to learners who are looking ahead to university.

If you have any questions about the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Cape Town, or see yourself as a perspective student, you can contact their Recruitment Officer, Khwezi Bonani on his email address: khwezi.bonani@uct.ac.za. Or you can give him a call at 021 650 5235.

Ask the university students

We also spoke to some students at the University of Cape Town, to find out what advice they have for high school learners who are university bound.  

Our thanks go out to Nomvelo Makhunga, Lebogang Lesetedi, Natalie Ledwidge, Tashneem Alexander, and Micheal Mpofu from the University of Cape Town. Thanks for sharing your experiences with us.

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Today we’ll be hearing from some of our radio reporters from the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital in Cape Town.  We’ve been working with a group of young people from Red Cross since January. We’ve taught them how to use recorders and microphones, and how to tell their own stories for radio.

Our stories this week come from Red Cross patients who live in St. Joseph’s Home, a home for children who need extra help to deal with their illnesses.  St. Joseph’s is just outside of Cape Town and it was started way back in 1935.  Take a listen!

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Welcome to the Show!

Radio Workshop host Mbali Vilakazi 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 day in my life

Let’s hear from Radio Workshop youth reporter Nonkhanyiso Mphanga, aka Nonnie.  Nonnie is 15 years-old, and give us a day in her life at St. Joseph’s home.

Want to find out more about our radio project at Red Cross Children’s Hospital?  Click here!

Living with diabetes

Next we meet someone who uses an injection needle every day to manage her diabetes, and she tells us that we don’t need to be afraid! Let’s meet 10 year-old Lelethu Nyalase.

For more photos, articles, and radio reports from our Red Cross Children’s Hospital radio project, click here.

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Welcome to the Radio Workshop podcast! We’ve got a great show for you this week, as we’ll be hearing from one of our radio reporters from the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital in Cape Town.

We’ve been working with a group of young people from Red Cross since January.  We’ve taught them how to use recorders and microphones, and to tell their own stories for radio. Today we hear from 8 year-old Mujahid Weiner. Mujahid shares his story with us about how he landed up in hospital in the first place, and interviews his doctor about what it’s like to work in the Burn’s Unit.

To find out more about our hospital radio project, click here!

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Welcome to the Show!

Radio Workshop host Mbali Vilakazi 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.

Red Cross Reporter Mujahid Weiner

8 year-old Mujahid has spent a lot of time at Red Cross Children’s Hospital since his burn accident. Today, Mujahid tells us his story, and also interviews his mother about the day of the accident.

Want to learn more about our Radio Red Cross programme? Click here.

Ask the doctor

For those of you who have been in hospital before, have you ever asked your doctor questions about how you were as a patient? Next up, Mujahid asks Dr. Heinz Rode about what it’s like to work with burn patients, and finds out whether he was a good patient, or a bad patient! 

Are you a burn survivor or do you know someone who is? Visit the World Burn Foundation of South Africa’s website for more information about fire prevention and what to do if you have a burn.  They provide all kinds of resources and information, and they even host a Burn Survivor Camp!

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New Year in Cape Town would not be the same without the annual Cape Carnival which takes to the streets of the city on “twede nuwe jaar” – an unofficial, second new year’s day. The history of the carnival lies in the history of slavery at the Cape and is a celebration of freedom when, for a few hours, the city belongs to the marchers and minstrels. In this week’s Radio Workshop we go behind the scenes and meet some of the people who make the carnival possible.

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Welcome to the Show!

Radio Workshop host Mbali Vilakazi 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.

How the Kaapse Klopse – or Cape Carnival – began

We meet Melvin Matthews, the director of the Kaapse Klopse Carnival Association. He explains some of the features of the carnival and its place in the history of Cape Town.

Want to find out more about the Cape Carnival?  Click here!

Stitching shiny satins and sequins

Each troupe that takes part in the Cape Carnival chooses the colour combination of its own uniform. These colourful costumes are produced in small workshops across the Cape Flats throughout the year. In this segment we talk with some of the women who are hard at work sewing uniforms just a few weeks before the big parade.

The ghoema man

Mr Achmat Sabera has been making ghoema drums and tamborines for the past 30 years. When slaves first marched through Cape Town at New Year they played drums made from small wine barrels. In more recent times the ghoema drum has been made of thinner, lighter wood. We visited “Boeta Achmat”, as he’s known, in his workshop where he showed us how to make a ghoema.

Ghoemas at different stages of construction

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Thanks for joining us for the Radio Workshop’s podcast. We’ve got a special holiday edition of the show for you this week, as we will be revisiting some of the most popular Radio Workshop stories from this past year.

Did you know that once upon a time, December 26th used to be known as “Boxing Day”? We’ll tell you about the holiday’s origin later in the show.

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Welcome to the Show!

Radio Workshop host Mbali Vilakazi welcomes listeners to the show.

The Radio Workshop broadcasts every Saturday at 12 noon on SAfm.  If you live in South Africa, you can listen live on air. Tune your radio to a frequency between 104 to 107FM to find SAfm.

Community Capoeira

Capoeira is a dance-martial art developed by African slaves in Brazil.  It’s extremely popular in Brazil and Angola, and is taking off across the world. Marcio Lopes has been teaching capoeira in South Africa for 9 years. Recently he decided to take Capoeira to the children of Cape Town, and it’s been a huge hit.

To find out more about the Capoeira Educational Youth Association, click here.

Audio Profile: Theo Ndindwa

When Theo Ndindwa was young, he had dreams of becoming a professional soccer player one day. Along the way, Theo found a different calling. 

Theo Ndindwa and Tanya Arshamian recently launched a new dance company in Cape Town called the iKapa Dance Theatre.  Read more about it here. 

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. 

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.

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