The Radio Workshop:
Giving Young People a Voice

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Welcome to the Radio Workshop podcast!

Everywhere you look there are buildings going up, roads being expanded, and things being fixed. South Africa is building, and the 2010 World Cup has put a bit of a pressure on us to get things done and to get them done on time!

On today’s show we meet someone who is involved in a massive 2010 Fifa World Cup construction project—Cape Town-based architect Mokena Makeka. Mokena tells us what it’s like to be an architect, and takes us on a tour of the newly revamped Cape Town train station. Stay tuned!

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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.

My career: being an architect

Mokena Makeka originally set out to be an astronaut, but somewhere along the way his career path changed course. Working as an architect, Mokena is determined to turn South African cities into beautiful spaces that bring us together and bring out the best in us.

To find out more about Mokena’s work, visit the website for Makeka Design Lab.

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The Cape Town train station

Mokena Makeka is part of the team that is re-imagining Cape Town’s central train station as we know it. Rather than just a place to jump on and off of a train, it will be a destination in its own right—a place where things happen, a place where you’ll want to be. And it’s a big project that is looking forward to the year 2030! Let’s find out more. 

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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!

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Welcome to the Radio Workshop podcast!

The Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital in Cape Town is one of the best children’s hospitals in the world. Last year, four new operating theatres were built, bringing the latest technology to the fingertips of the doctors and nurses who work there.  This means that the hospital can continue to offer some of the best treatment and care to children from South Africa and other countries on our continent.

Stay tuned, because later in the programme, we’ll be taking a tour of the new operating theatre with one of the surgeons at the hospital.

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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.

Mujahid’s story

If you’re a regular listener to the Radio Workshop, you might have heard some of the stories produced by children who are also patients at the Red Cross Children’s Hospital.

One of them is Mujahid Wiener. He was seven years old when he recorded this report about after being badly burned while his family was preparing a braai at home. Let’s join Mujahid as he shows us around his ward at the hospital and tells us more about what happened to him.

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An interview with the doctor

One of Mujahid’s doctors who treated his burns and performed many operations on him was Professor Heinz Rode. Prof Rode has worked in the Burns Unit at Red Cross Hospital for the past 35 years.  Last year, Mujahid interviewed Prof Rode and asked him about his injuries and what he had been like as a patient. 

Click here to listen to youth audio profiles and audio diaries produced by the Radio Workshop!

A trip to the theatre

The Red Cross Children’s Hospital recently got some brand new operating theatres.  Mujahid has been on the operating table many times since his burn accident, but on those occasions he was always fast asleep. This time, he was wide awake when he visited the new theatre with Dr. Alp Numanoglu. Before he could go into the theatre, Mujahid had to get dressed up in special surgical clothing.

Click here to listen to youth audio profiles and audio diaries produced by the Radio Workshop!

Having an operation

Another young reporter at the Red Cross Children’s Hospital in Cape Town is Qaqamba Cuba. She’s a tracheotomy patient – that means she has a special tube in her trachea, or wind-pipe, to help her breathe. Qaqamba was 9 years old when she started reporting for the Radio Workshop last year.  Let’s join her as she finds out from Dr Alp why operations are necessary.

Signing out

Besides the state-of-the-art medical equipment, the new operating rooms also have a magnificent view. Dr Alp explains why this helps the Doctors do their work better.

That’s it for this week, join us next week for more from the Radio Workshop. We hope you’ve enjoyed the show!

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.