The Radio Workshop:
Giving Young People a Voice

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Do you know what you want to be when you grow up? This week, we meet three different people in three different careers, does one of them inspire you?

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Welcome to the Show!

Radio Workshop host Mbali Vilakazi welcomes listeners to the show and introduces our first career profile – a bus driver at the University of Cape Town.

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.

Flying high – on the ground

Ever wondered who manages all those aircraft coming in to land, while others are waiting to take off? That’s the job of an air traffic controller. We spend some time with at the airport control tower and find out more.

Photography as a career

We meet a young documentary photographer and find out what she loves about her job.

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How different – or how similar  – is life for high school students in the United States and South Africa?  This week we meet students from Phelps Architecture, Construction and Engineering High School in Washington DC and learners from Maitland High in Cape Town, South Africa.  Over the past two months they’ve become audio pen pals as they exchanged recordings about themselves and their lives.

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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.

Getting to know you

Movies and television mean that young people in both the United States and South Africa have certain ideas about what life is like in each others’ country. Their early audio letters challenged some of these myths and stereotypes, and then went on to talk about what their different schools were like.

School lunches

What are students’ attitudes to free school lunches at Phelps High in Washington and the school feeding scheme at Maitland High?

Youth Violence

The audio pen pals in both the US and South Africa, had plenty to say about dealing with the threat of violence when taking public transport, walking around their city, or minding their own business. Here they talk about the role of the media in fueling violence and what they can do about it.

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In November last year, the world celebrated the 20th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.  In this final episode of our four-part series, we take a look at the rights of foreign and refugee children.

Article 22 of the Convention says that refugee children have special rights to protection, as well as all the other rights included in the treaty.  A refugee is someone who has been forced to leave their home to live in another country.

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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.

Schools – a place to come together

We have to learn to live together, says Ntombi Mcoyi from Africa Unite, an organisation working to bridge differences between South Africans and foreign nationals. Schools are one place where teachers can set a positive example through fair and equal treatment of children from different backgrounds and nationalities.

Human rights belong to everyone

The Convention on the Rights of the Child says that foreign children have the same rights as South African children. We hear from Stephen Blight of Unicef, as well as Shirley Pendlebury and Lori Lake of the Children’s Institute at the University of Cape Town who explain what South African law says.

Xenophobia erupts in a small South African town

A learner from Esselen Park High School in Worcester, Western Cape remembers the outbreak of xenophobic violence in June 2008.

A Rwandan teenager in Cape Town: King’s story

Seventeen-year old Jafiya Kadende, better known as King, came to South Africa when he was seven years old. He remembers what it was like trying to fit in at school and learning to live in a new country.

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This is part three of a series celebrating the rights that children have under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Today we hear about the right of children to be protected from injury and abuse, as well as children’s right to education.

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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.

Children have the right to be protected from all forms of abuse

It is an abuse to neglect a child’s needs or to beat a child, but in many South African communities and even at home, children are treated badly by adults. Charmaine Smith from the organisation, Molo Songololo, tells us about the difficulties some children face, but says they need not feel alone. Help is available.

“Molo Songololo” means “Hello Caterpillar”. If you’d like to know more about Molo Songololo, click here.

Know your rights, protect your rights!

How best can children ensure their rights are respected? There are many things children can do. Unicef’s Stephen Blight, along with Shirley Pendlebury and Lori Lake from the Children’s Institute at the University of Cape Town offer some practical advice.

To find out more about Childline services in South Africa, click here.

Learning to live

All children have the right to education – no one can force a child to work instead of going to school. Teenagers from Esselen Park High School, in the farming town of Worcester, Western Cape, tell us about the choices that some children face. 

Signing out

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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All children have the right to health – and this means much more than not being sick. It means access to a clean and safe environment, to good medicines and treatment – as well as the time to play! The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child celebrated its 20th anniversary in November 2009. In part two of our series on children’s rights, we take a look at the right to health. Article 24 of the Convention says that, “all children have the right to the highest attainable standard of health”. 

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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.

Children’s Commentaries on Health

Learners from Esselen Park High School in Worcester, Western Cape tell us what it’s like to be sick and what it means to be healthy.

What does it mean to be healthy?

Shirley Pendlebury and Lori Lake of the University of Cape Town’s Children’s Institute tell us that access to clean water and a clean environment are also part of children’s right to health.

Health rights and the South African Children’s Act

The South African Children’s Act gives important rights to children as young as 12-years old regarding their health. Prinslean Mahery, a senior researcher at the University of Cape Town’s Children’s Institute, tells us more.

Nonnie’s story

We close today’s show with a story recorded by Nonkhanyiso Mphanga. Nonnie lives at a St Joseph’s Home near the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital in Cape Town. She knows almost everyone at the hospital because she’s been in and out so many times. She tells us why she needs permanent access to oxygen and what it’s like to live with a serious health problem. 

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 receive a new episode every week.