In schoolyards, internet cafes and homes around the world, young people are creating a new space to meet…to express themselves…and even… to reinvent themselves. It’s a place that is changing the way we communicate with each other. It’s a place that goes beyond national borders, places and spaces…It is social media.
The Radio Workshop spoke to Nozipho Fadana and Japhia Emori, two learners at Maitland High School in Cape Town. They explained how social media has impacted them and their circle of friends. Technology expert, Gordon Parkin gives added insight to its power and potential.
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The Radio Workshop would like to thank Nozipho Fadana, Japhia Emori and Gordon Parkin for talking to us.
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And that’s all from this week’s Radio Workshop!
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In this week’s show we meet a group of Johannesburg school girls who are immigrants from other African countries. They talk about some of their experiences at school, dealing with prejudice, making new friends, and what it’s like to try to fit in.
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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.
Dealing with discrimination
Sarah, Brenda, Sharon and Divine all come from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Some of them have been in South Africa for half their life, while others have arrived more recently. Join their group discussion to hear about their experiences and opinions.
Language is the key
It’s often hard to be the new girl at a school, but when you have to learn a whole new language so that you can understand the teacher and talk to your classmates, it can be even more of a challenge. Here’s Beni’s story:
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A final thought
That’s it for this week. But before we go, is it possible for children from South Africans and other African countries to become friends? Yes it is! That’s the view of our group schoolgirls from Observatory Girls Primary in Johannesburg.
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Amelinde Mute is doing what she can to better her school. “This is the resource centre in our school, this room is supposed to be a library (pictured below),” she says. “But unfortunately we just have the empty shelves that are supposed to have books on it, and there are only 20 closed boxes with the books inside…So those books are not useful to us, because we don’t even know what is inside.”
On today’s show we’re imagining a future where every young South African has access to books, computers, and all kinds of other valuable educational resources—a future where all learners are equipped with the tools needed to succeed, and given proper guidance on how to use them.
We meet up with an organization called Equal Education, and find out about their “One School…One Library…One Librarian” campaign. Equal Education is holding a march to parliament on March 21st to create awareness about libraries in schools, and to put some pressure on the government to take action.
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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.
Thembelihle High School Library: A work in progress
Nombuyiselo Hlomela is an educator at Thembelihle. She says that a library in her school would expand the learners’ worlds, and prepare them to succeed in life.
To find out more about Equal Education, visit their website.
Listen to the learners
“It would be a great dream for me to have a library in my high schnool,” says Mhlangenqaba Mxhego, a Grade 12 learner at Thembelihle High School Khayelitsha. We met up with him and some of his schoolmates in the room that will one day be the school’s library.
Our thanks go out to Amelinda Mute, Mhlangenqaba Mxhego, Thokozile Moapantsi, and Aviwe Sonamzi for sharing their experiences with us.
To keep updated on Equal Education’s activities, join their Facebook group here.
Equal Education
Next up we meet Yoliswa Dwane. Yoliswa works with an organization called Equal Education. Equal Education is holding a march to Parliament on March 21st to create awareness about libraries in schools, and to put some pressure on the government to take action. Their slogan is : “One School…One Library…One Librarian.”
To find out more about Equal Education, visit their website.
Signing out
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In November the world celebrated the 20th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. It was on November 20, 1989 that almost all the countries of the world signed a treaty agreeing to protect the rights of children. 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.
Join us next week for more from the Radio Workshop. We hope you’ve enjoyed the show!
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This is part three of our series marking the 20th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child signed on November 20, 1989. 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
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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.
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. Feel free to leave a comment below. We’d love to know what you think!
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