Sometimes a difficult conversation starts with our parents because we feel like the air needs to be cleared. Maybe we need to reveal something so that we can move on, understand each other better. The Radio Workshop spoke to a range of people who sat down with their parents and had that conversation, despite their fear.
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The Radio Workshop would like to thank participants of the Ikamva Youth Winter School, Afrika Kashe and Farhana Jacobs for their generous contributions to the show.
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Ikamva Youth
And that’s all from this week’s Radio Workshop!
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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.
No time to listen to the entire show? Pick and choose what you want to listen to below! Or subscribe to our iTunes podcast to get full episodes delivered to you every week.
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.
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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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In November last year, the world celebrated the 20th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. In the next four episodes the Radio Workshop takes a look at what this treaty means for children. Today we find out what some of these rights are, where they came from and who first campaigned for children’s rights.
No time to listen to the entire show? Pick and choose what you want to listen to below! Or subscribe to our iTunes podcast to get full episodes delivered to you every week.
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.
What rights do children have?
Stephen Blight, the chief of child protection for Unicef (United Nations Children’s Fund), tells us what rights the Convention on the Rights of the Child gives children.
Janus Korczak
Eglantyne Jebb
Who pioneered children’s rights?
It took the world a long time to agree that children’s rights should be protected by a worldwide treaty – that’s why the United Nations only signed the convention in 1989. Let’s find out who were some of the people who championed children’s rights many years earlier.
Rights and responsibilities
The learners from Esselen Park High School, in the beautiful town of Worcester, Western Cape, take us through the rights children have – as well as some of the responsibilities!
Signing out
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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.
We’d love to hear from you—send us an email at info@radioworkshop.org!
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.
Click here to listen to youth audio profiles and audio diaries produced by the Radio Workshop!
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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!
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We live an amazing vibrant and multicultural society in South Africa. Walk down the street in many communities across the country and you’re just as likely to hear French, Swahili, Lingala, or Yoruba, as you are Xhosa, Zulu, Afrikaans, or English.
In recent years, many of our neighbours from the north have made South Africa their home. Some have come in search of opportunity, or better education for their children, and some have escaped very challenging situations in their home countries. While for many, the move to SA might be temporary, others have become adopted South Africans. They have a lot to offer, we can learn a lot from each other, and can grow this nation together.
On today’s Radio Workshop, we hear from young people who may not have a green ID book, but who call South Africa their home.
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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.
Tshiabu interviews her mother
Tshiabu Dibu’s family is from the Democratic Republic of Congo, but she was born in Johannesburg. Tshiabu spoke to her mom, Solange, about her Congolese/South African identity and about xenophobia in their community.
We’d love to hear from you—send us an email at info@radioworkshop.org!
Audio Diary: King
On today’s programme we’re speaking with young people whose families may come from other countries, but who call South Africa their home.
Next we meet Jafiya Kadende, otherwise known as King. King is a Grade 11 learner at Maitland High School in Cape Town. We gave King an audio recorder and a microphone, and got him to document his South African life.
Click here to listen to youth audio profiles and audio diaries produced by the Radio Workshop!
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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.
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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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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!
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.
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.
No time to listen to the entire show? Pick and choose what you want to listen to below! Or subscribe to our iTunes podcast to get full episodes delivered to you every week.
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!
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.
This month marks the 20th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. In the next four episodes of the Radio Workshop we’ll take a look at what this treaty means for children. Today we find out what some of these rights are, where they came from and who first campaigned for children’s rights.
No time to listen to the entire show? Pick and choose what you want to listen to below! Or subscribe to our iTunes podcast to get full episodes delivered to you every week.
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.
What rights do children have?
Stephen Blight, the chief of child protection for Unicef (United Nations Children’s Fund), tells us what rights the Convention on the Rights of the Child gives children.
Janus Korczak
Eglantyne Jebb
Who pioneered children’s rights?
It took the world a long time to agree that children’s rights should be protected by a worldwide treaty – that’s why the United Nations only signed the convention in 1989. Let’s find out who were some of the people who championed children’s rights many years earlier.
Rights and responsibilities
The learners from Esselen Park High School, in the beautiful town of Worcester, Western Cape, take us through the rights children have – as well as some of the responsibilities!
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!
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.
