The Radio Workshop:
Giving Young People a Voice

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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.

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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.

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.

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!

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Listen to the entire show

Welcome to the Radio Workshop Podcast!

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.

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.

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.

Listen to the entire show

Welcome to the Radio Workshop podcast!

Today we meet more of the high school learners who made it through the finals of the 2009 Nkosi Albert Luthuli Oral History Competition.  You may remember that we recently featured the winner, Fairouz West from Cape Town. Today we hear from some of the other young historians whose project impressed the judges. Take a listen!

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. Visit SAFM’s website for information about how to find their frequency in your area.

Tebello Molelekoa presents her project

Ideline Akimana receives her award

History in my community

The plight of refugees was one of the topics that young historians could choose to explore in this year’s Nkosi Albert Luthuli Oral History Competition. Let’s hear from Tebello Molelekoa and Ideline Akimana.

To listen to other programmes about South African history, click here!

Patricia Simons and her poster

Religion in my community

Another topic that was popular among this year’s oral historians was places of workshop. Patricia Simons from North West province profiled a forgotten Bakgatla heritage site, while Micaela Ellson from Mpumalanga found out more about the mosque across the road from her school.

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.

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.