Tshiabu Deebu was born in South Africa. Japhia Emori was born in Rwanda but both are challenged about their identity and calling South Africa home. The Radio Workshop spoke to them about the experience of being a foreigner in the only place they really know.
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The Radio Workshop would like to thank Tshiabu Deebu and her mother, and Japhia Emori for sharing their stories with us.
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Unhappy about something in life? Complaining is usually the next thing we do. When our rights have been violated we complain, often through protest. When we get bad service we complain. When our relationships are troubled, yes, we complain. The Radio Workshop got an earful about what is weighing on the minds of many South Africans.
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The Radio Workshop would like to thank Nosisa, Wendy and Phambile, Mark and Glynnis for talking to us.
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Have you ever made a huge decision, taken a massive risk to change your life? The Radio Workshop spoke to Jonathan Nkala who left Zimbabwe for South Africa in search of a better life. His story starts at the banks of the Limpopo River, the city lights of Johannesburg are calling…But its not where Jonathan’s remarkable story ends. This playwright and performer helps tell the story of human rights, rights every human being is entitled to no matter their religion, culture or country.
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The Radio Workshop would like to thank Jonathan Nkala for sharing his story with us.
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Imagine a classroom in the future. The Children’s Radio Foundation found some primary school learners who did just that. Pushing the boundaries of time is one thing but pushing the boundaries of stamina is quite another. We also hear from two first year university students about the enormous effort they put into their education and reaching for their dreams.
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The Radio Workshop would like to thank all of the schools that took part, Aloe Junior High, Silverlea Primary and Nobantu Primary. Thank you to Equal Education, Nokubonga Ralayo, and Asanda Mankayi.
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What do you think about teacher’s demands for higher wages and the prospect of a strike? We’ll be talking to some high school learners to hear what they have to say. Also, we meet a young South African who went to Washington DC to attend US President Barack Obama’s Young African Leaders Forum. 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.
Teachers on strike?
So, how are things going for you in Term 3 at school? Is the threat of a teachers’ strike likely to affect your school? And what do you think about the rights of teachers to strike in order to earn better wages? We spent an afternoon discussing this topic with some of the learners at Maitland High School in Cape Town. How do they feel about the prospect of a strike?
We’d love to hear from you—send us an email at info@radioworkshop.org!
Palesa Shongwe
Young African Leader’s Forum
President Obama has invited 115 young leaders from 47 nations of sub-Saharan Africa to the President’s Forum with Young African Leaders. The Forum is an opportunity for the participants to engage with each other, their American counterparts, and U.S. government officials on key themes of youth empowerment, good governance, and economic opportunity. The Radio Workshop spoke to Palesa Shongwe, one of the delegates selected to represent South Africa, and found out more about the event.
Click here to listen to youth audio profiles and audio diaries produced by the Radio Workshop!
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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.
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!
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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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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!
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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.
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.
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This week, as we come to the end of Heritage Month, we focus on the finals of the 2009 Nkosi Albert Luthuli Oral History Competition for high school learners around South Africa. Three learners from each province came together to present before a panel of judges at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein last week.
Today we hear from the chief adjudicator, Wonga Tabata from the Race and Values Directorate in the national Department of Education. And we also hear from some of the finalists, including the overall winner, Fairouz West, a Grade 11 learner from Muizenberg High School in Cape Town. By the way, that’s Albert Luthuli pictured above!
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Welcome to the Show!
Today we introduce a new host for the Radio Workshop! Mbali Vilakazi has taken over for Lesedi Mogoatlhe, who has left the show to take up an amazing opportunity to study film in England. We wish Lesedi well, and welcome Mbali 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.
The 2009 Nkosi Albert Luthuli Oral History Competition
Before we meet the winner of the competition, let’s hear from the chief adjudicator, Wonga Tabata from the Race and Values Directorate in the national Department of Education, and find out what it was all about.
To find out more the Albert Luthuli Young Historians Oral History Competition, click here.
Fairouz West, winner of the Oral History Competition
At the end of two days of presentations by 27 learners from around the country, the awards were presented to the winners. The overall winner was Fairouz West, a Grade 11 learner from Muizenberg High school in Cape Town. She researched the history of one of the oldest soccer clubs in Cape Town. Let’s find out more about her project.
Here’s a sample of some of the other projects that were on offer.
To find out more the Albert Luthuli Young Historians Oral History Competition, click here.
This Week in History
Find out what important events happened this week in history!
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Thursday, September 24th, was Heritage Day. Heritage Day gets us to look at who we are––where we’ve come from, and what defines as a nation.
All sorts of things make up our history and our heritage. It can be politics, it can be music and theatre, and it can be sports! Today we find out about one of the oldest professional football clubs in the country. The Orlando Pirates––also known as the Buccaneers.
And we also check in with a young historian––Refilwe Tsumane will tell us about her award-winning community history project. 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.
The Orlando Pirates
Next up, we find out about one of the oldest professional football clubs in the country—the Orlando Pirates!
Are you a Pirates fan and want to learn more? Visit their official website to find out about match schedules, learn about the players, and get more background information on the club.
You can do history! Refilwe Tsumane
Next up we hear from a young historian. Refilwe Tsumane was one of the winners of last year’s Albert Luthuli Young Historians Oral History Competition. The competition gets learners to do oral history research on a topic that interests them, and to present their findings.
To find out more the Albert Luthuli Young Historians Oral History Competition, click here.
This Week in History
Find out what important events happened this week in history!
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