The World Cup transformed so many cities and towns in South Africa during the tournament. It brought hope and promise to many. A year on, the Radio Workshop went back onto the streets to ask South Africans if the football extravaganza brought any lasting benefits.
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The Radio Workshop would like to thank James Donald, Piko Lomzi and Mphumelelo from Grassroot Soccer. Thanks also to all the people of Cape Town who stopped their day for a few moments to talk to us.
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2010 World Cup crowds
And that’s all from this week’s Radio Workshop!
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We have a champion show for you today. We hear from two athletes whose determination has helped them to succeed in sports that other people did not think were suitable for them. One is an 18-year old speed skipping champion and the other is a woman weightlifter who hopes to win a medal for South Africa at the Commonwealth Games.
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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.
Nyameko Nangu
Jumping to new heights
Nyameko ignored those who told him that skipping was for girls or little children. And he proved them all wrong when he won the a gold medal in speed skipping at the Rope Skipping World Championships this year.
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Babalwa Ndleleni
Worth her weight in gold
At the age of 19, Babalwa Ndleleni was considered old when she started weightlifting. But at the Commonwealth Games in 2006 she surprised everyone and won a bronze medal. At this year’s Games in Delhi, India she’s hoping to do even better. She tells us why she loves the sport – and why more girls should take it up.
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New Year in Cape Town would not be the same without the annual Cape Carnival which takes to the streets of the city on “twede nuwe jaar” – an unofficial, second new year’s day. The history of the carnival lies in the history of slavery at the Cape and is a celebration of freedom when, for a few hours, the city belongs to the marchers and minstrels. In this week’s Radio Workshop we go behind the scenes and meet some of the people who make the carnival possible.
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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.
How the Kaapse Klopse – or Cape Carnival – began
We meet Melvin Matthews, the director of the Kaapse Klopse Carnival Association. He explains some of the features of the carnival and its place in the history of Cape Town.
Want to find out more about the Cape Carnival? Click here!
Stitching shiny satins and sequins
Each troupe that takes part in the Cape Carnival chooses the colour combination of its own uniform. These colourful costumes are produced in small workshops across the Cape Flats throughout the year. In this segment we talk with some of the women who are hard at work sewing uniforms just a few weeks before the big parade.
The ghoema man
Mr Achmat Sabera has been making ghoema drums and tamborines for the past 30 years. When slaves first marched through Cape Town at New Year they played drums made from small wine barrels. In more recent times the ghoema drum has been made of thinner, lighter wood. We visited “Boeta Achmat”, as he’s known, in his workshop where he showed us how to make a ghoema.
Ghoemas at different stages of construction
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It’s summer in South Africa and for those who like sports that means the cricket season is in full swing. Back in the 1970s and 80s, where you could play and which team you could join were not simple choices, and many talented black players never had the chance to reach their full potential. We’ll hear more about that later in the show. But first up on today’s programme, we hear from some learners about the history of their schools.
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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.
The history of my school
Every place has a history, including schools! Let’s take a listen as Tregina Mokoena and Renatha Kalo share the histories of their schools.
To listen to other programmes about South African history, click here!
Cricket and politics
Ameera Conrad is a Grade 10 learner at Wynberg Girl’s High in Cape Town. Cricket has played a huge role in her family—not just as a game they love, but also as a career. As Ameera explored her family’s history, she discovered how apartheid affected everything in South Africa, including cricket.
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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Welcome to the Radio Workshop podcast! In today’s programme we meet the first captain of the South African women’s soccer team, Banyana Banyana. Desiree Ellis tells us about her experiences as a soccer star, and offers some advice for young people wanting to make it in sport—or anywhere for that matter!
But first up on the show, we take a visit to the Field of Play exhibition at the District 6 Museum Homecoming Centre in Cape Town. 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.
Field of Play
Let’s find out about the history of soccer in Cape Town, as we visit the Field of Play exhibition at the District Six Homecoming Centre.
Want to know more about the District 6 Museum, and the history of District 6 in Cape Town? Visit the museum’s website!
Desiree Ellis
Our next guest scored a hat-trick—that’s three goals in one game—in her first match for her country. She continued with a remarkable career at the highest level of the game for ten years. Let’s meet Desiree Ellis, the first captain of the South African national women’s soccer team, Banyana Banyana.
To find out more about Desiree Ellis’s life and career, read her profile on Fifa’s website.
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Welcome to the Radio Workshop podcast! Today’s show takes a look forward to next year’s 2010 FIFA World Cup, and also a look back to the history of soccer in South Africa.
On the heels of the Confederation’s Cup, everyone’s wondering if South Africa is ready for the big event next year. And just in case you’re not a soccer fanatic, we’ve got you covered in this episode. We take a visit to the theatre!
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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.
Learning through theatre
We take a trip to the Green Point Stadium Visitor’s Centre in Cape Town and check out what they’ve got on offer. Believe me, it’s much much more than a construction site!
We also take a peak at their one-person play called “The Greensman.” Actor Apollo Ntshoko inspires us to take an interest in the history of the Green Point Common, and talks about performing in this powerful production.
For more information about the Green Point Stadium Visitor’s Centre, visit their website. Also, visit the City of Cape Town’s 2010 gallery for regular photo updates on the progress of the stadium!
2010 Update
How much work goes into orchestrating an event like the 2010 FIFA World Cup? Let’s find out!
For regular 2010 news updates, visit this South Africa 2010 website.
This week in history
In this week in history, we give you a mini physic’s lesson, take a look back at an important undercover meeting, and talk tennis.
Want to find out more about South African history? Visit the South Africa History Online website.
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Welcome to the Radio Workshop podcast! Today we’re talking about our bodies. Do you have issues with how you look? We’ll be sharing some of your views about body shape, eating, exercising, and trying on clothes.
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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.
Getting the perfect fit
Sometimes that pair of jeans just doesn’t fit like it’s meant to, right? Alisha, Mendy and Ronel go clothes shopping, and talk about being comfortable in your own skin.
Alisha, Mendy and Ronel are peer educators at GOLD Peer Education. To find out more about their programmes, click here.
How healthy are young South Africans?
And a recent study shows us that almost half of all South African children get little or no exercise, and this puts them at high risk for illness.
Do you need a strategy to get healthy? Check out the Kid’s Health website for more information.
Let’s go to the gym
The number of overweight children has more than doubled over the past 30 years. Part of this has to do with the foods kids eat. But many of today’s kids are couch potatoes—they need to be more physically active.
Today we meet up with some active young people at the Sports Science Institute in Cape Town.
Interested in finding out more about the Kids Club at the Sports Science Institute? Visit their website.
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Thanks for joining us for the Radio Workshop’s podcast. We’ve got a great show for you this week, and hope you enjoy it.
First up, we hear from Darryn August. Looking back on his teenage years, Darryn says his aunt entered his life at just the right time.
Then we take a visit to the Community Capoeira project. Instructor Marcio Lopes uses the Brazilian dance-art of capoeira to reach out to young people in Cape Town.
And closing the show, find out what happened this week in history.
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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.
Audio Commentary: Darryn’s Story
Darryn August grew up in a home where no one gave him any love or attention. He was often hungry and wasn’t looked after. Until one day when his aunt stepped in, and helped him get on the right track.
Darryn is a peer educator at GOLD Peer Education. To find out more about their programmes, click here.
Community Capoeira
Capoeira is a dance-martial art developed by African slaves in Brazil. It’s extremely popular in Brazil and Angola, and is taking off across the world. Marcio Lopes has been teaching capoeira in South Africa for 9 years. Recently he decided to take Capoeira to the children of Cape Town, and it’s been a huge hit.
To find out more about the Capoeira Educational Youth Association, click here.
Sound Check
Can you guess the name of this Brazilian musical instrument?
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Welcome to this week’s episode of the Radio Workshop. Let’s take a look at what’s on the show today.
First, we take a walk along Cape Town’s Hout Bay Harbour and get a lesson on how to cook fish.
Next up, surfing champion Kwezi Qika tells us about the first time he picked up a surfboard.
As always, we take a stroll back in time with “This Week in History.”
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Welcome to the Show
Host Lesedi Mogoatlhe takes listeners through the lineup of this week’s 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.
Hout Bay Harbour
Today’s Audio Postcard brings us to the fish market at Cape Town’s Hout Bay Harbour. Our youth reporters from the Hout Bay Music Project get some advice on what to do with that fish you just caught.
Do you like to cook? Click here for some simple recipies designed for young people.
Audio Profile: Kwezi Qika
Would you believe that surfing champion Kwezi Qika used to be afraid of the water? What happened that changed his mind?
Click here to watch a video of Kwezi Qika surfing.
Surfs Up!
Do you want to know more about surfing?
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Fast forward a few years to 2005. That’s when Kwezi won his first title, the National Under 18 Longboarding Championships. Long boarding is “more chilled than short boarding,” he says. “It’s more like cruising, taking it easy.”
Kwezi was the first black African to ever win a surfing title.
He is quick to shrug off conversations around race, saying that he gets tired of being seen as a black surfer “rather than just a surfer.” Regardless, he realizes that it still matters. When he started surfing he had no black role models to look up to. His initial fears of surfing had partly to do with not seeing black surfers, nor black people swimming in the sea. “I had to do [it] on my own—now that there’s other black kids coming up it’s great.” He likes it when he has young black kids come up to him and say that “they’re going to grow up and be better than [him].” That’s how it should be, Kwezi says. It shouldn’t be about race. It should be about making your dreams come true, whatever they are. Still, he sees himself as a role model not just to black kids—but to any kid.
Kwezi has taken several surfing titles already, but he remembers the first one like it was yesterday. His mom was in the audience cheering him on, and that was really important to him. She wasn’t too excited about him taking up surfing in the first place, he says. “But she’s come around since the championship.”
He barely remembers what he was like back on that day when he first got on the board, and wonders if he would recognize himself. “Back when I just started surfing I was quite scrawny.” Surfing strengthened not only his body, but his mind too. It has shaped the way he understands and relates to other people. “Surfing has opened me up…It’s not a colour thing for me, it’s not a racial thing for me, I just hang out because I want to hang out. I don’t look at your skin colour and say oh do you want to hang out? I can hang out with whoever whenever.”
These days Kwezi surfs a lot, gives lessons for a local surf shop, and is busy studying for a business degree. He hopes to get all he can from his surfing career, to continue to do competitions and take any other opportunity that comes his way. He knows that there’s a life on the other side of professional surfing, one that he needs to prepare for now. “Maybe I’ll open my own surf shop one day,” he adds.
Whatever Kwezi decides to do in his future, I’m sure he’ll give it his all. Watch this space, Kwezi Qika is making waves.
