Sakhisizwe -Building the Nation - Bou Die Nasie

GET ME TO 21 JENNA   LOWE TRUST Today on Sakhisizwe we had Gabi Lowe mother of the late Jenna Lowe   who passed away in June 2015 .   Twenty-year-old Jenna Lowe influenced massive social change in South Africa. She fought for awareness and support of Pulmonary Hypertension and increased the number of organ donors by tons of thousands with her internationally acclaimed #Getmeto21 campaign. Following Jenna’s death in June 2015 the trustees decided to continue the work of the trust in order to honour Jenna’s remarkable legacy, on the 28 October Jenna would have celebrated her 25th birthday. The trust which is called Jenna Lowe trust has several objectives which includes: 1.      To raise awareness for Pulmonary Hypertension in South Africa, to encourage and facilitate earlier diagnosis, and to provide better care for patients, caregivers and patient families. 2.      To increase public awareness around the shortage of...

What needs to addressed right now is the issues that currently happening in South-Africa, like the gangsterism, gender based violence, xenophobia, crime, unemployment,  Seeing as the crime and violence has been increasing, measures have been made to control the issues as best as they can. Earlier this year the Army was sent to the Cape Flats to maintain order and stop all the gangsterism and crime which was growing. The amount of deaths had dropped due to the army patrolling and watching over those areas. The gender based violence is now finally getting the proper attention it deserves, school students having silent marches, people wearing all black clothing in memorial of the ones who have been hurt and killed, protests and marches and the #AmINext campaign.  It is believed that one of the main reason's for these issues are the communities around the children. Saying that it is how the children are brought up to believe that what the negative influences around th...

Even in this new age South-Africa has freedom that is "given to everyone", many people still struggle with the idea of freedom while others suffer with finding their identities. The issues that are happening to the the South-African youth are brought up and discussed in a documentary called "Anthem", directed by Priam Patel and produced by Giulio Beltramo. The documentary will focus on the lives of 4 other people, seeing how they live their lives differently from each other while also containing just a little bit of similarity. The documentary is actually a grad film since everyone involved is a UCT graduate film student. The meaning behind the title is made to inform people how they will feel while watching the documentary, they will feel more united. Beside the feeling of unity that the documentary plans to create, topics will be brought up during the documentary which plan to create debates and arguments. The film is for everyone but the main targ...

Joining us in the studio was one of the Western Cape Representatives and court blood specialists for cryo-save, Claire Stewart. She had completed her bachelors in Human life at the University of Stellenbosch and is now doing a BA Honours degree in psychology, she arrived at the studio to inform us in detail about what work she does and what work Cryo-save actually does. One of the many things Cryo-save do is "Cord Blood Therapy" which is a form of treatment for over 80 blood diseases, the treatment is made from the preserved blood of a newly born baby's umbilical cord. The blood is used to treat an unexpected or unpredictable blood disease that someone might get. Surprisingly there is a very minimal risk in this procedure seeing as the baby is already born and the mother will not have to worry about any invasion issues. Claire explained that since the blood is removed from the umbilical cord right after the child has been born, the stem cells are still ne...