Sakhisizwe -Building the Nation - Bou Die Nasie

Devonetia Amelia Michels is a young female that was born in Macassar but residing in Eerste River, Cape Town. She is a 19 years old and was adopted at the age of four by her aunt and uncle who she grew up with as her parents. Due to things that happened she had an identity crises, but she is grateful towards God for leading the way. As young as she is, with the world underneath her feet, she stands bold in whatever life throw at her. Writing and performing poetry has always been one of her greatest passions. She started writing poetry in Grade 10, but it never evolved that it was a passion for her to write, she only noticed later that it was a talent and she can use her poetry to make something of herself. She says what inspired her is that it is relevant and relatable such as a certain situation or circumstances and than she feels to write about it. When she gets a introduction than you use it to write a poem. She does not write so that her words make sense, she freestyle. In sch...

Description: Dr. Natalia Novikova Gynaecologist & Endoscopic spoke to us about Sexually Transmitted Infections, Genital Warts, Menstrual Disorders and Contraception. She chose to become a Gynaecologis t in a field of medicine because she always wanted to help women. She is passionate about health more importantly women's health and she can help women.  STDs is the same thing as STI it is sexually transmitted disease or sexually transmitted infection. There are numbers of STD'S that are recognized and it starts with HIV, AIDS, hepatitis, chlamydia. STDs are transmitted through sex it could be skin to skin contact such as HPV, this virus causes wards so one does not have to have penetrative sex to acquire this virus and condoms does not protect against some HPV. Other condoms can protect one against other mentioned  STIs and  STDs. If  you wear a condom because one needs to be in contact with  virginal fluid or semen to not receive ...

Elisabeth Sue is an singer-songwriter, who is born and raised in Cape Town. Her passion for music began at a young age when she decided to join her school's youth choir. She learned on her own how to play varies instruments such as the guitar and started writing and composing her own music. Today music is a huge part of her life and who she is and she loves to collaborate with varies musicians. Back in 2013 she won a battle of the bands competition with one of her own songs that she wrote, which was held at her High School. Elisabeth won her first opportunity to record at Platinum Studios. She auditioned for ''The Barnyard Theatre'' and declined her first Barnyard Offer in 2012. Elisabeth was scared to pursue her passion and enter the 09:00-17:00 working world, spending most of her hours rehearsing and writing music with various artists and spending most of her weekends performing at restaurants, etc. She would find a space where she could bring her music alive...

Lulama Sigansana is the current Programme Manager at Ikamva Labantu's Seniors Programme which supports vulnerable elderly throughout the Cape Metro pole. Lulama holds a Bachelor in Science Degree in Dietetics from the University of Western Cape. She started working in the communities in 1992 through the Department of Health in the area of nutrition and policy development and joined Ikamva Labantu in 2009 as the Health and Nutrition Manager. Despite bearing the brunt of the struggle for freedom in South Africa, many older persons are still subject to widespread violation of their rights. Millions of senior citizens are living in abject poverty and experience isolation, abuse and neglect. This is exacerbated by weakened family ties, financial insecurity, limited mobility, and a lack of access to quality healthcare. Dire living conditions are the norm for many older persons who live in neighborhoods rife with crime and with limited access to basic services. Many are also unaware ...

Africa Unite was founded in 2001 in response to violence against asylum seekers, refugees and migrants in predominantly Black Township on the outskirts of Cape Town in the Western Cape. From the perspective of locals this included frustrations in relation to high levels of unemployment, a sense of abandonment and the absence of commitment by government towards local communities. In contrast, locals felt that  refugees from other African countries were living more successful lives. Although this was a misconception, it caused great resentment between local and migrant communities.  The outcome of this first session was the development of a platform for building channels of communication aimed at developing mutually supportive relationships between the two communities. This platform later became Africa Unite. Since, Africa Unite (AU) has positioned itself as a human rights and youth empowering organisation that works with citizens, refugees and migrants to prevent conflicts,...

Llowellyn Gelandt is a self-taught photographer from Macasssar. He has no formal taring or qualification in photography however he is currently studying to become a educator. His passion for photography started when he was 10 years-old, way back in 2005. He started taking pictures on a camera and the rest is history. He experiments with different photo editing software such as Adobe, Photoshop and started editing his families pictures. Due to school and his studies he went quite, however he always take pictures of landscapes, nature and things he find interesting on with his phone.  Over a year ago he started taking pictures as a hobby and now he is a known photographer in his area Macassar. Llowellyn takes pictures of landscape and portraits. He likes capturing timeless moments and prefer taking pictures of someone when they are not posing, as this makes their emotion more raw and real. He still learn and acquire skills through Youtube and getting tips from ...

The City of Cape Town Health Department has partnered with the NPO ANOVA a Health Institute since June 2019 to focus their Strategies in the fight against HIV and AIDS. If hey remain with their current strategies they plan to not only change the trajectory of HIV but the disease from keeping growing at an alarming rate, the disease will outrun the response. In 2017 the ANOVA Institute currently had 36.9 million people living with HIV globally, in South Africa they have 7.7 million people living with HIV. With an accelerated approach called APACE (accelerated program achievement) to Control of the epidemic which is the HIV epidemic, they have change their approach to HIV, by actively looking for those living with HIV, testing sites within the communities, with additional testers in the health facilities, additional trained professional nurses to commence ART for patients who requires it, various methods of collections of chronic medicine through quick pick up clubs, outside of clinic c...

The Just Grace is an non-profit organisation from Langa, that focus on the empowering the community and provides the hope required to catalyze positive change and unleash the hidden potential in the township in Langa. Their youth development programme believes that sustainable and meaningful change comes from a long-term commitment to geographical impact. The Just Grace organisation is passionate about creating and supporting community based projects that cumulatively will lead to the social uplifting of Langa. They run a youth development programme that holistically supports learners throughout high school and into further education, training or employment. The Just Grace incorporate academic support, arts and culture and fun, career guidance, computer training as some children might not have the skills to use one, development, entrepreneurship, leadership, literacy, life skills and post school preparation. Every year the learners achieve results that far exceed the local, provinci...

The Nal'ibali organisation has teamed up with local libraries nation wide to provoke all grown-ups to get the children in their lives a free library participation card. As South Africa does not have a culture of perusing and libraries remain to a great extent underutilized, so children are not used to obtaining books to bring home to peruse for happiness. In a mission to conquer absence of education in South Africa and to make separation to a lesser extent a boundary to perusing, Nal'ibali will give new bikes to 50 fortunate youngsters who have enrolled for a library participation card. At the present time in South Africa, just one in each five children in Grade 4 can peruse for importance. This implies most children battle to peruse effortlessly and, accordingly, endure scholastically with low evaluations. Likewise, most homes in South Africa have not many books, to a great extent since books are unreasonably costly for the normal family to purchase. Barbara Meyer came ...

The Parent-Infant Intervention Home Visiting Programme of the Parent Centre in Cape Town is an evidence informed initiative delivered by paraprofessionals and specifically aims to reduce the risk of child neglect and maltreatment. The parent Centre was established in 1983 and provides education and training workshops, home-visiting programmes, community talks, support groups as well as parental counselling. While the Centre is based in the Western Cape, they are very keen to respond to requests for training from other areas. The Parent Centre has an approach to parents and parenting. They believe that one should prepare children for the world they will face as adults is an awesome and challenging task. Equipping children with a positive self-esteem that will enable them to act wisely and assertively in their lives is the most important responsibility they carry. However they believe parenting is not instinctive. Attitudes, information and skills need to be learned and many parents l...

Engela Fullard is the director of the group called Track Five. She took music classes at the age of 7-years-old, music was a subject for her up to matric and she also attended private flute lessons from 16. Engela has a BA music grade, and got her teaching license at the University of SA. She was a secretary at a large company for 10 years and kept music going with ensemble work. Her husband Gavin is the mastermind behind the vocal group, Track Five. He has a passion for arranging and for jazz vocal groups in particular. He started working with vocal groups during the sixties and in the 1975 eventually formed a vocal group called, Tangerine. They worked for about 18 years in radio, television and cabaret work. Track Five was formed in 1995. They perform acapella with jazz trio and flute as well as with sax quartet. The top venues where Track Five has performed at Cape Town International Convention Centre, Drostdy Theatre; Stellenbosch, Grahamstown Festival, Grand Roche Hotel, Gra...

Olwethu Patuleni is a self taught visual artist from the settlement Nyanga. In 2017 he started doing foundation in Graphic Design at CPUT. He specialise in pencil drawing and customising denim jackets, trousers, t-shirt and sneakers. He also uses other material like oil and chock pastels. His art is based on the images he receive from his clients. Olwethu sometimes draw pictures that he sees when he browse through the internet or social media, when a certain picture provokes inspiration within him. He draws it and use social media as a platform to display his work. When he was younger his teacher used to comment on his art and that basically inspired him. Olwethu Patuleni comes from a unprivileged background where he says is no hope, that most of the young people are drug addicts, drink and commit robbery in order to survive and that made a lot of things slow for his ability to do the artwork that he does. He spent a lot of time doing what he love to keep himself busy and to ke...

Zerena Ebrahim also known as Zee is the founder and owner of Zees fashion. After completing her BCom degree in Business Management, Zee decided to start her own business called Zees Fashion in 2014 and market a curated range of fashion accessories. Zerena's love for design, fashion and jewelry led her to complete a course in jewelry making years ago. While completing her course, Zee dreamed of taking her passion further and owning her own fashion jewelry business. What started out as just a hobby for Zerena, grew into Zees Fashion, the successful e-commerce platform that it is today. Zees fashion offers a range of fashion accessories that are in line with world wide trends and are affordable. Items are carefully selected and imported to guarantee that only the hottest fashion items are stocked and keeping to the values where Zees Fashion began, some of the items stocked are still handmade. For further information go to the website zeesfashion.com or visit her instagram s...

The Lung Conference is the biggest yearly gathering concentrated on TB issues in low-and centre pay countries. Every year stakeholders from over 125 countries assembles for this four-day gathering, which tries to come up with solutions on how to combat TB.  Three promising new drugs used to safe treat tuberculosis (DR-TB) that offer individuals a superior possibility of endurance with minimal symptoms. The three new DR-TB drugs are called – bedaquiline, delamanid and pretomanid offering individuals a superior possibility at endurance with far less symptoms than more seasoned lethal injectable medications that are as yet being utilized in many countries. With these three conceivably game changing medications evaluated distant, it obstructs their scale-up by countries. Just 20% of individuals with DR-TB who need these more up to date medications have had the option to get them. Right now, the cost of DR-TB regimens ranges from more than R15 000 to R170 000, contingent upon t...

On the awake of the World Premature Day, the Tygerberg Hospital Children's Trust will have the World Preemie Day Fun Walk talking place On the sixteenth November at 07:00am for 08:00am. This is the second year the occasion will be held, after Tygerberg Hospital effectively facilitated their debut World Preemie Day 5km Fun Walk on the emergency clinic grounds a year ago. This year the Tygerberg Hospital Children's Trust is developing accomplishment to offer walkers an entire day of fun. This fun walk plans to make mindfulness in the interest of 15 million untimely infants, this is as per the World Health Organization, that are conceived yearly on the planet. The Tygerberg Hospital will paint the town purple (as purple speaks to untimely infants) in solidarity of a reason that requirements open help. The medical clinic premises will be changed into a hive of celebrations for the entire family to appreciate. Premature birth is a genuine overall medical issue. The child end...

National debt advisors is a registered debt counselling firm in South  Africa. As the festive season is approaching a lot of people will spend a lot and end up in huge debts that might lead in one loosing  property or getting blacklisted, January is also coming fees must be paid,  rent and all other bills needs to be settled and you might find yourself borrowing more than your income and that will strain you or even lead to depression. Hence, we had a conversation with, Rene Moonsamy from  The  National Debt council discussing all legal procedures that should be taken when one is owing a company, what can be done to prevent property loss and being blacklisted. Rene spoke about a debt review which is a debt release measure provided in terms of the national providers act. It helps with consumers that struggle to pay their debt, a debt councilor comes in to negotiate to reduce your interest rate or installments and your payments to an amount that is afford...

We had a telephonic interview with Bulelani Njobe all the way from Langa. Bulelani who is the founder of Oracle Green which is a cleaning service. While in High School   Bulelani Njobe  found himself exposed to gangs and drugs and as a result wasted three years of his life. But this is what motivated him to start his own business of cleaning dustbins and assisting the elderly create vegetable gardens for families living with HIV/AIDS in Langa. When he started Oracle Green it was tough because only 12 households accepted his over to make use of his service to clean their bins, while his friends mocked his work, but that did not discourage him instead it motivated him more.  The business has since grown to service 51 customers and with additional cleaning services Bulelani has also managed to permanently employ six young people from his community to keep up with the requests. Later they introduced roof cleaning, full house painting and upholstery cleaning. ...

O n Sakhisizwe we had Chantelle Goliath who imports a certain type of sanitary pads called Glory pads all the way from Democratic Republic of Congo. Chantelle who is also a cancer survivor is the founder of Milli Distributors . The Glory Pad, is an organic soft cotton and natural bamboo sanitary pad with a charcoal strip that relieves toxins of the body as well as menstruation cramps. Chantelle who was once homeless five years ago and was abused at a young age has a passion of empowering women from all walks of life.  The whole idea of Glory pads came up in 2017 when Chantelle met with Hyasintha a Tanzanian telecom engineer at the Africa Women Innovation & Entrepreneurship Forum Conference . For more information contact: Milli Distributors By: Thomas Cedrick and Lindokuhle Nkanyuza

She is more than just an actress... Many people believe that if you live in the Cape flats, you will most likely become negatively influenced by the environment, we brought the TV actress Ann Juries-May to studio to talk about how she was able to deal with the negativity of the Cape flats and became a successful actress.  Ann Juries-May who was born in Eerste River, is now playing Claudia Cupido from the TV series Arendsvlei, the character Claudia Cupido is a grade 11 student who attends Arendsvlei High School. Ann started TV acting after she acquired her degree in theater and performance at the University of Cape Town in 2012 .    Being born in an area which was negatively stigmatized , growing up Ann dealt with the issues, but never took them to heart. However with the recent violence and crime on the increase, Ann has chosen to use her platform to help the people who she is able to help. She has started an NGO called Showup.shine which focuses on giving d...