Sakhisizwe -Building the Nation - Bou Die Nasie

Ishrene Davids (general manager at Ikamva Labantu) The interview starts with Ishrene speaking about when Ikamva Labantu was establish and what their purpose is in helping underprivileged communities around Cape Town and also who their main target is they help which is children and elderly people. She spoke about how they operate 21 senior clubs which they help and support to give them basic needs like food and hygiene tools to look after themselves and family’s and to keep them healthy and in good condition.   She told us that they had to close down due to the epidemic that has taken place and have been close since the 17 th March due to the virus, which is a huge problem for them and the senior clubs they deal with on a daily. She adds on and tells us how difficult it would be for them to supply the senior clubs with the needs they get at Ikamva, during the time they are close they organise food parcels to help them to go on for at least 2 weeks. More difficulty’...

Kim Williams a business women and interior decorator. Kim started loving interior designing when she was a little girl moving her furniture around her room as a child and took from her mother’s old left over fabric and making clothes for some of her dolls and that is where her passion and love for interior designing grew and began. She adds on to say that in that time interior designing wasn’t a real career option for her and study business, market communication and change management consultancy as a profession until she was 30 years of age but over time stresses of running a business like that got to her and then decide to change to something she always wanted to do, that was interior designing and to become one evens. There after the skills she gain in the field she use to work in benefited her in a huge way and combing it with her passion and love for interior design, She says that people miss understood what interior designing is, she says it is more of a feeling wh...

Megan Lessing was interviewed and she spoke about the ongoing violence against Sex Workers within and round South Africa, she works for SWEAT. They have been around for 25 years and they were always fighting against the decriminalisation again Violence. Regarding past records, the focus of violence was always against women and transwomen, and that’s what they mostly focused on. She also mentioned that you cannot run away from sex works because it’s always in and around our communities, and they do their work in criminalised environment. She also states that if there is a crime recorded of a Sex Worker that dies, the media doesn’t regard them as a Sex Worker or transwomen, but rather focus on the crime rather than the person, or even if a diseased body is found of a sex worker they would regard the person as a sex worker. Megan always said that within the community sex workers are not treated fairly and something bad is always said and people laugh about it. With regard...

Michelle Vermeulen Promotions, PR and Planning Manager is from Western Cape Blood Service and she spoke about that people should be more open to donating blood, and she thanks people that does donate blood regularly. She also stated that if you are very healthy, that you should please come and donate, because they desperately need people to come out and donate blood. They are sort of O Negative blood and B Positive blood. Ever since the Coronavirus outbreak she says people should still come out because you cannot get the virus through blood donation, so its 100% safe. She mentions that if you not feeling well or any signs of symptoms, that you should not donate. She stated that the requirements to become a donor is that you need to be older than 16 years of age and younger than 75 years old, need to weigh 50kgs and more and need to be healthy on the day of donation. Her final words were stating that she urges people to come out and donate blood, to make sure they ha...

Surendran Reddy is 24 years of age and from Cape Town. He has studied 2 years professional photography at City Varsity Cape Town and he got his qualifications in Professional Photography which is a Diploma in Professional Photography. At the current moment he is a freelance photographer and fashion stylist and content creator. He is very big into fashion therefore most of his work is fashion related. He has worked with a few clothing brands as well as working with a Big Artists styling them for TV Ads and styled a few models for agency's annals for models for photo shoots. He was on set with his brother at the time he was a stylist and saw the relationship between the stylist, photographer, the make up artist and the model and the way they were working. That is where he told himself he should give photography a go, so he bought himself a little photographer and got some friends to take photo shoots. That is where he started picking up the niche to become a photographer and when...

We spoke to a social worker from Dementia SA, whereby she told us a little more about Dementia. Dementia South Africa is a non-profit organisation that assist families and people that has dementia and that has limited access to private health care, dementia is caused by Alzheimer, memory loss,  and language problems. The services that Dementia SA offers are to give education, knowledge and informative talk about what Dementia is, so that family members know the changes and give support to their loved ones that struggles with dementia. They also give a workshop called the Introduction to understanding dementia and they also have resources to understand dementia. Dementia is not treatable, there is no cure and people need to understand that and need to know what to do when the person living with dementia will not know how to express themselves and will not know how to do the most simple of tasks such as cooking, cleaning, etc. Sometimes family members will think family members may...

We had Paediatric Rheumatologist, Dr Deepthi (Dee) Abraham who currently heads up and runs the Paediatric Rheumatology and Immunology Outpatient department at Tygerberg where she sees patients every Tuesday and Wednesday. Tygerberg Children’s trust in partnership with Una from the Andrea’s Gift Foundation (SA) who is a dynamic patient-centered, pro-awareness Non- Profit Organisation for people living with lupus will be hosting there ever first WORD day which stands for World Young Rheumatic Disease Day which serves to be held on the 18 of March 2020 at the C3a Paediatric OPD ward at Tygerberg Hospital from 09:00 – 15:00. They are hoping that children from the Red Cross and Groote Schuur Hospital will be part of the celebration that Tygerberg hospital will be hosting for the 1st time. As a lot of people only think that Rheumatic disease occur in the elderly or middle age individuals. It is very few times that people actually understand and realize that children also presents wit...

Mikhail Williams is a social media and Youtube influencer. His passion for music started in Grade 4,  he use to be a shy person in school. He also started singing in church at a talent show when people started  saying he should give it a try as becoming a performer. First he did not want to, but he than gave it a chance and everyone told him  he should use his talent. Than he started singing everywhere, where he got the chance. He thinks music  helped him heal because he lost his father and music helped him through those times like that.  He says  music makes him happy, if he did not have music he would not have healed and he used music to communicate his talent. He has written over 50/60 songs and most of them are sad songs, which he did  not try to do intensely. But his new song will be upbeat but the  words are sad. He believes lyrical content is important so that people can relate to his music.  He hates  listening to...

Joshua Gabriel originally from the Eastern Cape, says his music journey started with music from school and from there it just escalated. Being a kid he wrote songs and decided to take it further and make a living of it, his goal is to spread hope and joy in his songs to uplift people to speak the truth , "my influence is my parents and music for me also started because of the songs which played in church".    Joshua says, "he would like to locally  collaborate with Jimmy Nevis and also says he inspires him a lot and is also a fan of his music". Joshua loves to sing and rap and also plans on being unique and not like everyone else, Joshua Gabriel says” life isn’t easy”, he mentions “you should not rush things and be yourself”.   He mentions that it would be difficult to be in the music industry if you do not know who you are. He also says his songs are his words and says he makes music that relates to people and their feelings, further on he m...

Trevonne Jansen  known as TheJuice, currently studying at Cape Audio College. Music ran through his blood at a very young age. He wasn’t very seriously about taking his music seriously until three years ago. He says he has also had a passion to produce his own music, but never really had the right tools, but at a later stage he figured out that it was easy to record yourself. Ever since he keeps on pushing himself and believes his music is getting better and better. His interest for music all started at church where the band performed. He says his genre of music is versatile. Today recently released a new song called “Baby’boo”. To find the song you can visit 'SoundCloud' 'TheJuice' The music that he produces is just him expressing himself when he goes through things, and in the studio that’s where he normally opens himself up. He also says that an artist cannot always please people everybody who listen’s, because it’s impossible to please everybody. He say...