Push Forward #16days

Over the next three weeks, the Bush Radio – Sakhisizwe team will be doing a series of outside broadcasts from various organisations that work hard to combat gender based violence and provide support to the communities they serve. Tune into Bush Radio daily for the broadcasts and how you can support their work as we bring the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence into focus.

The organisations Bush Radio will be broadcasting from:

• Sisters Incorporated
• Athlone District Advice Office
• Gender Dynamix
• Whole World Women Association
• Mitchells Plain Network Opposing Abuse
• NACOSA
• Mitchells Plain Advice Office
• Molo Songololo
• Rape Crisis
• Sonke Gender Justice
• Triangle Project
• Langa For Men
• Women’s Legal Centre
• Malihambe Women Outreach

Speak up…

SPEAK UP….

A Bush Radio Talk Show (with music produced by South Africans)

Trevor Davids and Geoff Mamputa will run a new limited edition radio talk show on Bush Radio especially produced for the 16-Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence. The programme creates a space for conversations that would promote healing and behavioral change among men.

While both men and women can be victims of violence, violence against women, often at the hands of men, is a unique category of violence that is embedded in the historical and current unequal balance of power between men and women.

Violence against women is the crucial element that reinforces men’s power and control over women throughout . On some level, most of us participate in the culture that supports and encourages violence against women and girls, sometimes in small ways (like telling our friends to “man up” when they have to do something difficult)

Speak Up seeks to be a space where men feel drawn in, understood and at home as well as inspired to be their best selves and take action.

Many men are afraid of speaking up because they are afraid of being marginalised and of being excluded from groups of men.

Speaking up can come with costs and can jeopardize men’s social status and position, which causes many men to abandon their values and keep quiet rather than speak up and take action.

Speak Up will find and stand with men who want to make a difference and Speak Up will strive to serve by providing tools and skills to take action.

1st Broadcast: Wed 25 November @ 7pm

2nd Broadcast: Wed 2 December @ 7pm

Final Broadcast: Wed 9 December @ 7pm

Tune in to Bush Radio 89.5FM in Cape Town or worldwide online.

You can now download the official Bush Radio app on Google Play.

Get tickets for Wayne McKay’s new show

Why? Because we have to #16days

The first 7 days of our outside broadcast marathon for 16 Day of Activism is complete but it wasn’t without hitches. First our only outside broadcast laptop crashed – a day before our campaign started – but thanks to CapeTown Tweeple who retweeted our call for help, Professor Johannes Cronje from CPUT donated his laptop.

Then one of our venues in Hanover Park had no functioning telephone line but the Auntie across the road stepped in and let us use her telephone line!

Unfortunately, our appeals and proposals to national, local government and corporates for support have gone unheeded.

If you would like to support this or any Bush Radio project; through advertising, sponsorship or donations; please contact Brenda Leonard on 021 448 5450 or brenda@bushradio.co.za

No time for Silence

As part of Bush Radio’s 16 days of activism campaign (25th November – 10th December 2010) we have planned a series of outside broadcasts from various organisations around Cape Town.

Tune into Sakhisizwe on 89.5 FM or online every weekday from 12h00 during the 16 Days of Activism.  (see schedule below)

The objectives of the outside broadcasts are to:

• raise awareness on the 16 days of activism campaign
• highlight the work of your NGO, CBO or place of safety
• highlight the activities planned for the 16 days of activism campaign and mobilise listeners to support these activities

Let’s break the silence and put an end to abuse.

The Outside Broadcast schedule for the 16 days of Activism:

25 Nov – Simelela Centre & Rape Crisis, Khayelitsha

26 Nov – Sizakuyenza, Khayelitsha

29 Nov – Saartjie Baartman Centre, Athlone

30 Nov – Philisa Abafazi Bethu, Lavender Hill

01 Dec – SACTWU, Salt River

02 Dec – Gender and Youth Network, Hanover Park

03 Dec – Mitchells Plain Network Opposing Abuse, Mitchells Plain

06 Dec – Ons Plek, Cape Town CBD

07 Dec – Women’s Legal Centre, Cape Town CBD

08 Dec – Women’s Circle, Delft

09 Dec – Triangle Project, Mowbray

10 Dec – Sisters Incorporated, Kenilworth