
It is no secret that Christianity is a religion that was enforced on Africans due to colonization. Father Oupa Matseke is among a new generation of black African religious leaders whose travels to countries like Tanzania, where African traditional religion and Christianity are embraced in co-existence, inspired him to learn more about how this can be emulated in his home country of South Africa where Christians are more conservative and do not easily embrace the marriage between African traditional religion and Christianity.
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Jul 1, 2021
16 min

Families with young children living with autism in SA, don't always receive the services and support that they need. Kgathi Mabuya, Principal of Mohato School for Autism in Naledi, Soweto took on the challenge of working to educate families and communities about autism through leading the first school for autistic children in Naledi. Mabuya has spent 16 years teaching children with special needs.
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Jun 24, 2021
22 min

In our episode this week, Nkomo Wa Maphike sits down with the Founder and Director of Word on the Street, Itumeleng Selepe to chat about his mission to help rehabilitate drug users while challenging drug and substance abuse among SA’s young and adult men and women. We tap into Selepe’s personal journey after 10 years of drug use and take a look into how the world as he continues to grow the movement.
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Jun 17, 2021
34 min

This week, Nkomo Wa Maphike sits down with Matseleng Mogodi, the Director of ‘I Get It Now’, a mental health awareness program and founder of Snooks Estates. Matseleng chats about what urged her to start driving awareness around mental health, the triggers and how to facilitate having a healthier mental state while facing off with the challenges that life brings daily.
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Jun 10, 2021
29 min

The recent insurgency in Mozambique and the ongoing conflict between Israeli and Palestinian nationals has led us to reflect on the work that needs to be done to challenge the leadership of countries wherein there is conflict displacing citizens and depriving them of a healthy community and general human rights. This week, Nkomo Wa Maphike chats with Jacob Skhosana, the Director of Jesuit Refugee Services South Africa. Skhosana talks about working to create safe havens for migrants and refugees and the challenge of xenophobia in the work he does.
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Jun 7, 2021
35 min

**Trigger Warning sexual assault and rape is mentioned in the episode**
Ahead of Child Protection Week which officially begins on May 30 in South Africa, Nkomo Wa Maphike chats with Amelia Zulu, the Project Manager of Kagcisham Kids Project, a Clinical Psychologist and founder of Kagcisham Women Development Centre, about the work she does with children through Kagcisham Kids Project based in Protea South, Soweto and the inspiration behind her altruistic work. Zulu's time spent working with families and children through the Protea Glen SAPS further encouraged her to centre herself in the community to help mentor the young boys and girls who are vulnerable to pregnancy, violence and dropping out of school due to influences from their community.
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May 27, 2021
31 min

In this week's episode, we travel to Bertrams in central Johannesburg where Nkomo Wa Maphike meets with the Founder of Bertrams Inner City Farm, Refiloe Molefe whose passion for farming helps her feed Johannesburg's poor community. She has over the years enlisted the help of youth living and studying in the area to help grow her farm into the business it is today with various fruits, vegetables, and food items made from the farm produce, now sold.
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May 20, 2021
16 min

In our episode this week, Nkomo Wa Maphike sits down with the Co-founder of Water for The Future, Romy Stander to chat about the process of restoring the river and how she ended up co-leading this major project in the heart of Johannesburg.
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May 14, 2021
30 min

In our episode this week, Nkomo Wa Maphike sits down with the Founder of The Pink Room, Mandisa Jiyane to chat about the healing work that she's been able to do for teenagers through the organisation being planted at schools across Johannesburg East. We tap into the journey so far and how she keeps her fighting spirit in the name of creating a safer society for young people.
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May 7, 2021
37 min

In this week’s episode, we travel to Kliptown in Soweto where Nkomo Wa Maphike chats with the Founder of the Soweto Kliptown Youth (SKY) NPO, Bob Nameng. Nameng's experience working in the NPO sector started with the Jabu and Bob Youth Club (J and B Youth Club) which later led to the birth of SKY, an organisation that works to empower the community of Kliptown, beyond its youth. He talks through the role of girls and women in leading social change for a new dawn.
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Apr 30, 2021
28 min
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