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AlibiThe Last Afternoon In The Garden E4: What About a Conviction?We go back to the communal garden one last time to reflect on everything that has happened. We seek out experts to try and explain the violence and we hopefully move steadily closer to a conviction…This is a four-part podcast series produced and presented by Paul McNally for Develop Audio. Visit their website at https://developaudio.co.za/Music was composed by John Bartmann. Mixing and Mastering by Danny Booysen. This series was made possible with the support of The Henry Nxumalo Foundation. Check out their work at https://henr...
2023-10-2340 min
AlibiThe Last Afternoon In The Garden E3: It’s a Dirty WarIn this third episode we are struck by incredible tragedy, but everyone involved pulls together, gets sensible and builds a strategy so they can win. We also get the opportunity to explore the other side of this story. This is a four-part podcast series produced and presented by Paul McNally for Develop Audio. Visit their website at https://developaudio.co.zaMusic was composed by John Bartmann. Mixing and Mastering by Danny Booysen. This series was made possible with the support of The Henry Nxumalo Foundation. Check out their work at htt...
2023-10-1628 min
AlibiThe Last Afternoon In The Garden E1: Fighting for waterAyanda Ngila was assassinated in the Ekhenana communal garden in Durban, South Africa, on the 8th of March, 2022. Ayanda was 30 years old and shot in broad daylight in the middle of the afternoon. He was fixing a water pipe in front of women and children and as he went down he yelled for people to take photos of the scene so the truth of his death could be known. Those are the words of a man who was expecting to be killed and was clearly at the center of a conflict that he imagined would end in his death.
2023-10-0230 min
Moments in South African HistoryFW de Klerk - Nobel laureateFormer South African president FW de Klerk who died at the age of 85 in Cape Town, was one of only four South Africans to receive the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize. De Klerk shared the award with his presidential successor, Nelson Mandela, in 1993 for ending apartheid and helping to create a new South Africa. Following the historic 1994 election, De Klerk became Mandela's deputy. But their rocky relationship saw him quit their Government of National Unity. During the Truth and Reconciliation Commission period, De Klerk apologised for the pain and suffering that apartheid had caused, but didn't go far enough for ever...
2021-11-1509 minMoments in South African HistoryFW de Klerk - 2 February 1992South Africa's last white president, FW de Klerk, who has died at the age of 85 in Cape Town, will be remembered for effectively ending apartheid and paving the way for constitutional negotiations. On the second of February 1990, De Klerk shocked everyone by unbanning anti-apartheid organisations, such as the ANC, and by announcing the release of the world's then-most famous prisoner, Nelson Mandela.
Credits: Angie Kapelianis, John Perlman, Danny Booysen and the SABC Media Libraries.
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2021-11-1105 min
Moments in South African HistoryFW de Klerk - The call for bloodThe National Party in the form of its leader, FW de Klerk, appeared before the Truth Commission in Cape Town in August 1996 and May 1997. De Klerk accepted responsibility for the wrongs in South Africa while he was president from 1989 to 1994. He admitted to authorising certain operations against the liberation movements. But those operations, said De Klerk, never included official permission to torture and murder activists. He also conceded that many repressive measures had contributed to human rights abuses during the apartheid era. But the lasting image of De Klerk at the Truth Commission soured almost everyone’s respect for the ma...
2021-11-1110 min
Moments in South African HistoryThe life of Nelson MandelaFormer President Nelson Mandela was South Africa’s first democratically elected Head of State. His five-year presidency from 1994 to 1999 was regarded as one of reconciliation by both black and white South Africans. The people’s president was revered the world over for his fight against apartheid and commitment towards liberating all South Africans. Through his principled stance on various issues, South Africa’s profile was enhanced internationally as a leading emerging democracy.
Credits: Angie Kapelianis, Danny Booysen, Denzil Taylor and the SABC Media Library
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2021-07-1817 min
Moments in South African HistoryNelson Mandela - The palette of his lifeNelson Mandela spent most of his life fighting the colour-based injustice of the apartheid system. But he also came to appreciate colour differences - not of the skin, but of his surroundings. The palette of his life was characterised by a range of shades, tones and hues. In this edited version of a speech that Mandela delivered in 2003, he recalled how colour informed, defined and transformed his life.
Credits: Angie Kapelianis, Chevon Erasmus and Danny Booysen
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2021-07-1808 minMoments in South African HistoryNelson Mandela - The voiceFormer president Nelson Mandela wasn't a brilliant orator like Winston Churchill, John F Kennedy, Martin Luther King or Barack Obama. But Mandela was one of the most quoted and influential people in the world. And he often got standing ovations without even saying a word. Such was the appreciation of his sacrifices, lack of retribution and commitment to democracy. When Mandela did speak, though, he measured his words, spoke confidently, and often disarmed everyone with his unique brand of humour. Angie Kapelianis highlights some of Nelson Mandela's classic sound bites in almost half a century from 1961 to 2009.
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2021-07-1812 minMoments in South African HistoryThe Soweto uprising 1976 - You kill one, you kill allThe South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s first-ever partial event hearing took place at the Regina Mundi Catholic Church in Soweto in mid-July 1996. The focus was the twentieth anniversary of the June 16 Soweto uprising – the day thousands of black children revolted against the apartheid system of Bantu Education and Afrikaans as the medium of instruction. All hell broke out when the police unleashed their dogs, tear gas and bullets on students armed with stones, knives and fire. The official cost a week later: more than a thousand injuries, 900 arrests and 140 corpses – the first being that of teenager Hector Peterson. He bec...
2021-06-1609 minMoments in South African HistoryDirk Coetzee - Till the day I dieHe was unknown to the Security Police at Vlakplaas near Pretoria until they were told to "make a plan" with him. Several banning orders, long days in detention and a spell on Robben Island had failed to break his spirit and crush his fight against apartheid. He was Griffiths Mxenge, the human rights lawyer who vigorously defended ANC comrades. So they abducted, stabbed and hammered him to death at Umlazi, south of Durban, in November 1981. Fifteen years later, in October 1996, three of Mxengeís awaiting-trial murderers appeared before the Amnesty Committee in Durban. They were Dirk Coetzee, Almond Nofemela a...
2021-04-1909 minMoments in South African HistoryWho killed the Cradock Four?They became known as the Cradock Four: Matthew Goniwe, Fort Calata, Sparrow Mkhonto and Sicelo Mhlauli. On the 27th of June 1985, these four men left the small Eastern Cape town of Cradock for a meeting of the United Democratic Front in Port Elizabeth. A few days later, their mutilated and charred bodies were found in the bush outside the city. Convicted Vlakplaas commander Colonel Eugene de Kock recalled that Goniwe's death was "the beginning of the end of apartheid". "Who killed Matthew Goniwe?" was a constant refrain for 13 years until February 1998, when a group of former security policemen finally...
2021-04-0908 minMoments in South African HistoryEugene de Kock - A thousand shades of greyThe media painted him as the arch-villain of the apartheid era and labelled him "Prime Evil". The Truth Commission singled him out as the man who broke the code of silence and forced security policemen to seek amnesty. He was Eugene de Kock, former commander of the Vlakplaas death squad, convicted murderer serving two life sentences and 212 years in jail for apartheid crimes, and amnesty applicant who helped convict former president PW Botha for contempt of the Truth Commission. Eugene de Kock waged war against liberation movements in Namibia, Zimbabwe and Angola in the seventies and eighties. When he...
2021-03-2905 minMoments in South African HistoryDoctor deathThe apartheid government’s top-secret Chemical and Biological Warfare Programme sealed the Truth Commission’s investigations into gross human rights abuses on the 31st of July 1998. South Africans and the world listened with disbelief and then shock to a group of doctors who perverted science to entrench white supremacy. Truth Commission Chairperson Desmond Tutu described the public testimony on the programme, code-named Project Coast, as "the worst evidence I’ve ever heard". Some of the apartheid scientists disclosed how they tried to produce a vaccine and a bacterium to sterilise and kill only black people. But the most disturbing allega...
2021-03-1709 minMoments in South African HistoryChris Hani - I believe in the causeOne incident that pushed South Africa to the brink of anarchy was the assassination of Communist Party leader Chris Hani. Millions loved him for his role in the ANC's armed wing, his militant speeches against white supremacy and his promise to uplift the poor. For these same reasons, apartheid supporters detested him. And on the 10th of April 1993, he was dead. Polish right-winger Janusz Walus and Conservative Party member Clive Derby-Lewis were sentenced to death, later commuted to life imprisonment, for murdering Chris Hani. When Derby-Lewis and Walus testified for amnesty in June and August 1997, they were forced to...
2021-03-0310 minMoments in South African HistorySteve Biko - The fatal blowThe Truth Commission was a bitter pill to swallow for the family of black consciousness leader Steve Bantu Biko. But it was even harder for them to accept when five former security policemen applied for amnesty in 1997 for "causing" Biko's death 20 years earlier. It seemed as if Biko's killers would finally tell the truth about how he suffered brain damage and died in detention. But when they appeared before the Amnesty Committee in September and December 1997, they again denied "killing" Biko. Harold Snyman, Daantjie Siebert, Rubin Marx, Johan Beneke and Gideon Nieuwoudt maintained that Biko's death was an "accident"...
2021-02-1508 minMoments in South African HistoryPW Botha - Salute me!Convicted former president PW Botha was the one crucial apartheid politician who could have shed more light on the official sanctioning of gross human rights violations. Botha chaired the State Security Council from 1978 to 1989. But instead of succumbing to the Truth Commission, Botha chose to face the court system for eight months and lost. George Magistrate Victor Lugaju found Botha guilty of contempt on the 21st of August 1998 for repeatedly ignoring subpoenas to testify in public. Lugaju said Botha’s failure to testify was unlawful, intentional and without sufficient cause. His sentence was a R10 000 fine or one year in...
2021-01-2506 minMoments in South African HistoryGeorge Bizos - A Matter of Life and DeathGeorge Bizos, Anti-Apartheid Activist and Human Rights Lawyer. Angie Kapelianis, interviewed Advocate Bizos at the Legal Resources Centre in Johannesburg on the 28th of May 2007, when his memoir, Odyssey to Freedom, was published.
Credits: Angie Kapelianis and Danny Booysen.
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2020-10-1326 min
The End of Apartheid - South Africa’s Human SpiritS3E13: worlds of licence - helenaBy February 1999, not one single woman in South Africa had publicly appeared before the Amnesty Committee. The Truth Commission's final report said only 56 of the estimated 7 000 amnesty applicants were known to be women. Also absent from the amnesty hearings were the voices of the mothers, wives, partners and daughters of the men who perpetrated gross human rights violations. In mid-1997, we received a letter from a woman wishing to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals and threats. She simply identified herself as "Helena, from the southern Lowveld of Mpumalanga". Angie Kapelianis turned her letter into a radio story with...
2020-10-1308 minMoments in South African HistoryAndrew Mlangeni - A snapshotAndrew Mlangeni was one of the ANC’s first MK members to be trained in communist China and to meet “Chairman Mao” in 1962. Back home, Mlangeni disguised himself as a priest to recruit others into the armed struggle and became known as “Robot”. In mid-1964, Mlangeni and seven other Rivonia trialists – including Denis Goldberg, “Kathy” Kathrada, Raymond Mhlaba and Elias Motsoaledi – were convicted of conspiring to overthrow the apartheid government by violent revolution. For that, Mlangeni was jailed for over 26 years. He only tasted freedom again at the age of 64 in late 1989. Here’s a snapshot of Andrew Mlangeni’s life … in his own voice.
2020-10-0207 min
Moments in South African HistoryNelson Mandela - The power of musicFormer president Nelson Mandela wasn't a brilliant orator like Winston Churchill, John F Kennedy, Martin Luther King or Barack Obama. But Mandela was one of the most quoted and influential people in the world. And he often got standing ovations without even saying a word. Such was the appreciation of his sacrifices, lack of retribution and commitment to democracy. When Mandela did speak, though, he measured his words, spoke confidently, and often disarmed everyone with his unique brand of humour. Angie Kapelianis highlights some of Nelson Mandela's classic sound bites in almost half a century from 1961 to 2009.
2020-08-2517 min
Moments in South African HistoryNelson Mandela - The brandNelson Mandela was an iconic brand and registered trademark. Mandela’s distinctive identity and values were regarded as a priceless, protected asset. At one stage, he was the second most widely recognised brand after Coca Cola. For the first time in 2009, business and consumers overwhelmingly named Mandela as their “favourite personality” in the Sunday Times Top Brands Survey. Psychologist Megan de Beyer said Mandela was the “selfless...super-hero”. He was inspirational in showing love and mercy instead of hatred and cynicism for his suffering. Michelle Constant and Monique Stander compiled this feature on “Brand Mandela”.
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2020-08-2514 min
Moments in South African HistoryNelson Mandela - a Jazz and Blues manAmerican philosopher and academic, Professor Cornel West, says former president Nelson Mandela was a “jazz and blues” man in South Africa's liberation struggle. West defines Mandela in terms of "the blue note". He says Mandela agonized and questioned in the struggle tradition. But just like jazz musicians, Mandela also provided a glimmer of hope for a whole generation.
Credits: Angie Kapelianis, Chevon Erasmus, Danny Booysen and the SABC Media Library
This reflection includes the music of Charles Mingus, Billie Holiday, the late Miriam Makeba, Mahalia Jackson, as well as Earth, Wind and Fire.
2020-08-2506 min
Moments in South African HistoryNelson Mandela - The value of sportFormer president Nelson Mandela believed that sport had the power to change and unite the world like little else. Mandela once said: Sport “is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers.” Although renowned as an amateur boxer, Mandela didn’t believe he was particularly talented. But his diligence and perseverance saw him succeed where many others would have given up. That and a touch of “Madiba Magic” are the legacies he's left for generations of athletes and sports fans. Janet Whitton looks at the power and value of sport in Nelson Mandela's life.
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2020-08-1708 min
Moments in South African HistoryNelson Mandela - AdmiredFormer president Nelson Mandela has left an indelible mark all over the world and in most people's hearts. Ordinary people single out his fight for freedom, lengthy imprisonment, lack of bitterness, political reforms and social advocacy as their main reasons for admiring him. Keith Sayster, Angie Kapelianis and Danny Booysen compiled this report, with contributions from some of the SABC's former foreign correspondents.
Credits: Keith Sayster, Angie Kapelianis, Danny Booysen, Thami Dickson, Page Kollock, Frank Ferro, Amina Accram and John Bailey.
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2020-08-1405 min
Moments in South African HistoryNelson Mandela and the AfrikanersFormer President Nelson Mandela bent over backwards to understand and embrace Afrikaans-speaking people. Mandela realised he would never be able to outmanoeuvre them politically unless he understood their mindset. Consequently, he developed a keen interest in their history, culture and language. He even studied their leaders and heroes, such as Koos de la Rey, Christiaan de Wet and Jan Smuts. So when the time came for Mandela to negotiate South Africa's democracy, he floored them with his knowledge and charm. Angie Kapelianis and Danny Booysen compiled this special report on Mandela and everything Afrikaans....
2020-08-1312 min
Moments in South African HistoryNelson Mandela votes for the first timeNelson Mandela was already 75 years old when he voted for the first time in his life on the 27th of April 1994. On that day, black and white South Africans were finally allowed to stand in the same queue to elect a government of their choice. Mandela's decision to vote at the Ohlange High School at Inanda, north of Durban, was historically and politically strategic. The school was founded by the ANC's first president and located in a province that had been torn apart by political violence between the ANC and the IFP. Mandla Zembe retraces some of Nelson Mandela's f...
2020-08-1209 min
Moments in South African HistoryNelson Mandela - The PresidencyNelson Mandela became South Africa's first democratically-elected president at the ripe age of 75 in May 1994. Mandela led South Africa's transition from apartheid to democracy in an unprecedented one-term in office until early 1999. He won international respect for advocating and practicing reconciliation. But he was criticized for not doing enough about empowerment, redress and HIV/Aids. Sya van der Walt highlights some of the hallmarks of Mandela's presidency.
Credits: Sya van der Walt, Angie Kapelianis, Danny Booysen and the SABC Media Libraries.
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2020-08-1106 min
Moments in South African HistoryNelson Mandela as member of parliamentFormer president Nelson Mandela briefly served as a Member of Parliament in 1994, following South Africa’s historic multi-racial elections. In fact, Mandela’s membership of the national legislature lasted only a few minutes because he was unanimously elected as South Africa’s new President. Nevertheless, he interacted regularly with the legislature, including the smaller opposition parties. Mercedes Besent reports.
Credits: Mercedes Besent , Angie Kapelianis and Danny Booysen.
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2020-08-1105 min
Moments in South African HistoryNelson Mandela's influence on the South African economyFormer president Nelson Mandela’s tireless efforts from 1994 boosted South Africa’s economy. Mandela and his ANC-led Government of National Unity inherited a bankrupt country following years of international sanctions against the previous apartheid government. During Mandela’s five-year term, the country’s Gross Domestic Product, measuring annual production, increased, on average, by almost three per cent. Moses Mlangeni and Angie Kapelianis compiled this special report on Mandela's contribution to Africa's largest economy.
Credits: Moses Mlangeni, Angie Kapelianis and Danny Booysen.
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2020-08-1118 min
Moments in South African HistoryNelson Mandela & AfricaChé Guevara, Amilcar Cabral, Agostinho Neto and Samora Machel. These are just some of the well-known freedom fighters with whom Nelson Mandela secretly trained in 1962 in northern Africa. There, they learnt the art of guerrilla warfare to liberate their countries. When Mandela was released from jail about 30 years later, he first revisited the continent to thank his African allies for their support and solidarity. Miranda Strydom and Angie Kapelianis compiled this feature on Mandela and Africa.
Credits: Miranda Strydom, Angie Kapelianis, Habs Habedi, Danny Booysen and the SABC Media Library
2020-07-3111 min
Moments in South African HistoryNelson Mandela - The Rivonia trialNelson Mandela was Accused Number One in the Rivonia Sabotage Trial at the Palace of Justice in Pretoria between October 1963 and June 1964. The Rivonia Trial is regarded as one of the most politically significant court cases in South Africa's history. During that eight-month trial, 45-year-old Mandela established himself as one of the country's foremost political figures. From the dock, he declared that he was prepared to die for a democratic and free South Africa. Sandra de Lange and Angie Kapelianis reflect on the Rivonia trial, its impact and significance.
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2020-07-3109 min
Moments in South African HistoryNelson Mandela - Mvezo 1918Former president Nelson Mandela had more in common with the old Broederbond, K.V.W, Sanlam and Stellenbosch University than met the eye. They were all born in South Africa in 1918. Mandela took his first breath at the rural village of Mvezo in the Eastern Cape on the 18th of July 1918. Angie Kapelianis looks at the village and year of Mandela's birth.
Credits: Angie Kapelianis and Danny Booysen
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2020-07-3005 min
Danny BooysenNelson Mandela and the Afrikaner - Finalist, best radio documentary, MTN Radio Awards 2014.(Extract)Nelson Mandela and the Afrikaner - Finalist, best radio documentary, MTN Radio Awards 2014. First broadcast on the SABC's english language radio station SAfm. Produced and presented by Angie Kapelianis. Production by Danny Booysen.
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2020-04-2412 minDanny BooysenSoweto 76 - You Kill One You Kill All!You kill one, you kill all! - From the CD: South Africa’s human spirit.The Soweto uprising, June 16, 1976. First broadcast on the SABC's english language radio station SAfm. Produced by Angie Kapelianis. Production by Danny Booysen.
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2020-04-2109 minDanny BooysenWoman in South African Prisons-Vroue Tronk. Winner, best documentary, Liberty Radio Awards 2018.Woman in South African Prisons - Vroue Tronk. Winner, best documentary, Liberty radio Awards 2018. First broadcast on the SABC's afrikaans language radio station RSG. Compiled and presented by Anita Visser. Production by Danny Booysen.
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2020-04-2114 minDanny BooysenThe Ndlovu Youth Choir's Journey(Extract) The Ndlovu Youth Choir's Journey was produced for RSG (Radio Sonder Grense), the afrikaans language radio station of the SABC. Scripted and narrated by Suzanne Paxton. Production by Danny Booysen.
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2020-03-1914 minDanny BooysenEnvironmental Roundup - Winner SAB Environmental Media and Environmentalist Awards 2019(Extract) Environmental Roundup. Winner, Audio Media Award (long form), South African Breweries Environmental Media and Environmentalist Awards 2019. First broadcast on the SABC's afrikaans language station RSG. Compiled and presented by Suzanne Paxton. Production by Danny Booysen.
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2020-03-1907 minDanny BooysenEnvironmental Roundup - Winner SANParks Kudu Award 2018(Extract) Environmental Roundup. Winner, South African National Parks - Media Contribution to Eco-tourism, radio category. First broadcast on the SABC's afrikaans language radio station RSG. Compiled and presented by Suzanne Paxton. Production by Danny Booysen.
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2020-03-1909 minDanny BooysenHelena's Letter - Winner Radio Category CNN African Journalist of The Year Award 1998.Helena's Letter - Winner Radio Category CNN African Journalist of The Year Award 1998. First broadcast on the SABC's english language radio station SAfm. Produced by Angie Kapelianis, Alet Joubert and Judith Lubbe. Introduction by Sally Burdett. Production by Danny Booysen.
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2020-03-1908 minDanny BooysenNelson Mandela's Soundtrack - Winner, best radio documentary, MTN Radio Awards 2014.(Extract) Nelson Mandela's soundtrack. Winner, best radio documentary, South African MTN Radio Awards 2014. First broadcast on the SABC's english language radio station SAfm. Produced by Michelle Constant, Monique Stander and Angie Kapelianis. Narration by Michelle Constant. Production by Danny Booysen.
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2020-03-1914 min
RSG Nuus & AktualiteitMonitorRSG — 2018 was 'n donker jaar wat betref omgewings-sake. Suzanne Paxton en Danny Booysen het 'n samestelling van, van die belangrikste kwessies wat die bewarings agenda oorheers het in 2018, en wat in 2019 voorlê…
2019-01-0713 min
ARCDe BijbelLike our country, many of us in South Africa have complicated histories. Our ancestral backgrounds are almost always a mix contradicting the simple apartheid era classifications of Indian, black, white and colored. For many of us, these classifications are simply not enough, we need to know where we're coming from, so we're able to move on. In this story, Candice Nolan tries to find the answers she is looking for by looking in an old bible. This episode was written and arranged by Candice Nolan and produced by Danny Booysen. Sound Africa is supported by the Open Society Foundation’s Pr...
2018-09-0538 min