Lifeplayer in a Cape Town Township School
by Deborah Torrington Imbasa Primary, a government school, lies at the heart of the high density township of Old Crossroads. It’s just 20 minutes from the skyscrapers of Cape Town’s city...
An Unlikely Friendship: Remembering Feroza Adam – Activist and Treasured Friend
Kristine Pearson shares a deeply personal story of her friendship with South African women’s leader and ANC activist, Feroza Adam
The Lifeplayer Goes Live in Cape Town Township
Crossroads is a sprawling township within view of Cape Town International Airport. The contrast between the two couldn’t be starker. The airport: clean, slick and efficient, rated as one of the top...
Lifeplayers Come to Life in South African Schools
“I am truly happy to have this Lifeplayer to help me teach. While one class is listening to their lessons, I can be with learners in another class,” a teacher at a multi-grade farm school in South...
South Africa’s Newest Teacher is Called the “Blue Lady”
Beeld, one of South Africa’s daily Afrikaans newspapers, recently ran a feature on the introduction of our MP3 Lifeplayers into South African classrooms. The country’s Department of Basic...
A Radio Station Lives on Because of their Dedicated Listeners
Karen du Toit, Afrikaans Archivist in the SABC Radio Archives, for World Radio Day, 2013 Springbok Radio, a former radio station of the South African Broadcasting Corporation in South Africa, closed...
