Radio for Peacebuilding Africa recently awarded CMFD's six-part serial drama Crossroads winner of the Radio for Peacebuilding Africa Awards Special Category.
On Saturday, November 28 CMFD participated in the annual Take Back the Night march, organised as part of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence. Over 200 women and men took to the streets of Hillbrow, chanting, singing and dancing to let people know that South Africa's streets should be a place women and girls feel safe to walk - no matter what time of day!
Phansi global warming, phansi! Viva, clean energy, viva!
On September 10 CMFD participated in a climate change demonstration organised by the Sustainable Energy and Climate Change Partnership in Johannesburg.
They were getting ready for the big game. He sounded the warning, but they thought he was joking. And when it happened, they risked losing it all! As the waters rise, so do the treachery, conflicts and dangers. Ride the rapids of love and hatred, greed and honour. Follow the lives of a community torn apart by an event completely beyond their control!
Bravos do Zambeze (‘Zambezi Braves’) is a multi-faceted initiative that combines a high quality 26-episode radio drama with training for community radio journalists, in order to convey information around disaster risk reduction and build local capacity for reporting on disasters and climate change. The project was produced by CMFD for the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), as part of the UN Delivering as One, Joint Programme on Disaster Risk Reduction Project.
A young women returns home to find her village in the midst of a delicate transformation. Then her young brother's disappearance starts a chain of events that turns her whole world upside down. Step into a world of unseen dangers, feel the pain of passion, and find love in the most unlikely places. Welcome to VilaPisa Bem!
As part of the initiative to deal with the continuing landmine problem facing Mozambique, especially for those living in rural areas, the serial radio drama seeks to raise awareness, disseminate information and encourage safe behaviours in landmine contaminated regions. It also aims to increase awareness of the Mine Ban Treaty and Mozambique's deadline to remove all anti-personnel mines by 2014, and encourage people to push government to meet the deadline.
Musicians from Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe put xenophobia on the cultural agenda in a musical initiative to get people talking about discrimination. South Africa, especially Johannesburg, is home to thousands of foreign Africans. Some are refugees, fleeing persecution and seeking asylum; others are looking for work and a better life. Many find that life is not what they expected. They face discrimination from government services, harassment by police and degrading treatment from people, whether in the taxis, schools, shops or streets. Initiated by CMFD and supported by MMINO, the musicians worked with migrants and young people to create four songs that get to the heart of the matter.
When a market trader becomes frustrated with the local police inspector who is more interested in lining his pockets than finding her missing daughter, a magic drink provided by the local alcohol brewer causes the trader and police inspector to switch bodies. Each has the opportunity to see how the other gender lives! - with hilarious results and eye-opening perspectives. All the while, the search for the missing woman continues - will she be found in time?
Crossroads is an exciting new six episode serial radio drama exploring issues related to the African Union Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa. Created to a high quality broadcast standard, each 20 minute episode delivers adventure and intrigue, as well as subtly interwoven messages around women's rights.
As part of efforts to combat violence against women and promote human rights, Community Media for Development/CMFD Productions and the Johannesburg-based Mozambican youth group Alertos da Vida - with funding from the Global Fund for Women - releases an Afro-Jazz compilation, Humbanane. Produced by Daniel Walter, and with contributions from some of Southern Africa’s most well-known musicians, including Feya Faku, Louis Mhlanga, Mhlingisi Gegana, Jackee and Clement Benny, as well as some of Southern Africa’s rising stars - Alertos da Vida - the CD will be launched soon.
