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In this week's episode we chat about double standards and hypocrisy. This week people definitely tried J so we decided to take the time to talk through his frustrations in a recorded vent session. Check on your people Sisonke fam. You never know what people are going through. We out here breaking generational cycles that state that men keep their feelings and thoughts in. #LetsTalkAboutIt #SisonkeFam #SisonkeNationConnect with us on Instagram @sisonkepodcast or email us at sisonkepodcast@gmail.com 

Sisonke Msimang interviews Barbara Masekela about her memoir Poli Poli. Barbara remembers her childhood home with her grandmother and honours her generation of Black women. She contextualises her family's life in the history of dispossession, mobility, apartheid and reflects on her exile in the U.S. and transatlantic cultural ties. Barbara also mentions her friendship with the late Keorapetse “Bra Willie” Kgositsile, who is celebrated in episode four of this season. Sisonke Msimang is the author of two books: Always Another Country: A memoir of exile and home, and The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela.  She has written essays and articles for a range of international press, and she works as a curator and storyteller. Sisonke is also a member of the board of PEN South Africa.   Barbara Masekela is a South African poet, educator, mother, and activist. She has served as ambassador to the United States and France, and has held various executive and non-executive directorships, including at Standard Bank, the South African Broadcasting Corporation and De Beers. Her memoir Poli Poli was published by Jonathan Ball in 2021. She lives in Johannesburg. In this episode we are in solidarity with academic and activist Dr Abduljalil Al-Singace. You can read more about his case here: https://www.pen-international.org/news/free-dr-abduljalil-al-singace As tributes to Dr Al-Singace, Barbara reads an extract from Margaret Walker's “For My People” and Sisonke shares a quote about courage from Maya Angelou. This podcast series is made possible by a grant from the U.S. Embassy in South Africa to promote open conversation and highlight shared histories.

Have you ever wanted to be a author? well now could be your best chance. Tod spoke with Sisonke Msimang who is a South African writer, activist and political analyst based in Perth  Western Australia, whose focus is on race, gender and politics. Sisonke is the Litrature and Ideas curator for the Perth Festival. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Supporters of the national sex workers' movement Sisonke demonstrated outside the Johannesburg magistrate's courts on Tuesday to call for the urgent decriminalisation of the industry ahead of the first appearance of a 21-year-old suspect accused of killing six women believed to be sex workers.   Sisonke spokesperson Katlego Rasebitse said the murders of the women was a “massacre”. Rasebitse said the killing of sex workers would continue if the decriminalisation of the industry was further delayed by law makers.

The David Gresham Record Company (David Gresham Records) together with the SAMPRA (South African Music Performance Rights Association) Development Fund are excited to announce the “Sisonke Creator Tour to Amsterdam” taking place in The Netherlands between the 18th and 22nd of October 2022. David Gresham Records will be taking three top talents to the event to write, produce and perform alongside the world's finest artists. The Company will be taking singer and songwriter, Zinah as well as producers Sloani and Josi Chavé to the Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE), where they will be taking part in songwriting sessions with some of the world's most famous record labels and publishing companies. Zinah and Josi Chavé will also be performing at a showcase during their time at the event. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/davidgreshampodcast/message

Can one ever get enough of the incisive commentary of South African author, essayist and commentator Sisonke Msimang? I hosted her on this edition of In The Ring to explore aspects of the social and cultural impact of Queen Elizabeth II.I started off by asking Sisonke whether she would like an opportunity to mourn the Queen. I wonder what you will make of her response? It was uhm #AwksWe explored a range of questions and issues, among them: the script of Empire, including "respectability and decorum" issues that Msimang explains as problematic in some of the responses to the death of the Queen; whether jocular responses, including the meme-ification of the monarchy, are acceptable or not; hypocritical tropes in how some Brits respond to their monarchy compared to the judgemental gaze of similar traditions elsewhere; whether or not the Queen is directly culpable for aspects of imperialism or 'merely' a beneficiary of unjust historical events; the place of monarchies in modern democracies; etc.Enjoy! 

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Sisonke Msimang fought hard to find a home. She was born in exile, the daughter of a freedom fighter who had fled South Africa during apartheid.

Professor Glenda Gray, the lead author of the Sisonke study, speaks to Refilwe Moloto about the findings have been published in the New England Journal of Medicine earlier this month. The Sisonke study has contributed globally to data on both safety and effectiveness even against current variants of concern and forms the backbone of the roll-out of the Ad26.COV.2 vaccine. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Guest: Prof Glenda Gray  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sisonke Msimang joined me to debate whether or not, when his legacy is properly considered, Archbishop Desmond Tutu can be located along the spectrum of Black Radical Thought. Msimang argues that not only is Tutu undeniably radical in his racial politics, but that we should also push back against notions of non-racialism that wrongly associate the doctrine with colourblindness and polite politics. Tutu's allyship on the question of same-sex love and relationships shows his intersectional politics within the church, itself a manifestation of his radicalism.I also explored with Sisonke what the achivements and limitations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission were, and how much of the shortcomings are to be  attributed to Tutu as such and how much of our incomplete justice project is to be blamed on the failures of the democratic state and other non-state actors. We ended off by exploring the fullness of Tutu's humanity, how his personal biography tracks the biography of the country and, lastly, why we should stop having existential crises about the moral giants of yesteryear no longer being with us, and rather embracing our generation's moral challenges by taking seriously our own agentive powers to complete the justice project. 

Co-lead investigator on the Sisonke study, Professor Linda-Gail Bekker, speaks to Refilwe Moloto about the distressingly low uptake of vaccinations by healthcare workers as the fourth wave of infections looms. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Guest: Prof Linda - Gail Bekker | Head Of The Desmond Tutu Hiv Centre at UCT The School of Public Health sent a letter to the Minister of Health asking why healthcare professionals could only receive booster shots of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine through Sisonke's research. Africa is joined by Dr. Linda-Gail Bekker to talk about the purpose of COVID-19 Booster Shots. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Administration of the Sisonke COVID-19 booster dose aimed at healthcare workers, which was delayed on Monday due to technical glitches, is expected to start today. Healthcare workers were the first group of people that were vaccinated in South Africa under the Sisonke Programme, which was a collaboration between the National Department of Health and other health professionals. The South African Medical Association - SAMA - maintains that the rollout of the vaccine booster shots to healthcare workers is of utmost importance. For more on this here is chairperson of SAMA, Dr. Angelique Coetzee...

Healthcare workers are due to receive a booster COVID-19 shot from next month as part of the second phase of the Sisonke vaccine trial.

Guest: Professor Marc Blockman | Senior Specialist In The Division Of Clinical Pharmacology At Uct John is joined by Professor Marc Blockman to discuss the issues that surround the SAMRC application to the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) to consider a J&J booster to follow the Sisonke Study. Close to 500 000 healthcare workers in SA have received the vaccine as part of the Sisonke trial, which was launched in mid-February this year. Professor Marc Blockman engages in research with The SA Medical Research Council's Bioethics Advisory Panel on the Sisonke Trial.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

While my current investigation/research is taking a bit longer than normal, here's an interview I did with Yonela Sinqu, the communications officer at Sisonke, the National Sex Workers Movement in South Africa. We talk about why they advocate for decriminalisation (rather than legalisation), as well as getting into some of the discrimination and violence sex workers face. A study by the South African Media Research Council recently found that 71% of women sex workers said they had been exposed to physical violence and 58% said they had been raped. One in seven of the 3005 women surveyed reported being raped by a policeman. This puts sex workers at astronomically higher risk of violence, and then they must deal with stigma on top of that. My own personal belief is that sex work is work, and that those who work in the space deserve the same protections and rights as any other worker, as any other human.  For more, visit www.sweat.org.za. Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

莫德納疫苗最終分析：可維持至少6個月高防護力 https://www.cna.com.tw/news/firstnews/202108060005.aspx 美國製藥廠莫德納今天表示，旗下COVID-19疫苗可維持很強的防護力至少6個月；另外，公司正在測試、專門針對變異株的追加疫苗，也可對Delta病毒產生「強勁」抗體反應。 法新社報導，公司進行最後階段的第3期臨床試驗最終分析時發現，莫德納（Moderna）COVID-19（2019冠狀病毒疾病）疫苗在施打完第2劑的6個月後，仍展現出93%的防護效力。 另外，公司也對3種不同的COVID-19追加疫苗進行臨床實驗，發現它們全都能對原本的冠狀病毒株和Delta等高關注變異株（variants of concern）產生高濃度抗體。Delta變異株最早是在印度被發現。 執行長班塞爾（Stephane Bancel）發布聲明表示：「我們很滿意我們的COVID-19疫苗能在6個月內維持93%的持久效力，但我們承認Delta變種病毒構成顯著的新威脅，所以我們必須保持警覺。」 嬌生疫苗南非47萬人三期出爐！預防致死達96.2%、對Delta變種保護力71% https://store.gbimonthly.com/Article/Detail/60381 美國時間6日，嬌生(Johnson&Johnson)的單劑新冠疫苗Ad26.COV2.S，其在南非進行、超過47.7萬名醫療工作者參與的臨床三期試驗結果出爐。該研究共同負責人Glenda Gray表示，此疫苗不僅可以有效預防新冠重症，對抗Delta變異株的防止感染保護力可達到71%。 這項臨床三期試驗名為「Sisonke」，從2月中旬開始、在今年5月完成，共納入477,234名南非的醫療工作者。研究團隊成員表示，單劑嬌生疫苗的預防致死率可達91%到96.2%，達到主要試驗終點；而針對新冠變種的避免感染防護力，對Beta變異株為67%，對Delta變異株為71%。 許多研究針對新冠疫苗對高傳染性的Delta變異株的防護力提出質疑、提出追加施打(booster shot)的建議，嬌生疫苗也不例外。今年6月甚至有傳染病專家認為，接種過嬌生疫苗的人，應該再接種輝瑞(Pfizer)/BioNTech或Moderna疫苗，不過Gray對此表示，數據尚不支持嬌生疫苗必須追加施打。 這項臨床試驗的成果，對於南非來說是個好消息，因為當地的疫苗接種計畫進展並不順利。今年2月，南非政府基於阿斯特捷利康(AstraZeneca, AZ)對當時主要流行的Beta變異株，在輕至中度症狀的保護力不足，因而停止AZ疫苗的接種，這使得南非的疫苗接種在2月起變得不穩定。 此外，南非在今年4月批准了嬌生疫苗的使用，並和輝瑞(Pfizer)/BioNTech的新冠疫苗，一起投入國家疫苗接種計畫。但是，在今年4月美國提出考量罕見血栓問題、暫停施打嬌生疫苗後，南非也暫停了嬌生疫苗的使用。 現在，南非新任衛生部長Joe Phaahla表示，他們將預計納入其他新冠疫苗加入接種計畫，包括科興(Sinovac)疫苗；此外，在AZ疫苗已經證明對Delta變種有效後，也可能重新納入AZ疫苗加入施打。目前南非已經接種了超過830萬人。 混打疫苗可行嗎？AZ混打輝瑞/BNT AZ混打莫德納等等 https://linshibi.com/?p=39613 給長輩的AZ疫苗懶人包 https://linshibi.com/?p=39590 高端 聯亞 國產疫苗懶人包 第二期結束就緊急授權可行嗎？ https://linshibi.com/?p=39547 新冠快篩懶人包 普篩 抗體快篩 抗原快篩 https://linshibi.com/?p=36564 新冠肺炎疫情下的防疫須知 常見問題解答FAQ https://linshibi.com/?p=35408 新冠疫苗常見問題懶人包 https://linshibi.com/?p=38945 林氏璧醫師的電子名片 https://lit.link/linshibi 歡迎贊助我喝咖啡 https://pay.firstory.me/user/linshibi Powered by Firstory Hosting

Guest: Prof Linda-Gail Bekker, deputy director of the UCT-based Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation. The Delta variant continues to spread all over the world and breakthrough infections are reportedly occurring among vaccinated people. In some countries, there are increasing calls for the need to provide people who were vaccinated some time back with a booster dose of the vaccine. To find out about breakthrough infections with the first people in South Africa to be vaccinated under the Sisonke Trial, we speak to Prof Linda Gail Bekker, director of UCT's Desmond Tutu HIV Centre and co-principal lead of the trial. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

South Africa, like most countries across the globe, continues to criminalize sex work under the Sexual Offences Act drafted during the apartheid period. Sex workers therefore continue to be insecure and at risk of encountering violence and harassment by both the police and clients. Let alone stigma when they seek public healthcare services. Not to mention, how the Covid-19 pandemic has worsened the situation for them. Sara Soumaya Abed, a fellow at the ALC, reflects on how two South African sex workers-led organizations, SWEAT and Sisonke, respond to the Covid-19 pandemic. Audio clips: eNCA

Sisonke Msimang on exile and home, hatred and belonging. You can find out more about Sisonke, her recent book Always Another Country, and her other writing here.

As of Tuesday, South Africa had vaccinated over one million people under the Sisonke drive and the Pfizer vaccine rollout. But over 60's are still waiting weeks for their sms after registering on the electronic vaccination database system (EVDS) and there are reports of people just walking into sites and getting the jab abound. This as the country's J&J rollout has been delayed due to possible contamination with AstraZeneca ingredients feedstock in Baltimore. So what is going on and being done to ramp the country's daily vaccination rate above the 100,000 vaccinations per day needed to vaccinate the over 60 population by the end of June? Michael Avery spoke to Dr Nicholas Crisp, deputy director-general (DG) in the national Department of Health (DOH) – who is also in charge of the EVDS Stavros Nicolaou, who heads the Business for SA (B4SA) health working group, and Professor Alex van den Heever, chair in the field of Social Security Systems Administration and Management Studies at the Wit's School of Governance.

Guest: Nathan Geffen | Editor at Ground Up Writing in the Daily Maverick today, GroundUp editor, Nathan Geffen, and his co-author, Marcus Low, say that when taking into account the Sisonke study and several other clinical trials, somewhere in the region of 700,000 people have now been vaccinated in South Africa. But they say that the country has to scale up quickly and that the government's Electronic Vaccination Data System represents a significant bottleneck in the administration of vaccinations. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Chairperson of Unity Forum for Family Practitioners, Dr Norman Mabasa takes a look at the country's preparations for the next phase, the progress made in vaccinating healthcare workers through the Sisonke implementation study and on how the Electronic Vaccine Data System has been received by the public See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Western Cape Health MEC NomaFrench Mbombo speaks to Refilwe Moloto about allegations that ordinary citizens are jumping the vaccination queues meant for healthcare workers as part of the Sisonke trial. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Netcare Group says there's been an influx of healthcare workers arriving to be vaccinated at its St Augustine's Hospital in Durban as the Sisonke programme comes to a close.

In Visible Ink is a Museum of Freedom and Tolerance endeavour that makes visible the invisible. Through sharing and amplifying stories, histories, art, conversations and projects that inspire people to see differently, it aims to make changes towards a more just world. The Black Lives Matter movement transformed global consciousness in 2020, bringing questions relating to the stories we make visible in our civic and popular culture to the fore as statues and monuments around the world tumbled. In solidarity with the protests, the names of some of the hundreds of Indigenous people who have died in custody were projected on a landmark sculpture in Walyalup (Fremantle) during 2020, bringing into focus place, visibility, history and the resonance of the BLM movement in Western Australia, the state with the largest number of Indigenous deaths in custody. To launch our 2021 In Visible Ink Symposium, we convened conversations around the themes of deconstruction and reconstruction of visual and civic culture. This dynamic panel discussion on the reconstruction and reclamation of sidelined cultural identities through subverting music, fashion, design and pop culture and features speakers (biographies below): Chaired by Sisonke Msimang Chris Luu Isaac Garang Luel de Kuek Rhys Paddick Join the Museum of Freedom and Tolerance and special guests on a multi-sensory journey as we provoke our audience to question the visibility of dominant civic and cultural landscapes and landmarks, learn how to see differently, and actively seek a fairer and more just approach to systemic racism, discrimination, incarceration and inequality. Speaker biographies: Sisonke Msimang (Chair) is the author of Always Another Country: A memoir of exile and home and The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela. She is a South African writer whose work is focussed on race, gender and democracy. She has written for a range of international publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Guardian, Newsweek, Bloomberg, and Al Jazeera. Sisonke has held fellowships at Yale University, the Aspen Institute and the Bellagio Centre. She is currently a fellow at the WISER Institute, at the University of the Witwatersrand.Chris Luu grew up in Perth, Australia where he landed his first post-University job as an Architect. He then went onto studying Creative Advertising and Graphic Design. He currently works as an Art Director at Johannes Leonardo (New York City) where he has been awarded numerous global accolades including the prestigious D&AD Pencil. Outside of work Chris skates for Vans Australia. He is also a skateboard historian, photographer, artist, tinkerer and won’t-stop maker. She is the Curator of the Literature and Ideas Festival. Isaac Garang is a designer of South Sudanese background currently based in Perth. His primary platform for self expression is the clothing brand, IXIII (pronounced I X Three). See the ixiii store here. Luel de Kuek is a freelance graphic and product designer. He strives to use his art to tell as many stories to as many people as possible, as art has an intrinsic and boundless nature to cross artificial boundaries of skin, colour or creed. Rhys Paddick is an Aboriginal educator, presenter and artist. As a content creator, Rhys has created a niche market of Australian Aboriginal wholesome memes on Instagram page @the_wholesome_yamatji. Rhys has consulted with various organisations to help spread their messages using effective and Aboriginal relevant captions, memes, graphics and humour.

April 27th is a significant date for two countries on the African continent, separated by more than 5,000 km across the Atlantic ocean. On this day, both Sierra Leone and South Africa celebrate emancipation from minority rule. For Sierra Leone, it was becoming freed from the British in 1961, and for South Africa, the end of apartheid in 1994, some several decades later.  The period between the moment of emancipation and the contemporary moment marking it has arguably become consequential for considering both country's fates. In Sierra Leone, that period has been longer as the idea of freedom was at the core of Sierra Leone's founding over two hundred years ago, and the contestation over the meaning of that concept shaped its political trajectory since. The capital, Freetown, was first founded in the late eighteenth century by British abolitionists. This would set up a unique relationship between Sierra Leone and the British empire. The colony sat at the head of the British colonial administration in West Africa, with a “westernized” black population fit to fill the ranks of the bureaucracy in its colonizing project. A negotiated independence, won without mass struggle, would leave the work of decolonization incomplete, and a series of coups and military dictatorships, would culminate in a devastating civil war between 1991 and 2002. Following that, Sierra Leone took on another epochal mark, becoming a “post-conflict state.” Other than a brief re-appearance to the world as one of the hardest hit places during the Ebola epidemic between 2013 and 2016, plus a general election in 2018, there has been little interest from the international media to https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A618529&dswid=-848 (go deeper) into what's behind either the https://africasacountry.com/location/sierra-leone (successes and failures) of the Sierra Leonean national project. In South Africa, the fascination has often gone the other way—focusing on the country's  supposed peace. Indeed, the post-apartheid transition period when the African National Congress (ANC) spearheaded negotiations with the National Party are touted as remarkable for avoiding a collapse into civil war. But South Africa is extremely violent. As Africa Is A Country contributing editor Sisonke Msimang recently wrote for https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/democracy/nongolozas-ghost (Lapham's Quarterly), “After the historic 1994 elections that installed the ANC as the ruling party, there were hopes that the violence would end. Murders and rapes decreased in the years that immediately followed, but violent crime remained high. The gruesome statistics have once again begun to rise.” And while the mainstream South African media likes to portray this violence as cultural pathology, it too arises from deeper social and political realities, being most pronounced when citizens confront the post-apartheid state on its failures.  In this week's episode of AIAC Talk we're asking what liberation comes after independence. We are joined by Sisonke Msimang, Oluwaseun Babalola, and Ishmael Beah. https://www.sisonkemsimang.com/ (Sisonke) is a South African writer whose work is focused on race, gender, and democracy, and on top of writing for a range of international publications, she is the author of Always Another Country: A memoir of exile and home and The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela (2018). https://www.obabalola.com/ (Oluwaseun) is a Sierra Leonean-Nigerian-American filmmaker; she founded DO Global Productions, a video production company specializing in documentaries. Her focus is to create and collaborate on projects across the globe, while providing positive representation for people of color; and https://www.ishmaelbeah.com/ (Ishmael), born in Sierra Leone, is the New York Times bestselling author ofhttps://ishmaelbeah.com/books/a-long-way-gone/ ( A Long Way Gone, Memoirs of a Boy Soldier)...

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Two women from South Africa and Australia discuss ‘toxic masculinity' with Kim Chakanetsa. How can we raise boys to be in touch with their emotions and to become men who respect women? Clementine Ford is an Australian feminist whose books Fight Like A Girl and Boys Will Be Boys challenge traditional gender stereotyping. She regularly receives death and rape threats from people who accuse her of being a man-hater. She actually believes that a patriarchal society can be as damaging for men as for women. With a young son herself, she wants to see boyhood redefined to include sensitivity, kindness, respect and nurture. Sisonke Msimang is a South African writer whose work focuses on race, gender and democracy. Having lived in many different countries, she says that all societies allow and even expect men to be violent and predatory. She wants to dismantle this, but believes the term toxic masculinity is not helpful if you want to take the majority of people with you. Sisonke's memoir is called Always Another Country. IMAGE Clementine Ford (credit Clementine Ford) Sisonke Msimang (credit Nick White)

‘With razor-sharp insight, Msimang writes in a reflective tone that contains both heartbreak and humour, as she navigates some often-overlooked complexities surrounding race, womanhood and class.' – Cher Tan, Books and Publishing Just some of the words that come to mind when thinking of Sisonke Msimang's second book ‘The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela' Written in response to her passing of Winnie Mandela, Sisonke's book is haunting and inspiring. In answering the question of redemption as it comes to iconic, powerful Black womxn, Sisonke is also asking the reader questions on our morality. The book written in the second person contextualises Winnie Mandela's life from before she was born to when she died. Sisonke skillfully and poetically converses with Winnie by reclaiming her and celebrating her. She writes about how Winnie encounter powerful womxn upon arriving in Joburg dispelling the myth that Winnie became political because of Nelson. She writes about the moment Winnie saw Nelson, their love - showing us that theirs was a deep, profound love. Further, in the book, she writes about the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and how Winnie was treated at this Commission, this allows us to question the true nature of the TRC and whether it was about truth. In the same breath, she holds Winnie to account by writing about the deaths of the 18 boys that Winnie may have been involved in. In this, she demands of us to hold Winnie to account for these deaths and to take some ownership in the passing of these boys. She writes about the mothers of these children and how they came head to head with Winnie demanding the truth. In this book, Sisonke encourages us to use Winnie's life to think about nation-building and Blackwomxnhood. It's a powerful conversation about reclaiming our heroes.

Do we need heroes? Is curiosity underrated? How do we hold space for those we disagree with? How are colorism and racism intertwined? How do we resist the myth of entitlement and privilege? What does the commodification of black feminism look like? What is our plan for justice? So many questions - and many complex, nuanced answers with the South African author and voice for justice, Sisonke Msimang whose writing focuses on race, gender and democracy. Her book - Always Another Country - can be found on Amazon and more about Sisonke's work is available at www.sisonkemsimang.com/. Up/Root is masterfully edited by Kate Stephens.

I will be away for the next few weeks and will be playing some of my favorite episodes from 2018. My chat with Sisonke was the first episode of Voices from SA I published. I will always appreciate the fact that she took time from her hectic schedule to speak to me. Since that first episode she has published a new book called "The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela" In this episode we chatted about growing up in exile, her memoir "Always Another Country" and her perceptions of the state of the ANC, and the country in general.

Sisonke Msimang is a bold voice speaking to race, politics, feminism and activism. Msimang's memoir, Always Another Country, tackles the slippery definition of home. Throughout her life she has been haunted by an imaginary homeland. With great poetry, Msimang uses her personal experiences to examine philosophical and existential questions about how race and gender can impact identity and belonging. She was in conversation with Edwina Throsby at ANTIDOTE 2018. More talks at sydneyoperahouse.com/ideas

Australian Legal scholar Megan Davis, American writer Ta-Nehisi Coates and South African writer Sisonke Msimang consider the bitter legacies of colonialism, which have played out across the histories of all of their countries. Host of the popular podcast It's Not A Race Beverley Wang chairs this discussion about the long-term implications of dispossession, institutionalised racism and white privilege. Listen to more from ANTIDOTE 2018 at sydneyoperahouse.com/ideas

Sisonke Msimang on exile and home, hatred and belonging. You can find out more about Sisonke, her recent book Always Another Country, and her other writing here.

Sisonke talks to Nicholas about growing up in exile, gender violence, fake news and the potential of the Fees Must Fall movement.

In this weeks episode we share the inspirational story of two developers that have devoted themselves to teaching the disadvantaged youth of two prominent townships, Diepsloot and Olievenhoutbosch, to program. We chat to Theo Bohnen (https://twitter.com/tbohnenjnr) and Mandla Magagula (https://twitter.com/mandlamag) about their Sisonke Rising initiative. Sisonke Rising an impact and value driven community outreach programme that focuses on teaching young people life skills through the vehicle of software development. The aim of the initiative is ensure as many young people as possible are able to collaboratively code and build working software. Formerly called DrivenSpark, Sisonke came from the Zulu/Sotho word meaning "We are together", and together they focus on more than just code. They're a value-driven initiative. Values were chosen by the students themselves, and are reinforced every Saturday when they come together to learn. Their values include communication, feedback, courage, simplicity, care and fun. They have great support from their employer, Driven Alliance (http://drivenalliance.com/), and one of the founders (and former guest on the show) Kevin Trethewey (https://twitter.com/KevinTrethewey) who offers his own property and money to provide the students with books and snacks. They follow a spiral teaching model, where the more experienced students help the new entrants, reinforcing their skills. They rely on existing online teaching resources for their curriculum, using online typing courses, play online and offline games, and even getting them to submit their code to GitHub. Sisonke Rising is in desperate need of laptop donations for their students. If you have a working laptop that you no longer need, please contact Theo or Mandla to arrange for delivery. If you want to replicate Sisonke Rising in an underprivileged community near you, you can also get in touch with Theo & Mandla. Last, but not least, if you're willing to come help on a Saturday, get in touch with them and share your knowledge with the students. Find Sisonke Rising online: * Twitter - https://twitter.com/sisonkerising * Website - http://www.sisonkerising.com/ Here are some of the resources mentioned during the show: * CodeCombat - https://codecombat.com/ * Code Academy - https://www.codecademy.com/ * typeracer - the global typing competition - http://play.typeracer.com/ * Run-length encoding - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run-length_encoding * GitHub - https://github.com And finally our picks Kenneth: * Bounce - http://www.bounceinc.co.za/ * CityROCK - http://www.cityrock.co.za/ Len: * Suture - Supervision Trees for Go - http://www.jerf.org/iri/post/2930 Theo: * Extreme Programming Explained - http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/67833.Extreme_Programming_Explained * Crucial Conversations - http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15014.Crucial_Conversations * A Way with Words - http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2539820.A_Way_with_Words Mandla: * elm - the best of functional programming in your browser http://elm-lang.org/ Thanks for listening! Stay in touch: * Socialize - https://twitter.com/zadevchat & http://facebook.com/ZADevChat/ * Suggestions and feedback - https://github.com/zadevchat/ping * Subscribe and rate in iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/za/podcast/zadevchat-podcast/id1057372777