Tackling rape & housing and celebrating music in Alexandra Township

They spoke about solutions as to how we could build a sanitarily clean and crime-free township, and luckily the audience really felt the need to stand as one and fight these battles together as a community. And we as Hillside Digital were content to realize that we have given a voice to Alexandra Township and the township has a voice found through Siyakhona and Hillside Digital.

Siyakhona inspires the city of Johannesburg

Our task is simple, to bring about real change and make a real difference. Our Siyakhona (We can do it) Video Journalists use their skills as community organizers, they are empowered to engage with their community, identify the root causes of their social ills, organize the community to find the answers and implement action plans to solve the issue

2010 in review according to wordpress

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is doing awesome!. Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 2,800 times in 2010. That’s about [...]

16 Days of Activism for no Violence against Women and Children.

They were saying no to Rape and brutal killings of women, defenceless grannies, people with disabilities and young children and also human trafficking.

NO TO CHILD PORNOGRAPHY AND HUMAN TRAFICKING AWARENESS CHAMPAIGN

I spoke to Amanda Ndlovu, she is 14 years old. She told me that porn is her food, clothes and she can’t live without it.

Into the Limelight

By Nana Mathebula My team and I were given a project by Into the Limelight Communications for The Gauteng City Region Observatory (GCRO), a partnership between UJ, Wits and Gauteng Government. Our brief was to interview people regarding their activities surrounding sports, entertainment, how they use parks, cultural precincts and entertainment. We shot this project [...]

Radio talk show put on hold because of MDGs

I’m a young lady from Alexandra township trained by Hillside Digital in the Siyakhona project to become a video journalist. We collect votes from the community before producing a documentary on a burning issue. We screen our documentary back to the community and encourage the audience to speak their mind. As Hillside Digital we have [...]

Living with HIV and AIDS in Khayelitsha

While in the process of doing this story we face a lot of challenges because, the topic has so many angle to choose from, and no matter how you try to eliminate same of them they find their way right back to your story. Which makes it hard for one to edit. The reason we [...]

Siyakhona Alexandra make a film about United Nation’s Millennium Development Goal

…an advocacy based citizen video journalist film on their community addressing the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goal (MDG); reducing hunger and poverty.

What we do

The videos empower the community to unite and find solutions to their most pressing issues; i.e. speeding up social change.