When Florian came to us with the idea of using Khayelitsha Siyakhona to create a multi-media installation that would portray life in Khayelitsha using the four walls of a re-purposed shack, we were excited. I refused to see the film until the night of the premiere and I’m so glad I did. What a beautiful [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Khayelitsha’
The Premiere of Shack Theatre is a roaring success.
Posted: February 13, 2011 by Siyakhona in HillsideDigital, Khayelitsha, PhotoTags: art installation, Hillside Digital, Khayelitsha, multi-media, Siyakhona
2010 in review according to wordpress
Posted: January 3, 2011 by Siyakhona in Alexandra, HillsideDigital, KhayelitshaTags: Alexandra, blog, citizen journalism, Hillside Digital, Khayelitsha, Siyakhona
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.
Posted: November 25, 2010 by Siyakhona in HillsideDigital, Khayelitsha, PhotoTags: 16 days, activism, alcohol abuse, citizen journalism, community service, Hillside Digital, Khayelitsha, murder, politics, rape, violence
They were saying no to Rape and brutal killings of women, defenceless grannies, people with disabilities and young children and also human trafficking.
Zwakanaka shoots, drops and downloads it on Mxit
Posted: November 11, 2010 by Siyakhona in HillsideDigitalTags: Alexandra, Emma Kaye, Hillside Digital, Khayelitsha, mobile entertainment, Mxit, Siyakhona, Zwakanaka
Zwakanaka is so cool that it’s nc´a, dope, sooooper- ayt, the bomb, wicked, off the hook, in fact it’s dianesa and njo-jo and most importantly it’s moving forward, that is what it means. And that is exactly what it does. Zwakanaka only looks as far back as the ‘right now’. It can see around corners [...]
Living with HIV and AIDS in Khayelitsha
Posted: October 4, 2010 by Siyakhona in HillsideDigital, KhayelitshaTags: AIDS, citizen journalism, Hillside Digital, HIV, Khayelitsha, MDGs, millennium development goals, Siyakhona
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 [...]
Lesbians fear for their lives
Posted: September 30, 2010 by Siyakhona in HillsideDigital, KhayelitshaTags: constitution, equality, Hillside Digital, homosexuality, Khayelitsha, lesbians, rape, Siyakhona, violence
‘lesbians are not supposed to live, they deserve to be killed because homosexuality is a sin.
What we do
Posted: September 5, 2010 by Siyakhona in Alexandra, HillsideDigital, Khayelitsha, PressClipping, Sony, The Process, VideoTags: Alexandra, citizen journalism, community service, Hillside Digital, Khayelitsha, rats, service delivery, Siyakhona
The videos empower the community to unite and find solutions to their most pressing issues; i.e. speeding up social change.
Taxi to Khayelitsha
Posted: August 31, 2010 by Siyakhona in HillsideDigital, KhayelitshaTags: citizen journalism, football, Hillside Digital, Khayelitsha, Siyakhona, taxi, World Cup
It’s a day to remember. Take a day off and take a taxi to Khayelitsha then we’ll talk again.
Africa belongs to Africans
Posted: August 31, 2010 by Siyakhona in HillsideDigital, KhayelitshaTags: citizen journalism, Hillside Digital, Khayelitsha, Siyakhona, Ubuntu, xenophobia
During apartheid our own revolutionary soldiers went to these same countries for protection; countries citizens’ that we now are fighting.
I will continue fighting against Xenophobia. Any African is my brother or sister!!
Posted: August 31, 2010 by Siyakhona in HillsideDigital, KhayelitshaTags: citizen journalism, Hillside Digital, Khayelitsha, Siyakhona, treatment action campaign, Ubuntu, xenophobia
All the bad things were done to them, and I was there to see all of that. It’s when I called my friends and I told them we must do something about this. And we did.

