Your Voice Podcast

Banathi Mgqoboka
Your Voice Podcast

Your Voice Podcast is a civic-minded experimental journalistic genre-blending news report series. Rooted in the principles of Constructive, Engaged and Solutions Journalism practices, the series aims to unpack various hard-hitting contemporary sociopolitical issues in South Africa — by bridging academic and non-academic critical discourse. The podcast series is anchored and produced by Banathi Mgqoboka, an award-winning South African multi-platform news media practitioner, writer and researcher. The forthcoming season of Your Voice Podcast is currently in pre-production.

Episodes

  1. Your Voice: The Student’s Agenda | 'Silent Bystanders'

    26/09/2024

    Your Voice: The Student’s Agenda | 'Silent Bystanders'

    Developed, funded and helmed by Banathi Mgqoboka, Your Voice: The Student’s Agenda is an experimental 8 to 10-minute journalistic genre-blending news report series produced for Oppidan Press‘s web television stable OppiTV in 2019. In a grassroots campaign style, the communicative ethos of the series aimed to unpack various hard-hitting contemporary sociopolitical issues that affect the communal student experience. Rooted in the principles of Constructive, Engaged and Solutions Journalism practices, the series’ format progressively used a crowd-sourced approach to solicit problem-driven stories from over 7,000 students (via Twitter/X, Facebook and group email lists), whilst applying a solutions journalism approach to news reporting. The series ultimately produced award-winning regional reportage for its pilot episode. Aptly titled Silent Bystanders, the pilot was a social awareness initiative addressing the shortcomings in student policy on the Rhodes University campus by examining the predicament of ‘bystanding’ during occurrences of sexual misconduct towards women students. Crucially, the reportage and discourse of this project prompted Rhodes University’s Student Affairs Office to reassess the directives of its Sexual Offences Policy for Students. The pilot featured contributions from academics in the disciplines of ethics, feminist theory and psychology as well as responses from Rape Crisis Cape Town Trust (NPO), a support and safety organisation dedicated to empowering survivors of rape and other sexual offences.

    20 min
  • 1 Episode

About

Your Voice Podcast is a civic-minded experimental journalistic genre-blending news report series. Rooted in the principles of Constructive, Engaged and Solutions Journalism practices, the series aims to unpack various hard-hitting contemporary sociopolitical issues in South Africa — by bridging academic and non-academic critical discourse. The podcast series is anchored and produced by Banathi Mgqoboka, an award-winning South African multi-platform news media practitioner, writer and researcher. The forthcoming season of Your Voice Podcast is currently in pre-production.

Information

  • Creator
    Banathi Mgqoboka
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    1
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2025 Banathi Mgqoboka. All Rights Reserved.
  • Show Website
    Your Voice Podcast

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