Let’s all take time to count our blessings on this
journey and to count our blessings for everything that has been achieved and
for the breakthroughs. In the spirit of Ubuntu we must find solutions in
areas that still need help.
As we start our journey into our 21st
year of democracy, we must ask ourselves what new vistas and commitments will
we explore in order to serve and make an impactful and sustainable difference
to our fellow citizens as the public broadcaster in the areas of:
1)
Driving
democracy, education and instill the nation to uphold human rights, dignity and
values
2)
Celebrating
20 years of freedom in a democratic country
3)
Creating
a platform and space for sharing moments of greatness and success stories
4)
Acknowledging
and recognising individuals you continue to make a difference in the lives of
many
5)
Reflecting
the country’s positive achievements
6)
Encouraging
economic freedom through a culture of creating and preserving wealth
7)
Fostering
justice, tolerance and fairness
8)
Investing
in education, health , youth and early childhood development
9)
Showing the public that their participation can make a
difference
10)
Inspiring and
stimulating willingness and ability to resolve disputes peacefully instead of
violently.
11)
Improving basic
skills including critical thinking and the ability to communicate power of
observation and problem-solving techniques.
12)
Informing
the public about the health priorities in our country on a holistic level
13)
Informing
the public about the education priorities and gaps in our country especially in
Maths, Science and Technology and encourage career pathing in scare skills
14)
Focusing
on children as they are our future, we must ensure early childhood development
and participate in National campaigns for a formalised Grade R
15)
Driving
youth development in all aspects of their lives in a holistic manner
(emotional, psychological, intellectual, spiritual, social, political,
economical)
16)
Eradicating
poverty and hunger in a Patriarchal
World empowering citizens to participate in finding answers and creating
solutions
17)
Searching
and exploring ways for job creation in a non-linear manner in order to empower
citizens to create jobs
18)
Prioritising
safety and security especially in areas that continue to threaten communities
and loss of life thus collectively building a violence free society
19)
Encouraging
environmental care and sustainability and healing the Earth with Care and Concern
20)
Driving
back to school campaigns to encourage universal access and to encourage
students and learners to take responsibility to have a culture and spirit of
learning
21)
Inspiring
fathers and young men campaigns with the view to a balance between genders and
roles
22)
Inspiring
the setting of realistic targets of reducing road deaths
23)
Reducing
women and Child Abuse. The plight of women, infants and children
continues to grow and we must engage all stakeholders to find an answer
24)
Encouraging
rehabilitation of drug and alcohol addicts as they continue to be a contributor
to crime, violence, disease, unemployment death and an endless list of
challenges
25)
Strengthening
society through values and morals
26)
Encouraging
unity in diversity
27)
Improving
maternal health and Child mortality rates
28)
Encouraging
global partnerships and experiential learning
29)
Encouraging
rule of law, justice and democracy
30)
Keeping
the Mandela legacy alive through service to the community and telling stories
about the history of his journey as a freedom fighter and father of our nation
31)
Upholding
honesty, integrity, loyalty, respect, concern for people, justice, fairness and
a peaceful co-existence
32)
Inspiring
harmony in culture, belief and conscience
33)
Reconciling
with Indigenous Peoples
34)
Securing
Food and Water for all
35)
Creating
platforms and a space to discuss and dialogue on Social Cohesion
36)
Sharing
Wisdom in the Search for Inner Peace
37)
Creating
a platform for the nation to dialogue on issues that affect us all and
facilitate critical enquiry and dialogue
38)
Encouraging
citizens to be accountable for their own responsible citizenary
39)
Pausing
and reflecting on sustainable solutions for our own issues
40)
Celebrating
greatness, positivity and the things that work to inspire hope
41)
Inspiring
participation for the forthcoming elections and celebrations of 20 years of
democracy and freedom
42)
Utilising
moments that worked and engaged audiences throughout the Farewell to Madiba
period
43)
Telling
stories about Indigenous knowledge, history of untold stories, African
languages, science and technology, etc.
44)
Educating
the nation to plan effectively for retirement in advance in an innovative and
action-orientated manner
45)
Sharing
the wisdom from the elderly as they have already walked the journey and have a
deeper understand than the younger generation
46)
Utilising
the power of social media in a positive way
47)
Encouraging
the study of and effective utilisation of media law
48)
Creating
and preserving wealth through effective and sustainable saving methods
49)
Encouraging
the culture of reading and writing through quizzes, competitions, debates
50)
Empowering
staff to face and adapt to change within their own environments
51)
Focussing
on the essentials of broadcast management
52)
Driving
campaigns that facilitate the healing within from past injustices
53)
Pioneering
the establishment of a shared and co-owned South African identity
54)
Driving
innovation and creativity and new ways of engaging audiences
55)
Using
opportunities to tell positive stories and resurrect positivity, hope and zest
for life
56)
Empowering
citizens on:
-
Capacity
and capability building for digitisation and a multi channel environment
-
Multi
channel environment and acquisitions
-
Essentials
for digital media management
-
Managing
commissioned programme production
57)
Driving
R&D of new formats and programming ideas as well as new partnerships
58)
Understanding
audience psychology in a digital space
59)
Reflecting
on gaps and duplications and develop stories and programmes that will take the
audiences to the next level
60)
Exploiting
new opportunities for resources (cash and in kind)
61)
Being a
catalyst for social change in alleviating the plight of child head homes
62)
Continuing
to search for new answers and addressing the gap on how our stories and
programmes address and engage the issues that affect disabled people equitably
with their full participation and representation
63)
Re-awakening
the power of art, song, poetry to drive national agendas
64)
Encouraging
the need for reading in a knowledge economy in a fast paced digital environment
where knowledge flow is quick and cannot only be accessed through
workshops. Yet at the same time encourage workshops as they add value in
providing guidance on How To’s as well as stimulating debate
65)
Sharing
and peer to peer collaboration, co-operation and co-ownership for our stories
66)
Being
your brother and sisters keeper, pick up the flaws and faults first and assist
to make changes
67)
Inspiring
self esteem campaigns for youth
Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start
from now and make a brand new ending
Carl Bard
Let us seize every opportunity we can to uphold our
democracy and realise the pillars of our constitution (democracy, equality,
reconciliation, diversity, responsibility, respect and freedom) and
entrench our:
·
Human Rights
·
Continue to edcuate
and inform our country about the universal declration of human rights and other
human
·
Children’s rights
·
Politiical rights in
a democracy
-
Freedom of
expression
-
Participation in
democratic governments
-
Reducing the abuse
of power
·
Social and economic
rights
-
What are
social and economic rights?
-
What are
our rights against discrimination?
-
What are
our family rights and protection?
-
What is
our right to adequate education?
-
What is
our right to adequate food, housing and health care?
-
What is
our property ownership rights, private rights and public rights?
-
What is
our right to work: Conditions, pay and abuses?
·
National security
and fair procedures
Any Renaissance must correspond to a period of strong
emotions, intensive creativity … – an exceptional period when a generation's
Creative genius discovers its mission, fulfils it to its best … It should
correspond to great moments in history and great works. All peoples want
re-birth after misfortune: wars, genocide, holocaust, ignorance, obscurantism,
colonialism. Rebirth is a positive attitude of hope.
Theophile Obenga
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