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COOL CAREERS FOR 21ST CENTURY ARTISANS

Developed for SABC Education Outreach, Cool Careers for 21st Century Artisans is a booklet that encourages young South Africans to consider following an artisanal career path. It details the steps to becoming a qualified artisan, the challenges and rewards presented by the various careers, and the prospects for employment and entrepreneurship.

The booklet is a response to the fact that South Africa urgently needs more artisans for ongoing growth and economic development. In the years leading up to 2030, the country needs to more than double its number of qualified artisans. This is why Government has declared 2014 to 2024 the ‘Decade of the Artisan’. Its aim is to produce at least 30,000 qualified artisans a year, especially in areas of scarce and critical skills.

THE EPIC HANGOUT – SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS TO DO AT HOME

Based on the award-winning SABC2 programme The Epic Hangout, this booklet gives 10- to 13-year-olds 21 exciting science experiments to try at home using ordinary household items (no expensive equipment is required).From finding out what salt does to ice to learning how to send an invisible message or how to bend a pencil, readers are given many opportunities to appreciate that science is all around them in their everyday lives, just waiting to be discovered.

An initiative of SABC Education Outreach, The Epic Hangout – Science Experiments to Do at Home dispels the myth that science is something that only happens in laboratories, carried out by people in white coats, and gives children a taste of just how much fun science can be.

SABC EDUCATION CAREER GUIDE

The SABC Education Career Guide, available as a DVD box set with supporting (printable) PDF notes, explores 30 careers of interest to young school leavers – for example, auctioneer, cardiothoracic surgeon, dental technician, food technologist, pilot and social entrepreneur.

An initiative of SABC Education Outreach, the career guide series consists of a compilation of curated content from the SABC’s career programming archives.

Each episode in the DVD series provides a ‘window’ into the real-life working environment of the featured career. It unpacks the day-to-day demands of the job, while also offering practical advice about what qualifications are required and which personality types are best suited to the profiled career field.

GELEZA NATHI FITNESS REVOLUTION

The Geleza Nathi Fitness Revolution is a health-and-wellness programme designed to encourage young South Africans to ‘get up, get active and have a great time doing it’.

The programme is rolled out in high schools across Mzansi to help learners:
• Understand the importance of a healthy, balanced life;
• Start exercising from a young age;
• See that exercising can be fun; and
• Increase their productivity at school and in their everyday lives.

At each school it visits, the Fitness Revolution team takes learners through a variety of routines, from fast-paced workouts that get them moving and sweating to relaxing cool-down sequences that focus on stretching and meditation.

As well as being integrated into the daily Geleza Nathi TV show, the exercise routines taught at schools are also collated and packaged as a DVD box set, which is given to participating schools along with a supporting booklet.