OneVoice South Africa showcases giant cut-outs of students at Phansi Museum
OneVoice South Africa created a project for various high schools, TVET colleges and unemployment agencies to provide the youth with an exercise that helps them realise the power in their voice.
GIANT cut-outs are the first thing you see when you walk into Phansi Museum located in Glenwood.
Created by fifteen young people of different age groups, the cut-out figures have headphones that allow you to hear the life story, dreams and aspirations of that person.
OneVoice South Africa partnered with Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) and created a project for various high schools, TVET colleges and unemployment agencies they work with. The aim was to have the youth perform an exercise where they realised the power of their voice.
OneVoice South Africa is a non-governmental organisation that uses innovative and creative ways of actively involving young people (13 to 35 years) in addressing the many critical health and lifestyle issues they face so they can live their best lives.
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According to Marlijn Van Berne, the managing director of OneVoice, “With the elections fast approaching, we wanted a programme where we help young adults exercise the power that is in their voice.”
Thabile Mdhuli (27), who is part of Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEET), participated in the programme. “This is an absolute out-of-body experience, and of course, my cut-out is a giant, just like my personality,” she exclaimed excitedly.
Also present was Sicelo Mbuyazi, a 21-year-old TVET student studying boiler-making at Coastal College, Swinton Campus.
“We were asked to draw an animal that best describes us. I didn’t realise I would consider a dolphin to be so much like me – this programme helped me do a lot of introspection into me as a person and my future,” said Mbuyazi.
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Phindile Kunene, FES programme director of Democracy and Youth Programmes, said, “Our principal aim was to create something that puts us in conversation with the youth and helps us reach out to hear what and how young people see their world.”
Bren Brophy, the curator, explained the decision to use cut-outs and assisted everyone. Ntokozo Nzama, the project lead, thanked everyone for attending and said they were very proud of their exhibition.
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