April Inside Out YIP Mag 2013 by megatrops

APRIL 2013 Issue 8

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Contributors

Magazine design: Conor Ralphs

Tarisai Mchuchu-Ratshidi

Meghan Judge

Director Rozerie Bosma General Manager Melinda Bechus Post-Release Coordinator Kholofelo Mashego Advocacy and Communications Coordinator Nkosinathi Buyana Life Skills Facilitator and Trainer Vuyokazi Magobiyane Life Skills Facilitator Owen Butler Life Skills Facilitator Tlhabanelo Diholo Life Skills Facilitator

Young in Prison 059 - 080 - NPO 41 Salt River Road, Community House, Salt River email: tarisai@younginprison.org phone : 021 448 5275 www.younginprison.org.za

Co-facilitators Kray Mathius Johannesburg Project: Zamani Ndlovu Project Coordinator Joseph Coordinator Life-Skills Facilitator Tebogo Butie Life Skills Facilitator

TejchevĂŠ

Impulsis The European Union Eurko Achmea Foundation

Open Society foundation for South Africa

C Editorial ��2

Emotion Cards ��4

Exhibition Artwork ��7

Life Maps ��11

My Freedom/Responsibility

Personal Responsibility ��18

Life Story ��20 My Dreams Rise ��22 Colour Concepts ��24 Poetry ��26

ONTENTS

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et another exciting

edition of the Inside Out magazine! It is more exciting because the contents of it are produced from two new correctional centres

that YiPSA has extended its services to, namely Leeuwkop and Drakenstein Correctional Centres.

The workshops in these centres focussed on

modification of behaviour while in the incarcerated space by focussing on their daily challenges in prison. The

participants were given an opportunity to focus

on anger, stress and violence

as main challenges they face while serving their sentences and how to control these challenges. The aim of this is that they improve as individuals and earn the trust of the DCS members, family and community at large. They expressed their progress in the various artwork and poems in this issue. In this issue, the participants used painting and sketching as an artistic skill-set to express their progress and feelings during the workshops. They did emotions and how they can be controlled to ensure that they do

Freedom and Responsibility is another topic we focussed on in these workshops. We focussed on mental and physical freedom using political contexts, our relationship with nature and some man-made equipment. This was expressed in the various paintings using the concept of colours and various outdoor scenarios within Johannesburg and Cape Town as they imagine it from memory and images provided. This type of engagement was necessary for the individual to acknowledge and accept the physical constraints that imprisonment brings but to be liberated by the fact that a thinking mind can never be imprisoned; memories can sustain an individual and stir hope for the future. It is necessary for us to always remind participants of continuing to live freely within incarcerated spaces. This editorial highlights some of the topics, but there are many that were tackled within the fifteen-week cycle in both Drakenstein and Leeuwkop Correctional Centres. I hope that as you read this magazine as a young person, you are enabled to deal with your struggles. To our readers, who feel empowered already, please

spread the message of change and use this magazine to liberate others as well.

not cause violent or bad behaviour. They did this by doing emotion cards whereby they had to choose various pictures and words depicting various emotions and link it with colours to express how they felt in that particular week, month or day. This assisted a lot in monitoring the way they responded to certain situations throughout the workshops and as a tool they can use for themselves in the future.

Tarisai Mchuchu-Ratshidi Director Young in Prison, South Africa

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ACT CITI IVE ZEN

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Theme: My freedom My responsibility

ABONGILE SIKWEZA They came from took what

foreign lands,

little we had and

they came and oppressed our beautiful

people,

not only physically but emotionally and mentally they took what was

rightfully ours

and left our people with hatred, fear and violence, not

education.

From the oppression, anger, hatred, fear and violence that our beautiful people were left with, they were also left with

responsibilities and responsibilities they had. They had responsibilities of taking

care of their loved ones, they had responsibilities of being fathers,

mothers, in those

days of oppression, Freedom physically and emotionally they never had but no one could ever take their

freedom free country.

of thinking of a

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Theme: Poetry

Education

Ricardo

them out with their homework, you

ADRIAN BOSMAN

My naam is Ricardo,ek het nie ge-

won’t be shy to help them because

“Its about Ady’s Education”

bruik gemaak van my kleins af aan

you know that you went to school.

People call me Ady in Macassar, I’m

meet die tronk.

It is also very important for you

in prison for murder and I have five

Soo all wat ek wil se is net aan jou

to work. If you are the man of the

accused in my case.This is a letter to leer baie hard en kry jou Education sodat jy eendag jou famile en someone I love in my life.

house and a breadwinner and if

Okay die rede vir my brief is net om

kinders ‘n lewe kan gee soo ek sal

to provide for your kids and buy

vir jou kortliks te vertel hoe belan-

nou my brief af sluit met liefde van

them Nikes and Jordan’s because

grik Education is in die lewe.

Ricardo.

kids want those too.

you are educated you can be able

Soo om my brief te begin, My naanm is Adrian Bosman en ek is van

Through God’s will I would like to

Macassar.Ek is in die gevangenis vir

have my own business one day

moord en het n 20 jar deer die unit

Griffith Abdul

that I can use to tell people where

dat ek n verkeerde busluit gemaak

OK,I think education is a very

I come from and what I’ve done in

het in die lewe .

important thing in life. One day if

my life.

Ek hoop die lewe behandel jou baie

you study for a good job and finish

At the moment I would like to work

goed daar buite en ek wil graag

school you can become a business

with people who use drugs, come

net noem aan jou dat jy moet altyd

manager or something like that.

out of prison and those who did

luister na jou family en hulle respect You can look for a girlfriend and you not go to school so that they cannot make the same mistakes as i en waardeer dit wat hulle vir jou will can share your love. If I am edugee in die lewe.

cated, I can even get a job that pays did and in future be able to make

Education is baie belangrik in die

me good so that I can buy a car for

a positive difference in people’s

lewe hoekom sonder education kan

my family and open a bank account

lives . I am going to be a “mirror”

jy nerins in stap by n werk nie,soo

. However, if you do not have an

for them.

study en leer baie hard so dat jy dit

education you won’t get a proper

kan kry en maak gebruik daar van.

job and you won’t get a nice girl-

Van dag voel ek baie spyt omdat ek

friend to share your life with .

nie gebruik gemaak het van die

Vogan Lottering

geleentheid dar buite nie maar ek

“A letter to my unborn child”

hoop net die beste vir jou en dat ek

Ever since my birth I’ve been Hersheal Isaacs

cursed. So many things I’ve

sien soo bly sterk en dink ann jou

“Education”

learned in prison and I feel very

education.

I think that education is very

blessed because when I think back

Van

important in life because one day

and look at the beginning of my

Ady van die Macassar

when you are done with school, you mission was very confused and

weer eendag van jou sal hoor en

will want to live a good life and get

didn’t understand the position I

a good family and only educated

was in .

people get that! One day when you

My mother always had faith in me,

have kids and they ask you to help

she would always look at me and

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smile because she knew that

kyk hier ou bra, ek Rockie en ek is nie

Theo Viti

her baby boy will one day make

stoeppit om mense te ropie en vaar.

Dear Friend...

it too. When I dropped out of

Ok friend, all I can say is that stay

school and left home she was

positive in life because you will

disappointed.

never know what tomorrow will

When i get out of prison i want

Author Unknown

bring as life is unpredictable.

to live a better life and because

Ok,die rede hoekoom ek die brief skryf In order to succeed in life you

i know God has forgiven my sins

aan jou is omdat ek die skool gelos

have to make good decision and

know he’s going to let me make

het.

choices, stick to your goals and

it and succeed in life. I will never

Ek weet education is baie belangrik

dreams and if you want to over-

steal or kill again I’d rather have

in die lewe soo as jy education het

come your challenges you must

misery as my only friend. This is a dank an jy baie dinge doen wat jy wil

stick to your values, agenda and

letter to you my unborn child.

he in die lewe soo bly by die huis en

have self-control and you will see

kyk agter jou en maak gebruik van die

your strategy my friend.

education wat jy kry hoekoom ek is

Even though I’m in prison haven’t

baie spyt vir my self.

lost hope and i know I can still

Abongile Sikweza

make better or good choices and

My name is Abongile Sikweza,i’ve

decisions in life, my future is bright

been in prison for quite a few

and shining down on me because

years and i just want to tell you

Nceba Songelwa

i am now making good choices

how important education is.

Do not use drugs

about my life. That’s my motivation

Education is so important that

A Drug is something that can make

for you my friend.

when you’re not educated you

your life difficult,

don’t have enough knowledge or

If you smoke drugs, your mind is not

skills to get a job and in that way

going to be right,

it will be hard for you to make a

To those who have not touched death,

Ncedo Sonzelwa

good living.

continue to choose to live on earth,

Education is important because

For me when i get out of prison i

It is but a man-made invention made to it is the key of life .Education is

will take everything that i learnt

make you suffer.

something that allows you to be whatever you want to be in life and

in prison and put it to good use so that i can also be a better

The church is the answer because

it helps you get where you want to

person in life.

there is hope and delivery. On the soc-

be .There are many opportunities

cer field there is joy and team building. for you if you are educated and Pursue work to earn money to live and

more things to do with your life

go to school.

including working to provide for

Francis Maarman

Education will set your mind free and

your family.

Ek is Francis Maarman en ek hou

help you support your family.

Today it is possible to live a good

van rap: One two one two ,kyk

life and be educated because of

hier ek gooi vir jou oom tollesope

the freedom we have. So guys edu-

.Jy is nie bymaakar met n popie

cation is very important and it can

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set you free. So if you think that education id not important in your life then please change your mind and tell yourself that you want to be educated and get more strength and knowledge to live the life you want to live.

JO-Hein-Hanse Ek is daai gentleman. I want to introduce myself, my name is Spaigoog en jy moet weet. My eerste plek was elef dat het ek meet hiphop en geleer om meet mc’s te gesels nou kan jy glo my eerste number was gerokord op Delf dar is spek en rap en niemand ken vir my litis.My mission partern vir die kinners jy en met n` lesson vir fulse mc’s wat so lekker kry so los n`slay die goed en hou op so met crus betray.Ek moet net mommy skree jy’s nie my sighty,jou laaitie jy moet maar verder leer iemand is tighty nie bitey...o’jare boeta nee!

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