Aired July 22nd on Inspiring South Africans with Heather de Wit and her guest Philip Boyd who was born in Cape Town and educated in Johannesburg at the National School of the Arts.

He trained at the UCT Ballet School from 1974 – 1976. After completing his 2 year National Service, he joined CAPAB Ballet Company in 1979.

He became a Principal dancer in 1980 in his debut performance of ‘Albrecht’ in the ballet ‘Giselle’ dancing opposite Nicolette Loxton. Boyd danced all the major principal roles with CAPAB Ballet for 23 years during his career with the company.

In 1991 Boyd decided to pass on his knowledge and experience he had gained from his professional career to underprivileged children through developing an Outreach Programme called Ballet for All.

This changed its name to Dance for All in 1995 incorporating all other forms of dance, including African Dance, Contemporary Dance and Classical Ballet and Spanish Dance. This work expanded to the areas of Langa, Nyanga and Khayelitsha.

In 2002 Boyd ended his association with what they had become known as Cape Town City Ballet and officially became the Artistic Director of Dance for All and in 2008 was appointed as Chief Executive Officer.

Through his positive leadership and energy in promoting dance in the Western Cape, Boyd has taken the organisation to new heights and through his vision and mission, the demographics of SA dance companies have been transformed, as students who have been trained by Dance for All, are now working as professional dancers both locally and abroad.

Dance for All’s Outreach Programmes have also expanded in the Western Cape Rural Areas of Montagu and Barrydale.

Through spearheading cultural development in these and other disadvantages areas Dance for All has become a role model for other such initiatives and they currently have over 1500 children in their Outreach programmes.

In 2010 Boyd launched the Dance for All InSPIRAtions Youth Company in memory of Prima Ballerina Assoluta, Phyllis Spira (OMSG) who Boyd was married to.

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Aired July 15th to July 21st on Inspiring South Africans with Heather de Wit and her guest Tania Bownes co Founder DreamWorker

Tania Bownes is the co-founder, together with her husband, Ronald, DreamWorks. DreamWorker is an employment facilitation NGO, based in Cape Town, with satellite offices elsewhere in South Africa. It was set up to help the unemployed in the lower end of the economic spectrum find work. People like gardeners, drivers, domestic workers, artisans and more.

Tania has enjoyed a varied and involved career, from an early beginning in advertising and marketing to a lifelong, passionate interest in a range of healing modalities. She is a Nia teacher of some 11 years and is qualified in aromatherapy, reflexology, reiki, TRE (tension and trauma release) and more. Her voluntary work is at hospice, where she has worked for 13 years as a touch therapist.

Says Tania – “The many years spent in advertising and marketing, my one on one body therapies and group involvement, whether teaching Nia classes, holding retreats or doing group TRE, has been the best framework for my work at DreamWorker.

Our focus is on people who desperately need help to find work. I am able to write newsletters, prepare copy for adverts and market our NGO on the one hand, yet connect deeply with people on the other. DreamWorker has brought my many interests together.

Long-term, I dream that DreamWorker is able to expand further throughout South Africa. And beyond that, it is to see the people of this beautiful country self-employed and self empowered, so that we no longer even need employment facilitation !”

You can listen to this show from its air date any time you would like just by clicking on the link below  for Instant Listening 

For more details on DreamWorker or the Link of Love campaign, please visit www.dreamworker.org.za,

https://www.facebook.com/DreamWorkerZA

https://www.linkedin.com/company/dreamworker

https://twitter.com/dreamworkerza

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Airing January 6th-12th on Inspiring South Africans with Heather de Wit

Says Heather – “First and foremost ‘Inspiring South Africans’ was created to honour the legacy of our belated and beloved Nelson Mandela – To keep his dream for South Africa alive and to drive it forward by showcasing on my shows, formidable people and organizations in and out of South Africa, who are ‘doing it’ with purpose and focused on the healing of the people and the planet.

Africa needs to heal and South Africa is a magnificent country, with many possibilities and it’s future lies with the people.

My mission is to spark a desire in people to awaken to or continue their journey of the healing of the self, from the mosaic of remarkable stories I am gathering and sharing.

Heal the People > Heal the Planet.

Featured people and organizations could be in many industry genres e.g.

>Humanitarians>Philanthropists>Anthropologists>Archaeologists>Coaches>Healers>
Visionaries>Writers>Environmentalists>Adventurers>Community Upliftment organizations …
>People in the Sports arena …
>People in the Performing Arts and all other genres that form a part of The Arts …

All I know is that ‘Inspiring South Africans’ is bigger than I … Yay – Enjoy !  “

Tune in here for Instant listening January 6th 

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