In this episode we delve deeper into self growth and development and begin a process of learning to love and accept ourselves
In our #OpenDebate we debate about whether the South African Lock Down should be ended or extended
In our episode today we meet Annabel Wellington the accountant who authored the children's story "Biscuit Town"
Today in our African Story we meet "Theresa' from the DRC who speaks about how she hated herself because of who she was. This is her story of the struggles she had gone through in order to be accepted
South Africa is one of the countries where substance abuse remains a massive problem rooted in the country’s turbulent psyche and huge social and structural inequalities. Research by the Central Drug Authority of South Africa has found that substance abuse in the country was double that of the global average and that South Africa was also ranked in the top 10 countries in the world in terms of the amount of alcohol being consumed each year.
We are fast approaching the ‘season to be jolly’, but our substance addiction needs to be addressed, because other stats are also indicating the children as young as 9 are getting addicted to alcohol. I saw this personally while touring various schools in the country. Part of my talk on substance abuse needed to touch on alcoholism, and sadly this was a talk I needed to have with primary school learners, who, many of them, at the age of 13 were alcoholics who thought of nothing else but their next glass or bottle of liquor.
I recently caught up with Ulrich Strauss a pastor at the Lofdal Restoration Centre in Kraaifontein. Strauss was an alcoholic, a gang member and drug addict for 20 years of his life before his reformation.
“As I grew up, I think it was all the challenges I had as a youngster that drove me to alcohol at 13 years old. I had a low self-esteem and didn’t really have any identity. Then at the age of 16 I was hooked on buttons, mandrax and later crack cocaine and meth”
In this Podcast Keenan Williams Echoes some of the writings of a poem he wrote as a teen being bullied at school, faced with depression and screaming for a hope of life
In this edition of the Social Impact Podcast, Keenan Williams speaks to former Russian Mafia member and prisoner who spent time in Pollsmoor on the difficulty of reintegrating back into society.
In this edition of the Social Impact Podcast we meet the young man who received a new lease of life after a heart transplant twelve years ago. This is his journey....
In a world where social media influencer's are quite prominent, Keenan Williams addresses the issue of 'living up to the Jones'
Recently while on a date with his wife Keenan Williams' wife asked him a very deep (deep) question: 'What do you want to be remembered for if you were no longer around?'
This is a question which he meditated upon and found the answers, but how would you answer it?
Imagine calling someone and you reached their voicemail box and the person on the other end asked you two questions; 'Who are you?' and 'what do you want?'
Keenan Williams recently read these words in a book entitled the Good Life by Rolf Dobelli and discusses what we may want out of life and helps answer the question of 'who am I?'