A photo collage from our time in the township of Khayelitsha, Cape Town, teaching Lindwall Releasing. Accompanied by Elaine Silver's beautiful rendering of "How Could Anyone Ever Tell You (you are anything less than beautiful)?" www.elainesilver.com
Lindwall Releasing workshops in the South African town of Cradock in 2007 and 2008. The rural black township is still recovering from the brutal murder of their community leaders Matthew Goniwe and Fort Calata by the apartheid security forces in 1985.
Nomonde Calata, widow of Fort Calata who was brutally murdered by the apartheid police in 1985, talks about her experience with Lindwall Releasing and the benefits it has for the community in the black township in Cradock, South Africa.
Dr Stephen Marcus and Barbara Kroll return to the rural community of Cradock, South Africa, in 2009 to continue sharing the process of "Freedom Through Releasing" with the community in the township there. The community is still suffering from the murder of their leaders, the "Cradock Four" by the apartheid regime 25 years before.
Mandisi Njoli and Zwelitsha "Commander Zet" Mhluthwa, founders of the Youth for Change organization in the sprawling township of Khayelitsha, South Africa, talk about bringing gang youth back from the streets and about the traditional South African principle of Ubuntu.
Zwelitsha "Commander Zet" Mhluthwa, founder of the Youth
for Change organization in the sprawling township of Khayelitsha, South Africa, shows Stephen Marcus his home and talks
about the transforming effect that Lindwall Releasing has had in his life and the lives of the youth of
"Youth for Change".
Background: Zwelitsha Mhluthwa was a General Commander of underground Freedom Fighters
during the apartheid era. In 1992 another group was misinformed that he was
a traitor. A midnight attack on him resulted in the death of his mother. Attempted reprisals
against his attackers put him in jail for ten years. Emerging to freedom in a new
South Africa in 2002, he was horrified to find more poverty, crime and violence in the townships, particularly
amongst the youth, than under the apartheid government he had fought against.
This led him to found "Youth for Change" to assist young people in leaving a life of crime and becoming the "leaders
of tomorrow".
Zithobile - former gangster now helps youth with Releasing
Zithobile, now 25 years old, was once a notorious gangster in the Cape Town township of Khayelitsha, selling drugs to youngsters. After serving 3 years in jail, he joined Youth for Change and learned Releasing as part of the Lindwall Foundation Outreach Program. He returned to school and recently completed his high school diploma ("Matric" in South Africa). He tells his story in this video, with comments from the leaders of Youth for Change.
Video taken during the first Lindwall Releasing
workshop given by Stephen Marcus and Barbara Kroll to Youth for Change in the township of Khayelitsha, South Africa.
Youth for Change was founded by former freedom fighters from the apartheid times to invite gang and at-risk youth
on the streets of the township to give up a life of drugs, crime and violence to become the leaders of tomorrow.
www.youth4change.net
Youth for Change is a project in the Township of Khayelitsha, near Cape Town, South Africa, bringing ex-gang youth off the streets and back to school and into society.
Social worker Nomabelu Sopili, who lives in Kuyasa, a southern suburb of the township of Khayelitsha, talks after her second Lindwall Releasing session.
Infants from the Indlovu Creche and youth from Youth for Change in the township of Khayelitsha sing the South African National Anthem in Xhosa. Subtitles in Xhosa and English.
A photo collage from our time in the township of Khayelitsha, Cape Town, teaching Lindwall Releasing. Accompanied by Elaine Silver's beautiful rendering of "How Could Anyone Ever Tell You (you are anything less than beautiful)?" www.elainesilver.com
Lindwall Releasing workshops in the South African town of Cradock in 2007 and 2008. The rural black township is still recovering from the brutal murder of their community leaders Matthew Goniwe and Fort Calata by the apartheid security forces in 1985.
Nomonde Calata, widow of Fort Calata who was murdered in 1985, talks about her experience with Lindwall Releasing and the benefits it has for the community in the black township in Cradock, South Africa.
Dr Stephen Marcus and Barbara Kroll return to the rural community of Cradock, South Africa, in 2009 to continue sharing the process of "Freedom Through Releasing" with the community in the township there. The community is still suffering from the murder of their leaders, the "Cradock Four" by the apartheid regime 25 years before.
Mandisi Njoli and Zwelitsha "Commander Zet" Mhluthwa, founders of the Youth for Change organization in the sprawling township of Khayelitsha, South Africa, talk about bringing gang youth back from the streets and about the traditional South African principle of Ubuntu.
Zwelitsha "Commander Zet" Mhluthwa, founder of the Youth
for Change organization in the sprawling township of Khayelitsha, South Africa, shows Stephen Marcus his home and talks
about the transforming effect that Lindwall Releasing has had in his life and the lives of the youth of
"Youth for Change".
Background: Zwelitsha Mhluthwa was a General Commander of underground Freedom Fighters
during the apartheid era. In 1992 another group was misinformed that he was
a traitor. A midnight attack on him resulted in the death of his mother. Attempted reprisals
against his attackers put him in jail for ten years. Emerging to freedom in a new
South Africa in 2002, he was horrified to find more poverty, crime and violence in the townships, particularly
amongst the youth, than under the apartheid government he had fought against.
This led him to found "Youth for Change" to assist young people in leaving a life of crime and becoming the "leaders
of tomorrow".
Zithobile, now 25 years old, was once a notorious gangster in the Cape Town township of Khayelitsha, selling drugs to youngsters. After serving 3 years in jail, he joined Youth for Change and learned Releasing as part of the Lindwall Foundation Outreach Program. He returned to school and recently completed his high school diploma ("Matric" in South Africa). He tells his story in this video, with comments from the leaders of Youth for Change.
Video taken during the first Lindwall Releasing
workshop given by Stephen Marcus and Barbara Kroll to Youth for Change in the township of Khayelitsha, South Africa.
Youth for Change was founded by former freedom fighters from the apartheid times to invite gang and at-risk youth
on the streets of the township to give up a life of drugs, crime and violence to become the leaders of tomorrow.
www.youth4change.net
Youth for Change is a project in the Township of Khayelitsha, near Cape Town, South Africa, bringing ex-gang youth off the streets and back to school and into society.
Social worker Nomabelu Sopili, who lives in Kuyasa, a southern suburb of the township of Khayelitsha, talks after her second Lindwall Releasing session.
Infants from the Indlovu Creche and youth from Youth for Change in the township of Khayelitsha sing the South African National Anthem in Xhosa. Subtitles in Xhosa and English.
