The Ma(i)de Sessions
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The Ma(i)de Sessions
Domestic workers and cleaners occupy a unique position in a society. They are simultaneously the most ubiquitous and invisible among us. They are ever-present in our personal, professional and public spaces but often go largely undetected. These women have the potential to be the most powerful and a...
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The Audition
In an interesting (but not surprising) turn of events this week, CliffCentral's very own Jane goes from guest to presenter extraordinaire. Join the la...
The Other Side of the Coin
Loice Chaza has been able to move from one living wage to another. Hear how she used to hustle before she earned a reasonable wage and what her dreams...
Being Fair There
Founder of one of Johannesburg's most beloved coffee companies, Jonathan Robinson, is in studio to tell us how he got his 40-strong staff body onto li...
How Heroines are MA.DE
How much could you achieve if your housekeeper knew how to drive? If there was an accident in your pool could your housekeeper swim to your rescue and...
The Better Blacks
The tensions between social classes of the same cultural or racial groups is no new thing. This is most felt around the cleaners in our corporate offi...
The Jane Factor
If you've hung around the CliffCentral Headquarters then you've probably met Jane. And once you have, you may feel like you've known her forever. But...
Cross-Border Convos
Felicia and Sally left Zimbabwe 15 and 12 years ago respectively. They came to share with us how and where they started when they got to South Africa,...
School's in!
Simphiwe Mthethwa is in studio to talk about the Ma(i)de Sessions and to educate us on creating authentic content. Turns out the thing even more impor...
Keep your Ubuntu?
UBUNTU - 'A person is a person through other people'. Although beautiful in theory, many have argued its misuse and sometimes abuse, like how Africans...
The Game of Life
Mbali wrote a poem about domestic workers. Turns out it's about all of us, and the good old game of life. If you fancy a reality check then here it is...
MADE Reversal
Award-winning copywriter and comedian, Amanda ‘part-of-the-furniture’ Horwitz, turns the table on MADE co-founder Tuliza Sindi to spark some much-need...
In-her-itance
After a year Lerato is back in studio to take her story a generation further. Lerato's mom was a domestic worker. Sadly, both her parents passed when...
A Gate in Time
Robert Botha is a middle-aged white South African male who wrote a poem about a special person, probably a domestic worker, standing outside a gate in...
Worker Stories
When last have you had someone speak for you or tell your story? It can be entertaining or flattering at the best or inaccurate and even insulting at...
At Your Gate
Today we review a poem called 'At Your Gate' by Robert Botha. 'White male' can appear in many ways to be the opposite of 'domestic worker' but his pie...
Outrepreneur
Nelly's always been an intrapreneur. Intrapreneurship is the act of behaving like an entrepreneur while working within a large organisation. Lately ho...
Mind Maze
In our second instalment of "what would South Africa be without 'help'?" (since it is a question we are always asked), the hosts explore a range of hy...
Matopia?
What might South Africa look like if 'help' was re-envisioned? Tuliza takes it a step further with a news broadcast from 2074. Fifty bucks says you pu...
The Commodities Market: Hope
Is hope a sellable product? Is it a skill? Is it both? Either way, some seem to have it and some don’t. Better yet, some seem to know how to use it, w...
The Answer is a Question
What does your domestic worker know about you that nobody else does? A slightly awkward question for us all, no doubt, but we recently asked it to a l...
Undressing ReDress
The ladies FINALLY chat to the three UJ students who were chosen as the winners for the redesign of the domestic worker uniform for Ma(i)de's ReDress...
Help-less?
Our dear Tuliza Sindi has never had help. Everrrrr(ish). And yet she's alive and well to tell the tale. To many this may sound a not-so-small miracle....
Wanted... or unwanted?
Would you respond to a job ad that required you to smell 'nice', bath twice a day, be free of illness, and hand over your passport? How exactly do you...
A Road Twip with Elana Afrika
Where is the intersection between work and leisure? In a recent Twitter faux pas on the 'therapeutic value' of domestic work... we think Miss Elana Af...
Innocent Creative
It’s one thing to want to pursue a career you can get a degree in that your parents don’t quite approve of, like art history or theatre arts. It’s no...
Redress through Dress
The Nocebo effect, as panellist Timothy Maurice rightfully pointed out, is when a negative expectation of a phenomenon or experience causes it to have...
Our Urban Glitch
Urban design is, simply put, about public space: the spaces that we share. What we are comfortable to share is a reflection of the type of people that...
International Women's Day Special
To extend the International Women's Day celebrations from yesterday, The Ma(i)de Sessions dug up some good ol' inspiring moments of womanhood througho...
The Ma(i)de Sessions - Broken Home: Curse or Opportunity?
Innocent and Koketso are 21 year old twins. They have only known each other for a month. Innocent, a boy, lived with their mother and Koketso, a girl,...
The Wage to Live
Nigel "the white guy they don't want you to know about" Branken discusses how he got to pay a living wage, rather than the minimum wage to his then do...
The Help: Review Part 2
The ladies round up their impressions on The Help - the movie that tracks the journey of Skeeter, a young white female writer determined to write some...
The Help: Review Pt 1.
Over the next two weeks the ladies review The Help, a 2011 American film directed and written by Tate Taylor, and adapted from Kathryn Stockett's 2009...
School of Hustle
Lebo didn't matriculate with her class at age 18. Among other things, she fell pregnant and had to get her hustle on to support her child. This saw he...
Clothes by Christine
Ever heard of Clothes by Christine? Bet you haven't, so remember you heard it here first! Christine is a domestic worker by day and designer/tailor ex...
R.O.H.I.
Julie, much like her employer Penny, is a national asset - or what socio-business analysts might term a return on human investment (R.O.H.I. - it's to...
The Ma(i)de Model
The Ma(i)de Model unleashes the most underestimated in a society by harnessing the ironic yet insane power of silence, invisibility, and obscurity. We...
Ma(i)de Resolute
Not uninspired by Her Majesty of talk, Oprah Winfrey, the ladies kick off 2017 with lessons learnt from their favourite shows of 2016. These may look...
The Spatial Canvas
The Ma(i)de Sessions hosts explore architecture's social and psychological properties and the impact that it has on domestic workers in South Africa,...
On par?
Do you know the difference between the au pair industry and the domestic work industry? The origin might surprise you, but it will really clarify the...
Office Savvy with Nelly
Office cleaners are a huge asset to companies. Think about it. Who would want to work or spend their money in squalor? How would it affect your day if...