Episode 8 Safeguard It Up Exclusive with Inventor of The Alerting Earpiece Bohlale Mphahlele
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Episode 8: Safeguard It Up Exclusive with Bohlale Mphahlele - Inventor of The Alerting Earpiece
Sunday 26th October 2025 / 04th Jumada al Ula 1447AH 14h00 - 15h00 (CAT)
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Episode 8: Safeguard It Up Exclusive with Bohlale Mphahlele - Inventor of The Alerting Earpiece
Sunday 26th October 2025 / 04th Jumada al Ula 1447AH 14h00 - 15h00 (CAT)
Transcript
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Dear listeners, it's our favorite day of the week. Yul Aad. Right now in South Africa, it's just past 10 past almost 11
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minutes past on this 4th day of Jamad Ola 14:47 ah which corresponds to Sunday the 26th of October 2025.
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I am Ziad Plachis and with me in studio are my co-hosts Nabia and Issa Plachis and brother Ziad will be looking after
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us this afternoon inshallah we are coming to you live from the radio Islam international studios in Johannesburg. Welcome to Level Up where
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we listen, learn and grow inshallah with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's guidance and we break down the week's news and talk
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about what really matters to young Muslims today. Our WhatsApp line is open. The number is 0727861548 or you can call in on 01854702.
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Nabia, it's been quite a busy week. It's that time of the year when everyone is rushing around trying to get things done
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before the end of this Gregorian calendar year.
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Yes, everyone's rushing. And I actually read somewhere that October and November is like the Thursdays of the months. And
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to top it off, the roads this weekend have been very very busy and been closed off. And to get here, what a mission.
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Alhamdulillah, we we made it. Alhamdulillah, we made it. We rode around Joberg.
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Sure. Just to get here. Yes. The the roads around Joberg, I should say, uh are busy this weekend. But hopefully
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wherever you are inshallah you are safe and you are driving safe. But before we get into today's program I noticed that
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you said jam ola and I know at the beginning of last month you asked if it's Rabel Aer Rabielani Rabioani
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as you and I learned that it was Rabel Aer growing up but Issa learned that it was Rabiothani. And I know you didn't
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ask now if it's Jamad Oola or Jamad O today because today's the fourth day you
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know it's the beginning of this month but um we actually got a few messages uh that we forgot to mention they some
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people said that they also say Rob just like us and there were a few who actually um said that uh they say Robi
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like you know the Islamic nursery rhyme these on the of Islam. I'm assuming they from the younger generation. I didn't
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ask the age generation and yeah and then someone messaged to say that both are correct. Alhamdulillah.
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Alhamdulillah. Okay. So it's clear. So so there you have it. Yes. Before you go into how we used to uh say this month and next month's name and whatever it is, whatever we all learned is correct.
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Alhamdulillah. Those are the acceptable names. Alhamdulillah. Okay. But yes, back to today's program.
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So yes, it's that time of the year, but also during this time of the year, we need to be more vigilant. So it, yes,
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there's a rushing to get things done before December, before people go on holiday, before there's close up, but this is when we need to be at our most
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um vigilant, right? We because crime seems to rise.
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It's along the year. Yes, it's throughout the year,
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but towards the end of the year and towards this time and then you'll also notice a lot of police on the road and
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you know um our runins within with them you don't know whether they shady police or real police. though we have to just
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always be safe and vigilant and um that's why today as part of our social justice theme we would like to talk
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about safety as you know safeguarded up so uh this week alhamdulillah we had the
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privilege of attending the singularity summit South Africa and one of the speakers and
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presentations that stood out was Bali
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the inventor of the alerting earpiece whom we will hear from a little later in
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the show. Right. But to start us off today, Issa is going to share some of the ways that he keeps safe. Inshallah.
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Inshallah.
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Yes. So, alhamdulillah, I'm getting a bit older. Uh, so my parents trust me a bit more. What is it?
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But I need to also be safer in everything I do. Inshallah.
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When I'm online, I make sure that I show my parents what I post, who I interact with,
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and I try not to keep any secrets from them. I keep my location off and if I'm
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posting it is uh usually done after I have left the place. I don't answer
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calls from unknown numbers or open messages or respond to people I don't
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know. I will even block um the number or account if my parents
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say they also don't know who the person or number is.
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out. I make sure that I stay close to my parents, usually holding one of their hands or walking next to them.
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And if I am away from them playing with my friends, I tell them where I
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am going and who I am with and try and make sure that I can still
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see them uh or they can see me.
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If I am in a familiar place and I can't see them, then I will either go back to
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where I saw them last, back to the car if it's close by, or to a place where I think they would be.
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When I'm at home, I make sure all the doors are locked, windows are adjusted,
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and curtains are closed. I also make sure that I put the phone on loud and
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keep it close to me with emergency contact numbers. When I'm in the car, I make sure that the doors are locked,
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windows are adjusted so I don't get hot and sweaty,
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and that there is nothing visible from the outside. I always check with my parents whatever I do, wherever I go, so they know what I'm doing.
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Shukran, Issa for that. Um, those are very good tips. Um, I think that, you
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know, like we as parents always um try to to help our kids. Um, you know, we
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try to teach our kids and we never hear from their perspective.
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you know what they actually know and what what they've actually learned. Um so if any of our listeners have tips as a child or even a parent um we would
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like to hear from you. Our WhatsApp line is 0727861548.
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Um or you can call in on 01854702 or you can even DM us on atom. We on
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social media. Yeah, I also enjoyed hearing those tips because, you know, as parents, we worry a lot about our children's safety, especially nowadays,
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and we teach our children certain safety things, but it's not often that we hear them back. I was a bit worried because there are a few things that um you know,
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that Issa said that I'm like, "Are you sure you do that?"
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Um, he tries to to not keep secrets from us.
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Yes, I heard that. He tries to um but uh I just have one question. Uh Isa, I can
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remember um I know a lot of people when they were younger they were asked this and I've seen it on like um shows and so
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on. What is your advice um regarding strangers? What about them?
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Um okay. So, what would you do if a stranger came up to you and um they offer you something or they said, "I
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know your parents. Come with me." I'll say, "My parents don't have friends."
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But seriously, I'll say, "Who are you?
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Where did you come from?" and scream even though I can't. But I practice all the time. That's what I'll do.
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So, you'll scream. You you practice screaming so that you can scream. Okay.
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Um should we test it?
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Okay. Um is I see you received a message.
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Yes. Um so it says here, I enjoy listening to Issa's tips. Um I give my
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children Air Tags. I think that's that Apple those Apple things. What What is that? those Apple devices.
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They're like little discs or something to go into your ears. No, no, no. Oh,
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it's um you can put it like on your key ring or something. Oh, okay. So, like if you lose your keys.
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If I go to a mall, just in case we get separated and their phones die because they're always playing game games on them.
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Um well, most kids play games on them. I don't know. On their phone. Yeah.
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But I think it's quite a clever idea. Um it's all also like a bit of a backup plan. So if the phone does die then um
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you know you have that uh air tag and I suppose it's it's not as heavy as carrying around a pager or walkie-talkie. Do people still do that?
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I don't know but I I have seen and I know some people actually use it with their pets with like dogs and cats. They put they put them on their collars.
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Oh I think I have an idea of what you're talking about. Yes, that's a very good idea. Um, regarding the peg journal,
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I've never had one, so I don't know what that's like, but um, uh, a walkie-talkie was always my was always in my mind, but
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yeah, you're right. It is a bit heavy to, um, carry around. Um, I see I also have a messenger. Um, I've taught my
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family if that if they ever get lost in the mall that we frequent to go to our local coffee shop as the owner knows
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myself and my family and that they should get them to call me. That's a very good tip. Alhamdulillah.
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Yeah. So, um, if you're going to a place that you frequent a lot and especially malls here in Johannesburg, um, they're quite big. uh and maybe you're walking
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as a family and then um they look at something and you busy carrying on walking and then all of a sudden you
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look back and you can't see your child and your child can't see you. So you do get you know separated at times and not
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many children um who are younger would walk around with cell phones or pages or walkie-talkies. So it would be a good
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idea to find like a um common spot, a common place. So this person said that they go to their local coffee shop. So
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where they const they they like go to constantly and the owner knows them. So then they would tell their child to go there and um you know speak to the
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owner. So the owner would either keep them until the the parents come collect them or call them if they you know have their number and so on.
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Yeah. I think also uh I think the key there is to actually um introduce yourself to local businesses um so that
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you also know them you know in case you need I would never think of actually um from the community cuz I mean I don't
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think when they said local coffee shop it could be we you assuming it's a it's a mall.
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I I did assume that but I mean no wait it says here if they ever get lost in the mall that they that we frequent. Oh, okay. Oh, okay. No, when I
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heard local coffee shop, I pictured like a little town. Okay. And Yeah. Okay. Okay. All right. That's interesting.
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But yeah, I think Yeah, that is quite quite something. Isa, um I think there's another one. Do you want to read it?
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Yeah. Yes. It says, "I have taught my children mine and my husband's phone
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number so they can call us if they are lost." I also know your guys phone numbers.
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That is a very rare skill to have nowadays, especially because people just take people's numbers down and then they just put it in their phone or they they
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don't even take it down. They they just mis call or something like that and it's saved on the phone. It's saved via email. And so not many people will look
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at the number and then memorize it. And especially, you know, children,
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they won't memorize it. And that's a very rare skill to have. But it's actually a very good skill to do and and
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to have to memorize your parents' phone numbers. Teach your children their um
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your cell phone numbers so that um they can call you or they can get someone to call you if they gone out like like I
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said if you like this um person said before that they go to the local coffee shop. So you know if they know the
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person even if they don't know the person they can ask them please can I call my parents and then you know maybe they have a a landline no one has a
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landline anymore but I mean from their phone from their phone maybe and then you know they can say they can call that their parents from that person's phone
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but I think also besides just knowing the number which I think is a rare skill like you say cuz people are like rather fascinated when um I'm giving my number
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out and then Issa just uh chimes in and then when we go to the shops like especially u what is it Super Spar I think they
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they usually have um this rewards program where you can give your number and then we start off and then Issa comes in and chimes at the end with the
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rest of the number and they look at him like oh my word you know your parents'
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number yeah so even even with that but I think on true caller itself if you I'm not
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100% sure But I'm sure I've tried it before. If you search a person's name,
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so if they know your name and your name is of you on True Caller, for example,
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and you have um your name saved as your name and surname or whatever it is, they can actually search that. So you know,
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like say for example, they go now to this local coffee shop and the coffee shop owner has True Caller. You have True Caller and your name and number is
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on there. So the coffee shop owner can search your name on True Caller on True Caller and your number could come up. So it's almost like a directory, you know,
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like a white page. No, no, no. I'm just saying that besides just knowing
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the number they should know like Issa knows our names are not just mom and dad. Yeah. They should know the parents name.
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That's important. know their full name and know so you should like make it like a game. teach your children, you know,
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what's mom's name? Uh what's dad's name,
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full name and surname, what's your name and what's your surname? And then what's my number? Let's say it back to us.
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But even not just parents, cuz sometimes it could be a guardian, sometimes it could be a grandparent,
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aunt, uncle, whatever. And um you know like I think besides the fact of it
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being a safety thing it it also helps them with their brain you know like stimulates their brain just remembering
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those numbers and you know like uh trying to remember them and you know it's it's a process.
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Yes. Always remembering information.
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Yes. Alhamdulillah. I think that's very important. But uh we'll go to a break now and then when we get back we will
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continue with our discussion about safety and safety tips and then we can also hear about the alerting earpiece
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from and welcome back to level up. If you've
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just tuned in, we have been talking all about safety. I shared some of my tips
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uh our listeners have as well. And if you would like to share some of your
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tips of how you stay safe or how you keep your family safe. Our
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WhatsApp line is open. The number is 0727861548 or you can call in on 011854722.
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Yes, I think um if anybody does have some safety tips um you're more than welcome to share them with us. Whether it's at home, at work, at school,
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online, or even in your car, you know,
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there's there's lots of um tips that you can share online. I mean from your car about your car.
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That that's true. I think the car safety tips is very important especially like I mentioned this time of the year. We need
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to always be vigilant in terms of everything, you know, at home, but especially, you know, if you're out commuting and traveling, you have to be
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very um careful. So maybe we can do a segment on it in the future. Inshallah.
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Inshallah. Yes, we we definitely can um do that. I think there's many tips um for while you're driving. um if you are
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in certain high-risk situations um what you can do to teach your children how to get out of those situations you know like fun ways um you
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know to make it easier uh inshallah um but right now I think let's go to hear from Bosale Impashle the inventor of the
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alerting earpiece um so 16-year-old Bosale won the national recognition and
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a bronze medal at the ESCOM expo for young scientists this earlier this month for her wearable that when triggered
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will record and share valuable information like your GPS location with your with your contacts as well as
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authorities. She spoke at this week Singularity South Africa Summit at the Santon Convention Center and this was some of what she had to say about why
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she invented the alerting earpiece and how it works. Now I want to take you into the darker part of our reality.
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This is not easy, but we must face it because if we don't, we will never build what needs to be built.
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Gender- based violence,
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crime, rape, human trafficking, they are not distant issues. We know about them.
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They are our reality, our heartbreak.
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They are our sisters, our brothers, our young girls, our neighbors with dreams
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and boys who have lost trust in the system.
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In South Africa alone, every day 166
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girls are raped and cases of rape are reported. In the past year alone, 42,500
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women and girls were victims of rape.
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957 women were murdered.
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and 1,567 survived attempted murder.
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10,191 rapes were reported
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and human trafficking continues to strip people's dignity.
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Multiple cases involving hundreds of adults,
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millions of children reported across South Africa.
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This numbers are not just statistics. They are our brothers, our sisters,
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our family. They are lives stolen, futures lost, and dreams shattered.
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So I ask you, what would you do if those numbers represented your sister, your
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child, your best friend, your family member?
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What would you do if she couldn't reach safety simply because there was no reliable call? There was no reliable
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anything to call or anyone who is reliable to help them.
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We are often told report it, trust the system. But the heartbreaking truth is that the systems the system fails us.
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Investigations take years. Many never see justice.
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This is our reality. The silence is complicity.
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If this is really our reality,
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then invention is not a luxury. It is an agency and we must make sure that we
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support innovation. At 16 years old, I decided to be part of the change. I did
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not be want to be part of the victims of change. So I developed a letting air
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piece. The Allet piece is a smart safety wearable designed to protect potential victims of gender- based violence,
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kidnapping, and human trafficking. It's a discrete worn like an earring, a normal earpiece.
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When triggered, it sends time distress alerts to family members. It has GPS. It
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has GPS location audio evidence that is trusted and will be sent to your trusted
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contacts and authorities as well. Think about it. If just a small innovation,
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a device like this could help even a fraction of over 40,000 people.
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and solve annual raids in South Africa. Thousands of lives will be protected,
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millions of families safeguarded.
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Globally, over 736 million women, nearly one in in uh three
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have been subjected to physical or sexual violence at least once in their lifetime.
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This is a movement. A movement to use technology, empathy,
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and African creativity to restore dignity and safety in our society.
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Imagine integrating AI to predict danger zones.
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IoT networks to send alerts instantly.
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Blockchain to secure victims reports and evidence.
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This is the power of exponential thinking and the kind of future that the Alerting
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Air is pioneering for rural girls like me and every woman in danger and for humanity as a whole.
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Innovation must not just make life convenient. It must protect lives.
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It must stand where systems have failed. It must bring dignity back to humanity.
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This is where innovation becomes an ally of dignity.
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This is the story of alertating air in peace and this is the beginning of a
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safer South Africa and a and a safer world.
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Alham alhamdulillah what an amazing piece of tech and um
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I think also the fact that she's South African plays a very important role. You know, everybody thinks South Africa is
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um deteriorating deteriorate deterior I can't get the word but um there's so
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much to love about South Africa and we've got these young minds. Uh Issa sitting across me inshallah he's also
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part of the change. Um this was just a snippet of what she said. She she um if you heard the full I think it was like
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about half an hour um uh talk which we we will try and uh maybe put it up on our YouTube channel uh given the
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permission but um she went to say that pe people like us growing up in the '9s
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um we were there to fight for certain things right and now these what do they
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call Gen Gen Z's Gen Z and Gen alpha Yeah, they are the ones that are uh now making the change.
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They are doing things. Um like like she has she's gone and she's invented something. And I mean it it could be anybody listening to the show right now.
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This girl like she said she's from a rural limpopo um where apparently the education is not not that good. You
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know, we were talking about the education, the difference between a public school and a private school. And I mean she she's not going to a private school, she's going to a so-called rural school.
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And she came up with this this invention. Alhamdulillah. So so we're proud um Isa's wearing a South African t-shirt as well. We're proud to be South
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African, you know, to have these things come out because this could impact globally, you know, like like she said,
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it's not just for South Africans. It's it's it's a a worldwide problem. But I like that you said, you know, that it
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could impact um globally, but we start here because that is actually what we need to do. Yes.
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And many people don't seem to realize it because they want to always they hear what's in the news internationally and they want to go and help and you know go
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do some or send money for for for something overseas um you know internationally. But in order to help,
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first look to yourself, look to your the people around you, look to your surroundings, look close by. They always say, you know, like it starts at home.
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Charity begins at home. You know, um this innovation, alhamdulillah, she started at home. She started in her rural area. She started there. Then from there, you can move on. So start small.
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Start where you are. Yeah. And also looking at the fact that you're looking at what are the current problems that
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that um you know us as a nation is are experiencing
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and then taking that and finding I mean when when we went to these expos these young scientist expose we were um doing
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stuff that you know like everybody does you do these turbines or these um battery charge something or you know like it's not
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making volcan volcano volcanoes and you know like the the usual stuff um and here you have someone
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that has uh you know like invented something that could change lives. I actually uh remembered something also
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from the summit that we heard this week where um someone I think from US said uh
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Africa and all developing countries tend to make the most meaningful innovations. Yes.
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Because do you remember that part?
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because they said you you look at um people there in you know the developed so-called developed countries um US and
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UK and so on and you'll see that they're making apps more apps where you take a photo of something and sharing and photo
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sharing and photo and this and that you know things that have been done before but then you come here or you go to other countries where they don't think
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much of you know and the people there are actually creating meaningful innov invent inventions, you know,
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something that helps not just them but could help internationally, you know.
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No, there's there's a wealth of knowledge here in Africa. Um, not just in South Africa, in in a lot of the
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African countries. um they are coming out with inventions or even if it's just an app but an app to help people you
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know to better their lives like she said um you know like it mustn't just be convenient it it must have some sort of impact you
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know in people's lives and I think that's that's very important. Um we haven't touched on the news yet and um I
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know because today is social justice we there's a lot of things happening around Palestine. I know we saw um Ivonne
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Bradley the British journalist she was here in South Africa. We actually saw her at Kuruba the other day. Um and she's gone down I think to Durban. But
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last night um at the also at the Santon Convention Center was the 23rd Nelson Mandela annual lecture and Francesca
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Albanese the Italian human rights lawyer um was there. She's the um United Nations special reperator on uh on
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occupied Palestin Palestinian territories and she spoke there and um I don't know if if all our listeners have
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watched it or listened to it. Um I know lots of people including Radio Islam had live streamed or you know shared clips
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but there there was a video as well up on YouTube. I think they were live streaming it on YouTube.
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um very heartfelt, very uh impactful,
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very thoughtprovoking because just I'm not going to go deep into it. Um but she
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was talking about um how the world is watching its conscious collapse,
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you know, like just like just that sentence. Um and then obviously she went on to say, you know, like South Africans
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are are doing good things. I don't want to misquote her but she was basically saying that uh it doesn't just help with
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the things that we are doing. there's there should be like sanctions. there should be more um you know that that we
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do against not against Israel but you know like for for Palestine basically um and given our history as well of
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apartheate we should be and um the the sad part is um after the
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the her lecture um she was very distraught because she was actually
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given papers um court papers Right. And um the I don't know if the investigation
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has gone further who uh ordered these papers to be given um which country you know who the foreign body that it came
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from. But I just want to read this um statement quickly. said the Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development,
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Miss Mamoko Kubaya Kubay notes with regret the unauthorized letter issued by an official in the Department of Justice
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and Constitutional Development that led to a sheriff approaching the United Nations special repured
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Palestine Palestinian territories, Miss Francesca Albanese to serve her with court papers. Yesterday the department
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has established that the service of process was effected without the knowledge or approval of either the minister of justice and constitutional
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development or the director general who serves as the head of the central authority as is required by section 402
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of the superior courts act 2013 act 10 of 2013. Section 40 uh brackets 2 requires that a request for the service
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of any civil process on a person in the republic reser received from any state or territory is transmitted to the
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registra of a division by the director general of the department with an inimation that the minister considers it
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desirable that effect should be given to such service. Service of process is the formal legal procedure of delivering
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court documents such as a summon to a person based on a request from another country. Neither the director general
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nor the minister gave effect to the above request for service of the process which was a request purportedly made by
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the Christian friends of Israeli communities Christians for Israel USA.
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The attempt to serve Miss Albanese did not comply with the required prescripts.
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Uh the minister has instructed that this irregular service of process be withdrawn and extends an unconditional
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apology to Miss Albanese to the Nelson Mandela Foundation and the United Nations. The minister has instructed the
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acting director general to institute an internal consequence management process and she will fully deal with this matter upon her return from the socialist
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republic of Vietnam where she is currently attending the UN conference and signing ceremony on the United Nations Convention Against Cyber Crime.
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The minister reaffirms the department's commitment to upholding the rule of law,
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respect for international law, and South Africa's diplomatic and international obligations.
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So with that being said, we know that they have said that um you know that it was the wrong process,
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but at the same time they're trying to obviously silence her in whatever work she's trying to do. And there's actually
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a social media campaign going on from 10:00 a.m. this morning to 10:00 p.m.
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tonight. It's called a social media storm where they're asking people to share, repost, and make this go viral.
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So use the hashtags hands of Franchesca Albanese #Freep Palestine # standwith Franchesca and what you need to do is
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just post together just flood the timeline um dominate the conversation make censorship basically impossible and
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just join join the conversation be loud be everywhere #defend human rights um share tiles hashtags your own message,
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Palestine content, whatever you want to.
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Um, tag your friends, tag the media, tag leaders, you know, just like they say, social media storm and just run with it.
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Inshallah.
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Inshallah. Yes. There's unity in everyone coming together to do this.
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Inshallah. Um, we usually always see the messages after. So, I want you to check,
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please. Is there any messages before we go?
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I've got a message here. I can send it to you. Okay. Okay.
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Okay. So, before we go, we have a message here. I keep One second. Okay. I keep pepper spray and a taser in my bag.
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Okay. So, this is in terms of the safety tips um that someone sent through. I keep pepper spray and a taser in my bag at
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all times. That's a very that's very good to do to keep, you know, um especially for us ladies, you know, to
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have that handy. even u carrying a whistle if you're out in a public space,
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you know, if you're maybe jogging or in a place without a bag. So, keep a whistle, you know, around your neck or something. You know, the other day I was
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um in one of the malls and um some some lady was um at a store selling, you
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know, all of these things, pepper spray and so on, called out to me and said,
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"You should really have this." I turned and I looked and I said, "What is that that I should really have?" And she said, "Pepper spray." So I said yes I
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should really have a pepper spray. So make it more accessible inshallah so that everyone is able to afford to have
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every especially every woman is uh available sorry able to have a pepper
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spray on them and also like I said carry around a whistle um on your neck.
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No I think we we should talk about those alternatives to carrying around weapons.
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So, the taser, other protective accessories, um, we should talk about it. There was somebody else at the
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Singularity uh, summit that actually spoke about that. So I think in a in a future episode inshallah um we can
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continue this this um conversation of safety and actually bring that in because there are uh
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besides the alerting earpiece there are other forms of protective um accessories that you could have with you
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and also like you know you mentioned earlier and Isa mentioned in the car. So also while you're in a car, what are those safety tips? You know, while
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you're at home, um you know, you would think that your home is is a safe space,
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but you know, what do you do to you know, make sure that you are safe there at home as well.
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Yeah. And then once again, if our dear listeners do have any tips,
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alhamdulillah, Shukran for sending the tips today and that we actually got um to see them and read them out. Um but if
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you have any safety tips or even products maybe um that you want to like to share with us uh maybe during the week um you can do on our social media pages. We at iilovs.com we on Instagram,
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Facebook x, LinkedIn, YouTube, Tik Tok as well as threads. Yeah. Alhamdulillah. Alhamdulillah.
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Thank you Issa for your um safety tips.
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Thank you to all our listeners for their safety tips. Keep them coming and inshallah keep safe. And in terms of um
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social justice, you know, keep uh keep those minds working and innovating things that will assist. And also so
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also remember to keep your own mind safe by being aware, always being aware and alert of yourself, your surroundings and
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so on. And uh yes, in terms of global um you know, there's always social um justice that needs to be served. you
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know, while we're trying our best to make sure that justice is served,
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especially, you know, where it's needed internationally, you know, as most as a global ummah, I think in order for us to
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be united and to be able to sort things out abroad, we need to actually sort things out at home. We need to remember,
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inshallah, we need to remember to start small, you know, but mostly most importantly, start at home. Everything starts at home, you know. Like I said,
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be more alert with yourself and your surroundings um with your family and also in terms of everything start with your family. you know that with Allah's
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will you created so start with them be alert and present present with him not just you know like being present but
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being emotionally present as well you know be aware be considerate um yeah you know
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the best charity is that which is given when one is self-sufficient and start with those under your care I have to say that hadith that I saw so
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yeah it's it's to do with everything as well. Support as well. And support is not just giving money as well. It's being um being there, being present,
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isn't it?
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So yeah, alhamdulillah for all the tips to our brothers for looking after us
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behind the scenes this afternoon and to all our dear listeners for joining us on this lovely Sunday afternoon where we learned how to safeguard it up.
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Inshallah. Join us every Sunday,
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inshallah, from 2 to 3:00 p.m. right here on Radio Islam International,
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from myself, Nabiha, from Zad, and from Issa.
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We hope you enjoy your Sunday, and we wish you a wonderful week ahead, inshallah. Amen.
