Developed, funded and helmed by Banathi Mgqoboka, Your Voice: The Student’s Agenda is a civic-minded experimental 8 to 10-minute journalistic genre-blending multimedia (video and audio) news report series. This first instalment of Your Voice was produced in partnership with The Oppidan Press at Rhodes University. In a grassroots campaign style, the series’ conceptual communicative ethos aimed to unpack various hard-hitting contemporary sociopolitical issues that affect the communal student experience. Rooted in the principles of Constructive, Engaged and Solutions Journalism practices, the series’ format progressively used a crowd-sourced approach to solicit problem-driven stories from over 7,000 students (via Twitter/X, Facebook and group email lists), whilst applying a solutions journ ...