The colourful Makarapa hard hat is a helmet worn mostly by miners and construction workers while on the job. For many years, South African children thought of this hat as what their fathers wear when they leave home for months on end to go and work in the mines. But in South Africa today, the hat is very popular amongst soccer fans and now represents something far more .

The KNN journalists are Metrix Chipeta, Z Kids News (MUVI TV), Zambia; Mwaka Nakweti, Z Kids News (MUVI TV), Zambia; Helio Manhica, Telejunior (STV), Mozambique; and Marcelino Cuna, Telejunior (STV), Mozambique. Their news items about the World Cup Soccer are available to all KNN programs, all youth news programs in Europe and 24 television stations in Africa  and America. So, the whole world can watch them! Since 2004, KNN initiates kids news programs in Asia, Latin America, Africa and – soon- in the Middle East. KNN is an initiative of Free Voice.