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Resetting: Living healthy to avoid preventable diseases such as obesity and hypertension
Guest: Dr Darren Green, Medical Doctor and a Wellness Advocate
Nthabi Mabote
Ayurveda is the oldest traditional or ‘alternative’ medicine originating in Tamal, India and it’s a teaching of right relationship. Ayurveda does not diagnose or prescribe like Western medicine does but rather gives a language of patterns that exist in the body such as dry, wet or heat patterns that coincide with what the west for example would diagnose as flu, congestion and inflammation.
Following her own emergency gut surgery (laparotomy) in March of 2022, the short of the long of that was to remove above 1.7 m of ill-health small intestine. This happened in the first term of her undergrad studies in biological sciences. Following this trauma, she became particularly curious in the study of the gut-brain axis, natural sources of neurotransmitters that we consume and how we should consume them as recommended by dieticians.
Dr Priyal Modi, Integrative Medical Doctor | Internationally certified advanced breathwork practitioner | Hatha yoga teacher
Grief and transition - two words that can feel like a heavyweight combo, especially when love is involved. You're not alone in navigating the choppy waters of heartache and change. One powerful tool to help you stay afloat. Breath work.
Breath work is more than just a buzzword; it's a gamechanger. By focusing on your breath, you can calm your nervous system, quiet your mind, and tap into your inner strength. When grief hits, your breath can be your anchor. Here's how to use it: Find a quiet spot, sit comfortably, and close your eyes. Inhale deeply through your nose, filling your lungs fully. Hold for a beat and then exhale slowly through your mouth. Repeat this a few times, focusing on the sensation of the breath moving in and out of your body.
Guest; Gugu Mbuku, Author, Speaker & Thought Leader
Gugu Mbuku, known to many as Pastor G, is a seasoned speaker, author, and thought leader whose work bridges faith, leadership, personal development, and emotional intelligence. With years of experience engaging diverse audiences from church congregations to corporate executives he is known for delivering transformative messages that inspire clarity, courage, and intentional living.
His writing and speaking address the internal and external barriers that hinder growth, helping individuals navigate life transitions with wisdom and confidence. Pastor G’s approach combines storytelling, psychological insight, spiritual principles, and practical frameworks that are both relatable and actionable. “I Had to Leave to Live” reflects his passion for helping people break free from limiting environments, mindsets, and patterns, and step into lives marked by purpose, alignment, and wholeness.
Guest: Nomsa Manaka, Cancer Survivor, Dancer, Choreographer and Actress
Community is essential for women living with breast cancer, providing emotional support, practical assistance, and shared experiences. The diagnosis can feel isolating, but community helps reduce loneliness and fosters a sense of belonging. Connections with others facing similar struggles enable open discussions about fears, treatments, and recovery. Support groups, both online and in-person, allow for sharing personal stories and coping strategies, empowering women and fostering resilience.
Community resources also offer vital information about medical options, wellness programs, and local support services, aiding women in navigating their treatment journeys. Participation in community events, like walks or fundraisers, promotes awareness and instills a sense of purpose and collective action.
Community alleviates the burdens of breast cancer by offering emotional support, shared knowledge, and a network that enhances women's overall well-being throughout their journey.
Guest; Bineli Dovhani: CEO - EASTC Technocentric Varsity
Primary School Principal - Mr Nyaka
Early childhood is a rapid, magical window when the brain forms countless connections, shaping who a child becomes. In these first years, children acquire essential skills—language, motor control, social interaction, and emotional regulation that act as building blocks for later learning. A toddler who learns to express needs with words gains confidence, fuelling curiosity and problem‑solving in school. Mastering fine‑motor tasks like stacking blocks or drawing lines sharpens hand‑eye coordination, laying groundwork for writing, sports, and everyday activities.
These early abilities ripple into the future, influencing academic achievement, social competence, and health outcomes. Strong early communication leads to fluent reading and writing, opening knowledge across subjects. Play‑cultivated social skills sharing, turn‑taking, empathy—translate into better teamwork and leadership, while emotional regulation helps navigate stress and build resilient relationships. Quality early experiences narrow achievement gaps, giving every child a fairer start and reducing long‑term societal costs. Investing in early skill development nurtures a foundation for lifelong learning, adaptability, and well‑being.
Guest; Matlhodi Ntuli
The Humanistic Astrologer: Love compatibility is more than a buzzword; it’s the quiet rhythm syncing two hearts. Understanding shared values, communication, emotional needs, and quirks creates a language that turns daily moments into connection, not conflict. Recognising compatibility early acts like a compass, highlighting natural clicks and areas needing intentional navigation, preventing mismatched expectations. Aware partners leverage strengths, gently address differences spontaneity versus routine, for example: crafting balance and empathy by seeing actions as core needs, not selfishness. This builds trust, as alignment on life goals, family values, and stress handling makes emotional investment feel safe. Compatibility isn’t a checklist; it’s a dynamic where both feel seen, heard, valued, encouraging open dialogue and curiosity. Over time, this intentional approach deepens intimacy, reduces drama, and transforms challenges into collaborative problem‑solving, turning trial‑and‑error into a harmonious partnership where both grow together, hand in hand.
Guest: Nomonde Mgiqwa, Psychologist Slow mornings are more than just a trend; they're a gamechanger for your well-being. In a world that worships the hustle, taking it easy in the morning can be revolutionary. By slowing down, you're not just reclaiming your time – you're training your brain to prioritise what truly matters.
Imagine waking up without the jolt of an alarm, sipping your coffee without a phone in hand, and letting the day unfold at its own pace. This isn't about laziness; it's about setting the tone for a more focused, grounded day. Studies show that morning mindfulness practices can reduce stress, improve mood, and boost creativity.
A slow morning isn't about following a rigid routine; it's about creating space for intention. Maybe it's journaling, meditating, or simply watching the sunrise. These moments help anchor your mind, setting you up for success.
Guest: Dr Mathole Motshekga lll, Historian & Cultural Heritage expert
Cultural heritage is more than just traditions and customs – it's a profound influence on our health and wellbeing. The values, beliefs, and practices passed down through generations shape our relationship with our bodies, our communities, and the world around us. In many indigenous cultures, the connection to land and ancestors is a cornerstone of mental and physical health. Traditional practices like meditation, yoga, and tai chi, rooted in Eastern cultures, have been shown to reduce stress and improve overall wellbeing. Even the food we eat, often a reflection of our cultural heritage, can be a source of comfort and nourishment.
But cultural heritage can also present challenges. Intergenerational trauma, displacement, and cultural suppression can have lasting impacts on mental health. The loss of traditional practices and languages can erode a sense of identity and belonging. The good news is that reconnecting with cultural heritage can be a powerful tool for healing. By embracing our roots, we can tap into resilience, community support, and a deeper sense of purpose. This might mean learning a traditional language, participating in cultural ceremonies, or simply sharing stories with elders.
As we navigate the complexities of modern life, it's clear that cultural heritage is a vital part of our wellbeing. By honouring and celebrating our diverse backgrounds, we can build stronger, more compassionate communities.
Guest; Dr Mathole Motshekga lll, Historian & Cultural Heritage expert
Cultural heritage is more than just traditions and customs – it's a profound influence on our health and wellbeing. The values, beliefs, and practices passed down through generations shape our relationship with our bodies, our communities, and the world around us. In many indigenous cultures, the connection to land and ancestors is a cornerstone of mental and physical health. Traditional practices like meditation, yoga, and tai chi, rooted in Eastern cultures, have been shown to reduce stress and improve overall wellbeing. Even the food we eat, often a reflection of our cultural heritage, can be a source of comfort and nourishment.
But cultural heritage can also present challenges. Intergenerational trauma, displacement, and cultural suppression can have lasting impacts on mental health. The loss of traditional practices and languages can erode a sense of identity and belonging. The good news is that reconnecting with cultural heritage can be a powerful tool for healing. By embracing our roots, we can tap into resilience, community support, and a deeper sense of purpose. This might mean learning a traditional language, participating in cultural ceremonies, or simply sharing stories with elders.
As we navigate the complexities of modern life, it's clear that cultural heritage is a vital part of our wellbeing. By honouring and celebrating our diverse backgrounds, we can build stronger, more compassionate communities.
Ferdinand W. Gernandt, Award-winning writer, producer and director
Ferdinand Gernandt's harrowing journey is a testament to the power of faith and resilience. Wrongfully accused and imprisoned in 2024 for allegations of fraud, intimidation, and theft, Gernandt's life was turned upside down. But in the depths of darkness, he found a glimmer of light.
His debut autobiography, The God Assignment, chronicles his transformation from victim to vessel, reframing prison as a pulpit and trauma as training. Through 30 daily reflections, Gernandt shares his raw honesty and bold spiritual insights, offering a message of hope to those battling injustice.
Zwelethu Bashman, Managing Director of MSD Sub-Saharan Africa
Cervical cancer is a preventable and treatable disease, yet it remains a leading cause of cancer-related deaths among women in South Africa. The good news is that with the right tools and collective action, elimination is within reach. This isn't just a health issue; it's a moral and socioeconomic imperative that demands decisive policy action, sustained funding, and coordinated efforts across sectors.
Guest; Chevonne Ramharuk, Founder & Yoga Instructor: Kyma Yoga Flow
Colour has a profound influence on our emotions, perceptions and behaviours, often operating beneath our conscious awareness. As Pantone's 2026 Colour of the Year, Cloud Dancer (11-4201) embodies a soothing serenity, inviting us to pause, reflect and recharge in a world fraught with distractions.
This gentle, airy white hue is more than just a visual delight; it's a psychological balm. According to Leatrice Eiseman, Executive Director of the Pantone Colour Institute, Cloud Dancer represents a promise of clarity, encouraging us to simplify, focus and listen to our inner voices. Its subtlety inspires creativity, allowing our minds to wander and innovate.
The emotional resonance of colour is deeply rooted in our biology and culture. Research suggests that light colours like Cloud Dancer evoke feelings of positivity, calmness and hope, while darker shades often elude negativity and sadness. Saturation and hue also play significant roles, with vibrant colours like red and orange stimulating high-arousal emotions, and cool tones like blue and green promoting relaxation.
Cloud Dancer's selection reflects a collective yearning for simplicity, mindfulness and calm in an increasingly chaotic world. As we navigate the complexities of modern life, this colour reminds us that stillness and introspection are essential to our well-being.
Guest; Dr Caylin Goodchild, Registered Dietitian
As the calendar flips to a new year, many of us resolve to eat healthier, but the enthusiasm often fades as the months go by. The key to success lies in setting realistic goals and cultivating habits that nourish both body and mind.
Establishing a healthy relationship with food is a journey, not a destination. It's about making conscious choices that prioritize whole, nutrient-dense foods, while still allowing for flexibility and enjoyment. Start by identifying your why: what drives you to want to eat healthier? Is it more energy, better skin, or simply feeling more confident in your own skin?
Once you've pinpointed your motivation, set specific, achievable goals. Instead of vowing to cut out entire food groups, aim to incorporate more fruits and veggies into your daily routine. Try adding a serving of leafy greens to your breakfast omelette or swapping your afternoon snack for a crunchy apple.
Building habits takes time and patience, so focus on progress, not perfection. Begin with small, manageable changes that you can sustain over time. Prep meals in advance, explore new recipes, and don't be too hard on yourself when you encounter setbacks. Every healthy choice is a step in the right direction.
One effective strategy is to focus on addition rather than subtraction. Instead of cutting out foods you love, try adding healthy options to your diet. This mindset shift can help you feel more empowered and less deprived.
Surround yourself with support and resources to help you stay on track. Share your goals with a friend or family member and ask for their encouragement. Explore cookbooks, blogs, or social media accounts that inspire you to cook and eat well.
As you work towards your goals, celebrate your successes and learn from your setbacks. With time and consistency, healthy eating will become second nature, and you'll be well on your way to a happier, healthier you.
Richard Sutton, Author & Advisor on Resilience and Human Performance
As we step into a new year, it's tempting to clench onto our carefully crafted plans and formulas, hoping they'll shield us from the unpredictability of life. But the truth is, "shift" happens – and it's precisely this unpredictability that makes life so rich and transformative.
Richard Sutton, a seasoned expert in personal growth and transformation, offers 12 powerful tools to help you navigate life's twists and turns with greater ease, calm, and resilience. Rather than resisting change, these tools will empower you to harness its energy and emerge stronger, wiser, and more whole.
His approach is rooted in the understanding that life is inherently dynamic, and that our ability to adapt and flow is key to our well-being. His 12 tools are designed to help you cultivate inner strength, clarity, and peace, even during chaos.
As you embark on this new year, remember that it's okay to shift, to evolve, and to let go. With Sutton's 12 tools, you'll be well on your way to creating a life that's not just resilient, but radiant – a life that reflects your deepest values and aspirations.
Would you like to know more about Richard Sutton's 12 tools or explore specific areas of personal growth?
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The practices we can all use to create some mental clarity and space and up in the new year
Guest; Dr Anesu Mbizvo, Co-owner and founder of The Nest Space, the first black and female-run yoga and wellness centre
Plot: Amidst the buzz of resolutions and goal setting, it's easy to get caught up in the noise and lose sight of what's truly essential. Yet, this is precisely the moment to prioritise mental clarity and space – the fertile ground from which true growth and transformation emerge.
Creating inner space is not about achieving a state of blankness or zero; it's about cultivating a sense of awareness, calm, and connection to ourselves and the world around us. It's about recognizing that our minds are like gardens – they require tending, pruning, and nurturing to flourish.
So, what practices can we weave into our daily lives to foster this inner clarity and space? The key lies in simplicity and intention. It might be as straightforward as taking a few conscious breaths each morning, setting aside time for journaling or meditation, or simply paying attention to our thoughts and emotions without judgment.
Let’s explore specific practices or strategies for cultivating mental clarity and space with Dr Anesu Mbizvo, Co-owner and founder of The Nest Space, the first black and female-run yoga and wellness centre
Discussion: Pros and Cons of HRT
Natasha Sass, Founder of N-Lightened Self | Naturopath | Integrative Health & Empowerment Specialist | Trauma-Informed Practitioner
Resetting: Religion’s role in social justice…Can we pray the war away?
Guest: Richard “Rick” Raubenheimer, President of the South African Secular Society (SASS)
Guest: Andiswa P Gebashe, SA Sign language Interpreter
September is recognised as Deaf Awareness Month, a time dedicated to raising awareness about the experiences, challenges, and achievements of the Deaf community. The month aims to promote understanding and inclusion, highlighting the importance of accessibility, communication rights, and cultural recognition.
Throughout this month, various organisations and communities organise events, campaigns, and educational programs for a greater understanding of deaf culture and to advocate for equal opportunities. These efforts include promoting sign language learning, improving access to technology such as hearing aids and captioning services, and advocating for policy changes to ensure accessibility in public spaces, education, and the workplace.
While significant progress has been made, there is still much work to do. Many deaf individuals face barriers in communication, employment, and social inclusion. Efforts continue to focus on expanding sign language interpretation services, ensuring that emergency and medical services are accessible, and promoting inclusive education systems. Advocacy for the abolishment of discrimination and the recognition of deaf culture as a vibrant community also remains a priority.
Guest: Dr Busisiwe Nyokayamanzi Zulu, Homeopath Practitioner and a Graduated Sangoma
Let's embark on a meaningful dialogue that celebrates the unique space you occupy as both a skilled homeopath practitioner and a graduated sangoma. Your journey bridges two rich worlds. Western medicine’s scientific rigor and African traditional healing’s deep-rooted spiritual wisdom. This convergence embodies a holistic approach to health, recognising that true wellness often lies at the intersection of physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being.
In this conversation, we will explore how these two paradigms can beautifully complement each other, fostering a more inclusive and empathetic approach to care. Western medicine’s precise diagnostics and pharmacology can work harmoniously with the sangoma’s intuitive rituals, herbal knowledge, and spiritual interventions. Together, they can address not just symptoms, but the root causes of illness body, mind, and soul.
Guest: Rethabile Moshoeshoe-Molapisane, Pharmaceutical Scientist, PhD candidate at TUT
Plot: Indigenous food holds significant importance in combating obesity within black communities because it often embodies a balanced, nutrient-dense, and culturally relevant dietary tradition. These foods are typically less processed and rich in whole ingredients like vegetables, fruits, lean proteins, and healthy fats, which can help in managing weight and reducing the risk of obesity-related diseases.
Resetting: Staycation as a form of resetting, rebooting and realignment
Guest: Lindi Mthethwa, Regional Director of Sales & Marketing at Sandton Minor Plot: Staycations have become an increasingly popular way to unwind and rejuvenate without the need for travel. They serve as a powerful tool for resetting, realignment, and rebooting, especially when someone feels overstimulated by the constant demands and noise of daily life.
Guest: Tendai Mulaudzi, Recovering addict
Showing up for yourself during recovery is one of the most courageous acts you can undertake. August, recognised as Overdose Awareness Month, reminds us that each step toward healing is a testament to resilience and hope. Overcoming overdose is not just about survival; it's about reclaiming your life, turning a new leaf, and embracing the possibility of a brighter future.
Every morning you wake up and choose to stay committed to your recovery is a victory. It’s about forgiving yourself for past struggles and celebrating your strength today. Recovery is a journey of small, meaningful moments, attending support groups, practicing self-care, and surrounding yourself with positivity.
As we honour Overdose Awareness Month, let’s remember that no one is alone. Turning a new leaf means rewriting your story, finding new purpose, rediscovering passions, and building a foundation of hope and self-love. Your willingness to show up for yourself is the first step toward a future where you thrive, not just survive. Celebrate your courage, honour your progress, and keep moving forward—your new chapter is worth every effort.
TENDAI’S STORY
When I first started using this platform, it was purely for personal reasons and to show off all my highlights in my life, although I was a 20-something who always felt a bit different, I felt like something was missing. In 2019, I was shipped off to long-term rehab and remained there for three years (in the end becoming a counsellor myself). I decided to start afresh and archive all my content and I’ve built up a little bit of a following, often receiving messages that my content inspires in its authenticity.
But of late, I haven’t been as authentic. I’ve been really, really struggling with my mental health and recovery and although I’ve given little glimpses into my reality, shame gaslights me into hiding elements of myself. But a couple weeks ago, I had a seizure from either withdrawal/overdose/poisoning (let’s not forget that alcohol is a hell of a drug and one that causes the most deaths). Again, I thought I might die. In some ways, I didn’t mind that. I mean, I was so tired. I often find my addiction, which I didn’t choose and almost always picks those who have unresolved childhood trauma, is so unfair. Why me? Why? But another part of me didn’t want to be like some of our greatest who suffered tragic drug-related deaths, on their own because that’s what addiction does: it isolates. Heath, Amy, Whitney, Mac, Matthew — to name a few. I was okay with dying, but definitely not in this way.
So I was put into treatment to detox for two weeks and I’ve come out feeling hopeful again. I am fully myself (which I realised yesterday when I knew that once again, I’m witty as ever and genuinely compassionate and kind again, also I did a ridiculous thing which is so me). I want to live. I want to love. I want to live in a different place. I want to keep giving of myself and helping others in whatever way I can. Unfortunately, I can’t do that if I’m dead.
Addiction is fucking hard. It is painful. It has pushed away a lot of the friends I grew up with who actually just don’t get it. Addiction steals me away from the people I love. It makes me feel like I’m worthless. It takes away my ability to choose. When I’m in addiction, there comes a time when I’m using and I fucking don’t have a choice anymore. Drugs own me and my soul when I use them. It’s hard to understand as a non-addict but I know that all addicts resonate.
Recovery, at times, is harder. Staying clean is the easy part. Facing myself is the difficult part. If we are working a programme, we deal with all our demons and have to, at all times, practice rigorous honesty. Imagine that you literally had to rat yourself out for every thought you had and mistake you made. It comes down to the little details. I cannot lie if I’m in recovery, it will lead me back to addiction. I know this, but because I’m generally a very secretive (in a private sense), it’s difficult for me.
I also hate people seeing me at my lowest. I’m scared people will leave, after all — they’ve left before at my most vulnerable. When I say I’m a perfectionist, and I’ve said it before, I say it in a way that means my perfectionism destroys aspects of my life as it means that I often feel I have to be the most upbeat, loving and charismatic person to others. I am naturally these things, but I do have my days.
A friend told me that I can “come as I am” when I cancelled because I was struggling. I’m going to do more of that. I plan on once again using this platform for honesty and hope. I’m going to give myself a fucking break. I’m going to show up, whether I’m messy, clean or whatever in between.
To the late Matthew Perry in his book Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, ““Love and courage, man—the two most important things. I don’t move forward with fear anymore—I move forward with curiosity. I have an incredible support group around me, and they save me every day, because I have known hell. Hell has definable features, and I want no part of it. But I have the courage to face it, at least.”
Guest: Thato Motepe
Meditation is a powerful practice that helps quiet the mind and allows you to centre yourself amidst the chaos of everyday life. To achieve a peaceful, focused state of mind, it’s important to find a quiet and comfortable space where distractions are minimised. Begin by sitting comfortably, with your back straight, and taking a few deep breaths to settle into the present moment.
Focus your attention on your breath, observing each inhale and exhale without trying to control it. When your mind starts to wander, gently bring your focus back to your breathing, without judgment. This simple act of redirecting your attention cultivates mental clarity and inner calm. Over time, consistent practice helps diminish mental clutter, reduces stress, and enhances your ability to remain centred regardless of external circumstances. Meditation becomes a tool for creating a sense of peace and stability within, allowing you to connect more deeply with yourself and the present moment.
Benefits of Meditation:
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Reduces stress and anxiety
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Enhances emotional well-being
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Improves concentration and focus
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Promotes better sleep
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Boosts self-awareness
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Increases feelings of calm and relaxation
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Strengthens the immune system
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Helps manage symptoms of anxiety and depression
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Encourages a positive outlook on life
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Fosters resilience and emotional balance
Guest: Natasha Sass, Founder of N-Lightened Self | Naturopath | Integrative Health & Empowerment Specialist | Trauma-Informed Practitioner
pH balance refers to the level of acidity or alkalinity in the body, which is essential for maintaining optimal health and proper physiological functions. The pH scale ranges from 0 to 14, with seven being neutral. Values below seven indicate acidity, while those above seven signify alkalinity. The body naturally strives to maintain a balanced pH, especially in the blood, where slight deviations can impair enzyme functions, weaken the immune system, and cause various health issues.
Maintaining pH balance involves several lifestyle and dietary choices. Consuming a diet rich in fresh fruits and vegetables, which are generally alkaline forming, helps support a balanced pH. Conversely, limiting intake of processed foods, sugar, alcohol, and excessive animal proteins can prevent the body from becoming overly acidic. Staying well-hydrated by drinking plenty of water also plays a crucial role in helping the body eliminate excess acids and maintain equilibrium. Regular exercise and managing stress levels further contribute to maintaining pH balance, as physical activity helps improve circulation and detoxification processes.
Certain beverages and substances people consume for their smell or flavour can significantly impact pH levels. For example, some drinks with strong or unusual tastes, such as certain flavoured waters, sodas, or infused beverages, may contain additives or acids that influence acidity in the body. Additionally, some perfumes, colognes, or oral hygiene products used for their scent often contain chemicals that may temporarily affect oral or skin pH but generally do not impact overall systemic
The necessity of acupuncture detox stems from the complex nature of addiction and the challenges associated with overcoming it. Substance dependence often leads to physical toxicity due to the accumulation of chemicals in the body, as well as emotional and psychological distress. Traditional detoxification methods, such as medical detox, may help manage withdrawal symptoms but often do not address underlying issues or support long-term recovery. Acupuncture detox offers a complementary approach that can reduce withdrawal symptoms, alleviate cravings, and promote relaxation and mental clarity. By helping to rebalance the body's energy and improve overall well-being, acupuncture detox can enhance the effectiveness of a comprehensive addiction treatment program, making it a valuable tool for those seeking a more integrative path to recovery.
Guest: Amiena Ally, Holistic Practitioner at Wellness Loft
Acupuncture detoxification is a therapeutic approach that utilises the principles of traditional Chinese medicine to help individuals eliminate toxins from their body and support recovery from addiction.
It involves the insertion of fine needles into specific points on the body, which are believed to help regulate the body's energy flow, or Qi, and restore balance within the body's systems. This process is often tailored to address the physical, emotional, and psychological aspects of detoxification, providing a holistic method to support individuals through their recovery journey.
Last week we were talking about the benefits of intermittent fast when you are detoxing your body and that is from the inside. Now we look at how this specific detox benefits a person’s immune system.
Guest: Nonhle Hlophe, Dietician
Intermittent fasting is a pattern of eating that cycles between periods of fasting and eating. It is gaining popularity due to its potential health benefits and simplicity compared to other diet plans. The importance of intermittent fasting primarily lies in its ability to help regulate insulin levels, promote weight loss, improve metabolic health, and potentially extend lifespan. By giving your digestive system a break, it may also support cellular repair processes and reduce inflammation in the body.
For beginners, starting with intermittent fasting can be straightforward. One common approach is the 16/8 method, where you fast for 16 hours each day and eat during an 8-hour window, such as from noon to 8 pm. Another simple strategy is the 12/12 method, which is more accessible for those just beginning, involving fasting for 12 hours and eating during a 12-hour window. Beginners should start gradually, perhaps by extending their fasts slowly or adjusting their eating windows to suit their lifestyle and comfort levels. Staying hydrated during fasting periods is essential, and it's also important to focus on nutrient-dense foods during eating windows to support overall health.
Dietician Nonhle Hlophe from Bayeni Dietetics popularly known as a door-to-door dietician talks to us about people choose to adopt intermittent fasting for various reasons, including weight management, as it can help reduce calorie intake naturally and improve fat burning. As more people turn to it for its potential benefits on metabolic health, such as lowering blood sugar levels, improving cholesterol profiles, and reducing the risk factors associated with heart disease. Some also see intermittent fasting to enhance mental clarity and energy levels.
Dr Zhakieyyah
Many people turn to calming herbs as a self-prescribed remedy to manage their emotional well-being, especially when dealing with mental health-related issues such as anxiety, stress, or insomnia. These herbs often offer a gentle and natural way to soothe the mind and promote relaxation, which can be particularly appealing for individuals seeking alternative or complementary approaches outside of conventional medicine. When used appropriately, calming herbs like valerian, chamomile, lavender, lemon balm, and passionflower can help reduce feelings of nervousness, ease mental tension, and improve sleep quality. These benefits can contribute to a greater sense of emotional stability and overall mental resilience, allowing individuals to cope better with daily stressors and emotional upheavals.
However, it's important to the effects of these herbs can vary considerably from person to person. While some individuals experience significant relief, others might find only minimal benefit or may encounter side effects. The influence of calming herbs on emotional well-being extends beyond their direct sedative properties; they can also foster a sense of control and proactive engagement in one's mental health management, which can be empowering.
Benefits for Emotional Well-Being:
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Reduced anxiety and stress levels
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Improved sleep quality, leading to better mood regulation
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Enhanced feelings of relaxation and calmness
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Support for mental clarity and focus during stressful periods
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Efficacy can vary based on the herb, dosage, and individual response
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Some herbs may cause side effects or interact with medications (e.g., sedatives, antidepressants)
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Self-prescribing herbs without professional guidance may lead to overuse or adverse effects
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It’s important to combine herbal use with other stress management techniques like therapy, exercise, and proper sleep
Guest: Brent Downard, Head of Credit at Merchant Capital
July is National Savings Month, a time when the spotlight is focused on the importance of managing personal finances wisely. While individual savings strategies often take the centre stage, it’s equally vital to recognise how crucial saving is for small businesses and micro, small, and medium enterprises (SMEs). For these businesses, effective financial management and the ability to build financial reserves are often the difference between growth and closure.
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Guest: Abigale Calisse & Azeezah Muhammad, Cofounders of AA Gallery
Bertha was at the National Art Festival which ends today, and while she was marvelling at the beauty created by artist in and outside the country, she had an epitome of looking at art as a healing tool. Apart from the part that art has long been recognised as a powerful tool for healing and restoration, offering a safe and expressive space for individuals to confront and process difficult emotions and experiences.
Guest: Bunmi Adeniba - Senior Director and Coca-Cola Category Lead for Africa
African names are powerful symbols of identity that encompass regional, cultural, and spiritual dimensions. They serve as living links to ancestral wisdom, community values, and spiritual beliefs, both within Africa and across the diaspora. These names do more than identify; they connect individuals to their heritage, reinforce their sense of purpose, and serve as enduring manifestations of their collective history and spiritual well-being.
African names serve as profound markers of identity, history, and cultural heritage, weaving together the rich tapestry of the continent’s diverse communities. These names often encapsulate more than just individual identity; they embody regional traditions, spiritual beliefs, and ancestral connections that have been passed down through generations. In many African societies, a name is not merely a label but a vessel of meaning, encapsulating hopes, circumstances of birth, or aspirations for the child's future. The Yoruba, Igbo, Zulu, Akan, and Amhara communities, among myriad others, each have distinctive naming conventions that reflect their unique linguistic and cultural nuances. For example, Yoruba names like Adebayo signal joy at birth ("the crown has met joy"), while Igbo names such as Chibuzo reveal a connection to family and community aspirations. These names often carry stories of origin, societal values, and spiritual beliefs, anchoring individuals within their cultural roots.
Guest: Dr. Sello Galane – Musicologist, Composer, Educationist and Music Performer
On Africa Day, a moment of reflection and celebration unfolds across the continent, honoring its rich cultural tapestry and resilient spirit. This year, South Africa's theme, "Drumming to Silence the Guns," invites us to explore the profound cultural significance of drums in Africa, not merely as musical instruments, but as powerful symbols of unity, identity, and peace.
Throughout Africa’s diverse cultures, drums have been central to social, spiritual, and political life for centuries. They serve as a universal language that transcends linguistic boundaries, conveying messages that words sometimes cannot. The rhythmic patterns of drums are deeply embedded in communal gatherings, rites of passage, and ceremonial events, establishing a sense of shared identity and collective memory. In many societies, the drumbeat is considered the heartbeat of the community, bringing individuals together to celebrate, mourn, or communicate in moments of joy or distress.
Beyond their musical function, drums embody the ethos of African communities by reinforcing social cohesion. The process of drumming often involves collective participation, where everyone’s rhythm complements others to create harmonious unity. This collective act underscores the importance of cooperation, interdependence, and solidarity, values that are vital to fostering peace and stability on a continent historically marked by conflict.
Moreover, drums hold spiritual significance across various African cultures. They are believed to connect the earthly realm with the spiritual, serving as conduits for ancestral communication or divine invocation. Traditional drumming ceremonies often invoke protection, fertility, and harmony, emphasizing the cultural importance of balance and spiritual wellbeing. These spiritual dimensions reinforce the understanding that peace and unity are fundamental to social harmony, echoing the deeper aspirations for a continent that embraces its diverse identities while striving for collective wellbeing.
Guest: Kate Moia - Energy Alchemist
Energy cleansing is a practice that helps to clear negative energies, stagnant thoughts, and emotional clutter from your environment and personal aura. Engaging in energy cleansing, especially at the start of a new week, can be particularly beneficial for several reasons.
Guest: Dr Zhakieyyah - Homeopathic Practitionier
Guest: Khanyisa Mbina - Marketing and Wellness Assistant
Homeopathic healing, or homeopathy, is a holistic approach to medicine developed in the late 18th century by Samuel Hahnemann. Its core philosophy is based on the principle of "like cures like," meaning that substances that produce symptoms in a healthy person can be used in extremely diluted forms to treat similar symptoms in a sick person.
Mpho Sebina is a talented and emerging singer-songwriter from Botswana, known for her evocative voice and compelling storytelling through music. In October of last year, she released her highly anticipated album, which she affectionately describes as a "love letter to Africa." This album reflects her deep appreciation for her roots and the diverse cultures that make up the continent.
One of the standouts tracks from her album is the single "Alkebulan," a song that not only showcases Sebina's vocal prowess but also pays homage to Africa's rich heritage. The title "Alkebulan" is one of the oldest names for Africa, symbolizing the continent's diversity and resilience. Through this song and the rest of the album, Mpho Sebina explores themes of identity, love, and the connection to her homeland, resonating deeply with listeners across the continent and beyond.
Brad Holmes is a distinguished figure in the South African music industry, known for his extensive experience and versatility as a producer, promoter, and former venue owner. His career gained significant momentum following the advent of democracy in South Africa in the early 1990s, a pivotal moment that opened new avenues for artistic expression and cultural collaboration in the country.
In 1994, Holmes founded the Bassline Jazz Club, which quickly became a cornerstone for live music in Johannesburg. According to "Last Night at The Bassline" by David B. Coplan and Oscar Gutierrez, published by Jacana Media in 2017, the Bassline was a 200-seat venue that offered a platform for both legendary and emerging musicians. This club not only showcased a diverse range of musical talent but also served as a communal space where South Africans from all walks of life could unite and celebrate their shared cultural heritage.
Guest: Rorisang Sechele , Qualified vocalist, songwriter, recording and performing artist
Rorisang Sechele is a skilled and qualified vocalist, songwriter, recording and performing artist; based in Pretoria. Her musical development started in the Jacaranda Children’s Choir whereafter she attended Pro Arte Alphen Park classically trained and accomplished her music studies with distinction. She heeded the call of music once more when she went on to study Jazz and Popular Music at the Tshwane University of Technology, graduating Cum Laude in 2020.
In addition to having made it into the highly coveted Standard Bank National Youth Jazz Band in 2021 under the conducting guidance of Dr Nduduzo Makhatini, Rorisang has performed alongside Lisette Spinnler, Nthabiseng Motsepe, and Zenzi Makeba-Lee. As a member of The Anchored Quartet, conducted by Ofentse Pitse, Rorisang has worked with Sun-EL Musician, Simmy, Msaki, and Ami Faku to name a few.
Musicia Suthukazi Arosi passed away this past week, after her battle with cancer. The multi-talented artist and activist was batting stage 4 of cancer and early this year she was admitted and was undergoing chemotheraphy and asked industry friends and colleagues for donations towards her medical bill.
The Eastern Cape born singer has made a significant impact in the music industry, particularly known for her powerful vocal prowess and captivating performances. She began her career as a backup singer, honing her skills and gaining experience working with renowned artists. This early phase of her career allowed her to collaborate with notable figures in South African music, including the legendary Letta Mbulu and Caiphus Semenya.
Letta Mbulu is celebrated for her contributions to South African music and her role in popularising traditional sounds alongside contemporary styles. Working alongside her, Arosi gained insights into the industry and developed her own musical style. She was also part of Sabela when they released hit song “Abelungu Abamnyama”, then from these experiences, Suthukazi eventually stepped into the spotlight as a solo artist, and released her album titled ‘Ubuntu’ in 2001.
GUEST: LERATO PAKADE
Lerato Pakade is a renowned South African jazz photographer celebrated for her vibrant and evocative images that capture the essence of musicians and the atmosphere of live performances. Her exhibition titled "Of Spirit and Song" showcases her deep connection to the jazz scene, highlighting the interplay between music and the emotive power it carries.
In "Of Spirit and Song," Pakade presents a series of photographs that depict not only the artists themselves but also the cultural backdrop of jazz in South Africa. The exhibition emphasizes the spiritual and emotional journey that both musicians and audiences experience during performances. Through her lens, Pakade captures the intensity, passion, and improvisational nature of jazz, reflecting its roots in personal and collective stories.
GUEST: PHINDA MTYA-MATLALA
After a decade-long hiatus, the celebrated South African musician Phinda Mtya-Matlala is poised to make a powerful comeback with the launch of her new EP, 10 YEARS - A DECADE, on February 28, 2025, at The Market Theatre in Johannesburg. This highly anticipated event marks not only the release of her latest work but also a poignant tribute to the transformative journey she has undergone since the passing of her husband.
Phinda’s absence from the music scene for the past ten years has been deeply felt by her fans and the broader artistic community. Her husband’s untimely departure in 2015 left a profound impact on her life, prompting her to step back and reassess her artistic vision and personal identity. During this period, Phinda engaged in profound introspection, channelling her grief into creative expression that would eventually culminate in her new EP.
Thabang Tabane was a talented South African drummer and musician, known for his contributions to the vibrant scene of African music. He was the son of the late Dr. Phillip Tabane, a legendary figure in the Malombo music genre, which blends traditional African sounds with modern influences. Dr. Phillip Tabane was celebrated for his innovative approach to music, and he played a pivotal role in popularizing Malombo and showcasing South African music on the international stage.
Following in his father's footsteps, Thabang Tabane carried on the family legacy, infusing his musical style with the rich cultural heritage of South Africa. He was recognized for his exceptional drumming skills and his ability to capture the essence of African rhythms. Thabang participated in various musical projects and collaborations, honoring his father's influence while also carving out his own identity in the music world.Thabang Tabane was not only a skilled drummer but also a storyteller through his music, often reflecting the experiences and histories of his people. His contributions to the South African music landscape were significant, and he played an essential role in keeping the Malombo tradition alive, ensuring that the genre continued to thrive beyond his father's passing.
His untimely passing marked a significant loss for the music community, leaving behind a legacy that continues to inspire future generations of musicians. Thabang Tabane's work and dedication to his craft pay tribute to the rich musical heritage of his family and the broader African musical narrative,
Wouter Kellerman is a highly acclaimed South African flutist and composer known for his contributions to world music and classical genres. He has gained significant recognition for his innovative blend of traditional African music with contemporary styles, creating a unique sound that resonates with a global audience.
Kellerman has won multiple Grammy Awards, highlighting his exceptional talent and artistic achievements. His work often features collaborations with various artists across different genres, enriching his music's diversity. He is not only celebrated for his flute skills but also for his ability to convey deep emotions through his compositions.
Throughout his career, Wouter Kellerman has released several albums, showcasing his versatility and creativity. His music often incorporates rich cultural elements, drawing from South Africa's musical heritage while also embracing influences from around the world. His performances are known for their vibrant energy and engaging presence, often leaving a lasting impression on audiences.
His music, Kellerman is passionate about social issues and often uses his platform to raise awareness about important causes in South Africa and beyond. His commitment to using music for positive change further adds to his significance as an artist.
Wouter Kellerman stands out as a prominent figure in the contemporary music scene, with his Grammy-winning works reflecting both excellence in musicianship and a profound connection to cultural storytelling.
Live music culture varies significantly across different regions, shaped by local traditions, historical contexts, and societal values. When comparing the global live music culture to that of South Africa, there are several noteworthy distinctions and similarities. While both global and South African live music cultures celebrate the joy of performance and community, the nuances of each are deeply rooted in their unique histories and societal contexts. Where global live music might lean towards commercialization and a wide array of genres, South Africa’s scene is often characterized by its historical resistance, cultural fusion, and rich heritage. In both instances, live music serves as a powerful medium for expression, connection, and cultural identity.
*Guest:* TSHEPANG RAMOBA - Drummer, Musician, Composer, Singer of the band BLK JKS
GUEST: LUPI NGCAYISA
The South African Music Awards (SAMAs) have long served as a benchmark for celebrating the diversity and innovation of the country's music scene. Established 30 years ago, the SAMAs have recognized and honored the immense talent and creativity that South Africa has to offer. This year, the theme “Less Noise, More Music” encapsulates a commitment to focus on the authentic artistic expression and cultural heritage of South African music, steering the conversation back to the music itself amid the distractions of the modern entertainment landscape.
The journey of South African music over the past three decades reflects the broader social and cultural transformations the nation has experienced since the end of apartheid. In the early days of democracy, kwaito emerged as a powerful genre, symbolizing the voices of a new generation. It blended house music with hip-hop influences, encapsulating the youth's experiences and struggles while also celebrating their newfound freedom. Artists like Mandoza and Oskido became icons during this era, capturing the spirit of the nation with their infectious beats and lyrical storytelling.
As the years progressed, the South African music landscape continued to evolve, with genres such as hip-hop, R&B, and rock gaining prominence. The rise of local talent and independent record labels sparked a creative renaissance, leading to increased recognition for South African music both nationally and internationally. During this time, traditional sounds and indigenous music styles found their way back into contemporary genres, creating a rich tapestry that represented the diversity of the nation's cultural heritage.
In recent years, amapiano has taken the music scene by storm, becoming a global phenomenon that showcases South African musicality. With its unique blend of deep house, jazz, and lounge music, amapiano has transcended borders and captivated audiences worldwide. Artists like Kabza De Small, DJ Maphorisa, and Focalistic have emerged as leading figures in this genre, pushing the boundaries of what South African music can achieve. The international success of amapiano is a testament to the creativity and innovation inherent in the South African music scene, making it a vibrant contributor to the global music landscape.
In celebrating 30 years of the SAMAs under the banner of “Less Noise, More Music,” it is essential to reflect on how the awards have not only recognized the achievements of musicians but have also played a vital role in fostering a sense of community and shared identity through music. The SAMAs provide a platform for established artists while simultaneously spotlighting rising talent, ensuring that the evolution of music in South Africa remains dynamic and inclusive.
As the event continues to honor the past while looking to the future, it serves as a reminder that South African music is not just a form of entertainment; it is an integral part of the country's identity and cultural narrative. With each passing year, the SAMAs celebrate the richness of South African music, uniting different genres and generations in a shared love of musical expression. The sentiments of the theme resonate strongly as an invitation to appreciate the intricacies and depth of South African music, where the focus remains on the richness of the sound rather than the superficiality of the industry.
Brenda Mtambo, a celebrated South African singer and songwriter, has made waves in the music industry with her incredible talent and dedication. After ten years of hard work and perseverance, she has finally received recognition for her artistry, earning her second award of the year. Earlier this year, Brenda was honoured at the Basadi In Music Awards, where she won the Best Songwriter of the Year award, highlighting her exceptional songwriting skills and her impact on the South African music scene.
Building on this momentum, Brenda's achievements continued to soar. Last night, at the South African Music Awards, she was awarded the Ikwekwezi FM Best African Adult Contemporary Album for her latest work, "SANE." This award not only celebrates her artistic contributions but also affirms her growth and evolution as an artist. The album, released in 2023, has resonated with her music lovers, showcasing her unique sound and powerful lyrics.
Brenda Mtambo's journey in the music industry is a testament to her passion and commitment to her craft. With these recent accolades, she has undoubtedly solidified her place as one of South Africa's most talented musicians, and her continued success promises to inspire many aspiring artists in the years to come.
Guest: Tumelo "Harry" Tshabalala, Singer / Artist
Tumelo Tshabalala, affectionately known by his stage name Harry, is the son of the legendary South African kwaito star Mandoza. Growing up in the shadow of an iconic figure in the music industry has inspired Harry to carve out his own path while honoring his father's legacy.
From a young age, Tumelo was immersed in the vibrant sounds of kwaito, a genre that blends hip-hop, house, and local cultural influences. He witnessed firsthand the impact that Mandoza had not only on music but on the lives of countless fans who connected with his powerful lyrics and infectious rhythms. This upbringing instilled in him a deep love for music and a determination to continue his father's work in the industry.
Guest: Leomile, Singer Songwriter
Leomile, singer and songwriter, has made waves in the music scene with her recent announcement of her eagerly awaited EP, "Nevermind," set to release on September 13, 2024. The EP's title track, "Nevermind," serves as the lead single, and it encapsulates a powerful moment of self-discovery and clarity.
"Nevermind" is a dreamy, guitar-laden folk song that beautifully conveys an epiphany experienced by the artist. In this poignant track, Leomile reflects on her journey, expressing a newfound certainty in her identity and emotional resilience. The lyrics detail her emergence from a state of confusion and self-doubt, marking a significant shift in her perspective on love and relationships.
Guest: Dr Mongez, Producer, Instrumentalist, Musician
Mapaputsi is a legendary figure in the South African Kwaito music scene passed away on Friday, known for his distinctive style and significant contributions to the genre. Born as Sandile Ngwenya, he gained fame in the 2001 when Kwaito—an urban music genre that blends house beats with African rhythms and local lyrics—was rising in popularity. His hit, Izinja, My Love, Woza Friday has garned his spot in the music industry
Mapaputsi's music is characterised by its catchy lyrics and authentic beats with the incorporation of various cultural influences. He often reflects the everyday lives and struggles of South African youth in his songs, which resonated widely during a time of social and political change in the country. His music not only entertained but also served as a voice for those navigating the new realities of post-apartheid South Africa.
GUEST: JOE NINA
Kwaito is a uniquely South African music genre that emerged in the 1990s, particularly in Johannesburg. It is deeply rooted in the country’s socio-economic history and reflects the experiences of South Africa's youth during the post-apartheid era. One of the notable artists associated with Kwaito is Joe Nina. He rose to prominence in the 1990s and is best known for his fresh sound and innovative approach to Kwaito music. Joe Nina’s music is distinctive for its combination of Kwaito rhythms with traditional African sounds, as well as R&B influences. His lyrics often focus on romance, everyday life, and the struggles of ordinary South Africans, resonating with a wide range of listeners.
GUEST: DON DADA
Through her art, Jessica Mbangeni not only honours her heritage but also fosters a greater understanding and appreciation for the role of poetry in South African society, making her a vital voice in the contemporary cultural landscape. She passed away this past Saturday, her issued a statement announcing her untimely death. Jessica gained recognition for her performances both in South Africa and internationally. She often collaborates with musicians to enhance the emotional impact of her poetry, creating a dynamic and engaging experience for her audience. Beyond her performances, she is also involved in community initiatives, promoting the importance of oral traditions and cultural expressions among younger generations.
Guest: Janys Orelowitz – An Adoption Social Worker working in Private Practice and has been practicing for over 30 years
Guest: Dr Jenny Rose - Clinical Psychologist, Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Western Cape,
Guest: Dr Frans Korb - Psychiatrist and Clinical Psychologist
Guest: Professor Barry Schoub - Chair Of The Ministerial Advisory Committee On Vaccines
Guest: Eldred De Klerk- Senior Policing and Community Conflict Specialist - Africa Centre for Security and Intelligence Praxis
Guest: Khululiwe Bhengu – Attorney at the Socio-Economic Rights Institute Of South Africa
Guest: Prof. Ramodungoane Tabane - Psychologist from Unisa - The University of South Africa
Guest: Dr Zulu Mathabo Zulu - Software Engineer, Inventor and Published Author. Intellectual Historian, Lexicographer, Poet
Guest: Professor Mosa Moshabela - Acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research & Innovation, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Guest: Chris Nissen – Commissioner at the South African Human Rights Commission
Guest: Dr Rama Naidu,former director of the Democracy Development Program and current director of 6degreeshift- a consultancy focused on community building and transformation
Guest: Kim Heller – Author and Political Analyst
Guest: Dr Fontem Neba - Secretary General of Cameroon Anglophone Civil Society Consortium (CACSC)
Guest: Mighti Jamie - Independent Political Analyst
Guest: Sarah Britten - Independent Communications Strategist
Guest: Gogo Dineo Ndlanzi - Founder of the Gogo Dineo Ndlanzi Institute of Spiritual healing! Sangoma, Spiritual teacher & coach
Guest: Narend Singh – Community Leader for the Past 35 -40 Years and Member of Parliament
Guest: Professor Mosa Moshabela - Acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research & Innovation, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Guest: Asanda Ngoasheng – Independent Political Analyst
GUEST: Pearl Mncube -writer and public policy researcher
Guest: Professor Muxe Nkondo - former vice-chancellor of the University of Venda
Guest: Billy Monama - Guitarist, Composer, Arranger & Researcher
Guest: Mantwa Chinoamadi – Joy of Jazz Festival Director
Guest: Mccoy Mrubata – Jazz Saxophonist
Guest: Nicky B – Broadcaster
Guest: Bongani Luvalo – Founder Of Cool Dad Foundation
Guest: Kevin Rutter – Founder Of Fathers in Africa
Guest: Dr Shahieda Jansen - Clinical Psychologist and Deputy Director at UNISA Western Cape
Guest: Prof Renata Schoeman - Head of the Health Care Leadership MBA Programme At The University Of Stellenbosch Business School
Guest: How important is ubuntu during this time of violent protests and lootings?
Guest: Dr Trevor Ngwane - Director of Sociological Research at the University of Johannesburg
Guest: Thoko Mpumlwana - Chairperson of the South African Women in Dialogue
Guest: Sello Hatang - CEO of the Nelson Mandela Foundation
Guest: Ndumiso Hadebe - Economist
Guest: Professor Peter Bauer – Associate Professor at the School Of Economics at UJ
Guest: Nana Ngobese - Gender Activist
Guest: Lebo Ramofoko - Gender Activist and Former Soul City CEO
Guest: Sipho Mbele - Author and Relationship Coach
Guest: Mfanozelwe Shozi - Gender Activist & Lecturer Durban University of Technology under the Adult and Community Education Unit
Guest: Therina Wentzel - National Director: National Council Of And For Persons With Disabilities In South Africa
The Department of Water and Sanitation is calling South Africans to help keep the country's freshwater sources clean in honour of Mandela month.
Guest: Sputnik Ratau - Spokesperson for the Department of Water and Sanitation
Guest: Motlatsi Tolo - Poultry Farmer and Managing Director of Raseto Agricultural Enterprise
In eSwatini, MTN confirmed in a court challenge that it switched off internet services there deliberately after being ordered to by the communications authorities.
Guest: Nixon Katembo - African Affairs Analyst and Channel Africa Producer
Guest: Steve Mabona - Gauteng Department of Education Spokesperson
Guest: Basil Manuel - Executive Director of the National Professional Teachers' Organisation of South Africa
Guest: Vijay Reddy - Distinguished Research Specialist, Human Sciences Research Council
Yesterday, the news broke that Legendary South African musician Steve Kekana had died.Steve recorded more than 40 albums during his celebrated career, working with Ray Phiri, Nana Coyote and Joe Nina. Born in 1958 in Zebediela in South Africa’s Limpopo Province, he lost his sight at age five, and attended a school for the blind in Pietersburg. During his school years, he nurtured his love for singing, and was a member of amateur groups whilst a teenager.
GUEST: PERCY MABANDU – Art Historian and Author
GUEST: ADVOCATE SIPHO MANTULA – FORMER COLLEAGUE AT UNISA
We now look at the top trending stories in SA. It’s been a news filled week…
GUEST: TONYA KHOURY – FOUNDER OF ACUMEN MEDIA
The Theatre and Dance Alliance has penned a report into the National Arts Council’s mismanagement of the Presidential Economic Stimulus Programme (PESP) Funding.
GUEST: YVETTE HARDIE, DIRECTOR OF ASSITEJ SOUTH AFRICA. SHE IS INVOLVED IN THE PESP TASK TEAM ON BEHALF OF THE THEATRE AND DANCE ALLIANCE (TADA)
GUEST: SIBONGILE MNGOMA - OPERA SINGER WHO STAGED A SIT-IN AT THE OFFICES OF THE NATIONAL ARTS COUNCIL (NAC)
Guest: Dr Frans Korb - Clinical Psychologist and Psychiatrist and SADAG (South African Depression and Anxiety Group) Member
GUEST: Mbuyiselo Botha - Commissioner at the Commission for Gender Equality
Cancer Alliance argues that the reopening of the oncology section of Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital offers a glimmer of hope for cancer patients
Guest: Salomé Meyer is an activist and the Cancer Alliance’s Access to Medicine campaign project
Guest: Shabir Madhi - Professor of Vaccinology and Director of the SAMRC Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytical Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand
Guest: Andiswa Matikinca - award-winning Investigative Journalist, an associate at Oxpeckers Investigative Environmental Journalism and Mine Alert Manager
Guest: Dr Judy Mann - Conservation Strategist at SAAMBR (South African Association for Marine Biological Research)
Stellenbosch-Based Felbridge bids farewell to its first batch of high quality medical cannabis, destined for the European market
Guest: Leslie Zetler - Felbridge CEO
Guest: Mihlali Xhala -Head of the Corporate Chamber at Agri SA and also part of the Syngenta Leadership
Guest: Busisiwe C Seabe - #FeesMustFall Activist, Guest: Bataung Qhotsokoane - Columnist at iAfrikan.com, Guest: Sandiswa Mgolozeli - Founder of EpitomelyPRM
Guest: Gogo Dineo - Founder of the Gogo Dineo Ndlanzi Institute of Spiritual healing! Sangoma, Spiritual teacher & coach
GUEST: Prof BURTRAM FIELDING – Virologist, Director of Research and Development at the University of The Western Cape
looking at what is happening around Africa……
GUEST: NIXON KATEMBO – African Affairs Analyst and Channel Africa Producer
GUEST: PROF. SHINGAI MUTAMBIRWA - Head of Department of Urology, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University (SMU)
GUEST: DR RONEL DAVIDS – SOCIAL WORKER AT THE SOCIAL WORK DEPARTMENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE (UWC)
A NEW REPORT BY DIGITAL AGENCY ROGERWILCO ENTITLED THE 2021 SOUTH AFRICAN TOWNSHIP MARKETING REPORT HAS BEEN RELEASED. BASED ON RESPONSES FROM OVER 1,000 INDIVIDUALS LIVING IN TOWNSHIPS
GUEST: CHARLIE STEWART - CEO Rogerwilco Digital Marketing agency
Life in South Africa as a young person who is blind or partially sighted; what is the day to day experience and what needs to be done for challenges faced?
Thobeka says when we talk about Youth Month we speak of everyone else and continue to exclude young people with disabilities.
GUEST: THOBEKA MTHETHWA - Legally Blind Student GUEST: LEWIS NZIMANDE – NATIONAL EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF SA National Council for the Blind
How do we define a Sangoma and the forms and shapes African Ancestral Healing takes.
GUEST: MAKHOSI NOMABUTHO - Sangoma
Life as a Refugee in South Africa. Durban-based Congolese-born singer-songwriter René Tshiakanyi has written a song “All I need is a friend” as yesterday Sunday 20th was World Refugee Day. especially for World Refugee Day, Sunday 20 June
GUEST: RENÈ TSHIAKANYI - Musician
GUEST: Prof BURTRAM FIELDING – Virologist, Director of Research and Development at the University of The Western Cape
Calls for submission of African language stories this Youth Month Four and a half decades ago, thousands of Soweto students took to the streets in outrage to protest over the use of Afrikaans and English as the languages of school instruction amongst other injustices.Forty-five (45) years later, a local reading organisation has insisted that there is still not enough African literature in South Africa and during Youth Month this year, is appealing for aspiring and established authors to donate their original African language stories to them.
GUEST: MADODA NDLAKUSE - Professional Storyteller and Nalibali Litaracy Mentor
Former President of Zambia Dr. Kenneth Kaunda passed away at age 97.
GUEST: LEBOHANG PHEKO - Senior Research Fellow & Political Economist at the TRade Collective
PROF. VELILE NOTSHULWANA-MQOTA - Author of Ubudoda & Clinical Psychologist / CEO of Phuhlisa Psychological Group
GUEST: SIPHUMELELE NOWELE - CHIEF DIRECTOR ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AT KWAZULU-NATAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, TOURISM AND ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
GUEST: NOMBULELO SHANGE - Lecturer in the department of sociology, university of the FREE STATE
GUEST: LEBOHANG PHEKO – SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW & POLITICAL ECONOMIST AT THE TRADE COLLECTIVE
a. Ms. Ntandwenhle Dlungwana – Founder: Big Sister Foundation b. Ms. Mandisa Dlamini – Executive Director: Gugu Dlamini Foundation c. Mr. David ‘Qadasi’ Jenkins – Maskandi Musician & SAMA Award-Winning Artist Mr. Makgolo Makgolo – Executive Chairperson: South African Gallery of Legends
GUEST: DR. SHELDON LEAL - PhD Music Academic, Musician, Songwriter and Director of Culture at Southdowns College in Irene, Pretoria
PAT ON BRANDS FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM OFFERS UNEMPLOYED GRADUATES IN THE MEDIA AND DIGITAL MARKETING SECTOR AN OPPORTUNITY ON EXPERIENTIAL TRAINING. GUEST: Tshegofatso Stone - Spokesperson Pat on Brands
One of South Africa’s most acclaimed actors, Warren Masemola, is partnering with writer and director Monageng Motshabi to offer a series of master classes in acting. GUEST: MONAGENG MOTSHABI - Writer and Director
PROF. VELILE NOTSHULWANA-MQOTA - Author of Ubudoda & Clinical Psychologist / CEO of Phuhlisa Psychological Group
GUEST: AMY GREEN – NEWS EDITOR OF HEALTH E NEWS GUEST: PROFESSOR NELESH GOVENDER – ONE OF THE CENTRE HEADS AT NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNICABLE DISEASES (NICD) CRYPTOCOCCAL MENINGITIS
Cryptococcal meningitis is the second biggest killer of people living with HIV after tuberculosis (TB). For decades it has flown under the radar – despite its high mortality rate – but it is finally getting the attention it deserves with the launch of a new global initiative to end deaths due to this fungal brain infection by 2030.
GUEST: DR NICHOLAS P. SIMPSON - POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW, AFRICA CLIMATE AND DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE, UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN, UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN A key feature of climate change is that it doesn’t pose one single risk. Rather, it presents multiple, interacting risks that can compound and cascade. Importantly, responses to climate change can also affect risk.
GUEST: SIBUSISO MOGALE – FARMER
Sibusiso Mogale,33 from Ngodini in Mpumalanga Province ,being born without hands didn't stop him from pursuing his dream of being a farmer. He produces chickens and organic vegetables. Through his hard work and passion in farming, he has inspired many in his area. He's currently helping more Residents of Ngodini to never go in bed with Empty stomach.
GUEST: PROFESSOR MIKE MULLER - VISITING ADJUNCT PROFESSOR, SCHOOL OF GOVERNANCE, UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND
After good summer rains, the dams that supply water to Johannesburg and much of South Africa’s economic heartland are full. This, then, is the time to start worrying about water supplies.
BUDGET VOTE 12 POLICY STATEMENT 2021/2022 DELIVERED BY THE MEC FOR TRANSPORT, COMMUNITY SAFETY AND LIAISON GUEST: KWANELE NCALANE - SPOKESPERSON OF THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORT, COMMUNITY SAFETY & LIAISON
Byron Booysen developed a fondness for land and nature while growing up in Burgersdorp in the Eastern Cape, where his family farmed on a small scale.
GUEST: Byron Booysen-Award winning HYDROPONICS Farmer and Founder of Booysen's Tunnel Farming
GUEST: Modiegi Merafe - Senior Community Practitioner at the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation
As soon as a person passes away, their deceased estate comes into existence regardless of whether they leave a Will or not. Immediately after the death, the process of winding up the estate starts, and this process can be very overwhelming for the family of the deceased. Winding up an estate is a complex and lengthy process that can take anything between 5 months to a number of years to complete.
GUEST: BUSISIWE MDLETSHE – CEO OF BTMT CAPITAL, AN ACCOUNTING FIRM BASED IN SANDTON SOUTH AFRICA GUEST: NTHABISENG DUBAZANA - Attorney At Dubazana Attorneys
As soon as a person passes away, their deceased estate comes into existence regardless of whether they leave a Will or not. Immediately after the death, the process of winding up the estate starts, and this process can be very overwhelming for the family of the deceased. Winding up an estate is a complex and lengthy process that can take anything between 5 months to a number of years to complete.
GUEST: BUSISIWE MDLETSHE – CEO OF BTMT CAPITAL, AN ACCOUNTING FIRM BASED IN SANDTON SOUTH AFRICA GUEST: NTHABISENG DUBAZANA - Attorney At Dubazana Attorneys
Maqoma (1798–1873) was a Xhosa warrior. Amongst the greatest of Xhosa military commanders, he played a major part in the Sixth and Eighth Xhosa Wars GUEST: THEMBA NGADA - Heritage Activist and Director of Amava Heritage Publishing
If you are suffering from Long COVID, Prof Resia Pretorius from the Department of Physiological Sciences at Stellenbosch University (SU) would like to document your symptoms in a South African online registry. And if you are living in the Western Cape, she also wants a sample of your blood. GUEST: PROF. RESIA PRETORIOUS - Distinguished Professor and HOD: Department of Physiological Sciences Faculty of Science Stellenbosch University
The reasons South Africa’s COVID-19vaccine programme looks bleak GUEST: VERONICA UECKERMANN - Adjunct Professor: Department Internal Medicine, University of Pretoria
Celebrating Africa Month Africans who have collaborated together.
GUEST: PERCY MABANDU – Art Historian and Author
South African sculptor, poet and writer Pitika Ntuli added another accolade to his CV, being awarded the Global Fine Art people’s choice “You-2" award. GUEST: RUZY RUSIKE – Curator
Entrepreneurial filmmaker and storyteller Charlie Vundla’s latest film HOTELE LERALLANENG has landed him an Official Selection invitation to the 50th edition of the INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM (IFFR).
GUEST: CHARLIE VUNDLA – Filmmaker
Diaparo Tsa Mama – a brand new production for online viewing The Market Theatre curated a series of 30-minute online productions under the banner of Salute the Playwright,
GUEST: RORISANG MOTUBA – Theatre Director
Every Last Thursday of the month we zone in on Men’s Health and you get to ask your questions.
GUEST: PROF. SHINGAI MUTAMBIRWA - Head of Department of Urology, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University (SMU)
The KwaZulu-Natal Department of Arts, Culture, Sport and Recreation and other government departments are forging ahead in driving developments in districts by supporting communities under the District Development programme launched by President Cyril Ramaphosa in 2019
GUEST: MEC HLENGIWE MAVIMBELA (KZN ARTS, CULTURE, SPORT AND RECREATION)
Is the Droning noise from Eastern Cape wind farms damaging for the elephants of the Addo Elephant Park?
GUEST: TERRY MCKENZIE-HOY - Acoustic engineer
The Puku Foundation is celebrating Africa Day with an Instagram Live Conversation this afternoon at 4h30pm @pukufoundation. Elinor Sisulu is one of the leading voices advocating for children reading in their mother tongue GUEST: ELINOR SISULU – Writer and Advocate for Children’s
Established in 2015 with a view of introducing people into the outdoor lifestyle; YIRHALAM FARM has grown into much more
GUEST: TUMELO MAKETEKETE – Founder of Yirhalam Farm & Outdoor Enthusiast
GUEST: TOBEKA LWANA – Activist for Inclusion, Equity and Diversity as well as Entrepreneur GUEST: NTHABISENG MOLONGOANA – National Council for Persons with Disabilities GUEST: ANNE GITHUKU-SHONGWE - Representative for UN Women's South Africa Multi-Country Office (SAMCO), which is responsible for women's empowerment and gender equality
GUEST: VICTOR ADELEYE – He runs an innovation hub in Ogun State, Nigeria called Grazac Innovation Hub
The provincial department of sport, recreation, arts & culture has applied for the Bulhoek massacre memorial in Ntabelanga, near Komani, to be declared a national heritage site as it celebrated its centenary yesterday.
GUEST: TINYIKO MALULEKE - Leading and Internationally-recognized researcher specialising in religion and politics as well as black and African theologies University of Pretoria
Last week contacts sports were suspended at schools. During the last week of term one, school sports activity-related Covid-19 outbreaks in Gauteng were reported and have been gradually increasing in term two. It is evident that despite following the protocols as guided by the directions on extramural activities and standard operating procedure on the prevention, containment and management of Covid-19 in schools, contact sports events still contribute to the spread of Covid-19,” read a statement from the council.
GUEST: Prof BURTRAM FIELDING – Virologist, Director of Research and Development at the University of The Western Cape
SA records 2 894 new Covid-19 infections, 30 more deaths A total of 2894 new Covid-19 cases were reported in South Africa on Sunday.
STANDBY GUEST: MINOSHNIE PILLAY – SABC REPORTER
The SAPS visible policing budget was cut down as Bheki Cele champions tough action against police killers. The South African Police Service has published its latest crime stats, tracking criminal patterns in the country between January to March 2021.
GUEST: DR CHRIS de KOCK - Independent Crime and Violence Analyst .Former Head of the Crime Information analysis centre at the SAPS
How would you describe your own relationship with your mother as a man? GUEST: PROF KOPANO RATELE - Psychologist and men and masculinities studies scholar
The Angel Network has already assisted 200 000 people in need in all nine provinces – but it intends to increase its reach more significantly through its #ConnectingKindness campaign, aiming to raise a ’’staggering’’ amount of money due to poverty-alleviating measures never being more urgent.Sustainability and upliftment is the main focus through all of the projects it runs and during the Covid-19 pandemic, helping South Africans live better lives has been at the forefront. GUEST: TERRY MARKS– EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE ANGEL NETWORK IN THE WESTERN CAPE /0824910291
GUEST: JOANIE FREDERICKS -ENTREPRENEUR AND SOCIAL ACTIVIST / 0766210245
ENVIROMENT - THE RIGHT TO BREATHE: LANDMARK LEGAL CASE A FIGHT FOR SOUTH AFRICAN CHILDREN HARMED BY COAL’S DEADLY AIR GUEST: Rico Euripidou - GroundWork’s Environmental Health Campaigner. He trained as an Environmental Epidemiologist
THE ROOIBOS SECTOR INNOVATES TO RESPOND TO GROWING DEMAND FOR HEALTHY, SPECIALTY TEAS The refocusing of priorities amid the global pandemic has spurred the demand for more innovative plant-based products promoting health, which bodes well for our locally grown Rooibos tea.
GUEST: NICIE VOSTER - Director of the SA Rooibos Council (SARC)
GUEST: JESSICA BONIN - Tea Sommelier
THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT (DSD) ISSUED A STATEMENT ON THE ECD STIMULUS PACKAGE ON THE 16 APRIL 2021 TO PROVIDE AN UPDATE ON THE STATUS OF APPLICATIONS FOR THE ECD EMPLOYMENT STIMULUS RELIEF FUND (ESRF). GUEST: ISABELLA SEKAWANANA - ACTING DDG SOCIAL WELFARE AT THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
GUEST: Mr Thembinkosi Ngcobo - Head of Parks and Recreation and Culture at eThekwini Municipality
How do you do it? Share your experience with us ? GUEST: LEBO PULE - Teacher, Author and Speaker WWW.LEBOPULE.CO.ZA
A new museum has opened its doors at the Castle of Good Hope and is hoping to take South Africans on a journey through a decolonised history of Cape identities. The Camissa Museum and Centre for Restorative Memory. GUEST: CALVYN GILFELLAN - Chief Executive Officer Castle Control Board
GUEST: PROF. BURTRAM FIELDING - Virologist AND Director of Research and Development at the University of The Western Cape
GUEST: PROF SERVAAS VAN DER BERG - Professor of Economics at Stellenbosch University and holds the National Research Foundation’s South African National Research Chair in the Economics of Social Policy
GUEST: NYIKO MABUNDA - Social Worker working in Psychiatry and with mental issues GUEST: MFANOZELWE SHOZI - Gender Activist & Lecturer Durban University of Technology under the Adult and Community Education Unit. (He speaks in his own capacity)Currently doing a paper on DRIVERS OF VIOLENCE. Anger management is one of the focuses.
The number of new COVID-19 cases is increasing at an alarming rate in Emfuleni on the Vaal. Health experts are worried that case numbers are approaching the third-wave threshold. Non-adherence to COVID-19 safety protocols, family and religious gatherings are some of the reasons for the spike.
GUEST: DR. SAUL JOHNSON - Epidemiologist and Advisor to the Solidarity Fund
The Gauteng COVID-19 Command Council says the Emfuleni region has seen a spike in the number of new COVID-19 cases during the last three weeks
GUEST: TSHEPO PHAGANE - SABC REPORTER
Burnout is said to be a state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress. It occurs when you feel overwhelmed, emotionally drained, and unable to meet constant demands.
GUEST: Dr. MARLIN McKAY – (GP)General practitioner in private practice
The KwaZulu-Natal Council on Climate Change and Sustainable Development was established as a resolution of a multi-stakeholder KwaZulu-Natal Pre-COP 17 Climate Change Summit. GUEST: Sihle Zikalala –KZN PREMIER
To mark this year’s International Nurses Day on 12 May, local software company Patient Health plans to launch an online platform to provide emotional support to nurses. GUEST: SYLVESTER MRUTHUANA - Entrepreneur who Founded the AfriNurse App
DENOSA The Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa is hosting International Nurses Day commemoration event today. GUEST: SIMON HLUNGWANI – President DENOSA
May 12th marks International Nurses Day. The theme is: "Nurses: A Voice To Lead - A Vision for future healthcare".
GUEST: MBALI TSHABALALA – Midwife
‘Legislating rhino into extinction’: game farmers hit back at Creecy’s plan High-level panel recommends that the endangered species be moved from captivity to game reserves
GUEST: TIM NEARY – Conservationist
THE IMPACT YOUR RELATIONSHIP HAS ON YOUR CHILDREN
GUEST: AYANDA TETYANA – Parenting Coach
King Misuzulu kaZwelithini would be compelled by culture to get married before he could officially issue royal orders. Prof SIKHUMBUZO MNGADI - Head of the Department English The University of Johannesburg
SA records 1 778 more cases as concerns mount over two new variants detected
GUEST: PROF. BURTRAM FIELDING - Virologist Director of Research and Development at the University of The Western Cape
Uyinene was known to be inquisitive, forthright and vocal about the various social ills which plague our society – including patriarchal oppression and issues of gender-based violence. It is for this reason that this Foundation's main aim is to empower young people to stand against violence.Our mission is to equip the youth that will become positive agents of change in their respective communities. The Uyinene Mrwetyana Foundation (UMF) was founded in celebration of the life of Uyinene Mrwetyana. They aim to continue raising awareness about Gender Based Violence (GBV) even during the lockdown period, as some people are more vulnerable now, stuck in their homes with perpetrators of GBV. GUEST: MASIMBULELE BUSO – MANAGING DIRECTOR OF THE UYINENE FOUNDATION
A New Children’s book was launched this weekend by a Youth Voice who decided to pen , ‘My Coily Crowny Hair.
GUEST: ZULAIKHA PATEL – Activist and Author
In 2020, the estimated youth unemployment rate in South Africa was at 55.75 percent. WHAT MODELS DO WE NEED to tackle this crisis we face? GUEST: BASANI HLEKANE – PRINCIPAL VHEMBE TVET COLLEGE
Bassline Live at The Lyric Theatre from the 8th to the 22nd of May will feature performances from some of South Africa's Leading female vocalists. One of them is MSAKI. She will be on stage on the 15th of May GUEST: MSAKI - Composer/ Singer-Songwriter
AFRICA IT’S YOUR TURN is a 7 day economic summit in which some of the most creative entrepreneurial minds on the continent will discuss ways and strategies to speed Africa’s economic growth with the aim of one day becoming a true global economic super power!
GUEST: Sihle Bam- CEO of the Buy Black Foundation
GUEST: PROF. SHINGAI MUTAMBIRWA - Head of Department of Urology, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University (SMU).
GUEST: THABO MOSEBE – HEAD OF COMMUNICATIONS AT GAUTENG GOVERNMENT
Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital is slowly picking up the pieces after a fire that saw more than 840 patients relocated to other facilities two weeks ago.
Burnout is a state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress. It occurs when you feel overwhelmed, emotionally drained, and unable to meet constant demands.
GUEST: Dr. MARLIN McKAY – (GP)General practitioner in private practice
Lufuno Mavhunga from Mbilwi Secondary School committed suicide, allegedly after she was beaten by a girl she went to school with. The mother of the 14-year-old girl who allegedly assaulted Lufuno Mavhunga hours before the pupil took her own life, says her daughter is filled with regret over the incident. Bullying can exist in many forms: It can be physical (pushing, punching, or hitting); verbal (name-calling or threats); or psychological and emotional (spreading rumors or excluding someone from a conversation or activity). How do you know you’re raising a bully?
GUEST: DR NATALIE SOLOMON - Clinical Psychologist and Director of research at Bellavista SHARE GUEST: NOZI KUBEKA – Practising Social Worker and Youth mentor and coach. She is also the Author of “Teenager be wise”
The Zulu royal family consists of the late king of the Zulus, Goodwill Zwelithini, his consorts, and legitimate descendants. His great-great-grandfather, King Mpande, as a half-brother of the Zulu King Shaka, reigned from 1840 to 1872. Shaka's policies and conquests transformed a small clan into one of South Africa's most influential pre-colonial powers, extending over much of what is now KwaZulu-Natal.
GUEST: Prof SIKHUMBUZO MNGADI - Head of the Department English The University of Johannesburg
As of Sunday, the cumulative number of detected Covid-19 cases is 1,584,064 with 1222 new cases identified, Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize has confirmed.
GUEST: PROF. BURTRAM FIELDING - Virologist Director of Research and Development at the University of The Western Cape
Ask Afrika (an independent market research company) has been tracking the significant social change effected by the Covid-19 pandemic since the start of lockdown in South Africa.
The latest report – THE ASK AFRIKA ANNUAL REVIEW OF COVID
GUEST: ANDREA RADEMEYER - CEO Ask Afrika
The COVID-19 pandemic had a negative impact on GBV, leading to the Solidarity Fund identifying GBV as one of its focus areas. Community Keepers is one of the 332 grant recipients in the Solidarity Fund’s recent R75m envelope towards GBV organisations that provide critical services to vulnerable men, women and children across South Africa.
GUEST: MERIEL BARTLET - Media, Marketing & Funding Executive at Community Keepers
GUEST: TOM FELS - CEO at Animarem / Executive advisor / Global Transformational Travel Council Ambassador
"Double mutant" first detected in India. The Indian brutal wave is teaching us few things? Officially, the variant is called B.1.617.
GUEST: Dr RAMNEEK AHLUWALIA - CEO of HIGHER HEALTH
World Press Freedom Day is observed on 3 May annually. This year’s World Press Freedom Day theme ‘Information as a Public Good’ GUEST: By Prof TAWANA KUPE - Vice-Chancellor and Principal, University of Pretoria.
THE MARKET THEATRE IS CELEBRATING 45 THIS YEAR AND HAVE PUT TOGETHER A LINE UP OF SHOWS TO CELEBRATE ITS WORK. The Market Theatre is celebrating 45 this year and have put together a line up of shows to celebrate its work. GUEST :JAMES NGCOBO -Managing Director Market Theatre
As we wrap up Freedom Month we ask; WHO WAS Vincent Tshabalala & What is the work continued in his name today?
GUEST: LOUIS SEECO - BoardMember The Vincent Tshabalala Education Trust
Following months of anticipation, President Cyril Ramaphosa has finally appeared at the Inquiry into State Capture. GUEST: SANUSHA NAIDOO – POLITICAL ANALYST WITH THE INSTITUTE OF GLOBAL DIALOGUE GUEST: MATLALA SETLHALOGILE – POLITICAL ANALYST AND RESEARCHER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG
Freedom Day is the commemoration of the first democratic elections held in South Africa on 27 April 1994. These were the first post-apartheid national elections to be held in South African where anyone could vote regardless of race. The first democratic elections on 27 April 1994 gave birth to our constitutional democracy. For the majority of South Africans who had never voted before their dignity was restored and the country transformed to a non-racial, non-sexist and democratic society.
Guest: Mighti Jamie - Independent analyst
On Today's Indigenous Knowledge Systems we zone in on ; Melville Koppies is a Nature Reserve and a Johannesburg City Heritage Site. GUEST: WENDY CARSTENS - Chairman of the Volunteer Melville Koppies Management Committee
22ND APRIL was Earth Day an annual event to demonstrate support for environmental protection. First held on April 22, 1970, it now includes a wide range of events coordinated globally by EarthDay.org including 1 billion people in more than 193 countries. WE ZONE IN ON FASHION and it's impact to our environment. DO WE CARE HOW OUR CLOTHES ARE MADE? GUEST: JACKIE MAY - Author at TWYG GUEST: KUTAY SARITOSUN - Director of Fashion Brands at Bluesign Technologies
When the Solidarity Fund’s GBV awareness campaign started in November 2020, the National GBV Command Centre was one of the main organisations that were at the centre of the campaign, as a place where victims were directed to. As the campaign draws to a close, we touch base with the centre manager
GUEST: Velenkosini Nsibande - National GBV Command Centre Acting Centre Manager
Divorce is common, but does it always have to be so destructive and messy? If you are thinking about getting divorced and want to go about it constructively so that both parties and the children win.
GUEST: LEAH SEFOR – Life and Relationship Coach GUEST: RUDI KRUGER –Attorney with 9 years’ experience in litigation and who now specializes in family mediation.
HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT YOUR BODY IMAGE AS A MAN? Is it top priority for you? It is said that there is a rising demand amongst men for medical aesthetic procedures.
GUEST: DR. KAMLEN PILLAY - Specialist Plastic, Reconstructive & Hand Surgeon, based in Cape Town and Europe. Medical Director at the Specialist Cosmetic Institutes (SCIn) of South Africa
Being visually impaired didn't stop Advocate Jan Tladi from graduating with a PhD
GUEST: ADV JAN TLADI - Legal Advisor in the office of the Minister of Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation.
CONSTITUTION HILL CALLS FOR THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE TO BE PROJECTED ONTO THE LIGHT TOWERS ON CONSTITUTION HILL
On the 27th of April 1994, millions of South Africans took to the polls to exercise their right to vote for the very first time — filled with the hope and promise of our newfound democracy. Twenty-seven years of democracy, this Freedom Day, Constitution Hill is calling on all South Africans to once more articulate their dreams, hopes and aspirations. WHAT ARE YOURS?
GUEST: LWANDO XASO – Constitutional Lawyer and Representative of the Constitution Hill Trust
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a mental health disorder; Both adults and children can have ADHD. Today we venture to learn and understand
GUEST: PROF. ANDRE VENTER - Neurodevelopment Paediatrician, former academic head of Paediatrics at Free State University.
South Africa’s Covid-19 death rate for a single day spiked sharply after 130 deaths were recorded on Tuesday. This was the highest number of people to die from Covid-19 in April so far and six fold increase from the previous day when the country recorded 21 deaths.
GUEST: MIA MALAN - Editor in Chief Bhekisisa
On land, at sea, in forests and mountains, there is food all around us, how do we know what is edible and what is poisonous, how to identify what part of the plant to harvest and how to prepare are all important and valuable lessons
GUEST: ROUSHANA GRAY - Wild Food Innovator & Founder of Veld and Sea
The director of the UCT libraries has said that the Reading Room of the Jagger Library has been completely gutted by the fire in Cape Town. Executive Director of UCT Libraries, Ujala Satgoor, announced that while some parts of the Jagger Library were gutted, the fire was stopped from spreading to other sections of the library. Also forming part of the collections in the Library is material from Lovedale Press. GUEST: ATHI PATRA RUGA - Artist & Co Founder Victory of The Word
If you’ve got wedding bells on the brain, take some time to think about why you are getting married. You might think that you are getting married because you love your partner, but when you dig into the question a little more, you might find that your beliefs are flawed. Also getting married because of social pressures usually results in the husband or wife leaving the relationship when they realize that living their life for superficial appearances isn’t very meaningful or rewarding. GUEST: MANDLA LUPONDWANA – SPEAKER, AND DIRECTOR TOGETHER FOREVER
Slavery in Southern Africa existed until the abolition of slavery in the Cape Colony on 1 January 1834. This followed the British banning the trade of slaves between colonies in 1807 with their emancipation by 1834. GUEST: PROF. NIGEL PENN – PROFESSOR AT THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORICAL STUDIES AT UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN
The Solidarity Fund is committed to the eradication of Gender Based Violence and as part of its commitment; we continue ongoing conversations every Monday afternoon discussing topics that will challenge all of us to find solutions towards ending the GBV scourge.
GUEST: Nokuphumla Dineka – Acting Director at Ikhaya Lethemba
GUEST: Motshidisi Mokoma - Eskom 2020 Business Investment Competition (BIC) Winner for the Agriculture & Agri-processing sector. 2020 Business Investment Competition & The Business Connect workshop
President Cyril Ramaphosa has recently punted the potential of job creation in the digital economy, but his government is the biggest handbrake on the local ICT industry. GUEST: MANDLA NGCOBO - Entrepreneur and Founder Accelerit Techologies
GUEST: Lindiwe Mdlalose - Eskom 2020 Business Investment Competition (BIC) Winner for the Engineering & Construction sector
Good communication is an important part of all relationships and is an essential part of any healthy partnership. All relationships have ups and downs, but a healthy communication style can make it easier to deal with conflict and build a stronger and healthier partnership.
GUEST: SIPHO MBELE - Author and Relationship Coach
HOW CAN MEN BE SUPPORTED BY THE COMMUNITY AND IN OTHER SPACES THEY EXIST IN WHEN COMING OUT ABOUT THEIR SEXUALITY? South Africa’s LGBTQ+ community is reeling over the horrific murder of Andile Ntuthela, a queer person in the Eastern Cape.The remains of the 41-year-old Ntuthela, also known as Lulu, were discovered in a shallow grave at the house of the man arrested for his murder in KwaNobuhle, outside of Uitenhage.The killing comes just days after Sphamandla Khoza, a gay man from Inanda in Durban, was stabbed and slashed to death in a suspected LGBTQ+ hate crime.
GUEST: PROF ANTHONY BROWN - Associate Professor Of Inclusive Education And Life Orientation AT THE Department Of Educational Psychology At The University Of Johannesburg. GUEST: JAVU BALOYI - Spokesperson for the Commission of Gender Equality GUEST: JAY JUDAH MATLOU – Gay black man ,38 Years old
There’s a wide gulf between the private healthcare sector and the public healthcare sector, with some of the immediate differences ranging from the facilities and equipment that are available, to how overburdened a clinic or hospital is. GUEST: BARBARA McGorian - CEO of the Tshemba Foundation
KOS GANGSTER is an initiative by a community in Ocean's View in the Western Cape. They decided to create a garden and coffee shop to feed and employ themselves. GUEST: SOPHIA GRODES - Founder of Ocean View Organic Farmers - a kos gangsters initiative
A number of civil society organisations, government structures, businesses and informal waste pickers are working together to do clean-ups, recycle and repurpose waste material that benefits all, in what promises to be a workable prototype for the City of Durban.
GUEST: JONATHAN WELCH - Technical Consultant Project Manager Green Corridors KwaMashu Materials Beneficiation Centre (KMBC) provides technical support for this complex “eco-system”. GUEST: MARGARET BURGER - WESSA (People Caring For The Earth) KZN Membership , and Umgeni Estuary Conservancy
A PAP SMEAR cannot detect Ovarian Cancer; How then is it detected? What do we know and need to learn about this cancer
GUEST: PROF. MICHAEL C HERBST - Health Specialist and Patient Advocate Cancer Association of South Africa
Losing a loved one can trigger intense feelings of grief. For some people, this grief can lead to depression or make underlying depression worse. You can expect to grieve and feel sad after a loss, but prolonged feelings of sadness and hopelessness could mean that you have depression. Whether you’re experiencing grief or depression or both, there are many approaches that can help you heal with time.
GUEST: Dr Mashadi Motlana - Specialist Psychiatrist
National Arts Council (NAC) has been urged to engage with the artists who have been staging a sit-in at the institution’s offices in Johannesburg. The artists have been protesting over the allocation of R300 million from the presidential employment stimulus programme. GUEST: SIBONGILE MNGOMA - Artist
GUEST: DR NATALIE SOLOMON - Clinical Psychologist and Director of research at Bellavista SHARE
PhD student preserves African heritage using ethno-mathematics as part of her research to trace symmetrical geometry in Ndebele mural art and beadwork. GUEST: THULISILE BHUDA - North West University Phd Student in Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Culture & Heritage Activist and Children's Book Author
GUEST: Prof BURTRAM FIELDING - Virologist and Director of Research and Development at the University of The Western Cape
The Justice Desk is an award-winning human rights organisation which operates in South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. They empower local people to understand and defend their Human Rights. GUEST: IGNATIUS FRANCE - Advocacy and Training Manager The Justice Desk
THE STATE OF TRANSPORT in South Africa, what are the core challenges and where do they stem from and what is the future of transport in our country. GUEST: OFENTSE MOKWENA - Transport Economist, Lecturer at North-West University and Columnist
Her Debut Album “”Yellow The Novel” came out in 2017 and now she has her work entitled “Inganekwane” (2020) Zoe Modiga was born Palesa Nomthandazo Phumelele Modiga in Overport, Durban and raised in Pietermaritzburg. Her love for music at a very young age encouraged her to attend the National School of the Arts in Braamfontein, Johannesburg where she studied classical piano, clarinet and vocals. GUEST: ZOE MODIGA – Artist
1st of April 2021 Redi Tlhabi became Guest Editor for Mail and Guardian. What conversations she is hoping to highlight? GUEST: REDI THLABI – Guest Editor Mail and Guardian
Today marks 150 years since struggle icon, mama Charlotte Mannya-Maxeke, was born. The religious leader and political activist was the first Black South African woman to earn a university degree a Bachelor of Science in the USA. 2021 has been declared the Year of Charlotte Maxeke with a focus on unity, renewal and reconstruction GUEST: ZUBEIDA JAFFER – Author of “Beauty of The Heart: The Life and Times of Charlotte Mannya-Maxeke”
BODY AND INTUITIVE HEALING what is it and how does it help us perform and live our optimal best
The Behavioral Effects of Marijuana Use; researchers from the University of Toronto collected 124 studies conducted from 1995 to 2020 that looked at how recreational marijuana use affected mental health and functioning. They identified four main areas where marijuana had negative consequences for mental health.
GUEST: DR. CARMEN JAMES – Integrative Medical Practitioner
The Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC) was formally launched on 6 April 1959 at Orlando Communal Hall Soweto (62 YEARS AGO). It was founded by an Africanist group, led by Robert Sobukwe, that broke away from the African National Congress (ANC).
Family ties: understanding the adolescent brain the key to raising confident children; What does it take?
GUEST: AYANDA TETYANA – Parent Coach
South Africa celebrates Freedom Month during April; the month we saw the first democratic elections in 1994 that gave birth to freedom and constitutional democracy in South Africa. 27 Years later; we continue to face challenges from service delivery to continued call on DECOLONISATION
GUEST: SISEKO H. KUMALO - PhD Candidate & Researcher Political Sciences / Editor of the Book “Decolonisation as Democratisation”
Siyabuya calls on all South Africans to give a high priority to health and safety during religious observance and holiday travel over the next two months. GUEST: MELENE ROSSOUW – Campaign Lead for Siyabuya
The Market Theatre presents STIMELA …A Hugh Masekela Exhibition by Brett Rubin. It opened yesterday 4th April celebrating what would have been Bra Hugh’s 82nd birthday 4 APRIL – 2 MAY 2021 at The Market Theatre Newtown Jhb GUEST: BRETT RUBIN – Photographer/ Visual Artist
Imbiza Journal for African Writing has published its 1st Edition a platform for creative writing, criticism, academic writing and intellectual engagement for African thinkers, cultural workers and activists.
GUEST: DR. SIPHIWO MAHALA – Editor of Imbiza and Author GUEST: STACEY FRU – Award Winning Author/ 14 yrs Grade 9
Joyous Celebration released their 25th album titled Still We Rise last Friday. They have also recently signed with Universal Music and Motown Gospel in the U.S.A.
GUEST: PASTOR JABU HLONGWANE – Co-Founder Joyous Celebration
Jeanine is a gifted healer, qualified and internationally registered Lightarian ReikiTM Master, Karuna Reiki® Master, Independent Usui Reiki Master, Reiki practitioner, Reiki teacher and Munay Ki teacher.Jeanine holds all the necessary accreditations and is registered with the Karuna and Lightarian International Reiki Institutes.
GUEST: Jeanine Sacks
On Holistic Healing Today : We continue from last week's conversation on the workings of the Immune System Last Week we looked at - Covid-19 and Immunity and -The immune response to the Covid-19 vaccine.
GUEST: Dr. Faryal Luhar - Naturopathic Private Doctor
Tomorrow, 31 March is the deadline for the public to comment on Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy Gwede Mantashe’s proposed Gas to Power Powership projects at South African ports in Richard’s Bay KwaZulu-Natal, Ngqura Eastern Cape and Saldanha Bay Western Cape. In its submissions, The Green Connection highlights a number of deficiencies in the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), where key impacts have not been considered or factored in.
GUEST: Liz McDaid - The Green Connection's Strategic Lead & Education on Justice Issues
Adolescence, the period of life between childhood and adulthood, is defined by the transition from parental dependence to relative autonomy. During this time, important changes take place in the structure and workings of the brain, and in the mental abilities which underlie some of the most sophisticated human behaviors.
Guest: Mandla Lupondwana
According to the African Calendar, it is said that April started on the 27th of March because that was the day we saw the full moon. We reflect on the Seasons according to our indigenous knowledge systems. We zone in on the TshiVenda perspective.
GUEST: Jane Mufamadi Mufamadi - CEO Freedom Park and Former Director Indigenous Knowledge Systems at the University of Venda
The Black Feminist Fund is launching with $15 million (225,371 South African Rands) in seed funding from the Ford Foundation. First global fund focused on significantly increasing funds for Black feminist organizations across Africa, Europe, and the Americas
GUEST: Hakima Abbas - Co Founder of The Black Feminist Fund
GUEST: Sibongile Ndashe - Founder of ISLA (Initiative for Strategic Litigation in Africa) a Pan-African and feminist led initiative that contributes to the development of jurisprudence on sexual rights and women’s human rights in Africa. (funded by the Ford Foundation)
SolidarityForGBV. South Africa ranks amongst the worst in the world when it comes to Gender-based Violence (GBV) and rape statistics, and the reported cases do not even account for the full picture.
From the introduction of a Sexual Offenders’ Registry, to a victim-centered approach to prosecutions, as well as harsher sentences and stricter bail conditions against perpetrators of Gender-Based Violence, the three new Amendment Bills recently announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa, have been hailed as ‘a step in the right direction’ for a country that finds itself in the chokehold of GBVF.
GUEST: Ms. Namuma Mulindi - Policy and Advocacy Specialist at Sonke Gender Justice
UNISA Press and Township Entrepreneurs Alliance (TEA) have collaborated and put resources together in conducting the lockdown economic impact survey. A common concern and a goal to understand how the COVID-19 pandemic and consequently the national lockdown affected the township economy in particular, the formal and informal micro enterprises.
GUEST: Bulelani Balabala – FOUNDER OF TOWNSHIP ENTREPRENEURS ALLIANCE (TEA)
Aretha Franklin and Elton John are unarguably two of the biggest icons in music history and although they may seem very different, there is a lot these two artists share in common. One is their birthdays, both were born on the 25th of March, Aretha in 1942 and Elton in 1947.
Actually the month of March seems to be a big month for many iconic music superheroes: George Benson, Diana Ross, Teddy Pendergrass, Chaka Khan, Steven Tyler (of Aerosmith), Céline Dion, Mariah Carey, Eric Clapton, Jessie J and Fergie (of Black Eyed Peas).
GUEST: Dr Sheldon Rocha Leal- PhD Music Academic, Musician, Songwriter and Director of Culture at Southdowns College in Irene, Pretoria.
We often hear “women don’t know what they want”; in relationships in the home and the workplace. What do we want? WHAT WOMEN WANT
GUEST: Lebo Pule – Author, Life Coach and Podcaster
This Morning News 24 published what they termed an EXCLUSIVE titled “Inside SA's R1.5bn deal with Johnson & Johnson and possible vaccine delivery delays”
GUEST: Minister Zweli Mkhize - Minister of Health
Domestic violence and abuse in the home is a common talking point in South Africa—However, most of these conversations are centered on men as the abusers and not the victims, but that doesn’t mean that the tables aren’t sometimes turned.
‘Beautiful Monster,’ a memoir by Cape Town’s Jay Badenhorst highlights the plight of men enduring long-term mental health consequences when their dreams of a ‘forever love’ turns into a nightmare.
GUEST: Jay Badenhorst - Author of “Beautiful Monster”
GUEST: Mvuleni Tshazibana – Senior Trainer Sonke Gender Justice
Shopping Centre manager tells the customer his traditional attire ‘not descent in my mall’ Boulders Shopping Centre Management in Johannesburg has come under fire after a controversial video has emerged on social media, in which the Centre Manager is seen verbally attacking a man clad in traditional attire, accusing him of wearing in an “indecent” manner in a public place.
GUEST: THANDO MAHLANGU - Ndebele Activist
GUEST: CHRIS NISSEN – Commissioner at the Human Rights Commission
GUEST: PROF. PITIKA NTULI – Cultural Analyst
Wellness Guru Yasmeen Engelbrecht is taking us through The 7 Steps to getting what you want and going to the end of who you are; to help us create clarity of where we are and where we need to be and how to get there.
GUEST: Yasmeen Engelbrecht – Psychologist, Coach, Writer and Creator of “The Path to Authentic Desire”
Science and technology parks are designed to enhance the economic development of their communities by promoting a culture of innovation. This next interview is brought to you by The Innovation Hub a subsidiary of the Gauteng Growth and Development Agency. For more information, visit www.theinnovationhub.com
GUEST: Matona Ntshona-Sakupwanya - General Manager : Marketing and Communications at The Innovation Hub
With warnings of a 3rd Wave of covid-19 possibly making it’s way and the Easter Season looming, a delay in the vaccination rollout; how do we help ourselves in our own spaces to ready our bodies for this 3rd wave. On Holistic Healing Today we look at THE IMMUNE SYSTEM
GUEST: Dr. Faryal Luhar - Naturopathic Private Doctor
GUEST: Nthabiseng Molongoana - Senior Manager for Research and Development at the National Council of & for Persons with Disabilities on training and employment.
HOW ARE WE DOING when it comes to Adoption as South Africans? What is our culture on this practice ?
GUEST: Sue Krawitz – Director Impilo Child Protection & Adoption Services
GUEST: Tembi Mtshweni – Adoption Social Worker ABBA specialist adoption & social services
Fasting is the practice of abstaining from food and beverages for extended periods. Depending on how it's done, it may boost your health. People may choose to fast for dietary, political or religious purposes. One popular method is intermittent fasting, in which you cycle between periods of eating and fasting.
GUEST: Prof Maria Frahm-Arp – Associate Professor in the Department of Religion Studies at the University of Johannesburg
GUEST: Pecry Mabandu – Art Historian and Author of Yakhalinkomo: Portrait of a Jazz Classic
Radile Mokone is a director at Benya Media, and MD of Yellow.tv which is a 100% youth owned level 1 BBBEE digital media platform that showcases content to the untapped market which exist inside the ridesharing industry.
GUEST: Radile Mokone – Founder of Yellow TV and Benya Media
South Africa ranks amongst the worst in the world when it comes to Gender-based Violence (GBV) and rape statistics, and the reported cases do not even account for the full picture.
As we commemorate National Human Rights as a country; we ask WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN? We are a country that violates instead of protect its children. Former President Nelson Mandela stated “There could be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way it treats it’s children”
GUEST: Dr. Shaheeda Omar - CEO of the Teddy Bear Clinic
The Sharpeville massacre occurred on 21 March 1960, at the police station in the South African township of Sharpeville in Transvaal (today part of Gauteng).
After a day of demonstrations against pass laws, a crowd of about 7,000 protesters went to the police station. The South African Police opened fire on the crowd, killing 69 people and injuring 180 others.
GUEST: Lebohang Pheko – Senior Research Fellow and Political economist at Trade Collective
Re-Imagining Sharpeville – A solo exhibition by Tsepo Gumbi which was showcased at the Photo Workshop Gallery in 2016, what was termed a visual investigation of contemporary Sharpeville
GUEST: Tsepo Gumbi – Photographer
THE IMPACT OF SHARPVILLE IN THE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM The campaign slogan was "NO BAIL! NO DEFENCE! NO FINE!" The PAC argued that if thousands of people were arrested, then the jails would be filled and the economy would come to a standstill. Although the protests were anticipated, no one could have predicted the consequences and the repercussions this would have for South African and world politics. THE IMPACT AND LEGACY OF The Sharpeville Massacre
GUEST: OMAR BADSHA – CEO and Founder of SA History Online
Paul Ndlovu had a meteoric rise to fame in 1985 with his single, Khombora Mina, which attained gold status. The hits Hita Famba Moyeni and Tsakane made him a household name.
GUEST: Bongani Mahlangu - Music Analyst
Cheating/Unfaithfulness in a relationship is the act of betraying your partner. It is the breach of trust, love and companionship shared between you and your partner in a relationship or marriage. Some relationships have failed as a result of infidelity.
This is because there is no more trust, unity and understanding in the relationship. Today we ask, should one return to their partner after unfaithfulness in a relationship?
GUEST: Leah Sefor - LIFE AND RELATIONSHIP COACH
GUEST: DR. NOKUZOLA MNDENDE – President of Icamagu Spirituality, a national organisation based on African Traditional Religion. She is an African Liberation theologian and also a Womanist theologian.
GUEST: DR. NONTOBEKO MNCWANGI – Senior Lecturer: Department of Pharmacy Practice, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University ; also a registered pharmacist. As of February 2021, she was appointed as a member of the Working Group of Experts for African Traditional Medicines by the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA)/
GUEST: MR. MLAWU TYATYEKA – Expert on Xhosa Culture; a former lecturer in the Department of Languages: Literature and Linguistics (1984 – 2019). He a member of the Pan South African Language Board (2005 – 2017).
GUEST: PROF. HASSAN OMARI KAYA – Principal Reseacher and Director of DSI (Department of Science and Innovation) – NRF (National Research Foundation) Centre in Indigenous Knowledge Systems (CIKS), at University of KwaZuluNatal (UKZN)
Life has been very uncertain in the past year or so since the Covid-19 pandemic hit. Many of us are curious and want to have an idea of what things look like this year. Sandy is here.…
GUEST: Sandy Smith – Well known South African Numerologist
Jeanine is a gifted healer, qualified and internationally registered Lightarian ReikiTM Master, Karuna Reiki® Master, Independent Usui Reiki Master, Reiki practitioner, Reiki teacher and Munay Ki teacher. Jeanine holds all the necessary accreditations and is registered with the Karuna and Lightarian International Reiki Institutes.
GUEST: Jeanine Sacks
The South African law of succession prescribes the rules which determine the devolution of a person's estate after his death, and all matters incidental thereto. It identifies the beneficiaries who are entitled to succeed to the deceased's estate, and the extent of the benefits they are to receive, and determines the different rights and duties that persons (for example, beneficiaries and creditors) may have in a deceased's estate.
GUEST: Mpho Nefuri - Founder of Nefuri Attorneys.
GUEST: Dr. Sello Galane - Academic, Percussionist, Cultural Activist . He holds a PhD from the University of Pretoria titled, The Music of Dr. Philip Tabane - An Historical Analytical Study of Malombo Music of South Africa
By Yesterday (Sunday 15 March) South Africa has recorded 1,006 new COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours. This brought the number of the country's total infection rate to 1 529 420.
The number of daily fatalities reported in the past day was 65, bringing the number of deaths to 51,326. The recovery rate stands at 95%, meaning over 1.4 million people have recuperated. Meanwhile, 145,544 health workers had been given the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine.
GUEST: Prof Burtram Fielding - Virologist Director of Research and Development at the University of The Western Cape
Tributes continue to pour in for the late actress Noxolo Maqashalala following her death at the weekend.
It’s reported that Noxolo was found dead in her Honeydew home in Gauteng on Friday.
GUEST: Sisanda Henna – SA ACTOR
SolidarityForGBV. As a result of the increasing global and local stats and evidence of GBV, it is becoming more essential for organisations to include GBV awareness and education in their mental health and well-being support services.
South Africa ranks amongst the worst in the world when it comes to Gender-based Violence (GBV) and rape statistics, and the reported cases do not even account for the full picture.
GUEST: Thabo Nonkenge - Co-Founder and CEO
The Covid-19 pandemic has taken a toll on the women of South Africa emotionally, mentally, physically and socially. This is a finding by ASK AFRIKA
GUEST: Andre Rademeyer - CEO and Founder Ask Afrika
These drafted Electricity By laws are presented as an amendment to the previous approved electricity By laws of the year 2000.If they are passed, they will affect all property owners in Johannesburg, both commercial and residential, significantly.We have until midnight today 15th March 2021 to submit comments and email them to eisbylaw@joburg.org.za
GUEST: Rene Kilner - Director and Founder of Trusted Utilities and Zone A
Menzi Ngubane, who played numerous leading roles in local TV dramas, including 'Generations' and 'Isibaya', died following complications from a stroke on Saturday. He passed away at his Ladysmith home in KwaZulu-Natal. He was 56.
GUEST: Seputla Sebogodi - Actor
Award-winning musician & Heritage Practitioner MBUSO KHOZA relies on African heritage to educate and entertain and aims to teach the next generation about their Zulu ancestors through song and dance
GUEST :Mbuso Khoza – Award Winning Musician and Heritage Practitioner
The SA Football Association (Safa) anticipates no last-minute hitches to the deal that was agreed on that will see Patrice Motsepe elected president unopposed at the Confederation of African Football's (Caf) 43rd General Assembly in Morocco today.
GUEST: Thabiso Mosia – SAfm Sport Anchor
The Children’s Act 38 of 2005 provides that a parent has the following rights and responsibilities ,both parents of a child have equal rights and responsibilities, but when they are not living together, specific rights and responsibilities may be given to one parent, either by court order or agreement between the parents.
Guest: Gary Da Silva - Chairperson of Fathers 4 Justice Fathers 4 Justice is a civil rights movement founded in 2004,it campaigns for the rights of children during and after divorce in South Africa.
Guest: Advocate Mpilonhle Baloyi - Church Square Society of Advocates and Director at Inkomu Legal Advisory.
13 November 2017, President Jacob Zuma released the report of the commission of inquiry into higher education and training (the fees commission report).
Established by the former president in January 2016 and led by Judge Jonathan Heher, assisted by advocate Gregory Ally and Leah Khumalo.
Now in 2021 we are faced with the #WITSASINAMALI Protests. IS FREE EDUCATION VIABLE and what are the best possible solutions?
GUEST: Prof. Ahmed Bawa - CEO Universities of South Africa
GUEST: Bongani Mahlangu - South African Union of Students National Executive Committee Member
Dr Ela Manga is one of the most renowned Integrated Medical Doctors in South Africa. Her first book, Breathe: Strategising Energy in the Age of Burnout, a collection of real-life case studies which portray her approach to mental, physical and emotional health.
GUEST: Dr. Ela Manga – Founder Breathwork Africa & Integrated Medical Doctor
Guest: Kanakana Mudzanani - Wits SRC Treasure General
Guest: Kay Makhubela - Gauteng police spokesperson
Last Wednesday we initiated the conversation on the 6 aspects of optimising lifestyle to support healing and overall health. We covered 4; nutrition, movement, stress management and sleep. Today we look at Supplements & Detox
GUEST: Dr Carmen James - Integrative Doctor and Wellness Coach
Natural hair-care products company Jabu Stone has expanded its impact on the South African hair industry by developing a mobile phone application designed specifically for hair salon entrepreneurs.
GUEST: Jabu Stone – Founder & CEO of Jabu Stone Natural Haircare
Drawing up a Will is about taking control of your estate and taking care of those you leave behind. Should you die without a Will, your estate will be distributed in terms of the law of intestate succession. Should you die without a Will - what are the consequences in terms of the law of intestate succession
GUEST: Nthabiseng Dubazana - Attorney At Dubazana Attorneys
UCT Under Apartheid: Part 1 – From onset to sit-in, 1948–1968, reflects on the educational, institutional, architectural, social and political history of the University.
GUEST: Emeritus Prof. Howard Phillips - A graduate of UCT and London University and taught in the Department of Historical Studies and the Department of Public Health at UCT from 1974 to 2014. Author of UCT Under Apartheid Part 1: From Onset to Sit-in, 1948–1968
By Yesterday (Sunday 7 March) South Africa had recorded 862 new Covid-19-related cases with the cumulative number of cases rising to 1 521 068, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said.
The number of fatalities now stands at 50 678 after 31 more Covid-19 deaths were reported.
GUEST: Prof Burtram Fielding - Virologist Director of Research and Development at the University of The Western Cape
SolidarityForGBV . As a result of the increasing global and local stats and evidence of GBV, it is becoming more essential for organisations to include GBV awareness and education in their mental health and well-being support services.
Covid 19 has brought about added complications for employers and employees alike navigating the home as the new work environment.
Diana Schwarz Attorneys and Paula Quinsee have collaborated their expertise to provide workshops and training to corporates on GBV, awareness, legalities and employee wellness.
GUEST: Paula Quinsee - Relationship and Employee Wellness Expert & Author
This year, UN theme for International Women’s Day is “Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world” The IWD (International Women’s Day organization) theme is #ChooseToChallenge – A Call to Action in Uplifting women through collaboration & philanthropy
GUEST: Nicolette Naylor – Ford Foundation International Program Director, Gender, Racial, and Ethnic Justice
Eskom cares about the development and success of the STEMI field, which is aimed at driving skills development in South Africa in this sector.
GUEST: Andrew Etzinger - General Manager: Risk and Sustainability, Eskom
In the 1960s, she was the first artist from Africa to popularize African music around the world. She is best known for the song "Pata Pata", first recorded in 1957 and released in the U.S. in 1967. She recorded and toured with many popular artists, such as Harry Belafonte, Paul Simon, and her former husband Hugh Masekela.
GUEST: Percy Mabandu - Music and Art Historian
Emotional support is one of the big benefits of having relationships. When you face life challenges or stress, your loved ones can offer empathy and comfort by listening to your troubles and validating your feelings.
In a romantic relationship, you might turn to your partner for this support first. It’s normal to look to partners for emotional support and guidance, especially in a long-term relationship.
GUEST: Sipho Mbele - Author of “Take it from me’’
GUEST: Buyisile Mncina - Counselling Pyschologist
GUEST: ADITI SOOKDHAW - Grade 11 learner in 2020 Star College
GUEST: TLOTLANO MOKGATLHE - Grade 12 learner in 2020 at Ramatu High School
GUEST: NTSAMAI SENOELO - Secretary and Senior Mentor at the Young Men Movement
GUEST: FRANCOIS JOUBERT - Mentor and Board Director at the Character Company
A New Report by the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) on how government investment into zero-waste systems presents an opportunity for economic recovery
GUEST: SIMON MBATA - National Coordinator South African Waste Pickers (SAWPA)
A growing unsustainable welfare gap that has widened during the Covid-19 pandemic
GUEST: DR. ARMAND BAM - Head of Social Impact and Senior Lecturer on Business in Society at the University of Stellenbosch
How to generate electricity from the soil, grow more tomatoes, test blood without pricking a finger – these are just some of the winning entries submitted by learners in grade 8 to grade 11 in the 2020 Eskom Expo for Young Scientists International Science Fair. More than 500 projects were submitted from across the globe.
This year the Eskom Expo for Young Scientists celebrates 41 years of changing young lives and to tell us more about this …
Guest: Cecil Ramonotsi – CEO for Eskom Development Foundation
Shannon Walbran is an Internationally Known Life Coach who teaches people how to download their own divine guidance, in order to solve their toughest problems. Her first book is called "Guided!" and is available at Bridge Books. HER BOOK “100 QUESTIONS” Is availble On Her Website.
GUEST: Shannon Walbran – Internationally known Life Coach Helps You Tap Into Your Inner Wisdom and Intuition
6 aspects of optimising lifestyle to support healing and overall health.
GUEST: Dr Carmen James - Integrative Doctor and Wellness Coach
Should you die without a Will - what are the consequences in terms of the law of intestate succession
GUEST: NTHABISENG DUBAZANA - Attorney At Dubazana Attorneys
GUEST: ZALE HECHTER - CEO CliqTech
RENAMING OF PORT ELIZABETH AIRPORT TO CHIEF DAWID STUURMAN AIRPORT ---WHO WAS DAWID STUURMAN
GUEST: TAURIQ JENKINS - Chairperson of the A/XARRA Restorative Justice Forum and which is based at the African Studies UCT
GUEST: EDMUND STUURMAN - Descendant of Dawid Stuurman
Converse is launching a campaign where they will be assisting students who are in colleges and universities who are struggling to finish their studies due to debt. The campaign urges students to nominate themselves or someone that they know who is in debt.
GUEST: Bradley Knowles - Group Marketing Executive Converse
The WISE Collective is an advocacy organization and social enterprise on innovative solutions to prevent and address challenges in advancing women’s safety from gender-based violence and overall oppression from patriarchy.
GUEST: Onica Makwakwa - Co-Director of Wise 4 Afrika
Gunmen raided a boarding school in northwestern Nigeria early Friday and kidnapped more than 300 girls, marking the third mass abduction of children since December in Africa's most populous nation.
GUEST: PASTOR BARRY WUGANAALE - Human Rights Activist - Ogoni Solidarity Forum
South Africa has now moved to level 1 lockdown President Cyril Ramaphosa said the country has now clearly passed the second wave. He credited the public health measures and changes in behaviour by the public for the decline in infections.
This means that the hours of curfew changes to midnight to 4 am and public gatherings - including social political and religious - are once again permitted but restricted to 100 people for indoor gatherings and 250 for outdoor events - where the venue allows.
GUEST: Prof Burtram Fielding - Virologist Director of Research and Development at the University of The Western Cape
Is there a line between involvement and interference when it comes to family and friends in your relationship?
GUEST: Lebo pule - Podcaster; Coach & Author of “GROWING UP IN ALEXANDRA” & “FROM HUSTLING TO HEALING”
GUEST: Linda Ande Yende - Author of “Wake Up Woman” & “Dear Uncle L”
GUEST: Nomasonto Ndlovu - Executive Manager of Tourism and Business Development, at Transnet and The Blue Train.
Prof. Mutambirwa is Back! How is your body, do you have an improved plan of looking after yourself this year?
GUEST: Prof. Shingai Mutambirwa - Head of Department of Urology, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University (SMU).
GUEST: Dr. S’lindile Ndwalane - Specialist Dermatologist at the Laser and Cosmetic Institute in Hyde Park
South African doctor, Dr Mathobela Matjekane, has been going the extra mile, educating the community about the Covid-19 terminology.
She set up an initiative that would help simplify Covid-19 terminology by using indigenous languages in video content to decode the medical jargon.
GUEST: Dr. Mathobela Matjekane - CEO and Founder of CLINIMED
The latest criminal stats show that seven of the 10 police stations reporting the highest murder rates in the country are in the Western Cape.
GUEST: Dr. Guy Lamb - Criminologist Department of Political Science Stellenbosch University
Thebe Ikalafeng, Brand Africa Founder, launched the first Africa-focused specialist rand leadership academy Africa Brand Leadership Academy (ABLA), earlier this month.
GUEST: THEBE IKALAFENG – Principal Founder Africa Brand Leadership Academy
2020 MATRIC RESULTS: FREE STATE COMES OUT TOP OF THE CLASS Minister Motshekga said she was happy that the class of 2020 had managed to achieve a 76.2% pass rate as she was expecting the worst due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
GUEST: Professor RAMODUNGOANE TABANE - Associate Professor Chair of Department: Psychology of Education at UNISA
The pre-colonial Batswana capital of Kweneng. This work has been published in the newsletter of the South African Archaeological Society and is aimed for all of us to access.
GUEST: Prof. Karim Sadr – Professor of Archaeology at the University of Witwatersrand
South Africa received its first delivery of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine at O R Tambo International Airport in Gauteng last on Tuesday. With infections still on the rise the this is SA’s hope. What does the vaccine mean for SA?
GUEST: Prof Burtram Fielding - Virologist Director of Research and Development at the University of The Western Cape
SolidarityForGBV . In November 2020, the Solidarity Fund put a call out for applications from potential beneficiary organisations in the Gender-Based Violence (GBV) sector who would benefit from a once-off grant from the Fund.
This call formed part of the Solidarity Fund’s second GBV intervention programme in support of the national effort to mitigate the effects of COVID-19 and the subsequent lockdowns.
GUEST: Adam Boros - Head of Social Impact Tshikululu Social Investments
The Minister of Public Service and Administration Senzo Mchunu has started consultations on the Draft National Framework Document on the Professionalisation of the Public Service.
In January Minister Mchunu invited the public to comment on the draft national framework document and now he will start consultation with key stakeholders like professional bodies, institutions of higher learning, think tanks and organized labor.
GUEST: Busani Ngcaweni - The Principal of the National School of Government
Reggae first penetrated South Africa in the 1970s. As early as 1977. Many reggae artists were influenced by the Jamaican originators of the genre, some of whom they had been able to see perform live in the early 1980s.
GUEST: Bongani Mahlangu – Music and Arts Journalist
A Minute Before Lobolo’ is Motha ka Mtshali's honest account of his personal quest to understand the dynamics and challenges that come with marriage life and how men deal with them.
GUEST: Motha Ka Mtshali - Author of A Minute Before Lobolo
NASA's (The National Aeronautics and Space Administration) science rover Perseverance streaked through the Martian atmosphere yesterday and landed safely on the floor of a vast crater, its first stop on a search for traces of ancient microbial life on the Red Planet.
GUEST: Dr. Adriana Marais - Theoretical physicist, technologist & aspiring extra-terrestrial. Founder of Proudly Human
Over the past few days, unusual and persistent levels of sulphurous smells in the air have given residents of Gauteng a glimpse of what life is like for people who live in some of our country’s most polluted places on the Mpumalanga Highveld – one of the South Africa’s worst air pollution hotspots.
GUEST: Rico Euripidou - Environmental Health Campaign Manager at ground Work
Cindy Kruger is a psychic medium. She works to bring comfort and healing through messages from those on the Other Side. She is guided by her instinct, the person being read, and those in spirit who wish to communicate and help their loved ones on earth. As you call us Be Specific to whom you would like to crossover to, your parents or which loved one.
GUEST: Cindy Kruger - Psychic Medium
On Holistic Healing Today we zone in on the SCIENCE OF THE GUT. Scientists studying our ‘second brain’ — the gut microbiome
GUEST: Prof. Anwar Mall - Emeritus Professor University of Cape Town
It is time for society to bite the bullet and accept that SARS CoV 2, the virus that causes COVID, is here to stay. It has become an endemic pandemic, mutating in the direction of becoming a part of the annual winter respiratory onslaught. Some countries might achieve temporary eradication, but the world won't.
GUEST: Dr Kees Rietveld - A humanitarian physician working in international public health
What is the appropriate age to join Social Media & How do we communicate with our children to grow trust and ensure safety.
GUEST: Yolanda Mlozi - Senior Analyst, Public Policy and Government Relations at Google Africa
GUEST: Mandisa Muruge - Counselling Social Worker from Family Life Centres
EARLY MAPPING OF THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE: 1500–1900 is a course that was recently offered at the University of Cape Town offered by Antiquarian Dr Roger Stewart, antiquarian
GUEST: Dr. Roger Stewart - Antiquarian
The Solidarity Fund is committed to the eradication of Gender Based Violence and as part of its commitment; we continue ongoing conversations every Monday afternoon discussing topics that will challenge all of us to find solutions towards ending the GBV scourge.
Guest: Dr. Nwabisa Shai - Specialist Scientist at South African Medical Research Council
It's The First Day back at school across the country for the majority of schools in our country. The Teachers are key in moving our education system forward. How are the teachers doing?
One teacher penned a piece titled: Five Years and Counting: My Experiences as a Township Teacher in South Africa
GUEST: Lehlohonolo Mofokeng - Master of Education graduate from the University of the Witwatersrand, Mandela-Rhodes Scholar
1.SELAELO SELOTA – MA MODIEGI 2.JOHNNY DYANI – NTYILO NTYILO 3.SIMPHIWE DANA – LAKUTSHONA ILANGA 4.SALIF KEITA – N’B’I FE 5.OUMOU SANGARE – DENKO
GUEST: Percy Mabandu - Art Historian and Author of Yakhal'inkomo: Portrait of a Jazz Classic
Sunday 14 February is Valentines Day! How do you know when you have love, how do you know this is it?
GUEST: Linda Ande Yende - Author of Wake Up Woman and Dear Uncle L
GUEST: Lebo Pule - Author of “From Hustling to Healing Alone”; Teacher and Entrepreneur
Mental health is the biggest threat of 2021 Mental health distress is on the rise as the second wave of Covid-19 ripples through 2021.
Dr: Kagisho Maaroganye, psychiatrist and public sector national convenor of the South African Society of Psychiatrists (SASOP) says that with the high levels of grief, uncertainty, stress and anxiety caused by the pandemic, we need to ask ourselves “how does the nation ‘sanitize’ or protect their minds and build resilience?”
GUEST: Dr. Kagisho Maaroganye - psychiatrist and public sector national convenor of the South African Society of Psychiatrists (SASOP)
South Africa's unemployment rate currently stands at 30.8% It is the highest jobless rate since quarterly data became available in 2008, with more people searching for work amid the easing of lockdown restrictions.
When President Cyril Ramaphosa stood on the podium of the National Assembly to deliver his state of the nation address (Sona) around this time last year, he declared 2020 as the year to “fix the fundamentals”.
GUEST: Marius Oosthuizen - Lecturer The University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute of Business Science and authored the article “Economics 2021 : Shifting South Africa's debt burden on to the black middle class"
GUEST: Tessa Dooms - National Planning Commissioner responsible for youth development.
Guest: Sifiso Shezi
Miss South Africa 2020 Shudufhadzo Musida has launched her online mental health initiative #Mindful Mondays When she took the Miss South Africa crown in October last year she announced that she would be focusing on raising awareness around mental health.
GUEST: Shudufadzo Musida - Miss South Africa
Is there a goal for the year ahead that you are feeling stuck with and don't know the next step?
Can you tell if what you want is fear-based or truth-based? Do you know the difference? These questions could be in relation to money, relationships, career or anything else.
GUEST: Yasmeen Engelbrecht - Psychologist & Coach
This February, which is recognized as Reproductive Health Month, the spotlight has fallen on another 21st century crisis – plummeting fertility rates.
Fertility levels worldwide have plunged to an historic low with scientists predicting that by 2025, almost 10 million couples will struggle to conceive. South Africa faces the same conundrum, with already more than 20% of couples struggling to conceive.
GUEST: Dr. Crystal Meletiou - Narrative Therapist who specializes in the counselling of women who supper from infertility and menopausal issues
Cape Town Entrepreneur and Pastor Tlou Ledwaba is always looking for ways to empower members of his community. In December, he launched To Walk a Child, a campaign geared at collecting school shoes for needy children in Mfuleni a Township 32 km from Cape Town.
GUEST: Tlou Ledwaba - ENTREPRENEUR AND FOUNDER OF SHOE CAMPAIGN
Someone tweeted “I understand why people cut off their parents” and the responses were massive and some of them stated “I lost my job last week and all she cares about is if im going to be able to send her money tomorrow” How do we deal with toxic parents and family members
GUEST: Mandla Lupondwana – Speaker and Director of Together and Forever
GUEST: Nikki Bush – Parenting Expert
GUEST: Dr. Mocholoko ZuluMathabo Zulu - Doctoral practitioner; a metaphysical scientist; a cosmologist; a technological inventor and a software engineer
GUEST: Dr Velile Ngidi – Public Health Medicine Registrar The University of KwaZulu-Natal
The unexplored frontier for heritage tourism to Zululand, South Africa is a paper written a few years ago by colleagues that include Unathi Henama from the Department of Tourism Management Tshwane University of Technology
With the recent Tea in Nkandla; Unathi has revived the question
ZumaMeetsMalema: Is it a tourism opportunity lost?
GUEST: Unathi Henama - Tourism Lecturer Tshwane University of Technology
President Cyril Ramaphosa has handed over AU chairpersonship to DRC President Felix Tshiseked. South Africa has not won the two positions at the African Union Commission leadership it had targeted. The AU summit held a virtual swearing in of the new commissioners of the Union.
GUEST: Nixon Katembo - African Affairs Analyst Chanel Africa
In The Month of Love; We remind ourselves that in the midst of a pandemic we can still celebrate being inlove.
GUEST: Dr. Sheldon Leal - PhD Music Academic, Musician, Songwriter and Director of Culture at Southdowns College in Irene, Pretoria.
It’s the month of Love, only this time we have a pandemic we are faced with. Perhaps many relationship dynamics will change years after recovering from this global pandemic. Some of the rules that have been shifting over the years is DATING YOUNGER for both men and women; especially for women. Is it still taboo to date younger?
GUEST: Linda Ande Yende - Author of Wake Up Woman and Dear Uncle L
GUEST: Lebo Pule - Author of “From Hustling to Healing Alone”; Teacher and Entrepreneur
CONFESSIONS OF A BROKEN MAN ...is a book by Leroy Tau it came at a moment of self-reflection in his own life. What Was Broken and How do you put the pieces back together?
GUEST: Mfanozelwe Shozi - Gender Activist & Lecturer Durban University of Technology under the Adult and Community Education Unit. (He speaks in his own capacity)
GUEST: Leroy Tau - Author of Confessions of a Broken Man.He has also co-authored : Restoring Missing Links, I Am Not My Wounds, Feeling Falling and In Love.
It’s been a difficult time for many of us with the Covid-19 pandemic and having an idea of what things look like is what some of us would like to know. Sandy is here…
GUEST: Sandy Smith – Well known South African Numerologist
A drop of 18% in the new car market in January, compared to January 2020, is a clear indication that the economic squeeze is on for vehicle buyers in South Africa, according to Mark Dommisse, the Chairperson of the National Automobile Dealers’ Association, which is the professional body representing more than 1 300 motor dealerships, and includes 85% of the new vehicle franchised outlets.
GUEST: Mark Dommisse - Chairperson of the National Automobile Dealers’ Association
How chieta’s plans to address unemployment in s.a ,in partnership with university of johannesburg to support start-ups and small businesses – PANDEMIC ECONOMIC RECOVERY
The Chemical Industries Education and Training Authority (CHIETA) has partnered with the University of Johannesburg Center of Entrepreneurship (UJCfE) to develop their small business support programme.
GUEST: Mr. Yershen Pillay - CEO of Chemical Industries Education and Training Authority (CHIETA)
Dr. Sheromani Harripershad is registered with the Allied Health Professions Council of South Africa as a homeopathic doctor and runs a private practice in Sydenham offering complimentary, natural, alternative and holistic healing.
GUEST: Dr. Sheromani Harripershad - Homoeopathic Doctor . She has a special interest in female and male infertility.
The coronavirus pandemic has the potential to lead to an increase in inequality in almost every country at once, the first time this has happened since records began. The virus has exposed, fed off and increased existing inequalities of wealth, gender and race.
GUEST: Mthandazo Ndlovu – Governance Programme Manager at OXFAM
The Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA) will be launching its Priority Research Project on Mintirho ya Vulavula: Arts, National Identities and Democracy in South Africa, on the 10th of February 2021. Its aim is to locate arts, culture and heritage within a society looking to attain long-lasting social transformation and democracy.
GUEST: Dr. Refiloe Lepere - Drama Therapist, Director, Writer, Facilitator and Lecturer.
GUEST: PROF. INNOCENTIA MHLAMBI - Professor of African Languages and Literatures Wits University
GUEST: Dr. Mocholoko ZuluMathabo Zulu - Doctoral practitioner; a metaphysical scientist; a cosmologist; a technological inventor and a software engineer with more than 20 years’ experience.
The release of the Corruption Watch Covid-19 TERS Corruption at Work report today and highlights the experiences of whistle-blowers. The Temporary Employer / Employee Relief Scheme (TERS) was introduced during the national hard lockdown as one of a range of economic stimulus measures in response to the Covid-19 epidemic.
GUEST: Kirsten Person - Project Specialist Corruption Watch
The Solidarity Fund is committed to the eradication of Gender Based Violence and as part of its commitment; we continue ongoing conversations every Monday afternoon discussing topics that will challenge all of us to find solutions towards ending the GBV scourge. #SolidarityForGBV
GUEST: Roche Kester - Hatecrimes Manager at OUT Wellbeing which is a LGBTQI+ Organisation
President Cyril Ramaphosa will be receiving the first batch of vaccines from Mumbai this afternoon before its transported to a cold-room for technical processing and quality assurance in Johannesburg.
GUEST: Prof. Tahir Pillay - Head of the Department of Chemical Pathology and the Division of Clinical Pathology in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Pretoria & The National Health Research System
--Legendary jazz musician and political activist Jonas Gwangwa is laid to rest today after a special provincial funeral in Johannesburg. Gwagwa died at the age of 83 last week, two weeks after the death of his wife, Violet Gwangwa.
--Songstress Extraordinaire Dr. Sibongile Khumalo, passed away yesterday after what the family said was a 'lengthy period of illness' at the age of 63
GUEST: Bongani Mahlangu – Music and Arts Journalist
Tributes have been pouring in following the death of South African legendary musician, Dr Sibongile Khumalo. According to a statement on behalf of the family, Khumalo succumbed to stroke-related complications after a lengthy period of illness.
Khumalo began her musical journey at the tender age of 8, and was launched into the limelight when she won the Standard Bank Young Artist Award at the Grahamstown Arts Festival in 1993.
GUEST: Dr. Sipho Sithole – Award Winning Producer & Composer / Founder of WATCHA TV
2021 Is A New Year that comes with the continued strain, loss and struggle of 2020. We have yet to experience A Happy New Year as families, workers and as a country & globe. How Then Do we move forward with hope and positivity?
GUEST: Leah Sefor – Life and Relationship Coach
South Africa has the eighth highest suicide rate in the world, with 450 men taking their lives a month and four out of five deaths being the result of suicide.
This is according to the Men’s Foundation of South Africa, an NGO that manages the Movember Foundation in the country under licence from the International Movember Foundation.
GUEST: Sifiso Mkhasibe - Project Leader – Stakeholder Engagement SA Federation for Mental Health
Statistically, women live longer than men, yet the World Economic Forum reported that women retire with 30% to 40% less money than men. Why does this gap exist when women have just as many reasons to save for a goal or grow their wealth? Women are better investors, but retire with 30-40% less than men
GUEST: Thomas Brennan - CEO of Franc Savings App
South Africa’s economy, which was struggling before the Covid-19 epidemic, is now reeling and the consequences are dire for consumers burdened with debt as well as salary cuts, retrenchments and businesses closing.
GUEST: Benay ager - Chairman of the National Debt Counsellors’ Association
The Health Department confirmed 243 more COVID-19 related deaths: This brings the total to 41 117 deaths. Recoveries now stand at 1 241 421(87.6%). taking the total number of infections to over 1.4-million.
GUEST: Burtram Fielding - Director of Research Development at the University of Western Cape and Virologist specializing in Covid-19
PE family forced to redo funeral after being given 'wrong body', these are some of the headlines we have seen due to the Covid-19 pandemic. What impact does this have in cultural practices?
GUEST: Jane Mufamadi – CEO Freedom Park center of African Heritage and Culture
GUEST: Mam’Phumala Madiba – Cultural Activist, Rural Grown Woman and Anthropologist
The Portfolio Committee on Public Works and Infrastructure invites stakeholders and interested persons to submit written submissions on the Expropriation Bill [B23 - 2020]. The deadline is Wednesday February 10th 2021.
GUEST: NATIONAL ASSEMBLY MP Nolitha Ntobongwana - Chairperson: PC on Public Works and Infrastructure
GUEST: Claudette Dutileux - Senior Associate - Dispute Resolution Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr Inc
The Solidarity Fund is committed to the eradication of Gender Based Violence and as part of its commitment; we continue ongoing conversations every Monday afternoon discussing topics that will challenge all of us to find solutions towards ending the GBV scourge. #SolidarityForGBV
GUEST: THOKOZANI NDABA - Ntethelelo Foundation
Prof. Mmaki Jantjies Co-Publised an article titled "How South Africa can prepare for a data-driven education system"
GUEST: Prof. Mmaki Jantjies - Associate Professor Department of Information Systems - CAMS Building University of the Western Cape.
The Department of Basic Education (DBE) says all school management teams and support staff are expected to report back to school today Monday 25 January.
GUEST: Elijah Mhlanga – Basic Education Spokesperson
Fela Anikulapo Kuti (born Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti; 15 October 1938 – 2 August 1997 died at 59 years) was a Nigerian multi-instrumentalist, bandleader, composer, political activist, and Pan-Africanist. He is best known for pioneering Afrobeat, a genre-blending traditional Yoruba and Afro-Cuban music with funk and jazz.
Guest: Bongani Mahlangu - Music and Arts Journalist
espAfrika event organisers of the Cape Town International Jazz Festival (CTIJF) have announced their decision to postpone the 2020 event which would have taken place in March.
GUEST: Billy Domingo – Co Founder & Director Cape Town International Jazz Festival
Every single day we are faced with headlines of constant loss; family members who are losing loved ones in some instances more than
GUEST: Debbie James – Chapter Leader Jhb and Trained Counsellor
GUEST: Pastor Mandla Lupondwana – Speaker and Director Together and Forever
The country has been rocked by news of the death of senior African National Congress (ANC) member and Minister in the Presidency Jackson Mthembu. He died earlier on Thursday (yesterday) from COVID-19 related complications.
GUEST: Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams - MINISTER of Communications, Telecommunications and Postal Services
The 2021 Men’s Health Check Up; How are you doing this year so far. How is your body, do you have an improved plan of looking after yourself this year?
GUEST: Prof. Shingai Mutambirwa - Head of Department of Urology, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University (SMU).
The Miss South Africa organisation has come out in defence of its latest crowned Miss SA Shudufhadzo Musida after she was scrutinised on social media for posting what some deemed as many bikini pics amongst other things. The organisation has labelled it as “cyberbullying” and a “personal attack”.
Miss South Africa Organisation CEO Stephanie Weil said in a statement : “Shudufhadzo is taking a well-deserved break after executing a grueling timetable for the pageant and completing her Honours degree.” Shudufhadzo Musida was crowned Miss SA on 24 October 2020
GUEST: Bokang Montjane - Tshabalala – Former Miss South Africa (2010) Miss SA 2020 Judge
GUEST: Sylvester Chauke - Founder & Chief Architect; DNA Brand Architects & Author of “Stand Against The Bland”
GUEST: Tessa Dooms - Social Analyst and Director of Jasoro Consulting.
Research done by the online student crowdfunding organisation, Feenix, found that students fundraising through the platform had an average household income of R173,000 per annum, which indicates very low affordability.
GUEST: Cara-jean Petersen – Student Engagement Manager at FEENIX
The daily work of Community Healthcare Workers in South Africa. What are they witnessing on the ground? Today we focus on one of South Africa’s biggest townships: ALEXANDRA in Jhb GIVE US A CALL with your own experience where you are based.
GUEST: Thandiwe Khumalo – Early Childhood Community Practitioner in Alexandra Township
GUEST: Mamikie Rumo – Early Childhood Community Practitioner in Alexander Jhb
Author of “EAT TING – LOSE WEIGHT,GAIN HEALTH, FIND YOURSELF” Mpho Tshukudu has put together a Nutritious Table of Indigenous Foods for us. Some are Heritage and some are Indigenous.
GUEST: Mpho Tshukudu – Co-Author of EAT TING – LOSE WEIGHT,GAIN HEALTH, FIND YOURSELF/ Advocate for Optimum Health and Registered Dietician
In a Media Briefing Yesterday; Higher Education minister Blade Nzimande announced that South Africa’s universities and colleges are on track to complete the 2020 and 2021 academic years.
GUEST: Deputy Minister Department of Higher Education Buti Manamela.
The Preservation of our Indigenous Cultural Practices is not an area we are excelling in. With so many people, parents and household leaders passing away due to covid.
Each tribe, clan and family may have its standard cultural practices it has always followed and we become more westernized we fail to document and pass on the knowledge for future generations.
GUEST: Prof Abel Pienaar - Consultant and Technical Advisor - Health Reform and Innovative Education.
The NBI is a not for profit development organization that works to address South Africa’s most pressing social and environmental challenges
GUEST: Ruth Carol Troskie – Leads The Programme TAMDEV (Technical assistance, Mentorship and Development )
YESTERDAY (Sunday), Minister Zweli Mkhize announced that SA's cumulative Covid cases had increased by 12 267 to 1 337 926. SA Covid death is at 37 105.
GUEST: Burtram Fielding – Director of Research Development at the University of Western Cape and Virologist specializing in Covid-19
The South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR) has launched a #PowerToThePeople campaign to end load-shedding This is a response to Eskom extending load shedding due to lack of capacity.
GUEST: Hermann Pretorius – Head of Strategic Initiatives IRR South African Institute of Race Relations
Art Historian Percy Mabandu continues to pay tribute to the life and work of the late Saxophonist Winston Mankuku Ngozi; he passed away in 2009 and his work continues to inspire a generation. Percy published a book in his honour, “Yakhal’inkomo: Portrait of a Jazz Classic”.
GUEST: Percy Mabandu – Art Historian and Author of Yakhal'inkomo: Portrait of a Jazz Classic.
Has it become stronger or in need of inspiration and encouragement? What brings you healing? What music makes you feel better?
GUEST: Anele Siswana - Psychologist, Author and Academic
GUEST: Pastor Mandla Lupondwana Speaker and Director of Together & Forever / of the 7th Day Adventist Church
The Eastern Cape government continues to call for intensification of monitoring in initiation schools to ensure there is no increase of Covid-19 and no subsequent death. Should we talk about the Future of Initiation Schools and What is the Impact of this to the young men who live this reality?
“The Eyes of the Naked” is a novel written by LITHA HERMANUS He also wrote an Opinion Piece Entitled “Changing the narrative of hospital circumcision shame”
GUEST: Litha Hermanus
GUEST: Mamkeli Ngam - COGTA Eastern Cape Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Spokesperson
South Africa has reported an increase in the number of Covid-19 deaths as the country faces the peak of its second infection wave. On Wednesday (13 January) the country reported a daily increase of 806 new deaths. This follows an increase of 755 new deaths on Tuesday. Total deaths reported in the country now stands at 35,140.
GUEST : Buyisile Mncina – Counselling Psychologist
UP research project: Retrofitting unused spaces can help South African cities adapt to climate change.
GUEST: Jan Hugo – Lecturer in Sustainable and Climate Responsive Architecture at the University of Pretoria (UP)
What Are Hormones; What role do they play and how do they affect our bodies daily as men and women?
GUEST: Dr. Faryal Luhar - Naturopathic Private Doctor Licensed in South Africa and Dubai with a passion on the body’s innate healing power
"The true character of society is revealed in how it treats its children'', a quote by former president Nelson Mandela. What is our standing currently with our character as a country. We centainly have not sparred our children from murder, rape and all manner of violence and ill treatment.
GUEST: LISTENER / ANONYMOUS who sent in message
GUEST: DR. Shaheeda Omar - CEO of the Teddy Bear Clinic
GUEST: Ignatius France - TRAINING ADVOCACY AND MANAGER AT THE JUSTICE DESK
GUEST: Diana Schwarz - SOCIAL MEDIA LAWYER AND CHILD RIGHTS ACTIVIST
SA Heritage Publishers, in cooperation with the University of Pretoria, has come across over 891 rare Ancestral writings written in the 1930's and 40's. These are South Africa’s indigenous languages. They cover history, traditional medicine, agriculture, and village and hut construction.
Their translation will be a cornerstone in the preservation of the history and culture. "You cannot separate History, Culture and Language" says Terence Ball
GUEST: Terence Ball - Publisher Heritage Publishers
This semi-endangered creature is usually swept from one of its tropical homelands (sub-Saharan Africa, India or Southeast Asia) toward China, the largest wildlife market on Earth.
For years, the plight of the pangolin has been a niche concern, mostly worrying conservationists.
GUEST: Tim Neary - Conservationist
The Solidarity Fund is committed to the eradication of Gender Based Violence and as part of its commitment; we shall be having ongoing conversations every Monday afternoon at 14h05 discussing topics that will challenge all of us to find solutions towards ending the GBV scourge. Today we speak about the Understanding the law when it comes to GBV #SolidarityForGBV
GUEST: Diana Schwarz - Attorney at Diana Schwarz Attorneys
We are asked to accept the newly designed privacy policy by 8 February 2021 or face losing access to the most popular chat app in the world.
There’s no question that tech corps around the world’s new currency is data. Personal data, in fact. It’s obvious that’s what Facebook as a company has increasingly pursued for years with the help of its three social media platforms: Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp
GUEST: Marce Bester - Deputy Editor Stuff Magazine
The perspective ON LIFE HAPPENS: Gut Health Promotes Healthy Aging - and this diet can help.
The gut microbiome is a complex community of trillions of microbes that live semi-permanently in the intestines. These microbes have co-evolved with humans and other animals to break down dietary ingredients such as inulin, arabinoxylan and resistant starch, that the person can’t digest.
GUEST: Mpho Tshukudu - Dietician & Co-Author of Eat-Ting
The world’s first safe, effective vaccine (smallpox) was administered in 1796 to an eight-year-old boy. Despite centuries of effective use, in contemporary times, some hesitancy exists.
GUEST: Prof. Thomas Scriba - Professor of Infectious Disease Immunology, University of Cape Town
Caiphus Semenya (born 19 August 1939, 81 years) composer and musician. He left South Africa for Los Angeles in the 1960s, together with his wife, singer Letta Mbulu. Among the artists with whom he worked are Hugh Masekela, Jonas Gwangwa, Hotep Galeta, Miriam Makeba, Lou Rawls, Nina Simone and Cannonball Adderley. Semenya also arranged the Swahili chant in the intro to Michael Jackson's "Liberian Girl" from the 1987 Bad album.--1986
GUEST: Bongani Mahlangu – Music and Arts Analyst
A partner you supported financially and emotionally are they expected to never leave you; Is there an expectation that they must return the favour when they get back on their feet?
GUEST: Linda Ande Yende – Author of "Wake Up Woman" and "Dear Uncle L"
Broadcaster Bertha Charuma left South Africa in 2019 for the UK and has recently landed in Zimbabwe. Today we catch up with her on her LOCKDOWN EXPERIENCE in both countries.
GUEST: Bertha Charuma – Broadcaster
4 dead, 52 arrested, 14 police officers injured after pro-Trump rioters breach US Capitol; FBI opens investigation.
GUEST: Phelena Jean-Napper - Former Educator and Podcaster of Black Broads Abroad
After leaving civil service, Ntombenhle founded AfroBotanics in 2011 which manufactures natural hair and body care products using African botanical ingredients.
GUEST: Ntombenhle Khathwane - Founder and CEO of AFROBOTANICS & GIRL BOSS
Covid-19 came and caused a disruption in different industries, the arts being one on those that were definitely most affected. There has had to be adjusting and learning of new ways of presenting arts with many going virtual.
The Artistic Director for the National Arts Festival Rucera Seethal has penned an article where she looks ahead at the trends we are most probably to see in 2021 in the arts.
GUEST: Rucera Seethal – Artistic Director for the National Arts Festival
Being Infected with Covid-19 is great havoc enough, but to be infected twice is something that has happened to our guest today. She has decided to document her exeprinece and share her own learnings. Do You know someone who has been infected twice or you are that person?
GUEST: Megs – Life and Business Coach / Covid-19 Survivor
The Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa (DENOSA) in Mpumalanga has noted the increasing numbers of COVID-19 new infections, especially amongst their members and other professionals who are frontline workers within the health sector, specifically nurses.
Guest: Mzwandile Shongwe – DENOSA (The Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa) Mpumalanga Provincial Secretary
Guest: Mr Dumisani Malamule - Mpumalanga department of health spokesperson
A family started a project called The Kindness Revolution which was kicked off by a campaign called HOUSE WITH A SIGN for their neighborhood in Vanderbijlpark in the Vaal.
During Level 4 Lockdown they created signs that a poster of encouragement they started
GUEST: Ellouise Van Vuuren – Co Founder Kindness Revolution
- How Are You Doing
- Can you share your own experience coming from 2021
- How are you hoping to look at 2021 with new eyes; advice to self and others?
- The New Rituals you have set for yourself
GUEST: Lerato Letsoso – AUTHOR & TRANSFORMATIONAL
GUEST: Buyisile Mncina – Counselling Psychologist
“Driving entrepreneurial growth through mentoring” writing by Andrew Weinberg, CEO of 2Engage. He States: “The rise in the amount of knowledge sharing and mentoring by businesspeople through partnerships with SMEs and entrepreneurs in order to help them survive and succeed has been, and continues to be, a silver lining in the overwhelming Covid-19 cloud”.
GUEST: Andrew Weinberg – CEO 2ENGAGE
Bizcommunity, in partnership with South Africa's leading business trend consultants, Flux Trends will be hosting BizTrends2021 - Towards New North and New Narratives on Thursday, 28 January 2021.
GUEST: Bronwyn Williams - Futurist, Economist and Business Trends Analyst
The Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change (CABC) is based at UCTs Graduate School of Business established to track and counter mis and disinformation, fake news and divisive and polarising rhetoric that is promulgated online to undermine social cohesion, democratic integrity, and the stability of nation states.
GUEST: Stuart jones - Director of Projects at the Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change (CABC)
The Solidarity Fund is committed to the eradication of Gender Based Violence and as part of its commitment; we continue ongoing conversations every Monday afternoon discussing topics that will challenge all of us to find solutions towards ending the GBV scourge. #SolidarityForGBV LEBO MASHILE is one of the leading voices of the Solidarity Fund’s GBV campaign.
GUEST: Lebo Mashile – Activist, Poet, Performer
Reports indicate that some new COVID- 19 variants are likely more transmissible, and infecting people younger than 18-years old more “effectively”. This will potentially make them an even bigger disease vector for #COVID19. How will this impact the effectiveness of vaccines in impacting the spread of COVID-19 ?
GUEST: Prof Burtram Fielding - Director of Research Development at the University of Western Cape and Virologist
South African author and chef Dorah Sitole has passed away at age 67. She was accomplished food writer, food stylist, recipe developer and a trained Cordon Bleu chef, Sitole had an illustrious career spanning four decades. A few weeks ago we spoke to her on the show about the launch of her latest book “40 years of Iconic Food”
Guest: Siba Mtongana – Chef & Entrepreneur
GUEST: Anna Trapido – Food Anthropologist & Author
GUEST: Mokgadi Itsweng – Chef and Mentored by Mam Dorah
- THABA BISOU
- GIVE with HARARI
- SHIKISHA
- SET ME FREE
- MAMA with Mama Miriam Makeba
- ZANZIBAR
- BURNOUT
Guest: Sipho Hotstix Mabuse
It is said that BIRTH CHARTS can help us understand ourselves It requires your date of birth, time of birth, and the location of birth to determine astrological aspects when you were born. You can then ask the most pressing issue for you as well.
GUEST: Elsun Nzama – ASTROLOGY SCHOLAR
COVID-19 SURVIVOR STARTS SUPPORT GROUP TO HELP PATIENTS DEAL WITH THE EFFECTS OF COVID-19
Nontozamo Xozwa started Facebook support group to help patients deal with psycho-social effects of Covid-19 .
GUEST: Nontozamo Xozwa - Founder of The Covid-19 Support Group on Facebook
2020 saw the freedoms and connections that we had taken for granted, get taken away. Whilst many people are placing big expectations on 2021 to be brighter, it can be a risky expectation.
GUEST: Honey Makwakwa Umakhosi Nomabutho – Sangoma Society
Earlier this year a network of African purpose-led Shared Value companies and leaders participated in the continent’s first ever virtual Shared Value Leadership event What are the learnings are we taking from 2020 and What Will be our shared values as a country and continent towards 2021?
Guest: Tiekie Barnard – Founder & CEO Shift Impact Africa and of the Shared Value Africa Initiative
Gift of the Givers created a 120-bed dedicated Covid-19 facility at Bhisho Hospital providing the beds, mattresses, pillows, scrubs, pulse oximeters, non-contact thermometers, High Flow Nasal Oxygen machines, PPE's and a lawnmower to cut the overgrown grass.
Guest: Dr. Imtiaz Sooliman – Founder of Gift of The Givers
Kwanzaa is an annual celebration of African-American culture that is held from December 26 to January 1, Kwanzaa was first celebrated in 1966. This is a period to reflect on the 7 principles of Kwanzaa. Today’s Principle is PURPOSE
GUEST: Adv.Sipho Mantula – Human Rights Activist & Kwanzaa Practitioner
Earlier in the year we spoke to property entrepreneur TT Mbha after he tested positive for COVID 19. He shared his isolation and his journey to recovery with us.
With the second wave here TT has a book out and documented his journey entitled “Tough Talk”.
GUEST: Thato “TT” Mbha – Real Estate agent an Author of Tough Talk with TT
COUNTING DOWN to 2021 …as we leave an incredibly tough year 2020 behind us. How do we align ourselves to a great state of mind and looking to create a blue print of a successful year in 2021.
GUEST: Mpume Daka – Life Coach
Earlier HOME AFFAIRS MINISTER Dr. Aaron Motsoaledi BRIEFED THE MEDIA ON BORDER LAW ENFORCEMENT UNDER ADJUSTED COVID - 19 ALERT LEVEL THREE
GUEST: Dr. Aaron Motsoaledi - Minister of Home Affairs
SAFM Welcomes Broadcaster Aldrin Sampear as the new host of Beyond The Headline 3-6pm from Monday January the 4th 2021
GUEST: Aldrin Sampear – Broadcaster
The Beer Association of South Africa (BASA) has warned that a third alcohol ban for the country, as part of an effort to ease the strain on the healthcare system and medical facilities, will lead to further job losses and increase illicit sales. PATRICIA PILLAY - CEO of the Beer Association Of South Africa
GUEST: Sakhumzi Maqubela - Owner of Sakhumzi’s on Vilakazi Street Soweto
GUEST: Wendy Alberts - CEO Restaurant Association of South Africa
The collaborative initiative in Southern African countries, SAAPA (Southern African Alcohol Policy Alliance) wrote an open letter to the South African Government on managing the impact of alcohol on the covid-19 pandemic and public health over the festive season and going forward.
GUEST: Maurice Smithers - Director, SAAPA SA
THE IMPORTANCE OF A CHANGE IN HUMAN BEHAVIOUR AND UNDERSTANDING THE IMPACT OF THIS NEW VARIENT
GUEST: Prof. Lucille Blumberg - from the National Institute for Communicable Diseases
Another new variant of the coronavirus appears to have emerged in Nigeria, The discovery could add to new alarm in the pandemic after similar variants were announced in the UK and South Africa, leading to the swift return of international travel restrictions and other measures just as the world enters a major holiday season.
GUEST: Samson Omale - Multimedia Broadcast Journalist in Nigeria
The Solidarity Fund is committed to the eradication of Gender Based Violence and as part of its commitment; we continue ongoing conversations every Monday afternoon discussing topics that will challenge all of us to find solutions towards ending the GBV scourge. #SolidarityForGBV Malaika Mahlatsi is one of the leading voices of the Solidarity Fund’s GBV campaign.
GUEST: Malaika Mahlatsi – Author & Activist
From being dubbed a “global food goddess” by Tatler Malaysia Magazine, the multi-award-winning cookbook author has now opened her first Cape Town restaurant at Sun International’s 5-star Table Bay Hotel in the V&A Waterfront.
Guest: Siba Mtongana – Chef
Limpopo Health MEC Phophi Ramathuba has named interprovincial travel as a contributor to the increasing number of COVID-19 cases in the province. The province has seen an increase in confirmed COVID-19 cases since the start of the second wave.
Guest: MEC Dr. Phophi Ramathuba
With regards to the music selection he says “Christmas for most among us, is not about Carroll's and the birth of Jesus, it's about fun, family and dance. Hence Christmas songs or songs celebrating christmas are a rarity in African music. We could explore that theme.”
Guest: MUSIC JOURNALIST BONGANI MAHLANGU
SAfm in partnership with the Centurion Have of Hope and Basadi Ba Moshito will serve Christmas Lunch under the banner "The Father's Table Christmas Lunch"
GUEST: TEBOGO MPUFANE - Once homeless for 11 years, now the Director of the Centurion Haven of Hope
GUEST: HARMONY MALULEKE - Basadi ba Moshito Even Managers
Creating a successful and sustainable small business during a pandemic What is on the menu for a Tshisa Nyama menu for our Christmas Tables
GUEST: TSHEPO TSOTSOTSO - Founder of Bhuti Madlisa's Kitchen
GUEST: VUSI CWANE - Co-Owner Gratitude Hospital Jhb SAfm in partnership with Gratitude Restaurant is giving 1 listener with their partner or family to enjoy a Christmas Lunch experience this Friday.
WINNER : 12 YEAR OLD TINO sent in voicenote for his parents to win
Festive Season normally experiences high demand for travelling for socio economic reasons, pilgrimages and the transportation of goods from point of origin to various destinations. Heavy congestion is also experienced on routes leading to coastal towns and SADC countries. The sharp increase in vehicular traffic on roads leading to other provinces and countries, increase travel time and contribute to driver fatigue.
GUEST: SELLO MAREMANE – SPOKESPERSON OF GAUTENG TRAFFIC POLICE
BACK IN APRIL 2020 Robert Hodson, group marketing manager for Legacy Hotels & Resorts, stated that: "All our hotels and timeshare resorts are shut down. So there is now zero occupancy and zero revenue." The group owns more than 20 hotels and timeshare resorts across SA including the Michelangelo Hotel in Sandton, The Portswood Hotel at Cape Town’s V&A Waterfront and Kwa Maritane Bush Lodge in the Pilanesberg. In December of 2020 with a lockdown curfew. We check in to see how things have taken shape
GUEST: ROBERT HODSON - Group Marketing Manager Legacy Hotel & Resorts
*THE UPSIDEDOWN HOUSE IN HARTBEESPOORT The Upside Down House is just that, it's a house built upside down. All the furniture inside, etc which would normally be on the floor, is now above your head. This is an amazing experience as one's mind cannot comprehend what is happening.
*WOLF AND CO. COFFEE SHOP THAT OFFERS YOGA
*PRETORIA UNVEILED ITS OWN VERSION OF MABONENEG CALLED THE VILLAGE HAZEL WOOD
GUEST: Sibusiso Mkhwanazi - Lifestyle and Travel Writer
Travel with Karabo is a blog by Limpopo born on travel, wine and cars by Karabo Masedi. In this summary, I will be sharing places and way in which South Africans can explore South Africa on a budget and safely.
www.travelwithkarabo.com
GUEST: KARABO MASEDI – TRAVEL AND WINE BLOGGER BASED IN CAPE TOWN
The Tourism Industry has been on of the hardest hit sectors during the lockdown period. There are murmurs that there is a glimmer of hope and yet other voices continue to say the lockdown curfew is impacting the aviation and tourism sector as a whole. What is the Next Step?
GUEST: Unathi Henama - Tourism Lecturer at the Tshwane University of Technology
Last Week we spoke to Tebelo Mohale from Qwaqwa who recently moved to Japan to study her Masters in International Development at the International University of Japan (IUJ), For more on South Africans who wish to study in the country as well, you can contact STUDY IN JAPAN GLOBAL NETWORK PROJECT – which is run by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports and Technology (MEXT) of Japan.
This can be accessed on the following website WWW.STUDYINJAPAN-AFRICA.COM or visit the Facebook Page Study in Japan Info for Africa.
Jupiter and Saturn did a planetary dance that resulted to the great conjunction
GUEST: ELSUN NZAMA - Scholar in the art of Astrolgoy
GREATER FLEXIBILITY IN THE TELEMEDICINE sector is needed from health regulators. A research report released by inter-disciplinary consultancy, Percept, has called on health regulators to retain the current, more flexible approach to telemedicine regulations that would provide a window of opportunity for research and data collection.
GUEST: ROSE TUYENI-PETER - Health Economist at Percept Health
The Imbiza Journal for African Writing launched to the public with a call for submissions on December 12, 2020. For many Imbiza symbolises nourishment. In naming the journal Imbiza, the founders have modelled it on the food, mind food we hazard. that feeds individuals, families, and communities.
GUEST: DR SIPHIWO MAHALA – Founder of Imbiza Journal for African Writing
100 Flavours Exhibition at the V & A Waterfront Cape Town takes a journey on a taste tour through South Africa's cuisine.
GUEST: ANNA TRAPIDO - Food Anthropologist & Author of Hunger for Freedom
SolidarityForGBV The essential resources for a community based organisation to help fight GBV.
GUEST: LUYOLO LENGISI - Co-Founder of Langa For Men
The new Covid-19 variant
GUEST: PROF. BURTRAM FIELDING - Director of Research Development at the University of the Western Cape
NSFAS will officially exit the administration phase December 31st 2020. It was for a period of 2 years and 6 months. What have been the findings?
GUEST: DR. RANDALL CAROLISSEN - Outgoing NSFAS Administrator
South African US Blue Note Records signee, Pianist, Composer, Healer, Academic and Producer Nduduzo Makhathini has recently released a music video for Umlotha and while enjoying the success of his body of work, his latest album, Modes of Communication: Letters from the Underworld has been listed in the top 10 list of the Best Jazz Albums of 2020.
GUEST: Nduduzo Makhathini - Musician
From Online Performances you can enjoy from the comfort of your home, to some activations you can safely visit with your family.
Guest: Ntombi Mashaba – Marketing Manager Joburg Theatre
THE GREEN CORRIDORS Shuttle Bus…Everybody’s Doing It! The Ocean is a no go zone in Durban this Festive Season, there’s an alternative to enjoy some of the best getaway spots and ideal for social distancing - right on our doosrtep.
Green Corridors has a number of picnic sites and tourism experiences, that are easily accessible and to make it even more convenient there is a new Green Corridors Shuttle Bus.
Guest: Duncan Pritchard – Spokesperson for Green Corridors
Patrons spoiled for choice with Artscape’s jam-packed line-up of festivities Artscape, with support of the City of Cape Town has partnered with various community artists across the province to continue bringing high quality music, theatre and dance entertainment to patrons through the Artscape YouTube channel from December to January, free of charge.
GUEST: Simone Heradien - COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER at Artscape
It’s the festive season and many partners are going to be dealing with men and women who disappear every weekend because the bonuses are burning their pockets.
How do you deal with a partner who leaves their families during the festive season
guest: Linda Ande Yende - Author of "Wake Up Woman" and "Dear Uncle L"
Yesterday, Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize implored the nation to adhere to strict safety protocols, adding that the country's positivity rate was sitting at 21%, which far exceeded the ideal positivity rate of 10%. The Eastern Cape, Western Cape, KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng are leading the second wave.
Guest: Prof Burtram Fielding - Director of Research Development at the University of Western Cape and Virologist
Ensure that you and your family are mentally prepared to weather whatever lies ahead. What 2020 has emphasised for us all is that if you need help, please seek it. Speak to your medical scheme advisor to see if they cover mental health care programmes.
This will alleviate any financial burden whilst you and the family receive the much needed assistance. Meditation apps also allow you to carve out a space to rest and centre yourself at your own time.
GUEST: Leah Sefor – Life & Relationships Coach
The storm of Covid-19, forced this business woman to be agile and her work is now gaining momentum
While the advent of the Covid 19 spelt an economic doom and death knell to many small businesses, for Lebo Rapetswa, founder and director of enterprise company StruMovement, it ignited a protective work wear business, called StruApparel.
Guest: Lebo Rapetswa - Founder and director of enterprise company StruMovement, ignited a protective work wear business, called StruApparel.
“Is Reconciliation Written In The Stars For South Africa” 2020 is the 26th year of our democracy, 16 December was This year, the day is commemorated under the theme: “United in action against racism, gender-based violence and other intolerances”.
Guest: Elsun Nzama - Scholar in the art of Astrology
In September, Hokkaido University’s Assistant Professor Tsunoda Sarama – the Study Abroad Coordinator for the Study in Japan Global Network Project – spoke with us and introduced the 4th Study in Japan Online Fair in South Africa. It was geared towards prospective candidates in bachelor, masters, or doctoral academic programmes – these being: high school students; current university undergraduates and postgraduates; as well as individuals already in careers, or in business. The objective of the fair was to unpack existing prospects related to studying in Japan.
GUEST: Tebello Mohale – She landed an opportunity to study a Masters in International Development at the International University of Japan (IUJ), recently arrived in Tokyo
It is said that 63% of Grade 5 learners lack basic maths comprehension. Since 2016, JumpStart Foundation has been addressing foundation phase numeracy in 20 schools in Katlehong, with another five schools coming aboard in 2021.
Guest: Callen Hodgskiss – General Manager of Jumpstart Foundation
The Solidarity Fund is committed to the eradication of Gender Based Violence and as part of its commitment; we continue ongoing conversations discussing topics that will challenge all of us to find solutions towards ending the GBV scourge.
GUEST: Ms. Tandi Nzimande – CEO The SOLIDARITY FUND
The Tsonga people (Tsonga: Vatsonga) are a Bantu ethnic group native mainly to Southern Mozambique and South Africa (Limpopo and Mpumalanga). They speak Xitsonga, a Southern Bantu language. A very small number of Tsonga people are also found in Zimbabwe and Northern Swaziland.
The Tsonga people of South Africa share some history with the Tsonga people of Southern Mozambique; however they differ culturally and linguistically from the Tonga people of Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Guest: Prof. Muxe Nkondo – CHAIRPERSON OF THE RIXAKA FORUM
Guest: Ms. MARLENE LE ROUX - CEO of ArtsCape She’s also a tireless advocate for the rights of persons with disabilities and the youth.
Guest: Mr. STANLEY HENKEMAN - Executive Director of the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR) in Cape Town (IJR) He is the former HOD for the Building an Inclusive Society Programme at IJR. He previously worked as a teacher, lecturer and manager.
Guest: Prof. MONWABISI K. RALARALA – Dean Faculty of the Arts University of the Western Cape (UWC ) He also holds the position of Chairperson: African Language Association of South Africa (ALASA).
Guest: Ms. SIPHOKAZI JONAS – Writer, Performer and Poet
She made history in 2016 as the first African poet to perform at Rhetoric in California.
Mam Dorah Sitole is on the list of 2020's top cookbook picks. She has released her latest offering entitled "Dorah Sitole: 40 Years of Iconic Food". GUEST: DORAH SITOLE - Award Winning Author & Chef
Distell has partnered with the Department of Transport to support the National Road Safety Strategy through the Arrive Alive, 365-days Action Agenda Programme, and together we have launched a behavioural change campaign that will reach South Africans in the moments of decision that can make the difference between life and death.
Guest: Ayanda Allie Paine - Spokesperson at Ministry of Transport
Distell has partnered with the Department of Transport to support the National Road Safety Strategy through the Arrive Alive, 365-days Action Agenda Programme, and together we have launched a behavioural change campaign that will reach South Africans in the moments of decision that can make the difference between life and death.
Guest: Mr Wilson Khupe - Distell Acting Managing Director
We kicked off the conversation on Friday that reflects on how we are doing as a society when it comes to raising boys to be exceptional young and older men?
GUEST: Prof. Velile Notshulwana-Mqota - Author of Ubudoda & Clinical Psychologist / CEO of Phuhlisa Psychological Group
POWA (People Opposing Women Abuse) recently took to the streets highlighting how various actors within the criminal justice system- from the police, investigating officers, magistrates, prosecutors, magistrates, judges and others- often fail gender-based violence (GBV) survivors so compromising the justice and security they deserve and putting their lives at risk.
Guest: Mary Makgaba - CEO POWA (People Opposing Women Abuse)
The cry of desperation, the anguish of uncertainty, the reality of incapacity and the feeling of abandonment permeates the fabric of Eastern Cape society as CEO's of hospitals, senior nursing managers, doctors and health care professionals breakdown:
Guest: Dr Imtiaz Sooliman - Founder of Gift of the Givers
Intelligent machines are increasingly being used for medical care, for instance. Artificial intelligence (AI) can now read medical images more accurately than human doctors, increasing the probability of saving lives. Together with other digital technologies, these AI machines can be deployed in telemedicine applications for use in rural areas where the availability of medical specialists is low.
GUEST: Professor Tshilidzi Marwala - Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Johannesburg. He is the Deputy Chair of the Presidential Commission on the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
*Legally Blind - have light perception .The Cause is Hereditary - Bacterial Meningitis 1. Access to Resources and Being included in broader society (Jaws Software - not readily available in public libraries and other spaces) 2. Public Transport and Public Spaces/ Safety 3. Education & Job Opportunities
GUEST: Thobeka Mthethwa - Law Student (short of 2 modules to graduate)
GUEST: Thakani Masuka - Chairperson for Youth at Blinda SA
GUEST: Prof. Hlengiwe Mkhize - Deputy Minister Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Office for Inclusivity & Change (OIC) this year joined forces with Rape Crisis, an organisation that has worked in the area of rape and sexual violence since 1976, to strengthen the support services to survivors of sexual offences.
In 2018 we developed an online case reporting tool which allows students report GBV cases. From the data received from the cases reported we have been able to track where cases occur either on campus or off campus. We are then able to target interventions appropriately.
Guest: Anne Isaacs - Project Manager and Legal Officer: Special Tribunal for Sexual Misconduct at The University of Cape Town
Vote counting is under way in Ghana after Monday’s presidential and parliamentary elections.Incumbent leader Nana Akufo-Addo squared off with his rival, the former President John Mahama for the third time.More than 17 million people registered to vote in this highly contested election.
Election Observers from the European Union, African Union and ECOWAS are in Ghana monitoring the polls, which have generally been peaceful.
Guest: Dr Kobby Mensah - Political marketing analyst at the university of ghana business school
Guest: Nixon Katembo - African Affairs Analyst and Channel Africa Producer
The Institute Status Acres combined school was founded in 1987 and relocated from plain street in Jhb to Cnr Oosthuizen Street and Railway street Germiston Ekurhuleni in 1991. It is an independent school registered with the Dept of Education. The parents of the school have been heavily impacted by the lockdown and the school is struggling financially.
Guest: Mary Anne Makgoka
Guest: Sello Maake ka Ncube - Actor & Dep Chair Naledi Theatre Awards
Guest: Lesedi Job - Award Winning Theatre Director
Guest: Prof Sekibakiba Lekgoathi - Associate Professor of History the School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Humanities AT WITS UNIVERSITY
The 10th of December 2020 marks 24 years since the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa was signed into law by our first democratically elected president, Nelson Mandela in Sharpeville, Vereeniging.
Guest: Lwando Xaso - Constitutional Lawyer & Author of "Made in South Africa" and Content Curator for the Constitution Hill Trust
The Solidarity Fund is committed to the eradication of Gender Based Violence and as part of its commitment; we shall be having ongoing conversations every Monday afternoon at 14h05 discussing topics that will challenge all of us to find solutions towards ending the GBV scourge. Today we learn more about the Gender-Based Violence Command Centre and its role. #SolidarityForGBV
Guest: Nomathemba Malvern – Centre Manger for the Gender-Based Violence Command Centre (GBVCC)
The Uyinene Mrwetyana Foundation (UMF) was founded in celebration of the life of Uyinene Mrwetyana. They aim to continue raising awareness about Gender Based Violence (GBV) even during the lockdown period, as some people are more vulnerable now, stuck in their homes with perpetrators of GBV.
Guest: Masimbulele Buso – Managing director of the Uyinene Foundation
The South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu) anticipates filing an urgent court application before the end of the day, to interdict the department of basic education’s decision for matrics to rewrite the leaked maths and science exam papers.Sadtu’s Nomusa Cembi said they were preparing documentation for the application.
Guest: Prof Mary Metcalfe - EDUCATION EXPERT
Guest: Khosi Jiyane - CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST
Guest: Awonke Nqayiya - Statistician and Author of "Mathematics with Nqayiya"
Richard S. Ginell of Allmusic wrote "Now happily resettled in South Africa, Masekela assembled a seven-piece group there and recorded an informal guided tour of his life and repertoire live in Washington D.C.'s Blues Alley. The songs stretch over a period of nearly five decades and several countries and composers -- from an incantatory Alexandria township tune, "Languta," which he learned in 1947, to a fairly ordinary piece written by keyboardist Themba Mkhize in 1993, "Until When.
GUEST : BONGANI MAHLANGU – Music and Culture Analyst
Is an art fusion expression and creative activism in collaboration with artists of various disciplines. We all had something to say and why not say it together! Hopes Spring High is inspired by South African Singer-Songwriter Pilani Bubu’s musical version of Maya Angelou’s song Still I Rise, which captures the various human rights transgressions 2020: from Black Lives Matter, Femicide and more. She felt it befitting On International Human Rights Day, have key conversations around the Isms of year.
GUEST: PILANI BUBU – SA MUSICIAN
How are we doing when it comes to raising boys to be exceptional young and older men? There is a book that reflects on this and how all of us as society need to make it our concern. It is titled #”UBUDODA – Raising our Black Teenage Sons into Honourable Men”.
GUEST: PROF. VELILE NOTSHULWANA-MQOTA - Author of Ubudoda and Former Dean of Arts at the Nelson Mandela University
Gender-based violence (GBV) or violence against women and children is a global pandemic that affects many women and children. This week the brutal murder of a woman and her five children in the Eastern Cape during the 16 Days of Activism for No Violence Against Women and Children campaign sent shock waves through the country.
GUEST: BONANG MOHALE is the Chancellor of the University of the Free State, Professor of Practice in the Johannesburg Business School (JBS) College of Business and Economics, Chairman of both The Bidvest Group Limited & SBV Services and past President of the BMF (Black Management Forum) .
Frida Hartley is a shelter that aims to shelter the homeless in Johannesburg, unlike other homeless shelters we offer long term stay, 3 meals a day.
In 1923 wealthy socialite Frida Hartley gave up her comfortable life in London and headed to Johannesburg, where she opened a shelter for destitute women, a solid one-storey brick building in Bellevue.
GUEST: CHERYL HLABANE - Operations Manager at Frida Hartley Shelter
Guest: Ignatius France
It is International Day of Persons with Disability and The Deputy Minister of Social Development, Ms Hendrietta Bogopane-Zulu - in collaboration with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), is launching the Disability Empowerment and Mainstreaming Guidelines.
GUEST: MS. HENDRIETTA BOGOPANE – ZULU : Deputy Minister of Social Development
Tomorrow is International Day for Persons with Disabilities; observed annually on 3rd December and aims to promote the rights and well-being of persons with disabilities in all spheres of society and development...In South Africa, people with disabilities face multiple forms of discrimination in various social spheres, including in respect of access to health care services, employment and education.
Guest: Ntshavheni Netshituni – President Of Blind SA and President SA Braille Authority
Guest: Edwina Makgamatha - Founder and Chairperson of Thusanang Enabling Support Services and Thuso Ke Botho (Edwina is on a wheelchair due to a motor vehicle accident)
Guest: Bernadette Rigney : Award Winning Entrepreneur & Owner of Fability. Bernadette, was born with a rare condition called Arthrogryposis, which limits the range of motion in her hands and legs.
Soweto Theatre wishes to join in the rest of South Africa as we shed a spotlight on this national crisis during the 16 Days of Activism for No Violence Against Women and Children with a performance art offering, The Red Femicyle production which started yesterday, 01 December 2020 and ends tonight. (2 December)
Guest: Princess Zinzi Mhlongo – The Red Femicyle Producer
Ethiopia’s nearly month-long war against rebellious northern forces may be transforming into a guerrilla conflict, experts said on Tuesday, even though federal troops declared victory after capturing the Tigrayan regional capital at the Ethiopia’s weekend.
Guest: Mr. Ibrahim Deen - Researcher at the Afro Middle East Centre
Joyce Piliso-Seroke was born in Crown Mines, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) on 11 July 1933 (now 87). She completed her matric at Kilnerton High School in Pretoria. She holds a BA degree and a diploma in Communication. Upon completion she went to the University of Fort Hare.
GUEST: Joyce Piliso-Seroke – Former Chairperson of the Commission on Gender Equality from 1999 to 2007. In 2008 she was conferred to South Africa's national Order of the Baobab in Gold, for her contributions to "freedom, development, reconstruction and the struggle for gender equality" in South Africa.
Guest: Professor Barney Pityana
This year South Africa’s 1.4 million Indian Community is observing 160 years since the first contingent of 342 Indian indentured labourers arrived in Durban. More than 200 000 migrated to SA between 1860 and 1911, creating the biggest concentration of Indians outside mainland India.
Guest: Kiru Naidoo - Writer and Local Historian
The impact has led to closures of companies accompanied by big job losses and high levels of social hardships. The North West Provincial Government is hosting an engagement session with the industry leaders to assess the impact of Covid-19 on the economy of the province and come up with integrated interventions and plans to reconstruct and revive the economy of the Province across the key sectors of the economy, today at Sun City, Pilanesberg.
GUEST: PREMIER JOB MOKGORO – PREMIER OF THE NORTH WEST
The UK has supported South Africa’s COVID19 response in a number of ways. In September 2020 the UK made a contribution of £2.15m (R50m) to South Africa’s Solidarity Fund. This forms part of the UK’s international COVID19 response and recovery efforts, and signals their support for the Solidarity Fund as an independent, South African run initiative.
GUEST: NIGEL CASEY – British High Commissioner
2 years ago Thousands of women embarked on protest action on 1ST of August across South Africa to protest the scourge of gender-based violence. Women from all walks of life used the start of the country’s Women’s Month to demonstrate their frustration and anger at the increasing levels of gender-based violence in South Africa.
GUEST: ZINTLE OLAYI – Total Shutdown Movement Spokesperson
Tessa Doom writes: “It is not money but leadership that will improve the prospects for success in reducing youth unemployment. To date, South Africa does not have a clear strategy for enabling youth to transition successfully from education to economic participation.
The wide range of societal efforts are happening void of an end goal and clear measures of success. Currently, programmes can approach youth employment support through employability skills, short term placements or funding without a shared understanding of what counts are a successful outcome for youth.
GUEST: TESSA DOOMS - National Planning Commissioner responsible for youth development.
Sello Maake ka-Ncube under his Foundation is inviting all of us to his social media live chats to commemorate the “16 days of activism for no violence against women and children”. This campaign is dedicated to his late eldest son with whom he had already started having these conversations in 1999, about masculinity, prior to his untimely death in 2011.
GUEST: SELLO MAAKE ka NCUBE - Award Winning Actor
Violence against children remains a critical challenge facing South African society today, despite tremendous efforts to curb this scourge. The legacy of violence and extreme inequality from South Africa’s past is compounded by high poverty and unemployment in the present. This combination places many children at risk of domestic violence, substance abuse, sexual abuse and neglect.
Guest: Commissioner Christina Nomdo - Western cape’s commissioner for children
Higher Education, Science and Innovation Minister, Dr Blade Nzimande, has commended the Department of Science and Innovation (DSI) for receiving a third consecutive clean audit for the 2019/20 financial year. Yesterday the Department hosted a webinar Titled "Women in Innovation", also seeing the launch of the Women in Science, Engineering and Technology Organisation South Africa (WISETO-SA).
Guest: Dr Phil Mjwara - Director General of the Department of Science and Innovation
The purpose of the 16 Days of Activism is to escalate social mobilization and action coalitions against GBVF and focus on interventions, particularly those relating to economic justice for women, that will make tangible improvements towards the eradication of GBVF.
GUEST: Sihle Zikalala - KZN Premier
As the world marks this year’s 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, The UN System’s 16 Days activities, from 25 November to 10 December, will take place under the 2020 global theme: "Orange the World: Fund, Respond, Prevent, Collect!"According to the United Nations (UN) about 243 million women and girls were abused by an intimate partner in the last 12 months. MenEngage Africa Alliance joins the world to amplify the United Nations call under the global theme: “Fund, Respond, Prevent, Collect!”
GUEST: BAFANA KHUMALO - CO-CHAIRPERSON MENENGAGE ALLIANCE / CO-FOUNDER SONKE GENDER JUSTICE
Veganism, vegetarianism, and plant-based diets have seen an explosion of popularity around the world, and while some people may swear these lifestyles are the be-all and end-all of healthy living, not everyone is a fan of them.
GUEST: Mia Smith – Registered Dietician at The Green Dietician
The pro-independence Polisario Front said Saturday that clashes are continuing in the disputed territory of Western Sahara after the Moroccan army launched an operation in the buffer zone on its southern border. “Fighting is continuing after the crime committed by Moroccan troops in Guerguerat,” senior Polisario official Mohamed Salem Ould Salek told AFP.
GUEST: Mr Ibrahim Deen - Researcher at the Afro Middle East Centre
Earlier today a media briefing on 24 November 2020 to launch the 2020 16 Days of Activism for No Violence Against Women and Children Campaign. The media briefing provided the opportunity for the IMC on GBVF to provide an update on progress made in implementing the National Strategic Plan (NSP).
Guest: Shoki Tshabalala
45-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly raping two minor girls, aged 11 and 13, after luring them to a hotel, Gauteng police said on Monday. Not in my name was in court yesterday
GUEST: Themba Masango – Secretary General of Not in My name
FREDDIE MERCURY died on this day 29 years ago in 1991 aged 45 years old. The extraordinary artist had last been seen in public at the 1990 BRIT Awards; some today are remembering him through photographs taken by his partner Jim Hutton in his garden a few months before he passed away, smiling in the sunshine with his cats.
GUEST: Sheldon Rocha Leal - PhD Music Academic, Musician, Songwriter and Director of Culture at Southdowns College in Irene, Pretoria.
Last week we started a conversation on the UCT Khoi and San Centre, looking at its curriculum and mission to revive and bring to life the heritage of the Khoi and San people. We broaden the conversation.
GUEST: TAURIQ JENKINS - Chairperson of the A/XARRA Restorative Justice Forum & Community Engagement Officer Khoi and San Centre as part of the African Studies Centre/
As we see Online Education continue to be a growing phenomenon. St Stithians College has announced that it will be launching an 8th school, St Stithians Online School, in collaboration with Valenture Institute, a global private online high school offering a curriculum recognised by the world's leading universities.
GUEST: ROBERT PADDOCK - CEO Valenture Institute
The Solidarity Fund is committed to the eradication of Gender Based Violence and as part of its commitment; we shall be having ongoing conversations every Monday afternoon at 14h05 discussing topics that will challenge all of us to find solutions towards ending the GBV scourge. Today we speak about the National Shelter Movement and the work that they do. #SolidarityForGBV
GUEST: Zubeda Dangor - Head of the Executive OF National Shelter Movement
In light of the conference, the 12J Association of South Africa has written to President Cyril Ramaphosa, calling on him to reassure local investors on the future of Section 12J investments first introduced by the government in 2009.
GUEST: DINO ZUCCOLLO - Chairman of the 12J Association South Africa
In the past few years, people have become fascinated with using their DNA to learn more about themselves, their origins, family trees, predisposition to health conditions and quirky traits.
This has been enabled by the rise in popularity and the relative affordability of direct-to-consumer ancestry testing in places like the US. This testing allows people to swab their mouths to collect cells containing DNA, which are then sent off to companies for testing and analysis.
GUEST Dr Caitlin Uren - A postdoctoral fellow at Stellenbosch University
Sipho was born on 2 November, 1951 in Masakeng, Orlando West, Soweto. He still lives in Soweto and is an active and proud member of the community
GUEST: : RJ BENJAMIN – Award-winning vocalist, songwriter, composer, vocal coach, musical director and producer
In order to achieve Safety for All and strengthen Cities crime initiatives, the South African Police Services (SAPS) is partnering with eThekwini Municipality and provincial Government to launch the Integrated Safer Cities project in eThekwini currently being held at the Dr John Langalibalele Dube stadium in Inanda.
GUEST: MR. CASSEL MATHALE – DEPUTY MINISTER OF POLICE
On Thursday 19 November, a group of international academics and lobbyists got together to discuss the impact the latest policies for drug control have had on the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals. GUEST: Dr Anna Versfeld - Postdoctoral Fellow, School of African and Gender Studies, Anthropology and Linguistics at the University of Cape Town.
LIVE from the DR. JOHN LANGALIBALELE DUBE STADIUM in Durban
Guest: Ethekwini Mayor Councilor Mxolisi Kaunda
Today is International Men’s Day and This year’s Movember is focusing on Mental Health Awareness amongst men. It is stated that Depression and suicide are ranked as a leading cause of death among men around the globe, and yet they're still far less likely to seek mental health treatment than women.
GUEST: DR. FRANS CORB – Psychiatrist
GUEST: GARRON GSELL – CEO Men’s Foundation
The Integrity Icon Awards are run every year by the Accountability Lab to recognise the work and integrity of people making a difference in public service. Unathi Filita is one of this year’s five winners, he won in the social development category
GUEST: UNATHI FILITA – Uitenhage Eastern Cape based social worker
Award-winning gospel ensemble, the MTN Joyous Celebration, returns with the second instalment of their virtual concerts. They will be live from The Soweto Theatre this Sunday, 22 November at 4pm. The show will feature songs from the group's latest album titled; ‘The Rock’. This Joyous Celebration event is with a different cause and mission as they will also donate 20% of the proceeds of the concert towards organizations working on Gender-Based Violence.
GUEST: JABU HLONGWANE – Founding Member of Joyous Celebration
Being one third of one of the country’s award-winning musical actS has been instrumental in Mo being able to take positive messages around the globe with music, but also meet and perform alongside some of South Africa’s most influential artists.
But it was through the loss of so many of his personal heroes to the dread disease Cancer, including his own beloved father, that inspired Mo to launch the cancer awareness initiative, The Diphala Foundation.
Guest: MO-T – Trumpeter MICASA
Guest: Briony Fickling – National Director Love Justice South Africa
Guest: Grizelda Grootbom – Human Trafficking Survivor and Author of the book “Exit”
THE GREENHOUSE NURSEY in Newlands Cape Town is a boutique nursery. A little hidden gem of rare and unusual plants nestled under table mountain.
GUEST: Kate Mason – Owner of the Greenhouse Nursery
UN WARNS OF 'FULL-SCALE HUMANITARIAN CRISIS' IN ETHIOPIA CONFLICT The warning came as diplomats and humanitarian officials reported heavy fighting in northern and southern Tigray.
GUEST: Isaack Katanda - Political and Security Analyst
Guest: Nixon Katembo
Seventy-three more people have died in South Africa after contracting the coronavirus, pushing the death toll to 20,314. Today Minister of Health Dr Zweli Mkhize visted the Eastern Cape and says that they needed to contain the spike in coronavirus cases in the Eastern Cape before it spread any further.
The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality is a major concern for health experts, with more than 6,000 active COVID-19 cases. Around 130 medical personnel are in quarantine in the area.
Guest: Siyanda Manana – Spokesperson Eastern cape Health Department
Guest: Prof. Anne Von Gottberg - Clinical Microbiologist at the National Institute For Communicable Diseases (NICD)
We have heard of her name and the call to name the Cape Town International Airport after her. Krotoa (known as Eva to the Dutch and English).
In August 2016, as part of the 350 year commemoration, the spirit of Krotoa was repatriated to her original place of burial at the Castle of Good Hope. A memorial in honour of her can be found next to the Chapel at the Castle today.
Guest: Calvyn Gilfellan – CEO Castle of Good Hope
The University of Cape Town (UCT), situated on land below Huri ǂoaxa (Hoerikwaggo or the mountain in the sea) that was once home to the Khoi and San, marked a milestone on its transformation journey with the launch of the Khoi and San Centre on 21 September.
Guest: Tauriq Jenkins - Community Engagement Strategist Khoi & San Centre at University of Cape Town Indigenous Knowledge Systems
The Basha Uhuru Creative Uprising is taking place from today till Saturday 16 - 21 November at Constitution Hill in Braamfontein Jhb.
The Constitution Hill Creative Uprising Festival will bring creatives together in an event aimed to develop and elevate creative talent within a variety of art forms including music, film, art, design, dance, theatre and poetry.
Guest: Dawn Robertson – CEO Constitution Hill
The Solidarity Fund is committed to the eradication of Gender Based Violence and as part of its commitment; we shall be having ongoing conversations every Monday afternoon at 14h05 discussing topics that will challenge all of us to find solutions towards ending the GBV scourge. #SolidarityForGBV
Guest: Wendy Tlou - Executive Head: Humanitarian and Behavioural Change Pillars Solidarity Fund
KHONA LA launched its first store in October 2020 launching in Alexander Townships Jhb. It is the Network of Local Spazashops operating under the same trade name. The Network aims to transform the township retail market.
Guest: Mxolisi Buthelezi – Founder and CEO
South Africa has a long history of violence. It was used as a tool of power and governance by colonialists to repress and control the indigenous people. The apartheid regime from 1948 used violence as part of its repertoire to gain and maintain social and political control.
Such a culture of violence is hard to stop, especially when it has become a legitimised and institutionalised form of coercion.
Guest: Prof. Lindy Heinecken - Chair of the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Stellenbosch University
Earlier this morning The Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) hosted a webinar on Alcohol and Substance Abuse as Contributing Factors in Gender – Based Violence and Femicide (GBV-F).
Guest: Javu Baloyi - Spokesperson Commission for Gender Equality (CGE)
Guest: Dr. Leane Ramsoomar-Hariparsaad - Public Health Researcher and Research Uptake Specialist, Gender & Health Research Unit (GHRU) South African Medical Research Council.
In early October, the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development announced it was making almost 900 farms available for emerging farmers to lease on underutilised or vacant state land.
Agriculture Minister Thoko Didiza said on Tuesday that 5,838 online applications had been received from cooperatives, companies and individuals. A number of physical applications were also made, which have yet to be tallied.
Guest: Reggie Ngcobo – Media Liaison Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
Students Concerned students and the SRC of the Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University in GaRankuwa, north-west of Pretoria,organized a march to Pretoria West Police Station on Friday, 6 November 2020. Management of the University resolved to join the march in solidarity with the students with a view to recommitting themselves and to standing firm against gender based violence in the country.
Guest: Dr. Eric Pule - Marketing & Communication Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University
Parliament announced that it shall investigate the working and living conditions of Farmworkers across the country. What are these conditions and what needs to be done to change them.
Guest: Collette Solomon - Co-Director Women on Farms project (WFP)
Guest: Mr. Anghenick Jonas - Secretary of the Central Karoo Farm Community Association
Elangeni Green Zone A group of displaced men have transformed a plot of land behind Durban’s famous beachfront Elangeni Hotel into a small scale farm in just a few months.
Guest: Fred Mbambo - Leader of the Initiative
Guest: Lungelo Mdladla - Junior Business Development Analyst SAKHA IZWE SOUTH AFRICA (SISA) BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AGENCY
The coronavirus and nationwide lockdown highlighted the need for food security in the country’s most vulnerable communities. Growbox founder Renshia Manuel, 38, has launched a fully fledged vegetable production farm, called the Urban Farmers’ Market, on November 1st to introduce sustainable vegetable farming in the Cape Flats and Hanover Park in Cape Town.
Guest: Renshia Manuel – Growbox CEO
Guest: Ntebo Mokobo - SABC Journalist
Guest: Xolani Dube, Political Analyst from the Xubera Institute of Research and Development
We have seen the picture of Angelo Agrizzi on social media laid on his back in ICU with his book “Inside The Belly of The Beast” with him was Author Melinda Ferguson who wrote the article ‘They tried to kill me. Twice’ – up close and personal with Angelo Agrizzi in ICU’’
Guest: Melinda Ferguson – Author & Publisher
The University of the Free State Qwaqwa Campus Department of History has collaborated with US University of Nebraska-Lincoln. New digital humanities project gives voice to Africans who aided British exploration in the nineteenth century
Guest: Dr. Jared Mcdonald – Project Scholar & Lead Contact for Southern African research, he is also the Assistant Dean of Humanities at the University of the Free State QwaQwa Campus.
Zenzile Miriam Makeba (4 March 1932 – 9 November 2008 died at 76 years), nicknamed Mama Africa, was a South African singer, songwriter, actress, United Nations goodwill ambassador, and civil rights activist. She was an advocate against apartheid. She died of a heart attack during a 2008 concert in Italy.
Guest: Roberto Meglioli – Was Mama Miriam’s Manager
Guest: Anton Ressel – Strategic Head and SME Mentor Support at FETOLA Business Growth Professionals
Guest: Carol Van Rooi – Red Pilot Clothing Manufacturing Business in Cape Town (4 years old)
In recent years, a little over half of youths have obtained a Matric certificate, in part because many leave school before Grade 12. This is often portrayed as a crisis. But is it? What is somewhat unusual is that there is no national qualification below Grade 12 serving as a fallback for those not reaching Grade 12. The fact that a Grade 9 certificate should now be on the policy agenda seems a step in the right direction.
Guest: Prof. Martin Gustafsson - Education Economist Stellenbosch University.
Lucky Philip Dube 3 August 1964 – 18 October 2007 died at the age of 43 This year he would be 56 years. Reggae musician and Rastafarian. He recorded 22 albums was South Africa's biggest-selling reggae artist. He has recorded mbaqanga, Afrikaans and reggae albums. Dube was murdered in the Johannesburg suburb of Rosettenville on the evening of 18 October 2007
GUEST: BONGANI MAHLANGU – Writer and Socio-Political Analyst
Stress spills into our personal lives in many ways, affecting the quality of our close relationships. When people are stressed, which can lead to alienation between partners.
Guest: Leah Sefor – Life and Relationship Coach
The outcome of the US presidential election hangs in the balance as five swing states continue to count their ballots. To capture the White House, a candidate must amass at least 270 votes in the Electoral College. Most major TV networks gave Biden a 253-214 lead in electoral votes. Results in Pennsylvania (20 electoral votes), Georgia (16), North Carolina (15), Arizona (11) and Nevada (6) remained uncertain, according to Edison Research.
Guest: Sherwin Bryse Pease - BEAUREU CHIEF AND CORRESPONDENT SABC NEWS NEW YORK based at the UN HEADQUARTERS
Many men say their health just isn't something they talk about, they even drag their feet about seeing a doctor The Importance of men talking up and asking questions about their health. Today we encourage men to call and ask their questions.
GUEST: Prof Shingai Mutambirwa - Head of department of Urology at George Mukhari academic hospital and Head of Department of Urology, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University (SMU)
Disinformation …from social media to communications platforms across the globe have become the norm. How do we identify the fake news from what is real?
Guest: Adam Armstrong - Project Head for Digital Narrative Manipulation Programme at DFRLab (Digital Forensic Research Lab)
Guest: Stewart Jones
Following a number of deliberations with various co-ops and forums focusing on the development of cooperatives SA CO-OPS ASSOCIATION AND RETAIL NETWORK are marching to the Dept of Small Business in Pretoria
GUEST: Sizwe Mkhwanazi - Interim Leader of the SA Co-Ops Association and Retail Network
Eight people between the ages of 30 and 40 died when two gunmen entered a house in NY78, Gugulethu, on Monday night and fired indiscriminately at the occupants. The perpetrators fled the scene in a waiting getaway car. It’s believed the crime was premeditated. Residents of Gugulethu, Khayelitsha, Crossroads, Nyanga and Browns Farm say the massacre is likely to be linked to the Boko Haram gang’s attempt to extort money from shebeens, spazas and other businesses.
GUEST: Mandla Majola – Community Engagement Lead - The Movement for Change and Social Justice (MCSJ) a social movement founded in Gugulethu in September 2016. MCSJ is linked with the Division of Social and Behavioural Sciences (DSBS) at the University of Cape Town’s School of Public Health and Family Medicine.
GUEST: Albert Fritz - MEC OF COMMUNITY SAFETY WESTERN CAPE
GUEST: Councillor JP Smith – Mayoral Committee Member Member for Safety and Security Western Cape
Today we are talking about African Psychoactive Plants; Jean is to publish a book on these particular plants and their healing role.
GUEST: Jean Francois Sobiecki
Election Day Cake is actually a classic English fruitcake or plum cake. The original Election Day Cake included molasses, spice, raisins, and currants were used in this cake. Later brandy was added. Also known as Oak Cake, Hartford Election Cake, and Training Cakes, because another name for Election Day was Training Day.
Guest: Anna Trapido - Food Anthropologist and AUTHOUR OF Hunger for freedom (THE STORY OF FOOD IN THE LIFE NELSON MANDELA)
It is said that over half of the world population still lives in traditional or vernacular dwellings, Our guest today says a great misconception that the ‘old way’ of building is somehow outdated she says it is truly not!
Carrie is a builder and SAfm Listener who commented on one of our stories “Researchers at Stellenbosch University found that South Africa has sufficient log resource options for sustainable wood residential building market” we spoke with Dr. Phillip Crafford from the faculty of Agri-sciences.
GUEST: CARRIE PRETORIOUS – Earth Building Specialist (Sustainable Building)
Ruth First was a journalist ,writer ,activist and scholar. She wrote major articles and books that would aid anti-colonial and anti-apartheid campaigns with the struggle against the inequality, and directed all of her own campaigns in exposing the apartheid government to the world. Her writing assisted with the important role in the abolishment of apartheid. Born in Johannesburg on 4 May 1925, Ruth First was assassinated by the hit squads on 17 August 1982 at the age of 57
GUEST: Professor ANTON HARBER - Caxton Professor of Journalism at Wits University
Shaka was the son of Senzangakhona, ruler of an insignificant small chiefdom, the Zulu. His mother was Nandi, the daughter of a Langeni chief. It is claimed that Shaka was born into Senzangakhona's household but that the couple were not yet married according to traditional custom.
GUEST: Professor SIKHUMBUZO MNGADI – Head of English Department at The University of Johannesburg.
GUEST: DR Thami Mazwai – On the National Planning Commission and leads the Think Tank on Township & Rural Economies. He is also part of the Panel of Advisors to the Sukuma Relief Fund which was established to support small businesses as result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
HIGHER HEALTH in support with WHO and the Department Of Higher Education recently sent an expert delegation to the Eastern Cape delegation week to support institutions facing severe Cluster Outbreaks.
GUEST: Prof. Ramneek Ahluwalia – CEO of HIGHER HEALTH the national entity that works on behalf of the department of Higher Education and Training in partnership with the Universities South Africa governing bodies for public universities
GUEST: Siphiwo Ngcenge – SRC PRESIDENT FORT HARE UNIVERSITY
Desigual has its heart in Spain and a global fashion footprint that has reached South Africa. Born in Barcelona in 1984, the brand has never strayed from its creator Thomas Meyer’s ethos: ‘Dress people, not bodies. We have an amazing R5000 Fashion Voucher Giveaway to Sandton based Fashion Boutique Desigual (pronounced “De-zi-gwal”) WWW.DESI-SA.CO.ZA All you have to do is answer one question. SEND US A Whatsapp VOICENOTE to 061 410 4107 and tell us WHICH ERA HAD THE BEST FASHION and why ? Desigual are dedicated to increasing the percentage of environmentally friendly fibers.
GUEST: MARIAN GAYLARD - Attorney, Notary and Conveyancer - Fell in love with Desigual when she visited Spain 8 years.
Embracing Conflict in Families; Disagreements are a healthy part of family life.
GUEST: PAULA QUINSEE - Relationship Expert and Life Coach
Episode 8 Join Live Cook online cooking Apricot Stuffed Pork Loin with herby rice salad 11 Nov Book by Nov 5.
GUEST: BARBARA ELSHOVE - Exec Producer Live Cook
What issues are affecting you as man Men looking for employment * Men looking for love Men feeling they could do more and providing more Men in the Professional space *Men trying to assist other men
GUEST: Mfanozelwe Shozi - Gender Activist & Lecturer Durban University of Technology under the Adult and Community Education Unit. (He speaks in his own capacity)
Recently UNISA’s College of Science, Engineering and Technology (CSET)hosted a webinar titled "Beating the odds: From university research to entrepreneurship/start-ups" geared towards exploring the entrepreneurial capacity that is not always tapped from research and academic activities.
GUEST: Prof. P.L.O (patrick loch otieno) lumumba Director of The Kenya School of Laws (pre-recorded)
GUEST: Prof. Mbuyu Sumbwanyambe - UNISA Professor at the College of Science, Engineering and Technology
GUEST: Prof. Yusuff Adedayo – School of Engineering UNISA
The Molecular Biology of Plants. Using plants for medicinal purposes.
Guest: Prof. Nokwanda Nox Makunga - Professor of Biotechnology at Stellenbosch University
It is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and questions around the reach of awareness are important to ponder. Who is the awareness really for?
Opinion article by Nombulelo Shange, Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, University of the Free State, and Lesego Bertha Kgatitswe (Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Sol Plaatje University)
Guest: Nombulelo Shange - Lecturer in the Department of Sociology University of the Free State
There has been a lot of unrest in a many African countries in and this involves the killing of ordinary citizens and injustices. Nigeria,Cameroon and Congo are part of the troubled hotspots in African Countries. We have a look at what’s happening there.
Guest: Nixon Katembo - African Affairs Analyst And Channel Africa Producer
Zubeida Jaffer honoured with lifetime achievement award for journalism. “The Allan Kirkland Soga Lifetime Achievement Award recognises a sustained and extraordinary contribution to journalism. The winner will have demonstrated impeccable ethics and craft excellence. Their work will have enriched South African public life, their accomplishment achieved in the face of obstacles,” reads the citation.
Guest: Zubeida Jaffer - Author and Journalist
A year ago North West University conferred Africa’s first PhD in Indigenous Knowledge Systems focussing on African indigenous astronomy. In his study, Dr Koitsiwe followed a case study approach in investigating African indigenous astronomy of Batswana in Botswana and South Africa.
Guest: Dr. Motheo Koitsiwe - Researcher and lecturer at North-West University, and the continent's first to receive a PhD in African indigenous astronomy
Shudufhadzo Musida was crowned Miss South Africa 2020 at a ceremony held at the Table Bay Hotel in Cape Town on Saturday evening. She takes over the reins from Miss South Africa 2019 Sasha-Lee Olivier. The first and second runners-up are Tato Moselle and Natasha Joubert.
Guest: Shudufhadzo Musida - Newly crowned Miss SA 2020
Over 80% of women surveyed in a recent research study found that the traditional roles of women are barriers to entrepreneurial activity. This is just one of several barriers faced by female business owners, and these barriers could be the underlying reason why only 9% of South African women are involved in early-stage entrepreneurial activity.
GUEST: Mashudu Modau - Entrepreneur and Founder of Founders Sauce – (Building a community for Africa’s next generation of creators Man technologist ,All things startups, creative industries & digital entrepreneurship)
Technology group WeThinkCode has opened applications for its 2021 full-time, fully-sponsored two-year programming course – with 300 positions available. The bursaries cover the group’s NQF-5 course, with training to be held at WeThinkCode campuses in Johannesburg and Cape Town.
Guest: Samkelo Gigaba - Technical administrator wethinkcode
Vuka Machel is a revolutionary comedy. We insist it's not satire.
Samora Machel wakes from the dead to find his wife married to Mandela and Mozambique suffering. He challenges Mandela to all sorts of fights.
GUEST: Mncedisi Shabangu
Adolescent sexual development can be confusing and anxiety-provoking, not only for the youth themselves, but for their families as well. While their children's sexuality is a very sensitive, challenging, and even frightening topic for many parents, it is best if parents try to remain patient and non-judgmental. Youths' gender identity and sexual orientation will be constantly evolving and changing during the adolescent period.
Guest: Thami Dish - LGBTQI+ ACTIVIST
Guest:Lungile Peaceworth Maquba – She is Intersex and is non-binary who is attracted to women. She trains young people about Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity.
Guest: Khosi Jiyane - Clinical Psychologist
Parliament has recently closed the opportunity for the public to comment for submissions into three bills relating to gender-based violence. The three bills are the : 1. The Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act Amendment Bill
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The Domestic Violence Amendment Bill
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Criminal Matters Amendment Bill
GUEST: IGNATIUS FRANCE – Advocacy and Training Manager at THE JUSTICE DESK GUEST: MATTHEW PARKS – COSATU Parliamentary Coordinator
Throughout the lockdown, and after new electricity tariffs were implemented by the Johannesburg city council in July, many people took to social media to post images of their metro bills which revealed astronomical tariffs, often adding up to more than residents’ mortgage costs, according to Daily Maverick associate editor Ferial Haffajee.
GUEST: FERIAL HAFFAJEE - Daily Maverick associate editor
GUEST: FRANK HINDA - City Power manager of pricing and tariff structure
Poisonous water was pumped out of the mine for decades and children play all around the toxic site.
GUEST: ISAAC DLUDLU - Spokesperson of Joburg Water
GUEST: TINY DLAMINI - Snake Park Community Activist
GUEST: PROF NOKWANDA NOX MAKUNGA - Professor of Biotechnology at Stellenbosch University.
Justice Yvonne Mokgoro turned 70 yesterday, we reflect on her work and career milestones.
Guest: Judge Baratang Connie Mocumie - judge of supreme court appeals
Guest: Magistrate Daniel M Thulare - Chief Magistrate for Cape Town, Chairperson for the Chief Magistrate Forum of the Republic of South Africa.
What is Impepho and Its Use?
Guest: Honey Makwakwa Umakhosi Nomabutho - Sangoma society
Vigis is committed to feeding the children a solid meal and giving them a safe place to play and learn for at least one weekend morning. Vigis said children as young as two were coming to the sessions along with their parents, who were attracted by the offer of a free breakfast.
Vasco says children go hungry in Ocean View and there is a need for nutrition, so we give them something to eat. It sounds clichéd, but you can’t teach a hungry child,” he said.
Guest: Vasco Vigis - Ocean View resident
Some of the lockdown regulations are easing, but for many business owners, survival remains uncertain. Will you make it through intact? Business Author and Speaker DOUGLAS KRUGER has 7 creative survival tips for your small business.
Guest: Douglas Kruger - Business Author and Speaker & Author of Virus Proof Your Small Business.
The Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA) in partnership with the Open Society Foundation for South Africa (OSF-SA) launched the report, Understanding South Africa’s Democratic Trajectory: A comparative analysis of post-colonial societies.
Guest: Xolelwa kashe-katiya - Director: Project Management at Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA)
Guest: Bulelwa Ngewana - Executive Director at Open Society Foundation for South Africa (OSF-SA)
Dolly Rebecca Parton is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, actress, author, businesswoman, and humanitarian, known primarily for her work in country music. After achieving success as a songwriter for others, Parton made her album debut in 1967 with Hello, I'm Dolly.
With steady success during the remainder of the 1960s (both as a solo artist and with a series of duet albums with Porter Wagoner), her sales and chart peak came during the 1970s and continued into the 1980s.
Guest: Guest: RJ Benjamin – Award-winning vocalist, songwriter, composer, vocal coach, musical director and producer
The National Movement of Rural Women (NMRW) celebrated International Day of Rural Women (IDoRW) yesterday 15 October. The NMRW would like all South Africans to commemorate and celebrate the important role rural women play every day.
Despite the advent of COVID-19 gravely altering previously planned celebrations, the NMRW has decided to use their digital platforms to not let this auspicious occasion pass by unrecognised.
Guest: Bongiwe Mahlangu - Region Facilitator - The National Movement of Rural Women (NMRW)
The success of any relationship comes down to the conscious participation each person is willing to bring to the table. Working on your relationship is about finding resilience to weather the storms and choosing to grow together so that your relationship can continue to evolve to a deeper, more profound connection.
Guest: Leah Sefor – Life and relationship coach
Wednesday 11 November is the next Episode with CHEF LIZIWE MATLOHA and the deadline to book tickets is Thursday 5 November.
Guest: Barbara Elshove – Live Cook Co-Producer
Commissioner Edward Kieswetter said the tax agency, which on Tuesday said it is hobbled by underfunding, had refunded R13.4bn to 1,24-million taxpayers, many of whom were struggling due to the Covid-19 lockdown.
If you have received a call or SMS from South African Revenue Service (SARS), alleging you have an outstanding tax debt, in all likelihood, this is not fraud, but the revenue collector reminding you before things get out of hand and more aggressive collection measures become necessary, says Jashwin Baijoo, tax attorney at Tax Consulting SA.
Guest: Marcia Ujobolo - Senior Manager customer Experience SARS
Guest: Dr Stella Anyangwe - District Governor Elect for Rotary District 9400 and is an epidemiologist and public/global health expert. She served in a number of countries as World Health Organisation Country Representative.
Rotary Action Group for Family Health & AIDS Prevention, Inc. (RFHA) is a global Rotary Action Group and mobilizing partner of Rotary International dedicated to disease prevention and treatment. The objective of RFHA is to facilitate projects aimed at the improvement of family health and the prevention of HIV and AIDS.
Guest: Mr Bongumusa Makhathini
South Africa has the world’s largest cohort of young people with HIV. More than 300 000 adolescents aged between 10 and 19 are living with the virus. Dr Rebecca Hodes, is the recipient of the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Social Responsiveness Award for 2019
Guest: Dr. Rebecca Hodes - Director AIDS and Society Research Unit Centre for Social Science research University of Cape Town
FynbosLIFE is a wildlife charity and non-profit organisation, run by botanists, ecologists, horticulturists and volunteers. Based in Cape Town, they protect and promote the City’s highly threatened local lowland fynbos biodiversity, through educational horticulture, habitat restoration projects.
Guest: Dr. Caitlin Von Witt - Managing Director of FynbosLIFE; she uncovered an Endangered plant species new to science, which contributed towards the declaration of the Moutonshoek Protected Environment
The global pandemic has highlighted many fault-lines across society, and in our current state of ongoing disruption, it also presents us with unique opportunities to make changes. In our daily lives, some of the best changes we can make are around our food choices.
Overweight and obesity have been linked to more severe COVID-19 outcomes, along with diet-related non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as hypertension and Type 2 diabetes.
GUEST: Retha Harmse - Registered Dietitian and Spokesperson for the Association for Dietetics in South Africa (ADSA)
Tuesday 20 October will mark National Down Syndrome Day, designated by our late President, Mr Nelson Mandela to create awareness about Down syndrome. This year we bring attention to the violence against individuals with Down syndrome.
Guest: Ancella Ramjas - National Executive Director Down Syndrome South Africa
The Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation, Dr Blade Nzimande, has released HIGHER HEALTH’s latest protocol for the Post-Schooling Education and Training sector (PSET) to guide 26 universities, 50 TVET colleges and other post- schooling institutions on how to conduct invigilated examinations during the COVID- 19 pandemic.
Guest: Dr Ramneek Ahluwalia - CEO Higher Health, a national entity that works on behalf of the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET)
Badsha has been capturing images of South Africa's history for decades. Among these are a collection of photographic essays entitled A Letter to Farzanah (1979), produced with the late Fatima Meer, and Imijondolo (1984), a photographic record of his work in the Inanda area in Durban.
The former was immediately banned at the time. In the 1980s Badsha co-founded Afrapix as well as of the Centre for Documentary Photography at the University of Cape Town.
Guest: Omar Badsha - Renowned South African Photographer & Artist
Guest: Candice Jansen
In the royal family makhadzi plays an important part in succession matters as well but she does not do that alone. She commands a privileged position in the kinship system of the Venda and particularly so in the royal houses.
Guest: Jane Mufamadi - CEO freedom park, heritage site and museum and former
The Power of Stokvels, how do we move them from being consumer based and to more entrepreneurial ventures and growth as part of the cooperatives sector.
Guest: Palesa Lengolo - Author of "Stokvels: How They Can Make Your Money Work For You" and Financial Education Specialist and CEO of Palengo Holdings
Guest: Eugene Mametse - Exhibitions Director for StokvelEX.
This morning President Cyril Ramaphosa's weekly letter spoke to some of the major issues we are facing as a country including the brutal murder of farm manager Brendin Horner in the Free State.
Guest: Jess De Klerk - Chairperson Senekal Safety Association
GUEST: Colonel Brenda Muridili - SAPS Spokesperson
Guest: Tessa Dooms - SOCIAL ANALYST AND DIRECTOR OF JASORO CONSULTING
Guest: Voicenote - Dominic Gaobepe of the cohesion collective
Johnny Nash died this week at the age of 80. He is famously known for his 1972 number one hit as well as introducing Bob Marley with Danny Sims, the man who would sign Marley to his first international publishing and recording contracts.
Guest: RJ Benjamin – Award-winning vocalist, songwriter, composer, vocal coach, musical director and producer
Rayana Edwards, founder of ‘Sari for Change’ recycling project, has been named as a joint winner of 2020 Goldman Sachs and Fortune Global Women Leaders Award.
Guest: Rayana Edwards – Founder of Sari For Change
The process of divorce is A very challenging and overwhelming time in a person's life, it’s also an emotional roller coaster ride. Everyone's divorce story is different but how do you move on after divorce?
How do you figure out who you are and what you want as a newly single person? What is your new life going to look like, and how do you start moving in that direction?
Guest: Leah Sefor – Life and relationship coach
CALL FOR COMMENT ON THREE LAWS TO CURB GENDER BASED VIOLENCE. The Portfolio Committee on Justice and Correctional Services has invited stakeholders and interested persons to submit written submissions on three pieces of legislation aimed at strengthening laws against gender-based violence (GBV).
Guest: Ignatius France – Advocacy and Training Manager at THE JUSTICE DESK
SA's biggest labour federations Cosatu, Fedusa, Saftu and Nactu joined forces to protest against what they consider a failed government that has overseen the repression of workers.
Guest: Mike Bagraim – Labour law expert
The 35-year-old turned her quandary into valuable dough and kneaded a new opportunity for herself. The Gugulethu, Cape Town, mother of three became a sought-after baker overnight.
This was after she baked a cake for her son’s birthday which “wowed everyone” and “orders started coming in”. “I have baked about 25 cakes since June 21 and my clientele is growing all over Cape Town,” said Ngcoko.
Guest : Zanele Ngcoko – Entrepreneur & owner of smj catering and events
Yolanda Dyantyi was expelled for life from Rhodes University for her role in a protest against GBV on campus, and her transcripts were marked ‘Unsatisfactory Conduct: Student found guilty of assault, kidnapping, insubordination and defamation’.
Guest: Yolanda Dyantyi – Feminist and Former Rhodes Student
TAX SEASON is here and SARS is updating us on the Income Tax deadlines for walk-in’s and E-Filing. What is Your Income Tax Question? Call in or Sen Your Voice notes.
Guest: Siphithi Sibeko – SARS (South African Revenue Services) Spokesperson
South African National Parks (SANParks) said in a statement on Friday afternoon (02 October 2020) that its decision to put down seven lions deemed to be damage causing animals in the Karoo National Park was not taken in haste nor lightly.
Guest: Tim Neary – Naturalist Conservationist
October 19th will be 34 years since the death of President SAMORA MACHEL (born 29 September 1933 – 19 October 1986 died at 53 years) was a Mozambican military commander, politician and revolutionary, he served as the first President of Mozambique from the country's independence in 1975. He died in 1986 when his presidential aircraft crashed near the Mozambican-South African border in Mbuzini Mpumalanga.
Guest: Charlie Khumalo - Executive producer for Portuguese news at Radio Channel Africa.
Today marks World Teachers Day as adopted by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). This day is particularly significant in 2020 as teachers continue to ensure that learners receive their education during a global pandemic. This year’s theme is “Teachers: Leading in crisis, reimagining the future”.
Guest: Motsamai Dhlamini - Grade 12 ICT teacher from Sediba Thuto Secondary School in the Fezile Dabi District in the Free State
It has been reported that the government had assisted just 10,000 businesses, a fraction of the 700,000 promised by President Cyril Ramaphosa in April. Of the roughly 40,000 businesses that had applied for assistance, only 23% had been granted loan relief by government – which is 1.3% of the number promised. HOW IS THE INFORMAL SECTOR SURVIVING, WHAT IS NEXT FOR THEM?
Guest: Evans Maphenduka - Executive Co-Ordinator of the Development Microfinance Association
Guest: Lulama Mali - Interim Chairperson of the JHB INFROMAL TRADERS PLATFORM & Informal Trader
Guest: Lilly Sambo - Informal Traders in Tshwane Women’s Desk
Researchers at Stellenbosch University (SU) found that South Africa has sufficient log resource options for a sustainable wood residential building market.
Dr Phillip Crafford from SU's Department of Forest and Wood Science says because South Africa does not have a culture of designing and building with wood, there's a need for further research that includes other impacts such GDP generation, job creation and social and economic comparisons with regard to an increase in wood-based building.
Guest: Dr Phillip Crafford - Department of Forest and Wood Science , Faculty of AgriSciences AT Stellenbosch University
Thandi Ntuli was born in one of South Africa’s largest townships, Soshanguve in Pretoria. She comes from a lineage of rich musical heritage, being the niece of guitarist, pianist and lead vocalist of 70’s pop fusion band Harari (The Beaters), Selby Ntuli.
Since the release of her debut jazz album, “The Offering” which she released independently, Thandi has been fast making an imprint in the local jazz scene with her unique voice. “The Offering” has received critical acclaim as well as numerous awards and recognition since its release in 2014.
GUEST: Thandi Ntuli
Quintin Lake from Cheltenham has walked the 6,600 mile (10,600 km) route in sections, going clockwise.Mr Lake has finished his walk at St Paul's Cathedral in London, where he began it in April 2015. He is due to write a book about his self-supported journey and exhibit some of the hundreds of photographs he has taken during the project.
GUEST: Quintin Lake - Photographer
So you’ve met someone wonderful, you’re now in a serious relationship and it’s time to share this with your family and your children. How do you share the news with your kids and most importantly how do you introduce him or her to them as your new life partner?
Guest: Leah Sefor – Life and relationship coach
When a Man loses his job; does society render him being of little use, does he lose the title of being the head of the household?
GUEST: PROF. KOPANO RATELE - Psychologist / Men & Masculinities Studies Scholar
GUEST: DR. FRANS CORB - Psychiatrist
GUEST: MFANOZELWE SHOZI - Gender Activist & Lecturer Durban University
Despite the loss of 2.2 million jobs in the second quarter of the year, the labour force survey released by Stats SA indicates there was also a massive decline in unemployment.
The official unemployment rate decreased from 30.1% in the first quarter of 2020 to a record low of 23.3% in the data from April to June this year.
Guest: Mike Bagraim – Labour law expert
As SA has made it to lockdown level 1, many landlords and financiers will say that people should start paying as normal and even catching up on the payments they missed. The reality, however, is that even though many people may be working as normal, most have taken financial hits and are still far behind in terms of what they are able to pay towards servicing rent, mortgages and loans. SA should prepare for a very bumpy few months as landlords and lenders run out of runway and eviction notices begin to pile up.
Guest: Gary Palmer - CEO paragon lending solutions
Growing garden sage (salvia officinalis) is so economical and time-saving. Its flavor is so intense that only a dash is needed to flavor a dish. Sage is also one of the few herbs that, even as its leaves grow larger, the flavor intensifies. Unlike many herbs, sage leaves are still delicious after the plant flowers.
It is a member of the mint family Lamiaceae and native to the Mediterranean region, though it has been naturalized in many places throughout the world. It has a long history of medicinal and culinary use, and in modern times it has been used as an ornamental garden plant.
GUEST: JEAN FRANCOIS SOBIECKI - Ethnobotanist, Medicinal Plant Researcher, Qualified Nutritionist.
They are an organization for Persons with Disabilities in the Rural areas of Nqamakwe in Eastern Cape.Our Their main objective is Care,Educate, Support and Advocate for persons s with Disabilities in the rural communities. They have been operational for 4 years now.
They run a door to door programme where they educate families on how to take care of those living with disabilities and how we should engage with them. They have also started a community garden which helps curb hunger in their community.
GUEST: Nosintu Mcimeli – Founder of Abanebhongo persons with disabilities
The Waiting In The Wings SA team is counting down to lift off, to take audiences on a virtual flight of pure entertainment with their next show “ COME FLY WITH US” - the premiere performance that was filmed on an Airbus A430 can be caught online on Sunday 4th October at 7:00pm and the show can be seen until the 11th October.
GUEST: HARRY SIDEROPOULIS - Award Winning Producer and Theatre Producer
Drugs and alcohol are ever present and affect communities throughout the world. You may be a casualty of the battle we call addiction, or you may know someone who is.The fact is that it’s common and impacts many lives, in some cases in very tragic ways. Basically, it all comes down to life choices and making the right ones at the right time.
RADA, started largely with the aim to combat problems of addiction and abuse that so often lead to more detrimental societal issues such as crime, rape, gender violence, is pouring resources into addressing these issues and creating continuous awareness.
Guest: TRACEY PITOUT - SPOKESPERSON FOR RADA ( RAPE,ALCOHOL,DRUG ABUSE)
The City of Johannesburg started a public participation process to have William Nicol Drive renamed after struggle veteran Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. City mayor Geoff Makhubo said that a city council meeting had agreed to the name change over a year ago, and that the road would be renamed ‘in time’ following the public participation process and confirmation with Madikizela-Mandela’s family.
William Nicol Drive was named after the Dutch-Reformed minister and Transvaal administrator at the time of its construction.Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s would have turned 84th this year
GUEST: FIKILE MOYA - Acting Spokesperson for Jhb Executive Mayor Makhubo
Guest: Prof Pitika Ntuli – Historian and Cultural Analyst
GUEST: Dr. (mocholoko) Zulumathabo Zulu Doctoral practitioner; a metaphysical scientist; a cosmologist; a technological inventor and a software engineer with more than 20 years’ experience
In the midst of job losses and high levels of unemployment, Teboho details how an individual who has lost their job can reinvent their career path during this uncertain time.
GUEST: TEBOHO MOFOKENG - Author of Finding Your Seat at The Table Civil Engineer
The Informal Traders Sector talks about the challenges they are faced with and the lack of government support and response to their list of needs.
GUEST: LILLY SAMBO - Informal Traders in Tshwane, Women's Desk
GUEST: BENJAMIN MANASOE - City of Tshwane
The perspective on life happens : The attitude how government and media should be framing language and communication to keep momentum and how to get us back to be vigilance.
GUEST: Prof Renata Schoeman –Psychiatrist & Head of the Healthcare Leadership MBA specialization stream (University of Stellenbosch Business School)
GUEST: Prof Lucille Blumberg - The National Institute For Communicable Diseases (NICD)
A couple we spoke to a few weeks ago who both contracted Covid-19 and recovered. They are our Just Teddy Voucher Winners – This will be their first outing after recovery.
Guest: SALEM & TERRA
THE MUSIC OF LANGA MAVUSO, as he launches his debut album today entitled LANGA
GUEST: LANGA MAVUSO
City Deep is the 11th film in William Kentridge's drawings for projection , a series of animated films drawn over 30 years at the Goodman Gallery.
GUEST: NEIL DUNDAS - Goodman Gallery Senior Curator
How To Cultivate a Long-term Relationship & returning to family values as a country.
GUEST: NTATE JERRY MOFOKENG WA MAKHETHA
GUEST: MAMA CLAUDINE MOFOKENG
Listener Interaction
SAfm & Live Cook Channel Partnership A Solidarity Fund Initiative for the culinary industry. Live Cook Episodes streamed on Youtube.
GUEST: BARBARA ELSHOVE - Live Cook Co-Producer
GUEST: MICHELLE THERON - Live Cook Che
Self-taught Teddy has been in the kitchen since he was 5 years old but after his appearance on the Great South African Bake Off, fans were curious of his next move which led him and his family popping up at various markets around Johannesburg before setting up shop at The Sheds in Fox Street where they had been for the last 3 years.
Their Lebanese and French heritage have aided in their unique creations which has taken the patisserie world by storm
GUEST: JEFF ZAKI : JUST TEDDY
When Phophi Mudau realised that none of the clothing in stores represented her heritage or the people of Limpopo, she knew she had to start her own line. Today, she is the proud owner of her very own Limpopo-inspired range, Pdesigns SA.
GUEST: PHOPHI MUDAU – Founder PDesigns SA
Yellow Hat Publishers was conceived out of the need to tell our story as Africans, to bring to the fore the rich culture we have been blessed with, and to preserve it for future generations.”
GUEST: ABENA-SAAH MOPHATLANE – Founder of Yellow Hat Storytelling
"Yellow Hat Publishers was conceived out of the need to tell our story as Africans, to bring to the fore the rich culture we have been blessed with, and to preserve it for future generations.”
GUEST: ABENA-SAAH MOPHATLANE – Founder of Yellow Hat Storytelling
Maria McCloy shoes , earrings, hats, Xhosa denim jackets and Basotho Bomber jackets available at Africa Rise Sandton City Mall and Africa Rise 66 Anderson Street Marshalltown downtown joburg.
GUEST: MARIA MCLOY - Founder of Maria McCloy Accessories
Chef Siya Kobo will be hosting a Heritage Month 5 Course Tasting Menu at Restaurant Kobo Cuisine this Saturday from 1pm at Jhb Culinary and Pastry School.
GUEST: SIYA KOBO - Chef & Owner of Kobo Cuisine
They range from Lengana/Umhlonyane; Black Bush, Red Root Tea, SETSONG AFRICAN TEA CRAFTERS made up of artisanal, handcrafted tea products, indigenous, African plants found in the natural landscapes of South Africa; more prominently within the rural areas of Limpopo.
GUEST: NONDUMISO PHAAHLA - Co Founder of Setšong
Traditional African storytelling has been recognised as one of the mechanisms that inspires a community to learn, teaches morals, maintains cultural values and allows a reflection on social ethics.
GUEST: NOMSA MAZWAI – General Manager Soweto Theatre
MARULA Most well known as the fruit that 'drives elephants mad' when dropped to the ground and lightly fermented, marula is a much-loved tree in the veld in Africa.
Coriander is a spice produced from the round, tan-colored seeds of the coriander plant (Coriandrum sativum), which is a member of the parsley family.
GUEST: JEAN FRANCOIS – SOBIECKI - Ethnobotanist, Medical Plant Researcher and Qualified Nutritionist
A New Agency that seeks to assist in tackling late payments by the government to small business called Pholosang Fee Facilitation Services.
GUEST: CHRISTINE QUNTA - Lawyer & Consultant
GUEST: PALLO JORDAN - Former Minister of Arts and Culture & Author
GUEST: DR UHURU PHALAFALA - Academic and Lecturer at the University of Stellenbosch, currently working on Prof Kgositsile Biography
Learning about the Jewish Calendar and the new year Rosh Hashanah as well as Yom Kippur.
GUEST: RABBI PINK - Rabbi of Chabad in Greenstone Listener Interaction
Guest: Sharon Ekambaram Head of Refugee and Migrants Rights Programme at Lawyers for Human Rights @LHR_SA
Guest: Asylum Seeker
Covid-19: “We are starving” says singer Vicky Sampson “Artists are workers, not beggars!” and “Relief 4 all made easy” - these slogans were plastered across placards being held up by about 50 musicians and performers near Parliament in Cape Town on Wednesday. Vicky Sampson, national chairperson for the Trade Union for Musicians of South Africa (TUMSA), said the application process for the relief payment was cumbersome.
Live-Cook Channel is a solidarity initiative for the culinary industry. Live-Cook episodes are streamed on YouTube. Participants can purchase tickets via Webtickets and receive a box of ingredients to cook along with the chef.
GUEST: BARBARA ELSHOVE – Co Producer Live Cook Channel
The effects of trauma can be long lasting and debilitating. The reality of a traumatic incident is that it can impact your life and the lives of the people around you. Trauma can also impact on your mutual or interpersonal relationships. Men, in particular, have long been conditioned to “suck it up” when it comes to dealing with the results of a traumatic experience. Today we ask, what resources are available to help men deal with trauma?
Guest: Rees Mann - Founder of SAMSOSA (South African Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse.)
Guest: Javu Baloyi - Spokesperson for the Commission of Gender Equality
As from Monday, 14 September 2020 social grant applicants have been able to apply for certain social grants online. The pilot project covers the Child Support, Older Persons, and Foster Child grants. Applications can be lodged on https://services.sassa.gov.za which is a secure website. After reviewing the system other grants will also be added to the portal.
Guest: Mr Paseka Letsatsi - SASSA spokesperson
Persons with Albinism still endure structural and systematic discrimination across South Africa. They continue to live in fear for their lives, as they are actively hunted and killed for their body parts in many countries across the region.
Graves of those that have died are often tampered with and their remains stolen. Albinism is an inherited genetic condition that prevents the body from making enough colour, or melanin, to protect the skin from the sun.
Guest: Commissioner Nomasonto Mazibuko - Albinism Society South Africa
During Level 2 lockdown, certain regulations on alcohol were implemented. We were allowed to purchase alcohol following a ban but only at certain times and on certain days. Are we a society driven by alcohol?
GUEST: Vumani Mkhize – BBC business correspondent
Guest: Janet Gourand - World Without Wine
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced us to learn more about our food but there are still considerable gaps in our understanding of the relationship between the virus that causes COVID-19 and food.
Guest: Mpho Tshukudu - Dietitian & Co-Author of Eat Ting
TODAY the industry is marching to the Union Buildings in Pretoria, the National Assembly in Cape Town, and Provincial Premier Offices and Municipalities.
Guest: Sibongile Mngoma - Founder of I’m 4 The Arts Initiative
Guest: Masechaba Khumalo - Spokesperson for the Department of Sports ,Arts and Culture Minister)
In the past decade, the global incidence of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) and leukemia has increased by 45% and 26% respectively. While recommended, prevention efforts, such as lifestyle changes, tend to be less effective for hematologic malignancies than for other cancers, which makes a blood stem cell transplant, a patient’s only hope for survival.
Guest: Jane Ward - Acting Deputy Director At South African Bone Marrow Registry
26 Year old Ntiyiso Xilumane has been sentenced to life imprisonment at the polokwane high court for the murder of medical intern Shongile Nkwashu.
GUEST: KATLEGO NYONI - SABC Reporter Polokwane
Liliesleaf Recognised as one of South Africa’s leading heritage sites, Liliesleaf opened to the public in June 2008 and has since attracted thousands of local and international visitors, eager to understand and engage with a pivotal period in South Africa’s liberation struggle.
The museum pays testimony to the many lives that changed the political landscape of this country and through its educational programmes, appeals to younger audiences to face today’s challenges with creative enthusiasm.
GUEST: Nicholas Wolpe - CEO of the Liliesleaf Trust
GUEST: Prof. Abel Pienaar - holds a PhD in health sciences and his work focuses on "Reinforcing indigenous communal healing as a sustainable health science and practice in Africa" and to demystify the so-called learned myths that African indigenous knowledge is not a science.
SANBS is experiencing critical shortages in blood supply. Covid-19 restrictions have severely limited their ability to collect adequate blood stocks.
GUEST: NOMFUNDO DHLAMINI - Communications Specialist at SANBS (South African National Blood Service)
Guest: Phakamile Siyo - SME Consultant and Currently working with 8 Co Operatives in the Ndlambe Local Municipality an administrative area in the Sarah Baartman District of the Eastern Cape
"Rape culture is very South African and rape remains the least convicted crime of assault. This is an indictment against the police service, the prosecutorial authority and the judicial system. They are failing South African women." words from the article "The Construction Of Masculinities, The Rule Of Law And Gender-Based Violence" by Nkanyiso Ngqulunga.
Guest: Nkanyiso Ngqulunga - Legal Scholar with interest in feminist legal theory and decolonization. Gender Activist and advocate for Transformative Constitutionalism
Hugh Masekela’s Thuma Mina - (Send Me) – The People’s Version will be released across all all digital platforms TODAY . Thuma Mina is a call to the people of South Africa to stand up collectively for change.
Constitution Hill and the Hugh Masekela Heritage Foundation have
GUEST: ABIGAIL KUBEKA
GUEST: DAWN ROBERTSON - CEO CONSTITUTION HILL
Last Week Artists CHEPAPE MAKGATO opened his 11th Solo Exhibition “Age of Wisdom” celebrating and honouring 4 women across generations.
Guest: Chepape Makgato – Artist
A COUPLE who got infected with COVID-19, tells us how they survived and got to experience “In Sickness and In Health” Together.
Guest: SALEM NYATI
Guest:TERRA NYATI
Live-Cook Channel is a solidarity initiative for the culinary industry. Live-Cook episodes are streamed on YouTube. - Ticket sales closed yesterday but we can watch along on Wednesday 16 September at 6pm on the Live-Cook Channel YouTube or Facebook. - Chef is Kabelo Segone cooking Lamb Thai Green Curry
GUEST: LANCE GIBBONS - Live Cook Co-Producer
President Ramaphosa has taken 3 Bills to Parliament in the fight against GBV -Sexual Offences -Domestic Violence -Bail and Parole
GUEST: IGNATIUS FRANCE - Advocacy and Training Manager THE JUSTICE DESK
GUEST: Prof. AMEENA GOGA - Director HIV and Epidemiology Unit, South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) and Paedetrician
--TERS (Temporary Employee Relief Scheme) extension to 15 Sept --Compensation Fund - employees struggling to prove the got infected with COVID-19 at work
GUEST: MIKE BAGRAIM - LABOUR LAW EXPERT Case Study - Ishmail - has not received an increment whilst colleagues in the company have.
SGBV Sexual and Gender Based Violence Pres Ramaphosa has detailed 3 key bills which aim to deal with the country's dire problem of SGBV and other violent crimes. How shall these bills assist in cases like the alleged assault by Pirates player Thembinkosi Lorch on his girlfriend.
GUEST: GIVEN SIGAUKE - Sonke Gender Justice
GUEST: SIYA JENTILE - Not In My Name
GUEST: IGNATIUS FRANCE - The Justice Desk
GUEST: WALTER MOKOENA - Advisor to the Office of the Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture.
Today we talk Japanese Radish and MINT.
GUEST: JEAN FRANCOIS-SOBIECKI - Ethnobotanist, Medical Plant Researcher and Qualified Nutritionist
September is the international deaf awareness month Thuli Zikalala is planning to transform the interpreting profession. The 30-year-old is one of only 11 interpreters in the South African Sign Language (SASL) to English field who are accredited with the SA Translation Institute (SATI). She is also the first interpreter in the country to translate a podcast into A South African Sign Language.
GUEST: THULI ZIKALALA – Sign Language Interpreter
Quality education is a scarce resource for many in our country, particularly tertiary education. There is an opportunity for all of us South Africans to take part in. It is The Study in Japan Online Fair which aims to broaden the horizon of academic opportunities for all high school students, current university undergraduates, postgraduates, as well as qualifying individuals already in careers or business.
GUEST: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR SARAMA TSUNODA – Study Abroad Co-ordinator at the Study in Japan Global Network Project at Hokkaido University Japan.
GUEST: LITHA HERMANUS – Author of “The Eyes of the Naked” & former Resident in Japan.
Reverend Al Sharpton will deliver the 20th Annual Steve Biko Memorial Lecture to be held virtually, this Saturday 12th September 6pm. Significantly, this date marks the 43rd Commemoration of the murder in detention of Bantu Stephen Biko on 12 September 1977.
Guest: Nkosinathi Biko - The Founder and Executive Trustee of the Steve Biko Foundation
Myesha Jenkins passed away Saturday 5th September having lived with pancreatic cancer. She was a poet, spoken word performer, teacher and cultural activist. Born in San Francisco US, in 1993 she moved to South Africa and became a founding member of the Feela Sistah Spoken Word Collective, that featured Napo Masheane, Ntsiki Mazwai and Lebo Mashile.
Myesha encouraged women’s writing and she has curated projects and created platforms to highlight the work of women poets. For five years, from 2011–2016, Jenkins produced the series Poetry in the Air on SAfm, to showcase poets in celebration of South African Women’s Month.
GUEST: Philippa Ya De Villiers – Poet & Author
GUEST: Napo Masheane – Poet, Author & Theatre Director
The genetic makeup of the Italians Understanding Italy’s history and culture requires taking cognizance of a very important fact. Italy is made up of a long thin peninsula and two large islands.
Guest: Dr. Christopher Fotheringham - Lecturer Wits University; Department of Translation Studies & Specialising in Romans’ Languages/ Did his PhD on Italian Colonial Culture.
The District Six Museum is asking visitors to send ’Love Letter to the Museum’ to help keep their doors open The pandemic has left many tourism businesses hanging by a thread- and some closed its doors due to the financial strain caused by the national lockdown.
With level 2 regulations now permitting leisure travel, many establishments are relying on domestic travelers to keep their businesses open.
GUEST: Chrischene Julius - Acting Director of District Six Museum
Our Objective is to play our part in supporting small business in this difficult time. Last week we started the conversation on cooperatives and how they have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Today we want to continue the conversation and a way forward for the business mode
GUEST:Olga Kgame – Bumbisizwe Cooperative designs and Décor
GUEST: Phelisa Nkomo - Development Economist & Co Operatives Advisor
Vikesh Ramsunder, Clicks Group CEO wrote an open letter “Engage with us so that we redress our actions” Saying “I am deeply disappointed that we allowed insensitive and offensive images to be published on our website. I apologise unreservedly for the hurt and anger these images have caused.
The emotive responses of our customers have been mirrored by our employees and management teams. And, whilst the images and content were provided to us by our supplier TRESemmé , this does not absolve us from blame”.
Guest: Sylvester Chauke – ceo dna architechts
Guest: Lynsel Chutel - independent journalist – she has written on identity politics and black hair
Guest: Sarah Britten - head of strategy at brand factor
ROEDEAN SCHOOL is hosting a virtual GIRLS LEADERSHIP SUMMIT tomorrow 12-3pm a first of its kind in South Africa amongst the local independent schools. With talks, panel discussions, performances and case studies, we’re very excited to host our delegates and provide an immersive experience.
GUEST: CHARLOTTE HULLEY - Social Responsibility Coordinator and Lead of the Summit Organising Committee
A young Msimelelo got burnt and sustained injuries from the fire which left part of his body badly burnt. This happened in his teen years before he could meet his loving wife Somikazi. The unfortunate happened over the years when he got into a bad car accident that left him in a wheelchair.
GUEST: MSIMELELO AND SOMIKAZI BOLTINA
Live-Cook Channel is a solidarity initiative for the culinary industry. Live-Cook episodes are streamed on YouTube. Participants can purchase tickets via Webtickets and receive a box of ingredients to cook along with the chef.
GUEST:LANCE GIBBONS - Live Cook Co-Producer
GUEST: KABELO SEGONE - Chef
GUEST: Prof Sinead Delany-Moretlwe - Director: Research at Wits RHI (Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute (Wits RHI) the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
The State of Informal Settlements in South Africa and possible ways forward as we face a land and housing crisis.
GUEST: PROF. IVAN TUROK - HSRC Principal Research Specialist and Research Chair in City Region Economies.
GUEST: MARK MISSELHORN - Project Preparation Trust
GUEST: JEAN FRANSCOIS SOBIECKI - Ethnobotanist, Medicinal Plant Researcher, Qualified Nutritionist.
Scientists racing to save the northern white rhino from extinction have harvested 10 more eggs from the last two females alive which they hope will help create viable embryos that can be incubated by other rhinos acting as rhinos.
GUEST: DR. STEPHEN D. NGULU - Wildlife Veterinarian at Olpejeta Conservancy in Kenya.
The Bible Society is celebrating 200 years in South Africa. Their task is to provide affordable bibles and all languages.
GUEST: REV DIRK GEVERS - CEO Bible Society
GUEST: KHONA DLAMINI - Manager for Programmes and Projects as well as training for young photographers at Market Photo Workshop.
Indigenous Knowledge learning about different cultures of SA, Continent & the World.
UBUNTU PHILOSOPHY and Indigenous Languages. The impact of losing the philosophy and disconnect to the indigenous way of life.
GUEST: PROF. MOKONG MAPADIMENG - Indigenous Language and Ubuntu Culture as anchors of indigenous knowledge systems. Former Prof of Sociology at UKZN, North West University and the University of Limpopo.
EThekwini Municipality is the first city in Africa to develop a Climate Action Plan (CAP) that is aligned to the 2015 Paris Agreement which clearly outlines the international commitment to limit global average temperature rise to well below 2°C.
The CAP is a city-wide plan that provides a pathway to transition Durban towards climate resilience and carbon neutrality by 2050.
GUEST: Sbu Ntshlalintshali - Manager: Renewable Energy
Our Objective is to play our part in supporting small business in this difficult time. Today we focus on cooperatives and how they have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
GUEST:Olga Kgame – Bumbisizwe Cooperative designs and Décor.
Guest: Phakamile Siyo - Sme consultant and currently working with 8 co operatives in the ndlambe local municipality an administrative area in the sarah baartman district of the eastern cape.
Guest: Phelisa Nkomo - Development economist & cooperatives advisor
The killing of Nathaniel Julius outside his home in Eldorado Park on August 26, allegedly by a police officer who shot the teenager in the head and chest, has sparked anger in the country. Not only was the teenager unarmed, he was also living with Down syndrome. Because his ability to communicate was limited, he was unable to respond to officers’ questions.
GUEST: Ziyanda Stuurman – Researcher and writer who has a Masters degree in Security Studies which focused on issues of policing in South Africa.
Mary J Blige in many respects was the 90's artist that helped to open the door for pure Hip Hop to merge with R&B paving the way for 00's and the 2010's R&B stars.
GUEST: RJ BENJAMIN
The Nubian Music Festival is closing off Women’s Month celebrating women with the sounds of Judith Sephuma, Sho Madjozi, Lady Zamar, Aus Tebza and Amanda Black tomorrow Saturday 29 August from 3pm.
Held annually at Hartbeespoort Dam during summer -, it has moved to virtual platforms with The Palace of the Lost City as the backdrop.
Guest: Judith Sephuma – Singer & songwriter
26 Years into our democracy, in the year 2020, what are the current dynamics of dating across the colour line?
Aldecia and Andrew are a South African based couple. Aldecia is South African and Andrew is Australian. They document some part of our lives on Youtube, their videos show you glimpse of their relationship, family, travels and adventures in South Africa, Australia and other countries around the world.
Guest: Aldecia Johnson
Guest: Andrew Johnson
Live-Cook Channel is a solidarity initiative for the culinary industry. Live-Cook episodes are streamed on YouTube. Participants can purchase tickets via Webtickets and receive a box of ingredients to cook along with the chef.
Guest: Barbara Elshove – Co Producer Live Cook Channel
South Africa’s Covid-19 recovery rate improved to 85% by yesterday (Wednesday 26 August), Health Minister Zweli Mkhize reported. A cumulative total of 615 701 confirmed Covid-19 cases in South Africa have been recorded. The total number of Covid-19-related deaths is 13 502.
Guest: Prof Burtram Fielding - Director of Research Development at the University of Western Cape and Virologist specializing in Covid-19
Dr Samantha Govender qualified as a Paediatrician and also has a diploma in child health from the college of medicine South Africa as well as her Masters in Medicine Paediatrics from the University of KZN. I also have a Post Graduate Diploma in Paediatric Palliative care from the university of Cape townMy greatest achievement thus far is being a member of Patch SA- Palliative treatment for children South Africa a compassionate network that aims to achieve the best possible care for children with life limiting and life threatening illnesses.
Guest: Dr. Samantha Govender - Pediatrician at a Public Hospital
ASK AFRIKA has released the latest research results on the socio-economic impact Covid-19 has on SA Citizens.
Guest: Andrea Rademeyer – Ceo Ask Afrika
Today we are focusing on an indigenous medicinal plant called RUBIA CORDIFOLIA (INTALIBOMBO) it is called MANJISHTA in Indian Medicine.
We will also look at VITAMIN C.
Guest: Jean francois sobiecki – Ethnobotanist, Medicinal Plant, Researcher & Qualified Nutritionist.
According to the research by SABDC, 58% of homes in South Africa do not have a single book. The annual National Book Week (NBW), which actively celebrates books through indigenous language reading festivals across the country, will move online this year due to the coronavirus pandemic taking place 7-13 September 2020.
Guest: Elitha Van Der Sandt - CEO South African Book Development Council
‘We are not safe’. These were the words of #FunkItImWalking founder Nomsa Mazwai as she addressed the President of the Republic in March of this year. In her presentation she highlighted that we cannot say we are free when women are unable to walk the streets of the country without fear.
Guest: Nomsa Mazwai – Founder #FunkItImWalking / General Manager Soweto Theatre
Guest: Ms Gugu Ntuli - SABC GE: Corporate Affairs and Marketing
Guest: Ms Nicky Newton-King - Former CEO: Johannesburg Stock Exchange
August 20th saw what would have been the 101 birthday of Noni Jabavu born into a family of intellectuals in the Eastern Cape. Jabavu went on to become an iconic woman in African literary.
Guest: Nomakhosazana Xaba – Anthologist, essayist, short story writer and poet. While at WiSER (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research) she continues her long-term project, writing a biography of Helen Nontando Jabavu (Noni), the author of Drawn in Colour: African Contrasts (1960) and The Ochre People: Scenes from a South African Life (1963)
Every Tuesday we shall be delving in to Indigenous Knowledge and learning about cultures all around our country, continent and the world. The New Year of the Basotho in 2020 began last week on Hothwasa Ha Kgwedi (the New Moon).
Cosmology will foreground this new year and the cosmic knowledge of the Basotho.
GUEST: Mocholoko Dr. Zulumathabo Zulu
Broadway Sweets is a family founded and run business and produced locally, they have given us 10 Sweet Hampers to make life a bit sweet.
Guest: Michelle Jacobs - Head of Marketing and Advertising Broadway Sweets
A young medical doctor from a small village under Ixopo in KwaZulu Natal who beat the odds and continues to bloom where she is planted. She is registered with the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) as a Medical Practitioner and currently practices as a Medical Officer at Rietvlei District Hospital. She completed her matric at the age of 17, being one of the top 10 matriculants in Ethekwini region.
GUEST: Dr Thandeka Ngcobo – Medical Doctor
Our Objective is to play our part in supporting small business in this difficult time. We shall feature different experts every Monday who can assist & boos your small business to the next level.
GUEST: Uyanda Manana – Managing Director of Digital Agency Conversation LAB With over 18 years of experience in Brand strategy and Integrated Marketing Communications, Uyanda has managed campaigns on some leading brands as well as leading account teams at a few prestigious advertising agencies.
GUEST : Tshepo Tsotsotso – Founder of BHUT’ MADLALISA KITCHEN
The BIO Africa Convention is taking place digitally from today until Wednesday 26 August. The convention continues with its aim of creating a platform for showcasing African innovations and technologies, creating a platform for funders to interact with start-up companies requiring funding, learn of recent policies and regulations, and presenting an educational programme through high-profile speakers.This year’s theme is Discover.Develop.Disseminate.
Guest: PROF. KHOLEKA MLISANA
Guest: MARIE FRANCOISE MARIE-NELLY
Guest: Prof Quarraisha Abdool Karim
Guest: Dr Boitumelo Semete
Guest: Dr Segenet Kelemu
Busi Mhlongo (28 October 1947 – 15 June 2010), born as Victoria Busisiwe Mhlongo, was a virtuoso singer, dancer and composer originally from Inanda in Natal, South Africa.
Drawing on various South African styles such as Mbaqanga, Maskanda, Marabi and traditional Zulu, fused with contemporary elements from jazz, funk, rock, gospel, rap, opera, reggae and West African music she produced a fresh and exciting sound.
Guest: Bongani Mahlangu - Writer & Analyst
The official opening ceremony of the BIO AFRICA DIGITAL CONVENTION 2020 will be marked through a high level Panel deliberating on the lessons of Africa’s experience in the fight against COVID-19.
GUEST: Dr Nhlanhla Msomi - President of Africa Bio
A married couple shares their love story of building a family when one member is infected with HIV.
Nozibele was 22 years old when she found out she was HIV positive. It was by coincidence. There was a wellness day event planned at work and everyone was encouraged to attend; to participate in the different activities planned.
I had already made up my mind that I wasn’t going to join the festivities. I was avoiding meeting a dietician or gym consultant that was going to tell me I was overweight, and I needed to lose a few kilos. I wasn’t in the mood. She tested and her results came back positive.
GUEST: Nozibele Qamngana - Mayaba
GUEST: Sikhumbuzo Mayaba - Partner
Live-Cook Channel is a solidarity initiative for the culinary industry. Live-Cook episodes are streamed on YouTube. Participants can purchase tickets via Webtickets and receive a box of ingredients to cook along with the chef.
GUEST: Barbara Elshove – Co Producer Live Cook Channel
We have seen the hashtag #JusticeForKwasa, The death of 20-year-old Asithandile “Kwasa” Zozo Lugalo has sent shock waves across the country.
The Wits University biology student was allegedly stabbed by her boyfriend. It is reported she was stabbed in front of her 10-year-old sister and 20-year-old cousin at their home. What would make a young man believe that it is acceptable to stab and kill a young woman for refusing to be with him?
Guest: Mbuyiselo Botha - Commissioner at commission for gender equality
Guest: Mfanozelwe shozi - Gender activist & lecturer durban university of technology under the adult and community education unit. (he speaks in his own capacity)
Guest: Prof Kopano Ratele - psychologist and men and masculinities studies scholar.
UIF closed applications are now reopened. You can still lodge their UIf claims until 15 September.
You can’t claim for EMERGENCY UIF and for RETRENCHENT UIF
Guest: Mike Bagraim - Labour law expert
As of Wednesday, a cumulative total of 596,060 confirmed Covid-19 cases in South Africa have been recorded with 3,916 new cases identified in the previous 24 hours.
The total number of tests conducted to date is 3,455,671 with 25,324 new tests conducted since the last report.An additional 159 deaths were reported in the previous 24 hours, bringing the total Covid-19 related cumulative deaths to 12,423 .
Guest: Prof Burtram Fielding - Director of Research Development at the University of Western Cape and Virologist specializing in Covid-19.
Zuki Mzozoyana has always been a “little off centre” in the design of her own career and her general world view and outlook. Having straddled both worlds as an entrepreneur and corporate professional, she found her “sweet spot” and niche based on a combination of her passions, experience, skills and view of where the future of work should be going.
GUEST: Zuki Mzozoyana - Future of education builder
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Guest: Guest: Jean Francois Sobiecki - Ethnobotanist, medicinal plant researcher, and qualified nutritionist
The project is a collaborative effort between the community, Sparking Minds and a 25-year-old man on a mission, Joshua Buchalter Prior to the pandemic, Buchalter travelled the world working on a cruise ship, marketing high-end luxury goods.
After five years he has returned to Knysna as cruise ships have been shut down indefinitely as part of global measures in place to curb the spread of covid-19.
Guest: Joshua Buchalter
Guest: Hélène-Marie - Sparking Minds co-founder
On the 1st of November 2019, Citi Foundation and TechnoServe launched the Youth IdeasDevelopment Technology (YID-Tech) Program, a 12-month entrepreneurship development initiative.
The program attracted over 250 candidates between the ages of 18 – 35 in Gauteng with the aim of selecting the best 60 who will go through a certified electronics training.
GUEST: Tumelo Dichabe - Business Advisor Technoserve
Kamala Harris is the daughter of Shyamala Gopalan Harris and Donald Harris, who immigrated from India and Jamaica, respectively. She is the first black woman on a major-party US presidential ticket and can be remembered for her debate with then-rival Joe Biden in her race for the Democratic presidential nomination in early 2019.
Guest: Devin Barrington - Founder of Black Futurist Group which has pioneered the black Lives matter movement.
Instagram's 'Women Supporting Women' Challenge Inadvertently Brings Awareness to Turkish Femicide . Right now your social media feeds are probably flooded with black and white selfies as part of the "Women Supporting Women" viral trend.
Guest: Melek Onder - We will stop femicide initiative
Kgothatso Montjane is the first black woman South African to compete at Wimbledon,she says her disability led her to greater achievements. She also became the first African player in a wheelchair to qualify for all four Grand Slam tournaments in one year.
Guest:Kgothatso Montjane - Wheelchair tennis Champion
Taboo Night Club has set the precedent for entertainment throughout the continent. Taboo Night Club, being the mother brand, offers a discerning clientele an extravagant escape from the norm and a glittering stage upon which to shine
Guest: Jabulani Mzimela - Partner at taboo night club
GYM owners, employees and fitness enthusiasts embarked on a countrywide protest recently demanding the government allow fitness facilities to reopen.
While many non-contact sports were allowed to resume under Level 3 the revised regulations, gyms and fitness centres remain closed. The protest was held by FitSA, the association of health and fitness clubs.
Guest: Grant Austin - Fitsa spokesperson
Collectively as women we have impact. There is a belief that women don’t support each other , how true is this? In the past there has been research that shows women in particular, benefit from collaboration instead of competing. How are we doing as women?
Guest: Dudu Msomi - Founder and ceo of busara leadership partners -expertise is to facilitate the development and effectiveness of leaders to achieve
Guest: Vanessa Mogorosi - Relationship & life coach
Yesterday the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) held the 8th commemoration for the massacre in Midrand, Johannesburg, and their legal representatives announced their plans to take President Cyril Ramaphosa to court if he does not apologise for his role and concede to their compensation demands by the end of August.
Guest: Athandiwe Saba - Co-Author "We are going to kill each other today - The Marikana story" and Data Editor at Mail and Guardian
PJ POWERS Feat Tshepo Tshola – Right to Learn BRENDA FASSIE – Kuya Ngokuthi Ungubani & Promises CAIPHUS SEMENYA – Women Has a Right to Be
Guest: Bongani Mahlangu – Writer and Cultural Analyst
Musician Selaelo Selota spearheads the new 916 Ways of Women Love campaign to contribute to the promotion of affection and tender care for women. The #916 Ways campaign aspires to trigger a constructive and rational dialogue directed at quelling violence against women.
Selota challenges himself to regularly craft and posts heartfelt messages directed at stimulating others to join the 916 Ways of Women Love train.
Guest: Selaelo Selota
Most of the children enter GBT care through the Children’s Courts. Majority are orphaned, abandoned or rejected by their families or caregivers. Most of them arrive with shattered dreams, sick at heart and often in body too.
Some have been physically or sexually abused, neglected or abandoned. Some come from broken or poverty-stricken homes, do badly at school, have discipline issues, reject authority and lack social skills.
GUEST: Lee Loynes – CEO Boys and Girls Town
There are promising signs that the worst of SA’s coronavirus crisis is over, but the country still risks a second wave of the disease if prevention measures falter, health minister Zweli Mkhize’s top coronavirus adviser warned on Thursday.
Prof Burtram Fielding - Director of Research Development at the University of Western Cape and Virologist specializing in Covid-19.
Live-Cook Channel is a solidarity initiative for the culinary industry. Live-Cook episodes are streamed on YouTube every second Thursday at 6pm. Participants can purchase tickets via Webtickets and receive a box of ingredients to cook along with the chef. Next Week’s chef is JENNY MORRIS, Thursday 20 August.
GUEST: Jenny Morris - Chef
GUEST: Barbara Elshove - Co Producer Live Cook Channel
Guest: Mfanozelwe Shozi - Gender Activist & Lecturer Durban University of Technology under the Adult and Community Education Unit. (He speaks in his own capacity)
Guest: Justin Cohen - International Speaker & Author; latest book is “Winning with Relationships 21 Laws of Influence in Love & Business"
In commemoration of Women’s Month, The Black Business Council Women Alliance will host several virtual seminars under the theme “Generation Equality: Realizing women’s rights for an equal future”, to discuss and deliberate on strategies and tactics on how to advance the struggle for economic liberation of black women.
The BBC Women Alliance welcomed President Cyril Ramaphosa’s announcement on the forty percent (40%) set aside of public procurement for women-owned businesses.
Guest: Judy Nwokwedi - Black Business Council Women Alliance Chairperson.
With just days until the window for submitting applications for the Covid-19 Temporary Employer-Employee Relief Scheme (Ters) benefit for July and August closes – on August 15 – the system has yet to open for these applications.
According to Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) spokesperson Makhosonke Buthelezi, the funds will be released upon directives from Minister of Employment and Labour Thulas Nxesi.
Guest: Mike Bagrain - Labour Law Expert
23 year old student Nomvelo Mgoqi recently took part in the Department of Higher Education and Training Virtual Roundtable Discussion on Gender Based Violence and Femicide in youth in relation to covid-19.
She went on to tell her story of struggle in many areas from poverty, GBV, being a young mother and struggling to pay for school fees. She is a Human Resources student an 18 month course at King Hintsa College in Willowvale Eastern Cape.
Guest: Nomvelo Mgoqi - Student
Guest: Dr Ramneek Ahluwalia - PHYSICIAN & CEO HIGHER HEALTH an agency of the Department of Higher Education & Training
Guest: Dr Randall Carollissen - NSFAS (The National Student Financial Aid Scheme) Administrator.
Today we are talking ALMONDS, BASIL & LEONOTIS. This is when we learn about the health benefits as well as how to plant in our homes.
GUEST: Jean Francois Sobiecki - Ethnobotanist, medicinal plant researcher, and qualified nutritionist
Youth Unemployment Rate in South Africa averaged 53.06 percent from 2013 until 2020, reaching an all-time high of 59 percent in the first quarter of 2020.
Youth unemployment remains one of the major challenges in the African continent, however, many efforts have been made by various organisations to address this issue. The All4YOUth Sub-Saharan Africa Regional Alliance provides unemployed youth with an opportunity to unlock their potential by launching a system to register their profile.
Guest: Desiree Zikalala - Head of Learning for East & Southern Africa Region at Nestlé.
She is also founder of CefPads ,a company that manufacturers washable and Reusable sanitary pads.
She also has 15yrs experience in NPO educational Foundations.
Guest: Creseldah Ndlovu - Founder of Creseldah Educational Foundation
The Overberg town of Bredasdorp lies about 180 kilometres away from Cape Town and some 30 kilometres north of Cape Agulhas, the close-knit community was founded with the building of a Dutch Reformed Church in 1838.
Sadly, we know Bredasdorp for February 2013, when one morning, a security guard found 17-year-old Anene Booysen on a construction site. She was on the brink of death after having been gang raped and disemboweled.
Guest: Deputy Mayor Zukiswa Tonisi - Cape Aghulas Municipality
The AfriCAN Authors’ are aimed at self-publishing, “car boot selling” authors and children authors and the award winning books selected are from remarkable people in the communities, ordinary people that are making a huge difference in their communities, inspiring them about the possibilities out there to become to best version of themselves.
Guest: Maureen Bvuma - Award Winning Author
Legendary radio personality Bob Mabena has died from cardiac arrest, aged 51.
Mabena’s cause of death was confirmed by his employers, Power FM. At the time of his death, Mabena was the anchor of the breakfast show on Power 98.7.
The Atteridgeville-born Mabena made his name in the hearts of minds of South Africans in the 90s where he started broadcasting for the now defunct Radio BOP (Bophuthutswana).
Guest: Romeo Kumalo
Guest: Stan Katz - Radio Legend
Dealing with a severe need in the community due to unemployment, hunger, drug addiction and women and child abuse. Unfortunately, due to the pandemic the situation is now dire; more than half the community is unemployed and this has led to severe hunger, drug addiction and an escalation in abuse.
Joanne Borne is from the Riverlea Community in Jhb and says this is a forgotten community and action needs to be taken. She serves food and has been doing this since 2017.
Guest: Joanne Borne - Community Builder in Riverlea
What is the relationship you have with yourself and how does that influence the relationship your children have with themselves?
The relationship with yourself determines the tone of many other relationship you will have in your life. This could be romantic relationships, workplace/work relationships or the relationship you have with your family. How does one practice and instill a healthy relationship with self especially from a young age?
GUEST: Dr Lynette Roux - Clinical Psychologist
GUEST: Kids corner mom of a 9 year old daughter
We continue to celebrate women making impactful contributions in their spaces. Today we chat to Dr Sumy Thomas who is the 2020 recipient of the prestigious Discovery Foundation MGH (Massachusetts General Hospital) Fellowship Award which is aimed at helping to develop the next generation of leaders in academic and clinical medicine in South Africa. Valued at R2.1 million over a one-year period.
Guest: Dr Sumy Thomas - Specialist Physician
Sixty percent of South Africa’s public schools are non-fee paying and the remaining 40% is said to have a healthy dose of financial backing from parents, communities, donors and other income-generating avenues.
After 50 years of SA’s internationally recognised talents in the arts such as Charlize Theron, Kitty Phetla, Karen Zoid and Anele Mdoda, the National School of the Arts (NSA) faces a financial crisis.
The havoc wreaked by the Covid-19 pandemic has seen many households lose income, inadvertently affecting parents’ ability to meet their children’s educational needs.
Guest: Brenda Sakellarides - Artistic Director and Responsible for Fundraising
Zulaikha Patel first grabbed the worlds attention when she became the symbol of the fight against institutionalized racism at Pretoria High School for Girls, when at the age of 13 she led a protest against institutionalised racism in schools in South Africa and the decolonization of hair policies in schools, which was followed my several protests across South Africa in schools such as Lawson Brown High School and many others. she is now 17 years old and a Grade 12 Student.
GUEST: Zulaikha Patel
More than 1.86 million people tuned in to watch Bonang Matheba’s “A Very Bonang Year” which premiered its first episode on Saturday, August 1.
The viewership smashed records for the number of people tuning in to an SABC show.
The much anticipated 2 parter had fans tweeting about it for two days thereafter and trended in South Africa with more than 1.3 billion hashtags - 200 000 more than when she launched her champaign, “The House of BNG” last year.
GUEST: Bonang Matheba – Award winning media personality
Nosiphiwo was born into a family of four. Doctors told her parents that she would not make it to the age of 10 because she was born with a deformed heart and spine. Doctors had written her off, but her parents were not discouraged.
Guest: Nosiphiwo Masikane - Founder of Ladies on Wheels and Author of With Pain Comes Strength .
Adriana is the Founder of Proudly Human, pioneering new frontiers in research and technology for a future in harmony with each other and the environment, on Earth, Mars and beyond.
She has recently visited the Antarctic interior and the Oman desert on location scouts for Proudly Human’s Off-World Project.
Guest: Dr Adriana Marais - THEORETICAL PHYSICIST, TECHNOLOGIST & ASPIRING EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL
The MY ENOUGH IS OUR ENOUGH campaign is directed to ALL men…men who have personally committed acts of violence against women, men who have stood by and allowed all forms of Gender-based violence continue.
On Women’s Day, 09 August 2020 – The Zungu brothers (through the Manzini Zungu Foundation and Sengwayo Trust), joined by other men and professionals from different sectors will declare and unveil an intervention of action against gender-based violence in South Africa.
Guest: Sandile Zungu - President of the Black Business Council
Guest: Anele Siswana - Clinical psychologist
Last week we spoke about Stigma is the workplace as an emerging issue. Today we look at what protocols businesses should follow when it comes to retrenchments?
GUEST: Mike Bagraim – Labour law expert
The Womenomics is a movement that calls on South Africans, especially corporates, to make a concerted effort to accelerate women’s participation in the economy.
Guest: OLWETHU LESHABANE – FOUNDER OF THE WOMENOMICS
Author and publisher Melinda Ferguson celebrates 20 years clean and sober with the relaunch of her bestselling memoir SMACKED.
A little over 20 years ago Melinda Ferguson was a homeless drug addict, trawling the streets of Hillbrow for her next fix.
Her addiction to crack cocaine and heroin had dragged her to the depths of hell.
Guest: Melinda Ferguson - Author
Guest: Dr Eugene Allers - Psychiatrist
Higher Health, the national agency of the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET), recently implemented a holistic mental health initiative and launched a 24/7 student and staff helpline. The initiative will address the mental health needs of the two million students and staff who make up the university and college community in the country.
Guest: Buti Manamela - Deputy minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation, (DHET).
This women’s month we are zoning in on women who have made their life’s dedication to contribute positively to our society and solutions based on approach to community issues. Today we speak to Lorraine Steenkamp of Retlosebetsa Foundation.
The foundation was established with the aim to combat poverty, to reshape and innovates the future of anyone who posses’ talents in sports and skills that are scarce in SA from poor communities.
Guest: Lorraine Steenkamp – Founder of Retlosebetsa
Thando Mtsweni is currently a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration student at GIBS University. She started her involvement in the Deaf community when I studied South African Sign Language at WITS.
She worked at Deaf TV where she filmed 2 seasons of DTV sign language lessons and also got involved with the Deaf community when she was working in China from 2017-2019.
GUEST: Thando Mtsweni is running an initiative for transparent masks
Samuel Edward Krune Loliwe Ngxekengxeke Mqhayi (S. E. K. L. N Mqhayi, 1 December 1875–29 July 1945) was a Xhosa dramatist, essayist, critic, novelist, historian, biographer, translator and poet whose works are regarded as instrumental in standardising the grammar of isiXhosa and preserving the language in the 20th century.
Mqhayi attended Lovedale College where he studied to become a teacher. Mqhayi died in 1945 at Ntab'ozuko, and was buried in Berlin near King Williams Town.
Guest: Dr Siphiwo Mahala - Author & Playwright
Guest: Prof Ncedile Saule - Novelist & Lecturer at The School of Languages Rhodes University
Minister of Sports, Arts and Culture Nathi Mthethwa says R61 million in Covid-19 relief funds have already been paid to artists and athletes. "The relief amount is set at R2200 using the rationale of the Expanded Public Works Programme, the EPWD rate structure.
The department has taken into consideration the commitments for the unpaid beneficiaries in the first phase, which is estimated at R4 million."
Guest: Ms.Nocawe Mafu - Deputy Minister Sport, Arts & Culture Dept
When one partner tests COVID-19 positive, it’s bound to take strain on a relationship, whether the one partner was irresponsible and bought the virus home due to ignorning lockdown restrictions or issues that can arise due to the isolation phase .
Guest: Khosi Jiyane - Clinical psychologist
"The gravedigger’s truth: Hidden coronavirus deaths" a documentary film Fewer than 100 people have died of Covid-19 in Somalia, according to official figures.
But BBC Africa Eye has found that cemeteries are filling up fast in the country, whose healthcare system has been devastated by three decades of conflict.
Guest:Jamal Osman - BBC Africa Eye Reporter
Tsitsi Dangarembga, an award-winning Zimbabwean author and Booker Prize nominee, has been released on bail after her arrest during an anti-government protest.
Eleven other people detained on Friday - including Fadzayi Mahere, a lawyer and spokeswoman for the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change-Alliance party - were also freed on Saturday.
Guest: Tsitsi Dangarembga - Award winning author of nervous conditions and many other books & director of institute of creative arts for PROGRESS IN AFRICA TRUST
Musicians Master KG and Nomcebo Zikode have been officially named as young ambassadors for the country by the Department of Arts, Sports and Culture for bringing millions of people together with their hit song Jerusalema. Jerusalema currently has over 53 million YouTube views, and has sparked numerous social media dance challenges.
GUEST: Percy Mabandu – Music Journalist & Historian
Masks and Makeup Don’t Mix, So Cosmetic Fans Seek Permanent Fix In 2015 Phiwe Mngadi decided she was done being an employee. She knew she had plenty to offer as a business owner and launched her own beauty studio in Soweto. She travels across the African continent offering beauty training to those who are equally dedicated.
GUEST: Phiwe Mngadi – Permanent Make Up Artist & Founder of Plush Art Studio
KZN Churches launch “Hope Vouchers” as part of their ongoing food relief. A coalition of concerned churches have flagged emergency relief as their most immediate focus and are roll-outing out “Hope Vouchers” to vulnerable families in each of the 11 districts over the next three months.
GUEST: Bishop Nathi Zondi - Leader of the Truevine Family of Churches
As of today, a cumulative total of 482 169 confirmed COVID-19 cases in South Africa have been recorded with 11 046 new cases identified.
GUEST: Prof Burtram Fielding - Director of Research Development at the University of Western Cape and Virologist specializing in Covid-19.
COVID-19 is a new virus and the fear of the unknown drives stigma about the disease and can cause people to hide their illness. Stigma is the workplace is an emerging issue. How do we deal with it?
GUEST: Mike Bagraim – Labour Law Expert and Lawyer
GUEST: ANONYMOUS
How is Your Garden Looking Like? Today we reflect on what we have covered so far and the plants that will help you with inflammation • Plants to aid Arthritis / Devil’s Claw • African Potato • Red Onion
GUEST: Jean Francois Sobiecki - Ethnobotanist, Medicinal plant researcher, and qualified nutritionist
Cape Town has its hands full with land occupations. Fiery commentary from the national minister of human settlements, mayco member for human settlements and mayor emphasizes the need to protect public and private land. All state that lawlessness is not to be tolerated.
Guest: Adi Kumar - Executive Director Development Action Group
This Mandela month Foonda has decided to step in by helping to provide extra support to matric learners through Madiba Sessions, a virtual tutoring program aimed at connecting learners with tutors free of charge.
GUEST: Vuyo Pakade - Founder & CEO FOONDA
Edwina Makgamatha is the Founder and Chairperson of Thusanang Enabling Support Services and Thuso Ke Botho. She is a woman on a wheelchair due to a motor vehicle accident. The company has created jobs for 15 Individuals to provide for their families.
Guest: Edwina Makgamatha - Founder and Chairperson of Thusanang Enabling Support Services and Thuso Ke Botho
The annual Jakes Gerwel Fellowship Summit will be taking place virtually This Thursday and Friday 30-31 July, some of the sessions will include a line-up of local and international education experts. Exploring the education system and the "wicked" problems that various players are trying to solve.
Guest: Carla Watson - Head of the Jakes Gerwel Graduate Teaching Fellowship
Guest: Julian Hewitt - CEO of the Jakes Gerwel Fellowship
The Republic of South Africa is a parliamentary republic with three-tier system of government and an independent judiciary, operating in a parliamentary system. Legislative authority is held by the Parliament of South Africa. Executive authority is vested in the President of South Africa who is head of state and head of government, and his Cabinet.
Guest: Tessa Dooms - Social Analyst and Director of Jasoro consulting
Guest: Dr JJ Tabane - Social Analyst
40% of marriages end in divorce before their ten-year anniversary, Stats SA. And, divorce in general tends to be a very expensive affair. “Four out of 10 of the 25,326 marriages in 2016 came to an end before the ten-year mark. Since the lockdown started, a local legal firm has noted a 20% increase in divorce applications.
Guest: Vanessa Mogorosi - Relationship coach
In The School of Nursing at the University of the Free State (UFS) – a senior lecturer has become the first UFS staff member to win the prestigious Sigma Emerging Nurse Researcher/Scholar award, making him the third African to achieve this.
GUEST: Dr Champion N Nyoni - SENIOR LECTURER : SCHOOL OF NURSING FACULTY / HEALTH SCIENCES
A Christian school has barred a Grade 2 pupil from attending classes because he is wearing isiphandla (cultural bracelet made from animal skin). The nine-year-old pupil at Christian Life Private School in Buccleuch, Johannesburg, was prevented from entering the school on Thursday and was sent home. Then his parents received a letter dated July 23.
Guest: Shenece Linderboom - Attorney Section 27
More than half of all children in the country live mired in poverty and it's getting worse, according to a new report on Child Poverty in South Africa. More than six out of 10 children (62.1%) are identified as multidimensionally poor as indicated by health, housing, nutrition, protection, education, information, water and sanitation.
GUEST: Paul Smith - Kagiso Trust's local government support head
Bongeziwe Mabandla has just release his new single Jikeleza off his latest album iimini. “Jikeleza means ‘Go Round’, and it is about that moment when you realise how powerful the feeling of love is,” explains Mabandla. “The song is also about our universal need to connect. It is about those things that bind us and make us the same.”
Guest:Bongeziwe Mabandla
London-based and Durban-born opera singer Njabulo Madlala has conducted the very first Online Voices of South Africa Opera Singing Competition.
Njabulo Madlala and his voices of south africa trust have launched an urgent campaign to help provide food for their wonderfully talented artists during the covid-19 crisis.
Guest: Njabulo Madlala
Health Minister Zweli Mkhize has announced 153 more deaths owing to Covid-19, as well as 13104 new infections, taking the total confirmed cases over 408 000.
On Wednesday night, he had announced 572 new deaths - South Africa's deadliest day at the hands of the Covid-19.
GUEST: Prof Burtram Fielding – Director of Research Development at The University of Western Cape (UWC) and Virologist specializing in the Coronavirus.
Live-Cook Channel is a solidarity initiative for the culinary industry. Live-Cook episodes are streamed on YouTube every second Thursday at 6pm.The show is hosted by Masterchef’s Pete Goffe-Wood.
GUEST: PETE GOFFE-WOOD - Host
Guest (WINNER): GERRIT VAN ZYL from Noordhoek Cape Town
Live-Cook Channel is a solidarity initiative for the culinary industry. Live-Cook episodes are streamed on YouTube every second Thursday at 6pm (link for tomorrow’s episode is in the mailer link above).The show is hosted by Masterchef’s Pete Goffe-Wood. Participants can purchase tickets via Webtickets and receive a box of ingredients to cook along with the chef.
GUEST: Pete Goffe-Wood - Host
GUEST: Chef Bertus Basson - Chef
The International Bar Association reports that almost half of South African female legal professionals say they have been sexually harassed, and 73% have been bullied. It is time for women in the profession to unite and fight back.
Research on Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa indicates high levels of sexual harassment in newsrooms.
GUEST: Mfanozelwe Shozi - Gender Activist and Lecturer at Durban University of Technology under the adult and community education unit . He speaks on personal capacity
The Minister of Social Development, Ms Lindiwe Zulu, will together with the Deputy Minister Ms Hendrieta Bogopane-Zulu, present on Wednesday, July 22, the Department’s budget to the National Council of Provinces (NCOP).
It is expected that on the day, the Department’s readjusted budget and plans will be presented as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic which has led to the country’s national lockdown since March this year.
GUEST: Ms Hendrieta Bogopane-Zulu - Deputy Minister For Social Development
UJ student Mabel Maleka can see again after the medical team at the Safe Sight Clinic in Morningside with the Nelson Mandela Foundation operated on her cataracts.
Her family, friends and school mentorship group reached out for financial assistance on social media, catching the attention of the Nelson Mandela Foundation who connected them to an eye surgeon, Doctor TB Maleka, who agreed to operate on Maleka for free.
GUEST: Mabel Maleka - UJ student
Guest: Mr Sello Hatang - CEO of The Nelson Mandela Foundation
It is imperative that taxpayers ensure that their rights are protected, especially during the unprecedented times of COVID-19, where we have seen that SARS has adopted a firmer position in collecting outstanding debt.
GUEST: Gert Van Heerden - Senior Legal Manager at Tax Ombud
*GOTU KOLA ALSO KNOWN AS CENTELLA ASIATICA, commonly known as Indian pennywort or Asiatic pennywort, is a herbaceous, perennial plant in the flowering plant family Apiaceae. It is native to the wetlands in Asia. It is used as a culinary vegetable and as a medicinal herb.
*VALERIAN Valerian is a perennial flowering plant native to Europe and Asia. In the summer when the mature plant may have a height of 1.5 metres, it bears sweetly scented pink or white flowers that attract many fly species, especially hoverflies of the genus Eristalis
GUEST: Jean Francois Sobiecki - Ethnobotanist, medicinal plant researcher, and qualified nutritionist
President Cyril Ramaphosa announced on Wednesday announced that Andrew Mekete Mlangeni, the last remaining Rivonia trialist, has died. Mlangeni, who turned 95 on June 6, was admitted to 1 Military Hospital in Pretoria on Tuesday with an abdominal complaint.
Guest: Mandla Mathebula - Author of "Backroom Boy: Andrew Mlangeni's Story"
Educo Solutions, the organisation that supplies free, accredited education to the youth, has fast-tracked its digital services, launching Educo Academy in an attempt to counter the negative impact Covid-19 is having on the educational environment.
The online learning portal allows all Educo students to conduct their courses remotely and for free, helping them to continue progressing during lockdown.
GUEST: Ayanda Mkwanazi - Head of Academics and Facilitation for Educo Solutions
Veteran actor Allen Booi has died, talent agency Trinity Management confirmed in a statement on Monday. The star, who featured in several major productions, including Tsha Tsha, Soul City, Backstage, Generations, Muvhango Zero Tolerance, Mponeng, After Nine and Isidingo died at his Johannesburg home on Monday morning.
Guest: Vusi Thanda - Legendary Actor
Legendary South African casting director and agent Moonyeenn has passed away. On Sunday, Lee's company Moonyeenn Lee Associates, announced that she passed away on Saturday morning in Johannesburg. She was renowned as one of South Africa's leading agents, probably the most famous one in the country, and represented some of SA's best-known actors through her company, & Associates (MLA).
GUEST: Dr John Kani - Legendary Actor
GUEST: Cindy Lee – Daughter
The Itumeleng Sekhu Foundation in partnership with The Angel Network are helping people that need assistance.
Throughout the National Lockdown we have contributed and donated over 2000 food parcels in Gauteng and continue to do so. This week they will deliver over 200 food parcels to feed the hungry.
GUEST: Itumeleng Sekhu - Founder of Itumeleng Sekhu Foundation
The emotional wellbeing of children is just as important as their physical health. Good mental health allows children and young people to develop the resilience to cope with whatever life throws at them and grow into well-rounded, healthy adult
GUEST: Dr Sheri Fanaroff - Family Physician
Official statistics indicate, since the end of the hard lockdown, farm attacks have been on the rise; however, farm attacks for the first half of 2020 are still lower than the first half of 2019. Agriculture and safety experts said farm attacks were in the vast majority not racially motivated, and mostly driven by economic gain. What will it take to end farm murders & rural crime in SA?
Guest: Dr Johan Burger – Consultant with the Institute of Security Studies
The loss of a loved one is always extremely difficult and painful. It’s a roller coaster” of all sorts of emotions.How do you pick up the pieces and heal?
GUEST: Khosi Jiyane - Clinical Psychologist
Despite the level 3 regulations not permitting leisure travel, hard-hit tourism businesses want the government to reconsider.
Tourism organisations from across South Africa are trying to get their voice heard in hopes that President Cyril Ramaphosa revises the policies around leisure travel.
GUEST: Hylton Langley - Hylton Langley Safaris & Adventures
GUEST: Tshifhiwa Tshivengwa - Ceo Tourism Business Council
The Music of Nelson Mandela
• Simple Minds - Mandela Day • Johnny Clegg & Savuka - Asimbonanga • Hugh Masekela - Bring Him Back Home
GUEST: RJ BENJAMIN
Zazi and Ziwelene are the grand children to Ambassador Zindzi Mandela and their great-grandad is Nelson Mandela. Once day, they ask their grandmother 15 questions about him and his life. As their conversation unfolds, Zazi and Ziwelene learn that Nelson Mandela was a freedom fighter, a President, and a Nobel Peace Prize–winner, and that they can carry on his work today.
Guest: Zikhona Valela – Historian & Scholar She writes on Women and Pop Culture Histories. Her Masters Degree was on exploring Winnie Madikizela intellectual influences and contributions. She is currently working on a biography of a forgotten Black Consciousness figure murdered in detention.
The City of Cape Town has been dealt a blow after the Western Cape High Court found in favour of poor residents of Hangberg, Hout Bay, that the DA-led council had evicted in the middle of winter and lockdown.Judge Gayaat Salie-Hlophe found the City’s conduct unlawful and unconstitutional, ordering it to rebuild the structures demolished by City Law Enforcement within 48 hours. The residents’ lawyer, Vernon Seymour, described the outcome as a victory for human rights.
GUEST: Axolile Notywala - Secretary general – Social justice coalition
What is the support men need from society in order to thrive. What is essential in how we communicate and relate to men as women and society as a whole to help you become the men you hope to be?
GUEST: Mfanozelwe Shozi - Gender Activist & Member of the KZN Men’s Forum
GUEST: Dr Frans Corb - Psychiatrist
Guest: Prof. Prof Burtrum C Fielding - Director of Research Development at the University of Western Cape & Virologist specializing in Coronavirus
TODAY is World Youth Skills Day, the City of Johannesburg is rolling-out 650 internships and 200 bursaries in addressing skills shortages concern.
This is part of the City’s commitment to address skills shortages challenge and give young people skills to compete in the economic space and to ensure that they are employable when they attain these skills.
GUEST: MMC Loyiso Masuku - MMC for Group Corporate and Shared Services at City of Johannesburg
Today we are talking Eucalyptus Valerian, Passion Flower and CBD the non-psychoactive compound in cannabis.
GUEST: JEAN FRANCOIS SOBIECKI - Ethnobotanist, medicinal plant researcher, and qualified nutritionist
The most-recent poverty statistics by Statistic South Africa showed that despite a decline in poverty between 2006 and 2011, poverty levels had once again over half of all South Africans (55.5%), 30.4 million people, were living in poverty. Stats SA has published its latest Quarterly Labour Force Survey for the three months to March 2020, revealing that the country’s unemployment rate rose in the first quarter of the year. We now stand at 30.1% unemployment in the first quarter of 2020. These are but a few critical issues that face our country on a daily basis. Social Analyst TESSA DOOMS is asking all of us …Do we value community development work enough in South Africa?
GUEST: Tessa Dooms - Social Analyst & Director Jasoro Con-sulting
Food4Thought is an initiative by the Barkzz Foundation which is the disability awareness and activism organization which advocates for the social integra-tion of people with disabilities. A new activation “Food4Thought with Hloni-Walker” has been introduced as is an online TV program that focuses on Disability Awareness, Keeping safe during Covid-19 as person with disability, breaking disability stigma through education, motivation and entertainment.
GUEST: LLOYD BABEDI – Disability Activist, Social entrepreneur and DJ. Founder of Food4Thought and The Barkzz Foundation
Born on Dec. 23, 1960, in the Soweto township of Johannesburg, Ms. Mandela was 18 months old when her father was arrested and convicted of sabotage and treason. She was 3 when he was sentenced to life imprisonment on Robben Island, off South Africa’s west coast. At age 12 she wrote to the United Nations, urging it to intervene to protect her mother, herself an anti-apartheid activist, from the South African authorities.
GUEST : PINKY KHOABANE –Writer and Friend
GUEST : ANN LANGWADT – Friend & Activist and works with Global Aktion NGO the old Danish Anti-Apartheid Movement organization based in Copenhagen. She was a Friend to Ambassador Zindzi since she arrived in Denmark in 2015
GUEST: GAIL SMITH – Feminist, Writer, Journalist, Spokesperson of The Soul City Institute.
SA-TIED Southern Africa – Towards Inclusive Economic Development (SA-TIED). The programme’s goal is improved economic research for informed, evidence-based policy to promote inclusive growth in South Africa and the region. The programme is the result of a unique collaboration between local and international officials and experts.
GUEST : AMINA EBRAHIM - Research Associate at UNU-WIDER(United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research). She is pursuing her PhD in Economics at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She works on the Southern Africa – Towards Inclusive Economic Development (SA-TIED) programme with a particular focus on the use of tax administrative data for research.
GUEST: FAAIQA HARTLEY - researcher at the University of Cape Town. She is part of an impressive multi-disciplinary research group that specialises in en-ergy systems and climate mitigation analysis. Faaiqa is also a member of the climate team at the International Food Policy Research Institute — a key partner in the SA-TIED programme.
GUEST: MAMIKY LEOLO - senior official at the South African Revenue Service (SARS), Mamiky’s responsibilities include managing economic and revenue analysis, revenue forecasting, the publication of various tax statistics bulletins, and interacting with local, regional, and international institutions. She is also one of the leaders of the work stream on Public revenue mobilization for inclu-sive development within the SA-TIED programme.
While tons of quality food end up on landfills, millions starve each day. Food Forward SA has developed an innovative, data-driven solution to a very human problem, feeding thousands every day while supporting social development in our most vulnerable communities.
GUEST: Andy du Plessis – MD of Food Forward South Africa
Remember when dating was about meeting a potential partner through a friend, at a braai and getting to know them over dinner and a movie? Well, if you're dating in your 50s, you know that it can be so much more complicated than that idyllic scene of your younger years. You might be reemerging on the dating scene following a long hiatus, perhaps after being divorced or widowed—only to find that the rules (and technology) of the game have changed. In fact, there are many particular challenges that come with dating as a 50-something. WHAT HAS BEEN YOUR EXPERIENCE?
GUEST: Vanessa Mogorosi – Relationship Coach
Humanitarian aid organisation Gift of the Givers (GOTG) began its R5 million building renovation project at the Mitchells Plain District Hospital over the weekend. GOTG has partnered with the hospital to increase capacity and provide life-saving assistance to Covid-19 patients arriving at that facility. The challenges facing hospitals in Covid-19 "hot spots" are the ability to rapidly test whether a patient is Covid-19 positive, availability of beds fitted with high-flow oxygen machines, and oxygen itself, said GOTG founder Dr Imtiaz Sooliman.
GUEST: DR Imtiaz Sooliman - Founder Gift of The Givers
UNAIDS report on the global AIDS epidemic shows that 2020 targets will not be met because of deeply unequal success; COVID-19 risks blowing HIV progress way off course. The report titled “Seizing the moment”, warns that even the gains made could be lost and progress further stalled if we fail to act. It highlights just how urgent it is for countries to double down and act with greater urgency to reach the millions still left behind.
Guest:Tim Martineau - Deputy Executive Director, Management and Governance At UNAIDS
Major survey shows how South Africans are coping with lockdown Having lost a significant portion of the school year to the lock-down, many parents and pupils believe the school year should be repeated in 2021. Concerns about food shortages remain the second biggest con-cern among respondents.
Guest: Andrea Rademeyer - Founder & CEO Ask Afrika
As the he number of COVID-19 cases increases by the day in South Africa and this only means that more healthcare workers will be risking their lives, helping those who have been infected. Award-winning gospel artist, Dr Tumi, has healthcare workers in helping South Africans fight against the growing virus.
Guest: Tumisang “Dr Tumi” Makweya - Gospel Musician and Medical Doctor
More than 350 elephants in Botswana have been mysteriously died since May, in a phenomenon that some scientists have dubbed a "conservation disaster," and one that has evaded explanation.The elephants — which died in the swampy Okavango Delta — still had their tusks intact, suggesting that ivory poaching hadn't driven the deaths, The Guardian reported.
A flight over the delta in May by researchers with Elephants Without Borders, a wildlife conservation organization, first spotted 169 carcasses; that number jumped to 356 in June, when the conservationists took another flight over the area.
Guest: Tim Neary - Naturalist conservationist
Nal’ibali will be running a drive to bring awareness to Children’s Rights to Education and their wellbeing. The campaign will be hosting a free WhatsApp webinar on Thursday, 16 July, between 3 and 5 p.m. with panelists Christina Nomdo, the Western Cape Commissioner for Children’s Rights; Professor Joanne Hardman, Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at UCT’s School of Education; and Xolisa Guzula, a PhD candidate focusing on language, literacy and biliteracy development, and multilingual teaching. The discussion will highlight the psychological impact on children of staying at home, going back to school and how caregivers can support them through these transitions.
Guest: Yandiswa Xhakaza - CEO at Nal’ibali
Guest: Prof Jonathan Jansen - Rector and Vice-Chancellor of the University of the Free State (UFS)
The Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) has published the Conduct Standard for Banks, which aims to regulate and supervise banking institutions, and to promote the treatment of financial customers. Having successfully undergone the Parliamentary process, the Conduct Standard has been made final WWW.OBSSA.CO.ZA info@obssa.co.za or call 0860 800 900.
GUEST: Ms Reana Steyn -The Ombudsman for Banking Services
The global pandemic COVID-19’s impact on the vulnerable populations of our Country is unprecedented, reminding us that the only thing that is constant is change. This year more than ever, we realise the importance of technology in our lives. With various lockdown restrictions imposed, technology was and still is relevant to allow us to work, transact and to keep us connected.
Guest: Tinyiko Simbine - Co-Founder and CFO of GirlCode
TT has opened up about his journey to recovery after testing positive for Covid-19 after 2 weeks of isolation.
GUEST: Thato “TT” Mbha – Founder of Black Real Estate & Mzansi Cribs & COVID-19 Survivor
President Ramaphosa has extended his deepest condolences to the Royal Household, amaRharhabe and the broader traditional communities and society.
Queen Noloyiso, widow of the late King Maxhobha Sandile, passed away on July 8 following a short illness.
The amaRharhabe has been an independent sovereign kingship since the 18th century. It’s status was affirmed by a 2016 North Gauteng High Court judgment, overturning an earlier decision by the Nhlapo Commission.
Guest: Nkosikazi Nobongo Ngwenyama - Member House of Traditional Leaders
GUEST: Dr Mankgopo Kgatle - Medical Virologist and Geneticist/ Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine in University of Oxford and Department of Medicine in University of Cape Town Area.
Guest:Professor Burtram Fielding – The Director: Research Development and Principal Investigator for Molecular Biology and Virology Research Laboratory Department of Medical BioSciences at The University of the Western Cape
Life can be difficult for Grade 11 and 12 learners who have to master challenging subjects such as mathematics in their final years in high school. It can even be more trying when a coronavirus pandemic and its resulting lockdown are added to the mix.Because mathematics is essential for a career in the engineering sciences, the NWU’s Faculty of Engineering joined an initiative to assist learners though online tutorial classes.
GUEST: Prof Liezl van Dyk - Executive Dean of the faculty of Engineering North West University
GUEST: Tessa Dooms - Social Analyst, Political Commentator and Director of Jasoro Consulting
GUEST: Jean Francois Sobiecki - Ethnobotanist, medicinal plant researcher, and qualified nutritionist
Cockroach milk is a protein-rich substance that female Pacific beetle cockroaches feed their young.Many foodies and scientists have become interested in cockroach milk because it contains both protein crystals and amino acids. Cockroach milk is technically a complete food according to nutritionists, as it contains all the essential amino acids, fat, and carbohydrates you need.
Guest: Dr Oluwafemi Adebo - Food Technologist at UJ
Media24 has announced it will start consultations with staff about the possible closure of five magazines and two newspapers as well as outsourcing and reducing the frequency of its remaining monthly magazines, among other interventions, as the Covid-19 pandemic cuts into advertising and circulation.
The publisher will also consider taking two newspapers digital only and reducing staff in related support services.
Guest: Ishmet Davidson - Ceo of media 24
Church in Western Cape Strandfontein supporting its community impacted by the covid-19 pandemic.
GUEST: PASTOR CHARMAINE HOEDEMAKER - One Good Hope Christian Centre pastor.
GUEST: BONGANI MAHLANGU - Former Journalist & Writer Listener Interaction on the future of magazines and newspapers.
The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) is said to be turning away applicants for R1860 disability grants and telling them to apply for the COVID -19 emergency grants instead.
GUEST: EVASHNEE NAIDU - Regional Manager Black Sash Kwazulu Natal
An Open Letter by a concerned South African Citizen asking SA Embassy in China & DIRCO to assist people who have run out of money and pregnant women wanting to return home,
GUEST: EZILE SOLI - writer of the open letter
GUEST: ZINTLE NOMABHUNGA - English Teacher in China
GUEST: LUNGA NGQENGELELE - DIRCO
The Tekkie Tax campaign, builds up to Tekkie Tax Day on 31 July. Over the past seven years - 2020 being the eighth edition, Tekkie Tax has raised nearly R50m in support of 1,800 beneficiary organisations which have benefitted from the funds raised. This funding is used as each organisation sees fit, the only requirement being that it is utilised in an honest and transparent way.
GUEST: Germa Hattingh - Campaign manager at Tekkie Tax
Leaving home and starting your own life can leave a sour taste in a parent’s mouth but it needs to happen.Where do we draw the line between being a supportive child and still be an independent adult - Parent - Adult Child relationship.
GUEST: Khosi Jiyane - Clinical Psychologist
“There are about two billion persons in the entire world who will not look on a proper map,” suggests Ivan Gayton from the charity Humanitarian OpenStreetMap.“It really is shameful that we – as cartographers of the entire world – don’t take sufficient interest to even know where they are. People today are residing and dying without having showing on any databases.” Recognised as the “Wikipedia for maps”, any individual can down load OpenStreetMap and edit it much too.
GUEST: IVAN BUENDIA GAYTON - Technical Project Manager, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga has outlined the new return plans for South African schools.The Basic Education Department said that 38% of the country’s principals indicated that some households were chosing to keep their children at home.Parents are at liberty to do so in terms of the South African Schools Act, but they must inform the Education Department's district office of their decision to take up teaching duties at home.
Guest: Noncedo Madubedube - General Secretary for Equal Education
Guest: Mme LILLIAN DUBE - Friend AND Veteran Actress
Guest: Ayanda Sithebe - founder actor spaces & director and artist manager
The National Arts Jazz Festival in Makhanda (Grahamstown) – now in its 33rd year - where artists meet and challenge audiences to expand their expectations of the art form. 2020 faced one of the biggest problems faced by the arts world and live performances with the arrival of the Covid-19 pandemic. The performances this year are online on www.nationalartsfestival.co.za this Saturday 4th July you can watch
GUEST : THANDISWA MAZWAI
July is Nelson Mandela Month, the people who do great things and contribute to the communities they occupy. This year’s #PlasticFreeMzansi campaign collaborated with five designers who have made garments and accessories using waste plastic. Applying their creativity, the designers are treating it as a valuable resource and illustrating the circular design concept of keeping materials in use.
GUEST: JACKIE MAY – Founder and Editor TYWG one of the Co-odrinators of #Plastic FreeMzansi
From Koe’siestes To Kneidlach is the bizarre, comedic and true story of what happens when a girl from the Cape Flats gets involved with a Jew-ish boy from Joburg’s East Rand –an online run on now until 10 July. It’s basically the story of Chantal Stanfield her husband musician RJ Benjamin on how they met and how they have had to deal with the dynamics of coming from such different backgrounds as South Africans.
GUEST: CHANTAL STANFIELD
The number of health-care workers lodging claims with the Compensation Fund after being infected with Covid-19 at their workplaces is increasing at an alarming rate. The fund provides compensation to employees who are injured or contract dis-eases through the course of their employment. It is financed by levies paid by employers.
GUEST: VUYO MAFATA – Commissioner Compensation Fund
Guest: Sherylle Dass - Regional Director of Legal Resources Centre
Guest: Richard Bosman - Exec Director Safety & Security
Healing can begin in your garden and here on Life Happens we believe we can all start and care for your own little piece of soil to help us not only with subsistence farming for our families during these difficult time but to also be aware and work with plants that may bring great energy in our spaces.
GUEST : JEAN FRANCOIS SOBIECKI - Ethnobotanist, medicinal plant researcher, and qualified nutritionist
Hlayisani Sono, a builder believes she has what it takes to be a player in this male-dominated industry of construction. As a young entrepreneur she is faced with many challenges but is ready to persevere.
GUEST : HLAYISANI SONO – Builder
Daniel Canodoce "Can" Themba (21 June 1924 – 1968) was a South Afri-can short-story writer. Born in Marabastad, near Pretoria, he wrote most of his work in Sophiatown. He was a student at Fort Hare University College, where he received an English degree (first-class) and a teacher's diploma.
GUEST: Dr SIPHIWO MAHALA - Novelist & Playwright / Phd on Can Themba/
GUEST: SELLO MAAKE KA NCUBE - Actor and played Can Themba on stage on the production “The House of Truth”
Blind SA has accused President Cyril Ramaphosa of having failed in his constitutional duty, by not signing the long awaited Copyright Amendment Bill into law. The Copyright Amendment Bill was referred to the President in March 2019 and has been in his in-tray since.
Guest: JACE NAIR – CEO BLIND SA
“Let us pay taxis the R20 000 they want” this is what VICTOR KGOMOESWANA author of Africa is Open for Business and Speaker on Afri-can business affairs. Upward of 15 million commuter trips daily would not happen without taxis. Yet only buses and trains are subsidized by the gov-ernment. Let us take this subsidy discourse further to show how elitist we are.
GUEST: VICTOR KGOMOESWANA - author of Africa is Open for Business and Speaker on African business affairs./ 082 495 0093
GUEST: TAXI OWNER – Mr Ratsweu
Mbali Nwoko is an Award-wininning farmer, entrepreneur, speaker, and agri blogger who has brought a unique perspective to the agricultural sector. She started her vegetable farming operation a few years ago, but her determination to succeed has been rewarded and recognised.
GUEST: MBALI NWOKO - Agri-Preneur and Founder of Green Terrace
Today we talk Relationships in the workplace looking at the organi-sational culture a system of shared assumptions, values, and be-liefs, which governs how people behave in organizations. These shared values have a strong influence on the people in the organization and dictate how they act and perform their jobs. How has this evolved in the midst of covid-19?
Guest: SIHLE BOLANI - Strategist & Author of “We are the ones we need: The war on black professionals in corporate South Africa”. She also has a weekly Podcast: The Workplace Revolution
The new President of Malawi, Lazarus Chakwera, has said that his win in the rerun election was a "victory for democracy and justice”. He defeated incumbent Peter Mutharika with 58.57% of votes in Tuesday's poll. In February, Malawi's constitutional court annulled Mr Mutharika's poll win in May 2019, citing vote tampering.
GUEST : DR STEVE SHARRA - Educationist, Education & Public Policy Analysis based in Malawi
A tender the City of Cape Town published on 15 June, asking for bids from private companies to demolish illegal informal structures, has come under fire. The Legal Resources Centre (LRC) in Cape Town has vowed to challenge the tender.
GUEST: Councillor MALUSI BOOI - Cape Town’s mayoral committee member for Human Settlements
GUEST: SHERYLLE DASS - regional director of the Legal Resource Centre
Musician Zakes Bantwini has been accepted at Harvard University as he celebrated his 40th birthday. Zakes will be studying the business of entertainment, music and sports at Harvard Business School. His Love, Light & Music album turns 10 years, and launching an international dance label ALL ELECTRONIC MUSIC.
GUEST: Zakes Bantwini – Award Winning South Africa Musician
GUEST: Xolelwa Kashe-Katiya is the Director Of Project Management Responsible For The Implementation And Monitoring Of All Mistra Projects.
The coronavirus has rebooted every aspect of life as we know it. Across Africa, home-grown ideas might be what we need to help combat it's consequences and navigate our way to what has forced the future to be today.We have seen trends analysis for 2030 and years beyond; how do these now translate with the pandemic disruption we are now faced with?
GUEST: Bronwyn Williams is a Trend Translator and Foresight Leader at Flux Trends, focused on ‘Futurenomics’, or how macro, micro and behavioural socio-economic trends shape our past, present and future.
The cumulative number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in South Africa is 111 796. The mortality rate is 2.0%, with the number of recoveries standing at 56 874, which translates to a recovery rate of 50.9%.A total of 1 416 894 tests have been completed, of which 34 122 were new tests.
Guest: Prof BURTRUM C FIELDING – Director of Research Development at The University of Western Cape (UWC) and Virologist specializing in the Coronavirus.
“Motheo Brodie is a legal researcher in the Education Rights Programme at the public interest law centre, SECTION27. In this role, he has worked on various basic education related matters, amongst them; challenging the state to fix sanitation and eradicate pit toilets in our public schools as well as conducting workshops on sexual and reproductive health and rights in mainly rural schools across the country. He is passionate about education and also has a history in student leadership and activism. During his time at Wits University he served as the Deputy President of the SRC at the height of the #FeesMustFall movement. He graduated with an LLB degree from Wits University in 2017.”
GUEST: Motheo Brodie - Social justice activist and legal researcher in the Education Rights Programme at the public interest law centre at SECTION27
Guest: Mighty jemmy - Political & Social Analyst
Guest: Dr Sthembile Mbete - Lecturer at the department of political sciences at University of Pretoria
Lizette Booys provides free online primary school maths tutoring to parents and learners. The Eerste River resident graduated in 2013 and started teaching at various primary schools. She later completed her honours degree in the Faculty of Science and Mathematics Education in 2019.
GUEST: Lizette Booys – Graduate and Maths Teacher
It has been a tough time and scary time for many of us mainly because of the fear of contracting COVID-19 . Some have contracted the virus and survived it .
Guest: Insaaf Mohammed – Occupational Therapist and a COVID-19 survivor
Turmeric is more than an orange-colored spice found in your cabinet, or in your curry takeout orders. anti-inflammatory food turmeric is known in the holistic community as a superfood. over 6,000 medical studies show that it has major benefits for your body and brain. While the juices and teas provided some relief, it wasn’t enough
After research and experimenting with different formulations, Kuran came to a breakthrough in more effective turmeric absorption. This miracle formula later became known as PRANA, the life- changing signature product of Leefy Organics.
Guest: Jean Francois Sobiecki - Ethnobotanist, medicinal plant researcher, and qualified nutritionist
Public healthcare workers can now access private accommodation close to their workplace at no cost, all because of the initiative called Ubuntu Beds.
As the South African healthcare system prepares for the peak of COVID-19, healthcare workers continue to run the risk of infecting their families and others while travelling to and from work. Since the virus hit hundreds of health workers have become infected, with nurses alone accounting for the majority of cases. In March after contracting the coronavirus herself, hotel owner Kim Whitaker launched Ubuntu Beds to unite hospitality businesses that now stand empty with healthcare workers.
Guest: KIM WHITAKER - Founder of Ubuntu Beds
She’s only 25, but Dr Musawenkosi Donia Saurombe has already achieved the status of senior academic at the University of the Free State. This is because her schooling was fast-tracked and she completed high school at the age of 15.
She enrolled at the University of the North West at the age of 16, and by the time she was 21, she had attained her master’s in industrial psychology. She wasted no time and delved right into her PhD the following year, completing this qualification also, in a record time of two years, breaking an astounding academic record by becoming the youngest female PhD in Africa, at the age of 23
GUEST: Dr Musawenkosi Saurombe
On 27 June 1985, four anti-apartheid activists from Cradock, Eastern Cape, were intercepted at a roadblock set up by the South African apartheid government security police outside Port Elizabeth. These activists were Matthew Goniwe, Fort Calata, Sparrow Mkhonto and Sicelo Mhlauli. Goniwe and Calata were rumoured to be on a secret police hit list for their active participation in the struggle against apartheid in the Cradock area. The South African security police abducted all four activists, killed them and burnt their bodies. The activists, who came from the Karoo town of Cradock, became known as the Cradock Four
Guest: Lukhanyo Calata - Son of Fort Calata , Author of “My father died for this” and Producer of The film “Unfinished Business”
Esihle Mhluzi is a Law student and Model. The NPOs and initiatives that she’s apart of encompass the advocacy side of her of standing in the gap for marginalized groups. Through chairing the UFS Universal Access Council she advocates for differently abled students to navigate campus life, among other things.
Her mandate of infiltrating spaces that were not designed for girls who look like her was the rationale behind pursuing her modelling career. More than anything, she’s creating accessibility and representation through her being in this industry.
GUEST: Esihle Mhluzi - Law Student and Model
Guest: Ntsoaki Phali - Owner of Beyond Ability Talent Solutions.
Once homeless and a drug addict, Philani Dladla turned his life around with books. He has written his autobiography, The Pavement Bookworm, was given his first book at the age of 11, for his birthday.
GUEST: PHILANI DLADLA
How does unemployment generally affect a relationship?
During the lockdown there was an increase in reports of abuse and divorce hikes as well. What are the factors that hold relationships together amid such issues?
Guest: Khosi Jiyane - Clinical Psychologist
New dads are taking classes in how to carry their babies and change nappies. The course in Rwanda aims to make them better fathers, reduce domestic violence and promote equality.
GUEST: SILAS NGAYABOSHYA - PROGRAMME MANAGER AT Rwanda's Mens Resource Centre (RWAMREC
The Gauteng department of education says officials are gathering information after learning a private school in Bedfordview, Bishop Bavin is closing their doors. The Anglican Bishop of Johannesburg, the Right Revd Dr Steve Moreo said in a statement that the school has been forced to close its doors with immediate effect as a result of a financial crisis.
Guest: Mr Lebogang Montjane - Executive Director of the Independent Schools Association of Southern Africa
Sandisiwe Msomi, a 21-year-old Vega student from Durban, defied the norm. By saving R5 coins in a 10 litre water bottle, she managed to save a whopping R23 400 by the end of last year.
GUEST: SANDISIWE MSOMI - Student
Events around the world ground to a halt when COVID-19 unleashed itself and the world began taking preventative measures – even in the face of devastating economic effects. Now we wonder what an event after COVID-19 might look like.
GUEST : PRESCIOUS THAMAGA - Owner of Precious Celebrations
GUEST: SECHABA MOTSIELOA - Co Founder of Empowaworx
The newly-discovered coronavirus breakthrough drug, dexamethasone, is produced and readily available in South Africa, giving hope amid a surge in both infections and deaths from the killer pandemic. The drug was already used for inflammatory disorders and certain cancers but it has now been found to be useful in coronavirus treatment.
Guest: Dr KERRIGAN McCARTHY - Specialist pathologist, NICD (The national institute for communicable diseases)
Candice Chirwa is a self-proclaimed minister of menstruation. The 24-year-old has a master’s degree with an emphasis on menstrual health education and management. Chirwa, who is the founder of non-profit organisation Qrate, was announced as the Lil-Lets South Africa’s latest brand ambassador for her contribution to menstrual health and education.
GUEST : CANDICE CHIRWA
Wednesdays we talk to Chief Executives - people in leadership positions. Today we have DR REUEL KHOZA Chairman of the PIC (Public Investment Corp). He is an accomplished businessman, Author.
Guest: DR REUEL KHOZA
Healing can begin in your garden and here on Life Happens we believe we can all start and care for your own little piece of soil to help us not only with subsistence farming for our families during these difficult time but to also be aware and work with plants that may bring great energy in our spaces.
Guest:JEAN FRANCOIS SOBIECKI - Medical plant researcher
Guest: Songezo Zibi - Author And Former Editor
Guest: RAMS MABOTE - Future Kings is and initiative of the Rams Mabote Foundation
To celebrate Youth Day this year, Future Kings launched a social media crowd funding campaign called #LetsGoFifty50 to support Cloudy Deliveries – a youth initiative based in Cape Town and help raise funds for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). Cloudy Deliveries is a team of 12 teenage boys, aged 14 to 19, who use bicycles to serve their community during the lockdown with delivering medicine, food and groceries to residents’ doorsteps.
Guest: RAMS MABOTE - Future Kings is and initiative of the Rams Mabote Foundation
Black Lives Matter (BLM) Solidarity SA took to Constitutional Hill on Sunday to hold a vigil against the murder of black people. "For us, black trauma is borderless. The African Americans I know supported the struggle in apartheid - they understood black suffering; their suffering is our suffering," lead organiser Thandiwe Ntshinga said.
Guest:THANDIWE NTSHINGA
Fasiha Hassan born in 1993 lawyer, politician and previous student activist. She was a SRC leader during the FeesMustFall protests at the University of the Witwatersrand and a law student at the time. In May 2019, at the age of 25, she became the youngest Member of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature.
GUEST: FASIHA HASSAN
Pianist & Composer from Umgungundlovu Pietermaritzburg, the recipient of the 2015 Standard Bank Young Artist Award in the category of Jazz, last year he became the first South African artist to be signed to Blue Note record label. Today we connect with him on his special event taking place online at 10pm.
He calls it “Symbols” A Meditation of the Uprising on.
Guest:NDUDUZO MAKHATHINI
The uprisings of 1976 are often recalled as an event that took place in Soweto on June 16, when police opened fire on students marching to express their condemnation of the apartheid policy to enforce Afrikaans as the medium of instruction as part of Bantu education in black schools. That day is invariably associated with Sam Nzima’s picture of 18-year-old activist Mbuyisa Makhubo carrying Hector Pieterson, a massacre victim, in his arms.
However, there is a larger story, as the rebellion spread across the country and by August 1976 had erupted in black and coloured townships in the Western Cape from Langa, Nyaga and Gugulethu, a student boycott at the University of the Western Cape and spreading across the Cape Peninsula.
Guest:DINGA SIKWEBU - Labour Activist
GUEST: Anne Chisa - The Root of the Science Podcast . She has recently completed her Masters in Agricultural Sciences at the University of KwaZulu Natal. Her dream is to pursue her PhD as I aspire to have a PhD by 30
Relationships Under Lockdown; has yours survived, share your story with us. We are now on Day 81 of lockdown coming from Level 5 to 3. We hear stories of greater bonds being created & ones of absolute horror of both men and women feeling stuck and home being the worst place to be.
GUEST : Vanessa Mogorosi - Relationship Coach
Dr Mosadi Mahoko, a registrar in the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Stellenbosch University, has won the Jack Penn medal for the best result in South Africa for the 2019 final plastic surgery exams. She is the first black female South African plastic surgeon to qualify from Stellenbosch University and in the Western Cape.
GUEST: DR MOSADI MAHOKO - Registrar in the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Stellenbosch University
The country is seeing a spike in child abandonments and the physical abuse of youngsters during lockdown
In Johannesburg near the M2 Highway, close to the Joe Slovo offramp, a passer-by saved the life of a baby boy. No one knows how long the child had been there.
Guest: NADENE GABHAM - Operations Manager Door of Hope
Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) Community Chest said the City of Cape Town is 'inhumane' after officials destroyed shacks in Hangberg last week. It's understood the structures were illegally erected on privately owned property, and the removal led to violent clashes with police on Thursday. Both the NGO and Parliament queried the move amid the recent cold and wet weather.
GUEST: LORENZO DAVIDS - CEO Community Chest
GUEST: COUNCILLOR MALUSI BOOI - Human Settlements Mayco (mayoral committee) Member
Sho Madjozi , Ami Faku and Zoë Modiga.
Guest: Guest: RJ Benjamin – Award-winning vocalist, songwriter, composer, vocal coach, musical director and producer /
This coming Saturday, Sibongile Khumalo be joined by Wandile Molefe on piano and Tshepo Mngoma on violin and voice, as she presents a live and direct intimate and personal concert to local and global audiences on WatchaTV Virtual Stage. WatchaTV has presented a series of virtual concerts, streamed directly to the comfort of the fan’s homes. Unlike the last 3 three instalments, where four artists have shared the virtual stage, Sibongile Khumalo will be the only artist on the stage at this coming Saturday’s concert.
Guest: Sibongile Khumalo – Award Winning South African Musician
You know him for songs such as Fetch Your Life, Gugulethu, Wajelwa and Club Controller among others. Prince Kaybee is a South African house music producer, DJ and television personality who rose to fame as the winner of the second season of the SABC1 reality competition 1's and 2's, in 2015 Originally from the town of Senekal in the Free State. Having dropped out of school in Grade 11, he made his way to Bloemfontein where he ended up getting a club DJ gig.
Guest: Prince Kaybee - DJ & Producer
Nomjana recalls how he started in 2012 with just R40 in his pocket. He had been volunteering at a community garden and noticed a large supply of spinach. He Googled a few recipes and found spinach bread was both tasty and nutritious. Nomjana convinced a neighbour to let him use her oven and, with that, he baked his first loaf.
Guest: Lufefe Nomjana (also known as the Spinach King) South African entrepreneur building a business empire around spinach in the Cape Town township of Khayelitsha
Guest: Tshepo Mokoena - Karabo Mokoena’s Uncle
Guest: Mbuyiselo Botha - Commissioner at The Commission for Gender Equality (CGE)
Guest: Siya Jentile - Founder and President of Not In My Name SA
Guest: Uyinene Foundation (Requested)
Guest: Prof Burtrum C Fielding – Director of Research Development at The University of Western Cape (UWC) and Virologist specializing in the Coronavirus.
Guest: Jessica Breakey - Associate Lecturer, School of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand
Khulile Qamata was only 23 when he started his teaching career at Nyanga High School in eNgcobo, Eastern Cape, in 1990.Fresh out of college, he started right at the top, teaching economics and business economics in matric. Qamata achieved 100% pass rate in both subjects for two consecutive years. It was his hard work and dedication to his job that led to him being promoted to head of department for commercial subjects at the school. He held the position until he was appointed principal in 2015.
Guest: Khulile Qamata – Headmaster Nyanga High School in eNgcobo, Eastern Cape
Pride Month commemorates years of struggle for civil rights and the ongoing pursuit of equal justice under the law for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer community, as well as the accomplishments of LGBTQ individuals. Beverley Palesa Ditsie was the first openly lesbian woman to make a statement on the inclusion of lesbian rights in discussions about the empowerment and upliftment of women at the Beijing Women’s Conference – a 1st for the UN.
Guest: Dr Bev (Beverley) Ditsie – Human Rights and LGBQTI Activist
Sweden has ended a 34-year investigation into the unsolved murder of the country's then-Prime Minister Olof Palme, saying the main suspect is dead. Palme was gunned down as he took a late-night walk after visiting a cinema in central Stockholm with his wife, Lisbet on February 28, 1986. "We have come as far as we can do with regards to this investigation," Sweden's Chief Prosecutor Krister Petersson told a news conference in the country's capital on Wednesday.
Guest: Ambassador CECELIA JULIN - Swedish Ambassador to South Africa
Bokang Mokoena is the executive director of youth-led NPO Phakamani Young Minds Academy, which provides academic assistance, support and mentorship to learners during their schooling career. He believes that young people are our biggest hope in helping South Africa thrive and progress.
Guest: Bokang Mokoena - Executive Director of youth-led NPO Phakamani Young Minds Academy.
Disabled people living in rural areas do not have easy access to prosthetics compared to their counterparts living in urban areas. That is why they feel hopeless and become prisoners in their own homes; isolated, dependent, immobile and excluded from society. One man is working tirelessly to change that. Ncedo Ludada started Ludada and Associates Orthopaedic Services in 2016 to improve the quality of life of people living with disabilities. The company is headquartered in Mthatha and services the greater Transkei and surrounding areas.
Guest: Ncedo Ludada - Owner of Ludada and Associates Orthopaedic Services
Under level 3, those permitted to travel are the legal spouses or partners of the deceased; children or grandchildren of the deceased, whether biological, adopted or stepchildren; children-in-law of the deceased; parents of the deceased whether biological, adopted or stepparents; siblings, whether biological, adopted or stepbrothers or sisters of the deceased; and/or grandparents of the deceased.
Guest: Siya Qoza - Spokesperson for the Minister of Home Affairs.
Guest: Brigadier Vish Naidoo - SAPS National Spokesperson
Founder of One way up productions South African media entrepreneur Zaheer Cassim graduated from Columbia University Journalism school in New York and returned home to South Africa to found one way to up productions, a television production company that has worked with a client list that includes Ogilvy South Africa, Hollard Insurance, the African Leadership Academy and more. He is passionate about storytelling and working with organisations that add value to the communities they occupy.
Guest: Zaheer Cassim - Founder of One way Up
The homeless are very vulnerable, and with the COVID-19 pandemic, they aren’t protected. Most have been taken into shelters and are being given food and blankets .We now look at the sustainability of this how will they ensure overcrowding doesn’t become an issue
Guest: Eunice Mgcina - MMC of Health & Social Development in the City of Johannesburg
Guest: Tebogo Mpufane - Centurion Haven of Hope Site Manager, Deputy Chairperson Tshwane Homelessness Forum , Part of the Task Team Covid- 19 Programme in Partnership with Tshwane City
Looking at the impact of the lockdown on consumers. A total of 76% of respondents are concerned about the livelihoods of their family. One third of individuals do not have the financial means to continue to afford their rent or pay their monthly bond premiums.
Guest: Andrea Rademeyer - CEO and Founder of Ask Africa
The Department of Basic Education last week announced that learners will only report back TO school today ,the 8th of June2020. We do a check it do find out how the day went?
Guest: MR RICHARD MASEMOLA - Co-Founder of TEACH South Africa Teacher
Guest: MXOLISI DLALA - Teacher in Limpopo . Teaches Grade 11 and 12 learners Maths.
Guest: BONTLE - Grade 12 Learner is Limpopo school
The leading lady of The Soil Buhlebendalo announced her solo career and her debut album “Chosi” comes out today across all platforms.
Guest: Buhle Bendalo
GUEST: JUSTINE SCHAFER – Creative Director Cape Cobra Leathercraft
GUEST: VIKA SHIPALANA – Founder AND CEO VBS Luxury Group
GUEST: FRED EBOKA – Founder House of Eboka
Mzansi Magic’s telenovela The River has stopped shooting to allow the set to be disinfected after one of its cast and crew members tested positive for COVID-19. In a statement released by Tshedza Pictures, which produces the show, the company said it has since halted shooting and all cast and crew members have been asked to self-isolate while the necessary health protocols are being implemented.
GUEST: KAYLEEN BESSIT – DANIE ODENDAAL PRODUCTIONS
GUEST: PASEKA MALEKA – ICASA (Independent Communications Authority of South Africa) Spokesperson
GUEST: MR MERLIN NAICKER - Group Executive for Television at the SABC
Tshepho Mosiedi and Tebogo Selibi started TMMBS at a young age. At 16 Tshepo was making money cleaning his neighbors bins.
GUEST: TSHEPO MOSIEDI - CEO AND CO - FOUNDER OF ACCOUNTING FIRM TMMBS - He was recent featured as one of the 40 under 40 African Business Icons in 2020 by Business Elites Africa.
Guest: TEBOGO SELIBI - SENIOR ASSOCITE PARTNER AND CO - FOUNDER OF ACCOUNTING FIRM TMMBS
Social reintegration is often understood as the support given to offenders during their reentry into society following imprison-ment.
GUEST: SIHLE TSHABALALA - Former Prisoner & Founder of Quirky 30 Tech Hub for high school drop outs.
GUEST: TARYN JOHANNES – Western Cape ACTING Area Manager at NICRO ( National Institute for Crime Prevention)
GUEST: GOLDEN MILES BHUDU - SA Prisoners Organisation for Human Rights
The COVID-19 pandemic has emphasized the importance of constantly washing our hands; disposing of most personal pro-tective equipment .Where does this leave the ecosystem?
GUEST: NDONI MCUNU - FOUNDER & CEO OF BLACK WOMEN IN SCIENCE (BWIS),PHD CANDIDATE AT WITS UNVIVERSITY AT THE GLOBAL CHANGE INSTITUTE
GUEST: NHLANHLA SIBISI - CLIMATE AND ENERGY CAM-PAIGNER FOR AFRICA AT GREENPEACE
Ryan Bacher says he's never worked harder than he has during the last two months - a believable statement considering the online retailer, one of South Africa's oldest, completely trans-formed its product offering during the nationwide lockdown.
Guest: Ryan Bacher - MD of NetFlorist
Is a 24 year old Wits University student doing her Masters in Forensic Anthropology. She also volunteers at the Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital where they also host Radio Lollipop
GUEST: BONTLE MAMABOLO - Student & Volunteer
29 year old Lebo Mashigo was born and raised in Kwandebele of Mpumalanga. She founded of NuBreed Music Institute; an organisation that provides lessons to young people between the ages of 12-21 in KwaNdebele. The programme was aimed at young people from the area and aims to instil and develop music and art skills. Nubreed’s goal is to train young people who will become professional musicians that can contribute to the industry as producers, composers, and music directors. She studied business and entrepreneurship with UNiSA through the Obama flagship project ; YALI ( Young African Leaders Initiative).
Guest: LEBO MASHIGO - Founder of EGGSCELLENT
Guest: DUDU MSOMI - Founder and CEO of Busara Leadership Partners -expertise is to facilitate the development and effectiveness of leaders to achieve.
Guest: PROF. BETRUM C FIELDING – Director of Research Development at The University of Western Cape (UWC) and Virologist specializing in the Coronavirus.
The effects of Covid-19 on the restaurant industry has struck again - this time a beloved restaurant has had to shut its doors. The Kitchen, a restaurant and catering company based in Woodstock in Cape Town, has decided to close its doors. The restaurant is owned by Karen Dudley, a renowned chef, food writer and restaurateur. In a Facebook post, Dudley announced that they feel immense sadness about the closure of the restaurant.
GUEST:KAREN DUDLEY - Founder The Kitchen
COULD YOU BE ATTENDING YOUR NEXT FUNERAL ONLINE?
Jacob’s Bridge is bridging the gap, relieving grieving families of the stress that comes with planning a funeral within the newly allocated times. This includes venues, live streaming of funerals, coffin selection, flowers, tents, priests, cars, programme development, printing and tombstones.
Guest: Lebo Khitsane - Creator of Jacob’s Bridge
In the fight against Covid-19, SANBS is one of a few international blood transfusion services embarking on this exciting research to determine if convalescent plasma, may help patients hospitalised with Covid-19. The South African National Blood Service (SANBS) is at the forefront of this therapy in South Africa, participating in the collection of convalescent plasma for a national trial.
Guest: DR JONATHAN LOUW - CEO SANBS (South African National Blood Services)
Guest: DEVIN BARRINGTON - Founder of Black Futurist Group which has pioneered the black Lives matter movement .He is running for Senate Office in Atlanta Georgia .
Guest:Reshma Maharaj - Deputy principal crawford college in sandton
Guest: Zulaikha Patel - Grade 12 Students from pretoria girls high-school
Guest:Mr. Godwin Khosa - CEO Of National Education Collaboration Trust
Guest: Mr. Richard Masemola - Co-Founder of TEACH South Africa
Thousands more workers will now be able to claim from the Unemployment Insurance Fund’s (UIF) Temporary Employee/Employer Relief Scheme (Ters) after more expansive definitions were added to the application criteria
Guest: Mr Makhosonke Buthelezi (Director: Communication and Marketing Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF)
The government cannot prevent the distribution of food during the Covid-19 national lockdown after the high court ruled in favour of the right to freely assist the hungry.
Guest: Lumka Oliphant - Spokesperson for the Department of Social Development
The elderly rely on social connection more than most and they need it now more than ever .There are several reasons why the elderly are somewhat more vulnerable - they have more chronic conditions than younger people, their aging immune system makes it harder to fight off diseases, infections and viruses. Recoveries are usually slower and more complicated. How do we ensure the elderly are taken care of during this pandemic?
Guest: Adele Eloff - Deputy CEO of Fleurenville Aged Care Centre
Guest: Lillian Dube - Legendary Actress
The government cannot prevent the distribution of food during the Covid-19 national lockdown after the high court ruled in favour of the right to freely assist the hungry.
Guest: Julika Falconer - CEO of Zero2Five Soup Kitchen
Tebatso Ntshane was part of the team(crew member) who repatriated South Africans from Wuhan in March.
Guest: Captain Vusi Khumalo - SAA chief pilot ,he has been a South African Airways (SAA) since 1994 . He is the pilot that flew back 114 citizens back to the country from Wuhan
Guest: Tshosa Masubelele - Uncle
Guest: Mahlomola Kekana - President of the National Association of Parents in School Governance
Guest: Basil Manuel – Executive Director National Professional Teachers' Organisation of South Africa
Guest: Nomusa Cembi - SADTU (The South African Democratic Teachers Union) Media Officer
Guest: Elijah Mhlanga – Spokesperson the Department of Basic Education
The Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) said that preparations were under way at universities to ensure that campus . Deputy Minister of Higher Education and Training Buti Manamela says : "Universities will be spending this time building up to ensure that the guidelines and protocols in terms of sanitation and personal protective equipment, quarantine and all of that." Manamela said that universities would also use this time to engage with students and unions. How prepared are students for level 3?
GUEST: Buti Manamela - Deputy Minister of Higher Education and Training (DHET)
How to best navigate our way through social media and still have our reputation intact & not ruin our careers. agency announced, their client, Bianca Schoombe decided to withdraw her entry from Miss South Africa 2020. Bianca was trending this week due to derogatory tweets she had made when she was 14 years, 6 years ago.
Guest: EMMA SADLEIR - SOCIAL MEDIA LAW EXPERT
Zoning In On Different African Countries To Get An Update On What’s Happening When Comes To Covid -19. Today we look at Mozambique.
GUEST: MILTON MALULEQUE - MOZAMBICAN JOURNALIST
Aya Chebbi, an award-winning Pan-African feminist. She is the first African Union Youth Envoy and the youngest diplomat at the African Union Commission Chairperson’s Cabinet. Aya became a world-renowned blogger during 2010/2011 Tunisia’s Revolution running Proudly Tunisian.
Guest: Aya Chebbi - AU Special Youth Envoy
GUEST: ADV. BOKANKATLA MALATJI - The Commissioner responsible for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Older Persons at the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC).
It has been a stressful and worrying time for many of us since the COVID-19 Outbreak and national lockdown. Escapism has been a way of coping for many and with President Cyril Ramaphosa having announced that most of South Africa will move to level 3 lockdown restrictions by the end of May, it hasn’t eased the stress and anxiety that comes with constantly protecting and safeguarding your self. How can one cope with anxiety during the covid-19 pandemic?
Guest: KHOSI JIYANE - Clinical Psychologist
Guest: CASSEY CHAMBERS – Operations Director AT SADAG (South African Depression & Anxiety Group)
A crucial election has begun in the East African nation of Burundi, where President Pierre Nkurunziza is stepping aside after 15 years in charge but he will remain “paramount leader” in the country. The vote is one of the most important transfers of power in Burundi since independence in 1962.
GUEST: SOPHIE MOKOENA - SABC Foreign Editor
In China the coronavirus pandemic has accounted for a reduction of carbon dioxide emissions by 25%. The capital city of the Philippines has emerged from a cloud smog, The animals have the shared terrain all to themselves in the Kruger National Park and enjoying naps along the roadside. TODAY IS WORLD BEE DAY The local honey industry, according to the Conservation South Africa (CSA), has an average annual turnover of R3.2 billion and produces 2 000 tonnes of honey per annum. In total, however, the pollination, honey, and beeswax
GUEST: TLOU MASEHELA - Chairperson of the Western Cape Bee Industry Association
GUEST: MMABATHO MORUDI - AGRI-PRENEUR & BEEKEEPER The world’s Bee Population is said to be recovering during Covid-19 Lockdown
Zoning in on Different African Countries to Get an Update on What’s Happening When Comes to Covid -19. Tanzania’s president John Magufuli has said the economy is “more important than the threat posed by coronavirus”, adding that he wants to reopen the country for tourism despite warnings that Africa could face the next wave of the disease. In a video the Tanzanian president once again touted natural remedies for coronavirus, saying these had helped his son.“My own son, after contracting the virus, closed himself in his room, took a lemon and ginger solution before getting well and is even able to do push-ups,” he said in a video that went viral.
Guest: Sarah Kimani – SABC’s East Africa correspondent
Guest: Prof. Ruaan Maarman – Deputy Dean for research at the Faculty of Education at The University of the Western Cape(UWC) - (His research is on poverty and schooling
GUEST : MTHOKOZISI MAPHUMULO Associate & Litigation Attorney at Adams and Adams
Last night Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga announced at a press conference that schools will open on 01 June with the phasing in of Grade 7 & 12. There’s been mixed reaction from the public with issues ranging from school’s readiness and if measures have been put in place to address crowding in classes, to parent’s worries if the health of their children has been considered in the decision making. The COVID-19 pandemic has left the public anxious about sending their children back to school.
GUEST: MARY METCALFE - EDUCATION EXPERT
During this time of Covid-19, and people being lockdown at home; how would you advise a person to start a small garden for sustenance and healing plants.
GUEST: JEAN-FRANCOIS SOBIECKI - PLANT ALCHEMIST & ETHNOBOTANIST
Freedom of Religion South Africa says a moratorium on religious gatherings, even at the lower levels of the country's Covid-19 lockdown, is "grossly unfair”. It has called for an urgent review of the decision. Executive director Michael Swain says the total ban, even at thelowest Level 1, of any form of religious gathering (except for a limited waiver for funerals) is increasingly difficult to justify.
GUEST: MICHAEL SWAIN - Executive Director at Freedom of Religion SA
GUEST: DR EMMANUEL TSHIKALANGE - SENIOR LECTURER PLANT SCIENCE UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA
Authorities in Zimbabwe must urgently account for three missing female leaders from the opposition Movement for Democratic Change – Alliance (MDC-Alliance) and ensure their safe return, Amnesty International said today amid growing fears for their safety. The three MDC-Alliance youth leaders, Joana Mamombe (MP for Harare West), Cecelia Chinembiri (MDC Alliance Youth Assembly Vice Chair) and Netsai Marova (Deputy Organising Secretary for Youth) were arrested at a roadblock in Warren Park guarded by police and soldiers on 13 May. Police have denied that the three are in their custody.
GUEST: Muleya Mwananyanda - Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for Southern Africa
South Africa currently stands at over 16 000 confirmed cases of coronavirus. Economists have said that South Africa’s economy was in difficulty before the Covid-19 crisis and forecasts for the rest of the year are alarming. The Centre for Development and Enterprise (CDE) said in a report that the Covid-19 pandemic and the measures taken to combat it were likely to leave all South Africans poorer for a long time. The ROLE of NGO’s is critical now more than before,
GUEST: DR YUL DEREK DAVIDS - Chief Research Specialist at the Human Sciences Research Council
GUEST : DAN THABETHE - Project Coordinator SANGONET ( Southern Africa NGO Network)
With about 70% of global capacity idled, the airline industry stands to lose $314 billion in ticket sales this year, according to the International Air Transport Association. Some members of the industry are calling for a return to the air.
GUEST: KIRBY GORDON - Chief Marketing officer FLYSAFAIR
Zoning In On Different African Countries To Get An Update On What’s Happening When Comes To Covid -19. Today we look at Lesotho
GUEST: Rapelang Radebe – SABC Correspondent in Lesotho
GUEST: DR FELICITY COUGHLAN - Academic Director at ADvTECH
Guest: NONCEDO MADUBEDUBE - General Secretary at Equal Education
Schools have been closed since March 18 as part of the government’s measures to combat the coronavirus pandemic. Data from the NICD (National Institute for Communicable Diseases) points to a lower incidence rate in children under the age of 10 relative to those in the 15-19 year age group.
GUEST: PROF. MARY METCALF - Education Expert
GUEST: DR NIC SPAULL Education Researcher at Stellenbosch’s University Economics Department
Guest: RJ Benjamin – Award-winning vocalist, songwriter, composer, vocal coach, musical director and producer
Guest: Wendy Alberts - CEO at The Restaurant Association of South Africa
Guest: Nthabiseng “Chef Nti” Ramaboa - Owner of The Taste Kitchen
Guest: Sakumzi Maqubela - Owner of Sakhumzi Restaurant
Guets: Thlompho Mokoena - Owner The Wing Republic
The total Covid-19 infections in the Western Cape now stands at 6713 with 117 deaths. President Cyril Ramaphosa today visited Nelson Mandela Bay in the Eastern Cape to assess the provincial response to the COVID-19 pandemic. "The Eastern Cape visit follows oversight visits by the President to Gauteng and Kwa-Zulu Natal to evaluate the fight against COVID-19," said the Presidency. "The Eastern Cape currently accounts for 13,3 per cent of infections nationally.
Guest: Mcebisi Ngqina - SABC REPORTER
What is the role of councillors in society and local government? where do they fit in,in our democracy?
Guest: Nontando Zintle Ngamlana - Executive Director at Afesis - corplan Executive Director Afesis-corplan
Guest: Thembi Nkadimeng - President at SALGA
Zoning In On Different African Countries To Get An Update OnWhat’s Happening When Comes To Covid -19. Today we look at Zimbabwe.
Guest: Dumsani Muleya – Editor at The Zimbabwe Independent
Its almost 50 days into the covid-19 lockdown, how would you describe the status of our small business currently. What is the most critical skill you believe every small business owner in the country needs to quickly adapt to and refine.
Which sector of the small business economy do you think will take the hardest hit & who do you think might thrive due to this pandemic
Guest: Allon Raiz - Founder and CEO of Raizcorp
A group of hairstylists and beauticians are heading to court to challenge the regulations that prohibit them from reopening, arguing the financial strain of the lockdown was becoming too hard to bear and causing irreparable damage to the industry. All hair salons, beauty therapists and cosmetology studios have been closed since March 27, when the nationwide lockdown was announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa.
Guest: Dawie Roodt - Economist
Guest: Jawad Maphoto – Miss Universe 2019 Hairstylist, Award Winning Celebrity hair stylist and Owner of Lajawi Beauty Café hair
ZONING IN ON DIFFERENT AFRICAN COUNTRIES TO GET AN UPDATE ON WHAT’S HAPPENING WHEN COMES TO COVID -19.
Guest: Leslie 'Lee' Kasumba
The Council for Medical Schemes confirmed that their chairperson,Dr Clarence Mini died from Covid-19 complications on Tuesday.
Guest: Grace Khoza - General Manager for stakeholder relations at the Council for Medical Schemes
What will it take to end gender- based violence?
Guest: Lebo Ramafoko - Gender Activist and Former CEO of the Soul City Institute
Guest: Commissioner Tamara Mathebula - Chairperson commission of gender based violence
A campaign to reach three million youth in the first three weeks of South Africa's lockdown showed Harambe Employment Accelerator how much you can learn when you listen to the voices of young people and how important it is to make sure they have accurate information to keep themselves safe and informed.
Guest: Lebo Nke – Partnership Executive at Harambe Employment Accelerator
The safety of waste pickers during covid-19. ARE THEY BACK AT WORK DUE TO DESPERATE MEASURES OR ARE THEY WELL EQUIPPED TO BE BACK AT WORK?
Guest: Mr Simon Mbatha - National Coordinator of The South Africa’s Waste Pickers Association.
Guest: Tim Neary - Naturalist conservationist
ZONING IN ON DIFFERENT AFRICAN COUNTRIES TO GET AN UPDATE ON WHAT’S HAPPENING WHEN COMES TO COVID -19. Today we go to kenya:
Guest: Sarah Kimani - SABC’s East Africa correspondent
Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development and Fisheries Thoko Didiza announced on Saturday that an African Swine Fever outbreak has been detected in the Eastern Cape Province for the first time. What control measures are currently being put in place to curb the spread?
Guest: Guest: MEC Nomakhosazana Meth - MEC of Rural Development in the Eastern Cape
Gugu is a registered nurse qualified in general, community, psychiatric nursing and midwifery with 20 years experience in her field. Sister Mthimunye has vast nursing experience in both public and private health care. Working for non-governmental organisations supporting the South African government to reduce mortality and morbidity rates has widened the scope of understanding health care needs and the need for multi-sectoral approach in attaining optimum health.
Guest: Gugu Mthimunye - Professional nurse and Founder of Impilo Private Clinic in Mpumalanga, Kwaggafontein
Some universities resumed their academic programme on on 20 April, with many students still confronted with a multitude of challenges, including access to devices, data, and enabling learning environments. What does the future of remote learning hold? Is conducive and sustainable
Guest: Thuto Gabaphete – Wits SRC President
Guest: Bongani Khensani Mahlangu - South African Union of Students National Executive Committee Member & PhD Economics candidate at the North-West University
Black pilots at South African Airways (SAA) wrote an open letter to the airline's business rescue practitioners, pleading with them to save their jobs. The department of public enterprises denied the business rescue practitioners’ request for a further R10 billion
Guest: Phutego Mojapele – Aviation Analyst (Reply to Guy Leitch)
Guest: Sibusiso Nxumalo
Guest: Captain Mpho Mamashela
Guest: Chrispin Phiri - Spokesperson of The Ministry of Department of Justice and Constitutional Development
GUEST : GERALD MWANDIAMBIRA - Certified Financial Planner, Speaker & author of “My Money”: A Financial Planning Guide for ordinary people
Guest: Mike Bagraim - Lawyer Expect
Flight Centre, one of South Africa’s largest booking companies, says it will close 40% of its network as a result of the impact of Covid-19 coronavirus on its business, and the tourism sector in general. Established in the country in the mid 90s, Flight Centre said it owns over 235 businesses throughout the country, incorporating both leisure, corporate, wholesale and support.
GUEST: GUY LEITCH- EDITOR OF SA FLYER MAGAZINE
Mining is an important contributor to the South African economy. It employs around 450,000 people and makes a direct contribution of 8.1% to GDP. Approximately 78% of these people work on gold, platinum and coal mines that are largely underground operations.
Under the regulations easing the lockdown, mining were allowed to resume operation at 50% capacity and must provide health and safety protection from COVID-19. Working conditions underground are cramped, transportation is in packed cages, and there is a high incidence of respiratory diseases. Northam Mine in Limpopo has reported 1st corona virus case, Assore Chrome Mine in Limpopo has suspended production after a worker tested positive for Covid-19.
GUEST: Shabir Ahmed - Industry Advisor for Mining at SAP Africa
GUEST- Dr Thuthula Balfour – Head of Health at The Minerals Council of South
GUEST: PROF. MARC MENDELSON - Professor of Infectious Diseases at University of Cape Town and an Infectious Diseases Specialist at Groote Schuur Hospital
Devised at France’s legendary Pasteur Institute 100 years ago, the Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine is one of the world's oldest and most trusted immunisations. Trials started in Cape Town, where BCG booster shots were administered to 250 healthcare workers, while another 250 received a dummy formula, or placebo. “There are observations that this BCG vaccine does something to the immune system that we don't really understand,” Task founder Prof Andreas Diacon said. Children immunised with BCG tend to suffer less from respiratory illnesses, including asthma, he said.
GUEST : PROF. Of Physiology ANDREAS DIACON - Principal Investigator Department of Internal Medicine Faculty of Health Sciences Stellenbosch University & Founder of TASK Applied Science
How are the roads looking & compliance
Guest: Wayne minnar - spokesperson for the johannesburg metro police department
Guest: BRIGADIER VISH NAIDOO-SAPS SPOKEPERSON
In recent times, there have been treatment options offered on traditional medicine, including one by a group of researchers in Edo state, who say they have produced a herbal drug “specifically for the treatment of COVID-19”, although NAFDAC insists it has not approved any herbal cure for COVID-19.Citing medicinal plants such as Artemisia annua which are being considered as possible treatments for COVID-19, WHO said such plants have to be tested for efficacy and adverse side effects.
GUEST: DR ANKH CHABALALA – Director of Indigenous Knowledge Based Technology Innovation at The Department Of Science & Innovation
Remote Learning has become standard practice across the globe, children wake up daily with emails containing school work from their teachers. This has been a great method to ensure our children continue with their education. It has forced parent to take over the teachers role and to ensure the order and discipline in the household for conducive learning. Is it possible that this great option is also producing possible strain for all parties involved, the children, parents and teachers.
GUEST: Laetitia Permall- Education Psychologist
GUEST: Randzu - Mother of 3 kids, grade RR ,Grade 2 and Grade 4
GUEST: Star – Mother of a grade 5 learner
GUEST: Gcobani Maswana – Spokesperson for the Department of Social Development in the Eastern Cape
With the COVID-19 pandemic shutting down gyms and fitness facilities across South Africa, the fitness industry is tapping into the growing phenomenon of hosting online events – which is not only enabling businesses to continue operating, but in many cases grow their audiences as well. Last month, popular fitness event “That Fit Fun Fest” hosted its first online event with the help of local start-up Flock Eventing Platform – and the results exceeded their expectations, with more than 2800 people streaming the event from around the world, and over 6600 app views. Their previous live event, in February, attracted 220 people.
GUEST: MIKE LYSKO - CEO and founder of Flock Eventing Platform
Start Up YOCO, which provides point-of-sale solutions to more than 80 000 small and medium businesses in South Africa, is ideally placed to measure the impact of the Covid-19 lockdown on this segment of the economy.
GUEST: YOCO CEO KATLEGO MAPHAI on the company’s anonymised research #SupportSmall
Initial Reports stated that the Covid-19 Epidemic Puts at risk 6.6 million jobs at risk. Given the lockdown, the vast majority are unable to pay their rent, utilities, and employees. Initial surveys indicate that 60% of SMEs are either considering retrenching employees, or already have. This is a significant threat to the South African economy, with many millions of jobs at risk. Certain industries returned to work yesterday from agriculture, manufacturing, construction and financial services. Has small business returned, what is the Future of SMME’s post the Covid-19 Epidemic?
GUEST: BRETT HAMILTON University of Stellenbosch Business School visiting lecturer in corporate finance and Director at First River Capital
Guest: BONGILE TSOTETSI - CO-FOUNDER HAMISA GROUP Engineering & Mining
Reaction to the department of basic educations briefing .WHAT IS THE WAY FORWARD FOR SOUTH AFRICA’S EDUCATION SYSTEM?
Guest: Basil Manuel – Executive Director National Professional Teachers' Organisation of South Africa
Guest: Nomusa Cembi - SADTU Media Officer
Guest: Roné McFarlane
Dr Tshi Neluheni-Tshinaba is a medical professional and Public Health Specialist; Executive Director of the Institite of Health Programs and Systems (IHPS), a health and development NPO, that is a Global Fund Subrecipient. Currently, IHPS is supporting the Department of Health COVID-19 response in Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Free State and North West Province. As an independent consultant, Dr Tshi also supports companies in the private sector to develop and implement comprehensive Workplace COVID-19 Management Plans
Guest: Dr Tshiwela Neluheni-Tshinaba- CEO of the Institite of Health Programs and Systems (IHPS)
The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) is delighted to announce the launch of a new channel, SABC Education. In line with the Corporation’s mandate, the new channel will broadcast public service content from the Department of Education, educational programmes currently available on SABC 1, 2, 3, and archived material produced by the SABC on a limited basis.
Guest: David Makubyane – General Manager at SABC TV
Veteran South African anti-apartheid activist Denis Goldberg, who was tried alongside Nelson Mandela, has died at the age of 87 at his home in Hout Bay, near Cape Town.Goldberg was arrested in 1963 and was sentenced at the Rivonia Trial along with former president Nelson Mandela and other leaders of the anti-apartheid struggle to life imprisonment, the party recounted. He was imprisoned for 22 years in Pretoria Central Prison until he was released in 1985.
Guest: Nicholas Wolpe - The Founder and CEO of the Liliesleaf Trust
Guest: Sello Hatang - CEO of The Nelson Mandela Foundation
The world of work has been significantly affected by the global virus pandemic. How will the world of work adapt, in a post covid19 reality?
Guest: Tessa Dooms - Social Analyst, Political Commentator and Director of Jasoro Consulting
Guest: Doris Viljoen - Senior futurist at the Institute of Futures Research at the University of Stellenbosch Business School
According to Right To Care, people living with HIV are skipping treatment and there is also a drastic drop in testing the HIV. This has been attributed to due to infection fears on Covid19 during lockdown.
Guest: Dr Thembi Xulu - Executive director at Right to Care
Guest: Abigail Dawson, the spokesperson of the Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in South Africa (CoRMSA)
Guest: Amir Sheikh – Spokesperson from the African Diaspora Forum and National Chairperson of the Somali Community Board of South Africa.
Guest: Abigail Dawson, the spokesperson of the Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in South Africa (CoRMSA)
Guest: Amir Sheikh – Spokesperson from the African Diaspora Forum and National Chairperson of the Somali Community Board of South Africa.
South Africa's autism community is pleading with the government for urgent lockdown concessions to restore much needed "routine" and access to support services. They are asking for the easing of lockdown restrictions to allow daily walks and exercise for autistic people together with a caregiver.
Guest: Mary Moeketsi - Regional Development Officer at Autism South Africa (Based in Mpumalanga and Limpopo)
Freedom Day is the commemoration of the first democratic elections held in South Africa on 27 April 1994. These were the first post-apartheid national elections to be held in South African where anyone could vote regardless of race.
Guest: Dr Saths Cooper, who is the President of the Pan-African Psychology Union and anti-apartheid activist
Guest: James Wilson - CEO of the Amdec Group (holding company for Evergreen Lifestyle Retirement)
SDI FORCE Covid-19 Initiative was implemented when the National Lockdown of South Africa became a reality. The focus was to ensure that the informal waste recyclers, car guards and the homeless who live hand to mouth on a daily basis do not starve.
Guest: Brad fisher - Co founder of SDI FORCE Covid-19 Initiative
Chocoloza was founded by Vicki Bain, an environmental and sustainability consultant in a previous life but 14 years in Belgium turned her into a homesick chocolatier. After qualifying as a chocolatier and pastry chef she worked for arguably one of the best artisanal chocolatiers in Belgium, Demeestere, as well as one of the biggest and best-known, Neuhaus. But there is no place like home, and so Chocoloza was born.
Guest: Vicki Bain - Founder of Chocoloza
The Grow Great Campaign's work is informed by the latest research in the childhood nutrition landscape as well as by the realities of the South African context.
Guest: Dr Kopano Matlwa Mabaso - Executive Director at Grow Great
Guest: Mr Leonard Zulu - UNHCR's (The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ) Representative in South Africa
“PRESIDENT COMPLETELY DISREGARDED NURSES IN HIS ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE RELIEF SUPPORT PACKAGES FOR COVID-19”
Guest: Mr Simon Hlungwani – President a DENOSA (Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa)
How does Compensation fund work during g this time?
Guest: Vuyo Mafata- Compensation Commissioner at Compensation Fund, South Africa at the Department of Labour
Guest: Barbara Creecy - Minister of Forestry and Fisheries and Environmental Affairs
Guest: Tim Neary – Naturalist conservationist
Guest: Tessa Dooms - Social Analyst, Political Commentator and Director of Jasoro Consulting
Covid19 #ChooseLife
Guest: Patrick Kulati - National Director: SOS Children’s Villages South Africa
Covid19 #ChooseLife
Guest: Bongiwe Kunene - Managing Director of the Banking Association South Africa .
Covid19 #ChooseLife
Guest: Mr Estienne de Klerk - Spokesperson for the Property Industry Group which was formed for the current situation.
Amnesty International South Africa launched its campaign, Turn on the Tap campaign, it calls on the South African government to urgently ensure that everyone has access to sufficient, safe and reliable water as a protection measure against COVID-19 and as a reality for everyone, always.
Covid19 #ChooseLife
Guest: Mienke Steytler – Media Officer at Amnesty International South Africa
As the country proactively fights the spread of Covid-19, some universities are hitting the ground rolling, moving to online learning from today in a bid to save the academic year. Among the institutions switching to remote online teaching and learning from Monday 20 April are University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), University of Johannesburg (UJ), University of Pretoria (UP), Stellenbosch University and University of Cape Town (UCT).
Guest: Prof Wim de Villiers – Rector and Vice Chancellor at the Stellenbosch University
Guest: Ishmael Mnisi - Spokesperson of Higher Education
Guest: Bamanye Matiwane - President of SASCO Gauteng
Not In My Name is currently in Mamelodi West handing out food parcels to the community there. On Saturday they were in Inanda (KZN)
Guest: Themba Masango - Secretary General of Not in My name
Prof William Gumede says many African governments are stifling freedom of expression under the guise of tackling Covid-19, restricting access to information and undermining the basic human rights of ordinary citizens. He feels that they must be kept in check
Guest: Professor William Gumede - Executive Chairman of the Democracy Works Foundation and author of Restless Nation: Making Sense of Troubled Times (Tafelberg).
Guest: Siphiwe Dlamini - Head of Communications and Spokesperson at SANDF(The South African National Defence Force)
The Turn down your radio campaign, a NAB Commercial Radio Committee (CRC) Free Radio Initiative, was launched on airwaves across the country today in a bid to not only raise awareness of the disturbing prevalence of this abuse – which has regrettably seen a significant spike during lockdown - but also to encourage proactive steps by ordinary citizens to help to identify and eradicate it.
Guest: Nada Wotshela - Group Executive SABC Radio
Covid19 #ChooseLife
Guest: Prof Leenta Grobler, an associate professor at the NWU Faculty of Engineering, and group leader of the Medical Device Development Group at the NWU
Covid19 #ChooseLife
Guest: Wandile Sihlobo - Chief Economist of the Agricultural Business Chamber of South Africa and the author of Finding Common Ground: Land, Equity, and Agriculture
The Teddy Bear Clinic has started a campaign to ensure the safety of all children in the fight against COVID-19 and has called on government and potential sponsors to provide masks for children.
Covid19 #ChooseLife
Guest: Dr Shaheda Omar – Director at Teddy Bear Clinic
One of the key findings from a rapid response research report produced by the University of Johannesburg's (UJ) Centre for Social Change and the Casual Workers Advice Office (CWAO) is that of the companies that have ceased operations, only a few have applied to the C19 TERS fund. The report is based on analysis of 75 companies ranging from large to small-to-medium enterprises. 35 of the companies analysed remain operational while 40 have ceased operating under the lockdown.
Covid19 #ChooseLife
Guest: Prof Carin Runciman - Associate Professor, Centre for Social Change, University of Johannesburg
COVID19 is mostly spread in the clinical environment by airborne droplets which arise from the carrier coughing, sneezing or breathing, as well as contact with infected surfaces. As the deceased does not breathe or cough, this route of exposure is not as important as in the living, but contact with infected secretions and surfaces still pose a major risk to health care workers, families and undertakers. For this reason, circular H41-2020 (attached) was drafted as a guide in the handling of deceased individuals in whom the diagnosis of COVID is made, or is strongly suspected. The circular is pretty much self-explanatory, but I can answer any questions you may have, or at least refer you to someone who can.
Covid19 #ChooseLife
Guest: Professor Johan Dempers - Head of the Division of Forensic Pathology, Stellenbosch University and Western Cape Forensic Pathology Service
Enforcement of the ban on alcohol during lockdown, Logistics on police stops (What should they ask for, can they search cars).
Covid19 #ChooseLife
Guest: Brigadier Vishnu Naidoo - South African Police Station (SAPS) National spokesperson
According to Takealot.com CEO Kim Reid government still has room to improve. Some e-commerce companies say government should reconsider lifting the ban on goods not considered essential.
Covid19 #ChooseLife
Guest: Kim Reid - Takealot.com CEO
In the wake of the state-mandated 21-day nationwide lockdown to reduce the spread of COVID-19, a large majority of Africans find themselves in dire straits. Hyperinflated costs, border closures, scarcity of essential goods and wide-spread food shortages mean that survival necessities are more inaccessible than ever before. Hello Paisa created an app called Malaicha.com: an innovative solution facilitating the delivery of essential goods and groceries to Zimbabwe. Zimbabweans residing in South Africa can order goods and groceries on the data free app, make payment here in South Africa in Rand and have these goods delivered to their loved one’s front door in Zimbabwe.
Covid19 #ChooseLife
Guest: Sayjil Magan - Managing Director of Hello Paisa
Guest: Hendrietta Bogopane-Zulu - Deputy minister in the Department of Social Development
Guest: Sheldon Rocha Leal - PhD Music Academic, Musician, Songwriter and Director of Culture at Southdowns College in Irene, Pretoria
As the impact of COVID-19 is felt across our world, the Embassy together with an array of partners in South Africa and Sweden, has created a digital performance and collaboration platform for innovative global engagement. The digital series; Sweden-South Africa Live Connection: Digitally Yours is aimed at creative industries
Covid19 #ChooseLife
Guest: Hedda Krausz - From the Embassy of Sweden
Covid19 #ChooseLife
Guest: Morgan - PR and Chairman for Narcotics Anonymous, Johannesburg region.
Some experts have warned against wearing masks as they say the disposing of, as well as the use of masks may actually be dangerous. Last week the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention urged Americans to cover their faces in public, even if it’s with something as simple as a bandanna. In China, many people walk around with masks on. With the shortage of masks, which are required as part of PPE for health workers, today we will be attempting to find out, should the general population wear masks?
Guest: DR Owen Kaluwa, WHO Representative in South Africa
Covid19 #ChooseLife
Guest: Bronwyn Williams - Trend Translator & Future Finance Specialist at Flux Trends
Covid19 #ChooseLife
Guest: PROFESSOR TSHILIDZI MARWALA - Vice-Chancellor and Principal University of Johannesburg
Covid19 #ChooseLife
Guest: Lunga Ngqengelele - Spokesperson Department of International Relations and Cooperation
There have been reports of stigma arising with the growing number of positive COVID-19 cases in South Africa. How do we address social stigma associated with the coronavirus? #Covid19 #ChooseLife
Guest: Professor Linda-Gail Bekker - Deputy Director of the UCT-based Desmond Tutu HIV Centre
Guest: Dr Aunkh Chabalala – Director of Indigenous knowledge Based Technology Innovation at the Department of Science and Technology
In a recent statement Police Minister Bheki Cele said over 2,300 calls/complaints have been registered since the beginning of the lockdown on March 27 2020 until March 31 2020 and from these, 148 suspects were charged. How are we ensuring the safety of women during the lockdown?
Guest: Shoki Tshabalala, Acting Director General at the Department of Women, Youth and People with Disabilities (TBC)
Guest: Lesley Wyngaard (Wineguard) – Project and Operations manager Moms Move for Justice
COVID19 #ChooseLife
Guest: Silungile Mlambo - Chief Marketing Officer South African National Blood Services (SANBS)
Members if the Public Servants Association say they fear for their lives. This, as they claim that they have not been given tools of their trade, which are masks as they screen patients, some of whom could be infected with Covid_19.
“We have serious problem of PPE, even after the Government has promised to deliver our members fear for their lives.”
COVID19 #ChooseLife
Guest: Mlungisi Ndlovu - Public Servant Association Provincial manager
Speaking about the common challenge we all face currently and that it’s time for us to work together. #COVID19 #ChooseLife
Guest: Reverend Frank Chikane - Senior Vice President of the South African Council of Churches.
They have been running an online survey monitoring the feelings and mental health of south Africans during the lockdown.
Guest: Frances MacMahon - CEO of Meraki Research.
On Monday The World Health Organization held a media briefing to update the public on the COVID-19 outbreak. Streamed live Monday, 30 March. WHO officials do not recommend mask wearing for healthy members of the general population. According them, Masks should be worn by those with the disease or those in close contact with those infected. In China However, many people walk around in masks. Some experts have warned against wearing masks as they say the disposing of, as well as the use of masks may actually be dangerous. With the shortage of masks, today we attempt to find out, should the general population wear masks?
Guest: Dr Kgosi Letlape - Eye surgeon in private practice and the Co-founder of Africa Harm Reduction Alliance as well as member of the Global Hygiene council
The Solidarity Fund is designed to be an umbrella platform for all South Africa to contribute to the fight against Covid-19. It will be a rapid response vehicle through which pooled contributions can be deployed to immediately fund impactful initiatives in three key focus areas which are Health Response, Solidarity Campaign and Humanitarian Effort.
Guest: Gloria Serobe - Chairperson of the Global Solidarity Fund
Guest: Mr Makhosonke Buthelezi (Director: Communication and Marketing Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF)
Guest: Makhosonke Buthelezi - Director: Communications and Marketing for Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) - Management
A few of the fact-checks done by Africa Check recently
Lemon and baking soda can cure Covid-19 African skin is resistant to the coronavirus Photo of dead Italian doctors actually from Grey's The dangers of sharing misinformation and some tips for how people can vet information for themselves.
Guest: Cayley Clifford – Researcher at Africa Check
Following South Africa’s recent downgrade by Moody’s the former CEO of Business Leadership South Africa has penned an opinion piece, sharing what according to him, needs to be done as a country to address this. Part of his recommendations are the “ We must urgently embark on much needed and long overdue massive structural economic reforms and thereby send. We must drastically reduce the bloated public sector wage bill and thereby change the current dismal narrative about South Africa and annul fears that a Moody’s downgrade is a death sentence. We must charge the top state capture miscreants.”
Guest: Bonang Mohale - The Chancellor of the University of the Free State and Chairman Bidvest Group Limited
Many South African non-profit organisations (NPOs) are already on a precarious financial footing, and their financial future is even more uncertain given the coronavirus pandemic. With the Lockdown underway, many NGOs may struggle to recover beyond the 21 days.
Guest: Nazeema Mohamed, Executive Director Inyathelo
In our earlier conversation with Rev Jentile, some of the interventions that were to be put in place, to temporarily move all the flood victims who are still at the Church’s main building to the Crèche building while engagement with authorities about their permanent residence.
Guest: Dr Thembelani Jentile - Pastor at Mamelodi Baptist church
HIV/Aids still remains a huge pandemic but with treatment there is a huge improvement. What are we missing with the Covid-19 pandemic? What needs to be done to fight The Covid-19 pandemic?
Guest: Mr Mark Heywood - Social Justice Activist & Editor of Maverick Citizen
South African National Defence force (SANDF) has been criticized for the methods they have used in enforcing lockdown. Footage has emerged of SAPS and SANDF members seemingly punishing residents for breaking the lockdown laws. Some of the punishment included pushups and squats. Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula said in a statement that the department had noted allegations of abuse by members of the defence force. She said a message was sent by President Cyril Ramaphosa – the commander-in-chief of the SANDF – warning the soldiers that they should not use excessive force.
Guest: Dr Johan Burger – Consultant with the Institute of Security Studies
What is The South African Council of Churches Covid-19 Pastoral Plan And What a can the Public Expect Over The Next Weeks, Including The Prayer Reflections?
Guest: Bishop Malusi Mpumlwana - General Secretary of The South African Council of Churches (SACC)
Nonhlanhla Khoza - MEC Of Social Development In Kwazulu-Natal
Ms Siphokazi Lusithi - MEC Of Social Development In Eastern Cape
Enforcing a lockdown in informal settlements and social distancing is difficult and may be impossible. With issues of no running water in most informal settlements, how are people in informal settlements in the City of CPT dealing with the COVID-19 outbreak and what assistance are they being offered from the city?
Guest: JP Smith - Mayoral Committee member for Safety and Security in The City of Cape Town
Guest: Dr Sipho Sithole - Cultural Practitioner and Research fellow at the University of Johannesburg
Guest: Gugu Mthimunye - Founder of Impilo Private Clinic in Mpumalanga, Kwaggafontein) and Professional nurse
Since the Covid-19 Oubreak, there have been a lot of Coronavirus 'cures' and prevention techniques popping up. We now aim to get clarity on what is what. Some of the techniques include:
-Drinking Whiskey/ Alcohol will assist in fighting the disease? -The hot weather in South Africa will not conducive for Covid-19 to thrive? -Covid-19 does not live in all types of surfaces? -A mask made of cloth is not as effective? -If you don’t have sanitise you can use pure alcohol to sanitise and kill the virus on ur hands or surfaces? To help us get to the truth of what is what I am joined by…
Guest: Professor Duse is Professor and HOD of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at WITS University and the National Health Laboratory Services
Panic Buying – Why consumers shouldn’t panic buy? Contracts that are hanging. Paid deposits and jobs that will not go through due to the lockdown Critical information that all consumers should know
They working with organisations to improve how they engage with their customers and also help businesses navigate crises that impact consumers directly, like Covid19 for example.
Guest: Megan Power - Consumer Expert and head of strategic communications and customer experience at Power LAB.
According to Employment and Labour Minister Thulas Nxesi, so the unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) benefits will not be extended to cover workers in the informal sector in the wake of the national lockdown.
Guest: Lilly Sambo – Informal Traders in Tshwane, woman desk
Guest: Prof Renata Schoeman - Head of the MBA in Healthcare Leadership programme at the University of Stellenbosch Business School (USB)
Guest: Dr Fundile Nyathi - Specialist and Family physician who advises employers on health matters
Guest: Mr Simon Mbatha - National Coordinator at SAWPA (South African Waste Pickers Association)
How does it manifest? Where does it live?
Guest: Professor Burtram Fielding – The Director: Research Development and Principal Investigator for Molecular Biology and Virology Research Laboratory Department of Medical BioSciences at The University of the Western Cape
Circadian rhythm disorders are problems with your circadian rhythm, the "internal body clock" that keeps your biological processes in step. This cycle lasts about 24 hours. The term circadian comes from Latin words that mean “around the day.” Patterns of brain waves, hormone production, cell regrowth, and other activities are linked to this cycle.
Guest: Dr Dale Rae - Senior Researcher and Director of Sleep Science at the University of Cape Town.
Since declaring the coronovirus a national disaster in South Africa, the messaging from government and leaders at large has been to encourage social distancing. It raised questions however among communities and families – can spiritual services still be attended? Can people still go out for dinner to restaurants? What about work?
Guest: Caroline Pule - Medical Scientist who specializes in Tuberculosis (TB) Research, in infectious diseases. She is also the Vice Chair of the Organisation of Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD) South African National Chapter (SA NC), An Advisory Lead Communications and Outreach of OWSD SA NC Secretariat and Founder /CEO of Caroline Pule Science and Literacy Foundation (CPSLF). She is passionate about her research and global health.
On Sunday 15 March 2020, President Cyril Ramaphosa declared the outbreak of Covid-19 a national state of disaster in terms of the Disaster Management Act, he said South Africa has the knowledge, means and resources to defeat this pandemic. Transform RSA (TRSA) calls on all cellular network providers to freeze data costs amid the global outbreak of the Coronavirus (Covid-19).
Guest: The President of TransformRSA Mr Adil Nchabeleng
Guest: Rowen Ravera - Strategic Partnership Development Manager for U-Turn Homeless Ministries
The Mamelodi Baptist Church board met at Mamelodi Chambers on Tuesday to discuss both President Cyril Ramaphosa’s declaration of a national state of disaster in terms of the Disaster Management Act, and the Baptist Convention of South Africa’s (BCSA) response statement to the same. Their church membership is way above 100 people and they are currently hosting Mamelodi flood victims who stay at Church.
Guest: Dr Thembelani Jentile, pastor at Mamelodi Baptist church
The National Arts Festival Is Still Going Ahead! But Because Of The Covid-19 They Are Going Virtual! This Will Be The First-Ever Virtual National Arts Festival. What Can We Expect, And What Are The Mechanics Of How It Will Work? Guest: Monica Newton, CEO of the National Arts Festival.
Guest: Dr Morne Mostert is the Director of the Institute for Futures Research at Stellenbosch University
Following president Ramaphosa’s pronouncement which declared Coronavirus (COVID-19) a national disaster on Sunday, 15 March 2020, the Pan South African Language Board (PanSALB) has noted concerns regarding information only being available in English. Therefore, in a bid to combat the spread of the virus by ensuring that South Africans have access to information on preventative and safety precautions in languages they understand, PanSALB has offered its services to translate all information related to the COVID-19 outbreak
Guests: David Maahlamela – Acting CEO of Pansalb
The National Institute of Occupational Health has published an information leaflet and has transcribed this into braille. This to spread information to the visually impaired. But beyond that, how is safety for those visually impaired managed?
Guest: Mr. Jace Niar - CEO of BLINDSA
An EU monitoring team has reportedly collected 80 examples of disinformation coming from Russian sources in nearly two months up to 16 March. The COVID-19 was claimed to be a biological weapon deployed by China, the US or the UK. In an era of Fake news, and online media, how dangerous is this?
Guest: William Bird – Managing Director of Media Monitoring Africa
POLICE INTERCTIONS IN PRISONS WITH PRISONERS
GUEST: Richard Mamabolo Popcru spokesperson
Self Isolation: Self-isolation means staying indoors and completely avoiding contact with other people. You need to do this if you have symptoms of coronavirus. This is to stop other people from getting it. Self-Quarantine
Self-quarantine means avoiding contact with other people as much as possible by staying at home or in your hotel. You can still go outside for walks, runs or cycles on your own. But you should not spend time in close contact with other people. Other household members do not need to restrict their activities unless they are told to.
Guest: Anele Siswana - Psychologist
Guest: Professor Wessel Visser (you pronounce Wessel the same ad vessel) - Department of History, Stellenbosch University
Guest: Professor Lenore Manderson (copied) is a medical anthropologist in the Wits School of Public Health.
Guest: Nikki Bush - Human Potential and Parenting Expert
Guest: Dr Enrico Maraschin - Pediatrician
Guest: Dr Felicity Coughlan - Director of The Independent Institute of Education (IIE)
Guest: Prof Kinta Burger - UJ’s registrar
Guest: Pastor Joshua Maponga - Cultural Activist, Writer, fighter of spiritual colonialism.
Guest: Kgosi Mathupa Mokoena - President of CONTRALESA, Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa
Guest: Siya Biniza - Director PESA
SANDF personnel and Department of Health staff , including doctors and nurses (A total of 15 personnel)
They flew to the Philippines and they were there for 48 hours so that everyone who was medically cleared and the crew could be well rested.
They then flew to Wuhan, China (which was a 2 and half hour flight) . They were not allowed to be on the ground for more than 8 hours in Wuhan, China.
Guest: Captain Vusi Khumalo - SAA chief pilot ,he has been a South African Airways (SAA) since 1994 . He is the pilot that flew back 114 citizens back to the country on Saturday on board flight ZS-SND.
Consent is an agreement between parties to engage in sexual activity. There are many ways that consent can be given.
Guest : Lebo Ramafoko – Gender Activist and Former CEO of The Soul City Institute
Guest: Mfanozelwe Shozi – Former Deputy Chairperson at Commission for Gender Equality and Gender Activist
NGOs enable citizens to work together voluntarily to promote social values and civic goals, which are important to them. They promote local initiative and problem solving, they also reflect the diversity of society itself. They also help the society by empowering citizens and promoting change at the “grass roots”. Today we ask how do we ensure ngos are sustainable in SA? Guest: Rosina Khetele – Child Activity Coordinator at the Noah Foundation Guest: Nkululeko Nxesi - President of the National NPO Congress
Guest Thabiso Mahlaphe - Founder of Blackbird books
Guest: Vangile Gantsho - Poet, Cultural Activist and Co-founder of Impepho press.
Looking at rhodes must fall a few years later, WHAT ARE THE REFELECTIONS NOW ESPECIALLY AFTER MCEBO DLAMINI’S CONVICTION YESTERDAY
Guest: Chumani Maxwele - Higher Education expert. He is also known for his involvement in the Rhodes Must Fall Movement
Increasing women representation within companies Helping companies meet a quota of 30% diversity quota for JSE
Business Engage is an exciting and inventive organisation at the forefront of strategic thinking on gender mainstreaming in the private sector.
Guest : Colleen Larsen - Chief Executive of Business engage
Today the Constitutional Court is hearing argument in a case which has significant implications for the rights of domestic workers. Domestic workers are challenging legislation which excludes them from claiming from the Compensation Fund for death, injury or disease during their employment.
Guest: Myrtle Witbooi - South African labour activist and currently President of the South African Domestic Service and Allied Workers Union.
Gauteng MEC for Public Transport and Roads Infrastructure Jacob Mamabolo recently announced the planned closure of Allandale Road towards Kyalami in Midrand as the road undergoes major rehabilitation. The announcement follows MEC's visit to the area following complaints from motorists and residents regarding the state of the road. *It will be closed from the 16th of March.
Guest: Jacob Mamabolo - Gauteng MEC for Public Transport and Roads Infrastructure Jacob Mamabolo
The 2020 Rapid Lion Film Festival was created back in 2015 to celebrate cinema talent from Africa. This year the festival will take place from Friday 6 to Sunday 15 March, at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg.
Guest: Eric Miyeni is an actor, writer and filmmaker.
Lira is best known as a World Music Singer. South African singer whose eclectic musical stylings have made her a multiple-time South African Music Award winner. She is the voice behind multiplatinum albums like 2008's Soul in Mind and 2016's Born Free. She was born on March 14, 1979 in Ekurhuleni, South Africa
The lawyer representing the family of Enock Mpianzi said they were preparing a summons to be served on those found to have acted negligently on the day the 13-year-old boy drowned during a Parktown Boys’ High School camp. A forensic report was released on last night with findings against the school and the Nyati Bush and Riverbreak Lodge. Enoch Mpianzi drowned in January when a makeshift raft he and his classmates built overturned in a river.
Guest: Ian Levitt – Attorney representing Mpianzi
Mens forum - What rights do men have when it comes to accessing their children? Whether they are divorced, separated or were never married to their partners?
What does the law say when it comes to the custody of children if their parents are not married? Guest: Hugh Raichlin (Pronounced Raiglin) – Practicing attorney for the past 33 Years and founder of Hugh Raichlin Attorneys Guest: Felicity Guest- Social Justice and human rights activist, founder of Child Maintenance Difficulties in SA Guest: Marc Geldenhys - Father who has no access to his children Guest: Gary Da Silva - Chairperson of Fathers 4 Justice SA
Guest: Jantina de Vries - An Associate professor in Bioethics at UCT.
Guest: Prof Micheal Pepper - Director for the Institute for Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the Faculty for Health Sciences at the University of Pretoria
Wuhan provided the first act to another possible revolution when China announced that buying and selling wild animals for food was now thoroughly banned. Will this help cut poaching?
Guest: Tiara Walters - Daily Maverick/Our Burning Planet journalist
Guest: Lorraine Sithole – Writer, Publisher ,Reader and a Promoter of Afrocententric stories
Reviewed Books
- We Beed A New Country, Monde Nkasawa
- Reggie & Me, James Hendry
- Things The Fire Left Behind, Bokang Magarelo
- Mr LoverMan, Bernadine Evaristo
Guest: Debbie Fox –Feng Shui expert who has been practising for about 20 odd years now. Guest: Douglas Kruger – Business Author & Professional Speaker
Guets : Dr Mpho Pooe - Acting President South African Medical Association Trade Union Guest: Cassim Lekhoathi. Acting General Secretary at DENOSA.
The audit: A diagnosis of the state of our country from a youth perspective, what has gone wrong? How should it be fixed? What needs to change?
Guest: Lebohang Likhojane - Entrepreneur & Owner of SmartCentials (Online grocery store) and Former Deputy Regional Secretary Youth Chamber of Commerce Industry in the free state. Guest: Mighti Jamie – Africa Analyst Guest: Nomagugu Hloma - Social activist and Member of Blackhouse Kollective. Recently founded and initiative called Conversations with Afrika, which seeks to conscientise young people in black communities
Guest: Lynne Zurnamer - Founder of the Endometriosis Society of South Africa, as well as member of the Facebook Group South African Endometriosis support
Guest: Prof De Wet Swanepoel - Professor in Audiology at the University of Pretoria, Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Audiology, and co-founder of the hearX group
Guests: Xanthea Limberg - The Mayco member for Water and Waste Services in The City of Cape Town Mandlenkosi Nkosi – Director of Man Recycling (The concept was to encourage and to promote recycling in the environment) he is also the Chairperson of the Ekurhuleni Waste Management Association Guest: Simon Mbata – National Coordinator of South African Waste Pickers Association (SAWPA)
The Fugard Theatre’s acclaimed tenth birthday production of Athol Fugard’s masterpiece “MASTER HAROLD”…AND THE BOYS has been extended for a final time due to overwhelming demand.
Guest: Greg Karvellas – Director
Judith Sephuma, is an internationally acclaimed songstress and a multi-award winning artist. Dubbed The Queen of Afro Jazz, she is a prolific and versatile singer with an angelic, soft, sultry and melodic voice that has continued to dominate airwaves for close to two decades. Since the release of her triple platinumstatus debut album titled A Cry, A Smile, A Dance in 2001, Judith has attracted interest and acclaim from Jazz, Afro-soul and Gospel music lovers all over the world. By the time A Cry, A Smile, A Dance was released, Judith had already performed at several major Jazz festivals – both in South Africa and internationally. These included The North Sea Jazz Festival in Cape Town (in 2000); as well as the same festival in Holland (in 2002) - where she performed alongside big names such as Marcus Miller and Roy Hargrove.
Guest: Judith Sephuma
Finance Minister Tito Mboweni said that grants are adjusted as follows:R80 increase for the old age, disability and care dependency grants to R1860 per month. R80 increase in the war veterans grant to R1880. R40 increase for the foster care grant to R1040 per month. The child support grant will increase by R20 to R445 per month
Guest: Lloyd “DJ Barkzzz” Babedi - Disability Activist, Social entrepreneur and DJ
We speak to Mr Emerald Van Zyl, an Financial Investigating Consultant regarding hi investigation that Wesbank, which is the installment finance division of FirstRand Bank. WesBank is South Africa's largest provider of loans for cars. In a recent post on twitter, Mr Van Zyl tweets “My report regarding discrimination against black vehicle owers will be submitted to the human rights commission next week. if my finding is correct, hundred of thousands of vechile owners will benefit as wesbank must adjust the rate in line with the "white" rate”
Guest: Emerald Van Zyl – Financial Investigating Consultant
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi It's poetic, but disturbing and I had to put it down several times. It's looking at mental health through a spiritual lens, with both traditional Nigerian and Christian influences. It might be interesting to mention in that conversation books like The Yearning by Mohale Mashigo, or Lidudumalingani's short story Memories We Lost, or Unathi Magubeni's novel Nwelezelanga and Chigozie Obioma's Orchestra of Minorities (which we talked about before) for other examples of how African writers are increasingly working with subject matter around both spirituality and mental health.
Guest : Griffin Shea – Owner of Bridge Books
The inability to sell is one of the biggest contributing factors to the failure rate of SMEs:
Sales Processes are not a by the way or only considered at the end of a business plan: they should speak to the out put, you can’t manage what you can’t measure: staff recruit, systems, product knowledge, incentives etc
Business owners should consider sales process before marketing: ARC( add response conversion) Sales is the engine of any organization without a serious focus and management of the process the organization is destined for doom
Guest: Thulani Thabethe - Founder 2Larnie Solutions, a sales and marketing company in Johannesburg
Guest: JJ Tabane - Communications expert and Author (In Studio)
Guest: Tessa Dooms - Social Analyst and Director of Jasoro Consulting
Guest: Rams Mabote - Reputation Specialist
Tonya looks at the top social media trends of the week.
Guest: Tonya Khoury - Founder of Acumen Media
On Sunday 1 March 2020, the Veuve Clicquot Polo Series Invitational will take place at Val de Vie Estate. Over the past decade Veuve Clicquot has been synonymous with offering both local and international guests the most sought-after polo experience and 2020 will be no different.
Guest: Patrick Leslie - Marketing Manager of Veuve Clicquot
Hero, the project is a series of ‘styled and controlled’ portraits and was created over a five year period in various locations across Africa in collaboration with renowned production designer Daryl McGregor and a small team of stylists, makeup artists, designers and creatives.
Guest : Kevin Mackintosh - Photographer
In 2018 at the young age of 13, Minke was nominated for Sportswoman of the Year with a Disability and ultimately became a finalist in the Newcomer of the Year award at the South African Sport Awards hosted by the department of sport and recreation
Guest: Hennie Janse van Rensburg - Minke Janse van Rensburg’s Father
Home Affairs has issued a braille marriage certificate – the first of its kind in the country – to a visually impaired couple from Kuilsriver, during a mass wedding on Robben Island on Valentine’s Day.
Guest: Aaron Motsoaledi - Home Affairs Minister
Capturing Ndlovu Youth Choir’s joyous, uplifting and energetic live performances on record was never going to be an easy task. But the choir’s first album is a stunning representation of the group from Limpopo that stole the hearts of millions during the 2019 season of America’s Got Talent (AGT) – and it has all the makings of an enduring favourite for music fans across the globe. Titled Africa, the 11-track album delivers the signature songs that took a choir from the village of Moutse to the stage of a talent search show that draws 10 million viewers each season in America alone. It also includes an impeccably chosen repertoire of South African and international tracks and the choir’s first original – Believe - written by Ralf Schmitt, Ndlovu Youth Choir’s choirmaster, conductor and artistic director.
Guest: Ralf Schmitt - Conductor and composer of The Ndlovu Youth Choir
Guest: Sandile Majola
Guest: Thulisile Masanwabo
Guest: Dirk Kotzé, a survivor of childhood sexual abuse at the hands of a family dentist and family friend in Balfour (Johannesburg)
Guest: Mluleki Sibanda – Director of Mankind Project SA
Guest: Billy Hill - Australia leading Facilitator for Mankind Project
Guest: Professor Linda-Gail Bekker - Deputy Director of the UCT-based Desmond Tutu HIV Centre
A #DeKlerkMustFall protest is planned in Cape Town this afternoon about the recent statement from the De Klerk foundation saying apartheid was not a crime against humanity.
Guest: Ongama Mtimka - Lecturer and Political analyst based at Nelson Mandela University.
Guest: Dr Ntsikelelo Breakfast - Political Analyst from Stellenbosch University.
Circe by Madeleine Miller, her latest retelling of Greek mythology, imagining the story from the woman’s perspective
Children of Virtue and Vengeance - Tomi Adeyemi’s new installment in the Nigerian fantasy series
13 Cents by K Sello Duiker - a book about a young street kid that turns into a trippy dreamlike trance
The Whale Caller by Zakes Mda
Guest: Griffin Shea - Owner of Bridge Books
Guest: Thando Sipuye - A Historian and Social scientist
Guest: Julia Nzimande - Daughter to Nyakane Tsolo. Nyakane was the 20year old PAC leader who led the PAC march in Sharpeville on 21 March 1960. He was the PAC Branch Chairman in Sharpeville
The free seminars, Workshops will give opportunities to the youth, communities, aspiring entrepreneurs & existing entrepreneurs to help fight unemployment.
Both organizations will be providing free and focused seminars/ workshops on the ins and outs of starting a business & Investing in Property.
Guest: Head of Mentorship at UJ Centre For Entrepreneurship Ian McCloy
Guest: Nicolas Manyike from Property Stokvel Investment Club joins us to speak more about the opportunities & benefit for attending the Seminars & Workshops.
School culture refers to the way teachers and other staff members work together and the set of beliefs, values, and assumptions they share. A positive school climate and school culture promote students' ability to learn.
Guest: Rod Charlton - Psychologist . He specialises in positive psychology focusing on education.
Guest: Professor Tinyiko Maluleke - Academic and Political Analyst University of Pretoria
Guest: James Ndlebe - Acting Chief Director, Education Human Resource Development at The Department of Basic Education .
Intravenous therapy (IV) is a drip made up of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants that delivers fluids directly into the blood stream. Because the drip fluid is injected directly into your blood stream, this allows your body to absorb the vitamins and minerals faster and more effectively.
Guest: Retha Harmse –ADSA (Association for Dietetics in South Africa) Spokesperson registered Dietician
Eczema is a condition where patches of skin become inflamed, itchy, red, cracked, and rough. Blisters may sometimes occur.
Guest: Dr Ayesha Omar - Dermatologist
Guest: Sheldon Rocha Leal- PhD Music Academic, Musician, Songwriter and Director of Culture at Southdowns College in Irene, Pretoria
Melanin Cinematography is a study of how the appearance of skin from the people of the African and Indian diaspora is affected from a variety of different frameworks and then, from that understanding, we aim to create a universally accepted standard in the approach to filming, photographing and processing melanin rich skin.
Guest: Ndumiso Mnguni - Young up and coming filmmaker
Maduvha is a versatile performer also known for her acting ability. The general public, familiar with the actress on the SABC 2 current hit TV series Muvhango as Queen Vele, despite being introduced to the public via the TV youth drama series on SABC 1 Gaz’ Lam 2 & 3 back playing herself as a musician Maduvha. Added to that are roles on feature films Max & Mona , Paradise Stop and Amukelani. She is currently shooting the telenovela Ring of Lies.
Guest: Maduvha Madima
Belinda doesn’t let her disability stop her from living her best life. Growing up as a child with a disability can be very challenging and difficult. But 23-year-old Belinda Ramakatsa from Pampierstad in the Northern Cape doesn’t let her disability stop her from living her best life. Belinda has scoliosis – a bent spine – something that most-often starts just before the growth spurt before puberty hits. For Belinda, it happened when she was about 10 years old. Before then, she thought she was just like any other child.
Guest: Belinda Ramakatsa – Disability media influencer and Founder of @BScoliosis
The book chronicles the year he spent in hospital (seven of which fully paralysed) and another year recovering from home. It aims to inspire those facing difficulties in life to be determined to succeed against all odds.
Guest: Saul Molobi - Author of a book titled, “Sound and Fury: The Chronicles of Healing
Guest: Lebo Ramafoko - Former CEO of The Soul City Institute, Social activist and feminist.
Guest: Mfanozelwe Shozi - Former Deputy Chairperson at Commission for Gender Equality and Gender Activist/
The GladAfrica Foundation and the University of Venda will partner on research on the prevalence of epilepsy in the rural communities of Limpopo and Mpumalanga. This research will be implemented through the University of Venda’s School of Health Sciences over a period of four years starting this year. The research is two-pronged as it will be comprised of a needs assessment and an epilepsy awareness/intervention programme to be implemented in the affected communities.
Guest: Dr Noel Mashaba - Co-chairperson for GladAfrica Foundation
Guest: Dr Frederic Isingizwe - Postdoctoral Research fellow at The South African research chair Initiative in Postharvest Technology at Stellenbosch University
Nolitha Fakude, has spent her 29-year career focusing on the development of women and marginalised communities in the workplace and society. A passionate advocate for diversity and inclusion, she has been best known for driving transformation. She was also managing director and then president of the Black Management Forum (BMF) from 2003 to 2006.
Guest: Nolitha Fakude – Corporate Activist & Author of Boardroom Dancing
Benedict Daswa, a South African catechist whose Christian opposition to witchcraft led to his murder in 1990, was beatified on Sunday as Catholic leaders praised his heroic witness to the faith.
About 30,000 people, including Blessed Daswa’s eight children and his 91-year-old mother, attended the beatification at his shrine in his home village of Tshitanini, more than 100 miles northeast of Tzaneen. Cardinal Angelo Amato, prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, concelebrated the Mass with many bishops and priests.
Guest: Chris Mphaphuli – Friend of Blessed Benedict Daswa
The founder of Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Joseph Shabalala, has died. The 78-year-old passed away at the Life Eugene Marais Hospital in Pretoria this morning. Ladysmith Black Mambazo is celebrating 60-years of existence and has won five Grammy awards.
Guest: Percy Mabandu – Art Historian and Journalist
Guest: Xolani Majozi
The Western Cape government and the City of Cape Town took the first crucial steps in implementing the Western Cape safety plan when the first 500 learner law enforcement officers (LLEOs) signed their employment contracts with the city.
Guest: MEC Albert Fritz - MEC for Community Safety in the Western Cape
Marie Stopes South Africa offers a wide range of different contraceptives for men & women. Whether you’re interested in a monthly option like the pill (oral contraception) or patch; or a long-acting method like an implant or IUD, we can help find a contraceptive method that suits your lifestyle.
Guest: Whitney Chinogwenya - Marketing and Brand Manager at Marie Stopes South Africa
The University of KwaZulu-Natal has suspended classes indefinitely. The institution is battling to reach an agreement with the SRC to end the violent and disruptive protests at the university. The institution said that registration would continue despite the academic programme stalling. UKZN spokesperson Ashton Bodrick said that the suspension of the academic programme was aimed at preventing any further damage to university property.
Guest: Sifiso Simelane - UKZN SRC President
With his growing passion for music, Mthunzi would mimic the esteemed late Whitney Houston at his primary school assembly and was once so overwhelmed by emotion that he was brought to tears. These early experiences led him to further performances in church and in the local community halls. He is a self-taught keyboard player and is fast developing his skills on the guitar.
Guest: Mthunzi - South African Musician
Precious Thamaga-Mazibuko commonly known as Precious The Planner is one of South Africa's top sought after Luxury Wedding Planner & Event Designer. She is the CEO of Precious Celebrations which is a luxury wedding and event planning company based in Johannesburg, South Africa. The company is designed to offer clients personalised service through creativity and uniqueness based on individual taste and preference.
Guest: Precious Thamaga-Mazibuko - CEO ,Head Planner & Designer at Precious Celebrations
Lesego Thlabi has done alot of work behind the scenes and it’s her experience and training that led her to creating her character: Coconut Kelz which is a growing satire/comedy figure. Coconut Kelz was inspired by Lesego’s time at school, which in SA, private schools are inherently white spaces.
Guest: Lesego Thlabi - Comedian behind the satirical character Coconut Kelz and Author
Guest: Noel Dangerembwa- Recipient of a Canon Collins scholarship, with Dr Lieketseng Ned and Martha Geiger guiding my study and perfecting it to the present findings that are cognizant and addressing the livelihoods of migrants with Disabilities.
Msimelelo is a Fraud Management Specialist with a background in accounting, compliance, dispute resolution, internal auditing and forensic investigations. With a stable career, he went into marriage already with scars of arson. His whole body got burnt with his circumcision hut the day he was meant to go home according to his IsiXhosa cultural traditional practice.
Guest: Msimelelo Boltina - Fraud Management Specialist
According to the award organizers, the purpose of the Spoilers of Peace Awards is to expose people, organizations, businesses, and governments who have used their clout to frustrate the implementation of South Sudan's peace deal. The awards will shine a light on those who have been the worst for South Sudan.
Guest: Dismas Nkunda - Founder and Executive Director of Atrocities Watch Africa which the organizers of Spoilers of Peace Awards
Guest: Benedict Mhlongo – Psychologist,mental health activist socially known as “Dr Better” and Lecturer Guest: Baba Buntu - Founding Director of eBukhosini Solutions Guest: Prince Manene Tabane - Chairperson of Contralesa (Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa) Gauteng
Guests : Lorraine Sithole – Writer, Publisher ,Reader and a Promoter of Afrocententric stories Forgiveness Redefined, Candice Mama Those Who Travel Meet Themselves, edited by Michelle Ntandoyenkosi Van Onna Green - Thompson, Nomaswazi, Busisekile Khumalo and Happiness is a Four - Letter Word, Cynthia Nozi Jele
Dr Glen Thompson - Research Fellow in the Department of History at Stellenbosch University. He is academic historian who writes about race, gender and politics in the history of surfing in South Africa and is currently completing a book on the topic. He is also a long-time surfer currently based in Cape Town
Guest: Andrew Thompson - Freelance writer and Contributor to the Business Insider South Africa
Guest: Terry Oakley-Smith - Diversity specialist Guest: Mbongeni Allan Magubane - Deputy Headmaster: Transformation & Community Engagement at St John's College
Guest: Prof Michael C Herbst- Health Specialist Men diagnosed with male breast cancer at an early stage have a good chance for a cure. However, many men delay seeing a doctor when they notice unusual signs or symptoms, such as a breast lump. For this reason, many male breast cancers are diagnosed when the disease is more advanced.
Among music legends, Nile Rodgers is truly exceptional. He amplifies his legacy as a multiple GRAMMY-winning composer, producer, arranger and guitarist by constantly traversing new musical terrain and successfully expanding the boundaries of popular music.
Guest: RJ Benjamin - Award-winning vocalist, songwriter, composer, vocal coach, musical director and producer
Lekke Fresh is a farm-to-door food service offering fresh, organic goods like dairy products, breads, meat and veg to its clientele. It is a Stellenbosch University initiative and serves over 250 people in and around Stellenbosch. This unique business is now offering a modern-day milkman service where delivery boys bring the products right to your door.
Guest: Henk van der Merwe - Founder and owner of Lekke Fresh
Bôna is a selection of work from several photo essays by the late Thabiso Sekgala which explore how social borders determine visibility in society. The exhibition’s title, Bôna, is a Sesotho word with a double meaning. As a verb, Bôna means to “see”. When used as a pronoun, the word translates to “them”. Sekgala’s photographs evoke this title through the responses they elicit from the subjects in the work and in turn us, the viewers. The exhibition features work from Sekgala's Homelands, Second Transition and Running series.
Guest: Teboho Ralesai - Curator
Zama Khanyile (34) is a fund manager at the National Empowerment Fund (NEF) and in she is charge of the uMnotho Fund that deals with acquisitions, new ventures and expansions. A Chartered Accountant who studied at the University of Johannesburg and is registered with the South African Institute of Chartered Accounts, she leads a team of 15 investment professionals, carrying out the mandate to improve access to capital for black-owned entities, and she oversees the NEF’s women empowerment fund that finances businesses that are majority owned and managed by black women. She sits on a number of boards including that of Qumbu Mall and the non-profit organisation African Women Chartered Accountants, of which she is the president.
Guest: Zama Khanyile - President of the african women chartered ACCOUNTANTS (AWCA) & FUND MANAGER AT THE NATIONAL EMPOWERMENT FUND (NEF)
He was Gunned down twice in 2016 and has been on a wheelchair since the incident. He says he Turned his worst pain into Power
Guest: David “Victorious David ” Nhlapo - Founder of the I am Victorious Foundation.
The book unpacks the names that our streets are now named after - from a South African's perspective.
Guest: Khetiwe Zulu - Author of 'South African History Retold: A Beginners Guide to the History Behind the Names
Serious damage to grain fields due to fall armyworm (FAW) infestations has to date been reported in Mpumalanga, Gauteng and northern KwaZulu-Natal in the 2019/2020 production season, according to Dr Gerhard Verdoorn, CropLife SA’s operations and stewardship manager.
Guest: Dr Gerhard Verdoon - Operations and Stewardship Manager Crop Life SA
Free anti-virus program Avast tracks the behaviour of its users and sells people’s private data to other companies, Vice and PCMag reported. Vice and PCMag reported that they obtained documents which show how the Avast anti-virus is used to effectively sell more detailed versions of people’s Internet browsing histories. The data is monetised through an Avast subsidiary called Jumpshot.
Guest: Jan Vermeulen - Editor at Large at My Broadband
As the effects of climate change visit ever more havoc on communities around the globe, the corporate world has begun to realize that piecemeal commitments to sustainability no longer cut it with customers or with shareholders. The climate-savvy consumer is looking for bolder, systems-level action from the companies that profit from their behavior.
Guest: Leonie Joubert - Science Writer and Author at the Daily Maverick
Guest: Sahara Thagunna - An environmental activist, speaker and writer involved with a number of environmental projects including her signature project for 2020, “What the bag”
He is an Electrical Engineer. He completed his MSc degree in Engineering at the University of the Witwatersrand where his work entailed research and development on the solar power aspects of the PeCo Power technology. He is currently working towards his PhD which focuses on the socio-technical aspects of alternative to grid technologies their implementation and impact. His research aligns with his role at PeCo Power which focuses on business development and the roll-out in various markets.
Guest: Mohammed Raees Dangor - MSc Engineering: Wits University and PeCo Power: Business Development
Two young sisters are breaking barriers with bricks. With an invention that uses plastic to create bricks for construction, Kedibone, 30, and Kekeletso Tsiloane, 27, have found a real-world solution to plastic waste. The sisters are the founders of Ramtsilo, a construction business named after their grandmother. Ramtsilo was created to address the high levels of plastic waste found all around us.
Guest: Kedibone and Kekeletso Tsiloane
The outbreak is not entirely unexpected. Coronaviruses are among the emerging pathogens that the World Health Organisation in 2015 identified as likely to cause severe outbreaks in the near future.For a long time is was difficult to identify the causative agent of infectious diseases. The rapid development of various molecular detection tools has enabled researchers to identify several new respiratory viruses. It has also helped with the characterisation of novel emergent strains.
Guest: Professor Burtram Fielding – The Director: Research Development and Principal Investigator for Molecular Biology and Virology Research Laboratory Department of Medical BioSciences atUniversity of the Western Cape
- Butterfly Burning by Yvonne Vera
- How we fight for our lives by Saeed Jones,
- A spy in time by Imraan Coovadia,
- American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson
Guest: Griffin Shea - Owner of Bridge Books
Guest: Omar Badsha - He is also the founder of South African History Online, documentary photographer, artist, political and trade union activist and an historian
Guest: Candice Jansen – Manager of Research and Exhibition at the Market Photo Workshop
Guest: Lucien van der Walt, PhD - Professor of Economic & Industrial Sociology // Director: Neil Aggett Labour Studies Unit (NALSU). MA (coursework) coordinator:Sociology, Industrial/ Economic Sociology & Development Studies, Sociology Department, Rhodes University
Guest: Prof Glenda Daniels - Associate professor of media studies at the Wits University
The People's Republic of China is currently experiencing an outbreak of the coronavirus which has caused more than 41 deaths and has spread to other countries such Malaysia, and in some European destinations. This means that African destinations must take precautions on those that have travelled to and from mainland China. The outbreak has led to travel freeze in China on the eve of the Lunar New Year.
Guest: Mr. Unathi Sonwabile Henama - Tourism Lecturer Department of Tourism Management Tshwane University of Technology
Dawie Roodt, the chief economist of the Efficient Group, said there were three possible avenues as to how Wuhan flu could impact South Africa. “The first is through the real economy if other countries start closing borders and so on it will affect trade and tourism. The second is through the financial markets and its impact on commodity prices and exchange rates. The third is if the virus also arrives in South Africa,” he said
Guest: Dawie Roodt - The chief economist of the Efficient Group
Guest: Abigail Dawson - Spokesperson for the Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in South Africa (CORMSA )
Guest: Liesl Muller - Head of Statelessness Project at Lawyers for Human Rights
Guest: Nyika Machenjedze - Children on the Move Project Manager at Save The Children SA
What is Infant loss? (Understanding the difference between Infant loss, Miscarriage and Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), also known as cot death)
Guest: Dr Enrico Maraschin - Paediatrician
Guest: Dr Cathy Angus - Clinical Psychologist
Guest : Yonela Rasi - Founder of Lakhanya Foundation - she lost 3 babies within three years and started her foundation to help moms who've gone through infant loss and miscarriages
TikTok is a video-sharing social networking service used to create short lip-sync, comedy, and talent videos. The application allows users to create short music and lip-sync videos of 3 to 15 seconds and short looping videos of 3 to 60 seconds. It is popular in Asia, the United States, and other parts of the world. TikTok is not available in China, and its servers are based in countries where the app is available. TikTok was the most downloaded app in the US in October 2018, the first Chinese app to achieve this.
Guest: Emma Sadleir – Social Media Law Specialist, Co-Author of 'Don't Film Yourself Having Sex' and ‘Selfies, Sexts and Smartphones and founder of The Digital Law Company
Lebo Mathosa...simply GONE TOO SOON. She died at 29 years of age and yet in her short life she became one of the greatest stars South Africa has ever produced. A multitalented singer, dancer and actress, Lebo was born in Daveyton on the East rand of Johannesburg. Her family later moved to JHB where she attended St Mary's High School in Waverly. Like many great singers, her skills as a singer began while singing in her local church choir. Joburg's cosmopolitan influence also introduced Lebo to SA's bubblegum pop music and most notably Brenda Fassie.
Guest: RJ Benjamin - Award-winning vocalist, songwriter, composer, vocal coach, musical director and producer
The Gingerbread Lady Bakery is an artisan bakery based at 109 Van Riebeeck Avenue in Edenvale, Johannesburg. Established in 2015, The Gingerbread Lady Bakery is dedicated to making cakes with nostalgic homemade flavours, with a contemporary twist on every flavour and design. We specialise in stylish buttercream cakes, delicious and fresh French Macarons and other sweet confectionary. The enthusiasm for The Gingerbread Lady’s creations continues to grow, and with sincere dedication towards dessert making, our mission is to provide all of our customers with delicious, beautiful & memorable sweet treats for any occasion.
Guest: Natalie Wadsworth - Founder of The Gingerbread Lady Bakery
Tonya looks at the top social media trends of the week.
Guest: Tonya Khoury - Founder of Acumen Media
Artificially Infeminated, directed by award winning comedian Rob Van Vuuren, is Claudine’s debut one woman stand up comedy show that explores the intricacies of being cis gender female, pale white, chubby, Jewish and middle child in Jo’burg #millenialslovelabels.
Guest: Claudine Ullman - founder and managing director of the Jittery Citizens. She is an actress, improviser; stand up comedienne, public speaker as well as expert facilitator
The Mixed Reality Workshop (TMRW) and Pan Macmillan are proud to present Occupying the Fatuous State of Severity, a mixed reality exhibition made possible by the British Council. A project responding to novelist Phumlani Pikoli’s debut collection of short stories that probe mental illness in South Africa. Pikoli’s book, The Fatuous State of Severity, described in the Mail & Guardian as “a palpable search for the self” has been re-imagined by a collection of South African artists who have worked to bring the stories to life in various mediums including Augmented Reality paintings,
Guest : Phumlani Pikoli - Collector of short stories, The Fatuous State of Severity.
Guest: Bale Legoabe – Illustrator and Motion designer
Technology has come a long way to enable amputees. Most young South Africans living with amputation are limited more by health policies and the high cost of prosthetic equipment than by their actual physical ability. At Jumping Kids, the dream is to provide affordable prosthetic solutions geared for optimum results while boosting awareness and advocating for change. It is not enough to merely fit a child with a prosthetic. We believe access to the equipment should translate into access to better education and sport. This is achieved by following a multi-disciplinary approach to ensure the children’s long-term reintegration as valuable members of society.
Guest: Michael Stevens - Director of Jumping Kids
34-year-old Khanyisile Ngwenya, one of the creators and associate producer of SABC 2’s TalkAbility, hails from Soweto and was raised in both Diepkloof and Meadowlands. Ngwenya was born with Osteogenesis Imperfecta, also known as brittle bones, and contrary to popular belief, growing up with a disability was not as easy as it might have seemed. Her challenges were not only physical, due to the obvious multiple surgeries and broken bones, but were also emotional and mental. And as a black teenage girl with a disability, those challenges further extended to trying to deal with accepting and loving oneself despite the fragile body she lives in.
Guest: Khanyisile Ngwenya - She was born with Osteogenesis Imperfecta Producer of TalkAbility
Minister Cele committed to training 4500 police officers to address gender-based violence (GBV) [1], we want to know if this training has been completed? There are 193,000 police officers in our country [2], training less than 3% is not enough if we are to really address GBV. We call on Minister Cele to make a public commitment to train at least 50% of police officers to address GBV, in 2020. Finally, the Minister must partner with social justice organisations in monitoring and evaluation to promote transparency and accountability.
Guest: Mo Senne - Head of Communications: Not In My Name SA.
Some Fact by the Association of Meat Importers and Exporters 1. They don’t import Ox Liver, they import Beef Liver.
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South Africa has been importing Beef liver from the US and Australia for years. Got nothing to do with local supply, it’s about pricing.
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The demand for Beef liver from the South African consumer is on the up, Beef liver between Jan 19 – Nov 19 is currently sitting at 30571 mt imported into SA
Guest : Nompumelelo Mqwebu - Head Chef: Mpume's African Cuisine
Guest: Mpumelelo Ncwadi - Managing Director - Foregone Conclusions NPC
- Zola, Johan Jack Smith.
- Hair: Weaving and unplucking stories of identity, edited by Joanne Hichens and Karin M. Szczurek.
- Those Who Travel Meet Themselves, edited by Michelle Ntandoyenkosi Van Onna Green - Thompson.
- Happiness is a Four Letter Word, Nozizwe Cynthia Jele.
- Black Tax, edited by Niq Mhlongo.
Guest: Lorraine Sithole – Writer, Publisher ,Reader and a Promoter of Afrocententric stories
Her story highlights women who have done impeccable things in the lifetime .This feature helps us learn more about them, their journey and their incredible contribution in society.
Guest: Laika Masuka - Grand-daughter of Dorothy Masuka
Sexual health isn't the easiest topic to discuss with your children, but talking about it is a key part of keeping them healthy and safe. What is the right age to have the Chat?
Guest: Christy Herselman - Founder of the Chat, which promotes healthy conversations around sexuality
The Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Act seeks to transform traditional and Khoi-San institutions in line with constitutional imperatives, such as the Bill of Rights, and restore the integrity and legitimacy of the institutions of traditional and Khoi-San leadership in line with customary law and practices," read a statement from the Presidency on Friday. It also provides for the protection and promotion of the institutions of traditional and Khoi-San leadership. OF FIRST NATION NEWS
Guest: Constance Mogale - National Coordinator for the Rural Women's Assembly
Guest: Chief Zenzile Khoisan - Chief of the Gorinhaiqua Cultural Council
There are numerous types of fat. Your body makes its own fat from taking in excess calories. Some fats are found in the foods you eat — these are called dietary fats. Dietary fat is a macronutrient that provides energy for your body. It’s also critical to have foods that naturally boost your energy instead of taking vitamins that will substitute that.
Guest: Professor Tim Noakes – Author, runner, LCHF/Banting/CrossFit proponent
Bullying doesn't stop when childhood ends. Schoolyard bullies often become bullying adults. Many of us dealt with bullies growing up and don’t expect to deal with bullies when we are older. How can we deal with adult bullying?
Guest: Penny Holburn - Life And Business Coach
Tonya looks at the top social media trends of the week
Guest: Tonya Khoury – Founder of Acumen Media
Agritourism is a growing international phenomenon. It is any tourist activity happening on a farm and linked to the farm’s activities and attractions. This can include agricultural activities such as milking cows at the dairy, shearing wool, harvesting crops, culling herds, using agricultural implements, tasting and buying farm produce. Using the farm’s resources for game viewing, birding, biking, hiking, fishing are all part of Agritourism. Boarding and lodging on the farm is a bonus but not a necessity.
Guest: Zelda Coetzee - One of the partners of AgriTourism South Africa
The World Mission Society Church of God Young Adult Worker Volunteer Group has launched a worldwide movement called ASEZ, WOA which means Save the Earth from A to Z and We Are One. They aim to accomplish the UN SDGs (United Nations Sustainable Development Goals) working together with national government, local municipalities and public institutions throughout the world.
Guest: Wandile Mazibuko - Manager at ASEZ, WOA which means Save the Earth from A to Z
Closet is Brett Charles Seiler’s first exhibition with Goodman Gallery. Taking the form of painting and installation, Closet continues Seiler’s ongoing interest in themes of longing, distance and nostalgia. Seiler describes his work as a straight-forward “coming of age narrative” taking place during the gay rights movement. Born in 1994, Seiler did not personally experience this period of history. Instead, the artist accesses it through references to historic gay modes of communication and conduct, incorporating figurative forms as well as text and language to tell these stories through poetic snapshots of a time before gay liberation in society. His exhibition will take place on the 25 January - 29 February 2020 at Goodman Gallery Johannesburg Viewing Room
Guest: Brett Charles Seiler / Exhibiting Closet at the Goodman Gallery
The Big interview is a personality profile interview that focuses on all aspects of one’s remarkable journey. We want to connect with our guest as an individual .This includes childhood experiences, goals (then and now) , their take on issues of national interest/current issues in SA, their advice and personal take on leadership. Today we are joined by Award - Winning South African musician, PJ Powers.
Guest: PJ POWERS - AWARD WINNING MUSICIAN
“What do you see?” is an autobiography and testimony of the indomitable human spirit. This story is an illustration of Itumeleng Sekhu’s life and her ability to beat the odds that were so heavily stacked against her...starting with the fire that nearly destroyed her life.
Guest: Itumeleng Sekhu - Founder and Managing Director of the Itumeleng Sekhu Foundation and an Author of a book titled What Do You See
Homeschooling is growing in South Africa at a higher rate than ever before. Some parents are no longer considering homeschooling as an alternative option to mainstream, but as the preferred option for educating their children. Today we ask , Should more parents start looking at homeschooling as an option as opposed to traditional schooling?
Guest: Mr Bouwe van der Eems - Chairman for Pestalozzi Trust
Guest: Professor Rita Niemann - Head of Academics at Impaq
On Monday retail group Massmart announced it was considering closing 34 of its stores. The outlets under threat include all 21 permanent DionWired stores and two pop-up stores. It also owns local brands such as Game, Makro, Builder's Warehouse and CBW. Massmart could also cut over 1000 jobs
Guest : Tshepo Matseba - Founder of Reputation 1st
Guest: Babalwa Dlangamani - PR Officer for Table Mountain National Park
Guest: Shamier Magmoet - Founder and Vice-Chairman of Sea the Bigger Picture
its school children are going back to school, parents and guardians have been warned of taking pictures of their children and posting on social media. Social media law specialist Emma Sadleir will share some top tips to protect you and your family
Guest: Emma Sadleir - Social Media Law Specialist, Co-Author of 'Don't Film Yourself Having Sex' and ‘Selfies, Sexts and Smartphones and founder of The Digital Law Company
We are Tebo and Lebo Ndala. We are born and bred in Pretoria, South Africa. After finishing high school in Pretoria, we moved to Stellenbosch to study culinary arts at the Hurst Campus and graduated at the end of 2014. We then moved to the United States for a few months and studied through the University of California Los Angeles Extension for extra credit. We love cooking, we absolutely love what we do. Our passion grows with every experience we have. We currently work in the food and media industry, preparing to be the best food editors and food stylists in the world!!! We are not just chefs, we are creators and artists.
Guest: Tebo Ndala and Lebo Ndala – Owner of With Love From The Twins
Nomhle started her acting career at the age of 19 years. In 2002, she received her Master’s degree in Theatre for Development in the United Kingdom from the King Alfred College. Nkonyeni was the first black actress in theatre during the apartheid era in South Africa. She performed with different stage groups such as the Serpent Drama group.
Guest: Tebogo Nkonyeni – Son of Nomhle Nkonyeni
It's a new year and a new decade and if any time is going to be the time to take your business to the next level - it is now!
Guest: Jacqueline Raw - Owner and Found of Yacgels
The apartheid regime used various strategies to ensure that South Africans formed a divided nation. It was through the differences between ethnic groups and tribes, among other things, that the government of the time managed to manipulate and entrench hatred and a lack of trust among most black South Africans. Tribalism, which existed even before apartheid, became instrumental in inflicting those divisions as perpetuated by the formation of homelands. The various ethnic groups had been turned against one other, and it had become a norm. Nepotism, which is part and parcel of the South African government, is just an extension of tribalism.
Guest: Prof Muxe Nkondo - Former Vice Chancellor of University of Venda & Member of Council of University of SA
Guest: Anele Siswana – Lecturer and Clinical Psychologist
What is the most common factor /trend we see with men leaving their children or the responsibility of being a father. Why is this happening?
Guest : Commissioner Mbuyiselo Botha - Commissioner from Commission for Gender equality
Guest: Mluleki Sibanda - Centre Director of Mankind Project SA
Guest: Kabelo Chabalala - Founder of The Young Men Movement Young Men Movement
Obesity is a complex disease involving an excessive amount of body fat. Obesity isn't just a cosmetic concern. It is a medical problem that increases your risk of other diseases and health problems, such as heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure and certain cancers.
Guest: Mpho Tshukudu - Dietitian & Co-Author of Eat Ting
Last year a tweet reading “O Jewa Keng” went viral and helped people share their frustrations and issues they were facing. We talk to 12 lessons about a tweet that became a movement. We talk to Bra Willy Seyama author or “12 lessons about a tweet that became a movement”
Guest: Bra Willy Seyama - Founder of Enitiater
We look at many things for example the art of making cheese, dancing, drawing, ice cream, and organic food and today we look at the art of modern African foods by Celebrity Chef Nti.
Guest: Nthabiseng Ramaboa - Better known as Chef Nti - Celebrity Chef
Tourism Minister Mamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane has congratulated the South African Airways (SAA) for being named as one of the top-performing airlines globally for on-time performance (OTP) by travel data and analytics company, Cirium.
Guest: Mmamoloko Kubayi Ngubane - Minister of Tourism
The Big interview is a personality profile interview that focuses on all aspects of one’s remarkable journey. We want to connect with our guest as an individual . This includes childhood experiences, goals (then and now) , their take on issues of national interest/current issues in SA, their advice and their personal take on leadership. Today we are joined by Thula Sindi who is an award-winning fashion designer and owner of Thula Sindi designs, which creates exquisite and delicately crafted masterpieces
Guest : Thula Sindi - Famous South African Designer
We have heard in the past and recently that musicians are exploited either by their managers or record labels, so today we would like to find out about artists rights and what do you they need to know before signing contracts with managers or record labels .
Guest: Mpumi Phillips - Music Publisher Guest: Advocate Nkateko Maluleke - Head of the SAMRO's stakeholder relations
Yesterday, Kaizer Chiefs celebrated 50 years of their existence. The Soweto Giants were founded in 1970 by Orlando Pirates legend, Kaizer Motaung. The club has consistently been South Africa’s most successful and best-supported club, and one of the biggest clubs not only on the African continent, but in world football.
Guest: Jessica Motaung - Marketing Director of Kaizer Chiefs
The images emerging from Australia, a continent that has been on fire for months, seem to document one of the first great spasms of an ecology thrown out of balance. The skies have turned blood red. The smoke is descending on cities and billowing out to sea. More than 200 fires are burning at the time of this writing, and an area the size of West Virginia—about 23,000 square miles—has already burned. At least over 20 people are dead
Guest: Dr Dube Kaitano (PhD) is an Ecotourism Management Lecturer at Vaal University of Technology
Guest: Sally Archibald - Professor, Animal Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand
Lutendo Mulaisi a student from Thengwe Secondary school in Limpopo was the overall achiever in Physical Sciences when the Department of Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga announced the 2019 National Senior Certificate results on Tuesday evening.
Guest: Lutendo Mulaisi - a student from Thengwe Secondary school in Limpopo was the overall achiever in Physical Sciences
SA’s new parental leave laws have been signed into law by President Cyril Ramaphosa, this took effect from the 1st January 2020. The new legislation means that all parents, including fathers, adopting parents, and surrogates, are now entitled to 10 days paid parental leave when their children are born. Sonke Gender Justice says 10-days paid leave is a step towards a framework where the vital care work in an infant’s life is shared equally by both primary caregivers.
Guest: Wessel van der Berg - Coordinator of the men care fatherhood campaign at Sonke Gender Justice
I wrote this book because I believe the road to financial freedom is a journey everyone can embark on. I wrote this book with you in mind. You, who perhaps have never been taught anything about how money works. You, who have been too intimidated to pick up and read a book about personal finance because you were too scared of the jargon. You, who want to #getyourmoneyright. I had you in mind when I wrote this book.’ – Mapalo Makhu If you are a millennial who is trying to figure out how money works, this book is for you. With simple, relatable and sometimes amusing stories about how to manage money on a day-to-day
Guest: Mapalo Makhu – Author of “You’re Not Broke, You’re Pre-Rich”, founder of Woman & Finance and an award-winning personal-finance coach
On Her story we celebrate women who have made an impact in SA whether be during Apartheid, in Music or Education. Today we focus on Jazz Legend Thandie Klaasen.
Guest: Lex Futshane - A prolific composer, arranger, educator, performer and an internationally proclaimed bassist (electric and acoustic). He also performed with Thandi Klaasen on her last performance
Yesterday South Africa lost a business icon, Dr Richard Maponya. Maponya was the founding president of the National African Federated Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Nafcoc), which was started in 1964 to serve the interests of small businesses. Today we ask , What are some of the business lessons we can learn from Dr Richard Maponya?
Guest: Tebogo Ditshego - CEO of Ditshego Media, Vice President of the Public Relations Institute of Southern Africa (PRISA) | Founder of Read A Book SA, President of the South Ayrshire Youth Forum
Samuel Hlonyana has helped and coached more than 2000 people around the world with the #90DaysWithoutSugar online program. The program has helped people defeat sugar addictions, lose weight and transform their health. The book shares inspiring stories and principles where you will discover: How to put together a simple, actionable health plan to help you stay committed.
Guest : Samuel Hlonyana - Author and Founder of the #90DaysWithoutSugar online program
The United Nations warned that Zimbabwe faced another poor harvest in 2020 because of patchy rains. Soaring inflation, shortages of foreign exchange, fuel and electricity have brought back memories of the hyperinflation of a decade ago. How can the government over-turn that? Was Mugabe a better leader?
Guest: Faith Abiodun - Director of the International Relations Council at the African Leadership Academy
Guest: Martha Shumba - Zim activist in SA and Executive director of the Coalition against Sanctions
Matric Results will be released on the 8th of January. This is a new beginning for many students who will be going to the varsity world next year but some will not. Failure is a part of life and dealing with it is not easy. How do you pick yourself up after failing matric and have hope again?
Guest: Palesa Radebe – Psychologist and Founder of Neo-Psych Psychological Services
Guest: Lumka Oliphant - Spokesperson Department of Social Development
Shannon Walbran is a Spirit Guide interpreter who teaches people how to download their own divine guidance, in order to solve their toughest problems.
She helps people in private sessions, coaching groups, on TV and radio. Her first book is called "Guided!" and is available on Audible. She's writing a second book called "You Are Guided in Love."
You can schedule your own session by going to www.ShannonWalbran.com
Guest: Shannon Walbran - Spirit Guide Interpreter Website:www.ShannonWalbran.com
Guest: Unati Sonwabile Henama– Tourism Lecture for the Tshwane University of Technology
Guest: Shalen Gajadhar – Spokesperson for the Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Electric bicycles will now be used to help with patrols and incident response. These newly seven e-bicycles to the newly-established Tourism Law Enforcement Unit will help broaden their patrol footprint throughout the hot spots in the city of Cape.
Guest: JP Smith - MMC for safety and security in the Western Cape
It’s not the end of the month yet and January is normally not a financially smoot month. How can one properly manage their money and make it into the New Year financially healthy?
Guest: Gerald Mwandiambira - Money Expert and Author Guest: Busi Selesho - International Accredited money coach, money Consciousness teacher and Author
Growing up, Maureen Bvuma has always wanted to make a difference. She has always wanted to be one of the people who lived beyond people’s expectations by doing extra- ordinary things, to show that disability is not in any way a limitation and she joins us now to tell us about her book Queen On Wheels.
Guest: Maureen Bvuma - Author of Queen On Wheels
Guest: Allan Perrins - Head of communications and resource development at The Animal Welfare Society of SA
A lot of people will return from holidays to a disciplinary because they would have placed their employers at risk. To post or not to post. Why not everything is good for social media.
Guest: Tshepo Matseba - Founder of Reputation 1st
Christmas is known as a time to share with family and loved ones. For many people who identity as Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, Transgender, Intersex (LGBTI+), it can be a difficult time. It can be seen as a time for rejection, exclusion, and loneliness. There are many LGBTI+ people in South Africa who may not have a home or a family to spend this joyous time with. Over the years, more and more queer South Africans have started gathering during the more lonely times of the year. Queermas is just one of those gatherings; started as something small to create a space for LGBTI+ people to celebrate the spirit of the December festive season in a safer space.
Guest: Lethlogonolo Mokgoroane - Gender activist and Co-planner of Queermas
Guest: Nomi Mbaile - Co-Planner Queermas
It’s that time of the year where families come together and are excited to see each other after not seeing each other after a long time.This is a joyful time for many but a sad time for others who can’t gohome to see their families or those others have lost close family members this year. How does one deal with loneliness and depression during the holiday season?
Guest: Buyisile Mncina - Senior Lecturer at Wits, Counselling Psychologist and Director of Re Basadi Mental Health Associate
Marvin Gaye was born Marvin Pentz Gay Jr on the 2 April 1939 – April 1, 1984).He was an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. He helped to shape the sound of Motown in the 1960s, first as an in-house session player and later as a solo artist with a string of hits, earning him the nicknames "Prince of Motown" and "Prince of Soul".
Guest: RJ Benjamin - Award-winning vocalist, songwriter, composer, vocal coach, musical director and producer
In psychology, the term self-esteem is used to describe a person's overall sense of self-worth or personal value. In other words, how much you appreciate and like yourself. Self-esteem is often seen as a personality trait, which means that it tends to be stable and enduring. Looking into 2020 in order to reach your goals it’s necessary to have a strong self-esteem combined. How can one do this?
Guest: Dr Linda Meyer- Dean at Boston Media House
Whether the package is big or small, we all want to receive gifts that we like or we leave it to the thoughtfulness of the gift giver, one thing is for sure: we get really excited when it comes to unwrapping gifts. There will always be that feeling of delight and surprise that comes with getting to know what’s under the packaging.
Mystery boxes is this new big thing! This start up business is called Matilda and Charles, it has created the ideal box gift idea for anyone, the Mystery Excitement in receiving a Gift that you have no idea what’s inside is intriguing to say the least, Once opened its a complete surprise – Just like a lucky packet.
Guest: Zareef Minty – Entrepreneur and Founder of the My mystery box campaign
A 22-year-old entrepreneur from Ha-Ravele village in Venda, Limpopo, is determined to pull her family out of poverty with her business acumen. Thiofhi Lambani has created her own dish-washing liquid – Spotless – and plans to create other cleaning products soon. “Spotless is a household cleaning brand which produces and distributes different cleaning products. Because we are still self-funded, I decided to start with the dishwashing liquid, which we have tested and sampled. The first batch of products will be available in November,” Lambani said. Lambani said she was inspired by her grandmother, who used to sell things around in order to feed her family.
Guest: Maemu Thiofhi Lambani – Entrepreneur and Owner of Spotless
Consumers continue to spend big during the festive season and with the rush to get the best deal, whether in-store or online, comes an increased risk of theft, and fraud.
Online a virtual army of cybercriminal organizations has spread across the globe with one goal in mind: to access the value of data, says Bevan Smith, Head of Risk: Visa sub-Sahara Africa. Ninety percent of the world’s data was created in the last two years and more than 3.3 billion data records were compromised in just the first half of 2018, alone.
GUEST: Bevan Smith - Head of Risk: Visa sub-Saharan Africa
Guest: Nkosi Mwelo Nonkonyane - Chairperson of the House of Traditional Leaders in the Eastern Cape
Dr Mbuyiselo Madiba - Chief Medical Officer, Urology Department, Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital
The EFF welcomed the withdrawal of broadcasting channel eNCA from its elective conference. Speaking at a media briefing after delivering the political report at the party's second National People's Assembly in Nasrec on Friday, Malema said eNCA's withdrawal was unfortunate, because the channel had continued to cover the party's events, even after it had announced it would not be allowing amaBhungane and Daily Maverick to its press conferences
Guest: Tshepo Matseba – Founder of Reputation 1st
Vision Tactical has been at the forefront of private security and protection services around Johannesburg since its launch in 2014. With the dawn of a new year, filled with renewed opportunities, Vision Tactical is proud to launch its latest operation – the Green Team. The Green Team is a vision in execution. Vision Tactical’s way of further enhancing the suburbs it serves. Bringing in a team of passionate individuals to clean up and strive towards litter free surroundings.
Guest: Yaseen Theba, Director of Vision Tactical
Sales force and market research firm iSpani made the strongest impression on the judges and received R2.5m towards their business. It’s a platform that enables on-demand data collection in the informal sector supported by a network of mobile agents who provide this data all in real-time to unearth insight on this market.
Guest: Thabiso Khathazile Moroe - Chief Marketing Officer Ispani
Guest: Brigadier Vishnu Naidoo Siphiwe Mngomezulu - Executive Director of 80-D Albert Street Foundation
Refilwe was born and bred in a remote village called Pachsdraai near Groot Marico in the North West Province. She holds an LLB degree and is currently enrolled for a Masters programme in Commerce in the field of Taxation, (MCom Tax) with Wits University. She has an NGO (Civil Youth Institute), with which she has worked on a number of projects with the Gauteng Provincial Department of Education and the City of Johannesburg, developing and motivating young people in the public schools
Guest: Refilwe Matlhoko - Author of Founder Beyond Hopes and Dreams: Lament of Africa’s child & Chairperson Civil Youth Institute
Precious Ramabulana , Uyinene Mrwetyana, Leighandre Jegels and Jesse Hess . These are some of the women we know of who lost their lives through femicide. There were calls for a "national shutdown" and protest was had South Africa. Women took to Twitter to tweet #AmINext - asking if they will become the next victim of murder. As days went by more women were killed by their partners. How do we continue the fight against femicide?
Guest: Javu Baloyi - Spokesperson for Commission of Gender Equality
President Cyril Ramaphosa delivered the keynote address at the commemoration of the national Day of Reconciliation yesterday the 16th of December 2019 under the theme "The Year of Indigenous Languages: Supporting National Reconciliation Through the Promotion, Development and Preservation of Indigenous Languages;” and emphasises the significance of indigenous languages in line with the United Nation General Assembly's proclamations for 2019.
Guest: Tebogo Baba Buntu is an Activist Scholar and Founding Director of eBukhosini
Forgiving is not easy but is has many benefits and can be healing for you as an individual .
Guest: Angie Diale – Social Worker (and she’s a training Psychologist)
Since Zozibini won the coveted Miss SA and Miss Universe title , her natural crown has become a major talking point and a source of inspiration for many women who are asking their hairstylists to copy her signature fade. Zozibini has received widespread praise and some criticism - for the short cut. Some have even insinuated that her hair choice might have had something to do with her victory.
Guest: Jabu Stone is the founder of Jabu Stone Natural Hair, a company which promotes natural hair care and pride in natural looks and heritage to Africans worldwide
Guest: Nthabiseng Mokhokha is an Award-winning Beauty and Hair Magazine Editor
Guest: Jawad Maphoto – Miss Universe 2019 Hairstylist, Award Winning Celebrity hair stylist and Owner of Lajawi Beauty Café hair
Guest: Dr Nandipha - Magudumana Founder and chief executive of Optimum Medical Solutions
Guest: Tshidi Pila - Life Coach Founder and Managing Director of Imperative Transformation Journey.
While Davids career has been more behind the scenes in the past few decades, he has one the most fascinating journeys of any SA musician. He went from wanting to be a US style folk singer in Leeds in the UK to a satirical South African musician/performer who put smiles on South Africans of all races when he became the face of the VW Combi's in the 80's and ultimately created some of the greatest and most successful South African musicals ever with longtime collaborator, the late Taliep Peterson.
Guest: RJ Benjamin - Award-winning vocalist, songwriter, composer, vocal coach, musical director and producer
On April 24, Arts and Culture Minister Nathi Mthethwa announced the construction of the house, where Madikizela-Mandela was banished to, would be complete in November 2019. The Department said “The Winnie Madikizela-Mandela House will now be part of the prized national monuments and sites that fall under the resistance and liberation heritage route programme.
Guest: Asanda Magaqa - Spokesperson for the Ministry of Arts and Culture and Sports
This year 2019 marks the centenary of the late Professor Es’kia Mphahlele. Mphahlele was born on 17th December 1919 in Marabastad, Pretoria South Africa. Mphahlele was a writer, educationist, artist and activist celebrated as the Father of African Humanism and one of the founding members of modern African Literature
Guest: Chepape Makgato - Es’kia Centenary Cast Member and Founding Director of Khehla Chepape Makgato Youth Libraries rural schools in Limpopo
In an age of perpetual distraction have we forgotten how to be bored? Or are we, instead, more deeply and insidiously bored than before?
Guest: Dr Anna Hartford - Writer and Researcher based in Cape Town
South African opera singer Pretty Yende has been honoured with The Order of the Italian Star from the Italian Consulate in Cape Town. The accolade, which is listed as an order of knighthood, is given to those who have built extraordinary relations between Italy and other countries.
Guest: Kutlwano Masote - Orchestra Conductor
James Ngcobo is a South African television, stage and film actor. He is perhaps best known for his role as Mojo Khumalo in the enduring SABC 2 sitcom, Stokvel, alongside Manaka Ranaka, Thembi Mtshali-Jones and many others. He is the first black person be an artistic director at the Market Theatre full time. His appointment follows a prolific directing career that has included sitcoms, a festival spanning 14 European cities, a big-budget extravaganza marking the centenary of the African National Congress and a musical starring Hugh Masekela bound for Carnegie Hall in New York next year
Guest: James Ngcobo - Artistic Director At The Market Theatre
A woman who suffered from learning difficulties as a child has opened a swimming school for children with autism and other special needs in Grassy Park. Nabilah Diedericks said children with disabilities experienced setbacks in their development. However, swimming could be a way to build their confidence. Nabilah had learning difficulties while growing up, which allowed her to experience the challenges that a child with disabilities had to experience on a daily basis.
Guest: Nabilah Diederick - Founder of Finz Aquatics and Fitness Development swimming school for autistic children
Last week, the 3rd of December was International Day of Persons with Disabilities and people with disabilities who have excelled in various fields were honoured by the Office of the Premier in Gauteng.
Radio 2000 Senior Content Producer Mr Doug Anderson received a “Disability Rights Life Time Achievement Award: Silver” from Gauteng Premier, David Makhura, at the 2019 Gauteng Disability Rights Excellence Awards
Guest: Doug Anderson - Senior Content Producer Radio 2000
16 years Greta Thunberg, a Swedish schoolgirl who inspired a global movement to fight climate change, has been named Time magazine's Person of the Year for 2019. Last year, the teenager started an environmental strike by missing lessons most Fridays to protest outside the Swedish parliament building. It sparked a worldwide movement that became popular with the hashtag #FridaysForFuture. Since then, she has become a strong voice for action on climate change, inspiring millions of students to join protests around the world. To tell us more about the importance of acting on climate change, we are joined by…
Guest: Bukelwa Nzimande – Climate and Energy Campaigner for Greenpeace Africa
Mphuthi, the chairperson of Soweto Business Access, was testifying before the Competition Commission’s Grocery Retail Inquiry, which held hearings around the country in 2017. Mphuthi told the inquiry: “The malls are biased towards big business.” He argued that if independent black retailers are allowed into a mall, they are only given 12- to 18-month leases, which are more expensive than the long-term ones provided to big business. Mall management justifies this by saying they don’t trust small retailers.
Guest: Mphuthi Mphuthi - The chairperson of Soweto Business Access
After implementing stage 6 load shedding for the first time on Monday, Eskom says it will continue with stage 4 load shedding on Tuesday until 11pm.
Stage 4 allows for up to 4 000MW to be cut from the national grid.
Eskom has warned that cuts are likely to continue for the rest of the week as it battles severe capacity constraints caused by unplanned outages and flooding. On Monday it announced that heavy rains and floods at three power stations caused its already-reduced generation capacity to plunge further.
The power utility's acting CEO and interim executive chairperson Jabu Mabuza said on Monday evening that a key reason for the implementation of stage 6 load shedding was the failure of a power supply line feeding electricity to incline conveyors feeding coal to silos at Medupi power station.
Guest: Paul Lombard - Sales Director at Regenergy
4Roomed eKasi Culture in Khayelitsha and Le Wine Chambre are the proud title winners, awarded for being representatives of South African culture through unique dining experiences in Cape Town and Johannesburg respectively.
Walter Melato - Chief Wine Officer at lewinechambre
Investec has cancelled the mortgage bonds registered over the properties. The title deeds of the properties have been returned to the registered owners and the underlying debt is also being waived.
Guest: Danni Dixon, Head of Marketing for Investec SA
Mavuso (Walter) Msimang was stationed and trained primarily in central Tanzania, at Kongwa, an ANC military base in the 1960s. He became a leading member of the MK high command and in 1967 he was MK’s Chief of Communications’ during the Wankie Campaign (July - September 1967)
Guest: Mavuso Msimang
Blind SA CEO, Jace Nair says blind and partially sighted school children do not have access to books in braille.His comments come as South Africa observes International Day of Persons with Disabilities on December 3. The day aims to promote an understanding of disability issues, the rights of persons with disabilities and gains to be derived from the integration of persons with disabilities in every aspect of the political, social, economic and cultural life of their communities.
Guest: Jace Nair - Blind SA CEO
In celebrating the life and times of the late President Nelson Mandela’s legacy as a champion of children’s rights; Social Development in partnership with the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund (NMCF) and the KZN Provincial Legislature will host a special sitting of the Nelson Mandela Children’s Parliament on Friday, 6 December 2019 (Tomorrow).
Guest: Rose September - Chief Director: Children's Legislation, Government, Monitoring and Evaluation and Advocacy
Guest: Thato Mhlungu - 16 year old from Gauteng Province
Social media is reeling after the death of North West teenager Gomolemo Legae, who was stabbed, doused with petrol and set alight while still alive. The incident was confirmed by police spokesperson Sabata Mokgwabone, who said Legae was on her way home when a 19-year-old man allegedly started following her. Later, she was heard screaming. Mokgwabone said reports that Legae was stabbed more than 25 times were not true.
Guest: Adv. Brenda Madumise
Spekboom has enormous carbon-storing capabilities. Its capacity to offset harmful carbon emissions is compared to that of moist, subtropical forest. This remarkable plant is unique in that it stores solar energy to photosynthesise at night. Why planting a spekboom a day is good for THE environment?
Guest: Johan Swart of the Speekboom Foundation
Africa is set to overtake Asia as the biggest plastic polluter in the world. This has been the warning from the Africa Marine Waste Network. In 2015, a video went viral on social media showing scientists struggling for eight agonising minutes to remove an object from a sea turtle’s nose. What they at first thought to be a worm turned out to be a plastic straw. This video kick started global campaigns to keep plastic out of the oceans
Guest: Sharné Woods - Head of Communications at Sustainable Seas Trust
Biomedical engineers at Wits have researched how brainwaves can be used to control a robotic prosthetic hand. The impact is far-reaching, as such a brain computer interface (BCI) will enable amputees and people with motor impairments to regain some hand mobility.
Guest: Abdul-Khaaliq Mohamed, lecturer and PhD candidate in the School of Electrical and Information Engineering at Wits
Thabiso Mosia is an award winning journalist with 10 years’ experience in the sports broadcasting industry. Mosia previously worked as a betting analyst before venturing into sports broadcasting under the guidance of the renowned Jeff Moloi on KayaFM where he worked as a reporter, producer and sports writer.
Sports commentator, TV analyst and RSG sports presenter and talk show producer Jody Hendricks is living a dream that started at age 14, when he heard Mark Gilman on radio and decided he too wanted to be on air. “I knew I’d be on radio one day - I just didn’t know how,” he says.
Guest: Thabiso Mosia - Winner of the 2019 Sports Presenter of the year award and Presenter of “SPORT ON” on SAfm.
Jody Hendricks - Wins the radio sports producer of the year award.
BOOK 1: Exploring South African Artists by Cobi Labuscagne - Designed for kids but great for everyone, exploring living SA artists BOOK 2: South African Animal Portraits A-Z by Nicolaas Maritz - For kids, with beautiful illustrations BOOK 3: Rebirth by Daniel Browde and Josh Ryba - For teens, a story of vampires in SA, in which van Riebeck was the first vampire in the country BOOK 4: Catching Tadpoles by Ronnie Kasrils, a new memoir about his young life becoming a revolutionary. He’s at Bridge Books Saturday for a launch BOOK 5: Fresh Water by Akwaeke Emezi
Guest: Griffin Shea – Owner of Bridge Books
International Day of Persons with Disabilities is an international observance promoted by the United Nations since 1992. The SABC Information Library is celebrating this day with different authors and doing book reviews.
Guest: Sihle Sibiya, Darren Burn Nontokozo ka Mondise - Author of Bipolar and Me Deborah-May Coetzee – Author of Soaring above the clouds an autobiography of perseverance and victory – She is living with Cerebral Palsy
The Agricultural Youth Indaba is currently underway in Dundee Research Station Endumeni Local Municipality KZN under the theme “KZN Youth in Agriculture. A Radical Approach towards Job Creation in the Province“.
Guest: Sihle Zikalala - KZN Premier
The price of petrol (both 93 and 95) is set to increase by 22 cents a litre on Wednesday, the Department of Energy has announced.
Guest: Xhanti Phayi – Economist
Guest: Jerry Mofokeng - Actor Guest: Fumani Shilubana - Actor Guest: Gavin Moffat - Activist from the Mankind Project of South Africa Guest: Professor Monde Makiwane
Guest: Cindy Pivacic - Trainer, Speaker, Author and Activist living with HIV
Guest: Dr Yogan Pillay - Deputy Director General National Department of Health
The minister of basic education, Ms Angie Motshekga together with the chairperson of the National Education Collaboration Trust (NECT) Mr Sizwe Nxasana and Mr Godwin Khosa, CEO of the NECT will launch the National Reading Improvement Plan (NRIP) final consultation meeting. Over the past three months, the National Reading Coalition (NRC) - which is a multiple stakeholder organisation currently incubated in the NECT has been at the forefront in driving consultations on the NRIP with relevant stakeholder groups such as education funders, teacher unions, academics and NGOs.
Guest: Sizwe Nxasana - Chairperson of the National Education Collaboration Trust
Two students from Walter Sisulu University - a historically disadvantaged institution - have invented a groundbreaking prosthetic leg which will give financial and physical relief to the over three million below knee amputation casualties occurring annually. They join us now to tell us more about their invention…
Guest: Zanodumo Godlimpi - Walter Sisulu University Medical Orthotics and Prosthetic student
Guest: Siphosethu Mgwili’s - Walter Sisulu University Medical Orthotics and Prosthetic student
The Living Link, a non-profit, training centre for youth living with an intellectual disability, with branches in Johannesburg and Cape Town, has been changing the perceptions around the abilities and employability of people with intellectual disabilities (PWID) for the past 19 years. BP SA Education Foundation has partnered with The Living Link for the second year in a row, sponsoring 6 students to attend the adult integration and workplace readiness programme.
Sterotypes and misunderstandings
Guest: Gerna van Rooyen – Head sustainability on behalf of the Living Link
The Wise Collective and the Soul City Institute on Wednesday issued statements asking President Cyril Ramaphosa to withdraw from this year’s Chairman’s Conversation hosted by Power FM
Guest: Onica Makwakwa – Director of The Wise Collective
About The Wise Collective An advocacy organization and social enterprise initiated by African women whose sole purpose is to bring innovative solutions to the market that will prevent and address challenges in advancing women’s safety from gender-based violence and overall oppression from patriarchy
Water shortages in Hammanskraal have reached crisis status. SA Water Warriors has partnering with Not In My Name SA to assist Hammanskraal residents with 60000L of clean & safe drinking water delivered to Hammanskraal yesterday. In the past 11 days they have distributed over 100 000L of clean drinking water…. Guest: Siya Jentile – Founder of Not In My Name SA Guest: Cllr Abel Tau – MMC for Utility Services in Tshwane
Unless humans act now, seafood may disappear by 2048, concludes the lead author of a new study that paints a grim picture for ocean and human health. According to the study, the loss of ocean biodiversity is accelerating, and 29 percent of the seafood species humans consume have already crashed. Andrea Burgener says if we want seafood to remain on menus we need to be mindful of the sourcing practices and she joins us now… Guest: Andrea Burgener is owner of and chef at The Leopard, 44 Stanley Avenue, Joburg
In order to tackle the scarcity of potable water in communities throughout South Africa, Aqua Air Africa (Pty) Ltd will be launching Africa’s first atmospheric water generating plant, where 10 000 litres of water will be produced from air per day. In future, we further plan on scaling up the plant to 1 000 000 litres of water per day.
Guest : Ms Keamogetswe Matsho – CEO of Aqua Air Africa
The Soul City Institute For Social Justice Has Announced The Resignation Of The Chief Executive Officer (Ceo), Ms Lebogang Ramafoko, Who Will Leave The Organisation At The End Of 2019. Ms Ramafoko is an internationally recognised defender of women’s and children’s rights who joined Soul City in 1995 and who has led the Institute as CEO since 2011.
Guest: Ms Lebogang Ramafoko – Outgoing CEO at Soul City Institute For Social Justice
Guest: Letlhogonolo Mogwerane –Co-founder of The Cheeky natives Literature podcast
*Dr T - A guide to sexual health and pleasure The indomitable Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng affectionately known as Dr T is passionate about making sexual health and well-being services available to all, regardless of their sexual and gender identities and their economic status.
Brenda Nokuzola Fassie was a South African anti-apartheid Afropop singer. Affectionately called MaBrrr by her fans, she was sometimes described as the "Queen of African Pop", the "Madonna of The Townships" or simply as The Black Madonna. Her bold stage antics earned a reputation for "outrageousness". Winnie Khumalo
Guest: Winnie Khumalo – South African singer and actress who first rose to fame as a teenager. She introduced to the music industry by the late Brenda Fassie, for whom she worked as a backing singer.
Black Friday, which falls on 29 November this year is around the corner. Andrew Thompson, Journalist at Business Insider SA says Black Friday isn’t charity and retailers want to trick people into spending more than they should, buying things they shouldn’t and he joins us now…
Guest: Andrew Thompson – Journalist at Business Insider SA
The 16 Days of Activism against gender-based violence started yesterday on November 25 and will run until 10 December — Human Rights Day. These 16 days give us the opportunity to reflect on the structures and behaviours that give rise to gender-based violence, and also the policies that are intended to tackle this scourge.
Guest: Kim Jurgensen is a PhD candidate at Rhodes University where she is researching gender inequality in the context of conflict-related sexual violence.
Guest: Jaqueline Harvey - Researcher, Human Sciences Research Council Guest: Dr Alude Mahali - Co-author of the book Studying While Black (which looks at, amongst others, the issue of language in higher education) and who recently organised a symposium looking at language in higher education Guest: Hendrick Makaneta - Education expert (In Studio) English is only one of 11 official languages spoken in South Africa. It’s currently the preferred language of education and is used in many of the nation’s schools. But most children entering the education system are not native English speakers and many are still in the process of learning English by the time they arrive at schools. Is teaching our children in English making them lose touch with their mother tongue?
Epilepsy is a central nervous system (neurological) disorder in which brain activity becomes abnormal, causing seizures or periods of unusual behaviour, sensations, and sometimes loss of awareness. Anyone can develop epilepsy and today we understand and learn more about epilepsy. Guest: Professor Girish Modi -Healthcare practitioner, specialising as a Neurologist Guest : Sandra Pohl - Assistant Director for Epilepsy SA Natasha
Over the period government will convene a series of dialogues on violence against women and children to focus on the problem, discuss the causes and to find appropriate solutions. Through the dialogue sessions government will interact with community members who experience violence and abuse.
Guest: Khusela Diko - Spokesperson to President Cyril Ramaphosa
A lot has been happening this week, from The DA electing a new Interim Leader to the SAA Strike and Trevoh Noah being nominated for a grammy award. We get a round up of all the weeks’ top stories. This is a mixture of Political and Entertainment stories. Guest: Nelisa Ngqulana – Managing Director of Of PR Trendz ZA
Guest: Sma Dlamini The first annual Mpumalanga Cap Classique & Champagne Festival “Sparkles of Bubbles in Mbombela” will be the premier annual event that caters to thousands of influential business men and women, government officials, upward mobile individuals, newsmakers, celebrities, trend-setters and media in a world-class event that will offer a showcase of all things beautiful.
Guest: Luzuko Koti - Director of Communications at the Nelson Mandela Foundation
The theme which the Chief Justice will speak to is Constitutionalism as an instrument for transformation. The Foundation is mindful of the fact that constitutionalism can be (and has been) utilised as a sophisticated instrument for protecting power, privilege and property. How can it become an instrument for deep and sustainable change? What is meant by justice and equity in 2019 South Africa?
HospiceWits is set to host its annual Tree of Light Ceremony on Sunday, 24th November 2019, at the Johannesburg Zoo The popular family event raises funds for the treatment of patients with a life threatening illness. This is the perfect occasion for family and friends to unite under a canopy of stars, as the sun goes down and the lights on the tree are lit and illuminate our hearts
Guest: Dr Craig Howes -Medical Doctor with a primary interest in palliative care. Doctor at the HospiceWits Inpatient unit.
A water crisis in the town of Graaff-Reinet has seen the Nqweba Dam run dry, leaving behind an overpowering stench of dead fish while residents fight for water. The humanitarian organisation Gift of the Givers has now intervened and is sending trucks of water, tankers, a drilling machine. Doug Stern is a sheep and cattle farmer in the Graaff-Reinet area
Guest: Doug Stern - President of Agri SA Eastern Cape, he is also A sheep and cattle farmer in the Graaff-Reinet
Guest: Dr Haley McEwen has a PhD in Sociology and is currently Research Coordinator at the Wits Centre for Diversity Studies. Three organisations are calling on civil society to mobilise a boycott of the new Comprehensive Sex Education (CSE) material. They argue that the content violates traditional Christian values and is dangerous to children.
Guest: Marius Reitz –General Manager for Africa at Luno
The financial sector regulator has issued a stern warning to stay away from Karatbars, a multilevel marketing company that is offering “investments” to South African consumers via WhatsApp.
SKELETONS AND CLOSETS: HOW ONE UNIVERSITY REBURIED THE DEAD Guest: Professor Loretta Feris, Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Transformation – she will provide an overview on the process (how and when the skeleton were brought to UCT, how was it discovered that they are unethically acquired, what steps UCT did to locate descendants, etc) Guest: Professor Simon Hall – he will speak on the archaeology following the study at the cemetery and on the disturbed graves Guest: PhD candidate Kathryn Smith (Liverpool John Moores University) – she will speak on the facial reconstruction process
Guest: Dr Rose September – Chief Director Adoptions, ISS and OVC at The National Department of Social Development
On the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), the Department of Social Development in collaboration with the Parliament of the Republic of South Africa, UNICEF, Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund, SA Human Rights Commission, Save the Children SA, Graca Machel Trust and the Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights will convene a special session between Child Ambassadors and Chairpersons from the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) Select Committees and the National Assembly Portfolio Committees in Parliament, Cape Town.
Guest : Griffin Shea – Owner of Bridge Books Guest: Illse Erasmus – Illustrator
*Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
It’s a novel based on a real boarding school in Florida, where the punishments were so brutal that boys died and were buried in secret on the grounds. The prose is sparse and sharp, and evening more powerful than Underground Railroad
After leaving South Africa, she pressed colleges, churches, unions, philanthropies and others to unload their stock in companies profiting from a racist system.Jennifer Davis, who came to the United States from South Africa and helped galvanize the divestment and sanctions campaign to undermine apartheid, died on Oct. 15 in Montclair, N.J. She was 85.
Guest: Donna Katzin- Founding Executive Director for shared interest.
South Africa has been experiencing an influx of cases of police brutality. More than 5 500 cases of police criminal offences are reported every year. What pressures are police facing and could these be affecting how their behavior at work
Guest: Andrew Faul – Institute of Security Studies Guest: Andy Mashaile – Global Ambassador of Interpol’s Turn Back Crime Campaign AND Former Board Chairman of the Gauteng Police Forum
Diabetes (often called sugar diabetes) is a condition where a person has high blood sugar (glucose) level in the body. You develop diabetes when your body doesn't produce enough insulin. Without insulin your body cannot get the energy it needs from your food. Today we zoom into diabetes, understanding the different types and treatment.
Guest: Dr Pooblan Naidoo - Pharmacist, pharmacologist, clinician, medical scientist, researcher and academic thinker. Guest: Tshepo Howza Mosese –Actor and Musician living with diabetes.
This was the reaction of University of SA (Unisa) students on social media after the university sent out an email on Friday afternoon to students announcing that exam question papers for the second semester – October and November – had been leaked.
Guest: Mr Martin Ramotshela – UNISA Spokesperson
Mbongeni Ngema (born 1 June 1956) is a South African writer, lyricist, composer, director and theatre producer, born in Verulam, KwaZulu-Natal (near Durban). He started his career as a theatre backing guitarist.
He was previously married to actress Leleti Khumalo, who received a 1988 Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical for Sarafina!, as well as starring in the leading role in South Africa's first Oscar-nominated film Yesterday. He co-wrote the multi-award winning Woza Albert!
The 2019 World PARA athletics championships is an ongoing Paralympic track and field meet organized by the world Para athletics subcommittee of the international Paralympic committee. it is currently being held in Dubai, united Arab emirates from the 7–15 November, 2019. the quad Para association of south Africa says that there has not been equal media coverage and hype of the competition unlike the recent rugby and Soweto derby
Guest: Raven Benny –COO of The Quad Para Association of South Africa
Guest: Lucas Sithole - South African wheelchair tennis player
Guest: Puseletso Mofokeng, Senior Forecaster at the South Africa Weather Service and SABC2 weather presenter
Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union has proposed reforms in the rehabilitation of prisoners. They say that prisoners are living a luxurious life in prisons at the expense of their victims. Masechabala Mtolo did an interview with POPCRU last week.
Guest: Golden Miles Bhudu – Prisoners’ Rights Activist
South Africans can vote to name a new planet – and one of the short-listed names is a local plant that gets you high
The deadline for voting is 14 November 2019. Guest: Dr Daniel Cunnama - Science Engagement Astronomer, South African Astronomical Observatory
The African Sanitation Revolution: The Investment Roundtable South Africa - Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Partnership
Guest: Mr Jay Bhagwan – Executive Manager of the Water Research Commission
After divorce the couple often experience effects including, decreased levels of happiness, change in economic status, and emotional problems. The effects on children include academic, behavioral, and psychological problems.
Guest: Moya Rossouw - Director, Family Law l Property Litigation
In a statement released by the American Department of State's Office of Children’s Issues they have advised American prospective adoptive parents and adoption service providers that "continued, lengthy delays and uncertainties may impact newly-adopted children’s ability to depart South Africa."
Guest: Siya Qoza - Home Affairs Spokesperson
White privilege was legally enshrined in South Africa through apartheid. Apartheid was institutionalized in 1948 and lasted formally into the early 1990s. Under apartheid, racial privilege was not only socially meaningful—it became bureaucratically regulated. Laws such as the 1950 Population Registration Act established criteria to officially classify South Africans by race: White, Indian, Coloured (mixed), or Black. What exactly is white privilege and does is exist in the spaces we live in?
Guest: Kim Heller – Communication Strategist and Political Analyst
Guest: Lovelyn Nwadeyi -Social Equity and Social Justice Consultant across academic, corporate and religious spaces.
The rise of obesity and fast-food consumption has resulted in probiotics dominating the vitamin and dietary supplements market. A Euromonitor report states that the probiotic industry in South Africa is estimated to be worth over R527 million for 2017, confirming that this sector is growing rapidly.
Guest: Dr. Nigel Plummer - The founder and MD of ProVen Probiotics
Children who are stunted are unlikely to finish high school and are unlikely to find employment as adults. Stunting means reduced cognitive development. In South Africa, stunting rates sit at 27% - this is a huge segment of the population that will never fully contribute to the economy. This deeply affects the country’s human capital resources as its preparations for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) require a highly developed skillset that comes from fully developed brains. If we are not investing in the prevention of stunting, any investments made in the future will not be as effective. For every single dollar invested in ending stunting, about $18 is generated in economic returns.
Guest: Kopano Matlwa – Executive director of Grow great
Today is the last chance to see the newly crowned world champions as they say thank you to South Africa for the unwavering support and outpouring of love and affection since Siya Kolisi lifted the Webb Ellis Cup in Yokohama eight days ago.
Guest: Thabiso Mosia – SAfm Sports presenter and Presenter of “Sport On” “ on SAfm.
Guest: Sheldon Rocha Leal- PhD Music Academic, Musician, Songwriter and Director of Culture at Southdowns College in Irene, Pretoria
SpringbokFever has to be the greatest and biggest story of the year! A nation unified by green and gold under #OurCaptain #SiyaKolisi. We needed this more than we did in 1995, sport, the great unifier. *FafsSpeedo made headlines across the world as he met Prince Harry, most of the world concurred, South Africans are crazy 😊! Over 700k unique items and an engagement level of four times that, this is the biggest story this year and deservedly so.
Guest: Tonya Khoury – Founder of Acumen Media
Guest: Mapule Mbhalati – Former SAfm Station Manager (In Studio)
Guest: Krivani Pillay – Former Co-Host on PM live on SAfm
Guest: Nhlakanipho Zulu – Former Executive Producer at SAfm current affairs They auditioned Xolani and He identified Xolani
Guest: Krivani Pillay – Former Co-Host on PM live on SAfm
Lucky Netshidzati CEO and co-founder of Rudzambilu Holdings who was born to two deaf parents has developed a smart glove sensor that turns South African sign language into voice and text.
guest: Lucky Netshidzati CEO and co-founder of Rudzambilu Holdings
Minister in the Presidency: Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane together with Deputy Minister in the Presidency: Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities Professor Hlengiwe Mkhize launched Disability Rights Awareness Month on Sunday, 03 November 2019, in Pretoria, Gauteng. Deputy Minister Prof. Hlengiwe Mkhize tell us more about the plans throughout the month…
guest: Professor Hlengiwe Mkhize - Deputy Minister in the Presidency: Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Department of Health at Western Cape There are 230 unidentified bodies in storage at Salt River mortuary alone and 495 bodies lying in freezers across the Western Cape, waiting for somebody to identify them. These bodies are unknown and unclaimed - police have not yet figured out who they are, or where their family is. What plans do the Western Cape government have in order to deal with this?
Guest: Mark Van Der Heever – Assistant Communications Director
A couple of months ago Springbok captain Siya Kolisi phoned up an old schoolmate with his own small company with a simple proposition involving swimsuits. That call – plus the combination of a Rugby World Cup win, a boisterous Faf de Klerk, and British royal visit – made for a historic image this weekend. Now small Port Elizabeth company Bean Bag The Brand is on track to sell a year's worth of "Speedos" in just a couple of days, and make a big donation to an animal welfare charity.
Guest: Jessica Chellew – Co -owner of Bean Bag The Brand
Food insecurity at tertiary institutions is aptly described as “the skeleton in universities’ cupboards” because it receives so little attention. Those in higher education are assumed to be an elite whose minimum basic needs are met.
Guest: Dr Marc Wegerif, Post-doctoral fellow, University of Pretoria
South Africa’s amandla.mobi will be among the laureates from around the globe honoured at the third annual Tech for Global Good celebration in the US on November 02, 2019. The Tech for Global Good is a US based year-round program designed to create the next generation of innovators ready to tackle the toughest challenges facing the planet.
Guest: Koketso Moeti - amandla.mobi's executive director,
FIVE REASONS WHY ELECTRIC VEHICLES ARE THE FUTURE OF TRANSPORT AND MAY HELP THE POOR SURVIVE FUEL PRICE HIKES
Minister of Transport Fikile Mbalula believes that electric vehicles are the future of transport in South Africa, going so far as to say he’d swop to one immediately if he could.
Guest: Gideon Treurnich, Strategic Business Development Manager: Transport and Planning in South Africa, at Royal HaskoningDHV
The Gauteng transport department is on a mission to take taxi drivers for advanced driving skills training.
Guest: Midday Mali – SANTACO Spokesperson for Gauteng
Guest: Griffin Shea – Owner of Bridge Books Guest: Phumlani Pikoli – Author of Born Freeloaders
Guest: Dr Soraya Beukes is a Public Law reseacher at the University of the Western Cape
Guest: Siphamandla Mkhwanazi - FNB senior economist
Guest: Professor Marie Huchzermeyer - Professor, School of Architecture and Planning University of the Witwatersrand
Guest: Zoleka Qodashe – SABC Reporter
When the Gauteng Education Department introduced the online application system, they promised parents that they would never again stand in queues. But since Friday, parents have been stuck in snaking queues at all education department district offices in the province, trying without success to ensure that their children are admitted into Grades 1 and 8 for the 2020 academic year.
Guest: Tshepang Lutshaba Founder of South Africa United Against Cancer Guest: Khethiwe Mabaso – Assistant Director at South Africa United Against Cancer
Guest: Nyana Molete - Former Morning Live Editor Guest: Leanne Manas - Presenter of Morning Live
The MeerKat telescope - a precursor to the Square Kilometre Array or SKA, continues to make new discoveries. Scientists say it's just a fraction of what is yet to come.
The SKA and the African Very Long Baseline Interferometry Network or AVN, as well as other initiatives, aim to develop astronomy in the nine African SKA partner countries, which are Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa and Zambia.
Guest: Takalani Nemaungani - Director of Multi-wavelength Astronomy at the Department of Science and Technology.
Police have removed hundreds of foreign nationals and refugees from an area outside the offices of the UN High Commission for Refugees in Cape Town - the site of a weeks-long peaceful sit-in protest over their safety in South Africa.
On Wednesday, multiple police vehicles and police officers gathered around the site in St George's Mall in the Cape Town CBD and removed the protesters.
For weeks, the protesters have asked to be evacuated from the country to find safety amid fears of attacks against foreign nationals.
Guest: Mlamli Maneli - SABC Reporter in Cape Town
HAIR: Weaving & Unpicking Stories of Identity is a collection of short stories inspired by hair. Like skin, hair is a body feature with a complex and controversial history, and is constantly under scrutiny in the media, specifically with regard to identity. HAIR: Weaving and Unpicking Stories of Identity features short stories by contemporary established and emerging South African writers of diverse backgrounds writing about hair and its intimate, personal as well as socio-political meaning. The book includes illustrative photographs by local visual artists. We hope that the stories will entertain, delight and challenge the reader.
Guest: Karina Magdelene - Co-editor of Hair: Weaving & Unpicking stories of Identity, Writer, editor & literary critic
Guest: Joanne Hichens - Author and Co-editor of Hair: Weaving & Unpicking stories of Identity
Guest: Oscar Bonginkosi Mdlongwa also known as Oskido - South African recording artist
Guest: Somizi Mhlongo - choreographer, TV and radio personality.
Grieving is a personal experience. Depending on who you are and the nature of your loss, your process of grieving will be different from another person's experience. There is no "normal and expected" period of time for grieving. Some people adjust to a new life within several weeks or months. Others take a year or more, particularly when their daily life has been radically changed or their loss was traumatic and unexpected.
Guest: Jenna Bayer - A Counselling Psychologist
Pan Macmillan and the Nelson Mandela Foundation will be hosting an event later today where Melinda Gates will be talk about her book THE MOMENT OF LIFT: How Empowering Women Changes the World.
Guest: Terry Morris - Managing Director of Pan McMillan South Africa
Ancient Africa had calendar systems centuries and centuries ago. Africans created the worlds's oldest calendar, more than 300,000 years ago (150 miles west of Maputo, Mozambique). The settled area surrounding the calendar site was the size of Johannesburg and London put together. Egyptians got their knowledge from this civilization.
Guest: Mkhulu Nsingiza - CEO of the Zindzi Mandela Foundation
Guest: Rra Letsatsi Bokaba – Child of the Novelant African Ancestors, an Intuitionist and a Malombo (Sangoma)
Guest: Dr Zulumathabo Zulu - Doctoral Practitioner; Metaphysical Scientist; Cosmologist; Engineer; Inventor; Lexicographer; intellectual Historian; Published Author; Certified Publisher and Contextual Poet
Guest: Danielle Travill- Medical doctor working as a research clinician at Wits RHI. Her work is focused mainly in sexual and reproductive health and HIV prevention.
Guest (studio): Phumlani Kango - Sexual Health Advocate
South Africa is on the verge of a national water crisis, with drought and poor infrastructure maintenance creating a desiccated dichotomy which promises to worsen in the upcoming months and years.
Guest: Dr Willem de Clercq – Water Researcher at the Water Institute at Stellenbosch University /
Why I chose him: Jonathan Celebrated his 58th bday this month, last week Thursday. He came back to visit his friends and family in Cape Town and brought along his friend, the legendary Marcus Miller to jam with some Cape Town Musicians to celebrate.
Born and raised in Athlone, Cape Town during Apartheid. He started singing and playing acoustic guitar as a child. His first single, a cover the song 'Please Stay' originally sung by the Drifters was the first song by a black artist played by white radio stations in South Africa at the time and earned him a Sarie Award, the predecessor to the SAMAs. He was 13 at the time.
Guest: RJ Benjamin - Award-winning vocalist, songwriter, composer, vocal coach, musical director and producer
South Africa’s foremost authority on how to make the best biltong is Maxine Jones, a 27 year old Capetonian woman who will receive her doctorate in food sciences from the University of Stellenbosch on Tuesday, 14 March 2017.
Jones, will be the first person with a PhD based exclusively on her scientific research regarding making consistently great quality anddelicious biltong. Supervised by Professor Louw Hoffman, who is the South African Research Chair in Meat Science: Genomics to Nutriomics in the university's department of animal science, the industry-based PhD research project focused on different aspects of biltong processing, including the use of standardised drying procedures to dry the meat.
Guest: Dr Maxine Jones - Who received a doctorate in food sciences from the University of Stellenbosch in 2017
Guest: Martin Wiest is the CEO of Tourvest
One of the most unflappable industries in the country has undergone something of a slump in the past year. Recently-released figures from StatsSA point to a substantial decline for figures relating to tourism in South Africa, with Mzansi welcoming 9.2% fewer visitors in March 2019 than it did in the same month last year.
Guest: Eileen Elizabeth Pooe - a teacher, lecturer and head of North West University's Department of Setswana - has become the Mahikeng campus' first Setswana PhD since the department was establishment in 1980.
Eileen Elizabeth Pooe - a teacher, lecturer and head of North West University's Department of Setswana - has become the Mahikeng campus' first Setswana PhD since the department was establishment in 1980. A doctor of philosophy in languages and literature in Setswana was conferred on Pooe during the university's spring graduation ceremony this week, it said in a statement.
Jacob Mofokeng (Kenneth Nkosi) is a middle-aged businessman who has become accustomed to his routine, a life which includes his wife, Michelle (Sonia Mbele), his daughter, Natasha (Six Nyamane), his work and his fun. As a powerful CEO, with a big house, a successful spouse, a family and expensive recreational habits, Jacob feels like life will always be this easy. Long Synopsis
Guest: Six Nyamane – Stars as Natasha in the movie
Guest: Andy Mashaile – Former Chairman of the Gauteng Police Board and Global Ambassador if Interpol’s Turn Back Crime campaign
The National Tracker-SAPS Awards are currently taking place today in Menlyn , Tshwane focusing on Cyber Security, Telematics and Motor Vehicle Tracking and 4IR National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) is observed in October in the United States of America. Started by the National Cyber Security Division within the Department of Homeland Security and the nonprofit National Cyber Security Alliance, the month raises awareness about the importance of cybersecurity.
Guest: Sbulelo Ntsanga – Marketing Manager of Rise N Shine Disability Magazine
BACKGROUND Rise ‘N Shine magazine, a brainchild of four people with disabilities, opened its doors in 2010. The founders of Rise ‘N Shine were bread winners and their income was from a disability grants. They wanted to do away with dependency on grants as their vision was beyond this. Unfortunately, some of the members have since died and some resigned.
Guest: Dina Lilian – Founder of Speakeasy, Speech Therapist, Audiologist and Board Member of the International Stuttering Association
guest: ajor Carin Holmes Territorial Public Relations Secretary & Ashwin Trikamjee president of SA Hindu Maha Sabha
Guest: Janine Hill is the Founder & CEO of Vuma Reputation Management
Guest: Tshepo Matseba - Managing Director Reputation 1st
Dr Quatro Mgogo said children without a father to teach them how to deal with issues of being men or how to be a respectful man - need guidance. There is growing concern that government and communities are losing the battle against violence in schools.
This comes as incidents of violence have recently escalated in South African schools, where several incidents have been reported various parts of the country.
A professor at the Walter Sisulu University conducted research into the cause of violence in schools and found that in most cases children who live in families in which have absent father, resort to violence to display their frustration.
Guest: Dr Quatro Mgogo - Lecture from The Walter Sisulu University
Northern Cape Premier Dr Zamani Saul has intervened in the unstable water supply that is negatively affecting Kimberley residents.
A task team has been formed to assess immediate measures and long-term solutions to address the water challenges.
Earlier this week, the Sol Plaatje Municipality imposed water restrictions.
Guest: Sharon Steyn - CEO of the Northern Cape Chamber of Commerce Guest: Sello Matsie - Sol Plaatjie Municipality Spokesperson
Co-founder of the FNB Joburg Art Fair, Cobi Labuscagne, expands our reading list and captures the many skilled contemporary artists along with their artwork in her newly launched children’s book titled Explore! Awesome South African Artists. The book explores South African art, allows children to dive into the South African Contemporary art scene by showcasing the diverse paths of artists and the fascinating artworks they create.
Guest: Cobi Labuscagne is the CEO of Artlogic and Co-founder of the FNB Joburg Art Fair
Emma Mashinini (21 August 1929 – 10 July 2017[1]) was a South African trade unionist and political leader. Living in Johannesburg, her family was forcibly displaced several times during her childhood. She started working at age 14 and soon became a union organiser at her garment factory. She became active with the African National Congress (ANC) in 1956. Mashinini served for 12 years on the executive board of the National Union of Clothing Workers (NUCW) and founded the South African Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers Union (SACCAWU) in 1975. She was arrested and detained without charges for six months in 1981–82.
Guest : Mamhood Fadal - Chairperson of The Public Health and Social Development Sectoral Bargaining Council (PHSDSBC)
From being a car guard to a businessman with a net worth of R4billion, Priven Reddy now rubs shoulders with the global business elite. And it’s thanks to his innovation, Krypteum, a technology his company, Kagiso Interactive, developed to simplify cryptocurrency trading.
Guest: Priven Reddy - A Billionaire and the CEO of Kagiso Interactive which has a net worth value of 4 billion
The National Community Radio Forum (NCRF) on 18 October 2019 held an emergency meeting of its Central Executive Committee (CEC) in Durban to formulate a plan of action to respond to ICASA having shut down 43 community radio stations
Guest: Thabang Pusoyabone, secretary for the National Community Radio Forum (NCRF),
Paseka Maleka
Guest : Jean Philippe Remy – French Journalist
Guest : Ms Khadija Patel - editor-in-chief of the Mail & Guardian, a co-founder of the The Daily Vox and vice chairperson of the Vienna-based International Press Institute (IPI)
Guest : Quanitah Hunter - Award-winning South African political journalist at the Sunday Times
Guest : Nomshado Lubisi - Head of Communications for Media Monitoring Africa
Worldwide about 10-20% of children and youth experience mental disorders. However, it is often difficult to determine the causes behind the child mental health conditions, disorders and diseases. Research shows that several barriers, such as a diminished civil society support, a lack of global consensus on mental illness and its treatment, missed policy opportunities and limited evidence on the delivery of mental health interventions, are blocking improving mental health. Neuropsychiatric conditions are often the leading cause of disability in young people in all regions. If untreated, these conditions severely influence children’s development, their educational attainments and their potential to live fulfilling and productive lives. This is an observation by Professor Jace Pillay, the South African Research Chair in Education and Care in Childhood at the University of Johannesburg (UJ).
Guest: Prof. Jace Pillay - South African Research Chair in Education and Care in Childhood at UJ
-What are the current rates of exclusive breastfeeding? -What hinders exclusive breastfeeding? -How can different sector of society support and enable breastfeeding moms?
Guest: Duduzile Mkhize - Communications Specialist at Grow Great
Storyteller supreme, Gcina Mhlophe, wants to leave behind a very special legacy as she turns 61: She wants her birthday, October 24, to become National Storytelling Day.
With the support of storytellers — both local and international — who have pledged to tell stories on that day, Mhlophe hopes that her birthday will be the storytelling catalyst across the land from schools and villages to rural and urban areas. But, she’s not looking to government to cement this day into the general public’s holiday calendar. She wants the germ of her idea to grow, organically, until it has caught root across the land, and reading and storytelling have become as much a part of the public landscape as breathing.
Guest: Dr Gcina Mhlophe - anti-apartheid activist, actress, storyteller, poet, playwritter, director and author.
Sam Nhlengethwa was born in the mining community of Payneville Springs in 1955 and grew up in Ratanda location in Heidelberg, east of Johannesburg. He completed a two-year Fine Art Diploma at the Rorkes Drift Art Centre in the late 1970s. While he exhibited extensively both locally and abroad during the 1980s and ’90s, Nhlengethwa’s travelling solo show South Africa, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow in 1993 established him at the vanguard of critical consciousness in South Africa and he went on to win the Standard Bank Young Artist Award in 1994.
The Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga urged schools to set aside 30 minutes for reading for enjoyment every day and called on parents to support their children in practicing their reading skills each day. She further pressed businesses to adopt and sponsor reading resources for schools.Motshekga, along with various social partners, made the calls at the launch of the National Reading Coalition (NRC) in Benoni, Ekurhuleni.
Guest: Dr John Volmick - National Education Collaboration Trust Board Member and Chairperson of Umalusi
A hundred and twenty years ago, seven thousand Zulu mineworkers walked from the gold mines in Johannesburg to Natal, covering a distance of five hundred kilometres over ten days. This journey was their longest march. It is 1899 and Philippa’s fiancé Nduku has just broken off their engagement. Author and journalist Fred Khumalo began a long march on Monday to commemorate 7,000 Zulu men, women and children who walked from Johannesburg to Durban during the Anglo-Boer war.
Guest: Fred Khumalo – Author of The Longest March
The CEO of the National Empowerment Fund (NEF), Ms Philisiwe Mthethwa, who has led the growth of the development financier into a high-performing organization, was recognised last night (11 October 2019) as the 2019 CEO of the Decade by the Association of Black Securities and Investment Professionals (ABSIP) at its Awards Gala Dinner at the Sandton Convention Centre.
Guest: Ms Philisiwe Mthethwa, CEO of the National Empowerment Fund (NEF),
Produced by Kinsman Redeemer Productions, Instapreneurs will premiere on the 18 of July 2019 at 6PM on SABC 1. The show will feature a prominent influencer / digital entrepreneur on each episode and allow viewers to see them as they curate their social media content. Instapreneurs will give viewers a real glimpse into the glamorous and not so filtered parts of these social media stars’ lives. Hosted by top model Sean McCollet, Instaprenuers promises to inform and educate viewers on the art of digital entrepreneurship. Expect to see the likes of Mihlali Ndamase, ThickLeeyonce, Siya Bunny, Dr Smile and more on this exciting new show.
Guest: Sean McCollet – Host of Instaprenuers
More pupils have been "affected over a number of years" by the alleged "serious misconduct" of a female former Bishops Diocesan College teacher, the school says. "We have confirmed that there have been several boys who have been affected over a number of years," school principal Guy Pearson said in a statement on Tuesday. This follows the resignation of the female teacher who allegedly had a sexual relationship with an 18-year-old matric pupil. The allegations have rocked the prestigious private Cape Town boys' school in Rondebosch after the Sunday Times reported that the pupil had also tried to break off the relationship.
Guest: Themba Ndlovu - Spokesperson for the South African Council for Educators
Adelaide Frances Tambo (nee Tshukudu) was born on 18 July 1929 in Top Location, Vereeniging, in the Vaal Triangle. Tambo attended the St Thomas Practising School in Johannesburg and Orlando High. She worked as a nurse at the Pretoria General Hospital and at an old people's home in London.
Adelaide Tambo’s political life started at the age of 10 after a raid by the police, following a riot in Top Location, Vereeniging. A police officer had been killed, and Adelaide's ailing grandfather, aged 82, was among those who were arrested and taken to the town square. There the old man collapsed and Adelaide had to sit with him until he regained consciousness.
Guest: Zeng Msimang - CEO of Oliver and Adelaide Tambo Foundation
Vulnerability is like a stew that gets cooked in a dark corner, everyone has their own pot to cook yet no one ask how long the pot has been cooking for. Nobody stand up proudly to taste the stew, only few people knowns about the main ingredients and it shall remain as that. After sometime the short trips to the dark corners start to take a tall on us, we disguise it with an external feature. Everyone celebrates the new accomplishment yet they know that it is a plaster to the cracks. Eventually the plasters gives-in, the fire is too much to tolerate, every little thing is destroyed. Shame and fear takes over, the circle of blame and regret gets larger.
Guest: Tshidi Pila - Life Coach and Founder and Managing Director of Imperative Transformation Journey
A new limited-edition coin featuring a dinosaur will be released in South Africa in 2020. The coin marks a new chapter in the award-winning Natura series.
Finance minister, Tito Mboweni recently confirmed that a new 2020 Natura series collectible coin will be released in South Africa next year and it features nothing other than dinosaurs! The South African Mint, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the South African Reserve Bank (SARB), reports that a new chapter in the award-winning Natura series began with the introduction of the paleontology theme in 2018, in recognition of South Africa’s significance to this field and study of plant and animal fossils.
Guest: Richard Stone - Head of Product Development at SA Mint
It's sometimes hard to find words that can effectively address the mental health crisis we are facing as the youth of South Africa. Much has been said and written about the state of mental health in our country, and young people have implored the state, private entities and communities to prioritise mental health, particularly that of the youth.
During this Mental Health Awareness Month, and in particular on World Mental Health Day on Thursday, I’d like to reflect on the experiences of many young people in South Africa today by relating something of my own struggle with mental illness.
Guest: Fanelesibonge Ndebele – Final Year LLB Student at Stellenbosch University
Charity Mkone - Clinical Psychologist
Joy Chiang - runs SOLOS (Survivors of Loved Ones Suicide)
PinkDrive NPC, a health sector NGO, was founded in 2009 by Ms. Noelene Kotschan, on the premise that “Early detection will help prolong a life.”
PinkDrive’s cardinal purpose is to contribute meaningfully towards preventing as many people as it can, from succumbing to breast, cervical, prostate and testicular cancer. It’s primary focus is on citizens without access to reasonable care for these conditions, and who reside in areas where health services do not reach.
Guest: Sister Lorraine Garsons - Pink Drive
In a number of developing countries, and regions of developing countries, where significant reductions in stunting have been achieved, Community Healthcare Workers (CHWs) have been central to these countries’ stunting reduction strategies. Countries like Peru and Brazil where significant reductions in stunting have been achieved, Community Healthcare Workers have been central to these countries’ stunting reduction strategies. South Africa already has a strong workforce of 60 000 CHWs that are already entering the homes and interacting with families. How can we best use them in our fight to reduce stunting?
Guest: Dr Kopano Matlwa Mabaso - Executive Director at Grow Great Community Health workers
The Triggerfish 10-second Animation Challenge, supported by Goethe-Institut, the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development and The Walt Disney Company, is now open for entries.
Aspiring animators across Africa have until Thursday, 31 October 2019 to create 10-second character animations, then post them to Facebook with the tag @triggerfishacademy.
Guest: Stuart Forrest - CEO of Triggerfish Animation Studios
iSimangaliso Wetland Park Route 67 Art Route Table Mountain National Park Isandlwana battlefield Kruger National Park Cradle of Humankind The Blyde River Canyon.
Guest: Paul Ash – Travel Writer for Sunday Times
This week on 9 Oct John would have celebrated his 79th birthday. Interestingly he shares his birthdate with his younger of his two sons, Sean Lennon.
Most famously known as one of the members of The Beatles, arguably the greatest band ever. Factually the highest selling band of all time. The Beatles also hold the record for band with most numbers ones on the billboard Hot 100 chart.
John’s songwriting partnership with Paul Mcartney is widely recognized as one of the greatest. In the early days of the Beatles circa 1963, they could do nothing wrong. There most successful hit being ‘She Loves You’
Guest: RJ Benjamin – Award-winning vocalist, songwriter, composer, vocal coach, musical director and producer
Mamela Nyamza is a performance artist, dancer and choreographer born and raised in Gugulethu, Cape Town, South Africa.
Nyamza was trained in dance at the Zama Dance School under the Royal Academy of Dance (Cape Town, South Africa). She furthered her studies at Pretoria Dance Technikon where she obtained a National Diploma in Ballet (Pretoria, South Africa). In 1998 she received a scholarship to study dance at the Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre (New York, USA). Thereafter, she joined the State Theatre Dance Company (South Africa) and participated in national and international performances. Nyamza also attended choreography workshops at the Vienna International Dance Festival. She also received ballet training from Martin Schonberg at the Pact Dance Company (Pretoria, South Africa), attended African Dance workshops by Jamaine Acogny (Soweto, South Africa), and studied a dance course at Sadler’s Wells Theatre (London, United Kingdom).
Guest: Ms. Mamela Nyamza - Deputy Artistic Director at The State Theatre, performance artist, dancer and choreographer
South Africa’s new e-visa system is launching in November – here’s what you need to know
South Africa will trial a new e-visa system in November, making it easier for tourists to enter the country thanks to the online capture of visa applications and biometric information.
Speaking to BusinessTech, Department of Home Affairs spokesperson Siya Qoza said that the pilot aims to test the resilience of the system, with the department already holding successful trials in a controlled environment.
Guest: Minister Aaron Motsoaledi – Minister of Home Affairs
It is undeniable that fashion is a bellwether of our society. The clothes we choose to wear – and how we choose to wear them defines who we are.
African Fashion International (AFI) implicitly understands the power of fashion to influence and inspire.
As the leading fashion marketing, retail and development platform in Africa, AFI is proud to have contributed to the growth of the African fashion landscape through uncovering, nurturing and propelling design talents from across the continent since our inception 12 years ago.
Guest: Deon Redman - Lead Producer
The flagship event, Macufe is back! The Mangaung Arts and Cultural Festival 2019 (also known as the Macufe Festival) is set to feature the best international, continental, national and Free State musicians in Bloemfontein this year.
The ten-day festival is built on a foundation of live performances across a range of hip hop, jazz, ‘divas’, gospel, and main festival concerts, with Kirk Whalum (US) and the ‘Nobody’s Supposed To Be Here’ singer, Deborah Cox who will be headlining this year’s festivities.
Guest: Ben Moseme - CEO Of C squared and the Organizer of Macufe
Sandile Donald Muziwenkosi Zungu (“Zungu”) was born at Umlazi Township, Durban on the 10th of February 1967. He completed Matric at Vukuzakhe High School in 1983, and did post-matric at Hilton College the following year. In 1983, Zungu was honoured as one of the top 10 participants in the erstwhile KwaZulu regional finals of the Old Mutual National Science Olympiad and in 1984 he came 81st in the national category of the Old Mutual National Science Olympiad.
Guest: SANDILE ZUNGU
The Pan South African Language Board has published a draft charter on South African Sign Language that will become final next week if nobody objects to it. It creates obligations that will make sign language more commonly available in a range of situations, including anywhere front-line staff often deal with deaf people. It also requires all television programmes to carry sign language interpretation. For more stories go to www.BusinessInsider.co.za. The South African government and other employers could by next week be obliged to provide at least some training in South African Sign Language to large swathe of staff – and some classes of employees could be required to spend more than a month in advanced-level sign language classes.
Guest: Dr Nomfundo Mali - Acting CEO of Pan South African Language Board
Everybody's fighting some kind of stereotype, and people with disabilities are no exception. The difference is that barriers people with disabilities face begin with people's attitudes — attitudes often rooted in misinformation and misunderstandings about what it's like to live with a disability.
Guest: Lloyd “DJ Barkzzz” Babedi – Disability Activist, Social entrepreneur and DJ
Bakwena Ba Mogopa Nation, Kgosi Mamogale announced today a new campaign, “MINING FOR EDUCATION”. The campaign is an urgent call to the community of Brits to support young people at high school level to ensure that learners have access to vital career information and resources that will support youth development and social responsibility in the area.
In partnership with Glencore, Kgosi Mamogale will be visiting schools in and around the Brits area from 7th – 11th October and donate sanitary towels and school suppliers to learners from Grade 8 to Grade 12. Joining the Royal King as ambassadors who will be motivating the learners are hip hop Motswako rapper Kuli Chaana, Actors Max Papo (Rhythm City), Gabriel Temudzani (Muvhango), Tshepo Maseko and TV Presenter Lamiez (LIVE Amp).
Guest: Gabriel Temudzani –SA Actor
For a shopping experience like no other, don’t miss out on the Handmade Contemporary Fair taking place at Hyde Park Corner Shopping Centre this October. The rooftop of this shopping hub will be transformed into a retail wonderland, complete with some of the country’s top designers, chefs and vignerons sharing their products and stories with discerning Joburgers. You can expect a magical setting with brightly lit tented areas filled with the best local furniture crafters, artisan products, top SA chefs, high-end wines, microbreweries and speciality foods. This venue offers some of the best of the city’s qualities: balmy summer evenings and beautiful sunsets.
Guest: Kgomotso Hlophe - Project Manager HANDMADE CONTEMPORARY FAIR
Scientists are now questioning whether Albert Einstein was wrong when it comes to his theory of relativity, which set the speed of light at 186,000 miles per second and became essential to the development of modern physics
Guest: Joyful Mdluli - PHD Candidate in Nuclear Solid State Physics at Wits University
Guest: Vanessa Mogorosi - Consciousness Coach and Lightarian Reiki Master
Vanessa is passionate about personal development and wholistic wellness. Using the different sophisticated methodologies of Consciousness coaching, Lightarian Reiki and Ancient Energy Therapies to extract essence, passion and power from individuals and groups. She holds the space and supportive context for her clients to manifest personal growth, transformation and wellbeing.
Actress Vatiswa Ndara will not be returning for season 3 of the hit DStv show iGazi. Ndara announced her decision in a heartfelt yet scathing open letter to sports, arts and culture minister Nathi Mthethwa.
Guest: Vatiswa Ndara – South African Award winning Actress. Guest: Asanda Magaqa – Minister Nathi Mthethwa's Spokesperson
Guest: Professor Ahmed Bawa – CEO of Universities SA
Guest (Cape Town Studios ): Lutho Xakai – Cape Peninsula University of Technology SRC Chairperson for the Belville Local Campus
Guest: Ishmael Mnisi – Spokesperson for the Department of Higher Education
Gender-based violence has resulted in the distribution of free pepper sprays for female students at tertiary institutions. Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) SRC has already handed 300 canisters of pepper sprays to female students at District Six campus and will distribute to their other campuses on Wednesday and Thursday.
What is a maternity support grant and what would it seek to achieve? The Maternity support grant is an extension of the child support grant into pregnancy, with the aim to support maternal nutrition and wellbeing during pregnancy, a critical time when almost ¼ of SA moms face hunger and malnutrition which has negative effects on the growth and development of their babies.
Guest: Dr Kopano Matlwa Mabaso - Executive Director at Grow Great
The 2019 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to scientists William G. Kaelin, Jr, Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza for their discoveries of "how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability," the Nobel Committee announced Monday.
Guest: Her Excellency Ambassador Cecelia Julin – Swedish Ambassador for South Africa
Born Steveland Morris, blind from birth. Signed to Motown Records at age 11 and had his first number hit 'Fingertips' at age 13. After an already astounding career by the age of 21, 10 years after first bursting onto the scene, Stevie would stamp his mark on music history with what is widely considered the greatest creative run of albums in the history of music.
Guest: RJ Benjamin - Award winning musician, composer
All in a Day’s Eye: The Politics of Innocence in the Javett Art Collection is the inaugural exhibition drawing from the permanent collection of the Javett Art Collection, featuring works by artists working in the 20th century, and beyond. A closer look into the collection uncovers themes ranging from the politics of education, innocence, spatial politics, religion and spirituality, nature, politics of representation and the histories of labour.
Guest: Gabi Ngcobo - Curator of the All in a Day’s Eye: The Politics of Innocence in the Javett Art Collection / Exhibition /
Guest: Megan Lessing - Advocacy Media Liaison at SWEAT (Sex Worker Education and Advocacy Taskforce)
Helen Zille attended school at St. Mary's Waverley in Johannesburg. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of the Witwatersrand. A prominent journalist and anti-apartheid activist, Zille was instrumental in voicing protest to government atrocities. As a political correspondent for the now defunct Rand Daily Mail, Zille's journalistic skills helped her uncover the truth behind the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) leader, Steve Biko's death in 1977, which she discovered was due to police brutality and not natural causes as the government had claimed. The apartheid government’s reaction to the article was to threaten the Rand Daily Mail with banning and called Zille and her editor, Allister Sparks, before the Press Council. The Presiding Judge of the Council, Justice Oscar Galgut, found both Zille and Sparks guilty of “tendentious reporting” and forced the Rand Daily Mail to make a correction.
Guest: HELEN ZILLE
Guest: Danie Marais -Senior Manager of Programmes and Governance at the National Council of & for Persons with Disabilities.
The annual Nappy Run™ 5km fun run invites you to come run, walk, wheel or stroll at the Johannesburg Zoo on National Children’s Day, 2 November 2019. The campaign is focused on raising awareness of the conditions children with disabilities live under, the challenges they face, as well as their rights which are violated on multiple levels. The campaign also serves to raise funds to buy nappies for children with disabilities – an essential health item that this already-vulnerable and marginalised group often sadly goes without.
Guest: Ralph Mathekga – Political Analyst/0716870605
WHY SOLIDARITY'S UNIVERSITY SHOULD BE WELCOMED
It is not clear whether Solidarity's decision to establish an Afrikaans university is aimed at exclusion or building a more inclusive society. That said, a community building its own institutions is without doubt the best way to express patriotism, writes Ralph Mathekga.
The month of October has been declared Mental Health Awareness month with the objective of not only educating the public about mental health but also to reduce the stigma and discrimination that people with mental illness are often subjected to.
An estimated 400 million people worldwide suffer from mental or neurological disorders or from psychosocial problems. These include disorders related to alcohol and drug abuse.
Guest: Simphiwe Sinkoyi - Clinical Psychologist
Education activist Hendrick Makaneta said allowing pupils to exit the system after Grade 9 would drastically reduce the standard of education. File picture. Cape Town - South Africa’s economic prospects cannot afford a proposal where “we” allow Grade 9 pupils to leave the schooling system “that would leave them ill-prepared for the fast-changing world we live in”.
That was according to student crowdfunding platform Feenix, in response to a proposal by Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga in which she floated a plan to introduce a General Education Certificate (GEC) for pupils after completing Grade 9.
Guest: Hendrick Makaneta - Education Expert
Guest: Mr Basil Manuel - National Executive Director of the National Professional Teachers' Organisation of South Africa
Guest: Dr Shungu Gwarinda Interim CEC and director of programmes of the Graca Machel trust
Guest: Miyelani Holeni - Senior Partner at Ntiyiso Consulting Guest: Asna Sheik - CIGRAFO Regional Chairperson for the Gauteng Branch
The 1,000 days is the period between when a woman conceives, or falls pregnant and her child’s 2nd birthday. It offers a unique window of opportunity to build healthier and more prosperous futures for our children.
Guest: Dr Kopano Matlwa Mabaso - Executive Director at Grow Great
HOW DO WE ERADICATE POVERTY BY CREATING JOBS AND STILL HAVE WOMEN IN THE WORKPLACE
Guest: Ntombekhaya Qamata – Chief Director of Human Resources Management at Department of Labour
Guest: Phelisa Mangcu – CEO Ugu South Coast Tourism (USCT) The year-long warm weather, phenomenal natural resources and world-class tourist offerings make the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast an ideal location for visitors. And this World Tourism Day – Friday, 27 September – Ugu South Coast Tourism (USCT) will use this platform to highlight exactly how it is positioning the KZN South Coast as a global tourist destination.
Guest: Abbey Tlaletsi CEO of Chartered Institute of Government Finance Audit and Risk Officers
Guest: Miyelani Holeni – Senior Part of Ntiyiso Consulting
Stranded Thomas Cook customers are facing repatriation flight chaos after planes sent to rescue them from a Greek island were too small.
Dozens of angry and frustrated Britons were turned away because planes that landed at Skiathos' airport didn't have enough seats for everyone who was due to fly to Bristol, London Gatwick and Manchester on Wednesday.
Guest: Inge Dykman – Head of Leisure at WESGRO (The Official Tourism, Trade & Investment Promotion Agency for Cape Town and the Western Cape)
54th September (Yesterday) he was elected as Stellenbosch University's chancellor
Edwin Cameron was born on 15 February 1953 in Pretoria. He completed his schooling at Pretoria Boys’ High School and thanks to an Anglo-American Corporation Open Scholarship award; Cameron was able to attend Stellenbosch University. At Stellenbosch, Cameron acquired a BA Law degree, and an Honours degree in Latin – both cum laude.
1 to 30 September
September is Albinism Awareness Month. During this month Government provides information on albinism to make people more aware of what this condition is about.
Guest: Lidia Pretorius - Chief Director: Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Dept of Social Development.
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela OLS MP (born Nomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela; 26 September 1936 – 2 April 2018 , also known as Winnie Mandela, was a South African anti-apartheid activist and politician, and the second wife of Nelson Mandela. She served as a Member of Parliament from 1994 to 2003,and from 2009 until her death,[4] and was a deputy minister of arts and culture from 1994 to 1996. A member of the African National Congress (ANC) political party, she served on the ANC's National Executive Committee and headed its Women's League. Madikizela-Mandela was known to her supporters as the "Mother of the Nation".
Guest: Ntombizikhona Valela – PhD History Student AT WITS , Writer and Historian .Her research interest is in intellectual history and legacy of Winnie Mandela Mandela.
A fourth-generation clairvoyant medium who works with spirit to help and assist others
Areas she covers: Love and Relationships Career: New Opportunities and Promotion Connecting with departed loved ones (crossing-over) Inner Growth and Spiritual Development
Guest: Kathryn Valdal Saleem – Clairvoyant who does Psychic Readings
Ramaphosa wants to clamp down on fake goods – here's why that may be nearly impossiblePresident Cyril Ramaphosa has promised that the government will clamp down on the import of counterfeit goods. Fakes are harming the economy, and putting lives at risk, but the numbers suggest a more tightly guarded border and cracking down on sellers won't be enough.
Guest: Thezi Mabuza – Deputy Commissioner for the National Consumer Commission (NCC)
Water remains disconnected at the Sandton Gautrain Station, following Judge Makume putting a hold to Cedar Park’s urgent application for a mandatory interdict forcing the City to reconnect the water supply
Guest: Tony Taverina - Turisan – Spokesperson for the Mayor of City Of Joburg
There is a famous, instructive and yet simple Shangaan idiom that holds undeniable truths about life: "mintirho ya vulavula". Loosely translated, it means your work speaks for itself.
When we evaluate the contribution to humanity of those who have departed, or those among us who are still alive, a contestation arises about how to go about it. It gets trickier when we reflect on the lives of popular personalities.
Guest: Zenzo Moyo is a researcher at the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection
Guest: Joshua Maponga - Cultural Activist and Writer
What is stunting and why should people care? Stunting is a form of under-nutrition that affects a child’s physical and mental growth. It is defined as shortness for age, and can only by diagnosed by comparing a child’s measurements to standardised growth charts. 1 in 4 of South Africa’s children under the age of five years old are stunted. Stunted children on average perform worse at school, are more likely to be unemployed as adults, are at higher risk of getting diseases like diabetes and hypertension and are vulnerable to being trapped in inter-generational cycles of poverty.
Guest: Dr Kopano Matlwa Mabaso - Executive Director at Grow Great
Guest: Professor Tim Noakes - Author, Emeritus Professor, runner, LCHF/Banting/CrossFit proponent
The inaugural Twyg Awards is a celebration and recognition of designers’ innovative and beautiful, sustainable work. The awards ceremony was held in Cape Town at Rooftop on Bree hosting more than 100 designers, retailers and environmental activists on Thursday 19 September.
Founder and editor of Twy, Jackie May says, “We straddle the space between environmental activism and the fashion world to offer support and to communicate best fashion practices from around the world and best South African fashion practices to the world.”
Guest: : Aaniyah Omardien - One of the Judges and a Director on the Twyg Board
Multi-award-winning musician Samthing Soweto has become the first local artist to have simultaneous number-one releases on both the Apple Music Singles and Album Charts in South Africa with a Pre-Add release. His latest single Akulaleki, featuring Shasha, DJ Maphorisa and Kabza De Small, is currently topping the singles chart with his forthcoming album topping the Album chart. DJ Maphorisa and Kabza De Small’s single, Amantombazane, which also features the vocals of Samthing Soweto is at number two on the Apple Music Singles chart.
Guest: SAMTHING SOWETO
Comic Con Africa focuses on all elements of pop culture, including cosplay, comic books, anime, manga, other creatives, film & series, games (including video and esports) and books/authors. The festival also features a large range of pop culture and entertainment elements in animation, toys, gadgets, clothing, collectible card games, video games, webcomics, and fantasy novels and the ever-popular Artists' Alley.
GUEST: Carol Weaving, Managing Director of Reed Exhibitions.
Guest: Zaid Kalla - Limpopo Department of Economic Development, Environment and Tourism Spokesperson
Local telenovela "The River" has received an International Emmy Award nomination.
The 47th International Emmy Awards is set to take place on November 25 at the New York Hilton Midtown. "The River" has been nominated in the Best Telenovela category, and is produced by Tshedza Pictures.
Guest: Phathu Makwarela – Executive Producer of The River and Co-Founder of Tshedza Pictures
Zozibini Tunzi has been crowned Miss South Africa 2019. 25-year-old Zozibini from Cape Town walks away with the title as well as R3-million in prize money and sponsorships deals. The runner-up, Sasha-Lee Olivier, takes home R250 000 in cash, and all 16 finalists receive R25 000
Zozibini Tunzi (born 18 September 1993) is a South African beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss South Africa 2019. She will now represent South Africa at the Miss Universe 2019 competition.
Nokuthula Orela Simelane was born in 1960 in Mzinoni Township near Bethal in Mpumalanga. She was the first of two daughters (Nokuthula and Thembisile) of Ernestinah and Matthew Simelane. She graduated on 15 October 1983 from the University of Swaziland with a Bachelor in Administration (B.Admin) degree in Social Sciences majoring in Public Administration and had already secured employment for herself before her untimely 'disappearance'.
Guest: Thembi Nkadimeng - Polokwane Mayor and Sister of Nokuthula
Western Cape Premier Alan Winde got his wish on Monday after President Cyril Ramaphosa extended the deployment of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) in the province for six more months. According to the Presidency on Monday, Ramaphosa has allowed the SANDF to stay until March 31, 2020. The original two-month deployment was meant to end on Monday.
"The extension comes into effect today, Monday 16, September 2019," the Presidency said.
"Members of the regular and reserve forces of the SANDF will undertake operations in cooperation with the police, and will support the prevention and combating of crime and maintenance and preservation of law and order in the Western Cape,"
Guest: Albert Fritz - Western Cape Community Safety MEC
Guest: Byron De Villiers - Lentegeur Community Policing Forums (CPF) Chairperson – He says Army 'becoming tourists on the Cape Flats
With the majority of black South Africans still living in poverty today, many black middle-class households are connected to working-class or jobless homes. Some believe supporting family members is an undeniable part of African culture and question whether it should even be labelled as a kind of tax.
Guest: Niq Mhlongo - Award-winning novelist, writer of short stories and screenplays (for radio and television), as well as a travel journalist
Guest: Lorraine Sithole - Contributor to the book Black Tax , on the Programming Team For The South African Bookfair . Runs a Book Club for 8 years now
Guest: Outlwile Tsipane - Contributor to the book Black Tax
Guest: Dr Tiny Mhinga has been a Medical Practitioner for many years with a special interest in Men's Health & Travel Health.
A heart attack is the death of a segment of heart muscle caused by a loss of blood supply. The blood is usually cut off when an artery supplying the heart muscle is blocked by a blood clot. If some of the heart muscle dies, a person experiences chest pain and electrical instability of the heart muscle tissue.
Guest: Dion Makhura – DEMAWUSA Spokesperson Metrobus workers plan to strike on Monday City of Cape Town issues deadline to MyCiTi N2 Express operators 10 arrested after thousands of litres of diesel stolen from Joburg bus depot A planned strike over pay could bring Johannesburg's Metrobus service to a halt on Monday, the Democratic Municipal and Allied Workers Union of South Africa (Demawusa) said.
Iran says it is not behind Saturday's drone attacks on oil plants in Saudi Arabia, denying accusations from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that Tehran was responsible for "an unprecedented attack on the world's energy supply."
Javad Zarif, Iran's foreign minister, said in a tweet on Sunday that Pompeo was turning from "max pressure" to "max deceit.
Guest: Professor John Stremlau, visiting professor of international relations at Wits University
After two nominations for the South African Music Awards in 2013 following the release of his first album Umlilo and his award in 2018 for his second album, Mangaliso, the Tsolo-born artist is back with another project.
Guest: Bongeziwe Mabandla - Award Winning Singer, guitarist and songwriter
We are striving for the most sustainable, conscious, moral and nutritious way of eating. For us, that means mostly plants and very little processed foods (including animal products). We’ve added some free-range meat or fish options on our menu to accommodate those flexitarians out there, as we realise not everyone’s journey is the same. Creating an awakening in the consciousness of how your meal came to be on your plate is already a massive step towards a healthier, sustainable, cruelty-free life. So, whether you are vegan, vegetarian, banting, paleo or just trying to make small healthier, more moral and eco-friendly choices everyday, remember that in the end there are no rules. Eat what makes you feel strong and in a way that makes you feel proud of what you are putting in your body.
Lexi Monzeglio - Founder Lexi’s Healthy Eatery
The inaugural South African National Parks Week took place in 2006 and was aimed at linking the South African national parks system to the global national movement and to also showcase the best of South Africa’s national parks. SA National Parks Week 2019 South African National Parks will be presenting the 14th annual SA National Parks Week from 8 to 15 September 2019. We are proud to once again celebrate this week with our partners, Total South Africa and FNB.
Guest: Ike Phaahla - Spokesperson at SANParks
Women began gathering in Sandton in the wee hours on Friday ahead of the planned #SandtonShutdown protest against Gender-Based Violence (GBV).
The protest which comes one day after national crime stats indicated that violent crimes and murder had significantly worsened.
On Thursday the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) issued a statement in support of the protest, which is a call to action from all civil society groups to participate in a massive sit-in in Sandton City in order to highlight the scourge of GBV.
Guest: Nicky Newton King - CEO of Johannesburg Stock Exchange
Pitika Ntuli is a South African sculptor, poet,[1] writer, and academic who spent 32 years of his life in exile in Swaziland and the UK.[2][3] He holds an MFA from the Pratt Institute in New York and an MA in Comparative Industrial Relations and Industrial Sociology. While in exile in the UK he taught at Camberwell College of Art, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, the London College of Printing, Middlesex University and the University of East London. Since returning to South Africa he has taught at Wits and UKZN.
Guest: PROFESSOR PITIKA NTULI
Guest: Lloyd “DJ Barkzzz” Babedi – Disability Activist, Social entrepreneur and DJ
This is Hlayiseko Baloyi (17) from Gumbani Village in Malamulele. She was born with disability , she is in need of a wheelchair, pampers and sanitary pads . Her single mother can't be able to go look for employment because of Hlayiseko condition because it needs her special support. Anyone who can donate please inbox me or Dayson Shivambu .
Guest: Lindelwa Nxumalo- Women’s Rights Coordinator for Action Aid
Plan to shut down Sandton in protest over gender-based and xenophobic violence Tens of thousands protest outside parliament against gender-based violence following a week of brutal murders of young South African women in Cape Town, South Africa, 05 September 2019. Picture: EPA-EFE / NIC BOTHMA Tens of thousands protest outside parliament against gender-based violence following a week of brutal murders of young South African women in Cape Town, South Africa, 05 September 2019.
Guest: Kaiser Khoza – National Chairperson for the Black Management Forum Policy and Research
Touching tributes are flooding social media as South Africans remember Steve Bantu Biko, who was killed 42 years ago today.
As one of the most recognisable members of the Black Consciousness Movement, Biko's outspokenness and fearlessness saw him confront the apartheid government, mainly on students' grievances.
According to the statistics provided by Statistics South Africa (StatsSA 2013:3) women in South Africa - regardless of race or location - are more impoverished than men. Despite this, female-headed households, particularly those in rural areas, are larger and more complex in structure than those headed by men. The large size of households, the fact that more than half of all the households (55.2%) are headed by women and that women on average earn less than men all contribute to their poverty status.
Guest: Javu Baloyi - Spokesperson for the Commission of gender equality Commission of Gender Equality
Siphiwe Moyo - Co Founder of Chief People Officer at Twice Blue Lecturer at GIBS, Henley & Wits Business School
Charlie Petersen - Author of Growing Up Without A Father
Professor Phil Beverly - Professor and Administrator at the University of Illinois at Chicago & Leader in Man Kind Project USA
Last Saturday Goodman Gallery Johannesburg opened Over Time, Carrie Mae Weems' first solo exhibition on the continent. Weems is considered one of the most influential contemporary American artists. Using photography, text, fabric, audio, digital images, installation and video, Weems compels viewers to actively consider how the world is structured, bringing to light systems of oppression and inequality while exploring relationships between power, class, race and gender.
Guest: Emma Lawrence - Curator
South African women have called on their fellow compatriots to join the ‘Without Us’ demonstrations, a daring display of dissatisfaction with the way the government has dealt with gender-based violence.
Guest: Sibabalwe Sesmani - Founder of Unorthodox PR & Media Group and Founder of #WithoutUsSA march
Farah Fortune - Founder of African Star Communications. She is solidarity with the #WithoutUsSA march
Dr Adriana Marais, theoretical physicist, technologist and aspiring extraterrestrial, believes that we are living at a unique point in the history of life on Earth. Developments in engineering and science are taking place at an unprecedented rate, and the expansion of our society beyond this planet is within reach. In December 2020, Adriana and the Off-World team will depart for an overwinter, off-world settlement simulation experiment in Antarctica to demonstrate community living and off-grid capabilities, from life-support to communication systems, in the harshest and most isolated environment on Earth.
Guest: Dr Adraina Marais - Theoretical Physicist, Technologist & Aspiring Extraterrestrial. And Founder at #ProudlyHuman
Fatima Meer was born in Grey Street, Durban on 12 August 1928, the daughter of Moosa Meer and Rachel Farrel and the second born of their nine children. Her mother, Rachel, was an orphan of Jewish and Portuguese descent, but she converted to Islam and took the name Amina. Fatima Meer's father, Moosa, was born in Surat, Gujarat and came from the small Sunni Bhora community. Although not formally trained in Islamic theology, he was widely-read and highly respected for his immense knowledge of Islam, Hinduism and Christianity. He passed on his love for language, scholarship, religious tolerance and tireless opposition to discrimination to his children.
Guest: Omar Badsha - South African documentary photographer, artist, political and trade union activist and an historian
Today (10 September) is World Suicide Prevention Day. * How can one use Mindfulness as a tool to deal with depression which can lead to suicide?
Mindfulness involves acceptance, meaning that we pay attention to our thoughts and feelings without judging them—without believing, for instance, that there's a “right” or “wrong” way to think or feel in a given moment.
Guest: Jazzy Mbangwa – Executive Coach using Mindfulness Tools
Parts of Africa have turned on SA, with the country's businesses being attacked and forced to shut doors while travel warnings were issued to citizens. SA businesses operating in Nigeria were forced to shut down in retaliation for this week's attacks on foreign nationals.
Guest: Selby Xinwa- Researcher the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation Guest: Zinhle Olayi –Spokesperson for Total Shutdown and Intersectional women’s movement in Cape Town
Rape culture has become a part of South African culture. It is normalised in our daily interactions in the taxi, at school, at places of worship, in the office, walking down the street, or shopping. It is part of our mundane activities; it features heavily in both the public and private sphere. It is a product of a system and a history of institutionalised coloniality, racism, patriarchy, misogyny and misogynoir. Rape culture is a product of gendered socialisation, it is one of the tenets of heteronormativity and patriarchy.
Guest: Lisa Vetten - Gender Based Violence Researcher at Gender Wits Social Institute Guest: Malebo Oldjohn Tsindi – Rape Survivor ,Author & My Confessions
The Yofa Kitchen & The Mandala Kitchen, she is also a nutritional health coach and hosts wellness retreat on their farm, Somerset Gift Getaway Farm.
Guest: Marlien Wright - Author of two cookbooks
A second person had been confirmed dead following a spate of violence that spilled over to the Johannesburg suburb of Malvern on Sunday. Apparently Joburg Metro Police Department chief David Tembe has confirmed that a second person has been killed during clashes in the city. Tembe reportedly said the latest victim was shot in Malvern on Sunday night. Earlier on Sunday, one person was killed in violence in the Johannesburg city centre, with police spokesperson Captain Kay Makhubele confirming that the victim had been stabbed with a sharp object at the corner of Bree and Plein Streets.
Guest: Victor Kgomoeswana - Author of Africa is open for business
Beatenberg is a South African band based in Cape Town, composed of Matthew Field, Robin Brink, and Ross Dorkin. The group signed with Universal Music Group label in 2012. They gained national attention in 2014 from their collaboration with the artist DJ Clock with "Pluto (Remember You)" and became the number one popular song on South African radio for over 19 consecutive weeks. Their second album The Hanging Gardens of Beatenberg (2014) generated hit singles including "Beauty Like a Tightened Bow" (2014), "Scorpionfish" (2014), and "Pluto (Remember You)"
Guest: RJ Benjamin - Award-winning vocalist, songwriter, composer, vocal coach, musical director and producer
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have announced a global travel initiative and they want you to sign up.
Guest: Nathan Adams – Travel Blogger
Cape Town - Ndlovu Youth Choir have made it into the finals of America's Got Talent! The group performed a powerful and localised rendition of Whitney Houston's Higher Love on Wednesday and received a standing ovation to reach the end of the reality competition. On Thursday the results - of audience voting - were announced and at the last moment, the South African music group were "saved" by the judges' vote after teetering on the brink of elimination.
Guest: Hugo Tempelman – CEO of Ndlovu Youth Choir CEO
Zibusiso Mkhwanazi is the founder and Group CEO of M&N Brands a holding company with diversified investments in leading advertising, media and communication businesses. M&N Brands, owns Avatar JHB, Avatar CPT, Avatar PR, Mela Events, Bozza and AMA a full-service media agency. The group also has M&N Entertainment, a content hub that has already made its first acquisition through the purchase of Zkhiphani.com.
Guest: ZIBUSISO MKHWANAZI
Registered Educational Psychologist at University of the Western Cape On Monday the 2nd September marked a significant day for the University of the Western Cape. It officially opened The Office for Students with Disabilities which has been moved to a new, universally designed space on the ground floor. The Office for Student Disabilities formally began operating in 1996 as a result of the foresight of Evadne Abrahams, who reflects on the journey
Guest: Mrs Laetitia Permall - Director: Centre for Student Support Services
Xenophobic unrest has flared up again in South Africa’s Gauteng province. Violent attacks against foreign-owned businesses and incidents of looting have been reported in the cities of Johannesburg and Pretoria.
While videos and images help to better inform the public about the issue, when used in the wrong context they can inflame tensions and cause harmful consequences in the real world.
Guest: Cayla Clifford – Researcher at Africa Check
Studies have suggested that personality disorders may be common among men who habitually commit domestic violence. The study reported here attempted to characterize personality traits and psychological and cognitive characteristics of men who batter women in order to distinguish them from no battering men.
Guest: Buti Manamela - Deputy Minister of Higher Education and Training science and innovation
Dr Saths Cooper -Political activist and Psychologist
Themba Masango – Secretary General at Not In My name
Mbuyiselo Botha - Gender Activist for Commission of Gender E quality
Guest: Professor Elizabeth Henning - Professor of Educational Linguistics and the founding Director of the CEPR on the Soweto campus of the University of Johannesburg.
There have been repeated and constant attacks on Nigerians and other foreign nationals in South Africa. These attacks which first started in the late 90s were infrequent and occasional, but they have now become regular and seem systematic. Other nationals often targeted include the Somalis, Ethiopians, Malawians, Zimbabweans, Namibians, Zambians, Tanzanians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis and Mozambicans.
Guest: Victorine Mbong Shu - Author and CEO of Profounder Intelligence Guest: Mr Mavuso Msimang - Chairperson of Corruption Watch and ANC Veteran
Gregory Vuyani Maqoma became interested in dance in the late 1980’s as a means to escape the political tensions growing in his place of birth. He started his formal dance training in 1990 at Moving Into Dance where in 2002 he became the Associate Artistic Director. Maqoma has established himself as an internationally renowned dancer, choreographer, teacher and director. He founded Vuyani Dance Theatre (VDT) in 1999 when he was undertaking a scholarship at the Performing Arts Research and Training School (PARTS) in Belgium under the direction of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker.
Guest: Gregory Maqoma - Renowned dancer, choreographer, teacher and director. He founded Vuyani Dance Theatre (VDT).
Nadine Gordimer was born in Springs, Transvaal (now Gauteng), an East Rand mining town outside Johannesburg in 1923. Her father, Isidore Gordimer, was a Jewish jeweller originally from Latvia and her mother, Nan Myers, was of British descent. From her early childhood, Gordimer witnessed how the White minority increasingly weakened the few rights of the Black majority.
Guest: Brooks Spector - Associate Editor at The Daily Maverick
Guest: Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams - Minister of Communications, Telecommunications and Postal Services (Nthabeleng) Guest: Lisa Vetten – Gender Violence specialist Guest: Siya Jentile –Founder and President of Not in my name
Uyinene Mrwetyana's body was found in Lingelethu West in Khayelitsha last Monday, after she'd gone missing for more than a week. The State has told the Wynberg Magistrates Court in Cape Town that a 42-year-old man has confessed to murdering 19-year-old University of Cape Town (UCT) student, Uyinene Mrwetyana.
In January 2014, Michael Komape, a five-year-old boy who was on his fourth day of Grade R at Mahlodumela primary school in Limpopo, needed to use the toilet. The pit toilets at the school were dilapidated and full of human waste. Michael used the toilet unaccompanied, fell into the pit toilet and drowned. What is the status pit toilets in SA?
Guest: Samantha Brener – Attorney at Section 27
Rone McFarlane – Education Activist & Co Head of Research at Equal Education
Hair loss, also known as alopecia or baldness, refers to a loss of hair from part of the head or body. ... Hair loss in some people causes psychological distress. Common types include: male-pattern hair loss, female-pattern hair loss, alopecia areata, and a thinning of hair known as telogen effluvium. Is hair-loss as much of an issue for women as it is for men?
Guest: Dr Kevin Alexander - Medical Doctor Specializing in Hair Loss and runs Dr Alexander’s Hair Loss Clinic
Truck drivers have been cautioned not to resort to violence ahead of their national strike on Monday. This after two trucks were set alight on the N3 in Ashburton and N2 near Port Shepstone. The International Cross-Border Traders Association says it believes that the on-going attacks of foreign drivers are criminal, as they have legal permits to be in South Africa. Members belonging to the National Truck Driver’s Foundation are calling on a nationwide strike on Monday, in response to trucking companies taking them to court for allegedly burning trucks.
Guest: Gavin Kelly - CEO of Road Freight Association
Guest: Matsietsi Radebe (25) – she had a child while behind bars – serving 15yrs for robbery
Guests: Ms Miranda Viljoen - social worker and Masesi Mnqamkani - Correctional programmer facilitator
Wouter Kellerman is a Grammy Award-winning South African flautist, producer and composer who has won seven South African Music Awards. Using his classical training as a foundation, Kellerman has focused his attention on World and Roots music, exploring the versatility of the instrument and fusing classical and contemporary sounds. Kellerman received a Grammy Award at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards for his 2014 album Winds of Samsara, a collaboration with Indian composer and producer Ricky Kej.
Guest: WOUTER KELLERMAN
Guest: Kyle Louw - Motor Industry even though he lives with a Guest: Jakkie Olivier - CEO if the Retail Motor Industry organisation (RMI) Disability management programme offered by RMI Guest: Lloyd “DJ Barkzzz” Babedi – Disability Activist, Social entrepreneur and DJ
On Wednesday, taxi drivers embarked on what they called a ‘demonstration’ to highlight their frustrations with drug use in the capital after one of their fellow drivers was allegedly killed by foreign nationals who were caught selling a drug known colloquially as Nyoape to local drug addicts.
They have since distanced themselves from the violence that erupted in Pretoria CBD as a result of this. Several foreign-owned shops were looted and some were torched.
Guest: Mack Makata – PR Officer at The South African National Taxi Council (SANTACO) Tswane Region Guest: Amir Sheikh – Spokesperson for African Diaspora Forum
Studies have suggested that personality disorders may be common among men who habitually commit domestic violence. The study reported here attempted to characterize personality traits and psychological and cognitive characteristics of men who batter women in order to distinguish them from no battering men.
Guest: Nyiko Mabunda - Social Worker working in Psychiatry and with mental issues
Themba Masango - Secretary General at Not In My name
Javu Baloyi - Spokesperson for Commission of Gender Equality
Some villages in Limpopo could remain without water for some time. Lepelle Northern Water says it needs an additional R420-million to be able to supply water. It was appointed to ensure that over 100 villages get clean water and sanitation. R3.5-billion was initially budgeted for the project. Phineas Legodi, the head of Lepelle Northern Water said the project has not stalled.
Guest: Phineas Legodi - The head of Lepelle Northern Water
Durban, jump start your fitness journey at the METRO FM & TROVE Fitness Bootcamp! The Bootcamp aims to encourage South African women to take their power back through fitness and develop social networks with other women with like-minded interests. Expect a jam packed morning with the latest fitness trends, great music, brand exhibitions and delicious food! Bring your bestie and take advantage of the Bestie Price Combo!
Guest: Juanita Khumalo - Founder of Trove Wellness
Thousands of taxis blocked several roads in the Pretoria CBD on Wednesday morning as protests in the area continued. Angry taxi drivers also littered the streets with an array of objects after a taxi driver was shot dead on Tuesday. The atmosphere is tense and volatile. According to Sowetan, taxi operators found people, believed to be police officers, were allegedly involved in the selling of drugs on Tuesday. Angry taxi operators then used the city's buses to block traffic to "deal" with the nyaope (drug) boys.
Guest: : Sipho Stuurman – SABC Journalist Tsako Khoza - Legal Aid For Refugees Sheila Lynn Senkubuge - Tshwane MMC for Roads and Transport
Swedish retail giant H&M has joined forces with South African brand Mantsho, in its first ever collaboration with an African designer. The Mantsho label was created by Johannesburg-based designer, Palesa Mokubung, in 2004, and has graced many runways worldwide including in the United States, Greece, and India. In Mokubung's native Sesotho language, Mantsho means "Black is beautiful."
"Mantsho x H&M is an exciting collection celebrating the elegance and vibrancy of Africa with modern edgy designs created for the stylish carefree woman," reads a statement jointly released by H&M and Mantsho. The collection which launched August 15th is for women's accessories and clothes, and introduces a uniquely South African feel to H&M customers around the world.
Guest: Palesa Mokubung - Founder of Mantsho & First African Designer to collaborate with HnM
On March 29, 1988, Dulcie September, the Chief Representative of the ANC for France, Luxembourg and Switzerland, took the elevator to ANC’s fourth floor office in 28 Rue des Petites Écuries in the center of Paris. As she opened the door, she was shot five times in the head with a silenced 22. calibre rifle. Her murder has never been solved and September is not a household name in South Africa. Neither of those things are coincidental. Dulcie September grew up in Athlone on the Cape Flats in Cape Town. Apartheid would only become official policy years later, but racial segregation was already deeply entrenched.
Guest: Kelly-Eve Koopman - writer and multidisciplinary creative from South Africa Rasmus Bitsch(BITS) - Journalist and Head producer of Sound Africa
Cervical cancer is a type of cancer that occurs in the cells of the cervix — the lower part of the uterus that connects to the vagina. Various strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV), a sexually transmitted infection, play a role in causing most cervical cancer.
Guest: Dr Lawrence Banks - Director General of the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB)
Gauteng education MEC Panyaza Lesufi has shut down the 20 bogus schools operating in Ivory Park. The department is now in a process to audit all the affected pupils to determine where they need to be placed and in which grades.
Last week it came to light that three schools, Star Combined School, Four Comprehensive and Our Legacy Combined were operating illegally. Upon investigation, department officials discovered that there were 17 other schools operating illegally in the area. The schools start from grade R up to grade 9 and parents were paying between R400 and R450 a month.
Guest: Steve Mabona - Gauteng Education Spokesperson
Dr. Lunga currently works as a Disaster Risk Reduction and Development Consultant and as an African Research Fellow at the Human Sciences Research Council in Pretoria, South Africa. Prior to this, he held multiple research, consulting and academic positions in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique, which inter alias included working as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the Africa Unit for Transdisciplinary Health Research at the North-West University, and as a Lecturer in Zimbabwe.
Guest: Melita Steele- Senior Climate and Energy Campaign Manager for Greenpeace Africa
Dr Wilfred Lunga – African Research fellow at the Human Sciences Research Council
Ms. Arina Muresan - Researcher, Institute for Global Dialogue, associated with UNISA
People who are outraged by the City of Cape Town's proposal to ban swearing on beaches have until September 2 to oppose this and a raft of other possible by-laws intended to protect the coastline and all who use it. This is after the City of Cape Town's 17-page Draft Coastal By-Law caused uproar with the proposal that no person may in the coastal zone "use foul or indecent language".
Guest: Marian Nieuwoudt - Mayoral Committee Member for Spatial Planning and Environment at City of Cape Town
Tributes for construction entrepreneur Dr Thandi Ndlovu continue to pour in after the businesswoman died in hospital after a car accident that claimed four lives on Saturday. According to her business partner, Chris Cudmore, Ndlovu was on her way to a funeral in Rustenburg when the accident happened. The South African business fraternity is mourning the death of business tycoon Dr Thandi Ndlovu who died on Saturday morning in hospital.
Guest: Guest: Dr Nomafrench Mbombo - Western Cape Provincial Health Minister/MEC and DA party women’s National Leader
Samuel Cook, known professionally as Sam Cooke, was an American singer, songwriter, civil-rights activist and entrepreneur. Influential as both a singer and composer, he is commonly known as the King of Soul for his distinctive vocals and importance within popular music
Guest: RJ Benjamin – Award-winning vocalist, songwriter, composer, vocal coach, musical director and producer
Chocoloza was founded by Vicki Bain, an environmental and sustainability consultant in a previous life but 14 years in Belgium turned her into a homesick chocolatier. After qualifying as a chocolatier and pastry chef she worked for arguably one of the best artisanal chocolatiers in Belgium, Demeestere, as well as one of the biggest and best-known, Neuhaus. But there is no place like home, and so Chocoloza was born.
Guest: Vicki Bain - Founder of Chocoloza
The anti-apartheid organization comprised various grassroots organizations such as churches, trade unions, civic associations and sports bodies. The launch date of 20 August was chosen because it was the month in which the apartheid government would introduce legislation for the Tricameral Parliament. The intention was for the Tricameral Parliament to have Indian and coloured people vote in separate houses on matters affecting them, however, the white house dominated by the National Party would still be the most powerful in terms of decision-making.
Guest: Valli Moosa - Former UDF (United Democratic Front) Member
WHAT RESPONSIBILITY DO SOCIAL MEDIA USERS HAVE WHEN IT COMES TO WHAT THEY POST? E.G GRAPHIC CONTENT
Guest: Tholoana Ncheke - Media Law Expert
Barbara Anne Hogan was born on 28 February 1952 and grew up in Benoni. After completing her primary school education, Hogan enrolled and completed her matric at St Dominics Convent School. She then registered at the University of Witwatersrand where she obtained a degree in Development Studies. While at Wits, Hogan joined a group of students who actively opposed policies of the Apartheid government and became involved in their campaigns. After completing her studies, Hogan worked as a researcher at the South African Institute of Race Relations.
Guest: BARBARA HOGAN
Guest: Hester Koster - Director for Special Schools and Inclusive Education At Gauteng Department Of Education
About 300 people have been left destitute after they were evicted from the Klein Akker farm near Wallacedene in Kraaifontein. In what has been described as a cruel and barbaric act, more than 300 people, including pensioners, women and children, have been evicted from a farm in Kraaifontein and left destitute.
The 300, who had resided on Klein Akker farm near Wallacedene in Kraaifontein, some for nearly two decades, have been left to sleep on the street since Monday. The evictions come as land reform issues persist, with the Constitutional Court ordering the reinstatement of a Land Claims Court order to appoint a special official to oversee claims by families who laboured on farms in lieu of payment
Guest: Commissioner Andre Gaum
Guest: Anna-Marie Schoeman - Klein Akker Community Spokesperson
Guest: Rams Mabote - Founder of Future Kings
Rev Bafana Khumalo - Senior Strategic Advisor at Sonke Gender Justice
Dr Linda Ncube - CEO of Love Life
MEMBERS of the ACDP recently marched to the Department of Basic Education to air their disapproval of the introduction of Comprehensive Sexuality Education to the school curriculum.
The ACDP is not singing from the same hymn sheet as the Department of Basic Education about the introduction of Comprehensive Sexuality Education in schools next year.
Guest: Wayne Thring - ACDP Deputy President Prof Harry Hausler - CEO of TB HIV Care
It’s now ‘illegal’ to display the apartheid flag in South Africa It's a historic day for South Africa, following the Equality Court's ruling on the apartheid flag. But not everyone is going to be happy with this outcome.
Judge Phineas Mojapelo will have his name remembered for a very long time in South Africa. He’s the magistrate who handed down the momentous decision to outlaw the old apartheid flag from public display in the country, some 25 years after the cruel regime was finally defeated.
Guest: Advocate Sipho Mantula - Human Rights Lawyer
24-year-old Entrepreneur and Professional Speaker, Busi Mkhumbuzi Pooe took centre stage as the Programme Director of the 16th Annual Nelson Mandela Lecture that was delivered by President Barack Obama. Her selection represented the latest in a series of accomplishments, each of which applied and built on the meaning of the last.
Guest: Busi Mkhumbuzi Pooe - Social Entrepreneur at Tshimong, Speaker, Moderator, Forbes Africa 30 Under 30, Standard Bank Top Women Finalist
Phila Portia Ndwandwe was part of the Natal Machinery of Umkhonto we Sizwe under the leadership of Muzi Ngwenya (Thami Zulu or “TZ”) operating from Swaziland. She was in the unit headed by Ayanda Dlodlo that was responsible for the infiltration of African National Congress (ANC) cadres into Natal. Zandi was abducted in Swaziland at the Manzini Arms by Durban Security Branch members. She refused to cooperate with the police.
Guest: Max Du Preez - Author and Journalist
Today (20th August 2019) will officially mark the end of an era as Constitutional Court Justice Edwin Cameron retires after 25 years as a judge. The court had a special sitting in honour of Justice Cameron at a formal sitting. Cameron, who is openly gay and was one of the first public figures to disclose his HIV status, first graced the bench as an acting judge on 20 August 1994 until December of the same year
Guest: Lutendo Sigogo – President of Black Lawyers Mark Heywood – Social Justice Activist
The National Credit Amendment Bill, signed into law this week, sets the groundwork for over-indebted consumers to have payments suspended in part or full. Picture: Shutterstock
South African banks are concerned that some of their customers will get away with not having to repay their debt. President Cyril Ramaphosa earlier this week signed the National Credit Amendment Bill into law, setting the groundwork for over-indebted consumers to have payments suspended, in part or full, for as many as 24 months, or even scrapped if their financial situation has been found to have worsened.
Guest: Cas Coovadia – The Managing Director of the Banking Association of South Africa
The Coalition is a civil society group that is made up of church organizations, and allied affiliates that aim to fight sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe
Guest: Martha Shumba - A Zim Social Activist based in South Africa, An Executive Member of the Coalition against Sanctions imposed in Zimbabwe
Dumisani Muleya - Editor of Zimbabwe Independent Newspaper
Guest: Professor Tim Noakes - Author, Emeritus Professor, runner, LCHF/Banting/CrossFit proponent
The Joburg Zoo hosted an event on World Elephant Day which coincided with Lammie’s 40th birthday, where they invited people to visit the zoo for free and experience the trumpeting and rumbling of an African elephant, amongst other things. Boycott Divestment Sanctions South Africa are calling for Lammie to be taken to a sanctuary where she can spend the rest of her days
Guest: Jenny Moodley – Johannesburg City Parks Spokesperson
Guest: Braam Hanekom – Board Member of Boycott Divestment Sanctions South Africa
Gogo Dineo Ndlanzi is celebrated as a sangoma, spiritual teacher, life coach and and professional African storyteller, poet, writer, dancer and facilitator. The best way to summarise her life’s work is that she is a facilitator of change. She is passionate about enlightening people to view life from a different perspective through bringing about changes in outlook to allow for holistic healing. Gogo Dineo brings creativity to facilitate safe learning spaces and processes of social change. She is also a licensed Heal Your Life Teacher and certified Organisational Systems Coach.
Guest: GOGO DINEO NDLANZI
Despite being disabled since she can remember, Nobathembu Peter has never allowed it to stop her from chasing her dreams. The bubbly 26-year-old often inspired her fellow South Africans with her positive attitude. About a month ago, Briefly.co.za reported that Nobathembu urged people to see her first before her disability. At the tender age of 3, a drunk driver hit her and left her disabled for life. She recently shared her story.
Guest: Lloyd Babedi - Founder of Barks Foundation
Nobathembu Peter - Disability lifestyle influencer, Speaker, Fashion designer, Road accident survivor
Police have confirmed the arrest of seven people for being in possession of stolen goods in Jabulani , South of Johannesburg. The arrests were made during raids in the township following a night of unrest. Police were deployed to Soweto after shops belonging to foreign nationals were looted on Wednesday night.
Guest: Nombulelo Nyatela - Spokesperson of MEC Economic Development, Agriculture and Environment
Kay Makhubela - Gauteng Police Spokesperson
It’s often said that after divorce men often live an invisible life of pain and suffering. The absolute disintegration of their life and identity takes a toll that few people see or want to deal with. How true is this? How do men cope with divorce? Are they coping?
Guest: Sello Maake ka Ncube - Renowned Actor, Theatre Director, Playwright, Screenwriter and Supporter of Gender Relations Issues
Meshack Kekana - Founder Dads in the Picture
Brenton Nestler - Personal Development, Executive ,Team coach and Leadership Team Member at Mankind Project SA representative
iLembe is one of the 11 district municipalities in KwaZulu-Natal and is also the smallest District Municipality in the province, with a total population of approximately 657 000. The District Municipality covers approximately 3260 square kilometres and is divided into four local municipalities. The four municipalities are Mandeni, KwaDukuza, Maphumulo and Ndwedwe. The strategic location along the key corridor linking two of Africa’s busiest ports, Durban to the South and Richards Bay in the north makes it an investment destination of choice.
Guest: Nathi Nkomzwayo - CEO Enterprise Ilembe
Education department apologises after backlash over 'sexy reading' tweets
Academy to present their first dyslexia workshop in PE Pretoria advocate runs Comrades while reading book to promote literacy Spelling made easy Department of Basic Education spokesperson Elijah Mhlanga has issued an apology following a backlash about his series of "Read to Lead" tweets which, among other things, encourage "making reading sexy".
The message was not so much the issue, but rather the use of images accompanying some of the messages: two tweets in particular had half-naked women in them.
Guest: Elinor Sisulu - South African Writer and Activist Rone McFarlane - Co-Head of Research at Equal Education
Women's League wants answers about axing of ANC leaders in KZN ANC Women's League president Bathabile Dlamini has told President Cyril Ramaphosa that the organisation wants to meet the party's KwaZulu-Natal leadership over the removal of women from office.
This came just a few hours after the party in KZN announced the removal of eThekwini mayor Zandile Gumede. Without mentioning Gumede by name, Dlamini said she was not happy about how easy it was to remove women leaders.
Guest: Sanusha Naidoo - Political Analyst with the Institute of Global Dialogue
Leaving his hometown of Klerksdorp in the North West Province to pursue an LLB degree at the University of the Witwatersrand, Zareef knew he was destined for great things. The youngest of three siblings, Mr Minty has always enjoyed the concept of breaking the conventional and disrupting the paradigm.
Shattering the myth that people from small towns are more relaxed and content with what they are doing and what they have, Zareef was led by his ambitious goals and dreams. He’s constantly innovating, changing and developing. “Regardless of where I grew up, I knew that I wanted to be impacting the lives of millions positively,” Minty reveals.
Guest: Zareef Minty - Entrepreneur
Helen Nontando (Noni) Jabavu was born in 1919 in the Eastern Cape into a literary family. From the age of thirteen, she was schooled in England, and continued to live there for many years. She went on to become one of the first African female writers and journalists. In 1955 Noni Jabavu returned to South Africa for a three-month stay. She visited her father, Professor D.D.T. Jabavu, of Fort Hare, as well as relatives in the Eastern Cape and Johannesburg. The Ochre People, first published in 1963, is a poignant account of her trip, and contains vivid and perceptive memories of the country she loved and of the people she met.
Guest: Makhosazana Xaba - Poet and Writer
Guest: Karabo Khakhau – DA member of the Free State Legislature
Guest: Naledi Chirwa - Eff Member of Parliament
Guest : Fasia Hasaan – ANC member OF Parliament
Sex work is illegal in South Africa and the closest that it came to changing was in a highly publicised court case two decades ago. Today we ask, should sex work be decriminalized?
Guest: Katlego Rasebitse - Media and Advocacy officer at Sisonke and Leader National Sex works sector Guest: Nosipho Vidima - Human Rights Officer at SWEAT Guest: Grizela Grootboom - Human Trafficking Survivor and Author Of Exit
Guest: Advocate Brenda Madumise – Feminist, and is currently working on National strategic plan for Gender based violence and she’s is working to get rape kits shortages urgently fixed.
Police and metro police were on Saturday afternoon monitoring the situation in Orange Grove where vigilante groups were busy evicting foreigners from houses alleged to have been hijacked from the Johannesburg Property Company (JPC).
A group calling themselves concerned residents of Orange Grove and Alexandra evicted several foreigners from their homes in Orange Grove, claiming that they were illegally occupying houses owned by the City of Johannesburg's JPC.
Guest: Nthatisi Modingoane
I am a Harvard Business School graduate holding a General Management Program qualification. I hold a master’s degree M. Com in Business Management & Economics, University of Johannesburg; an Honours in Economic Geography and a B. Ed from the University of Zululand.
Adjusting to life with a disability can be a difficult transition. We all tend to take our health for granted—until it’s gone. Then, it’s all too easy to obsess over what we’ve lost. But while you can’t go back in time to a healthier you or wish away your limitations, you can change the way you think about and cope with your disability. You are still in control of your life! There are many ways you can improve your independence, sense of empowerment, and outlook. No matter your disability, it’s entirely possible to overcome the challenges you face. Today we look at , how to cope with late life disability?
Guest: Lloyd Babedi - Founder of Barks Foundation Dr Frans Corb - Psychiatrist and Chairperson of SADAG
Guest: Jack Bloom - DA Shadow MEC for Health in the Gauteng Provincial Legislature
Guest: Cassim Lekhoathi - Acting General Secretary at DENOSA
Guest: Natalia Molebatsi - writer, performance poet and cultural worker Lebo Mashile - writer and performance poet
She is the founder and CEO of Furaha Afrika Holdings (Pty) Ltd, with subsidiaries including Furaha Solutions (a joint venture partnership with Work Force, a listed AltX-JSE company), Furaha investments & advisory. Her experience ranges from Investment banking, enterprise development and building entrepreneurship ecosystems on the African continent.
Guest: Matsi Modise - Founder of Fuhara Afrika Holdings and Vice Chair of Simodisa an Industry Association for high growth high impact entrepreneur
Her story highlights women who have done impeccable things in the lifetime but we don’t know enough about them because we didn’t see them always. This feature helps us learn more about them, their journey and their incredible contribution in society
Guest: Ntombizikhona Valela – PhD History Student AT WITS , Writer and Historian
An era in world cricket ended on Monday when Dale Steyn, unarguably the finest South Africa men’s fast bowler ever and arguably the best the game has yet seen, hung up his whites.
Guest: Thabiso Mosia – SAfm Sports Presenter Guest: Makhaya Ntini - South African former professional cricketer
South Africa is well-known for a diverse wealth of minerals and a very well regulated mining industry. The mines are places of employment for hundreds of thousands of mineworkers from all over Africa and many international experts are also employed by South African mining companies. The greatest impact of mining accidents can be found amongst the victims and those family members left behind. Many of these workers are the breadwinners in extended families who depend on these workers for their daily living. How safe are our miners?
Guest: Meshack Mbangula - National Coordinator of the Mining Affected Communities United in Action - Macua
Guest: Chantell Ilbury - Scenario strategist at Mind of a Fox
Recently Cabinet approved and adopted the contentious NHI Bill, expected to be tabled in Parliament before year-end. Mind of a Fox scenario strategists developed four different theories which highlight both the challenges currently facing the system and what could still be achieved if there was unity and collaboration between the public and private health sectors.
Cape Town mothers who've lost loved ones to gang violence staged a protest march to Parliament on Thursday.
The group called Moms Move for Justice helped and supported parents who were directly affected by gangsterism. Spokesperson Lesley Wyngaard’s son was murdered.
Dr. John Kani is a celebrated South African actor and playwright best known for his numerous performances in protest theatre during the apartheid years, including Sizwe Bansi is Dead, Master Harold and the Boys, Saturday Night at the Palace, The Island and My Children! My Africa!. He joined The Serpent Players (a group of actors whose first performance was in the former snake pit of the zoo, hence the name) in Port Elizabeth in 1965 and helped to create many plays that went unpublished but were performed to a resounding reception. These were followed by the more famous Sizwe Banzi is Dead and The Island, co-written with Athol Fugard and Winston Ntshona, in the early 1970s. He also received an Olivier nomination for his role in My Children My Africa!
Guest: DR JOHN KANI
Ari Seirlis is the CEO of the QuadPara Association of South Africa (QASA). He is a strong lobbyists and advocate for human rights for people with disabilities. He serves on the executive of the South African disability Alliance. QASA has been leading the disability sector in the call for the exemption of details for people with disabilities. QASA is the owner of Rolling Inspiration magazine, a lifestyle publication for people with mobility impairments. He serves on the board of the health & welfare seta and advisers many government departments on disability policy and legislation
Guest: Ari Seirlis - CEO of QuadPara Association of South Africa
The World Breastfeeding Week is celebrated every year from 1 to 7 August to encourage breastfeeding and improve the health of babies and mothers around the world. The World Health Organization recommends exclusive breastfeeding starting within one hour after birth until a baby is 6 months old. South Africa will join the rest of global community to raise awareness about the benefits of exclusive breastfeeding. The 2019 World Breastfeeding will be commemorated under the theme: Empower Parents, Enabling Breastfeeding”
Guest: Dr Nomlindo Makhubalo - National Department of Health
Solidarity taking legal action after Denel's battle to pay salaries Denel will turn around, and we will pay salaries - CEO More financial support on the cards for SABC, Denel, SAA - Mboweni Denel salaries on the line again
State-owned arms manufacturer Denel says it will "soon" take legal action against former executives to recover money as a result of alleged fraud and misappropriation of funds.
In a statement on Wednesday its CEO Danie du Toit said he had already received several reports "concerning improper transactions, irregular appointments and potential fraud while other investigations are in advanced stages".
Guest: Anton van der Bijl - Head of the Legal Department at Solidarity
It’s still seen as a taboo to have men report abuse but many men are still abused .Most men will not report abuse or sexual violence because of the “shame” that comes with it. Today we look at male abuse and how men can report and deal with it?
Guest: Martin Pelders - Founder of MatrixMen Anele Siswana - Clinical Psychologist Martin Manamela - Life Coach and Counsellor
Climate change is a slow, natural cycle that causes the earth’s temperature to rise and fall periodically over centuries. Human intervention, however, has sped up the process and has had catastrophic effects across the globe. All ecosystems and biodiversities are threatened by climate change and its effects are remarkable on all life.
Climate change has a profound impact on human life - it influences temperatures shifts, food security, water resources, greenhouse gasses.
Guest: Dr Mary-Jane Bopape - Chief Scientist: Weather Research South African Weather Services
Jackie May – Founder and Editor of Twyg ; a platform to promote living Sustainably
Ivo Vegter - Journalist and Columnist
Guest: Nelisa Dondolo – Community Development Worker
Guest: Malusi Booi - Department of Human Settlement
Lorna Scott is the owner of Inverroche Distillery, the maker of Fynbos flavoured gin. Lorna Scott's Inverroche produces three distinctively different styles of gin – Classic, Verdant and Amber. According to legend, 11th century Italian monks invented gin for medicinal purposes.
Guest: Lorna Scott - Founder and Owner of Inverroche Distillery
Her story highlights women who have done impeccable things in the lifetime but we don’t know enough about them because we didn’t see them always. This feature helps us learn more about them, their journey and their incredible contribution in society.
Guest: Rosina Sedibane Modiba – The first black South African woman athlete to compete in the multi-racial championships.
Guest: Lorato Trok- Author of “Against the Odds , The Story of Rosina Sedibane Modiba.
The trial of rape and human trafficking accused Nigerian pastor Timothy Omotoso and his two co-accused has been rolled over for a day in the Port Elizabeth High Court. A new trial was meant to start on Tuesday before judge Irma Schoeman. The initial trial, which began in October 2018, resulted in the original presiding officer, Port Elizabeth High Court Judge Mandela Makaula, recusing himself following allegations from Omotoso’s defence team
Guest: Letlhogonolo Mokgoroane - Lawyer and Social Justice Activist
Guest: Mr Dhesigen Naidoo - CEO of The Water Research Commission
Guest: Tiny Dhlamini - Water activist
Depression is a very hard-hitting reality for many Breast Cancer survivors as well as patients still undergoing diagnosis and treatment –although it’s a topic that still needs much attention in South Africa. Since Breast Cancer is the most common cancer in women and, although it’s no longer a death sentence with all the treatment options available, it still unfortunately carries stigmas around self-image and sexuality. . In recent times treatment has advanced significantly and it is no longer the death sentence it once was. The down side though is that the aggressiveness of the treatments can expose patients to quite extreme side-effects, including depression. This is why recognising the impact of breast cancer and its treatment on long-term outcomes, like your mental health, is so important.
Guest: Doctor Nici Zeeman – General Practitioner
Ridiculed in front of my kids’: Readers share that schools still withhold reports "Parents are being webbed into this devious way of collecting outstanding fees by retaining the learner's report, knowing very well it is emotional blackmail and intimidation."
"I have never been so traumatised in all my life, my girls included." We recently wrote an article clarifying that withholding school reports, for any reason, is against the law. But readers wrote to us to share that despite the fact that withholding school reports in lieu of outstanding fees is illegal, many families are still being denied reports and more.
“I was so happy when I saw this article about school fees. Last term I was late paying school fees by 4 days and they charged me a penalty of R125, and due to this, my son was not allowed to get his report till I pay the R125.
Guest: Elijah Mhlanga – Spokesperson for the Department of Basic Education
The Gift of the Givers Foundation is the largest disaster relief organisation of African origin on the African continent. We have delivered over R2.1 billion in aid to 43 countries around the world, including South Africa. We have designed and developed the world’s first and largest containerised mobile hospital, which was deployed in Bosnia. It was comparable to the best hospitals in Europe and remains unmatched to this day.
We run 21 projects, administered by our offices in South Africa and Malawi. The projects cover areas such as Health, Education, Agricultural Sustainability, Life Skills, Job Creation & Entrepreneurship, Feeding Schemes, Sport & Culture and Winter Warmth.
Guest: Jasper Gonouya maphosa and Nombulelo Mlokoti From Gift of the givers
Guest: Mr Sakkie DuPlooy - MMC For Social Development and community services in the inner city
Guest: Daniele Diliberto – Founder of Ladles of Love Tebogo Mpufane - Coordinator Kopano Manyano Center Joel Manyepe - chairperson of the Tshwane homelessness
Guest: Giddy Lief from the Bet Menorah - Pretoria Jewish Congregation and Social Activities Committee
Kopano Manyano God the Founder Center for Homeless is an organization that started back 2001 at 139 Mears street Sunnyside, was established through the guidance of the Holy Spirit by the passion of Pastor Catherine Mogale now the CEO of the NGO, it was registered on the 22May 2003
KMGC cater to the specific needs of the Homeless, rape victims and HIV/AIDS infected people. We have 4(Thematic Areas) of specialization and intend to expand into the untapped and mostly over looked areas of humanitarianism. All Humanitarian issues including domestic violence, sexual abuse, poverty alleviation and Homelessness. We focus on (6) six core programs to run the organisation
Guest: Pastor Catherine Mogale
We still see men who serve time in prison and still come back into society and continue to rape/commit crimes. Does “punishing” men really rehabilitate them?Discipline versus Punishment? Do prisons really rehabilitate men?, Is the current justice system equipped to handle GBV victims and perpetrators?
Guests: Sipho Mbele, Wessel Van Den Berg and Vusi Cebekhulu
FaceApp has become a viral sensation over the past week, with both Android and iOS users downloading the application to take selfies and pass them through the program’s age filter. The app uses machine learning features to analyse a self-portrait picture and output an altered version which predicts how you would look if you were much older
Guest: Jan Vermeulen - Editor At Large at My Broadband
MUT (Mangosuthu University of Technology) – Accommodation , SHOTAGE OF ACCOMODATION
DUT – (Durban University of Technology) Exams results are not out but classes are continuing
Guest: Lulama Mabude – SASCO Provincial Chair in KZN
Guest: Joy Govender - Chairperson of Lenasia South Residents Association. She stays (Ward 120)
Guest: Phakamile Mlambo – Community Member Waterwax Informal Settlement (Next to Lenasia Ext 1)
Guest: Vinay Choonie – Lenasia South Councilor (Ward 120)
Her story highlights women who have done impeccable things in the lifetime but we don’t know enough about them because we didn’t see them always. This feature helps us learn more about them, their journey and their incredible contribution in society
Guest: Diana Ferris – Retired Writer, Poet and Storyteller
Having suicidal thoughts can be overwhelming and frightening. Suicidal thoughts are brought on by depression, anxiety and just being in a very bad space to the point where you feel like you can’t cope. How can one help themselves cope?
Guest: Thabang Tlaka – Clinical Psychologist
The aim of partnering with the post office and banks is to reduce queues and improve queues. Instead of going to the Home Affairs, they can go to the Post Office for reprints cause the post office has more offices as well.
Guest Mr Thulani Mavuso – Acting Director General at Home Affairs
Today we look at the importance of recreational activities for ones cognitive development. Your daily activities help cognitive development both consciously and unconsciously. Whether children use logic to sort, classify, or create patterns, or creativity and language to acquire new knowledge, I hope to help you diversify your activities by breaking down this aspect of development.
Guest: Dr Melodie de Jager - Neurodevelopmental Specialist
Guest: Professor Crain Soudien - CEO of the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC)
Guest: Sbu Zikode – President of Abahlali baseMjondolo
We continue our discussion from last week looking at the reasonably high amount of money spent on HIV awareness campaigns over the years but us still seeing a very high infection rate among young woman in South Africa. According to the provincial Department of Health, this equates to an average of 791 new infections per month, while nationally 1200 new infections were recorded weekly. There has been a reasonably high amount of money spent on HIV Awareness in South Africa over the years but THERE IS STILL A VERY a high infection rate among young woman in South Africa. Why is this?
Guest: Prof Sue Goldstein – Associate Professor at the School of Public health at the University of Witwatersrand HIV researcher (WITS)
Guest: Lebogang Ramafoko - CEO of the Soul City Institute
Hundreds of government-built toilets in Ekurhuleni have been vandalized and are becoming a hideout for criminals. The municipality says it would cost too much to protect the toilet sites. Authorities say they’re working hard to ensure they are allocated to those in need.
Guest: MMC Lesiba Mpya - MMC (Members of the Mayoral Committee) Human Settlement in Ekurhuleni
The Lion King is a 2019 American musical film directed and produced by Jon Favreau, written by Jeff Nathanson, and produced by Walt Disney Pictures. It is a photorealistic computer-animated remake of Disney's traditionally animated 1994 film The Lion King. The film stars the voices of Donald Glover, Seth Rogen, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Alfre Woodard, Billy Eichner, John Kani, John Oliver and Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, as well as James Earl Jones reprising his role from the original. The plot follows Simba, a young lion who must embrace his role as the rightful king of his native land following murder of his father, Mufasa, at the hands of his uncle, Scar. Plans for a remake of The Lion King were confirmed in September 2016 following the success of Disney's The Jungle Book, also directed by Favreau. Much of the main cast signed in early 2017 and principal production began in mid-2017 on a blue screen stage in Los Angeles.
Guest: Janine Jellars – Writer, Editor and Entrepreneur.
Guest: Karen Willemse – Former National Director of the Parkinson's Association of South Africa.
Parkinson's disease affects the nerve cells in the brain that produce dopamine. Parkinson's disease symptoms include muscle rigidity, tremors, and changes in speech and gait. After diagnosis, treatments can help relieve symptoms, but there is no cure.
Guest: Craig Newman - CEO OF Expo Centre - Rand Show and Graeme van Buuren from Easylife Kitchens
Yesterday we heard of the passing of Legendary Musician, Johnny Clegg. He died at his family home on Tuesday at the age of 66 after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2015. Family spokesperson Roddy Quinn shared the news in a statement on Tuesday night.
"It is with immense sadness that we confirm that Jonathan (Johnny) Clegg, OBE OIS, succumbed to pancreatic cancer at the age of 66 on the afternoon of 16 July 2019 at his family home in Johannesburg, South Africa."
Guest: Roddy Quinn – Johnny Cleggs Manager
Road crashes are the leading killer of young people globally.Youth themselves must be part of the road safety solution.
Guest: Lungelo Zulu – Chairperson of the Community Policing Youth Desk Guest: Nkosenhle Mngadi – Chairperson of the Youth in Road Safety
This is a road maintenance programme that aims to empower young people .Its focuses on the ages between 18-35
Guest: Bonga Mthembu - Beneficiary and Project Manager Provincially
The main causes of road accidents include speeding, distracted driving, drunk driving, reckless driving,unsafe lane changes, wrong way driving, improper turns. What plans have been put in place to ensure safety on the road and no road carnages?
Guest: Sibusiso Gumbi – HOD Transport KZN
The KwaZulu-Natal MEC for Transport, Community Safety and Liaison, Mr. Mxolisi Kaund unveiled the bold transport sector and Community Safety plans through the budget votes in the KwaZulu-Natal Legislature earlier today.
He outlined his plans to accelerate the Radical Economic Transformation through infrastructure development, set to alleviate poverty and create meaningful jobs for the previously marginalized. He also outlined vigorous and inclusive plans that will assist in defeating crime in communities. Kaunda’s plans are expected to resonate with what prominently featured on the State of The Nation Address (SONA) and The State of The Province Address (SOPA) on creating jobs through economic transformation.
Guest: Kwanele Ncalane – Acting Chief Director Communications for Transport and Community Safety in KZN
Property remains one of the least transformed industries in SA, but listed and unlisted real estate companies are actively trying to improve the situation. How do we transform SA’s property sector?
Guest: Miss Vuyiswa Mutshekwane - CEO OF SAIBPP (South African Institute of Black Property Practitioners)
Ms Mamodupi Mohlala - CEO of The Estate Agency Affairs Board
According to the provincial Department of Health, this equates to an average of 791 new infections per month, while nationally 1200 new infections were recorded weekly. There has been a reasonably high amount of money spent on HIV Awareness in South Africa over the years but THERE IS STILL A VERY a high infection rate among young woman in South Africa. Why is this?
Guest: Prof Sue Goldstein – Associate Professor at the School of Public health at the University of Witwatersrand HIV researcher (WITS)
Guest: Dr Linda Ncube Nkomo - CEO at Love Life
Former president Jacob Zuma began his evidence at the state capture inquiry on Monday by hitting back at how he had “been vilified” and alleged to be the “king of the corrupt” for a decade.
He said he believed “this commission was really created to have me coming here, and perhaps to find things to have on me”.
Zuma has asked to give his own address before he is asked questions by evidence leaders, following the testimony of nine witnesses — including current and former ministers Pravin Gordhan, Fikile Mbalula, Barbara Hogan and Ngoako Ramatlhodi — which the inquiry believes implicates him in alleged state capture.
Guest: Ntebo Mokobo – SABC Reporter
The Boeing Company is an American multinational corporation that designs, manufactures, and sells airplanes, rotorcraft, rockets, satellites, comms gear and missiles worldwide. The company also provides leasing and product support services.
Guest: Guy Leitch - Editor & Publisher of SA Flyer Magazine South Africa
Contrary to popular belief, more South Africans are returning home than public perception. When SA People published a blog recently from an expat who was moving with her young family back to SA after several years in the UK, there was an outcry. How could she do such a thing? But it turns out – according to a recent Homecoming Revolution survey – that there are many expats who are doing just that… returning to SA for a myriad of reasons from missing family to wanting to help build a better South Africa for all.
Guest: Angel Jones - Homecoming Revolution CEO
A secret gem located in the rural village of Ha-Ramantsha, South West of the Louis Trichardt CBD. Kone Village Boutique Lodge is black owned 4-Star graded Lodge, perfect for those who would like to kick back from their busy schedule and entertain their thoughts and inner peace.
Bonolo Sebata – Co- Founder of Kone Village
GUEST: Fadiel Adams- Spokesperson of Gatvol Capetonian Carmen Loggenberg Roberts – SABC Reporter
Neo Aviation, an air taxi service launched less than 18 months ago, is one of the few which has already shown it will not just survive but succeed. The reasons are fairly simple — the company’s founder, Thokozani Miya, identified a niche that was not being filled by existing air charter services and created a concept tailored to fit the demand.
Guest: Thokozani Miya – Founder of Neo Aviation the 1st black-owned taxi service ... (An air taxi service launched)
Children with special needs require special care and specialized education too. Kids with learning difficulties, sensory problems, deaf or blind kids, autism, disabled children. With the right kind of therapies, interventions and education, children with special needs have all the potential that any other child can have. How accessible is inclusive and equal education for children with special needs?
Guest: Robyn Beere - Deputy Director at Equal education Law Centre and Chairperson of The Right to Education for Children with Disabilities in South Africa
Many boys today don't know what it means to be a man because they don’t have a man in their lives. Sadly, children will go to bed tonight without saying goodnight to their father because he just isn’t there.
Of the children living with their mothers, 35 percent never see their father. And, 24 percent see their fathers less than once a month. How do we ensure male role modelling and mentorship happens in society?
Guest: Kabelo Chababalala – Founder of the Young Men Movement Siya Jentile – Founder of Not in my name Gavin Meyers - Regional \ Character and Mentor The Character Company and Pastor
The Alexandra community profile is characterized by high population density and growth rates, elevated levels of unemployment, an age profile skewed towards younger age categories, relatively low levels of education, and low monthly household incomes. Is Alex beyond Repair?
GUEST: Professor Ivan Turok - Executive Director ,Economic Performance and Development Human Sciences Research Council
Veteran South African actress Nomhle Nkonyeni has died. The 77-year-old actress received the Order of Ikhamanga in silver this year from President Cyril Ramaphosa for her contribution to the arts.
Guest: Florence Masebe
Guest: Thabo Daniels
Celebrating people who have achieved great things and how they did it.
Guest: Papama Mtwisha - Designer Founder of butter pudding
Her story highlights women who have done impeccable things in the lifetime but we don’t know enough about them because we didn’t see them always. This feature helps us learn more about them and their incredible contribution in society
Miriam Tlali was born in Doornfontein in Johannesburg, Transvaal (Gauteng). She grew up in Sophiatown. Miriam wanted to study literature at the University of the Witwatersrand but was not admitted due to the reservation of positions for White students. She later went to study at Pius the XII University (now University of Lesotho). Unfortunately she couldn’t complete her studies due to financial difficulties. No longer able to study, Tlali found a job as a bookkeeper at a furniture store. In 1969, Tlali had written and completed a novel titled Muriel at Metropolitan, a semi-autobiographical work.
Guest: Dr Barbara Boswell – Associate Professor for English and Literature at UCT
WHAT RESPONISBILTY DOES THE COMMUNITY HAVE IN ENSURING THAT SCHOOLS AND OTHER PUBLIC PLACES IN THE COMMUNITY ARE SAFE?
Guest: Nomqeto Madubedube - General Secretary Equal Education
Guest: Dr Konji Sebati - CEO of IPASA (INNOVATIVE Pharmaceutical Association OF South Africa) , Good friend (has known her for more than 35years )
Guest: Thulani Mabaso – Ex Political prisoner Morongoa Ramaboa – Spokesperson for Robben Island Museum
While 18 July has been declared as Nelson Mandela International Day by the United Nations, South Africans choose to celebrate Nelson Mandela’s life throughout July.
Guest : Luzuko Koti – Director of Communications & Marketing @ The Nelson Mandela Foundation (NMF)
Karen to share her experience of working and living on the Island. She currently works at Robben Island Museum. (Strictly sharing her experiences then as an employee of Correctional Services)
Guest: Karen Lloyd; former warder working with Logistics
Robben Island has a rich multi-layered history, shaped by its many different occupants and uses, dating back to about 800 million years. Below is a summary of the Island’s history from the 1400s. Robben Island is a vital part of the Khoi Khoi people’s lives and heritage. They were the first South Africans to have set foot on the Island – through banishment and imprisonment for resisting colonisation
Guest: Toyer Smith – Tour Guide at RIM
The first political prisoners to be placed on the Island were Autshumato, the leader of the “Strandlopers” Khoikhoi and two of his companions Jan Cou and Boubo. This happened on the 10 July 1658. This indicates the use of the Island, for political prisoners dates back to the time of the Dutch settlement at the Cape. The imprisonment of Autshumato and his companions was an effort to prevent dissent between the Khoikhoi and the Dutch.
Guest: Thulani Mabaso – Ex Political prisoner
Robben Island was used at various times between the 17th century and the 20th century as a prison, a hospital for socially unacceptable groups, and a military base. Its buildings, and in particular those of the late 20th century maximum security prison for political prisoners, testify to the way in which democracy and freedom triumphed over oppression and racism. Today we talk about being here and the significance.
Guest: Morongoa Ramaboa – Spokesperson for Robben Island Museum
It’s time now for our Throw Forward feature, where we telling you about the latest technology and trends. The South African Blood Service has come up with a brilliant and faster way to deliver emergency blood to hospitals in remote areas by using drones.
The drone can be loaded with four units of blood at a time and be steered remotely by a drone pilot. This of course will help with the current logistic problem of delivering blood to the furthest corners of country.
Guest: Jonathan Louw - CEO of the South African National Blood Service Lebohang Lebogo - first pilot of the drone
Each year the country’s capital, Washington, DC celebrates the Fourth of July with a viewing of a dynamic fireworks show on the National Mall a free concert, and of course a big display of fireworks.
This year however, US President Donald Trump has declared that there will be fighter jets and tanks.
For more on the 4th of July we’re joined by Bishop Robert H Kelley, III - Senior Pastor and Founder of My Father's House Church. He is also an experienced banker and is been living in South Africa for quite a while now. Bishop Kelly, is the co-founder of Democrats Abroad South Africa which was chartered in 2008.
Guest: Bishop Robert H Kelley - Senior Pastor and Founder of My Father's House Church
For young people especially looking to venture into entrepreneurship, the way in which the success of the journey is portrayed can often put emphasis on the finish line and not necessarily the race. This tends to dictate just how big we are allowed to dream. The Unbreakable Entrepreneurs’ campaign by CAN DO has curated a culture where their passion for the young entrepreneur positions them to dream big, travel the unknown and adopt an UNBREAKABLE spirit. The campaign aims to identify and empower young entrepreneurs who best represent the unbreakable spirit.
Guest: Sine Mkhize
If you don’t already know Brenda Mtambo has one of the most powerful and soulful voices in the world. After initiating a music project called “Sisters of Joy”, she took a big leap towards fulfilling her dreams. She then joined multi Award Winner Gospel Group “Joyous Celebration”, with whom she recorded and toured Africa. She wrote and performed the “Say more Jesus” track on Joyous Celebration 14. In 2013 she released her debut album, Inspired. Ixesha Lami is Brenda’s first single off her latest album “So Much More”, this album reflects on an unhealthy relationship, which she dared to walk away from. It’s not just an anthem for women, this is a song for everyone who’s just had enough of something that’s been working against their joy
Guest: BRENDA MTAMBO - Singer
Winter is in full effect and every fashionista knows that you have to be ready with your winter must haves. According to Fashion Expert, Sifiso Mahlangu there are absolute must have items that are sure to keep you looking fashionably warm. Because we tend to stuff clothes on during winter and just stalk on as many t-shirts and jersey’s we can find which let’s face it a lot of times is NOT cute.
Guest: Sifiso Mahlangu - Fashion Expert
Wednesdays are for Wellness here on Life Happens and as always we strive to be a better version of ourselves. Today we focus on dental hygiene. Your mouth is the doorway to your body as some result bacteria builds up on your teeth; it makes gums susceptible to infection. That then triggers the immune system to attack the infection which causes inflammation in your gums, and the inflammation can lead to serious health problems in the rest of your body.
Guest: Dr Nthabiseng Metsing - Head of Professional Development at the South African Dental Association and Dental Practitioner
Believe or not it’s a thing. Not all couple reveal their real financial status to their partners. Apparently some men even limit the money they spend on a date, people have secret bank accounts or life insurance policies, or a stash somewhere under the mattress. It’s that you sis? Call me, I’m talking your calls. Brothers I want to hear from you too.
Have you ever hidden money from your spouse, or is that you now?
Guest: Bongani Dube
Whether you like a torta, tacos, empanadas, burittos, nachos or quesadillas, Owner and Executive Chef at Perron in Melville, Chef Tom Hughes has got you covered. I personally cannot wait to see what he’s prepared for us, but first I’m curious to find out more about the man behind the apron.
Guest: Chef Tom Hughes - Executive Chef at Perron Melville
That is the Black Eyed Peas rendition of Mas Que Nada. They are featuring Sergio Mendes who made the song popular back in 1966. The song was originally written and performed by Brazilian musician Jorge Ben, there has since been many renditions of it.
Well beunos tardes amigos, vamos a Mexico. You have to pay attention anytime to you travel to a foreign country because the simplest things may throw you off. In Mexico for instance the Ladies restrooms are marked an ‘M’ for Mujeres and the Men’s restrooms are marked with an ‘H” for Hombre.
So you see it’s the little things….but thankfully our guest today has travelled to Mexico a few times
Guest: Leanne de Bassompiere
In case you missed it, where we bring you up to speed with trending topics on social media.
Guest: Sibonisile Ngubane - Senior Public Relations Specialist at Ditshego Media
Being a parent comes with a lot of amazing and meaningful rewards but it also comes with challenges. Nurturing your child and watching them grow and develop into their own unique person can add meaning and purpose to your own life, and every parent hopes for a smooth sailing journey with their children or at least something close to smooth. But as we always say on this show, Life Happens and we just have to find the best way to deal with it.
Guest: Ilana Gerschlowitz - Author of ‘Saving my Sons’
If you are at the office struggling to concentrate or dodging your boss because you haven’t meet your deadlines or you’re sitting at your desk wondering where your life is headed, then this next interview is for you. And by the way, don’t worry we all got the case of the Monday blues. And here on Life Happens we have the perfect pick me upper. As you know every Monday we invite thought provoking professionals to give you and I some Monday Motivation.
Believe it or not, the road to a peace and prosperity starts with self-leadership and the transformation of the mind.
Guest: Tshidi Wa Ga Pila - Self-Leadership Coach
Many people aspire to become entrepreneurs because they want be in charge of their own destiny, enjoy the freedom of creating their own schedule and generating their own income. While all of this is true and nice, there are some realities that you need to know of if you want to embark on this journey.
I don’t know what business you are in or want to get into, but if you want to get into the event business then you are in luck. Grab a pen and paper or your electronic notepads of course and get ready to be edified my friends.
Guest: Tiisetso Tau - Managing Director of Synergy Business Events
While celebrations of Youth Month are still in the air, we thought it’d be good to catch up with a young achiever who has published her own Christian Novel. Most young teenagers gladly allocate their spare time to seeing friends or going to the movies but Ntiyiso Mukhari, a grade eight learner in Polokwane, decided to spend the past six months exploring her writing talents while penning an inspirational novel.
Ntiyiso spent six months writing a Christian novel titled Life’s Journey. The book deals with a young girl, Jessie’s struggles growing up. Wanting to just live a normal life, she unfortunately has to contend with a multitude of challenges, including child abuse and abduction, while gradually finding her path to God.
Guest: Ntiyiso Mukhari
Former Goldfish lead singer Sakhile Moleshe has released his debut solo album The Final Call following years of global success with Goldfish. The Final Call is a 15 track album that boasts a variety of sounds which all encapsulate the true essence of Sakhile’s musicianship.
Guest: Sakhile Moleshe - Former Goldfish lead singer
Organised by the National Arts Festival team, Africa's largest and most colourful cultural event offers a choice of the very best of both indigenous and imported talent.
Every year for 11 days Makhanda Grahamstown's population doubles, as people flock to the city for a feast of arts, crafts and sheer entertainment. Every hall or large room becomes a theatre, parks and sport fields become flea markets, normally quiet streets have to be managed by an army of temporary traffic wardens, and every available bed in the city is booked. The festival offers more than 600 shows from opera, cabaret, drama and jazz to stand-up comics and folk music.
GUEST: Tony Lancaster – CEO of the National Arts Festival
The festival commemorates the youth of 1976 through a celebration of the arts. Now in its 5th year it will feature an exciting line up of activities such as art exhibitions, creative talks, film screenings, cycling tour and a family picnic.
All these activities lead up to the main attraction of the festival which is the Basha Uhuru Sounds of Freedom Music Festival, featuring a diverse line-up of both emerging and established musical talent from across the country. There will also be a market with a fusion of food, fashion, art & craft.
GUEST: Gaisang Sethekge
If you’re still wondering what all the fuss is all about with all this talk about the Fourth Industrial Revolution and blockchains, bitcoins and cryptocurrencies. To be honest, it’s all still a little Greek to me to, but it’s reality. The future of finance is increasingly changing to digital assets. Now I’m no expert at this but our guest, Idara McSamuel is.
He is the Chief Venture Capital Strategist from Xenia. He’s a serial entrepreneur, Global emerging market expert and a Venture Capital Strategist, his expertise spans through commodity trade across Africa, the middle East and Europe. As a cryptocurrency enthusiast and a blockchain fanatic he foresees the innovation as the bedrock to advance our African leadership protocol and even circumvent the archaic bureaucratic tendency of our African leadership.
Guest: Idara McSamuel - Chief Venture Capital Strategist from Xenia
Those are all strange and fun days though, today we want to Throw Back to an important month back in 1982 when former United States President Ronald Regan proclaimed the month of June as Zoo and Aquarium month. June of course is summer time in the US and it’s the perfect time to spend time at a zoo and visit the aquarium.
But it’s also a great time to take your family here at home too because the little ones are on school holidays and educate them about conservation and wild life.
Guest: Ian Du Plessis - Curator for Amphibians and Reptiles at the Johannesburg Zoo
This incredible lady turned her pain into beauty after being diagnosed with stage four breast cancer. The diagnoses was followed by days of living with pain, chemotherapy sessions and hair loss.
After several tries of wearing ill-fitting and sometimes hot wigs and scarfs she decided to make her own line of gorgeous multi-coloured hats with delicate handmade flowers to wear. That flourished into an amazing pay-it-forward campaign where she now makes hats for hundreds of other women who are battling cancer.
Guest: Lori Ann Vd Merwe Biebuyck
So because we live in a high tech world and it’s really hard to get your phones these days. Here’s something that you can download on your phones that will actually enhance your studies. It’s time for Review, and we are looking at an App that distributes text books to students. I’m told this App doesn’t even require data so you don’t need internet access. Which makes it easy for students to purchase the module textbook of their choice. They can purchase per chapter instead of an entire textbook. All you do is buy and save on your phone, it’s that easy.
Guest: Ditiro Rantloane - Founder and Managing Director of Text Book App
There are a number of reasons why you shouldn’t do drugs and while many of us may think the reasons are inevitable, many people fall into the trap and don’t know how to get out of it. Drug addictions may start out as a recreational thing or due to peer pressure or maybe stress; whatever the reason, the consequences are much more detrimental to your well-being and may often lead to death unfortunately.
Guest: Itumeleng Selepe - former drug addict,
Wednesdays are for Wellness here on Life Happens. Every week we strive to be a better version of ourselves because we know we’re not perfect, we at least you and I have some Life Happens health police to help us get there right? Very often we fall into some bad habits and some of those habits may affect our health and sometimes Life Just Happens.
It’s still Men’s Health Month so we turn our focus to common health problem that affect men’s physical health like prostate cancer, diabetes, high cholesterol, stroke, urinary tract infections etc.
Unlike women, men hate going to see health professionals. So we brought a health professional to you. Dr. Mfundo Kuhlase, from the Men’s Clinic International joins us now.
Guest: Dr. Mfundo Kuhlase - Men’s Clinic International
we’ve been tracking the day’s trending topics to keep you informed in case you missed it. Digital Strategist and MD of Word Start and Friend of the show’s Mongezi Mtati, has what’s got everybody talking today.
Guest: Mongezi Mtati - Digital Strategist and MD of Word Start
Most parents have no clue what to do with their children over the holiday. Well we know of a good place to start, it’s a program that your children could be involved in during and beyond the holidays.
Live Kaizen has a solution for that. The company was conceptualized in 2015 to address the growing need for STEM awareness and education in the foundation phase of children’s schooling careers. STEM is an acronym for Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics subjects that even adults struggle with, but there’s way to make Programming, Robotics and Design for your children.
Guest: Shazia Labhadur
Franchising is one of the most popular business concept ever created. From what little we do know, it allows the franchisee to use its trademarks, know-how, methods and procedures. This business format has taken the world by storm and if you’re thinking about getting into it, then now is the right time to get your note pads ready. Finance Consultant and Enterprise Developer and friend of the show’s, Teboho Mafodi is here to give us the ins and outs of franchising
Guest: Teboho Mafodi - Finance Consultant and Enterprise Developer
You’re still listening to Life Happens, if you’ve just joined us. Welcome and thank you for listening in, I’m your host…… At some point or another, we have all dealt with the world’s number one silent killer in life – stress. Stress could be as a result of divorce, unemployment, loss, grief, mid-life crisis, sudden change in our bodies or health; there could be a number of things. The sad reality is that millions of people are under extreme amounts of stress and have no idea how to deal with it.
Our guest today is here to help us manage stress in life, business and sport because hey, Life Happens and we can’t run from it. He’s the Author of a book called, The Stress Code. In it he illustrates how stress impacts all facets of our lives and is having devastating effects on the global economy. Stress is both good and bad for you. Small, appropriately timed doses ignite success, help us overcome challenges and grow; but in excess, stress breaks us down. Stress on an ongoing basis is one of the biggest challenges faced by the human race. Negative effects include reduced productivity, ill health and an increased burden on healthcare systems around the world.
Richard Sutton, is the ultimate non-conformist and original thinker. Passionate about solutions for complex problems, his lateral thinking and ability to connect the dots have set him apart as a health and performance educator and consultant. He is currently considered to be one of the foremost experts in his field. He is an advisor to athletes, Olympic teams and international sporting federations and now us.
Guest: Richard Sutton
A lot has been happening on social media over the weekend, but in Case You Missed It, our friend, Social Media Commentator, Bongani Drama will give us an update on the latest Trending Topics
Guest: Bongani Drama
Soweto’s Just Badela Food and Wine will mesmerize patrons to a world class performance by veteran of the New York jazz scene, consummate drummer and educator Jeff “Siege” and the Jeff “Siege” Siegel Sextet featuring Sydney Mavundla Summer 2019 tour.
This performances will feature South African trumpeter Sydney Mavundla who started playing the trumpet at the age of 14 who brings his rich international experience to the concert. He has toured in and out of Africa. In Africa he has been to the likes of Senegal, Nigeria, Kenya, Mauritius, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Mozambique, Swaziland and Botswana. Outside Africa He’s been to UK, Holland, Germany, USA, Australia and New Zealand.
Guest: Sydney Mavundla, Jeff Siegel
It’s been a long week - Last night we had the SONA, the Proteas have broken people’s hearts, Banyana Banyana is back from the Women’s World Cup! Plenty of other things have happened this week. In Case You Missed it, we have eyes and ears everywhere
Guest: Samora Mangesi
We talk to yoga warrior about the benefits of yoga ahead of international yoga day tommorow.
Guest: Steven Heyman
In conversation with standard banks's young artist for jazz artist 2019
Guest: Mandla Mlangeni
Yesterday we told you about concert that the Turquoise Harmony Institute will be hosting this weekend in honor of Refugee Day. A refugee is a person who has fled their own country because they are at risk of serious human rights violations and persecution there. The risks to their safety and life were so great that they felt they had no choice but to leave and seek safety outside their country because their own government cannot or will not protect them from those dangers. Refugees have a right to international protection.
Amnesty International campaigns for a world where human rights can be enjoyed by everyone, no matter what situation they are in. The organization has championed the human rights of refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants for decades.
Guest: Susan Tolmay
Since its inception in 2013, the organization has launched a couple of schools in the Johannesburg CBD under its belt. If you’ve ever seen or heard of the Joburg CBD you know that we are talking about children who are living in a hazardous environment. Most of them come home to single-parents, hijacked buildings, and a community marred by xenophobia, riots & crime--are creating aspirational, fun, beautiful, creative, thoughtful and sophisticated work.
Streetlight schools provides learners an opportunity to reclaim their joyful childhoods, develop deep self-confidence, be inspired and of course obtain the skillsets and mindsets they need to imagine and attain the bright future they all deserve.
Guest: David Fu - COO of STREET LIGHT SCHOOL
Tomorrow June 20th marks the United Nations’ World Refugee Day. It’s a day that commemorates the strength, courage and perseverance of millions of refugees. This year, World Refugee Day also marks a key moment for the public to show support for families forced to flee. The Turquoise Harmony Institute is spearheading A Concert for Refugees, working with partner institutions SAMRO, Universal Rights Association, Horizon Education Trust, Time to Care SA, South African Human Rights Commission, BUSKAID, Nelson Mandela Foundation, Music In Africa and Wits University.
The concert will feature a stellar array of iconic South African artists like Pops Mohamed, Sibongile Khumalo, Gcina Mhlophe, Yvonne Chaka Chaka, with the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra and Buskaid.
Guest: Ian Chatean - Executive Director - Turquoise Harmony
The purpose of Men’s Health Month is to heighten the awareness of preventable health problems and encourage early detection and treatment of disease among men and boys. Today we want to focus on a mental and emotional health issue that affects men more negatively than it does women. Scientists say that women have more tolerance for pain then men do because they forget faster than men do. And I can attest to that because I’ve heard a lot women say that giving birth is the worst pain they had ever felt, but they do it again over and over and over.
Men will get injected once when they were young boys and will remember that pain forever and never go back to the doctor’s. But that’s just physical pain and men can handle physical pain in my opinion. Emotional pain on the other hand, that’s a different story, something else goes through a man’s mind when he experiences emotional pain.
Guest: Xolani Jwaga - Business Man & Artist, Kofi- Ofari-Boateng - Relationship Coach and Mentor . Leroy Tau - Author , Adam - Life Coach
We’ve been tracking the day’s trending topics to keep you informed in case you missed it.
Guest: Mongezi Mtati - Digital Strategist and MD of Word Start and Friend of the show
The question is Are Significant Others entitled to your passwords, all of them social media, phone, bank, laptop?
I mean if we’re in a relationship and we’re in-love why can’t I have your passwords? And we’re not talking about married couples only here, we’re talking about all couples.
Guest: Robi Collins - Comedian
Tired of the good old beans and bones soup? I don’t know about you this winter but after today I’m going to challenge myself to try something new. And since it’s Tasty Tuesday and today’s cuisine is all about Japan, I’m going to start with some Miso soup. Miso soup is served as a side dish in mostly every meal and with almost every dish in Japan. It is a soup made from fermented soybeans and broth which they refer to as dashi. It has pieces of tofu, onion, wakane seaweed, and sometimes vegetables like sweet potatoes, carrots and radish and it’s always comes with a bowl of rice.
Guest: Chef Brown - Japanese food Chef.
From what I hear Japan is very big on manners so we want to make sure you are aware of the basic rules, but also inform you about the beautiful temples, the scenery, the infamous street fashion, best time to visit, the process of acquiring a visa, we’ll tell you about Bento boxes, travel costs and the whole nine yards. And by we I mean, Communications and Social
Guest: Amanda Hardy - Responsibility Manager for The Travel Corporation,
In case you missed it, where we bring you up to speed with trending topics on social media.
Guest: Sibonisile Ngubane - Senior Public Relations Specialist at Ditshego Media and Friend of the show’s is doing the honors for us today.
arrived Johannesburg in 2004 and I was a model student coming out of high school AND the only substance I abused was weed and alcohol.
I started smoking week weed at the age of 15. When I arrived in Jozi in 2004 I met a fiend and we went to Braamfontein and hit my first line
I was a functional addict in the beginning and just using for fun Those 11 years of me using was the worst time of my life . I stole ,lied and many other things.
In 2014 I decided to give it up..not by choice....I went to my second rehab...where I kicked the habit.
I’ve formed an organization called WORD ON THE STREET which helps kids and the youth kick the habit.
Guest: Itumeleng Selepe - Founder of WORD ON THE STREET which helps kids kick the habit.
Born Njabulo Mthunzi Ndimande in Hammersdale, Mthunzi was coined thesecond name by his grandfather, referencing “uMthunzi wokuphumula amatshitshi namajongosi” loosely translated a place of rest for the maidens and His late mother, believed he would be a force to reckon with. At barely 3 years of age, she would instruct him to sing in front of his peers, carving that confidence and resilience in him.
Guest: Njabulo Mthunzi Ndimande
A lot happened this week. But don’t worry In Case You Missed it, we most certainly didn’t. We have eyes and ears everywhere. Media Personality and friend of the show, Samora Mangesi has got us covered!!
Guest: Samora Mangesi – Media Personality
It was on this day June 14th in 1999 that South African parliament elected former President, Thabo Mbeki to succeed President Nelson Mandela. Mbeki was elected by the 400-seat National Assembly general election that the ANC back into power for a second five-year term at that time. Unlike what we’ve seen in the past few years, his election was not opposed by the official opposition Democratic Party, he had been effectively running the country for as deputy president, after a long career in the ANC as an organizer, administrator and negotiator with the white government.
In 2008, Mbeki was ousted as president due to his role in the spy tapes saga which eventually exonerated Jacob Zuma. Between then and now Mbeki had been a huge critic of the ANC well until this year’s ANC manifesto when he announced his support for the ruling party again.
Guest: Adele Nchabeleng – Transform RSA President
Joe and Case, Faded Pictures. They’re singing about faded pictures and broken hearts, too bad so sad gents. We have completely different kinds of pictures to talk about today. You do good and we talk about it here on Life Happens. It’s another Do Good Dongerdag and we have another incredible Do Gooder in studio with us from Beautiful News SA.
Do you know those people who dig through garbage in landfills and collect trash? Well most of them do it to survive, they take what you and I consider trash and turn into an income. They sort out kilograms and kilograms of plastic, paper and metal, trade them in at waste recycling companies in exchange for cash.
For years now the Department of Enviromental Affairs has been urging South Africans participate in recycling solutions as the country’s landfills are rapidly running out of space. Waste collectors are contributing to the solution and helping to create a more sustainable environment.
One young man recognizes what they were doing and set out to capture their stories with his camera. His images attempt to highlight their efforts and give them the recognition they deserve through his photo series called A Place to Call Home for the Waste Pickers.
Guest: Mpumelelo Buthelezi - Photographer
After studying beadwork, design, and leathercraft, he moved to Johannesburg from Port Elizabeth with grand visions of opening a business. He had talent, and mountains of faith. But then Life Happened and he found himself with no money and no place to live and was left homeless in Hillbrow. Though he faced a harsh reality, Solani refused to be knocked down by fortune’s hand. He was determined to get out of the streets and eventually he made his way back to college to stitch his life back together. Today he’s a refined Designer and owner of the Shaka Xhosa bow ties brand. He makes very distinctive leather bow ties that are sold from the Johannesburg all the way to London
Guest: Ntsikelelo Solani
So many of us have found ourselves there at some point in our lives but we rose and we want to encourage, remind and let somebody know today that you can rise and rise and rise and rise again.
Oh you should see how bright the studio is right now, that’s because a PYT (Pretty Young Thing) just walked in. She is proof positive that dynamite comes in small packages. But don’t her petite stature fool you, she’s a powerhouse entertainer, actress, and presenter both on screen and stage.
She has this amazing ability to draw audiences in with her charisma, which she exudes with warm sincerity and genuine interest. It’s why WE love her.
You may know her as Keke in Rhythm City, or the sassy gold digger Tumi in the popular ‘kasi’ drama Zone 14 or maybe you know her as a side chick named Buhle on Muvhango if not for her most recent role as Precious on The River
Guest: Mmarona Motshegoa
The road to self-improvement never ends does it? We here at Life Happens make it our job to make sure we give you the tools you need to get well, body, mind and soul.
How does stress relief, balance, refreshment and revitalization sound? Well you’re in great company, because we’re talking about reflexology therapy, an empowering practice that helps you to cope with everyday pressures. It’s a lot more than a foot massage, reflexology is a healing therapy that can assist in maintaining and improving health and has been proven to support our bodies by reducing stress, improving blood circulation, detoxing the body and reducing the harmful toxic load, and assist in maintaining balance in the body.
But I’m not qualified to edify you about this, my guest is though. She graduated in 2012 from the International Institute of Reflexology in the UK at the original Ingham Method® of foot reflexology as a Therapeutic Reflexologist. Upon returning to South Africa she studied Therapeutic Reflexology & Meridian Therapy at the International Academy of Reflexology and Meridian Therapy. Reflexology Lymphatic Drainage treatments benefits breast cancer patients who experience secondary lymphoedema of the arm as a result of medical intervention. From her experience RLD is also highly effective for patients with primary lymphoedema and those suffering from auto-immune diseases like; Fibromyalgia, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
Guest: Gaby Rockett - Therapeutic Reflexologist
we’ve been tracking the day’s trending topics to keep you informed in case you missed it.
Guest: Mongezi Mtati - Digital Strategist and MD of Word Start and Friend of the show
This year’s Future of HR Summit is carefully put together to tangibly focus on the very near future, unpacking the latest implications of digital disruption in the industry and the changing job descriptions of HR professionals. The summit starts tomorrow [We will unpack some of the outcomes of this summit tomorrow afternoon on the show]
Guest: Ralf Fletcher – Founder of the FUTURE OF HR Summit
How many of you out there have walked down the isle to this beautiful song. Press, Thojana Ya Thesele. The song is about finding his bride, the love of his life. That’s what one lady thought she’d found, the love of his life. Well that was until she heard that her man married someone else right under her nose. I don’t even want to give one particular man any more attention that he’s already gotten on this, but this happens more waaaaay more often than it should and it’s just not right. But rather than judge or point fingers, I just wanted us to talk about it. What makes men think that they can just marry someone else while they’re in a relationship with someone? Why not let the person go that you have no intentions of marrying and then marry the person you want to marry, why string someone along, why lead them on?
Guest: Emilio Tobias - Comedian
We shine the spotlight on Thailand, and because it’s Youth Month our Chefs are young too. It’s Tasty Tuesday my friends and we tickle your taste buds with some great Thai food. Our chef today is 21 years old. He’s still in school studying pastry at the International Hotel school and has competed at the International Chef Competition in Kolkata India.
Guest : Chef Keegan Sella
Let’s go to Thailand this Travel Tuesday. So we chose Thailand as a destination because it’s youth month and young people love to go there and since it’s Youth Month, we thought we should explore this destination. I’m pretty sure there’s a lot of interesting reasons why adults might love this place too
Guest: Kele Scheppers - Marketing Manager at The Travel Corporation
If you’re wondering what to do with your kids over the holidays, then you are in luck. Mickey, Minnie, Elsa, Ariel, Rapunzel and the entire Disney family are back in town for the annual Disney on Ice show.
This show is such a treat for the little ones, their favourite Disney characters come alive on stage, they get to sing along, enjoy pop-corn and cotton candy, it’s a magical experience and your little ones are itching to go.
Guest: Tony Feldman - SA Promoter of Disney On Ice
It’s Monday, you’re already feeling unhappy about the end of the weekend. You get to work and your boss has a pile of work on your desk, you’re facing endless deadlines, your kids need new winter clothes because they’ve outgrown their last winter clothes, you’ve gotten into a huge fight about nothing with your significant other, it all goes further downhill from there and it’s only Monday.
Now on this show, we have absolutely no time for the Monday blues. We shrug negativity away and make room for peach in our lives. The question on today’s Monday Motivation is, how do we create ease when our world is turned upside down?
Guest: Hayden Knibbs - Clinical Psychologists
Social Media Commentator and friend of the show has been trolling through the socials to keep you up to speed with some of the day’s Trending Topics In Case You Missed.
Guest: Bongani Drama
The first book about the SABC 8 was launched in Johannesburg, this week. Authored by Foeta Krige, the book details the battle for the very soul of the public broadcaster. Recently retired, Foeta Krige was the executive producer of news on Afrikaans language station, RSG. For more, he now joins me on the line…
GUEST(In studio): Foeta Krige, Author and former executive producer of RSG
How do couples manage money in a relationship? Money plays an integral role in any relationship. Traditionally, the assumption was that it was a man's responsibility to take care of the finances of the household. But today, things are different but some couples still prefer doing things the old-fashioned way when it comes to financial arrangements. Your relationship might be a 50/50 commitment, but does this also extend to your money contribution in your household?
GUEST: Johan van Tonder – Who is an Economist researcher on financial wellness at Momentum
We are now in conversation with Gavin Prins, who is a Publicist, Author, Managing Director at Red Dot Marketing and Communications. He joins us now on the line to talk about stigmas around same sex parenting. Some individuals have argued that same-sex couples should not marry or have children, they say they believe that a child has a fundamental right to both a mother and father. When it comes to parenting, the challenges are the same, whether you are same-sex parents or not. That said, there might be additional concerns for same-sex parents as they can face problems regarding being accepted into society, and feeling supported.
GUEST: Gavin Prins, who is a Publicist, Author, Managing Director at Red Dot Marketing and Communications
What is the role of social media in affecting change? What is its role in communities, and how it can contribute to social and community change in South Africa? Without a doubt social media is a force to be reckoned with and social networking sites like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter are fast becoming a constant source of alternative news for Internet users, and also becoming a channel in which users can direct the focus of national news media and highlight social issues affecting their respective communities. More and more activists are using technology and social media to share ideas, share information, report abuse, and expose corruption and to enforce change in society. To look at the influence of social media on society, we are now joined on the line by…
GUEST: Sthembiso Sithole is a Social media Specialist and Senior Content Manager at DNA Brand Architects…
Today marks a very important day in the history of the world. On this day June 6th 1944, D-Day tens of thousands of young men sacrificed their life in the fight for freedom of the world. Our own country was deeply involved in World War Two, men were sent to fight everywhere in the air, on the sea and on the landing grounds and it didn’t matter what color they were. Both black and white men from this country and around the world paid a price in the Normandy landing.
D-Day was the largest invasion ever undertaken and laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Germany in World War II. Some of the troops killed in that war were from United States, the UK, France and Canada landing on five stretches of the Normandy coastline -- codenamed Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword beaches.
Guest: John Stremlau - Wits University’s International Relations Professor
You do good and we talk about it here on Life Happens. It’s another Do Good Dongerdag and we have Do Gooders in studio with us.
Today we have a team of incredible women who are stepping outside of the comfort zone and taking bold steps literally to do something that requires a lot of mental and physical strength.
Known as the Everest 2020 team, they are in full preparation mode and committed to summit Mount Everest for a good cause. From what I understand they’ve already been training for what they call April 2020 expedition which includes two massive practice climbs (Mont Blanc in the French Alps in September and Aconcagua in the Argentinian Andes in January).
The campaign is aimed at inspiring, empowering and supporting women entrepreneurs.
Guest: 1.Business Coach and Performance Management Consultant, Deshun Deysel 2.Businesswoman and Dealer Principal, Alda Waddell 3.Businesswoman and Executive Coach, Lisa Gering AND 4 Entrepreneur, Tumi Mphahlele
Social Media Commentator and friend of the show has been trolling through the socials to keep you up to speed with some of the day’s Trending Topics In Case You Missed.
Guest: Bongani Drama
27-year-old Thabang Mamabolo is a young jeweler from Mamelodi, in Pretoria. He recently graduated from the Tshwane University of Technology in Jewellery Design and Manufacture. Classically trained but fell in love with contemporary jewellery, he is the Founder and Creative Director of Mamabolo Jewellers. His business specializes in bespoke contemporary jewellery, both in manufacturing and design.
As promised we will be bringing you some of the most incredible young people who are doing amazing things this month and Thabang’s work caught our attention.
Guest: Thabang Mamabolo - 27-year-old young jeweler from Mamelodi, in Pretoria
Bonding with your baby during pregnancy is the perfect time to form an attachment with them and it’s important for their development once they are born. This includes both the mother and father of the baby who are able to make that connection with the baby during pregnancy. If you’re parent you’re already familiar with some of the most commonly known ways to bond with the baby while inside their mother’s belly. Like 1. Talking and singing to them because as you know they can hear you. 2. Both parents can gently touch and rub the belly, or massage it. 3. Responding to his or her kicks 4. Warm baths, reading to them, and so many other things.
But all of the above can be very hard to do if you’re having a difficult pregnancy, whether it’s severe nausea, migraines, severe heartburn or a roller coaster of emotions. Every woman is different and of course there’s different scenarios, some women do it alone and some are lucky to have their partner by their side. Much like in the song we played earlier, a bridge over troubled waters lets a person avoid the danger, and so it represents a safe place to rest from one’s troubles. Whichever scenario you may find yourself in today, there is hope.
Guest: Florence Segal
Traditionally and biologically menstruation is an issue that affects women only, but holistically menstrual health affects both women and men. The husband of a wife who curl herself into a fetal position due to menstrual cramps every month knows what I mean, or the father of a young girl at the peak of puberty and is having to buy sanitary pads for her also hears me. The teacher who has to address menstrual hygiene management, health and wellbeing understands me and then of course there’s the environmental impact caused by sanitary waste.
In the words of Dignitary Dreams – Mental Health Matters, Period!
The organization provides women and girls from disadvantaged and at risk communities with washable, multi-use, SABS absorbency approved sanitary wear, comfort and menstrual health education.
One of its primary goals is Menstrual Health Management and Education, Dispelling Myths and taboos as well as normalizing menstruation and encouraging healthy discussions much like we’re going to have now with
Guest: Sharon Gordon - Dignitary Dreams CEO
Have you heard, we’ve been tracking the day’s trending topics to keep you informed in case you missed it.
Guest: Mongezi Mtati - Digital Strategist and MD of Word Start and Friend of the show.
She’s been cooking since she was six-year-old, she’s passionate about experimenting with colours, flavours and textures. She has a sweet tooth and loves the creative side of baking. She learned how to cook at Bright Young Chef, a cooking workshop ran by her mother, Tanya George. Bright Young Chefs believes that cooking & baking with children can provide many beneficial learning experiences like fine motor skills, mathematics, reading, communication and team work, science, general knowledge and senses. There I was thinking it was all about food.
Guest: Chef Chloe( 9 year-old) & Tanya George
Lesotho is a landlocked country, nestled between the Drakensberg and Maloti mountain ranges and entirely surrounded by South Africa. Commonly known for its colorful blankets which might I add were show stopper in a 2018 American superhero film, the Black Panther.
It’s one of the 3 remaining kingdoms in Africa, the others are Morocco and Swaziland
It’s ….. past the hour and if you’ve just joined, welcome, you’re just in time for In case you missed it, where we bring you up to speed with trending topics on social media. Senior Public Relations Specialist at Ditshego Media and Friend of the show’s Sibonisile Ngubane is doing the honors for us today.
Guest: Sibonisile Ngubane - Senior Public Relations Specialist at Ditshego Media and Friend of the show
Those are the amazing lyrics to Natasha Beddingfield’s song Unwritten. That’s how we have to tackle life sometimes, like blank pages that we have to fill with strength, love, passion, compassion, endurance, and composure. That’s what all those students who are preparing to write exams are going to need soon, to keep their composure as they prepare for their upcoming midterm exams.
How exactly is that done?
Guest: Merle Dieterich - Owner and Director of Jozi Kids
How you react to someone else’s actions may have a negative impact on your life unless you take control of your own thoughts and feelings and learn to block negativity away.
It’s Youth Month and we know that young people especially are easily susceptible to peer pressure. Our guest today turned her negative situation from being a struggling Domestic Worker to BA Psychology degree graduate.
She is here to give us some techniques that we can use to protect our minds from negative influences.
Guest: Linda Maponyane - Family Motivational Speaker and Author
It’s officially Youth Month and we want to take dedicate to the youth of this country who are doing well. We start the month off by celebrating a young lady who has been been chosen by President Ramaphosa to dress one of the country’s most success and famous choirs. She was appointed as the new designer for Grammy award-winning gospel group, Soweto Gospel Choir a few months ago
She graduated from the Tshwane University of Technology in 2017 with a degree in Fashion and Textile Design.
She joins us now with to tell us more about how she turned her creativity and passion into viable business.
Guest: Ditiro Mashigo
Social Media Commentator and friend of the show has been trolling through the socials to keep you up to speed with some of the day’s Trending Topics In Case You Missed.
Guest: Bongani Drama
Siphokazi (The great Gift) was born in Lusikisiki, Eastern Cape of South Africa. She attended primary school at Kwa-zizamele and then proceeded to Toli Secondary School. She then came to Johannesburg In 1999 and enrolled at Sibikwa Community Art Centre. In 2000, she received a bursary from The National Arts Council, enabling her to enroll at Central Johannesburg College, where she completed her diploma in Music technology.
Well, if you’re still waiting for the future, I’m here to tell you that the future is here and it comes bearing good news. There’s been too many reports of botched surgical surgeries and here at the Life Happens bureau of investigations we are having none of it! Not in this day in age, nowadays Surgeons can plan safe surgical procedures in advance using A 3D printing machine.
Here’s how it works, doctors are able to recreate any part of the human body structure in a form of a 3D image, they get this from 3D medical scans such as CT or MRI. They take than image, put it into a software programme, which then enables them to print a plastic 3D model of the image. By so doing they can then use the prototype to plan and perform procedures with a greater measure of safety and efficiency way before you get there for the surgery.
From what I understand the 3D printing technology itself is not necessarily new, but has been considered too costly for everyday use until recently. So it’s kinda new in the sense that, it’s only now being used more due to affordability.
Guest: Dr Rudolph Venter - Orthopaedic Surgeon and Researcher
Today's throwback goes to the 30th of May, 2006 where the incidence of new HIV infections appeared to have stabilized for the first time in 25 years of AIDS.
The world had been making progress against the disease, which brought about better access to drugs and the growth in the awareness of the epidemic. But the United Nation’s agency warned that there were still bigger problems to deal with in coordinating the fight against the disease.
Fast-forward to today, a new study released by the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation estimated that 5.3 million South Africans under the age of 50 are HIV-positive, a five percentage point increase from 2000. Some are of the view that this is a good sign, it means those infected with HIV are living longer.
Guest: Professor Khangelani Zuma - Executive Director of the Social Aspects of Public Health Research Programme at the Human Science Research Council
It’s Take a Girl Child to Work Day today, is your office full of girls today? This initiative is aimed at broadening young girls’ horizons in South Africa and helping them explore a myriad of career opportunities from which they were previously excluded.
It’s regarded as one of South Africa’s largest collaborative acts of volunteerism, which has helped more than a million girls.
This year the campaign has a new shining example for the girls. She’s the first African female commercial pilot in South Africa. When she’s not busy flourishing, she’s flying airplanes for South African Airways as a Senior First Officer on the Airbus 340.
Welcome to the show Spokesperson for the Take a Girl Child to Work Day campaign, .
Guest: asnath mahapa
Our new cabinet. I know that this is out of character for us, we are a lifestyle and human interest show but you know, sometimes The personal is political, there are connections between personal experience and larger social and political structures.
So, you have your ministers South Africa. How do you feel about them? Who would you have liked to see added on to the list, who would you have liked to see omitted?
Guest: Sthembiso Sithole is a Social media Specialist and Senior Content Manager at DNA Brand Architects
We all need a little fire every now and to rekindle that flame within us. Maybe you’ve always wanted to write a book but you’ve been procrastinating or discouraged because you don’t really know what the next step to getting your book out there is or are jaded because maybe it didn’t work in the past.
Our guest today knows that we all have a story to tell, but we sometimes need a little help getting it out in the world. So you’ve written your book, you think it’s a bestseller, but now what?
Guest: Kim Hunter - Author and Founder of Tango With Text
My guest today has herself shown kindness to a lot of people in her involvement with charities such as the Johannesburg Children’s Home and The Abraham Kriel Children’s Home. She’s also used her voice and influence to numerous organizations such as the Sonke Gender Justice Network, The National Department of Health, the ANC Women’s League and The World Bank.
You know her as Dineo Mashaba Dlomo from Generations or you may know her as Kgothalo on Isidingo, either way she’s no stranger to you to and it’s a pleasure to have her as our guest today
Guest: Katlego Danke.
Millions of people around the world will stand in solidarity to raise awareness on the negative impact of smoking this Friday. The 31st of May marks World No Tobacco Day and this year’s theme is ‘Tobacco and Lung Health’. The day is also aimed at advocating for effective policies to reduce tobacco consumption and engage stakeholders across multiple sectors in the fight for tobacco control.
From cancer to chronic respiratory disease, tobacco can be very damaging to lungs and while the risks and merits of e-cigarettes - or vaping - continue to be fiercely contested, medical evidence is stacking up to suggest that vaping could be as harmful as cigarette smoking.
Closer to home, the e-cigarette market is growing steadily and while anecdotal evidence suggests that South African children and teens are as attracted to vaping as their global counterparts, research on the local e-cigarette youth market is lagging. According to Zanele Mthembu, Development and Public Health consultant for the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids the country may be sitting on a silent epidemic which could worsen given the fact that major e-cigarette companies are eyeing the continent for market expansion opportunities.
Guest: Patricia Lambert, Director of the International Legal Consortium at Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.
We’ve been tracking the day’s trending topics for you to keep you informed in case you missed what’s happening on the socials.
Guest: Bongani Drama, Social Media Commentator and Friend of the show, is filling us in today
Shane who is the CEO founded his company with the intention of creating more jobs in the township. Softline specialises in healthcare products, one of which is children’s nappies called Adorables.
guest: Shane Ngwenya, Tiyani Khoza, and Hanyani Mangwani
She began singing at a very young age and her singing talent was first explored at church. She started performing publicly at the age of 12, taking part in talent searches and owning any opportunity to be on stage and perform.
Amanda Black born Amanda Benedicta Antony, is a South African Singer – Songwriter. She was born on the 24 of July 1993. Amanda Black was born and raised in the Eastern Cape in the city of Mthatha.
guest: Amanda Black
Community-based Prevention and Empowerment Strategies in South Africa is a multiple award-winning organization whose main aim is to prevent Violence Against Children.
guest: Dr Nobs Mwanda - CEO of COPESSA
guest: Sthembiso Sithole is a Social media Specialist and Senior Content Manager at DNA Brand Architects.
She’s written a book called Kahano The Farmer. It tells a story about an inquisitive child preferring to spend time with his Grandfather in the farm.
His occasional drive to the farm with his Grandfather pleases him the most. He learns how to work the land, feed animals and take care of the crops. While his Grandmother is affectionate but also a disciplinarian who takes care of the house. She's a three-dimensional woman who imparts wisdom to her grandson that he will find useful even long after she’s gone.
The book’s original title is Molemi yo o Bidiwang Aganang becaue it was written in Setswana and translated in nine official South African languages. The book places its characters in relatable situations where grandparents show children how to realise their full potential in reaching their dreams whilst tapping into their innermost even in unpleasant situations.
Guest : Author Dimakatso Mookodi
Our very own South African born Isidingo Actor, Lerato Makheta has his own views about what success is. You know him for his role as Ntando Sibeko, on the SABC 3 Soapie.
Born in Soweto, bred in New York and raised in Johannesburg, Lerato’s journey in the arts began at the tender age of 10 when he auditioned for a spot in the world renowned Drakensberg Boys’ Choir School. It was there where he was classically trained as a pianist and vocalist respectively. After graduating he then extended and completed his studies in popular music at the National School of the Arts (NSA) where he played lead roles in 2 musicals in 2001 and 2002.
Lerato was driven by a burning desire and passion to explore and contribute to the world of music and acting. Over the last 15 years Lerato has successfully juggled both music and acting, and has featured in numerous Mzansi Magic and Ekasi Stories films, such as “Vacancy” “Holes In Our Souls” and “Surprise” as a lead actor and cameo roles in “Generations” ,“Umlilo” and a feature film, “Baby Mamas”.
Guest : Isidingo Actor, Lerato Makheta
We all have different skin types, there’s dry, oily and combinations skin that can benefit from proper skin care apart from daily skin care routine that cleanses, moisturizes and protects your skin.
Today on Wellness Wednesday we’re joined by Dr Zama Tladi – Aesthetician and Founder of Nubian Medical Aesthetics to give us some beauty tips.
Guest: Dr Zama Tladi – Aesthetician and Founder of Nubian Medical Aesthetics
we’ve been tracking the day’s trending topics to keep you informed in case you missed it. Social Media Commentator and Friend of the show’s, Bongani Drama has what’s got everybody talking today.
Guest: Bongani Drama
We take you to Tanzania to a tropical Island of Unguja known as Zanzibar. It’s our dream destination and we want to invite you too.
Apart from its gorgeous blue beaches, Zanzibar is also known as a spice island. That’s because it exports spices like cloves, vanilla, nutmeg and cardamom across the world. The spices were brought over from Asia and South America and flourished in the tropical climes. These days the plantations are a tribute to the island’s past, swapping spices for tourism, combining both in a spice tour, one of the most popular excursions on the island. While you’re there you can also sail away on a magical sunset cruise around the beautiful island of Unguja, but hey I’m not one to really tell you about Zanzibar because it’s still on my bucket list
Guest: John Ridler - PR and Media Manager at Thompson’s Holidays.
Senior Public Relations Specialist at Ditshego Media and Friend of the show’s Sibonisile Ngubane has been following some of the day’s Trending Topics very closely just to fill you in, In Case You Missed. She joins us now with that update.
Guest: Sibonisile Ngubane
Ian has a special interest in wilderness survival and loves sharing his considerable knowledge about the bush with wilderness enthusiasts, especially children. He has completed several survival courses including the Survival course by WildlifeCampus and the Basic and Advanced Survival course.
guest: Ian Van Der Vyver - Founder of Cashane Rangers
Ever wish there was a direct compass that directs you towards your purpose? What exactly is purpose, is it something that we’re born with or something we have to create? Does life eventually force us into it, you know like that inner guidance inside of all of us or are we to look for it? If so how do we find it?
guest: Adam Botha - Life Coach
JobStarter have found the perfect solution for that, they believe that no matter what qualifications a candidate has, every employer should look for young people with “marketable skills”, and a workforce that is ready to work.
Guest: Andrew Tlou, he’s the Director of Business Development at Job Starter
Eight South African girls from Herschel Girls School in Cape Town participated in the Eurasian Schools Debating Championships from 21-26 January 2019.
Donald’s journey as a musician began in the North West when he joined the school choir, and sang whenever he had the opportunity. His mother was a choir conductor, so it came as no surprise when he walked in her footsteps. He later joined the choir at the University of Johannesburg, where he was doing a course Computer Science.
Tomorrow marks Endangered Species Day –a day aimed at recognizing the conservation efforts to protect endangered species and their habitats. According to Endangered Wildlife Trust’s red data list of South African mammals, 17% are deemed to be threatened with extinction and 10% are near threatened. In terms of our bird species, Birdlife SA’s research reveal that 132 threatened species are listed as regionally threatened, of which 47 are considered near threatened.
guest: , Ian Duplesis
It was on this day May 16th 1998 when SA champion body board surfer Neal Stephenson lost his leg in a shark attack at Keurbooms River, near Plettenberg Bay in the Western Cape. There’s been a spate of other unfortunate shark attack incidents over the years before and after that here at home and across the globe.
guest: Craig Lambinon - National Sea Rescue Institute’s Spokesperson
Move over Naomi Campbell, Shumeez Scott is taking over the modelling world. She’s an extra ordinary 19-year-old from Cape Town with Down Syndrome who is following on the footsteps of Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters and Rolene Strauss, South African pageant winners who've made it big on the world stage. Last month she was crowned Miss Magnificent Women Phenomenal International which landed her a contract with Ace Models. But it’s not just about the glitz and glam for Shumeez, she recently started a Foundation which now helps 36 disabled children and adults with self-confidence.
guest: Shumeez Scott and her mother Bahia Scott.
Wellness Wednesday is all giving you tools to help you deal with any physical, mental and emotional ills that you may be faced with and don’t know where to begin to find a solution. We’ve committed to helping you find solutions, so if you still don’t know where to stay, I’m here to tell you my friend. You can start here.
guest: Gail Masondo - Life in Recovery Coach
guest: Stephen Manzini: Founder - Soweto Fashion Week Jimmy Shimambu: Darling Hair Stylist (they will be creating all kind of styles for the models at SFW) Collen Monnakgotla: Designer and founder - Fresh Wear
Is it okay for women for ask men out or is it that taking the Women Revolution thing too far? Brothers we don’t want to be disrespectful or overstep our boundaries or anything but we live in a modern world. Women can change tires and light bulbs , there are a lot of female plumbers for instance and the face of parenthood is forever changing.
Guest: Comedian, Sfiso Nene
SA Chefs is a non-profit industry body, founded more than 44 years ago, that represents the interests of chefs, cooks and caterers at all levels, with a focus on skills development, the celebration of culinary professionals and transforming the industry.
guest: Tebogo Benedict Moerane also known as Chef Ben.
The main reason many individuals travel is to experience a new culture. What better way to do so than by taking part in a local festival? Many European festivals start around the end of September when it isn’t as stifling hot throughout the cities. Particularly unique festivals tend to take place in the countryside or small towns and can range from wine and harvest festivals, to art and food events. This is a great way to enjoy a unique combination of culture and history with the locals and learn more about their language and way of life. But perhaps the most unique European winter experience is celebrating a European Christmas.
Guest: Trafalgar Bronwyn Strydom Marketing Manager at Trafalgar
Senior Public Relations Specialist at Ditshego Media and Friend of the show’s has been following some of the day’s Trending Topics very closely just to fill you in, In Case You Missed. She joins us now with that update.
Guest: Sibonisile Ngubane
Gail Friend is a qualified NLP Life coach with 12 years’ experience in the application of NLP to Parenting and childhood development. Her journey with her son with severe learning difficulties and her success with him,
Guest: Gail Friend
This past week saw a win for the ANC, it was a narrow win but a win non the less. The leading party saw a reduced majority of 57.5-percent, a 4.5-percent drop from their 2014 result of 62-percent which begs the question how do you deal with a win when it doesn’t feel like a win but more of a disappointment?
This Motivational Monday we’re joined by someone who has unique experience and exposure to numerus difficulties that adults face following his time in the Military. He joined the South African Police service where he worked in the internationally acclaimed Investigative Psychology Unit. Over the years that he’s worked for the Investigative Psychology Section where he was exposed to a vast variety of human behaviour, and gained knowledge that very few psychologists, possess. So who better to help us talk about this topic than Clinical Psychologist Guest: Hayden Knibbs.
Being an entrepreneur is hard, being in any workforce is hard enough but imagine facing all the challenges that you face at work like time management, being undermined by your subordinates delegating tasks, self-doubt and chasing after clients as a person living with a disability.
guest: Karabo Nguyuza - a young South African woman living with disability
He gave us our favourite song, AmaBlesser which took the country by storm.
The music video closed in on four million views and audio streams for the song exceeding a couple of million, it’s no overstatement to say Mlindo The Vocalist is 2018’s breakout artist.
The release of the album EMAKHAYA confirms Lindokuhle Magedezi as one of the most gifted vocalists to have emerged from South Africa. MAKHAYA thoroughly demonstrates that he is a versatile and talented songwriter, capable of observing and capturing the world then delivering this to listeners through songs that are brimming with emotion and soul.
He debut EMAKHAYA, features 14 original songs as well as two bonus tracks – a remix of AmaBlesser (by Rayvanny) and a radio edit of Macala, the next single to come from Mlindo. Featuring guest appearances by Sfeesoh, Kwesta and Thabsie, Macala has all the makings of a summer hit with its irresistible beat and vocal interplay on a song about forgetting all your troubles and heading for the club.
In Case You Missed it, we most certainly didn’t. We have eyes and ears everywhere.
Guest: Samora Mangesi Media Personality and friend of the show, is here to rewind the week’s trending topics and catch us up.
votes have been cast decision have been made by you and I our future awaits us. What exactly does that look like now and in the distant future?
guest: Angelo Fick - Director of Research at Auwal Socio-Economic Research Institute
That day signified freedom from oppression, restoration of hope, dreams and dignity for black people, it meant a succession of black Presidents for this once oppressed nation, and it meant that our children would never be subjected to segregation like the heroes who fought before us.
guest: Political Analyst Botsang Moiloa
In 2018, Slipper Day raised R 4 Million and had over 400,000 people across the country participate. The crux of this campaign is based on getting companies and schools to purchase a R10 wristband along with some slippers.
guest: Mervyn Serebro
A young man decides to take his own life. On his way to the Bloukrans bridge, he spends one last night at the family holiday home. He stands on the bridge, about to meet his fate, when he hears her laugh.
guest: Pietie Beyers - Writer, Producer and Lead Actor of the film
The path to wellness I believe starts with self. The way that you treat yourself sets a standard for how others will treat you. One of the things that you have to do as an individual is that you have to set boundaries. Boundaries can be hard to set in the beginning or maintain because by nature we don’t want to offend other people and we don’t want to come across as stuck up.
guest: Isibaya Actor, Muzi Mthabela
With relatively few people making the connection between raised BP and the devastating consequences of the illness - awareness levels need urgent attention to curb the exponential growth of the disease in South Africa.
guest: Dr Martin Mpe.
In a culture that emphasizes respect for elders. We seldom allow children to walk in and out of a room without greeting, hugging or even kissing a visitor. When the children resist, they are met with condemnation. How do you handle culture and boundaries when it come to children.
guest: Preshilla Harry and Lovanya Harry
Lungisa studied Mass Communication in Amsterdam and worked in the advertising industry for 5 years in Dubai. In 2010, she started a company called Elite Conseils, in Dubai and offered services in Image Consultation and Perception Management. Her business is focused mostly on perception.
guest: Lungule Sonqishe
guest: Verashni Pillay - former editor-in-chief of the Mail & Guardian and HuffPost South Africa
what are you doing to help improve under-resourced communities? We asked that question and not that we were surprised but Socialist, Ntombifuthi Vezi raised her hand and said “as a matter of fact guys, we’re doing plenty”. So we said okay, challenge accepted, come to our Durban studios and let us Review your plentiful things.
guest: , Ntombifuthi Vezi from Noma Clouds Consulting.
Music Therapy is used to help treat many different conditions such as stress, mental, emotional and behavioral issues, depression, anxiety, and is often used to help the elderly deal with memory loss associated with diseases such as Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia. Music Therapy is also used to relieve pain, especially related to labor or terminal illness.
guest: Dr Carol Lotter, Lecture in Music Therapy at the University of Pretoria. She’s also the Congress Organizer.
Time to get a sense of what’s happening on social media, we’re now joined by Senior Public Relations Specialist at Ditshego Media Sibonisile Ngubane. She’s been following some of the day’s Trending Topics very closely just to fill you in,
guest: Ditshego Media Sibonisile Ngubane
One of Dinner at Matloha’s key component is its cooking classes, which focus on giving clients access to basic and advance cooking methods. The classes are for everyone who has interest or has a love for cooking and food preparation.
I for one am starting to be a foodie since this show, because the chefs feed me and teach me so much about simple basic cooking techniques. guest: Chef Liz from Dinner at Motloha
- Tourism is one of the main sources of national income and foreign currency in Egypt besides exports, remittances of Egyptian expatriates and the revenues of the Suez Canal. The industry brought Egypt about 13 billion U.S. dollars in revenue in 2010 alone, when some 14.7 million tourists visited the country. It is now recovering from a recession caused by political turmoil and relevant security challenges that resulted from the ousting of two heads of state in 2011 and 2013. guest: Amanda Hardy
Our young achiever took the country and the world by storm last week when Dj Maphorisa posted him singing on social media.
The Department of Environmental services has been trying to find ways to protect and enhance our environment. Here at home landfills are almost full and plastic has been a big issue for years now. A study by World Wide Fund for Nature found that the use between 30kg and 50kg of plastic per person per year. It pollutes rivers and oceans and result in marine animals ingesting it. guest: Amanda Hardy
Museum, visitors can learn about the formation of the armed struggle against Apartheid and about the famous Rivonia Trial, which led Nelson Mandela and his comrades to be sentenced to life in prison on Robben Island.
guest: CEO of Liliesleaf, Nic Wolpe
Telkom is running a Youth Ignite campaign that aims to enable effortless communication in the May elections. Their objective is to provide a platform for youth to connect.
guest: Khaya Sithole, Lebogang Nova Masango and Rekgotsofatse Chikane
Diva is NOT a self-important person who is temperamental and difficult to please? But instead a diva is someone That’s according to the one of the wisest person we know, Veteran Actress Nambitha Mpumlwana
guest: Nambitha Mpumlwana
In celebration of 25 years of democracy, sports journalists, Luke Alfred and Ian Hawkey have written Vuvuzela Dawn: 25 Sports Stories that Shaped a New Nation. It’s a brilliant collection of stories of sporting highlights – and a few disasters – that resonate with all South Africans.
guest: Luke Alfred & Ian Hawkey
Do you ever feel jealous of those people who work out every day for sport? they make it look so easy with their nice gym outfits, cool water bottles and funky ear phones.
guest: Siya Mfenyana and Thabsie Vokwana they are Fitness Enthusiast.
We were all furious, sad, and appalled when we saw the video of a Carletonville nursery school caregiver who was filmed assaulting at least three toddlers. As a parent myself, I found it extremely difficult to watch that unfortunate incident and if I’m not it’s still hard to come terms with the fact that we live in a world where such behavior is even a topic. Thankfully the woman in the video has since been arrested. guest: Susan Gregor-Harlen - Family and Parenting Coach
Multi award-winning chef Coco Reinarhz is African epicurean elegance personified. World citizen and son of our soil, his food philosophy always engages with what it means to be African in a global gourmet context.
guest: chef Coco Reinarhz
It’s one of the handful of countries competing for the title of ‘closest to the equator. There you’ll find sandy desert, shrubby savannah, and lush rainforest. It has an incredible complex past, over the past 2 thousand years been conquered by many African kingdoms and European nations. But in 1957, it became the first self-governing country on the African continent under president Kwame Nkrumah to gain its Independence.
guest: Matthew Mensah - Ghanaian Ambassador for Tourism, Arts and Culture
The MEC, was at a Hope Restoration service in Mehlareng Stadium in Thembisa, he was invited by his friend and colleague, Spokesperson Elijah Mhlanga. There the MEC called on Pastors to go to schools and pray for the youngsters during assembly.
guest: Elijah Mhlanga - Education Department Spokesperson
Losing a loved one through death is an inevitable part of life that we cannot escape, we’ve all been there. It’s an intense period of sadness, seeking support, remembrance, regret sometimes, grief and because you and I live in Africa; we also have to deal with rituals and culture.
guest: Pitso Maleka
it’s no ordinary Monday here at Life Happens, it’s Monday Motivation. Before the break we had a great lesson on self-improvement and I thought, if we’re gonna get a lesson on self-development we might as well balance this thing out and learn about self-love. It’s time to take it all in and Woosah. So what is self-love and why is it important to personal growth and development?
guest: Simone Naidoo
Last week Monday if you’ll remember we were speaking about car buying and negotiating. It came out in that conversation that women are not the best at negotiating as a result, we often short change ourselves when it comes to climbing the corporate ladder, negotiating salaries or even when it comes to what we know we deserve in relationships. You know it’s simple Life Enomics as we call it here on Life Happens, but it’s not always as simple as one thinks. guest: Lebogang Munyai.
Her sound is a fusion of jazz, soul and gospel. She’s made it her mission to inspire people through her music and journey with God. To-date, she’s released two amazing albums, her latest one titled Truth Be Told.
guest: NDO DLAKADLA
It’s Easter weekend, this weekend is of high religious significance and it great impact to millions of people around the world. Today marks the beginning of Passover. Passover commemorates the departure of the nation of Israel from Egypt and the birth of the Jewish people as a nation led by Moses over 3000 years ago.
guest: Wendy Kahn
Speaking of people who are still standing, Tiger Woods made a big come back last weekend. He won the Masters Tournament after many had written him off. 7 year old Simthandile “SimTiger” Tshabalala has already represented South Africa on 2 international tournaments (World Championship Malaysia Dec 2018, Australian Open April 2019).
guest: Simthandile “SimTiger” Tshabalala
Enoch Sontonga was born in Uitenhage in about 1873. Trained as a teacher at the Lovedale Institution, he was sent to a Methodist Mission school in Nancefield, near Johannesburg. He married Diana Mgqibisa, the daughter of a prominent minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church and had one son.
guest: Asanda Magaqa - Spokesperson For The Minister Of Arts & Culture
In just a short period of 8 months, LiMA students have shot a horror film, re-enacted the American classic film – ‘The God Father’, have shot a series of short films with no equipment for the 16 days of activism and world aids day campaigns and were winners of the CISCO cyber security workshop which was held late last year. The academy’s curriculum also includes a Business Entrepreneurial program presented by SA Creative Industries Incubator and certified by the University of Pretoria.
guest: Thabo Mphelo, Business Developer at the Leaders in Motion Academy, Lerato Madisa Training Manager at LiMA and Karabo Dibodu a student at the academy
South Africa’s latest Romantic Comedy ‘Love Lives Here’ It’s a story about Zinhle Malinga - a hard working modern woman with strong traditional values who knows what she deserves, and believes she knows what kind of man she needs to be happy.
guest: Lungile Radu and Thando Thabethe.
It’s still a mystery to me why it is that as South Africans we find it so easy to appreciate and support other countries’ arts and culture, but not so much our own. I mean when Black Panther came out we all went out in numbers to see it, we embraced the Wakanda culture and even the catch phrase.
guest: Fumani Shilubana.
it’s hard to make time to exercise and eat well when you have long working hours and still have to come home and be a parent, a mother or father to someone.
guest: Wardah Hartley
Chef Mogau Seshoene has taken the country by storm with her easy to use cookbook that uses simple and straightforward recipes for everyday favourites in the modern South African kitchen.
guest: Chef Mogau Seshoene, known as The Lazy Makoti.
we take you and the world in just 30. I’ve already been practicing Spanish because we’re talking about Spain tourism in today’s edition of Travel Tuesday. Barcelona, Madrid, paellas, margaritas, Spanish guitars.
guest: Bronwyn Strydom, Marketing Manager at Trafalgar
American power couple, Actress Gabrielle Union and Basketball player Dwayne Wade were recently seen supporting their 11-year old son at a Gay Pride event. The pictures were beautiful and all they were doing was support their son but this created a stir on social media of-course like most things.
guest: Susan Gregor-Harlen - Family and Parenting Coach
A recent study by the Guardian publication in the US shows that darker skin women struggle to find marriage. The study revealed some unfortunate the discrimination faced by darker-skinned women, often from within their own community.
guest: Alexis Petje - Media Strategist, social commentator
Buying a car can be such an exciting experience, but it’s not just about the adrenaline rush, speed and look of the car. There’s a whole Science to it that we should all consider.
guest: Teboho Mafodi
In 1971, General Idi Amin overthrew the elected government of Milton Obote and declared himself president of Uganda. That was the beginning of his ruthless eight-year regime in which an estimated 300,000 civilians were massacred. It was on this day that his reign of terror ended, on the 10th of April 1979 when Ugandan exiles and Tanzanians took control of the capital of Kampala, forcing him to flee.
guest:
The process of debating – researching topics, investing in holistic learning, sharing ideas in teams, presenting those ideas against opposing teams, receiving feedback and evaluating the extent to which our ideas are relevant and effective – ensures that youth learn very important skills that will set them apart from peers, and in the context of the forth industrial revolution, Artificial Intelligence and digitalization.
guest: Thami and Busi Pooe are partners in marriage and in business.
One man’s journey of a thousand miles can sometimes lead to change for a community, a nation or even the world. Social Entrepreneur , Actor and Media Personality Thato Molamu shared his personal experience of a spiritual journey he embarked on to find purpose and self-discovery.
Guest : Actor and Media Personality Thato Molamu
A number of young people took part that movement and some decided to put together collection of personal articles, essays, speeches and poetry in a form of a book titled We Are No Longer At Ease. The book tells the journey of a youth that participated in a movement that redefined politics in post-apartheid South Africa and is the evidence of a “born free” generation telling their own story and leading discourse as well as action on transforming South Africa.
Guests : Mhlengi Wandile Ngcaweni is the Editor and Researcher of the book and Contributors Khanyisile Mboya, Asanda Luwaca
Exploring an ancient Japanese energy healing technique called Reiki which is said to promote relaxation, reduces stress, accelerates the body's natural healing and can also restore balance on all levels - physical, emotional, mental and spiritual.
Guest: Internationally registered Lightarian Reiki, Shabs joins us in studio.
Travel Tuesday. They say charity begins at home so we want to start right here in the motherland first. Last week we talk to you next door to Zimbabwe and today we want to take you to our other neighbor, Mozambique.
Guest: Angela Casara
If forgiveness is still an overwhelming concept to you then you might want to take a moment to Woosah with us. I mean it is for most of us, some of us haven’t figured out how to do it or if we have to do it.
guest: Gail Masondo - Life in Recovery Coach,
Are you an impulsive buyer or are you overwhelmed with where to begin with your search for that new home or investment properly.
guest: Teboho Mafodi
In this segment, we’ll keep you well informed about new inventions, gadgets, technology and everything you need to know about the 4th Industrial Revolution and all things innovative.
Guest: Arthur Gold - Founder of World Wide Worx and Editor-in-chief of Gadget.co.za,
“We’ve got some difficult days ahead,” he told an overflowing crowd in Memphis, Tennessee, on 3 April 1968, where the city’s sanitation workers were striking. “But it really doesn’t matter now”, he added, because I’ve been to the mountaintop … I’ve seen the Promised Land”. He continued. “I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land” Less than 24 hours after these prophetic words, King was assassinated by James Earl Ray.
guest: Phapano Phashe, Researcher and Writer
But that’s not it, this boss lady is BUSY, her list of accomplishments includes coffee distribution. Oh but it doesn’t end there, when she’s not creating digital content or selling fuel, she rolls up her sleeves to take care of 430 orphans at two orphanages in Mpumalanga.
Guest: Tshepiso Phosa, daughter of ANC Veteran, Matthews Phosa.
How many of us can say they’ve travelled twenty-one countries in Africa? Well we on SAfmmLife Happens can’t say we have yet so we’re living vicariously through author Lerato Mogoatlhe. She’s written a Memoire of her travels around the continent called, Vagabond.
How do we stand out as individuals or be bold enough to take a stance on anything in different dynamics and not confirm to peer pressure whether it’s with family, friends or work or any environment? We asked one of the wisest people we know, Actor and Activist Ntate Patrick Shai
Just two days ago we were out enjoying the sun, drinking frozen drinks and then yesterday and today we’re dealing with rain and thunder storms. I mean don’t get me wrong, I appreciate all different types of weather but it does get confusing sometimes when I have to prepare a meal that is JUST RIGHT for each climate.
guest: Chef Hezron
Every Tuesday we will be taking you around the world in just 30 minutes in a segment we like to call, Travel Tuesday.
If you’re anything like me, and you are a lover of things we accept wedding invitations even if it means travelling hours on end to get to it. This past Tuesday I attended a wedding in Zimbabwe and while I was there I couldn’t help but notice But don’t take it from me I’ve only been there for all of two seconds. guest: Victor Kgomoeswana
Boledi Moroasui a Holistic Life Coach on how to handle lifes pressures and how to understand yourself better
Keep calm http://Jozikids.com has all the answers, and Merle Dieterich about the best ways to plan kiddies holidays
guest: Publisher of Blaque Magazine Monwabisi Thethe - giving us tips about how to stay relevant in the ever changing financial climates
Its objective is to lift the spirit of our nation by inspiring all South Africans to contribute to positive change, become involved and start doing – because a nation of people who care deeply for one another and the environment in which they live is good for everyone.
GUEST: Firdoze Bulbulia - director, producer, writer and educator.
Tshilis is a group of restaurants specializing in African Food and braai meat situated around Gauteng and Limpopo area’s, Some branches do Carwash, Massages, Hair Salon, Nail Bar, Laundry, Comedy Nights, Play area for Kids and much more. TSHILI’S, Its home.
GUEST: Mr Tshilidzi Nemutandani - Founder and Owner - TSHILIS GUEST:Kagiso - Manager and Thabiso – Chef.
AM Lodge is an exclusive, award winning, five-star lodge that is situated in Hoedspruit, Limpopo, South Africa. With exclusive all-inclusive packages, AM Lodge offers an intimate African experience to individuals or families of all ages who are looking to emerge their senses into the African Heartbeat. This luxury lodge hosts a maximum of 22 guests in the utmost luxury and style. Six suites offer complete seclusion as well as private and stunning views. Two completely secluded suites with private plunge pools provide an even more exclusive luxury African safari experience.
Guest: NSOVO MASHABA –Director at AM Lodge
Katie Mohamed is an CEO and shareholder at Brandfuison, an integrated business hub founded on the core principles of “collaborative intelligence”. The essence of which allows us the agility to combine our own tested business solutions and models with international functional best practice in delivering client solutions. Our focus being uncomplicated implementation that ultimately offers bona fide return on messaging.
GUEST: Katie Mohamed - CEO and shareholder at Brandfuison
Its objective is to lift the spirit of our nation by inspiring all South Africans to contribute to positive change, become involved and start doing – because a nation of people who care deeply for one another and the environment in which they live is good for everyone.
Play Your Part is aimed at all South Africans – from corporates to individuals, NGOs to government, churches to schools, young to not so young. It aims to encourage South Africans to use some of their time, money, skills or goods to contribute to a better future for all.
GUEST : Neo Mafokwana – Founder of High Schoolers Ministry
The struggle to free South Africa from apartheid was one of the most remarkable challenges of the last century, and photographers played a crucial role in this struggle. By shifting their focus to provide visual resistance in the form of valuable documentation of everyday life, image-makers in South Africa had a significant impact on the course of the conflict.
The Apartheid Museum will launch an exhibition entitled Damage on the 30th of March as we end off the Human Rights Month.
GUEST: Gideon Mendel - Struggle Photographer
People tend to underestimate the importance of maintaining their identities while in a relationship. But at some point, they have to have lives that exist outside of each other’s. What are the dangers of losing your identity in a relationship? Does this hurt just you as an individual or does it hurt the relationship?
GUEST: Vanessa Mogorosi - Consciousness Coach and Lightarian Reiki Master
Irene Audrey Thandekile Buthelezi, the wife of veteran politician Mangosuthu Buthelezi, passed away on Monday. Princess Irene passed away peacefully Monday morning at KwaPhindangene - this comes after a long and difficult illness. She leaves behind her husband of almost 67 years, their children, Prince Ntuthukoyezwe Zuzifa, Princess Phumzile Nokuphiwa and Princess Sibuyiselwe Angela, and many grandchildren.
GUEST: Prince Ntuthukoyezwe Buthelezi – Son guest: Mkhuleko Hlengwa – IFP spokesperson and MP
Play Your Part is about how every individual doing what theu can to effect postive change . How we can work to become active citizens, nationbuilders and have a spirit of pride and patriotism.
Its objective is to lift the spirit of our nation by inspiring all South Africans to contribute to positive change, become involved and start doing – because a nation of people who care deeply for one another and the environment in which they live is good for everyone.
GUEST : Paul Modjadji – Play Your Part Ambassador
Star Reflexion is a chic leather manufacturing brand based in Johannesburg, South Africa, specializing in handbags, bags, accessories, shoes, and now boots. The business uses premium genuine leather sourced locally and its designs are impressively influenced by African culture and it's people. This design ethos is visible in the names of the products that are created. GUEST: Olaotse Disipi - Founder Star Reflexion
After more than 43 seasons and 700 episodes of "Noot vir Noot," Johan Stemmet will say goodbye to the show on Thursday after 28 years. Stemmet, 66, promised to end his run on the show on a "high note" . "After 28 years of doing the show I feel like this will be one of the most exciting finales ever," Stemmet wrote on his Facebook page. Johan told Netwerk24 that his departure from the show was a big thing for him. "It is a difficult announcement for me to make because the show was such a big part of my life. I do however feel that it is time for new blood and for the show to enter a new season. Over the years, Stemmet became a TV show legend, who was known for his colourful shirts and waistcoats and those never-to-be-forgotten signature phrases and shenanigans. He was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2018 SAFTAs. The show will continue to air and is set to not only get a new presenter but also a complete makeover as well. The first episode of "Noot vir Noot" aired on 27 July 1991, making it the longest-running game show in SA history.
Guest: Bonsai Shongwe – Highly Sought after Inspirational speaker, entrepreneur, consultant, author
This year, the country commemorates Human Rights Month under the theme: “The Year of Indigenous Languages: Promoting and Deepening a Human Rights Culture”. Human Rights Day in South Africa is historically linked with 21 March 1960, and the events of Sharpeville. How do we celebrate Human Rights through song and story telling and teach children the importance of language?
GUEST : Lungile Maboe - Teacher at Positive vibrations GUESTS: 16 Learners - Narrating a story on Human Rights day and the Constitition
Its objective is to lift the spirit of our nation by inspiring all South Africans to contribute to positive change, become involved and start doing – because a nation of people who care deeply for one another and the environment in which they live is good for everyone.
Play Your Part is aimed at all South Africans – from corporates to individuals, NGOs to government, churches to schools, young to not so young. It aims to encourage South Africans to use some of their time, money, skills or goods to contribute to a better future for all.
Guest: Bulelani Balabala – Entreprenuer and Play your part Ambassodor
The South African Library for the Blind (SALB) will be celebrating its 100 years of library service delivery to blind and visually impaired people of South Africa during 2019. The Centenary celebration events planned for the year will start with a Book Launch and Gala Dinner that will be hosted by the SALB Board on the 28th of March 2019 in Makhanda. The book provides a 100-year historical overview of the South African Library for the Blind.
GUEST: Francois Hendriks – Director at the South African Library for the Blind
Humanitarian work for Africa by Africans – the recent response given by Africans to Zimbabwe and Mozambique after Cyclone Idai, has shown that Africans lend a helping to each other. Heavy rains fell across much of eastern Zimbabwe as the cyclone meandered along the nation's border with Mozambique. The heaviest rains fell in the Chimanimani District and many lost their lives and many left homeless. How can we continue to give each other a helping hand as Africans?
Guest: Guest: Lazola Belle – Operations Manger of Hadithi ya Africa #MidnightTrainToBeira Team
Guest: Veli Ndaba - Motivational Speaker, Author, Entrepreneur, Life and Business Coach
Last year , 23-year-old Rhodes University student Khensani Maseko took her life after being sexually assaulted on campus.Many women have been through such incident on campuses but are they helped/heard? What happens to them? South African universities and public colleges have no policies to deal specifically with sexual and gender based violence.Should we look at having such policies and how do we put an end sexual violence at universities/campuses ? Guest: Nyiko Shikwambane – Feminist Activist Guest: Nkhensani Hlekane - Education Officer at the Commision of Gender Equality
Play Your Part is a nationwide movement created to inspire, empower and celebrate active citizenship in South Africa. Its objective is to lift the spirit of our nation by inspiring all South Africans to contribute to positive change, become involved and start doing – because a nation of people who care deeply for one another and the environment in which they live is good for everyone.
Play Your Part is aimed at all South Africans – from corporates to individuals, NGOs to government, churches to schools, young to not so young. It aims to encourage South Africans to use some of their time, money, skills or goods to contribute to a better future for all. GUEST: Donovan Goliath, Play your part Brand Ambassador and comedian.
Christianity and culture: Can the two co-exist? Has Christianity, through the years, squashed room for cultural practices and consulting with the ancestors? Why do many of the newly formed religious groups speak ill of cultural practices and portray them as being Satanic? How true is it that when black people, become Christians they tend to abandon who they are in their culture and language?
Guest: Pastor Dick Koza – Pastor, Founder of Dick Koza Ministries AND Ubuntu in Christ Bible Church
Guest: Pastor Joshua Maponga – Cultural Activist, Writer, fighter of spiritual colonialism
Yesterday we commemorated World Tuberculosis (TB) Day on March 24 to raise public awareness about the devastating health, social and economic consequences of TB . Are we winning the fight against TB as a country?
GUEST: Dr Aaron Motsoaledi - South African Minister of Health
Shakers Cocktail Bar is a cocktail and lifestyle outlet established in early 2016 in the bustling Maboneng Precinct. Having honed over many years a memorable cocktail experience at most of Johannesburg’s markets and outside catering; the team decided to formalise the business with a permanent location as a logical extension and growth of the mobile bar business.
GUEST: Mpho Masilo - Owner of Shakers Extreme
NEWSMAN James Mahlokwane (28) is making waves as the next big thing in comedy after surprising people with his funny videos that have gone viral. Using his stage name, Chomi Ya Jeso, the funnyman has created a new addiction and thousands of people are watching his videos on their smartphones across the country and also in Lesotho and Botswana. The short videos clips are so funny they have somehow reached the smuggled smartphones of inmates in prisons like Kgosi Mampuru II and Lydenburg correctional services. Africans how amazingly funny he was and that’s how the videos came about.
GUEST: James Mahlokwane – Comedian
StandUp4HumanRights is the theme of the Constitution Hill Human Rights Festival which takes place from 21 - 24 March 2019 at Constitution Hill in Johannesburg. Entrance is free of charge. Constitution Hill and leading human rights organisations have come together to bring you the second edition of the Constitution Hill Human Rights Festival. The festival highlights the work of social justice organisations and the importance of civic activism. It is part of an evolving conversation about human rights that links the universal struggle for dignity and freedom to the injustices that many people in SA and the region experience daily. The Constitutional Court will form the backdrop of the four-day festival which will include interactive activist booths hosted by social justice organisations over the weekend of the festival.
Guest: Dawn Robertson - CEO of The Constitution Hill Human Rights Precinct
The Mill, a nine piece South African and Swiss collaboration, is the product of a vibrant exchange of musical ideas between musicians from both countries, and sees this seemingly audacious pairing as a progressive charting of new musical conversations. The album is set to premiere at the 20th Cape Town International Jazz Festival and several other venues in and around Southern Africa; making this a great platform to showcase new and original material by established practitioners of the jazz idiom. GUEST: Mandla Mlangeni - Trumpeter and band member guest: Siya Makuzeni - vocalist
The Sharpeville massacre was an event which occurred on 21 March 1960, at the police station in the South African township of Sharpeville in Transvaal (today part of Gauteng).
After a day of demonstrations against pass laws, a crowd of about 5,000 to 7,000 protesters went to the police station. The South African Police opened fire on the crowd, killing 69 people and injuring 180 others. Sources disagree as to the behaviour of the crowd; some state that the crowd was peaceful, while others state that the crowd had been hurling stones at the police, and that the shooting started when the crowd started advancing toward the fence around the police station. There were 249 casualties in total, including 29 children. Many sustained back injuries from being shot as they fled.
GUEST: Thami ka Plaatjie - he has done extensive research and he has written a lot about the history of Sharpeville
GUEST: The 2019 Keynote speakers is the well- known authors of “Apology Accepted” Mr. Ackson and Mrs. Zethembiso Mwami. The couple will address the issues such as depression and forgiveness in marriage. The couple is young and has been married for 09 years
GUEST: Felicia Buthelezi – Founder of the I Do concept (Magazine, Awards, Celebrating the Wife) and she’s a Social worker
This new world offers an abundance of opportunities, but its unfamiliarity also creates uncertainty in our lives. Too much uncertainty leads to anxiety, which often escalates into uncontrolled stress, emotional exhaustion, and eventually burnout.
Guest: Dr Karina de Bruin, Managing Director: JvR Academy and Counselling Psychologist
Gun Free South Africa has launched a Community Safety Toolkit to build safer communities at MC Weiler Primary in Alexandra to commemorate Human Rights Day on 21 March and in tribute to those who lost their lives in the Sharpeville gun massacre of 1960.
Speaking at the launch, Mr Tumi Tsheola, a youth activist and Gun Free SA representative, noted that South Africa has one of the highest murder rates in the world, including extremely high levels of gun violence.
GUEST: Mr Tumi Tsheola - Youth activist and volunteer at Gun Free SA
guest: Mary Anne Nobela – Youth project Officer at GFSA and Trainer at the Children’s Radio Foundation
My love for diamonds started when, as a young bride, I received a dowry. I wanted to spend part of it on a diamond so I contacted the De Beers head office. They were a little nonplussed that I hadn’t gone directly to a store, but I was adamant that my diamond had to come from De Beers. After pestering them for a few weeks, I was given the name of a dealer from whom I could buy a De Beers diamond.
My visit to the dealer changed my life. Over the years he became my mentor and my very good friend. At our first meeting, we came to an agreement that I would sell some of his stones for a small profit while learning about the nuances of the diamond trade. Initially, it was just a hobby but when my children had grown up I decided to turn it into a career. I completed the course offered by the Harry Oppenheimer Diamond Trading School and also qualified as a GIA graduate. It was a beautiful time in my life.
GUEST: Munirah Desai – Founder of Diamonds Africa
A Johannesburg medical doctor-turned entrepreneur doesn’t regret dumping her cushy public sector job to disrupt South Africa’s high income medical services industry.
Dr. Nandipha Magudumana, 29, who has made this year’s prestigious list of Mail & Guardian (M&G) 200 Young South Africans, is founder and chief executive of Optimum Medical Solutions. She was also recently named the 100 most influential young SouthAfricans 2018 .
GUEST: Dr Nandipha Magudumana - Medical Doctor and Founder and CEO of Optimum Medical Solutions
South African residents have expressed frustration over load shedding. Eskom has implemented Stage 4 load shedding in the country this whole week. It has been a very dark week for South Africans, many have lost business, and for others trips to work have become extremely long. How has load shedding affected you?
GUESTS: Jeremy Lang - Regional General Manager at Business Partners Limited
Zukie Vuka - one of the organisers at #UniteBehind. She has been working on the #FixOurTrains campaign since 2017
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a disorder that is very common in today’s children. In fact, it is estimated that 8 - 10% of children in SA have ADHD, meaning, not only is it something that parents need to consider managing at home, but more importantly, ADHD is something that teachers need to not only try identity, but to also manage in the classroom. For parents, the reassurance lies in knowing that their child’s teacher is taking their behaviours into account, and teaching them according to their specific learning needs.
GUEST: Sharon Sweet - Campus Programme Coordinator: BEd (Foundation Phase Teaching) at the Embury Institute for Higher Education
On the 6th March Ghana celebrated Independence Day. This marks the declaration of independence from the United Kingdom by Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah on 6 March 1957. What is the significance on Independence day in Africa?
GUEST: Advocate Sipho Mantula
Guest: Veli Ndaba - Motivational Speaker, Author, Entrepreneur, Life and Business Coach
World Water Day - Now that there are no DAYZERO scares for Cape Town, have we forgotten that the we have a water crisis in SA?
On Friday, 22 March 2019, the globe will unite to celebrate World Water Day. In light of this important event, WaterAid Southern Africa, a leading global NGO that works to bring clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene to everyone, everywhere, implores Southern Africans to take a stand in support of protecting against the overuse and misuse of our valuable water supply. guest:Chilufya Chileshe, Regional Advocacy Manager for WaterAid Southern Africa
Regenesys Business School will launch The Good Governance Academy (NPC) today. The establishment of the Academy comes at a time when consciousness of corporate leaders in South Africa needs to be brought to the forefront in the context that a company being an artificial person has no conscience. At the same event, Mr Trevor Manuel will be presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award. The Regenesys Lifetime Achievement Awards go to exceptional persons who have achieved remarkable business success, possess exemplary leadership qualities, have made an outstanding contribution to socio-economic development and who display high moral and ethical standards.
GUEST: Prof Mervyn King
The recent spate of rape cases and violence against women beg the question, why are men so angry? Do men feel emasculated in any way or do they feel rejected and ignored? It is well and good to say that men do not talk much hence they act out, but is this reason enough to help us understand why men are angry? GUEST: Baba Buntu – Founder of Ebukhosini Solutions
Last week, the country was shocked by the news of a 19-year-old Mondeor High school pupil being stabbed to death by other children/pupils. The suspects have been released into the custody of their parents. But what is going to happen at the end of this case? Will these children be sent to juvenile detention centers? Is juvenile detention the best reform for children who have committed crimes? When reports have shown how horrific juvenile centers can be, is it ideal for children to still be sent to these centers? How else can we correct without sending children to prison?
Guest: Palesa Mokooane – Western Cape and Eastern Cape Provincial Manager at Soul City
Spiceburg was set up in 2009 in Greenside as the first south Indian restaurant in Johannesburg then has steadily built up a reputation as a restaurant that serves authentic southern and northern Indian cuisine along with lots of vegan and a few standard "Indian" dishes that the average punter desires. Spiceburg as the name says spicing up Joburg, is an Indian restaurant offering a culinary voyage of India in an authentic Indian style.
GUEST: Ivan Govender – Owner and manager of the Spiceburg Indian Restaurant
Dan Frigolette is a stand up comedian and actor who has been seen on Bob and Tom Show, HBO's Boardwalk Empire, Show Me A Hero, ElimiDate, The Following, Wendy Williams Show and the Artie Lange Show. He is the Executive Producer of The Apartmentship with Andrew Schulz, Stonehenge Oh Yeah with James Manzello, The Hoboken Comedy Festival, NJFunnyfest, Make Me Laugh Comedy Contest, Comedy's Best Kept Secret Tour and Porn Stars Are People Podcast. He got his start in Syracuse NY in a now debunked club in the basement of the Hotel Syracuse called Viva Debris, run by Joe DeLion. Now a New York City circuit regular, Dan finds joy in traveling the country to small towns, to entertain folks. His stage prose is energetic and high paced, with a wit that stops hecklers in their tracks. You will remember seeing Frigolette in person, and love every minute of it.
GUEST: Dan Frigolette
Mountain View Horse Trails offer beautiful, scenic 1 hour and 2 hour horse trails in the Western Cape – Botterberg / Philadelphia area. Guided by experts and accompanied by our most gentle- natured horses, these trail rides will lead you through scenic routes and beautiful farmland. No experience needed.
Guest: Glodine Donalan – The owner of Mountain View Horse Trails
The first ever Joburg Theatre Schools Setworks Festival will take place at Joburg Theatre in Braamfontein with two exciting productions, Sophiatown and Itsoseng. School learners stand to benefit a great deal as both stories are on the current high school’s setworks curriculum. The shows are also open to the general public, with a special double-bill price for Saturdays at R200, as the theatre believes that both Sophiatown and Itsoseng are important to South African’s experience as a whole.
Guest: Makhohaola Ndebele – Artistic Director at the Joburg Theatre
GUEST: MEC Mmaphefo Matsemela For Department Of Finance, Economy & Enterprise Development
Organic Touch by Miss Gates is a Cosmetics Beauty Brand under Miss Gates Global Projects Pty Ltd which was founded on the 22nd September 2016, it is a brand specializing in skin care with a touch of organic ingredients. Organic Touch mainly focuses on creating a skin care range for body and facial products, using natural and organic ingredients that are safe, effective and good for all skin types. We use ingredients such as Shea Butter, Coconut Oil, Olive Oil and 100% Essential Oils. These ingredients have proven to heal cracked heels, skin peeling, eczema, dry skin, and remove dead skin cells. They have anti-ageing benefits as well as improved skin elasticity.
GUEST: Seipati Masango - Founder of Organic Touch by Miss Gates
Jabu Hlongwane is one of the co-founders of Joyous Celebrating He’s a married father of four and he has a few solo albums under his belt. Hlongwane said when he founded the choir with Lindelani Mkhize and Mthunzi Namba, they only had a single show in mind. “We were looking at the smooth transition into the new government from apartheid. “So we wanted to do a show and express our gratitude to God and call it a joyous celebration,” said Hlongwane. It was when the public wanted more that they produced album after album for the 21 years that followed.
Guest: Joe Ngwenya - Speaker, Trainer, Facilitator and Change and Transformation Consultant
Next week Thursday, South Africa will commemorate Human Rights Day and on this very day, the ‘unpopular’ religious leaders will be hosting a Summit titled ‘ANTICHRISTS’, ‘HERETICS’ & ‘PASTORS OF COMPROMISE’ SPEAK OUT ON HUMAN RIGHTS This summit seeks to address the human rights violations of those who do not confirm to the mainstream way of being Christian. It aims to expose how intolerance from churches has led to the influx of fake pastors and cult leaders in South Africa – many people have been kicked out of the church because “the bible” says they’re ungodly and these are the people who fall prey to pastors that we have been complaining
Guest : Muzi Cindi - Former Christian Pastor turned “New Thought” author and teacher guest: Bishop Jackson Khosa – kingdom of priests ministries
My Name is Thulani Thembela, I am blind, I am, I have been through a lot as someone who is blind, but I against all odds, I am pushing to make my life better and taking steps to fulfill my dreams. I believe the story of my life can touch people and make difference in their lives. I believe getting my message out there to people will touch people and also help me to get the exposure that as an artist. I have two songs already and one of them is available online.
GUEST: Thulani Thembela - Gospel Artist and Composer
It is said that Africa is one of the largest contributors to the world’s child marriages stats. We zoom into this African problem and try and get an understanding of why such a gross violation of the girl child is still in place when African leaders are claiming to be behind the emancipation of the girl child
GUEST: Dr Alex Asakitikpi – Head of the Sociology Department at Monash University
He studies democracy, human rights, public opinion, political behavior, civil rights and policy aimed at improving the human condition, with a focus on African countries..
Guest: Dr Vusumuzi Sibanda – Chairperson of The African Diaspora Forum. Guest: Adekunle Owolabi - Developer, digital strategist, and journalist with a strong passion for changing the African narrative. He founded NigeriansinSouthAfrica.co.za which is the leading source of news for the Nigerian community and diaspora at large.
Youth 4 Climate Action - A growing international movement of pupils and students who are taking part in demonstrations to demand action to prevent further global warming and climate change.
GUEST: Mendy Ndlovu - a PhD student with research focused on climate change and information support services
Educating men about emotional intelligence and their rights to access to justice services should they find themselves in a situation where they are abused
GUEST: Siya Jentile – Founder of the #NotInMyName Movement
On Friday the 8th March we celebrated International Womens Day where we celebrated the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women across the world. But how far have we come? Are we seeing enough women in leadership positions?
Guest: Nana Ngobese - Gender advocate and Founder of Women Forward
Shaguma is a trendy and vibe spot in the heart of midrand which sells flavorful and delicious meals which fuses both traditional & meditaranean cuisine,Tebogo hosts events at Shaguma which privileged her to host top South African and international djs at her spot, including corporate functions of Vodacom,Eskom,Adcock Ingram and the others,Thee Dinamite also has a dj residency every Sundays offering nothing but Soul music where she engages with her patrons at Shaguma through Music.
GUEST: Tebogo Katsaitis –Owner of Shaguma
Shanray started his comedy career in 2016 making his debut at the Savanna Newcomers Showcase that was held in Soweto Theatre. His stage presence and delivery is simply amazing. His unique style of telling stories are funny and witty and always leaves audiences in stitches. Shanray has worked with the best comedians in the country always innovating always consistent truly one of the country’s next superstar. He caters for both Afrikaans and English audience
GUEST: Shandray van Wyk – Comedian
Imbizo Tours is one of the top leading Tour Companies in South Africa and they are specialists when it comes to the history of Soweto. Imbizo Tours was started to showcase Soweto’s and South Africa’s vibrant culture. For over twenty four years Imbizo Tours has developed a reputation for offering enriching and unforgettable tour experiences and they will continue to do so.
Mandy Mankazana the founder of Soweto Tours now known as Imbizio Tours is one of the country’s most fascinating women, she was born and raised in Rockville, deep in the heart of Soweto, but what makes her unique is that she was the first black female tour operator in South Africa in 1994. She essentially brought tourism to Soweto when nobody else saw the townships potential.
Guest: Mandy Mankazana - Founder of Imbizo
On Friday the 08th of March, Birchwood Comes Alive will be paying tribute to the late legend, Oliver “Tuku” Mtukudzi – a talent who graced the Birchwood Jazz Evening stage many times throughout the 17 year journey. The legendary Ringo Madlingozi will be gracing the evening with some of his classics, supported by Mmatema Moremi. A few good laughs are promised by Elton Mduduzi, “with the Jazzmelos as the opening act for the evening”.
Guest: Ringo Madlingozi – Legendary musician
The Sotho people, or Basotho are a Bantu ethnic group of Southern Africa, native to modern Lesotho and South Africa, who speak Sesotho. The Basotho have inhabited that region since around the fifth century and so are closely related to other Bantu peoples of the region.
The modern Basotho identity emerged from the accomplished diplomacy of Moshoeshoe I who gathered together disparate clans of Sotho–Tswana origin that had dispersed across southern Africa in the early 19th century. Most Basotho today live in South Africa, as the area of the Orange Free State was originally part of Moshoeshoe's nation (now Lesotho).
GUEST: Dr Thato Monyakane – Senior Lecturer at Department: African Languages and as lectures Sesotho at UNISA
What kind of relationship do you have with your political party? Are you happy with them? GUEST: Sanusha Naidu, Senior research associate at the Institute of Global Dialogue
A fire broke out in an Alexandra informal settlement on Tuesday afternoon. It’s alleged a pylon and overhead line, carrying about 88 kilovolts of electricity, fell on the shacks. What are some of the socio economic factors contributing to the mushrooming of shacks and such disasters?
Guest: Isaac Mangena – City Power Spokesperson Guests : George Mqapheli Bonono - Deputy President of Abahlali baseMjondolo
As the remote working trend gains popularity in South Africa, a recent survey by Jack Hammer, Africa’s largest independent executive search firm, has revealed that local companies reluctant to offer remote work options to prospective employees are losing out on top talent. How can companies benefit from being flexible about remote working?
GUEST: Advaita Naidoo- COO at Jack Hammer
Mkhupheka has been a civil servant in KwaZulu-Natal for 30 years. She moved to her current position as a supervisor at the Scottburgh Home Affairs office in 2012.
“When I leave my home each morning, I put myself in the shoes of the citizens who come to our office. I greet them when we open our office and regularly communicate with them should we have challenges”, says Mkhupheka.
GUEST: Nosipho Mkhupheka – Home Affairs Employee
Dear Daughter maybe a solution to questions and concerns for younger girls but its content has proven to be useful to older folks, who are either parents / minders of the targeted young girls or simply women who are facing similar adversities.
Zanele Mbokazi says “This book is about everything my mother told me everything my mother did not tell me, everything I wish my mother would have told me, everything I learned along the way. There is something for every daughter, from sixteen to twenty-one, twenty-two to thirty-five, and from thirty-six upwards.
Guests: Zanele Mbokazi – Author of Dear Daughter
The Department of Social Development is mandated by the Constitution to provide social protection and welfare services to vulnerable individuals, groups and communities. Women, children, older persons and persons with disabilities form part of the core focus areas for the Department.
The strategic pillar 6 of the White Paper on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (WPRPD) which is overseen by the Department of Social Development and was approved by Cabinet in 2015, advocates for strengthening the representative voice of persons with disabilities, particularly the under-represented groups whose voices are not heard on existing platforms.
GUEST: Henrietta Bogopane-Zulu - Deputy Minister of Social Development
Why is it important for Africans to do business with each other? As well as the importance of growing Africa’s economy as a whole. How can SA attract investment from Small and Medium business owners around Africa?
GUEST: Kika Osunde and Chioma Ikokwu – Nigerian born Business Owners
Humility is the key ingredient to achieving your goals – Be humble enough to choose some people that will hold you accountable to your stuff
Guest: Veli Ndaba - Motivational Speaker, Author, Entrepreneur, Life and Business Coach
Retire Successfully Retirementor, Lynda Smith, helps people refire rather than retire. Now she aims to transform the face of employment in South Africa. She has created a skills portal where over 50s who have expertise and experience can connect with employers seeking just that kind of employee. On Thursday the 07th of March, they are hosting a meeting for those who are part of the 50+ plus generation and are still willing to give their time and expertise to a worthwhile initiative in education. There are two million skilled people in South Africa over the age of 60. If 10% of them engaged in some kind of work or volunteering, using their existing skills, time and passion, for five years, this would equate to ONE MILLION years of economic activity for South Africa.
GUEST: Lynda Smith – CEO of 50 plus Skills (and also a board member of Partners for Possibilities)
Deciding to step up as a father can be one of the hardest thing to do especially if you haven’t been in your child’s life from a young age (early development). We make mistakes and realizing that we were wrong is the first step in the right direction but trying to make things right is not always easy .How do you reconnect and regain that trust again. How do you build a relationship with your child and gain their trust again after years of not being / playing a role in their life?
GUEST: Mbuyiselo Botha – Gender Activist and Founding member of the SA men movement
Have white people’s voices lost their place in public and social discourse? There seems to be a notion that white people’s views and comments on certain social issues should not exceed a certain point, because they come from a privileged past. Does coming from a privileged past take away white people’s rights to participate (fully) in issues of social discourse? Whether it be speaking about crime and poverty to addressing the issues of corruption in politics – have they been silenced?
Guests: Terry Oakley Smith (Former academic and educationist & MD and Founder of Absolute)
An Americana-inspired restaurant and Vinyl Bar, Calexico offers a diverse menu in a unique space.
Situated in 44 Stanley Ave, Milpark, Calexico is a newly launched spot that prides itself on its quirky décor, vinyl wall and the exciting menu designed and created by consulting Chef Robyn Timson-Moss.
GUEST: Calexico Vinyl Lounge and Restaurant
Thabiso Mhlongo is a an professional stand-up comedian whose calmness and storytelling continues captivate audiences all over Johannesburg and South Africa. He started out professional stand-up comedy in August 2014, but his meteoric rise within the comedy ranks continues to further imply that he is destined for greatness at the highest levels of Stand-Up comedy.
GUEST: Thabiso Mhlongo - Comedian
South Africa’s crème de la crème attending the Veuve Clicquot Masters Polo 2019 at Val de Vie Estate this coming Saturday afternoon, will be joined by award-winning Hollywood actor and producer, Terrence J.
Now in its ninth incarnation, the Veuve Clicquot Masters Polo will bring together all the prestige that is associated with Cape Town’s leading polo, fashion, and lifestyle event.
Guest : Ryk Neethling - Marketing Director and Shareholder of Val de Vie Estate
In recent years, the global meetings industry has begun to recognise Africa as a sought after destination. Meetings Africa showcases Africa’s diverse offering of services and products where African associations and African meetings industry professionals can partner to help transform our continent. We get feedback on what transpired during the 2019 edition – which also happened to the 14 years since Meetings Africa was started
Guest: Amanda Kotze Nhlapho – Head Kotse Nhlapho – Head of SA Conferencing Buea
The 2019 election is around the corner and the National Children’s Theatre (NCT) is started the year with a production enlightening children on the voting process. Duck for President is a musical adaptation of Doreen Cronin’s best-selling children’s book. The witty, fast-paced script with catchy songs takes audience on an entertaining and fun journey through the election process…
Guests: Matthew Counihan - Artistic Director of Duck for President
Nomaka Epainette Mbeki (née Moerane), commonly known as "MaMbeki", was the mother of former South African president Thabo Mbeki and widow of political activist Govan Mbeki. She lived in Ngcingwane, a rural hamlet near Dutywa, one of South Africa's poorest municipalities.
guest: Mr Madoda Mbeki – MaMbeki was his aunt (married to tat’omncinci Govan)
Yesterday Jason Rohde sentenced to 20 years in prison for killing his For the past couple of years we’ve heard plenty reports about husbands and wives who kill each other. Is this a matter of dividing the estate or being after someone’s estate? What exactly do people talk about when preparing for marriage if these are the aftermaths of a marriage? Is marriage worthy of the society we live in right now? Are we selling our souls to carry a title? GUEST: Angie Diale – Family and Relationship Counselor GUEST: Jacqueline Ellis - Specialist Family Attorney Lawyer at Jacqueline Ellis Attorneys
Violence in schools is a global phenomenon, with South Africa being no exception. Yesterday a Grade 5 learner stabbed a fellow pupil to death in the North West and there have been many other related incidents across the country. It’s clear that SA schools have become a war zone. What fuels this violence and how do we end it? Also What role should parents play?
Guests: Maano Ramadwa – Qualified Teacher, Former principal, and Founder of the Maano Ramadwa Education Foundation)
Home cleaning services app SweepSouth is expecting to post a top line revenue of R100 million by the end of the financial year, as demand for its services increases across SA. The Cape Town-based start-up, launched in 2014 by co-founders Aisha Pandor (CEO) and Alen Ribic (CTO), allows users to book and pay for cleaning services by connecting them with domestic workers.
GUEST: Aisha Pandor – CEO and Co-founder of SweepSouth
Afro-pop sensation Vusi Nongxo known as, Vusi Nova, has stolen the hearts of music fans with his romantic Xhosa ballads for close to a decade. The Port Elizabeth-born musician's love for soul music started at the tender age of 14 when he moved to Johannesburg. He told Youth Village he was always drawn to music.
GUEST: Vusi Nova
Yesterday the Institute of Race Relations, in conjunction with the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF), released the findings of a poll into public perceptions of taxi use, safety, crime and related violence. The findings are set out in four sections: Taxi Use, Road Safety, Taxi Safety and Taxi-Related Violence and Crime.
Guests: Gareth van Onselen - Head of Politics and Governance at the Institute of Race Relations
Tourism Minister Derek Hanekom about the 14th edition of Meetings Africa – he touched on visa regulations and how they impact on the number of tourists we attract to SA. He also spoke about the need to put SA on the world map as a favourable choice for both business and leisure
GUESTS: Derek Hanekom - minister of tourism
The African Union of the Blind conference will be held this week. Visually Impaired leaders from around Africa will be part of the two day conference. Issues that will be tabled out will be pertaining to the blindness sector in Africa and the challenges that they face as visually impaired persons.
GUEST: Lesibana Movundlela
Jonathan Jansen, rector at the University of the Free State, in an article for the Mail and Guardian newspaper strongly stated that, "If our children are to stand tall, they must master the language used to exclude them." This was him highlighting that English is the language of choice in schools because indigenous languages are poorly taught. Today we look at the importance of teaching children their home language as early as possible and embracing our home languages.
GUEST: Professor Sihawu Ngubane – Head of African Languages at the University of KwaZulu-Natal
Guest: Veli Ndaba - Motivational Speaker, Author, Entrepreneur, Life and Business Coach
Meetings Africa is a pan-African trade show that has been in existence for 13 years. The show was born in response to the global meeting’s industry growing recognition of Africa as a sought-after events destination. Exhibitors and attendees of the events will be given a platform to showcase their offerings to African associations, and international and local corporate planners.
GUEST: Barba Gaoganediwe – Head of Destination Marketing at Gauteng Tourism
Royal Kids NPO partners with Marriott International, parent company of Protea Hotels by Marriott. A Cape Town woman called Danolene Johanessen has for a long time been involved in initiatives to improve the lives of young people living in impoverished communities. In 2012 she decided to do something to assist children whose families do not have the funds needed to purchase good school uniforms. These children often feel embarrassed about their situation, and are sometimes bullied by more affluent children. In addition, many of the children are HIV positive and some are the orphans of parents who died because of AIDS.
GUEST: Danolene Johanessen from Royal Kids
Today we’re focusing on clairvoyance with Kathryn Valdal Fourie. She’ll tell us a bit about the importance of spiritual connection and we will also do some lives readings.
GUEST: Kathryn Valdal Fourie.
Veteran jazz musician Dorothy Masuka passed away over the weekend. Mam’s Dorothy was 83 years old and before her passing, she had been suffering from complications related to hypertension after suffering a mild stroke last year. One of her last stage performances was at mam’Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's funeral last year. On social media, tributes have been pouring in for Mam’Masuka.
GUEST: Mme Lillian Dube GUEST: SIPHO Mabuse guest: Birdie Mboweni
Poppy’s is a casual restaurant serving a Portuguese and Italian cuisine. Their menu shows off dishes including pasta, chicken tikka, baby chicken, surf and turf, fresh seafood dishes including prawns and calamari and even egg, steak and chips. Poppy’s also offers a great selection of drinks at reasonable prices. The restaurant pumps up in the evenings, focusing on the nightlife in the area.
guest: Juby Raja
Bexta Ndabalime is a Motswana-born, Zimbabwe-raised South African DJ, comedian and actor.With many years in the entertainment industry having worked in radio, television, MC-ing, stand-up comedy, events, record company and a prolific live DJing stint, Bexta has honed his abilities to capture a crowd with either his musical selection and mixing skills or his personality. After five years at UCT Radio as a presenter, producer, programming manager, music compiler, party planner and go-to guy for campus events, the city of gold was calling.
GUEST: Bexta Ndabalime / @Bexta_N
K&M concierge is a company which was established in year 2016 to provide concierge and lifestyle management solutions. This is a private company founded by Nhlaka Mpunzana. The company is a level 1 BB/BEE contributor and was established to launch a fully black owned concierge company and to promote the improvement of quality service offerings in the tourism and hospitality sectors.
GUEST: Nhlakanipho Mpunzana – Co-owner of K and M Concierge
The prestigious Veuve Clicquot Masters Polo Cape Town will return to Val de Vie Estate on 2 March 2019. Set against the spectacular backdrop of the Paarl-Franschhoek mountains, this stylish sporting and social event marks the peak of the South African polo season. The ninth annual event, a highlight on the Western Cape calendar, will focus on the sport that has shown a sharp rise in popularity and skill in Africa over the past few years. It is expected that more than 3000 prestigious guests, many from neighbouring countries and provinces, will pay homage to the high-speed, high-skill game of polo while sipping Veuve Clicquot and celebrating summer. What’s new at the 2019 event is the extension of the VIP area where guests will enjoy the luxury offering of Veuve Cliquot Yellow Label as signature drink, canape service, gourmet grazing tables, entertainment, VIP parking and of course riveting 15-goal polo match.
GUEST: Patrick Leslie - Champagne Portfolio Manager for Veuve Clicquot
The 13th Edition of the Limpopo Marula festival starts today and will continue until the 02nd of March. Since 2006, the event attracts more and more people from various corners of the country and our SADC partners. Adding to this marvel heritage festival is the picteresque festival destination which is the town of Phalaborwa which abounds tourist facilities and attractions. And more than this, it lies adjacent to the world renowned Kruger National Park.
GUEST: Ms. Nomasonto Ndlovu - CEO of Limpopo Tourism
The Armed Forces Day main event is currently underway in Cape Town, marking the sinking of the SS Mendi in the English Channel in 1917 when over 600 SA Native Labour Corps members and 33 crew members died. Armed Forces Day is a day on which the South African population honours men and women of the South African National Defence Force by affirming its support and gratitude to them for upholding the constitution of the Republic and defending the territorial integrity of the Republic and protecting its people.
GUEST: Siphiwe Dlamini – Head of Communications at the Department of Defence
While men argue that women lose respect and become arrogant when they earn more, women believe that such issues would not exist if men were doing their part and being providers? But what does this mean for the economics of a relationship? Are men uncomfortable with women having more money than them? Does this make the man jealous? Is a man capable of being jealous of his woman? Who should be more successful than the other?
GUEST: Francois Janse Van Rensberg – Relationship coach and founder of Let’s Live Coaching
This year the Rand Show will be on from the 19th to the 29th April. Today was the media launch - Senior Citizens are there with Hazel Thlabanyane (SABC Foundation). They will also be hosted during the 10 Day Rand (Easter) Show in April.
Guest: Mike Bray – Marketing Director of Rand Show @RandShow
"Has social media dehumanized us: Have we replaced the important human connections and interactions with social media? Although we keep referring to it as a world of its own, are we mindful of its impact and the damage that it is causing in our society"
Guest: Prof Somadoda Fikeni - Community development activist; policy and political analyst; heritage expert
Teenage pregnancy is still a continuous issue in SA and seems to be growing year by year. The rate of teenage pregnancy is especially high in South Africa specifically in Limpopo. Are teens really educated and knowledgeable about teenage pregnancy and contraceptives? Is our sex education lacking? Or are our teenagers ignorant?
Guest: Gertrude Matshima – Focal Person for SheConquers at the Department of Health (she is also the HIV Youth Prevention Manager at the Department of Health)
The Web was ultimately designed to cater for everyone, everywhere and on any device, using any language and regardless of their ability. This means the Web must remove all barriers to communication and interaction that many physically impaired people face.
Web accessibility is the practice of removing barriers for people with disabilities on the web. Most commonly it refers to those who have temporary or permanent vision issues, people who cannot see the screen and rely on things like screen readers or larger text to access site content.
GUESTS: Nick Durrant - Bluegrass Digital CEO
Hardly two weeks since the conclusion of the Invest In Africa Mining Indaba, we’ve heard of two major mine accidents on the continent (Zimbabwe and Liberia). This begs the question, when discussing investment in mining how much of a factor does the safety of workers play? Are Africa’s minerals a curse to its people and a blessing to investors? Is our government compromising the safety of workers for investments – how severe are the punishments given to mining companies that do not comply with safety standards in Africa?
GUEST: Ross Harvey – Senior Researcher at the South African Institute for International Affairs
guest: Veli Ndaba - Motivational Speaker, Author, Entrepreneur, Life and Business Coach
One of the reasons people get imprisoned is for them to be rehabilitated, reformed and be seen a better individual in society. What programs should be implemented in order to integrate rehabilitated prisoners back into society? (Quirky 30 is a Not for Profit Company and a Public Benefit Organization with BEE Level 1 status, we align our work with the Framework of the UN Sustainable Development Goals for 2030.)
Sihle Tshabalala is an ex-offender born and raised in Langa township. After serving time in jail and spending several years as a member of the notorious 26s gang, he turned his life around.Tshabalala went from gangster to reinvented entrepreneur and digital coder.
Guest: Sihle Tshabalala – Ex Convict and Founder of NGO Quirky
Nicole Jennings - spokesperson for Pharma Dynamics (a pharmaceutical firm specialising in men’s health)
Ground breaking research conducted at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in Los Angeles confirms that daily exercise can improve sexual function in “all” men who suffer from erectile dysfunction (ED). What makes the research so significant is that for the first time a study was done that represented a racially diverse group of men. In a country such as South Africa where the majority (78%) of men that are 20 years and older are black, the findings are significant - about 2.7 million men in SA over the age of 40 (roughly about 40%) suffer from ED (see press release below for more info). Why are men suffering in silence when erectile dysfunction has such a huge impact on their lives? Are the enough avenues for them to explore when trying to deal with this problem? Why are men not talking about this – is it shameful?
GUEST: Dr Shingaai Mutambira – Urologist
We’re zooming in on the IEC’s timetable pre 2019 elections - getting to know more about the election proclamation date, the submission of the candidate lists, applications for special votes, dates for special votes, etc. President Cyril Ramaphosa announced during his SONA that the 2019 elections will be held on the 08th of May 2019 – what is it that citizens need to take note of from now onwards?
Guest : Mr. Masego Sheburi – Deputy CEO of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC)
Mathias Raivha picture went viral on social media this past week where he was captured selling food out of the boot of his car, which is something most people would think about doing. He joins us in studio today .He is the Eatex Quality Service. They provide all Catering services e.g Weddings, Birthday Parties, Learnerships, Funerals, Meetings or any other related functions at an affordable price.
“We are determined to give you the best service, Try us today we will always deliver above your expectation.” - Eatex Quality Service Catering
GUEST: Mathias Raivha - Head Chef at Eatex Quality Service
Tebogo Ntlhane is a young South African comedian born in 1995, whose fresh brand comedy is based on reality, life experience, human behaviour, and observation from his daily life. His comedy is clean and Christian comedy and appeals to audience irrespective of age, gender, race, class, religion and size. With his contagiously funny stage personality Tebogo is also an amazing MC, actor, motivational speaker and an all-round entertainer.
GUEST : Tebogo Ntlhane - comedian
Lebo - founder of “Lebo’s Soweto” grew up in the house which is today our Backpackers hostel. He was introduced to the tourism industry as buses started coming in numbers in the early 2000’s. He was then selling craft at the Hector Pieterson memorial in Soweto and started inviting some of the travelers he met to his home to experience another side of Soweto than viewing the township from a bus-window. A few years after that Lebo started the now popular Soweto bicycle tour taking people out of the car and on to the streets of Soweto.
Guest: Lebo Malepa - Founder of Lebo’s Soweto
CK Weddings and Events are hosting their first expo which happens to be the first African Wedding Expo in South Africa. As South Africa’s younger generation is starting to embrace its culture, the beauty of traditional weddings, the amazing fabrics and the uniqueness of each tribe, they believe that as wedding planners and coordinators, they had to offer these new trend-setters a privilege of having gorgeous and luxurious traditional weddings.
Guest: Khutso Mokgehle – Co-owner and Senior Consultant at CK Weddings and Events
With today being Valentine’s Day we zoom in on matters that could affect or even cripple a couple’s intimacy – Condoms and STIs. These are realities that many couples shy away from, even though sex is present in their relationships
GUEST: TBC – National Institute of Communicable Disease
Cardiovascular health is something we need to pay far more attention to in South Africa. It is the number one cause of death in the country. According to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of South Africa, while 80% of heart disease and strokes can be prevented, 225 people die of heart related illnesses and complications every day. Why are townships at the end of the queue when it comes to facilities that cater for cardiovascular illnesses?
Guest: Dr Martin Mpe - a well-recognised cardiologist both locally and globally... He who leads the team of 5 cardiologists at the SK Matseke
Guest: Mr Kgolo Matseke - Dr SK Matseke Memorial Hospital’s Manager
The Imagination Night is a monthly event held at the Goethe Institut's Hub@Goethe hosted by entrepreneurs that seeks to link up African brands and digital gurus working in the tech industry with small businesses and other interested tech-savvy Joburgers. Envisaged as an evening the offers tech entrepreneurs the opportunity to pitch and network with each other, each edition sees a different speaker taking to the podium to lead the evening's discussion.
GUEST: Jonas Radunz, PR-Officer at Goethe-Institut Johannesburg guest: Lethlogile Motaung - Founder of Modi Isago and speaker at the event
Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng started her education under a tree and had to walk up to 10km just to get to school. Today, she is a full professor in mathematics education and she is also the vice-chancellor of the University of Cape Town. Perhaps foretelling good fortune, Phakeng was born still in her amniotic sac, in a Catholic clinic in Eastwood, Pretoria, on November 1, 1966. Her mother, Wendy, was a domestic and factory worker, while her father Frank was a radio announcer at the SABC. After giving birth to Phakeng and her siblings, Wendy went back to school and finished her studies so she could work as a teacher.
GUEST: Prof Mamokgethi Phakenge – Vice Chancellor at the University of Cape Town
Guest: Bonsai Shongwe – Highly Sought after Inspirational speaker, entrepreneur, consultant, author
Is the South African advertising industry in sync with consumers and the cultural diversity that we have in South Africa? Hardly a year goes by without South Africans being upset and offended by a new advert that has hit the billboards and the TV screens. Is banning an advert enough to address this problem – is there a cultural disconnect between the advertising industry the people who are expected to consume the products that are being advertising?
GUEST: Ndumiso Ndlela – Head of Digital at DNA Brand Architects
Following the #SONA19 many South Africans noted that President Cyril Ramaphosa didn’t say much about those living with disabilities/ the disability sector in his address. Many felt the President neglected issues that people living with disabilities still face. We are asking: Was the SONA disability friendly? What more could the President have touched on regarding challenges people with disabilities face? Are those living with disabilities neglected?
GUEST : Wendy Nefdt – Western Cape Regional Director: Epilepsy SA
Guest : Veli Ndaba - Motivational Speaker, Author, Entrepreneur, Life and Business Coach
Throughout Teen Suicide Prevention week SADAG will be raising awareness through school talks, Online Content ad Facebook Friday online chats. This awareness not only encourages teens to come forward but also tells them where to go for help in their own community and how to contact the Suicide Call Center
GUEST: Vanishaa Gordhan – Call Centre Manager
She was diagnosed with cancer in 2017 and during that time, she engaged went to hospital to meet with other women living with cancer and started a support and that’s how Pink Winners was born. She took these 50 women out for pampering .Their next event is on the 13th April and they are hoping to have 250 cancer patients both and woman by then.
GUEST : Lerato Ndaba – Stage 4 cancer patient & survivor and Founder of Pink Winners
Because gay people grow up in very hostile situations, pushing and fighting against rejection, it is believed that they have a better understanding about how one should be given a chance to be who they are rather than being told who to be. It is also said that same-sex parents unlike heterosexuals, do not just wake up pregnant - they thoroughly think about bringing up children and realise the commitment required, so when they decide, they are truly ready. Parenting is more of a choice to same-sex couples, there is more motivation than in heterosexual parents on average. But is our society ready to let homosexual (gay) men be parents? For how long will this been a taboo? Should children be deprives a home anf a family because we’re a homophobic society?
GUEST : Prof Fynn Reygan - Researcher at the Human Social Science Research Council
We're looking at the neglected history of women in the church. Why is there a reluctance in strengthening women's leadership roles in the church, when women are the bloodline of the church?
Guest - Pastor Thandi Mthethwa
Cheeky, charming and charismatic – Ian’s irreverent insight into local life is almost unique in that it is fueled by a real musical talent. He is also that rare comedian that you can use for the most conservative audience ; “no swearing, no blasphemy” are watchwords for him as he believes that you have to work to delight everyone in the audience not just the party animal.
GUEST : Ian von Memerty & Gino Fabbri - Comedian and Musician
Birchwood Comes Alive is back for Valentine’s Month! Returning from a fantastic run of shows in 2018, the 17 year old show is bringing sensational acts to the month-of-love edition. Providing the ultimate romantic evening for you and your partner, afro-soul songwriter, producer and performer, Donald will be live on stage on 15 February 2019. Back by popular demand, and supporting Donald, are gospel and jazz group, Beyond Vocal. Bringing comedy to the scene, is hilarious puppeteer and SA’s Got Talent’s Chik Aljoy. Opening the show is Nwabisa Mxakatho. Hosting it all as always is Hector Motivator.
Guest Donald Moatshe – SA musician
The Cool Dads Foundation will be celebrating love with a Valentine’s Day concert featuring superstars Sjava, Amanda Black, Mlindo the Vocalist and Thando Mngomezulu. The concert takes place on Valentine’s Day at Carnival City in Brakpan.
“This concert is not only about a celebration of love, but also promotion of authentic fatherhood, which is the aim of the Cool dads Foundation” says Bongani Luvalo, founder and director of the Cool Dads foundation
GUEST : Amanda Black & Bongani Luvalo
Mama Palmer was a true heroine of our struggle, who despite having gone through trials and tribulations continued to fight for our freedom. Following her retirement from serving in many political structures such as the United Democratic Front (UDF), the Federation of Transvaal Women (FEDTRAW) and non-governmental organizations like the Legal Resource Centre (LRC), she continued to be involved in various charity organisations. It is through heroines like her that today we have CGE, which has to ensure that whatever she fought for should not be in vain.
President Cyril Ramaphosa is delivering his 2019 State Of The Nation Address (SONA) on Thursday 7 February in Cape Town. The State Of The Nation Address marks the opening of parliament for the new year. The president will address the entire country, reporting back on his administration’s progress over the past year, and then set out his administration’s agenda and priorities for the next year. What can you expect?
guest: Masibulele Xaso – Secretary to the National Assembly
Logistics Pty Ltd, has over 18 years international banking experience in local as well as international banks. Her career spans from trade operations, to selling vanilla trade products, through to structuring of trade finance deals. She has experience in training and presenting on trade related topics to delegates from various backgrounds. Boitumelo has an Honours Degree in Psychology, a Post Graduate Diploma in Marketing Management, a Diploma in Treasury & International Banking, and a Master of Business Leadership with UNISA. Her thesis topic was “The analysis of the training and development effectiveness in the global trade industry in South Africa.”
GUEST: Boitumelo Kgomo – Founder Destiny Global Trade & Logistics Founder
Abigail Kubeka is a legend and after over half a century in the entertainment business, legendary singer, dancer and actress is still going strong. From a young age, she showed an interest in singing. Abigail started singing with popular musicians such Miriam Makeba, Hugh Masekela and has performed with many others including Thandi Klaasen.In 2014, Kubeka received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the South African Film and Television Awards (SAFTAS), and in 2016 was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Wawela Music Awards (WMA) in Johannesburg. In the early 2000s Kubeka won the Lifetime Achievement Award for best musician and jazz industrial.
GUEST: Abigail Kubeka – Legendary South African Musician
It’s that time of the year where many varsity students are going back to varsity but not everyone is in high spirits or may be coming back. There are many reasons one may drop out of varsity; i.e. failure, financial constraints and more reasons but how well prepared is your child for varsity. Last year there was a 37.3% rate of university students drop out. How can we take down these numbers and how can we prepare students as early as possible for the choices they will make after high school?
GUEST: Prof. Kobus Maree - Educational psychologist at the University of Pretoria GUEST: Pearl Lebusho – Career development practitioner and Life Coach
We’re in conversation with the South African National Council for the Blind about Eye Cancer (intraocular melanoma) and how it could lead to blindness. Intraocular Melanoma is a disease in which malignant (cancer) cells form in the tissues of the eye and more often people regard this as just an irritation or a ‘common’ eye problem without realising that they’re slowly losing their eyesight.
GUEST: Dr Pricella Seipati Makunyane - Academic Head at University of Pretoria Steve Biko Hospital
Corruption emerges from many avenues, some of the identifiable causes of corruption include the negative colonial legacy, poor leadership, politics of the belly, greed and selfishness
GUEST: Makhosi Amanda Gcabashe
Guest: Veli Ndaba - Motivational Speaker, Author, Entrepreneur, Life and Business Coach
This year the Investing in Africa Mining Indaba, taking place in Cape Town Indaba celebrates 25th years and is committed into a deal-making and investment-focused event. Investing in African Mining Indaba is solely dedicated to the successful capitalisation and development of mining interests in Africa. It’s also dedicated to supporting education, career development, sustainable development, and other important causes in Africa.
Guest: Bishop Jo Seoka - Chairperson of the Bench Marks Foundation
The Disability Centre Project (DCP) is a donation project whose main aim is to make the world a better place for people with disabilities. The needs of people with disabilities are highly neglected, and if attended to, the quality of life could improve by a drastic amount.
guest: Lloyd Babedi
Raising a girl child as a single dad can be quite a task. Sometimes you don’t know what to expect and some conversations may be hard to have How do you strengther your relationship with your girl child?
guest: Fredrick Mamabolo – Father, Productivity Coach , Corporate strategist and Author
The Accelerated Schools Infrastructure Delivery Initiative (ASIDI) aims to eradicate the Basic Safety Norms backlog in schools without water, sanitation and electricity and to replace those schools constructed from inappropriate material (mud, plankie, asbestos) to contribute towards levels of optimum learning and teaching. The Schools Infrastructure Backlog Grant (SIBG) funds the ASIDI portfolio…. How does this programme redresses some of these challenges?
The recent walkway that collapsed on Friday morning at Hoerskool Driehoek in Vanderbijlpark where 4 pupils were killed and many other severely injured puts the spotlight on infrastructure and maintenance in schools. We have schools that are more than a 100 years old but how often are these schools renovated and how regular are they maintained?
GUEST: Steve Mabona – Gauteng Education spokesperson
"Sochila" - Township slang for 'we're hanging out' Officially established in February 2007, Sochila has in its premature growth phase become one of the popular spots in Diepkloof.
GUEST : Sfiso Zwane & Lindo Zwane – Co-Owner and Manager
Alfred Adriaan is a confident comedian with a corporate background in brand management. His comedy is based on his life growing up in the rural EC (HE is from a town called Hankey, NO really) with hilarious stories that range from Public School education to his complicated relationships with the fairer sex. He is a small town boy with a colourful family background who moved to the big city. He is a well-rounded comedian with a friendly disposition and with experience as a corporate MC for multi-nationals. He is a regular performer in the JHB comedy scene and has worked at Parkers Comedy and Jive as well as other popular comedy events. He is versatile and can entertain any crowd no matter the setting.
GUEST: Alfred Adriaan – Comedian and MC
Mattanu Private Game Reserve specialises in tailor-making each package according to the guests specific needs. Our 4 star accommodation includes, deck and braai facility. We also have luxury tents with air-conditioning for the hot summer nights and underfloor heating for the chilly winter evenings.
Nestled between Camel thorn trees and wildlife, you can get away from it all and relax in our luxurious lodge with underground wine cellar and bar facility. The chalet can accommodates two to ten people in comfort. Two Luxury tents with their private decks are available. The lodge overlooks a very popular watering hole where wildlife sightings are very common.
Guest : Jacque Kriek – Owner and Marketing Manager of Mattanu Private Game Reserve in Kimberly, Northern Cape
Written by Nina Simone, “Four Women” was released in 1966 on her album Wild is the Wind. In the song, she creates a genealogy of black women through slavery to the present. Four characters, Aunt Sarah, Saffronia, Sweet Thing, and Peaches represent different types of black women and the lasting legacy of slavery.
Though each woman speaks for herself, she describes her physical traits and the way she is seen and treated in society, and what “they” call her.
GUEST : Busi Lurayi, Mona Monyane Skenjana and Noxolo Dlamini – CAST MEMBERS
The State of the Nation Address, at the annual opening of Parliament, is an address to the nation by the President of the Republic of South Africa. The President addresses a joint sitting of the two houses of Parliament, the National Assembly (NA) and the National Council of Provinces (NCOP). It focuses on the current political and socio-economic state of the nation.
GUEST: Thandi Modise – Chairperson of the National Council of provinces
Bekezela - An African proverb – where does this term come from and in what context is it used in our daily lives? Is it still as powerful and relevant as it was decades ago? And when we talk about ukubekezela (perseverance) do we nullify the realities of life and the impact that these realities have on one’s patience and heart
GUEST: Siya Jantile – Social activist and a member of Not in my name SA
GUEST: Claudine Mofokeng
TOPIC: FACE THE CHALLENGE - PUTTING MATCHING BLOCKS TOGETHER IN OUR PUZZLE BRINGS PASSION TO PURPOSE
Guest: Yvonne Kgame – Author, teacher, inspirational speaker
Farmers lose hundreds of thousands of rands due to the drought and this is not a problem that is unique to South Africa. The agricultural sector in its entirety is always hardest hit by abnormal weather patterns. (Farmers may have to spend more money on crop and livestock up keep; businesses that depend on farming, like companies that make tractors and food, may lose business when drought damages crops or livestock; and we might even find ourselves with certain outbreak like that of the foot-and-mouth disease in Limpopo). Are there mechanisms in place to support farmers during such tough times? When compared to our international counterparts, do South African farmers get enough support from the government?
GUEST: Ronnie McKenzie – President of FUSA (Farmers United South Africa)
Smaller companies may have the agility and flexibility to survive in a fluctuating economy, however, they’re often hit the hardest by financial difficulty when times get tough. When profits dwindle and business decreases, small companies typically find themselves in a position of squeezed budgets and restricted cash flow, with demanding creditors and a payroll they may not be able to afford. Unfortunately, one of a business’s biggest costs is staff and it’s usually the first area where businesses in financial constraints look to scale down. However, retrenchment can be complex and can actually cost a business more in the long run, especially if they intend to grow again.
GUEST: Tebogo Moalusi – The Industrial Relation Director at Workforce Staffing
Julius Sello Malema was born on 3 March 1981, in Seshego, Limpopo, and raised by a single mother who worked as a domestic worker in Seshego Township. He went to Mohlakaneng High School in Limpopo. Malema began his political career at a young age. He joined the Masupatsela (Trailblazers), a movement of the African National Congress (ANC) at the age of nine, where, according to Malema, their main task was to remove National Party posters placed outside police stations. At the age of 14 Malema was elected as both chairperson of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) branch in Seshego and the regional chair in 1995. Two years later in 1997, he became the chair of the Congress of South African Students (COSAS) for the Limpopo province. In 2001, he was elected as the national president of COSAS.
Guest : Joe (Johannes) Ngwenya – Speaker, Trainer, Facilitator and achange \7 transformation Consultant
When analyzing the state of South Africa’s media (the court battles, the apologies, the leaked information and the fake news), do we see an objective and fair media industry or has biasness infiltrated the media houses? Can we proudly and firmly maintain that media houses are not smeared with crocket and fishy alliances/agendas/funders? Is SA media playing dirty?
GUEST : William Bird – Director of Media Monitoring Africa
Guest: Veli Ndaba - Motivational Speaker, Author, Entrepreneur, Life and Business Coach
In 2009 Ntsoaki Phali decided to become the change she wanted to see — and so began Beyond Ability Talent Solutions, a self-sustaining recruitment agency for the physically disabled. As a former human resources co-ordinator, Phali struggled to meet her employment equity target when recruiting employees with disabilities. She knew it wasn’t for want of qualified candidates but rather because of a lack of platforms. Today, the business has 1 800 people on its books and has won numerous awards. It also transports persons with disabilities to client sites and job interviews. “Employment equity is here to stay, but the biggest challenge is to make sure people with disabilities have the skills they need to secure permanent positions,” says Phali, whose medium-term goal is to establish a skills empowerment centre. Although it’s challenging, she describes the business as a labour of love. “Every day I get closer to understanding why I’m here on Earth.”
GUEST: Ntsoaki Phali - Founder of Beyond Ability Talent Solution
Fetching the spirit of a person who died at a crime or accidents scene, at a place that is not home or in prison is one of the traditional African practices that have been in existence for years. In the past couple of years we’ve seen repatriations of a number of people who died out of the country. But what is the significance of this practice and what does it entail? On some national roads, it is believed that carnage is caused by the roaming spirits that were never reconnected with their ancestors? Is the fetching of the spirits and cleansing of crime and accident scenes something that could bring calm to us as a nation?
GUEST: Makhosi Amanda Gcabashe
In the past couple of months we’ve heard calls being made to young people for them to exercise their right to vote. Some have, reluctantly, heeded the call and others don’t see the significance of voting. Are our voter education campaigns doing enough to educate and entice the youth to vote?
GUEST: Tessa Dooms – Youth worker and social analyst
I started the competition because I had always wanted to enter a spelling competition and one night, whilst driving to watch Hidden Figures, I told a friend and she said I should just start one, so I did. I never could have imagined that the simple challenge to do it myself would lead to the birth of a change agent. The Dept of Basic Education refused to endorse us when we started and to date, we still run the competition from our own pockets with the help of volunteers but we have a great and give learners in this country (who may not be athletically inclined) an opportunity to find their competitive spirit and bring their A game. For kids who spend their free time reading dictionaries, we give them an opportunity to win a trophy of their own off the sports field.
We have seen the confidence of learners grow throughout the 2017 and 2018 campaigns and are convinced that the impact we have goes far beyond improving comprehension. With learners from “disadvantaged” schools outperforming those whom we would assume are affluent, the spelling bee is an equal playing field for all learners – regardless of background.
GUEST: Nkateko Mathebula – Founder Master Spelling Bee.
Being a man in the township and some of the stereotypes that lead to toxic masculinity (negative images of being a man). How do we demolish such stereotypes?
GUEST: Kagiso Modupe – Actor and Brothers of Life Ambassador
In the past week, we’ve seen uproar about the University of Pretoria and their decision to phase out Afrikaans as one of their mediums of teaching. How will this contribute towards transformation and inclusivity? Are we not widening the gap and further excluding communities like the San and Coloured people? How can we use the Afrikaans language as a resource? How can it be viewed as a role model of what is possible in the development of language and people? It took commitment, political will and resources to develop Afrikaans to where it is today as an academic language and a language used in other higher domains. Why are other languages not developed as well so that we can level the fields?
GUEST: Khethiwe Marias – Language activists, researcher and communications consultant
I saw a gap and an opportunity in my community and since at home they already had a kota business, I wanted to take it to the next level last year after my father handed the business to me,” said Rhulani Shibambor now owner of Kota Kings in Protea Glen. The 22-year-old has managed to get tongues wagging on social media with what he calls gourmet kotas that he’s been selling to his customers since he took over the family business.
GUEST: Rhulani Shibambo – Owner of Kota Kings
Troy Tesla is Africa's most provocative Comedian & MC. Born in Zimbabwe and bred in South Africa, his comedic style is universal with a dual nationalistic approach. He has appeared on popular platforms around including: Parkers Comedy & Jive, Cape Town; Goliath Comedy Clubs, with several television features on Mzansi Magic, Vuzu Amp; SABC 1.
As an MC he partnered & hosted several comedy multiple in association with Tsogo Sun, Liquid Telecom, International Hotel School among others.
Tesla is best known for his sellout one man show 'Whose Land Is It Anyway' as well as the comedy and jazz series "Jokes & Jazz"
GUEST: Troy Tesla - Comedian & MC
Leeuwenhof Country Lodge & Garden Spa is a small romantic Country Lodge in the Waterberg mountains near Modimolle in Limpopo. A timeless tranquillity emanates from the exuberance of birdsong, mature trees and the presence of red hartebeest and zebra grazing nearby. Each of the bedrooms has air-conditioning, a garden entrance and the comforts of pure cotton linen and a choice of pillows. There are also two giant luxury tents on the river bank and four new luxury suites with sweeping mountain views.
Guest: Shantelle - Marketing Manager at Leeuwenhof Country Lodge & garden spa
Umhlaba Ushushu (The Earth is Getting Hot) is an entertaining theatre show that brings to life some of the problems communities face when ‘foreign’ solutions are applied to their problems.
GUESTS: Veronica Baxter – Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town’s Centre for Theatre, Dance & Performance Studies
Bekezela - An African proverb – where does this term come from and in what context is it used in our daily lives? Is it still as powerful and relevant as it was decades ago? Have our own parents taught us to endure through tough relationships and marriages?
GUEST: Mbuyiselo Botha - Gender activist
Relationship differences caused by the age gap – do couples with a larger age gap have more harmony and respect than those who are of the same age or of a smaller age gap?
GUEST: Martin Manamela (Motivational/Inspirational Speaker, Entrepreneur, Educationalist, and a Life Coach)
A video of a girl in her early 20s went viral on social media where she is being beaten by a church leader. We ask, are churches becoming questionable in what they teach? Is this sort of “discipline” acceptable in our churches? How should we deal with it?
GUEST: Mrs Thoko Mkhwanazi-Xaluva - Chairperson of the CRL Rights Commission
Youth Employment Service to create new 12-month work opportunities for one million South African youths. The YES initiative invites businesses to sponsor jobs for the unemployed and potentially climb two levels on the B-BBEE scorecard.
The YES initiative has been praised by both public and private sectors for its potential to transform the lives of South African youth as well as the whole economy. The premise behind YES is simple: companies can gain B-BBEE benefits by sponsoring one-year paid internship positions for black youth and partnering in the economic transformation of the country. Companies may either absorb the interns themselves or sponsor them to work in other enterprises.
GUEST - Jake Willis- CEO of Lulaway
The problem of illegal abortions in SA seems to be escalating even with all the information and free services that are available. Many of these women, especially young girls, believe they’ll be treated differently by their friends, family and even by healthcare workers if their terminations come to light. Self-induced or illegal abortion procedures are often seen as a way to keep it secret. But how much do they know about abortions and what an abortion entails?
GUEST: Whitney Chinogwenya - Brand and Communications Manager for Marie Stopes
We often find that there aren’t enough government schools that cater for disabled children (and the schools that are there, are not accessible to all children); the private schools are too expensive and this leave parents with no choice but to let their children stay at home. There are many parents who have even had to quit their jobs so that they can take care of their children. Is there enough will to educate children with disabilities?
GUEST: Sinethemba Mbatha – Co-founder of Sinithemba Care
Why are Africa’s elections filled with ‘drama’ (for lack of a better word)? What fuels this growing trend of leaders not wanting to accept election results? Does this say something about electoral systems in Africa and a need for reform or is this a indication of leaders not wanting to let go of power? What is the role of the international community when a country finds itself in a situation like that of the DRC?
GUEST : Stephanie Wolters - Senior Research Fellow, ISS Pretoria
Moral degeneration is SA is a major problem which negatively affects many societies. We should transform our society by addressing social problems and ending moral degeneration. How do we facilitate moral regeneration in SA?
Guest : Seth Mazibuko –Social Development Activist (ASD) ,Programme Facilitator: Youth Moral and Ethical Leadership Programme and Coordinator of Making Our Communities Safer for Children
The MACAH Foundation was established and officially launched in April 2018 with three founder directors (Prof André Venter, Prof Gert van Zyl and Dr Riana van Zyl). The foundation is registered as a Non-Profit Company (NPC) and functions as an independent body to generate third stream income and cultivate prospects and investors, as well as a facilitator to promote the proposed FS MACAH (Free State Mother & Child Academic Hospital), Make the first 1000 days count initiative and the Children’s Wing project. The foundation won a grant from The Carl & Emily Fuchs Foundation as part of their 50th Golden Years Celebration. This grant has been used to enable the establishment of the NPC, and to develop a strong brand and a marketing strategy.
Guest: Professor André Venter – Head of Department of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of the Free State
Under the theme Addressing challenges relating to the decay of Morals and Values as seen in escalating Violence and Abuse gripping our communities, the men Engage Summit seeks to continue raising awareness on issues affecting communities and families and the broader impact these have in all of South Africa. It also aims to forge a collective understanding and work towards a buy in of all men in answering pertinent in addressing these challenges.
GUEST: Daddy Teboho Mafodi – Member of Dads In The Picture
Corruption in South Africa – Is the problem deeper than what meets the eye? Could this be an indication of our lack of firmness when dealing with corruption? Will we ever see an end to corruption?
Guest: David Lewis - Executive Director at Corruption Watch
Mogodu Mondays – why is there a growing trend of serving tripe on Mondays? When did Monday nights become ‘play nights’?
Guest (phone): Sbu Hlongwane – CEO Siyabangena Group / Dudu and Thenjiwe - Chefs
Hilarious, exciting and extra large on humor Abuti Lolo is an MC, Comedian and Ubumnandi Distributor.
The perfect man to come to any function and ensure that it is fun. He was given the title Ubumnandi Distributor from one of his clients and has since never given up on that title because of constant reaffirmations. He believes that life is very tricky, it has its ups and downs but when an opportunity to have fun presents itself one should always grab it with both hands because one will never know whose life is about to change forever. He has experience in many different types of events such as weddings, music festivals, birthday celebrations, award evenings and many more.
GUEST: Abuti Lolo –MC and Comedian
Tshuku Tours is an inbound tour operator located in The Cradle of Humankind, Gauteng with operations throughout South Africa. We specialize in Heritage & Cultural tours, Township Experiences, Adventure and Leisure tours, Incentive Tours and Safari tours. We also provide Point to Point Shuttles and Transfers & Chauffeur Services throughout South Africa. We are SATSA (Southern Africa Tourism Services Associations) members and TCTC (The Cradle Tourism Company) members
Guest: Mpho Mache – Director at Tshuku's Transport and Tours
The Fresha Festival of free fun family al-fresco theatre will be staged for the third time on Durban’s North Beach at the end of the school holidays for three days on 18, 19, 20 January.
The Fresha team has selected a programme of vibrant, engaging works that are non-verbal and last just 15-20 minutes. All the shows are in the daylight, in the open-air and free to all. The format of the day for Saturday and Sunday is similar with shows which are accessible to people of all ages, family-friendly and from all walks of life. Festival Director Emma Durden considered: “What could be more quintessentially Durban than a summer festival of free family theatre?
Guest: Emma Durden – Director of the Fresha Festival
THE RENAMING OF STREETS, CITIES AND INSTITUTIONS IN POST-APARTHEID SA: where did it all begin; what is the significance thereof; how does government choose a place that needs to be renames and who to name it after; and some of the implications that come with renaming (e.g. are there consultation meetings with the community; costs that need to be considered)
Guest : Advocate Sipho Mantula - Researcher for the Institute for Dispute Resolution in Africa
Why are we seeing an increase in the number of pastor/preachers who get divorced? Does this not nullify the messages that they give and the role that they play in the marriage counseling and conducting wedding ceremonies? Should a divorced pastor retain his position and serve the church?
GUEST : Solomon Izang Ashoms – Christian Activist and Journalist
The recent mob attack in Hillbrow left many people shocked as residents watched a man (who was being accused of stabbing someone) being burn to death. Is this the community’s way of voicing frustrations with the SAPS and the way the respond to crime? And is it the right way to voice these frustrations? Is mob justice the only avenue that communities can take when playing their part in the fight against crime?
Guest : Dereleen James - Community Safety Leader and Anti-Drug Activist from Eldorado Park guest: Captain Kay Makhubela – Gauteng SAPS Spokesperson
There seems to be an increasing presence of females in the wine industry. And with South African wines being ranked among some of the best in the world, it would be quite interesting to know how women are doing in this business and what changes they have brought along with them We’ll also sample some of the Cheese and Wine offerings from Odd Wine Out
Guest: Sharon Cao - Owner of Odd Wine Out - @oddwineout
Carol Bouwer is a South African television presenter, producer and production company owner best known for hosting - and later producing - the SABC talk show Motswako: The Mix. Born in Soweto, Carol always wanted to be on television. Her screen career started with a presenting job on a commercial channel but her first big break came with the opportunity to present the youth dating show, Buzz. Her next step was to co-present Motswako, but after a year she realised that her passion lay in producing - not only in presenting. She took over the production of Motswako, which continues to air today. Her production company - Carol Bouwer Productions - produced numerous successful television series and documentaries, including Nowhere Land and Hooked. She is involved in several business projects and divides her time between her family, her business interests and her television productions. As a TV anchor and presenter, Carol interviewed numerous statesmen, celebrities, business people and others.
The break-in at the less-than-one-week old Menzi Primary School in Tsakane
Guest: Bishop Joshua Maponga
Are we battling with race relations as a nation but too angry to admit that we’re battling? Are we so angry with each other to a point where we’re endangering our children (physically and psychologically)? Or would it be foolish of us to think that race issues will not affect the coming generations?
Guest (phone): Khwezi Mabasa - Part-time political science lecturer at the University of Pretoria and Researcher in the Faculty of Political Economy at MISTRA (Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection)
Many disabled people dread travelling on public transport because of the lack of facilities, especially for wheelchairs. Though the many municipalities have introduced bus services that cater for wheelchair users, the situation hasn’t improved. Some of these buses are not serviced regularly and wheelchair users are still faced with trauma of having to rely of few commuters to help and carry they them into the bus. We also find people who are impatient and unfair – those who refuse to give up the priority seats or those who threatened to get off the taxi, should a drive stop for a disabled person.
Guest: Llyod Babedi – DJ Bucks – Disability Activist
Zimbabwe is on fire as citizens are furious about the decaying economy. This past weekend, the fuel price had increased to approximately R50 a litre – this comes months after the country has been facing fuel shortages. Zimbabweans are angry and some are even calling for President Munangagwa’s resignation.
GUEST: Prof Simphiwe Sesanti – Associate professor at Unisa's Institute for African Renaissance Studies
Guest: Veli Ndaba - Motivational Speaker, Author, Entrepreneur, Life and Business Coach
How can private institutions of higher education bridge the gap and help ease the burden that is placed on universities? What is the role of these private institutions in building and grooming new leadership for the country?
Guest: Vivian William – Founding director at Regenesys Business School @RegenesysB
ICT is a non-profit chef’s school in Cape Town, South Africa. Our 24-week course teaches the basic cooking skills, life skills and offers the professional tools necessary for graduates to obtain immediate employment in the hospitality industry. ICT helps bridge the gap between poverty and jobs by providing graduates with not only the skills, but the confidence and determination to embark on a productive and sustainable future.
GUEST: Melinda Wiggins- Director of Operations and Culinary Arts at ICT
The relationship that men have with their testicles – why are the life Threatening conditions that a man can have if he does not do regular check-ups? He also stared a foundation with the same name and he educates and raised awareness about testicular cancer and the importance of early detection.
GUEST: Torsten Koehler – Testicular cancer survivor and author of a book called Love Your Nuts
There was a trending issue regarding Nomzamo Mbatha taking a picture with Arthur Mafukate. Arthur took pictures with so many people including many in the ANC leadership but the SA feminists chose to call Nomzamo Mbatha out. Arthur was invited to an ANC event - who is to blame? How can feminists guard themselves from being used for silly agendas - how can or how should they protect themselves from such.
GUEST: Nana Ngobese - Feminist and Gender Activist
Masood Boomgaard is regarded as one of the industry’s brightest stand up comedy talents. He made a name for himself on the Durban club comedy scene and has shared the stage with some of the biggest names in SA comedy including Marc Lottering, Mark Banks, Muthu Murugan and Chris Forrest.
In addition Masood Boomgaard has performed regularly in theatres and prestigious venues across the country and is the founder of the Charous and Brui.
Guest: Masood Boomgaard – Comedian
Thousands of ANC members and supporters will listen to the president in the Moses Mabhida stadium on Saturday for the launch of the manifesto. Here is a guide on how to survive this weekend in Durban.
Guest: Bonisile Shongwe – Pan African, mining community activist, community development specialist
Thandi Klaasen, the daughter of a shoemaker and a domestic worker, grew up in the historical Sophiatown. She earned respect as a singer and dancer in various churches around Sophiatown. Her musical career started in the mid-1950s when she used to perform for ten shillings. She then started performing with groups such as the Gaieties and the Harlem Swingsters, but her career took off when she performed with Dolly Rathebe, Miriam Makeba, Dorothy Masuku and Sophie Mgcina.
GUESTS (JHB studio): Lorraine Klaasen AND Prince Lengoasa
Some analysts believe that election manifestos have very little impact on voters while other are of the view that, these manifestos help voters to hold political parties accountable for lack of service delivery. But how well do voters understand the role of an election manifesto? How many people familiarize themselves with a party’s manifesto before they vote for that party?
GUEST: Prof Mcebisi Ndletyana- Associate Professor of the Dept of Politics and International Relations at University of Johannesburg
What does a parent’s investment to a child’s education entail? Is it just paying fees, extra-mural activities and the combi or is there more to it? How involved are parents in children’s studies and homework or do they feel that children get too much homework? Do little things like mannerism and cleanliness not form a part of preparing your child to be a good student?
Guest: Gerald Williamson - Clinical psychologists and educationist active in education research – founder of Shaping the Learner
With the constant weather change, your body may respond in the form of an allergic reaction. Whether it’s a food allergy or pollen in the environment that causes hay fever, allergies are enough to drive anyone insane. How can one cope with nasal allergies? Are there any natural remedies for allergy?
A new device will be which based on clinical trials, provides symptom control of 88 %2. The device comes in the form of a nasal spray that contains natural cellulose powder of vegetable origin, called hydroxypropyl methylcellulose (HPMC), which literally ‘shields’ the nasal membrane from airborne allergens. Pharma Dynamics, an existing leader in allergy medication, dedicated itself to obtaining a license for this device which will be marketed as Nexa AllerShield™ in SA
John Langalibalele Dube was a South African essayist, philosopher, educator, politician, publisher, editor, novelist and poet. He was the founding president of the South African Native National Congress (SANNC), which became the African National Congress in 1923. Dube served as SANNC president between 1912 and 1917. Dube was brought to America by returning missionaries and attended Oberlin College. He returned to South Africa where he and his first wife, Nokutela Dube, founded a newspaper, what is now Ilanga lase Natal Newspaper.
GUEST : CDE Sihle Zikalala – Provincial Chairperson for ANC KwaZulu-Natal and MEC for Economic Development in the province .
Guest: Minister Nathi Mthethwa
A six-hour documentary series airing this weekend has brought American R&B star R. Kelly back into the spotlight, revisiting accusations of criminal misconduct including having sex with several minors. The documentary sheds new light on charges against the artist. Are the accusations made by these women seen as false?
Guest: Advocate Brenda Madumise - Hashtag The Total Shutdown
It’s that time again, where general elections will be held in South Africa in 2019 to elect a new National Assembly and new provincial legislatures in each province. This will be the sixth election held since the end of the apartheid system in 1994.What have we seen in the culture of elections in the past years?
GUEST : Brigalia Bam – Member of the South African electoral commission, which was our first commission from 1997, and became the chair of the commission for 12 years and has been involved in the pre-election monitoring for the African Union for several years.
THE POWER OF CLARITY – DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOU ARE STUCK?
Guest: Veli Ndaba - Motivational Speaker, Author, Entrepreneur, Life and Business Coach
Religion and culture emerge from social, political and economic contexts.They exist in specific historical time and they are also constantly changing. One of the most important features of both religion and culture are that they are both linked to power and are described and defined by people in power. Reverend Vukile Mehana was removed as the ANC Chaplain-General after derogatory remarks he allegedly made relating to women church ministers. How do we address patriarchy within culture and religious structures?
Guest: Thoko Mpumlwana- serving on the board of SAWD
Guest: Mr Javu Baloyi - Spokesperson for The Commission for Gender Equality
TEACH South Africa has been developing educators and tools to improve maths, science and English education in South Africa. The organization recruits university graduates in these subjects, and places them in rural and disadvantaged schools for two years, where they train to become educators. Since the year 2009, TEACH South Africa has placed graduates in 186 schools across the country.
GUESTS: Jethro Leshaba – TEACH SA Ambassador based in the Eastern Cape (He started Teaching in Science in 2017 under TEACH SA ) and taught Avukile
(GUEST) Avukile Nkayi – he’s from Nyanga High School in Engcobo in the Eastern Cape.
At this time of the year many children are without stationery because fathers have once again dodged their child support and mothers are clueless on what to do next. Why must a man be taken to court in order for him to support his child? Why are women still struggling to get child support from the fathers of their children?
GUEST : Palesa Mpapa – Legal Manager at POWA (people Opposing Women Abuse
The importance of finding the right nanny for your household – as the year starts and people go back to work, are we being helped by the right Helper? Is your nanny right for you? And when you are relocating, where is the right place to start looking? Should your nanny inform you that they are not coming back this year, after being with you for years, is there reason to panic?
GUEST : Mamanese Mathule - Founder of Makoti & Mamazala Retreats which birthed Family Camps.
GUEST: Phumeza Langa –Wife,Mom and Freelance Writer ,host of Twitter chat #SistaHoodHour
The Atlantic Express Train Restaurant is steeped in History. It is synonymous with Sea Point. Everybody knows it as a landmark in Sea Point. The Atlantic Express Train Restaurant is a carefully restored railway carriage based on the theme of a dining coach, it is a prominent landmark and highly successful restaurant on Sea Point`s busy Regent Road. The Atlantic Express Train Restaurant has become a landmark in Cape Town, serving breakfast, light lunches and some substantial main meals. We regularly supply and deliver halaal lunches and meals to the following hotels in and around the Sea Point area:-
GUEST : Showket Sonday – Owner AND Vusi Ngwenya – Chef
Lottering has been the recipient of several prestigious awards along the way. His self-scripted one-man shows, which often feature his unique and popular characters, continue to play to packed houses.
GUEST (Sea Point Studio): MARC LOTTERING hails from Cape Town, and is one of South Africa’s top comedians. He has been in the funny business for 16 years and continues to keep audiences in stitches across the country. When Marc is not performing locally, he also entertains home-sick South Africans abroad.
Art Jamming is for all ages. It’s a place where you can choose a canvas, grab some paints and get to creating. You can expect lessons on how to create your unique art and much more. Materials will be provided. There’s plenty of inspiration provided and you get to take your unique artwork home. Bring the whole family to experience this unique event.
Guest: Cindy Mullah – Owner of Artjamming at Melrose Arch; Bedford Centre and Cresta
The original Woods Paintball Range was established in 2008 and operated until 2014. Due to the significant construction and development of the Riversands Incubation Hub it was closed temporarily. It has now been re-opened and is still located on Riversands Farm, now known as Riversands Commercial Park. The Range is situated just 10 minutes North of Fourways Shopping Mall in Johannesburg, South Africa. We have four different fields and a shooting range. The range is set in a pine forest, which allows for idyllic playing conditions and is wonderful for spectators too.
Guest: Alex Rhind – Owner of Woods Paintball
How do we interpret luck and all that comes with it? Are we so obsessed with superstitious beliefs and ridding ourselves of bad luck, then we even miss out on moments of luck? Does luck fall on anyone or does one have to behave in a certain way to attract it?
GUEST: Sister Prativa Daya – Brahma Kumaris teacher of meditation
How do we interpret luck and all that comes with it? Are we so obsessed with superstitious beliefs and ridding ourselves of bad luck, then we even miss out on moments of luck? Does luck fall on anyone or does one have to behave in a certain way to attract it?
GUEST: Sister Prativa Daya – Brahma Kumaris teacher of meditation
Discovering infidelity in a relationship is shocking and very painful, especially after years of marriage or a long-term relationship. Building trust after that is never easy. How can you restore trust after infidelity in a relationship?
GUEST: Vanessa Mogorosi - Consciousness Coach and Lightarian Reiki Master
Founded on 8 January 1912 by John Langalibalele Dube in Bloemfontein as the South African Native National Congress (SANNC), its primary mission was to give voting rights to black and mixed-race Africans and, from the 1940s, to end apartheid. The ANC originally attempted to use nonviolent protests to end apartheid, however, the Sharpeville massacre resulted in the deaths of 69 black Africans and contributed to deteriorating relations with the South African government. On the 8th of April 1960, the administration of Charles Robberts Swart, banned the ANC and forced the party to leave South Africa. After the ban, the ANC formed the Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation) to fight against apartheid utilizing guerrilla warfare and sabotage.
Guest: Prof Jabulani Maphalala – Historian, former deputy vice dean at University of Zululand, former MP at the KZN Legislature, Author and Constant
Thousands of matriculants will know their fate tomorrow and this time of the year is usually accompanied by scores of suicide because children do not know how to cope with not making it. How do parents support their children at this time of the year? Some might not get bursaries, others might not have done well enough to get university entrance and others might have to write supplementary exams.
GUEST: Prof Ramodungoane Tabane (Educational Psychologist AND professor at Unisa)
DJ Tira (real name Mthokozisi Khathi) is a South African DJ, entrepreneur and producer/kwaito artist known for launching the careers of artists including DJ Fisherman, DJ C'ndo and Big Nuz through his music label Afrotainment.
Originally from Hlabisa, he moved to Durban in 1995 to study Human Resources at the University of Natal. While studying he developed an interest in DJ'ing, bought his first vinyl in 1996 and soon played at varsity parties, weddings, private parties and popular nightclubs.
GUEST : Mthokozisi Khathi - DJ Tira
Guest: PULAPULA Mothibi (former station manager at Lesedi fm - he recruited Mish Mapetla)
Now is the time to start making your financial plans for 2019. You’ve been through the festive season, you’ve envied those who went on holiday (because they had budgeted), you’ve been through the 2018 storm… how are you going to ensure that you 2019 festive is fun and you won’t feel guilty about spending?
guest: Ilze Alberts - psychologist and human behaviour specialist. She's also resident psychologist for SABC 3 show - Saving Our Marriage
Mzoli's in Gugulethu came from humble beginnings, when owner Mzoli Ngcawuzele started selling meat from a garage in 2003. Since then it’s become a popular hangout in Cape Town endorsed by famous faces such as DJ Fresh and TV chef Jamie Oliver. Here’s one writer’s experience of hanging out at Mzoli’s on a Sunday – one of the restaurant’s busiest days.
Guest: Sisanda Mangele Ngcawuzele from Mzolis Place
For anyone who is a fan of body art but too wary to take the leap of permanent ink, there is an alternative that’s been around for centuries—henna. There are many different henna designs that stem from rich traditions in India, Africa, and the Middle East. And today, you can create your very own henna tattoo using readily available henna tattoo kits. We find out more about the origins of Henna and the different meanings behind the paintings… we’ll also talk about how more and more people are using henna as opposed to getting permanent tattoos
GUEST : Nella Rappetti – Founder of The Henna Studio by Nella
Even though the road death toll data shows a decrease, one life lost on South Africa’s roads is one too many. It is with this background that the Transport Education Training Authority (TETA) will also adding its voice and joining other stakeholders in the transport sector to reinforce awareness about the importance of road safety over the festive season. TETA’s road safety campaign was launched at the Pretoria Bosman Taxi Station as well as Johannesburg Park Station together with taxi operators and taxi drivers who will be transporting thousands of South Africans across the country. The campaign will also rollout with public activations at toll-gates and major ultra-city petrol stations where TETA will be able to engage directly with motorists and passengers about the importance of adhering to road safely.
GUESTS: Sabelo Mbuku – Head of Communications at TETA The Transport Education Training Authority
With the festive season around the corner, occasions such as Christmas and New Year’s Eve are often celebrated with firecrackers. It is no secret that fireworks can upset animals. How do we ensure animals are safe this evening?
GUEST : Allan Perrins - Spokesperson for the Animal Welfare Society of SA
A newcomer from Paarl, Lindy has rocketed to success, winning the Savanna ‘Show us Your Apples’ Open Mic 2017 showdown, representing as the only female to make the finals – and then of course, beating out stiff competition and more experienced comedians to win the title. After a comparatively short amount of time, Lindy has already started making her mark and carving out a niche in SA comedy, performing on esteemed stages such as Cape Town Comedy Club, Rocking the Daisies 2016 and most recently, the Jive Cape Town Funny Festival 2017. Her brand of comedy has been described as a fresh take on life as a young woman in today’s world, it’s relatable storytelling with a highly enjoyable twist. You’re sure to see much more of Lindy in the years to come.
GUEST: Lindy Johnson – Comedian
It's the festive season, a time when holidaymakers are flocking to beaches for some relaxation. While this may be an opportunity to relax and have fun at the beach, remember that accidents can happen at any time. How can we keep safe on our beaches with the most hectic December/January week?
Guest: Craig Lambinon- Sea Rescue's Spokesperson
Soweto Theatre, in partnership with Jozi FM, beings you Soweto in Colours Countdown to 2019, with 2 Stages, 20 DJs, fireworks display and Jozi FM Live Broadcast. Limited cooler boxes allowed at R100 per cooler box. No sales at the door
GUEST: Nomsa Mazwai - General Manager, Soweto Theatre
At this time of the year people disperse and we find ourselves in different parts of the country. Many people find themselves in places where they are not familiar with the community and they become the ‘new kid on the block’. This sometimes leads to new romance / flings / love being explored – the December Fling! How prevalent are December fling? Can they get dangerous? And how long, on average, do they last?
GUEST : Sipho Mbele - Author of Take it from me
For many of us who are on holiday, it’s essential to protect and take care of our skin. With sun exposure, sand on the beach, dust and many other factors that could damage the skin. How can you protect your skin this festive season?
GUEST: Dr Nandipha Sekeleni– Medical Doctor and Founder of Optimum Medical Solutions
With the festive season being so busy and with so many lives lost of SA roads. We get an update on how our roads are looking.
GUEST: Ms Makoma Makhurupetje – MEC for Transport and Community safety in Limpopo GUEST: Kwanele Ncalane – Spokesperson for KWAZULU-NATAL Transport, Community Safety and Liaison
Sazi Fakude is building a home for a destitute child headed family in Mpophomeni, KZN. After seeing a story about a girl who was taking care of five younger siblings, he decided to step up by inviting his fellow ‘elite’ friends to a Ten-Thousand-Rands donation challenge but only one person took up the challenge. The family has since been relocated to Pietermaritzburg until the house is complete. After beogn sent from pillar to post by the municipality when trying to get land to build on, Sazi is proud to say that building commences today.
GUEST : Sazi Fakude – An entrepreneur who is passionate about lifting others
When one goes to the rural areas (emakhaya), how much wisdom do we take in from the elders and the uncles? Do we recognize the values and knowledge that we could get from the many role models that we’ll be meeting in the homesteads?
GUEST : Reverend Bafana Khumalo - Director of Strategic Partnerships at Sonke GUEST : Kabelo Chabalala – Founder of the Young men Movement
The summer holidays are in full swing and with children at home from school and all the Silly Season craziness it is very easy to lose yourself. We find out more about the flow experience and its values.
Guest : Timea Kulcsar - Life coach and founder and facilitator of the Flow Experience
GUEST : Raymond Perrier – Director of the Denis Hurley Centre in Durban (he’s a PhD Theology student and a columnist for the national catholic newspaper – The Southern Cross
Nestled in the heart of Maboneng, CHE Argentine Grill is home to the best in authentic Argentinian cuisine and embodies the story of two friends from the “Rio de la Plata”. The story starts a few years back where the duo brought together by their love and passion for authentic Argentinian cuisine and the happy-go-lucky spirit that comes with enjoying a hearty meal.
GUEST: Oscar Faraldo and Bernardo Corti – Owners of CHE Argentine
Upcoming comic Nonto Rubushe prides herself in upgrading her father from being a taxi driver to the "famous girl's dad". Even though her dad Mondlana has been a taxi driver for years, Nonto R (her stage name) says her new-found fame has brought a sense of pride to her family name. "My father is from Mozambique and his surname is Mondlana. When they first came here (South Africa), they changed their surnames so that they didn't get harassed. My late grandfather changed their original surname and they became Mwandla. "He changed his surname back to Mondlana recently. I think it is a proud moment because his surname is not known, he was always known as 'the taxi driver .' He only has two girls and here I am, even though I am married I am flying our family flag high as a Mondlana," she says. Nonto R's father is now a full- time driver at a government department in KwaZulu-Natal. The 32-year-old mother of three from Durban is nominated in the best newcomer category at the upcoming Savanna Comic Choice Awards to be held in Johannesburg next month. "I'm used to being honoured only in KZN. This feels like every comedian in the country is saying I am funny. If I happen to get the award it would just be a cherry on top." Nonto R says her journey to comedy greatness was filled with detours as she worked in various fields including beauty, radio, the banking sector and SA Breweries.
GUEST (Durban studio): Nonto R – Comedian
Come and experience this stylish 5 star guest house in Nelspruit. Built on a granite dome you can enjoy breathtaking views from the main lodge over the indigenous forest and a murmuring mountain stream that runs through the lush garden. The lodge is located in a quiet suburb and borders the nature reserve on both sides of the tar road.
Guest : Lucia Ndlazi – Manager at Leaves Lodge and Spa
Recently Seventeen young boys lost their lives in the Eastern Cape while two others died in the North West and the Western Cape since the summer initiation season began in November. What measures should be put in place to ensure that traditional circumcisions in SA are safer?
GUESTS: Kgoshi Mathupa Mokoena - President at CONTRALESA
GUEST: Obed Bapela – Deputy Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Recently Seventeen young boys lost their lives in the Eastern Cape while two others died in the North West and the Western Cape since the summer initiation season began in November. What measures should be put in place to ensure that traditional circumcisions in SA are safer?
GUEST : Obed Bapela – Deputy Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
The cruelty that wives are subjected to when they visit their in-laws over the festive season? Why do some wives dread going home during the festive season – why do in-laws feel the need to subject their brides to harsh conditions (i.e. spring clean, cooking, laundry, baby-sitting)
Guest: Mmagauta Zwane – Life teacher and Marriage counselor and founder of the Marriage School
Guest: Mamanese Mathule Managing Director TM Events & Management AND Founder of Makoti & Mamazala Retreats
INVESTING OUR TIME RESOURCES, ENERGY AND TALENTS ON WHAT MATTERS
Guest: Yvonne Kgame – Author, teacher, inspirational speaker
Child marriages have been a major issue in Africa and the causes are common. Parents may marry off their daughter due to poverty or out of fear for their safety as well as cultural norms. Child marriage violates the rights of children and it affects both boys and girls, but it is more common among girls. What more need to be done in order to end child marriages across Africa?
GUEST: Nana Ngobese - Gender Activist
GUEST : Thulani Thabethe - Marketing and Sales Genius and Founder of 2Larnie Solutions, a sales and marketing company that is young, dynamic and black empowered business
Vatiswa Ndara is a South African radio personality and actress who is best known for both her radio news reading as well performances in various TV shows, especially Home Affairs. She's read the news for radio stations such as Radio Transkei, Radio Bob, Kaya fm, Metro FM, 5FM and Highveld Stereo. When Vatiswa was offered the role of Ma'mfundisi in Generations, she was presented a platform where she could explore her passion for acting. Other television shows she has appeared in include Gaz'lam, Nomzamo, Home Affairs, Tsha Tsha and the critically-acclaimed mini-series Society, in 2007. In 2006 she won the inaugural SAFTA award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Miriam in Home Affairs. She's played the role of ruthless soccer club boss Neo Moloto in the e.tv drama series Shooting Stars. In October 2008, The International Academy of Arts And Sciences announced Vatiswa as a juror of the 2008 International Emmy Awards. She judged in the category Best Performance By An Actress. In 2011 she joined the cast of the SABC2 parliamentary drama series 90 Plein Street as a regular cast member, playing the role of Bukiwe. In 2014 she had a starring role in the SABC1 drama series Mfolozi Street and the SABC1 political thriller Ihawu le Sizwe.
Guest : Billy Selekane - Author, Inspirational Keynote Speaker, Facilitator and Executive Chairman of The Billy Selekane Group
GUEST : Mawethu Nkosana - Human Rights Activist (he has received and is giving black tax
Adjusting to life with a disability can be a difficult transition. We all tend to take our health for granted—until it’s gone. Keeping healthy, fit and active is important for ones well-being. How can one to stay fit and active when living with a disability?
GUEST : Kgothatso Montjane – SA Wheelchair Champion. In 2018, she became the first black South African woman to compete at Wimbledon
While many of us gear up for Christmas celebrations, a significant number of Africans (even in the diaspora) will celebrate KWANZAA. Kwanzaa is built on harvest celebrations that are indigenous to Africa and over the years, it has become an important season to unite African communities and families. We find out more about the Kwanzaa celebrations this year and why it (Kwanzaa) forms an integral part of the broader struggle for African liberation (education, economy, culture/spirituality and land).
Guest : Baba Buntu – Pan Africanist AND Executive Director of eBukhosini Solutions
Guest : Veli Ndaba - Motivational Speaker, Author, Entrepreneur, Life and Business Coach
The festive season road accident death toll is mounting across the country. In the latest incident, three people died instantly in an accident in the Eastern Cape on Monday morning, with more than a dozen injured. What are the contributing factors to road carnages and how do we deal with them?
GUEST: Layton Beard - Automobile Association spokesperson
TLC Children's Home has announcement that they will be closing down. This is a home that we have spent quite a bit of time at and the children have simply stolen our hearts. The thought of the children losing their home is utterly heart breaking and simply couldn’t stand by and not do more. Mission to provide a refuge for any baby or child in need of care whether they have been abandoned, neglected, orphaned or abused – TLC has announced they will be closing in 6 months due to financial and structural challenges within the organisation. To consider remaining open the child and youth care centre need to receive the mandatory TLC operational requirements to pay off the R1-million debt and secure committed, reliable monthly funding of R350 000.
GUEST: Pippa Jarvis - Managing Director of TLC Children's Home
Cool Dad Foundation is a non-profit organization that was established in 2012 by Bongani Luvalo and a network of friends in Kwa-Thema, located in the East Rand after the realisation that many fathers play very little active role in the development and upbringing of their children. This foundation was formed to respond directly and indirectly to this discourse. This Foundation seeks to address issues of fatherhood in society at large, with an aim to engage with fathers in this all important role and remind them of their fundamental responsibility towards their kids. We normally hear men saying they will be ‘’babysitting’’ this weekend. Can a parent baby sit their own child? How do we encourage men to be more involved in raising their children?
GUEST : Bongani Luvalo - Founder of Cool Dads Foundation
Ángela Ponce Camacho is a Spanish model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Spain 2018. Ponce made history on June 29, 2018, as the first transgender woman to ever be crowned Miss Spain. She represented her country at Miss Universe 2018, as the first transgender contestant competing for the title she did not make it to the final round of 20 at the 2018 Miss Universe pageant in Bangkok, Thailand. We ask,What is your view of trans individual being included in mainstream beauty pageants?
guest: Ricki Kgositau – International Trans Activist from Botswana.
Vero’s Cakes is a fully black owned independent bakery with experience in baking of assorted cakes, muffins, cookies and biscuits. Vero’s Cakes started its first commercial operation in a small makeshift garage in 2004 with little capital and few staff made up of mainly family members. Today, Vero’s Cakes has grown into a flourishing bakery business with an increasingly growing clientele. From the very words of the Veronica Shezi, the CEO and owner of the company “Vero’s Cakes was conceived out of my passion to bake cakes that would appeal to a constantly growing market”. With a large number of small businesses failing within the very first year of their operations in South Africa; Vero’s cake has stood the test of time.
GUEST : Veronica Shezi - CEO and the Owner of Vero’s Cakes
A secret gem located in the rural village of Ha-Ramantsha, South West of the Louis Trichardt CBD. Kone Village Boutique Lodge is a 4-Star graded Lodge, perfect for those who would like to kick back from their busy schedule and entertain their thoughts and inner peace. We offer luxury accommodation, each room (standard - presidential) unique with a theme. Breakfast, lunch and dinner is served, we have a bar on site. We host weddings (garden and hall), business conferences (small groups - groups of 300). Leisure/ corporate events, Evening Galas.
Guests : Kone Sebata and Bonolo Sebata – Founders and Owners of Kone Village
Hebron Primary School in North West will on the 14th of December be officially renamed Ontlametse Phalatse Primary School. Phalatse was the fist black girl to be diagnosed with Progeria – a rare genetic condition. There is no doubt that the best education is what Ontlametse would have loved to give for her community as christmas gift. Previously described as a “pint-sized dynamite”, she was visited by former state President Jacob Zuma after expressing her wish to meet the statesman. The eloquent; focused and social conscious young woman lived life to the fullest. The confident young lady also regarded education as the best tool to eradicate poverty and to improve the quality of life of her family as well as fellow community members in Hebron.
GUEST: Keabetswe Mokwena- Documentary producer & Tshimologo Phalatse (Ontlametse's Brother)
For Afrikaners, 16 December was commemorated as the Day of the Vow, also known as Day of the Covenant or Dingaan's dag (Dingaan's Day). The Day of the Vow was a religious holiday commemorating the Voortrekker victory over the Zulus at the Battle of Blood River in 1838, and is still celebrated by some Afrikaners.Digaan’s day was a word to describe what actually happened on the 16 December. What happened on the 16 December?
GUEST: Professor Jabulani Maphalala - Former Vice Dean in the faculty of arts at the University of Zululand, now retired, and the first African to earn a doctorate in history from a south African university (UNISA) /
Stealthing is a form of sexual assault where a person who was initially wearing a condom to have sexual penetration with another person, removes the condom during sex and does so without further consent. Stealthing is a violation, it is non-consensual and should be treated with contempt.
GUEST: Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng – Medical Doctor , Lead and Founder of Nalane for reproductive Justice
GUEST: Bronwyn Pithey – Lawyer at the Women’s legal Centre
58 year-old scholar patrol guard, Johannes Molefe, who was accused of raping and sexual assaulting learners at the A.B Xuma Primary school in Soweto was yesterday found not guilty by the Johannesburg High. He worked at the school as a patrol guard, was arrested in October last year after several learners told teachers that had he raped and sexually assaulted them. We always encourage people to speak out and up when they are in abuse environments. Does this make it difficult for women, especially young girls? Has the just system failed these learners?
Guest: Guest: Lebo Ramafoko – CEO of Soul City Institute
The Youth Innovation Challenge with a core focus on maritime, began in May this year with 120 keen participants. The various stages of the maritime programme whittled down the participants from the initial 120 to the tenacious resilient final 26 participants. Project manager, Nkululeko Mthembu, said: “In 2018 they are focusing on the extensive maritime industry. The objective of Maritime Youth Innovation Challenge is to give the youth of Durban and surrounding areas an opportunity and platform to come up with practical innovative solutions to existing problems that will be implemented to eradicate issues that hinder efficiency of the Port of Durban.
Mr. Kganyago served the SABC as Spokesperson for 13 years. Throughout his tenure, he became the face and voice of the SABC and served the organization and South African public diligently and with integrity.
The SABC would like to thank Mr. Kganyago for his contribution in communicating and creating awareness of SABC messages, and we wish him well in his future endeavors.
GUEST : Kaizer Kganyago – Former SABC Spokesperson
NPO Day - Do South African NPOs have lots to celebrate and be happy about (when donors are cutting funding and government requirement are still so stringent on NPOs)? Are we (both society and government) undermining the role played by NGOs in alleviating poverty, upholding the dignity of our citizens and building communities? And why is it so difficult to register an NGO – when all that one wants is to do good?
Guest: Mapaseka Steve Letsike
Masingita Masunga announces her plans for an extraordinary Pan African expeditionat the Isaac Morrison School of Music String Quartet
GUEST : Masingita Masunga
We zoom in on Drug Trafficking on the African continent and how Africa is strategically positioned to fulfil the role of ‘Corridor’ for many international drug cartels. The prevalence of drug trafficking is not only about narcotics but it fuels violence, money laundering and illicit flow of funds, corruption within law enforcement agencies and terrorism.
GUEST : Carina Bruwer – a PhD candidate at the University of Cape Town's Centre of Criminology
Guest : Veli Ndaba - Motivational Speaker, Author, Entrepreneur, Life and Business Coach
How can we bare all wounds and begin a genuine process of healing? What does a nation need to heal – what methodology should be used?
Guests : Mike Boon
The Denis Hurley Centre and the eThekwini Taskforce is holding a public workshop on homelessness. Here, ideas about how to tackle homelessness and solutions to ending homelessness will be discussed.
GUEST : Raymond Perrier – Director of the Denis Hurley Centre and Chair of the eThekwini Taskforce on Homelessness
A recent Stats SA report revealed that at least one in five South African women have experienced some form of gender-based violence. Sadly, the report states that most perpetrators of these crimes get away unpunished as their victims suffer in silence. Globally, men are the biggest perpetrators of GBV – they are causing the problem. What should they be doing to end the fight against GBV? Should we just keep bashing them without asking them to come to the table and solve the problems that they’re creating?
GUEST : Sello Maake ka Ncube
So many years into democracy, why is Alexandra Township still plagued by floods, rodents and shack fires? Right next to it is Africa’s Richest Square Mile yet the burden of poverty, infrastructure decay, and health hazards caused by the giant rats, crime and violence. What is plan for Alexandra Township – how many more shack fires will it take to? Today being the 10th of December – International Humana Rights Day, have the people of Alexandra not been stripped off the human rights and dignity?
Guests : Louise Itumeleng Seeco
SIPS WINES is a unique proudly South African wine restaurant / wine boutique situated on 7th Street in Melville Johannesburg. Their business philosophy is derived from service quality and product quality with no exception. Their food philosophy is tailored around the below concepts: Seasonality, Simplicity, Creativity and Rawness.
GUEST : Sfiso Motha – Owner of Sips Wines and Spirit Emporium
Robby Collins rise from actor on the Durban theatre circuit to fully fledged stand-up comedian has taken all of 4 years, still considered one of the emerging faces comedy Robby’s career achievements belies his years on the comedy circuit.
A comedian whose material draws on real life comes across at ease on the stage and has a very believable stage presence, endearing himself to audience with his gawky giraffe frame.
Robby has played to the biggest comedy audiences in South Africa with appearances at ‘The Heavy Weight Comedy Jam’ and ‘Blacks Only’ comedy shows. Further proof of his talent lies in his personal selection by SA’s top comics as their opening act, Marc Lottering, Eugene Khoza and Trevor Noah. His Tour with Trevor Noah was extensive and constituted over 50 shows all over Southern Africa.
GUEST : Robby Collins
AN EXOTIC TROPICAL ISLAND IN THE HEART OF HARTBEESPOORT. Cocomo has a contemporary styled Beach Theme with a Tropical Island Vibe. An upmarket, elite guesthouse in operation since 2005. 4 STAR GRADED & a tripadvisor establishment winner of excellence. Cocomo Guesthouse, Spa & Conference Centre is one of the most popular in Hartbeespoort and known for hosting many celebrities and returning guests. It’s famous for its unique atmosphere, decor and attention to detail. Although Far from the coast, you will feel right at it.
Guest : Juanita Coetzee (General Manager at Club Cocomo)
Bongeziwe Mabandla was born in Tsolo, a rural part of the Eastern Cape, South Africa, where grew up with a passion for art and music. As a student, he soon turned to music, started to write songs and to perform solo gigs, while developing his own unplugged music style and earning recognition as a musician. Together with his band, he created a matchless afro-folk sound, fused with his soulful voice delivering in Xhosa and sometimes in English. Influenced by artists like Tracy Chapman and Lauryn Hill, as well as South African vocalists Simphiwe Dana and Jabu Khanyile, as well as Zimbabwean guitarist Oliver Mtukudzi, his sound has a rhythmically grass-roots vibe, while fusing elements from traditional Xhosa music, Mbaqanga, Soul, Hip Hop and Dub.
Guest : Bongeziwe Mabandla
GUEST : Kgoshi Setlamorago Thobejane – Activist on Traditional and Land issues (also Former MP and Former President of CONTRALESA - the Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa)
Abuse is a misuse of power intended to harm or control another person. The early signs that lead to abuse are normally always there but frequently women ignore them, even when they can see them. Some end up dead because of this. In many cases women stay in abusive relationships because they either don’t have a job or they depend on their man to provide shelter or other resources. We ask, why do women always protect the abuser and why do women stay in abusive relationships?
GUEST : Ms Zodwa Mavis Dlamini – Clinical Psychologist
A recent survey by one of SA’s top financial institutions reveals that more that half of SA’s middle class spend their salaries in five days (or even less). Although this is shocking, it also leaves room for us to analyse why this is happening? Are South African’s not earning enough? Is debt suffocating the middle class? Or is it just a lack of financial management?
Guests : Gerald Mwandiambira - Entrepreneur, author, financial expert
Beyond The Spotlight: Hector Motau – Founder of The Motivation Company, Motivational Speaker, MC, Team building facilitator and Broadcaster
Hector was born in the North Western village of Madidi in North West Province to a dressmaker mother and upholsterer father. Drawn to debate and public speaking as a child, he honed his abilities by practicing diligently, with his parents and three siblings as his audience and test subjects. Conscious of the world around him and growing up in a time of political unrest, Hector was always eager to make a difference.
Have you ever asked yourself how many children dies on the road due to the recklessness of drivers? With the travel season around the corners, what do drivers have to be mindful of in order for us not to have children who keep dying on our roads? Why do parents drive around with babies and toddlers held on laps or standing on the backseat? When we talk about road accidents, how often do we consider the impact the it has on children? Guests: Carol Smith – Founder of South Africans against Drunk Driving (SADD) guest: Simon Zwane - Spokesperson for RTMC (Road Traffic Management Corporation
The prohibitive and exclusionary costs faced by many people with disabilities.
GUEST: Lubabalo Mbeki – CEO of Access Techniques
How should Beauty Pageants start promoting African values and support cultural practices?
GUEST: Dr Nomcebo Mthembu - founder of Indoni Miss Cultural SA
Guest: Veli Ndaba - Motivational Speaker, Author, Entrepreneur, Life and Business Coach
HIV and the youth of South Africa: Where are we missing the mark? Is there not enough education and awareness? Do we need to rebrand it and not sexualise it?
Guests (studio): Phindile Sithole Spong – Pholo Ramothwala – Lebogang Mostumi – Koketso Mogethwa
Sibongile Mongadi has been selected to travel to India and represent South Africa at the Global Accelarate Program taking place in Delhi and Bangalore 12th to the 19th of January 2019, a delegation that seeks to bring about dialogue-for-solutions between aspiring entrepreneurs and vibrant leaders on how to spearhead change in areas and create a global entrepreneurial movement growth through global exposure. She needs to raise R10 000 by Thursday, or she’ll forfeit this opportunity
GUEST: Sibongile Olga Mongadi
We’re in conversation with Ncebakazi Msomi about a piece that she wrote on “The Good Man”. Ncebakazi asks why do stories of men who take care of their responsibilities and go the extra mile never make it to social media and main stream news? Why is it so difficult to acknowledge and celebrate good men?
Guest: Mrs. Ncebakazi Msomi
The Global Citizen festival took place last night at FNB Stadium in Johannesburg. After the show ended fans had horrific experiences from extreme traffic congestion, lack of public transport and robberies occurring inside and outside the stadium. When should the SAPS and JMPD leave the premises? How did the Joint Operations Committee (JOC) meetings miss the probability of such an event? Was there too much of a focus on securing the VIP area?
GUEST : Yusuf Abramjee anti-crime activist
Frank Ngwenya is a young and dynamic entrepreneur who is not afraid to take risks. He is a born again Christian, an International speaker, restaurateur, property developer and business consultant. At a tender age of fourteen years old he started selling anything that he could get his hands on for profit. He sold among other products, hats, in the streets and flats of Johannesburg CBD where he grew up.
Guest (studio): Frank Ngwenya - Owner and Founder
Luphelo Kodwa first stood on stage in 2014 on 27 of August in his home town King Williams Town in the Eastern Cape. After spending a year following comedy shows he finally gave in, Luphelo never looked back in less than three months in the entertainment he went to open a show in Hemingway’s Casino (99% Xhosa comedy) opening up for the likes of Goliath and Goliath, Siya Seya then later on that year (2014) he went to perform in SATMA pre comedy night in Fort Hare. In less than a year Luphelo being in the game he had his first television appearance in the 4 time SAFTA(SOUTH AFRICAN FILM AND TELEVISION AWARDS) winning drama series called Matatiele 2015, got three SAVANNA Comics Choice nominees 2016,2016 performed in as a sold out Lyric Theatre 99% Zulu, in a SOLD OUT SOWETO THEATER WITH LOYISO GOLA and other comics 2016, 2016 staged in East London 99% Xhosa Comedy hosted by Tall Ass Mo, part of Eastern Cape Film Forum, performed in Grahamstown WordFest 2016.In Cape Town performed at , Gugs Comedy nights, Nomad comedy nights and Rock Well theatre for 3 nights with David Kau, Skumba Hlophe, Ndumiso Lindi and KG Mogadi.
The Royal Bafokeng Nation is the ethnic homeland of the Bafokeng people, a Setswana-speaking traditional community. The monarchy covers 1,000 square kilometers in the North West Province of South Africa.
Guest: Royal Bafokeng
Mi Casa is a house duo or band based in Johannesburg, South Africa and consisting of three members, Dr. Duda (producer) and pianist, J'Something (vocalist and guitarist), and Mo-T (trumpeter). The band was formed in early 2011 in Johannesburg when all three future members were at a night lounge and decided to perform together. A few months later, they released an album titled Micasa Music, which "went gold" quickly and won several awards at the 18th Annual MTN South Africa Music Awards in 2012. In 2015 they returned with their double disc album Home Sweet Home which includes hit singles Chocolate & Barman featuring Big Nuz and DJ Tira. In August 2017 they released their fourth studio album Familia after nearly disbanding four months earlier
Guest: Jazzman Makgakgane
The Soweto Festival Expo (SFE), an event that enables the people of Soweto and surrounding areas to come together in a fun and relaxed environment.It officially launched their 2018 celebrations on the November 16.Their festivities kicked off with a media briefing which took place in Kliptown, Walter Sisulu Square at the Soweto Hotel.
Guests: Brian Themba – Musician and Headliner at the Soweto festival Daniel Phiri – Project and Production Director
The Nelson Mandela Foundation (NMF) and the Graça Machel Trust are today hosting the Is’thunzi Sabafazi – Dignity of Women – event as part of the ‘Remembrance period’ to mark five years since Madiba’s passing and to recognise the ‘16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence’. This even focuses on how we purposefully create a caring society that prioritizes women and adolescents and creates the conditions for a dignified life, in a society like South Africa where the murder rate of women is three times the global average and 68.5% of women have experienced forms of sexual violence.
Le Looks has been offering exceptional beauty services along with servicing an impressive elite clientele of Television personalities, Soap Stars, Politicians and Professionals; Le Looks Beauty and Hair CC has taken a major step into the beauty industry stratosphere.
Its core target clientele of Black African Men and Women who are conscious about their looks and smitten with beauty will, in the near future, be in a position to access, across the country, Le Looks’ services in hairdressing, cosmetology, retail offerings and business consultation services with a core focus in Hairdressing & Cosmetology.
GUEST: Mmankwane Chakela – Managing Director Le Looks
Born and raised in the Eastern Cape, Jessica Mbangeni is one of South Africa’s most sought after female Imbongi (praise singer), and has made her mark in male dominated cultural terrain. Invoking the role of this ancient tradition, largely influenced by her grandmother’s isiXhosa storytelling in the village of Nqamakwe, she offers insightful commentary on contemporary affairs. She has performed alongside numerous musical icons, such as Dolly Rathebe and Dorothy Masuka.
GUEST : Jessica Mbangeni - Imbongi (praise singer) and Designer
Guest Billy Selekane - Author, Inspirational Keynote Speaker, Facilitator and Executive Chairman of The Billy Selekane Group
Yesterday, MEC Sizakele Malobane interacted with with stakeholders within the law enforcement fraternity on crime statistics. The murder rate has increased by 3.2% ,particularly in the eight under-performing police stations in Gauteng. The province recorded 132 more murders in the 2017/18 financial year compared to the financial year before. We ask, What other methods can help us end crime in SA?
Guest: MEC Sizakele Malobane - MEC for Community Safety in Gauteng Guest: Yusuf Abramjee – Anti - Crime Activist and Chief Ambassador of the #NamolaApp (Namola is an app that allows you to alert your nearest police officers when you need assistance)
Why does society frown upon disabled people who are pregnant? Are they not worthy of being parents because of their disabilities?
GUEST : Luthando Kekana
I Am An African - South Africa and South Sudan have signed an oil deal. What does this mean for SA? Is this a step into the intra-Africa trade that has been spoke about for years?
GUEST : Victor Kgomoeswana – African business expert and Author of Africa is Open for Business
Guest : Veli Ndaba - Motivational Speaker, Author, Entrepreneur, Life and Business Coach
South Africa boasts the most progressive constitution in the world, yet the LGBTIQ community was still being demonised and victimized. Some people even go as far as raping lesbian women in an attempt to ‘fix’ them? How have we dealt with the issue of corrective rape? And is it even just to call is Corrective Rape – how does raping a person correct something?
Guest: Ricky Kgositau-Kanza - Executive director of South African-based Gender Dynamix, an organisation that advocates for the human rights of transgender and gender-variant people
The CEO of non-profit organization, StreetBiz Foundation, Dr Nico de Klerk, from Pretoria, is currently walked across South Africa with a powerful message to disadvantaged youth.
GUEST: Dr Nico de Klerk
The Jerk Company brings the taste of the Caribbean to the heart of Johannesburg. Experience traditional Jamaican food and Caribbean cuisine that are guaranteed to tantalize your taste buds and transport you to the vibrant streets of the Islands. We not only produce a selection of lo' and slo', barbecue smoked meats, rested overnight in our signature Jerk Company marinade and finished in our sweet and spicy basting, but also some wholesome stews that are slow cooked to fall off the bone. Locally grown habanero peppers also feature in our cooking, giving that tantalizing feature to our dishes. You choose how much fire you desire! Now Relocated to 16 4th Street, Wynberg, Sandton.
Guest : Jeremy Burns – Managing Director of Jerk Company Caribbean Kitchen
In life every now and then something spectacular comes along and dazzles everybody and leave them begging for more Jay Boogie is exactly that. This Soweto born comic named (Thulani Thebe Mazibuko) is a natural, raw and unapologetic. No topic is too taboo for him. His style of comedy has seen him perform in different parts of the country. He has also performed in countries like Swaziland, Lesotho and Botswana. He runs one of the longest running comedy shows in Gauteng every Wednesday in Ozone which has natured many talents.
TheDisclaimer – Jay Boogie
In life every now and then something spectacular comes along and dazzles everybody and leave them begging for more Jay Boogie is exactly that. This Soweto born comic named (Thulani Thebe Mazibuko) is a natural, raw and unapologetic. No topic is too taboo for him. His style of comedy has seen him perform in different parts of the country. He has also performed in countries like Swaziland, Lesotho and Botswana. He runs one of the longest running comedy shows in Gauteng every Wednesday in Ozone which has natured many talents.
Tsheola Dinare Tours and Transport is a tour operator that offers customized travel solutions in terms of tourism services, chauffeuring and shuttle services. Our services are personalized to suit the needs of each clients in both leisure and business travel. Tsheola Dinare is operational throughout the country with offices in major cities which are Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban. They have won the Gauteng Emerging Tourism Entrepreneur of the Year in 2009, the Best Tourism Entrepreneur Award from Johannesburg Tourism, being listed as a finalist in the Africa Growth Institute 2010 SMME Awards and as a finalist in the Imvelo Responsible Tourism Awards for Most Improved Tourism Business
Guest : Jojo Tsheola – Managing Director at Tsheola Dinare Tours
The National Arts Festival and Distell have joined forces to search for fresh storytellers and voices with the launch of the Distell National Playwright Competition. It is open for all South Africans debut playwrights, (over 18 years), who have not staged their work before.It is in honour of Adam and Rosalie Small, husband and wife, who made a significant impact on South Africa’s literary, philosophical and educational landscape. The winner will receive a cash prize and see their work produced at the 2019 National Arts Festival.
Guests: Ashraf Johaardien – Executive Producer of the National Arts Festival
HospiceWits will host its annual Tree of Light Ceremony on Sunday, 25th November, at the Johannesburg Zoo. The popular family event, now in its 11th year, raises funds for patient treatment and also provides a lovely platform for families to remember loved ones who have passed, and also celebrate the people in our lives we appreciate, love and hold dear.
GUEST: Godwill Maseko - Events & Marketing Coordinator at Hospice Wits
Popular culture has a way of changing our perceptions about certain issues - the things we see on TV or in movies have a way of becoming normalized – and one such issue is adoption. But is it as simple as it seems – how does one even arrive at a decision to adopt a child? How do you integrate an adopted child into your family – how do help them foster a relationship with your extended family? When is it the right time to tell your child they have been adopted? Do the chances of finding adoptive parents decrease as the child grows? Are people warming up to the adoption route, even though it can drag on for years?
GUEST: Palesa Radebe – Educational psychologist in private practice
Sonke Gender Justice (Sonke) in partnership with UN Women and MenEngage Africa (MEA) Alliance have just concluded a two-day seminar that brought together academics, NGO & CBO practitioners and faith leaders working in the field of gender equality. The relationship between religion, faith and gender equality is often complex and ambiguous – how do we create a space to engage on contentious topics which, over centuries, religious institutions have often been accused of turning a blind eye to? How do we break the spirit of patriarchy from our faith institutions and promote equality?
Guests: Rev Bafana Khumalo - Director of Strategic Partnerships at Sonke
Guest : Billy Selekane - Author, Inspirational Keynote Speaker, Facilitator and Executive Chairman of The Billy Selekane Group
“"I'm a girl from locations – very simple – and I feel I don't deserve to be here at all. I did nothing to deserve to be here but I feel really blessed that people feel that I deserve to be here. And I feel really privileged and really blessed and it's really humbling,"
Asked about her plans and what's next she said "I'm planning to continue with my studies. I am a book girl. I have so many skills and dreams that I want to fulfill, like entertainment law. I'm planning on freezing the money for up to a year and to just live off the gig money and possible sponsorship."
"My 10 year plan that I've set up before Idols is that I'd like to have a PhD degree in music, and I'd like to open my own production company and a music academy as well – that’s what I definitely still want to do," said Yanga.
Yesterday the world commemorate World Children’s Day – a day where we’re all asked to think deep about how we treat our children. // With this in mind, we zoom in on the issue of child abuse and children’s rights. What constitutes child abuse – is it when parents spank their children or when governments don’t provide basic education and health services for children. Is it when a child is violated or when a teacher uses corporal punishment? When will we see an end to child abuse? When will we start understanding and accepting that children are human beings and they, too, have rights? Guests : Stephen Miller – National Director for SOS Children’s Villages South Africa
We’re getting an update on the AFRICAN WOMEN IN DIALOGUE which is currently underway in .UNPACKING THE THEME:STRENGTHENING THE WOMEN’S MOVEMENT ON THE CONTINENT 8th African Women’s Decade and in the time of the resurgence of active feminism seen across the world, this panel will reflect on the status of the African Women’s Movement and its effectiveness in the last decade in changing the lives of African women. In recent years, the Movement has been criticised for having lost its autonomy, vigour and vigilance and thus complicit in the deepening of challenges as well as reversals of some of the development gains made by women on the continent. What is the current status of collective organising within the movement and how can it be strengthened to be more responsive to the new and persistent challenges facing women?
GUEST (phone): Nthakoana Ngatane – SABC Senior Reporter
Facing the reality that you have a lifelong disability is daunting. Only when you accept that you have a disability can you look to the future. The reality is that there are things you just cannot do any more at all and things that you can no longer do the way you once did them. How do you begin to accept that you have a disability?
GUEST: Sipho Rihlamvu – Director of Disability Identity and Events
Guest: Veli Ndaba - Motivational Speaker, Author, Entrepreneur, Life and Business Coach
Women of Fortitude is a campaign that seeks to drive the conversation of how women today from all ages and background can continue the legacy of Ma’Sisulu who would have turned 100 this year. The purpose of the campaign is to ignite passion in the women of South Africa to commit themselves to the values and principles of Albertina Sisulu. But how easy is it to ignite this passion in a country that has systems that are still unjust to women? How do women rise to become women of fortitude when they have to toil and fight ten times harder for everything?
Guest: Ntsiki Sisulu
GUEST: Guest: Helene Bramwell - Owner of The Mask Skin & Body Clinic in Parkview and also Founder of DONATE -A-LOO Schools Project
Through Future Kings Rams Mabote visits schools and speaks to teenage boys whom he then links with mentors. He also conducts camps for the boys for intense training to unlearn what society has taught about being a man.
Guest: Rams Mabote – Talk show host and Founder of the Future Kings programmes
The Department of Social Development is hosting the first men's Parliament in Cape Town on Monday. This is in response to gender-based violence in the country to mark International Men's day since 1992. Could this be the solution we’ve been looking for - men speaking to one another and calling on each other for different things, but also committing themselves to what actual actions they are going to take.
Guest: Hendrietta Bogopane-Zulu – Deputy Minister for the Department of Social Development
The Sandwich Baron Shop had small beginnings and was started in Alberton in 1996 by Sally J’Arlette-Joy. After selling her successful restaurant the intention was to have just a small sandwich takeaway shop. However, due to the demand of the product hope of a national franchise was realised. Sally’s hands-on involvement from the beginning ensured that all the pitfalls normally associated with starting a new business were eliminated in this franchising development. We have grown to be the biggest player in the sandwich business. Our proven secret recipes result in undeniably delicious food that keeps our customers coming back for more (and tell their friends).
GUEST : Sally J’Arlette-Joy – Founder of The Sandwich Baron
Elton Mduduzi Ntuli was born in 1985 on 6th MAY in Siyabuswa, South Africa. He studied Mechanical engineering at Ekurhuleni West College. He displayed the love of comedy when he tried to emulate what he saw at the Strictly vernac DvD. It consisted of Mashabela Galane among others. He later on made his debut at Meropa Casino that was hosted by his favourite Comedian Mashabela, M’du as he is known in the comedy circle. Elton Mduduzi has also won award for his performance in the comedy industry.
Guest: Elton Mduduzi Ntuli – Award winning musician
Surrounded by an ancient Tambuti Forest, the lodge is situated in the malaria- free Black Rhino Game Lodge, a concession of Pilanesberg National Park. It offers guests an intimate and luxurious safari experience. Accommodation is provided by 5 luxury suites with quality finishings. Suites feature beautifully appointed bathrooms as well as indoor and outdoor showers. A private deck completes the picture with spectacular bush views. You will also enjoy fine dining at Tambuti Bush Lodge.
Guest : Malcolm Peacock - General Manager at Tambuti Lodge
The Feather Awards are an awards show that recognizes and celebrates the LGBTI community and iconic personalities and achievers who inspire many. We speak to some of yesterday’s winners and the significance of these awards.
Guest: Phumi Mthethwa – Activist and Winner of the Simon Nkoli award
Steve Letsike - Director of Access Chapter 2 (Human Rights org focusing on LGBTI rights) and winner Cutest couple winner with Lucy Letsike
Miriam Tladi was the first black woman in South Africa to publish a novel, Muriel at Metropolitan, a semi-autobiography which was based on her time as a clerk at a furniture store in downtown Johannesburg during the height of apartheid. She was also the author of the critically acclaimed Amandla, which reflected on the 1976 student uprising. Her literature took her all over the world‚ including a residency at Yale University in America.
GUEST: Raks Seakhoa – Convenor of the SA Literary Awards and Director of write Association
How many couples have sat down and had honest conversations about money, estate planning and wills? Why is this conversation often overlooked? Why do couples have the ‘money-talk’ when things go wrong? What leads to situations where a wife is thrown out of her home after her husband passes on – between her and her husband, was there no talk of death and what happens should one die before the other? How, when and where should couples start the conversation about money?
Guest: Winnie Kunene – Financial Psychologist, entrepreneur and columnist
Diabetes has always been seen as an old people’s disease but many young people are coming out and talking about living with diabetes. Diabetes is a disorder of metabolism -- the way our bodies use digested food for growth and energy. There are three main types of diabetes: type 1, type 2, and gestational diabetes.
GUEST: Mpolokeng Mudau & Founder of Ntsikayezwe Development Foundation
A preacher's wife is probably one of the most respected women in our community, she teaches inspires and lends a helping hand wherever and whenever she can. She is the founder and Executive Producer of the Crown Gospel Awards.
Guest: Zanele Mbokazi - Founder of the Crown Gospel Awards and President of the World Powerhouse Gospel
Guest: Billy Selekane - Author, Inspirational Keynote Speaker, Facilitator and Executive Chairman of The Billy Selekane Group
The Royalty Soapie Awards are the only awards in the country that acclaim and pay tribute to South Africa’s much-loved daily soaps and telenovelas… The arts and entertainment industry has always been dubbed unstable, cruel and short-lived yet there are people who tirelessly wake up and give us the best when they go on set. Are we appreciative of our celebrities and soapie stars? What do we need to do to ensure that the industry continues growing and gains stability?
GUEST: Winnie Ntshaba – Actress, entrepreneur and founder of the Royalty Soapie Awards
Afrika Tikkun’s Empowerment Programme submitted a report to the United Nations around ‘Children with disabilities’ and ‘Equal recognition before the law’. The Programme supports five peer-led self-help groups of caregivers of children with disabilities, with a collective membership of over 1000 families.
Guest: Dr Jean Elphick – Heads up Empowerment Programme at Afrika Tikkun
In this 8th year of the African Women’s Decade and in the time of the resurgence of active feminism seen across the world, this panel will reflect on the status of the African Women’s Movement and its effectiveness in the last decade in changing the lives of African women. In recent years, the Movement has been criticised for having lost its autonomy, vigour and vigilance and thus complicit in the deepening of challenges as well as reversals of some of the development gains made by women on the continent.
GUEST: Ms. Nana Ngobese - Zanele Mbeki Development Trust Board Chair & Forum Chair
Guest: Veli Ndaba - Motivational Speaker, Author, Entrepreneur, Life and Business Coach
As the festive season looms, fraudsters are also working on plans to make a quick buck off unsuspecting and carefree consumers. From fake products to unsecured online shopping website; from card scams to that R99.00 that keeps disappearing from your account. What should consumers look out for? And when you do fall prey of such scams, how can you get out of the situation? What does an investigation into a hacked account or tracing an online shop entail?
GUEST: Andy Mashaile – Global Ambassador of Interpol’s Turn Back Crime Campaign AND Former Board Chairman of the Gauteng Police Forum
As we approach the festive season where road and other accidents increase, blood reserves in South Africa are at critically low levels and despite SA’s youth forming almost 50% of the population, donor numbers continue to remain at an all-time low. Most South Africans will need a blood transfusion at some point in their lives. Alarmingly, less than 1% of South Africans regularly donate blood. One person donating blood can save a minimum of three lives.
GUEST: Ivor Hobbs - Regional Marketing Manager for SANBS
Toxic masculinity refers to the socially-constructed attitudes that describe the masculine gender role as violent, unemotional, sexually aggressive, and so forth.
GUEST: Nkululeko Nxesi - Executive Director of Men and Boy Foundation
Towards the end of every year, parent s are encouraged to support their children who are in Matric – they are urged to help them visualise their goal for next year, help them re-arrange their study roster if necessary, and to make sure that they stay positive and focused to perform at their very best right until the end. What happens at the end of exam season? When children are anxiously waiting for they results? How do you calm them down when they have moments of pacing and restlessness? Is there a way of unnerving them?
GUEST: Prof Ramodungoane Tabane - Educational Psychologist AND professor at Unisa
After more than 9 years in the comedy and corporate entertainment industry, Jem Atkins has garnered a reputation as a highly talented Professional MC and Corporate Comedy Entertainer, and indeed one of the top comedy performers in Durban.
GUEST : Jem Atkins
Tourists visiting Durban this festive season are in for a treat fit for a king. The Municipality has taken delivery of multimillion Riksha buses that from now onwards will be ferrying tourists around the city. Tourism is a major contributor in the city’s economy and with summer vacations looming on the horizon, the Municipality is pulling all the stops to look after the welfare of all its tourists. EThekwini Mayor Zandile Gumede says under her leadership she wants to see Durban increasing its market share of tourists dramatically in all season of the year
Guest (phone): Phillip Sithole - Deputy City Manager for Economic Development and Planning at EThekwini Municipality
Mafikizolo is a South African singing duo consisting of Theo Kgosinkwe and Nhlanhla Nciza. They are multiple times winners of the South African Music Awards, including Best Duo or Group of the Year for their albums Sibongile, Kwela, Six Mabone, Reunited and 20.
GUESTS : Theo Kgosinkwe
The earliest hunter-gatherers in southern Africa were the San people. The San were also known as 'Bushmen', a term used by the European Colonists that is now considered derogatory. The San populated South Africa long before the arrival of the Bantu-speaking nations, and thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans. We learn more about their origins, languages, food, traces of their existence and how their population has decreased.
Guest: Dr Leonard Martin – Historian, Researcher, Author, and Social Commentator
How to support a suicidal man? What do women need to do when men are feeling worthless and depressed – does the constant reminder of their gender roles not fuel the suicidal thoughts? With the recession loom and an increasing in retrenchments countrywide, many men will feel like they have been stripped off their masculinity – how can women be more supportive? How can we eliminate that darkness that consumes our men and leads them to suicide?
GUEST: Dimakatso Motiang – Psychologist
Every year we see calls for entry, shortlisting and a couple of beauty pageants – but what is the reach of these pageants? After their tenures as Miss ‘So-and-So’, what else do beauty queens do? Does their work end after they hand over the crown to the next person?
GUESTS : Gerry Elsdon is Businesswoman and humanitarian Joan Ramagoshi-Madibeng – Former Miss South Africa and Businesswoman
Frank is an international speaker, restaurateur, property developer and business consultant. At the age of fourteen he started selling anything that he could get his hands on for profit. Due to poverty as a result of losing his father at that early age, the only job he got to do was to wash dishes in a restaurant at fifteen years where he grew from waiter and later to a chef. He then got an opportunity to work in the UK in 2002 and grew his experience and love in restaurant business there.
GUEST (STUDIO): Frank Ngwenya – Founder and Managing Director of the FRADU Group
Founder of the Feathers Awards Thami Kotlolo is a man of many talents. So profound is this Mamelodi born lad that the word protégé comes to mind when one goes through his life accomplishments and long list of achievements a young age. He was only 23 years old when he conceived one of South Africa’s prolific award shows, and has managed to make a mark and ruffle a couple of feathers in almost all spheres of life, from politics, entertainment to corporate South Africa
Guest: Billy Selekane - Author, Inspirational Keynote Speaker, Facilitator and Executive Chairman of The Billy Selekane
What constitutes sexual harassment? Are we all aware what our employers’ sexual harassment policy entails? And are we aware of our responsibility towards our colleagues – how do we protect our colleagues from our bodies?
GUESTS : Aadil Patel - National Head of Employment practice at law firm Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr Dr Fundile Nyathi - Dr. Fundile Nyathi, CEO of Proactive Health Solutions
GUEST (phone): Saffura Khan – President of the Phoenix Life Group for the Physically Challenged (also H.O.D of Skills Developments at SANZEF
GUEST (phone): Olufunto - Acting Head of the Elections and Political Processes Department at EISA (Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa)
Corporate Council on Africa is hosting the U.S.-Africa Infrastructure Conference in Johannesburg, South Africa. CCA's Infrastructure Conference showcased innovative solutions in ICT,
GUEST: Florizelle Lister – CEO and President of the Corporate Council on Africa
Guest : Veli Ndaba - Motivational Speaker, Author, Entrepreneur, Life and Business Coach
Guest : Lebogang Tlokana also known as The Funny Chef - Vlogger, Comedian and Professional Chef
GUEST: Mr Moeletsi Mbeki - is deputy chairperson of the South African Institute of International Affairs an independent think tank based at Wits University
GUEST : Sarinah Matema-Morgans – Founder and Managing Director of Serenity Luxury Body Care and beauty futurologist (South Africa) .Recently named Top 50 African woman entrepreneur to watch in South African.
Phinda Mtya-Matlala was born October 10, 1967 in Port Elizabeth, in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province) is an afro-jazz singer, producer, composer, writer and actress who’s music is an infusion of gospel, afro-pop and blues. Being the middle child between two siblings of Khayakhulu and Phelokazi Mtya, she grew up in a close-knit musical family. Her parents were intrinsically involved in music and they passed that passion on to their children. Her grandmother was a singer and pianist with her mother being a singer in her own right, and her older brother was also a prolific singer and a pianist – she drew her inspiration and was highly influenced by them. In 2002, she and her group Mahube, partnered with Bono to produce the third world debt alleviation album aimed at Africa. In 2005,
Guest : Billy Selekane - Author, Inspirational Keynote Speaker, Facilitator and Executive Chairman of The Billy Selekane Group
GUEST): Jerry Mofokeng –Makhetha – International award winning actor and Relationship Councillor
Guest( : Dr Nomagugu Ngobese –Cutural Expert and Founder of the Nomkhubulwane Culture and Youth Development Organization
GUEST: Prof Mammo Muchie – SARChI (South African Research Chairs Initiative) Research Chair at the Faculty of Management Science at the Tshwane University of Technology
GUEST: Dr Melinda Suchard - Head of Centre for Vaccines and Immunology at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases
Guest : Veli Ndaba - Motivational Speaker, Author, Entrepreneur, Life and Business Coach
GUEST: Tumisho Masha –Actor, Entrepreneur and one of the brains behind the Children need both parents movement
GUEST : Lady Caroline - Lady Caroline is a life coach with intuition and she has the ability to read the future.
GUEST : Mr Dumile Badela - Owner of Just Badela GUEST : Mr Dan Langa - Chef at Just Badela : (Will speak here and there)
guest : Joe CEO of Shamwari Game Reserve
Shamwari Game Reserve is a conservation orientated 5-star safari holiday destination. Situated in the Eastern Cape of South Africa and home to vast herds of wildlife, birdlife and incredible ecological diversity, with 5 of South Africa’s 7 biomes found here. It wasn’t always an award-winning 25, 000 hectares of protected land or a pioneer in
Guest : Mamanese Mathule - Managing Director TM Events & Management AND Founder of Makoti & Mamazala Retreats
The Mamazala-Makoti relationship has been marred by conflict and competing for the husband/son’s attention. Wives say mother in-laws are possessive and bullying; while mother in-laws say the wives are not ‘ripe’ enough to lead their sons to the right direction. What is the issue between these two parties? How should the ideal Mamazala-Makoti relationship be like? Can we fully eliminate the element of conflict?
Guest (phone): Makhosi Amanda Gcabashe
How do we support people with Mental Illnesses? Has society’s response to mental Illness been adequate or has stigma led to people suffering in silence?
GUEST : Dr. Alex Asakitikpi – Anthropologist, Sociologist AND Head of the Sociology Department at Monash South Africa
GUEST : Lidia Pretorius - Chief Director for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Department of Social Development
I Am An African – Understanding the mandate of South West Africa Forum (SWAF) and the role of the Paramount Chief of Africa Guest : Paramount Chief Francis Kelechi Nwaneri
Guest : Veli Ndaba - Motivational Speaker, Author, Entrepreneur, Life and Business Coach
GUESTS: Motlatsi Motseoile – Curator of The Awesome 50 Annual List, Entrepreneur and LGBTI Activist
MEN TALK/AMAGENTS
Guest: Thabang Tlaka - Clinical Psychologist Guest : Mr Martin Manamela – Life Coach and he has experienced sexual abuse as a child
Smowkey Nyembe, whose real name is Mbongiseni Nyembe was born and bred in Soweto at a place called Meadowlands. He had his first stand-up comedy show in May 2010 at Ozone Pub at the "Premium Comedy Nyts" hosted by Kedibone Mulaudzi which he got a warm welcome from the audience. He then got invited by Mashabela Galane to perform in Polokwane "Meropa Casino Comedy Wednesday" and got his first standing ovation in just two months in the game.
GUEST (OB): Kurt Quadflieg – Restaurant Manager AND Coleman Skhosana - Carnivore Chef
The award-winning, internationally renowned Carnivore restaurant needs little introduction! Situated in the grounds of the Misty Hills Country Hotel, Conference Centre & Spa, The Carnivore celebrates its 25th anniversary this year and continues to provide Africa’s Greatest Eating Experience.
Guest (OB): Bonamy lewis - general manager
Nestled in the foothills of the Swartkop mountains on the threshold of the beautiful Kromdraai Valley in Muldersdrift, Misty Hills is one of the most popular hotel and conference venues in Gauteng. This charming stone-built hotel, embodies the ethos of Africa. Set in more than 60 acres of lush botanical gardens, Misty Hills is the ideal venue for functions, conferences, exhibitions, product launches, team building, getaways and events. Experience the splendour of rich African hospitality in the heart of Gauteng. Each of our 195 stone-built thatched rooms and suites is furnished to complement the indigenous South African surroundings and lavishly decorated with brightly coloured African fabrics, artworks and handmade furniture
Guest (OB): Mr. Robert Forsyth – Executive Chairman – Recreation Africa
The history of Recreation Africa, how did the Carnivore start and what is the story behind the name? We’ll also touch on venison – the benefits and the myths; embracing the South African Culture and tourism in SA
Guest : Billy Selekane - Author, Inspirational Keynote Speaker, Facilitator and Executive Chairman of The Billy Selekane Group
MEN AND BREAST CANCER .HOW CAN WE CREATE AWARENESS AND ENCOURAGE MORE MEN TO TEST FOR BREAST CANCER,NOT JUST IN OCTOBER BUT THROUGHOUT THE YEAR?
Guests : Sanele Vilakazi , Bonolo Sebolai, Ntsako Shimange (co-initiators of the campaign)
Guest : Veli Ndaba - Motivational Speaker, Author, Entrepreneur, Life and Business Coach
SHOULD THEY BE HANDLED IN A MORE SENSITIVE MANNER? Guests : Mapaseka Steve Lesike – Executive Director at Access
Guest : Kabelo Chabalala - Founder of The Young Men Movement AND Columnist for the Star , Pretoria News and IOL
GUEST : Robyn Wilson - registered Educational Psychologist with the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) She obtained her undergraduate, Honours and Master’s degrees in Psychology at the University of Durban, Natal in 1997.
GUEST (Phone) Zikhona Mapele – Lost her baby when she was 4 months pregnant last year.
GUEST : Selaelo Selota Birchwood Comes Alive Jazz evening, on Friday the 12th October, at the Birchwood Hotel in Boksburg, Eastrand. Performing live on stage will be the electrifying and eclectic Salaelo Selota, supported by the Soulful sounds of The muffinz and the Music Academy of Gauteng Jazz Orchestra.
Guest : Billy Selekane - Author, Inspirational Keynote Speaker, Facilitator and Executive Chairman of The Billy Selekane Group
GUESTS (STUDIO): Stephina Zwane & Salamina Mosese - Founders of Sorele Media and Creators of The Baby Mama Film
GUEST : Nisha Varghese – Living with Cerebral Palsy, an aspiring humanitarian, blogger and was named one of the Mail & Guardian 200 Young South Africans in 2016
GUEST (Studio): Don Laka - Author, researcher, Co-founder of Kalawa Jazmee, music legend, pianist, music teacher and history lecturer…. (Donald Mahwetša Laka)
Guest: Veli Ndaba - Motivational Speaker, Author, Entrepreneur, Life and Business Coach
GUESTS : Georgina Mushi (a mother of three who wishes to share her story, not to only alert women about breast cancer but also share her learnings of what she wishes she had known as a young woman which would have helped her shape her life for the better)
GUEST (In Studio): Sipho Mbele - Author of Take it from me Many couples in South Africa are not making their 10th wedding anniversary - and it's mostly wives who are calling time on their relationships. Black families in particular are fracturing‚ as divorces climb. The number crunchers at Statistics SA said on Wednesday that its review of marriages and divorces showed that 25‚326 divorces were granted in South Africa in 2016.
Khanyisa Bunu is a South African comedienne and actress best known for her starring role as domestic worker Nobuhle on the SABC1 sitcom Ses'Top La, joining the cast in Season 4 as a replacement for Brenda Ngxoli's character Pinky.
The choir was formed by the well-known gospel producers in the country; Lindelani Mkhize, Jabu Hlongwane and Mthunzi Namba.
GUESTS (Studio)
Andiswa Mbantsa Londiwe Nxumalo Zamile Mfekayi Gospel Silinda Nhlanhla Zofo
GUEST (STUDIO): Professor Reggie Nel- Dean of the Faculty of Theology and Professor of Missiology Stellenbosch University
GUEST (PHONE): Jennifer Papers - Senior Counselling Social Worker at FAMSA (Families South Africa) She runs self-development programmes in Alexandra where she works with the youth and provides parenting support training and offers relationship and family counselling
GUESTS (Studio): Phumeza Langa - Freelance Writer ,host of Twitter chat #SistaHoodHour and Communications Consultant at Feminist Makoti
Proudly rooted in her home country of South Africa, Catherine is an international climate activist, human rights defender, trailblazer and agent of change.
Guest (STUDIO): Billy Selekane - Author, Inspirational Keynote Speaker, Facilitator and Executive Chairman of The Billy Selekane Group
guest :Veli Ndaba - Motivational Speaker, Author, Entrepreneur, Life and Business Coach
Bulelwa Mabasa – Director at Werkmans Attorneys and mother.She was recently got appointed by the President Cyril Ramaphosa to sit on a 10 person panel to advise him on land reform Dimakatso Motiang – Clinical Psychologist Angie Diale – Social Worker, mother and Psychologist in training
Follow-up on the discussion we had about fathers being denied access to their children.
Thembi Nyandeni is a South African actress best known for her role as Selina Khumba in the SABC1 drama series Zone 14, since 2005 AND umfazi wephepa in Kwakhala Nyonini.
She also has a starring role as Mkabayi Zungu, the tough talking matriarch of the family and the sister of Mpiyakhe, in the Mzansi Magic telenovela-turned-soap-opera isiBaya.
She won the inaugural Outstanding Lead Actress award at the Royalty Soapie Awards in March 2014 for her role in isiBaya.
Billy Selekane - Author, Inspirational Keynote Speaker, Facilitator and Executive Chairman of The Billy Selekane Group
Mpact Communications Manager – Donna Mari-Noble will take the interview on behalf of Mlungisi
Mlungisi Mavimbela is a 34 year old man with a disability who makes a living by collecting recyclables to support his grandmother.
Prof Monde Makiwane is a Chief Research Specialist in the Human and Social Development (HSD) research programme of the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC)
Dr. Justine Fargher - TB doctor at Khayelitsha Dr. Zolelwa Sifumba – she’s a TB survivor
Pieter-Dirk Uys was born in Cape Town in 1945 and has been in the theatre since the mid-1960s. Closely associated with both the Space Theatre in Cape Town and Johannesburg's Market Theatre during the 1970s and 1980s, he has written and performed 20 plays and over 30 revues and one-man shows throughout South Africa and abroad
Billy Selekane - Author, Inspirational Keynote Speaker, Facilitator and Executive Chairman of The Billy Selekane Group
Roegshanda Pascoe – Manenburg Community Safety Forum, Makasi Martin – Nyanga Community Safety Forum
Jabu Stone – Entrepreneur and founder of Jabu Stone (a natural hair product range AND also a grooming school for those who want to specialize in hair care for natural hair)
Sophie Ndaba (née Mphasane, born 1972) is a South African actress best known for her role as Queen Moroka on the SABC1 soapie Generations.
Sophie was born in Soweto and attended high school in Zimbabwe , before becoming a model. She made her television debut with the series Class of '92.
After that she had supporting roles in Thlaranthlophe, and Yizo Yizo 1. Next came cameo roles in local productions such as Egoli and Soul City.
GUEST (phone): Dr. Nici Zeeman - General Practitioner with a special interest in Breast and Thyroid Health at Apffelstaedt & Associates
GUEST (studio): Advocate Sipho Mantula – Researcher in the Institute for Dispute Resolution in Africa (IDRA) at Unisa
GuestT : Veli Ndaba - Motivational Speaker, Author, Entrepreneur, Life and Business Coach
Do Good GUEST (Phone): Refilwe Boitumelo Moromane - 17 year old AS1 scholar at the Mountain Cambridge School in Hartbeestpoort dam. Also a Miss Teen Social Entrepreneur SA 2018 finalist
Guests (studio): Refilwe Semenya and Ngoako Monyebodi - final-year electrical engineering students at Wits University
Dr Tawanda Makusha - Senior Research Specialist at the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC)@
Ringo Madlingozi was born in 1964 in Gugulethu, South Africa. He is a South African musician, songwriter and producer. Ringo Madlingozi Career In 1986 he and his band , Peto, won the ‘Shell Road to Fame Music Competition’. He later formed a group called Gecko Moon with Alan Cameron, a fellow Peto member.
Billy Selekane - Author, Inspirational Keynote Speaker, Facilitator and Executive Chairman of The Billy Selekane Group
Soapie fans are in for a treat as Katherine Kelly Lang joins the cast of Isidingo for episodes that will air on on 5 and 6 of September 2018. Katherine, who is famously known as Brooke Logan, will make an appearance on Isidingo as a storyline has been written to include the US actress.
Vusi Tshabangu, Technical Manager for 3M Transport Safety Division Scholar patrollers perform an important public service by controlling traffic and by safeguarding scholar pedestrians
Dr Alamain Mnene – Systems Thinker and Leadership Dynamics Specialist Dr John Tibane - Author, Leadership Advisor and High Performance Strategist
Guest (studio): Stacy Hardy - writer and her puppet doppelganger Guest: Neo Muyanga - musician and composer
Dr. Lillian Dube was born in Orlando East, Soweto and she once lived in Lesotho.
She started an acting career in the 1980s and she has created, produced and starred in the SABC2 sitcom Skwizas. Lillian is a cancer survivor and has been diagnosed since 2007. She also established a casting company, Lillian Dube Casting Agency in Johannesburg. She had a role on SABC2 Sotho drama, Mopheme as Mmaratana. In 2014, she was honoured with Lifetime Achiever Award from Theatre Guild. She starred in Curl Up and Dye, a theatre production that toured Scotland and Germany in 2009.
Farmers United SA President Mr Ronnie McKenzie Department of HealthA spokesperson, Popo Maja
Ms Palesa Mokooane - Provincial Manager (Cape Town) Soul City Elijah Mhlanga - National Spokesperson for the Department of Basic Education
GUEST (Phone): Yaseen Amod – is the director of the South African Chapter for IdeasVoice
GUEST (phone): Xhanti Payi is an economist and the managing director at Nascence Advisory and Research, a strategy consulting and research outfit
Brian Willan - Author of Author Of Sol Plaatjie – A Life Of Solomon Tshekiso Plaatjie 1876 - 1932
Professor Baloyi Elijah the Chair of the Department of Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology, Unisa - The University of South Africa
Billy Selekane - Author, Inspirational Keynote Speaker, Facilitator and Executive Chairman of The Billy Selekane Group
- Model - Behaviour and Attitude
- Inspire a Shared Vision: Always talk about the destination
- Challenge the Process: be dissatisfied with nay Sayers
- Enable others to act: Delegate and Empower5. Encourage the Heart: Use Narrative to connect the Head - Heart - Hands...
Terry Oakley-Smith – Founder and Director of Diversi-T – A change management consultancy
Neo Tlaka - Communications and Public Relations Manager at the National Council of and for Persons with Disabilities Daphney Thwala - Casual Day Amabassador
Adv. Max Boqwana – CEO of the Thabo Mbeki Foundation Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane – Founder and President of African Monitor
Guest (studio): Veli Ndaba - Motivational Speaker, Author, Entrepreneur, Life and Business Coach
GUEST (Phone): Carla Fletcher – Director of Standard Bank TOP WOMEN (Executive Director at TOPCO Media)
Alkalinity is the manner in which observations are done in terms of nutrition - starting from the water that we consume, which also includes the food at large that we indulge from full spectrum, and the importance of supplementing. Are aware of the benefits of an alkaline controlled diet?
GUEST (STUDIO): Nkosi Vusani – Chairperson of the Chroniserve Movement
Moses Gebo Zulu - General operations manager
"JOZI'S PREMIER AFRICAN CUISINE RESTAURANT AND LIFESTYLE CENTRE" We can also host your special occasions, corporate events or parties, we at Rivonia On Deck have the perfect venue for you. With five entertainment areas to choose from we are sure that you will find an area that meets your requirements.
You can have your car washed, spend a few hours relaxing in the Hair & Chats beauty salon and spa then connect with friends over lunch on deck.
Some call him South Africa’s answer to Steven Wright, others say who is Steven Wright, whilst others say we’re out of milk can you please pick some up on your way home?
Chris Forrest has been on the forefront of the South African Comedy scene since the late nineties. His unique dry sense of humour, quick wit and intelligent comedy has made him one of the country’s most popular comedians and ensured that audiences are left in stitches wherever he goes
Billy Selekane - Author, Inspirational Keynote Speaker, Facilitator and Executive Chairman of The Billy Selekane Group
- Neithhotep 1st Queen of KMT - Egypt 2. Makeda : The Queen Of Sheba : Leader East Africa - Southwest Asia , Wealthiest Women 3. Nzingha - Military Strategist creates 1st African Coalition - fought Portuguese Colonialists 4. Hypatia of Alexandria - Mentored Greek Mathematicians 5. Sisters Perpetua and Felicity - Martyres - fought for women dignity and transformation
Zandi Radebe - Founding Member of Black House Collective Thami ka Plaatjie is an adviser to Minister Lindiwe Sisulu Zizi Kodwa - Member of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress
Guest (phone): Dr Finn Reygan – Leader of the Research Team
Genders and Sexualities in Africa working group – this programme focuses on a number of key priority areas in the lives of LGBTI people include: violence, including homophobia; the challenges and opportunities for queer youth; the role of language related to sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI)
Guest (studio): Veli Ndaba - Motivational Speaker, Author, Entrepreneur, Life and Business Coach
Nkosi Jongisilo Pokwana ka Menziwa – Chairperson of Vusizwe Foundation for Historical Research
Dr. Alamain Mnene - Systems Thinker and leadership Dynamics Specialist
Dr John Tibane - Author, Leadership Advisor and High Performance Strategist
Ms Savannah Boltman and Ms Ayanda Gabela of Girl Fly Programme in Africa Foundation (GFPA)
Guest (studio): Mrs Josiane Gagoum – Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Christian Women Entrepreneurs Network of Africa
guest: Beyond the Spotlight – Dr Nombasa Tsengwa - Executive Head of Coal Operations at Exxaro Resources
Guest (phone): Billy Selekane - Billy Selekane - Author, Inspirational Keynote Speaker, Facilitator and Executive Chairman of The Billy Selekane Group
Guest (phone): Dr Fang Liu Secretary General for the International Civil Aviation Organization
GUEST: Professor Ashley Gunter – Associate Professor for the Department of Geography at UNISA
GUEST: Mwazvita Dalu - Research Fellow with the IDEAS project at UNISA
Guest (phone): Boy Ngubo – Khensani Maseko’s Friend Guest (phone): Dr Ramneek Ahluwalia – CEO of The Higher Education and Training Health, Wellness and Development Centre (HEAIDS)
An event that will be addressing the issue of gender based violence in our communities Sibusiso Ethan Ntuli – Event Co-ordinator and Founder of IziMbokodo Zase'Afrika@
The need for male role models in child development Lulu Shabelle - The co-founder of African Youth Mentorship Network@ and Rutendo Urenje - co-founder of African Youth Mentorship Network
From degree to internship to unemployment – the life of a black graduate Zipho Majova - Public Policy Honours graduate at the University of Cape Town
Bernadine Bachar – Director for the Saartjie Baartman Centre for Women and Children (SBCWC )
Dr Ted White, a senior lecturer in human-computer interaction at the Unisa School of Computing
Is it possible to minimize the trauma that was experienced during those protests? Dr Sizwe Mabizela is a mathematician and Vice-Chancellor of Rhodes University
A former mathematics and economics teacher, Ambassador Vusi Koloane was appointed deputy director-general in October 2011. He began his career as a teacher with the Department of Education and Training. He holds a senior primary teaching diploma from the Indumiso College of Education, a BSocSc (Hons) degree from the then University of Natal and an Honours degree in Economics from the University of Natal. He also participated in the Department of Trade and Industry foreign economic representative programme from the then University of Natal. Ambassador Koloane served as South Africa’s ambassador to Spain between 2007 and 2010. In 2003 he was appointed as the South African Consul-General to Shanghai and then served as chargé d’affaires at the South African Embassy in Beijing.
During this period, he assisted in developing strategic political and economic government to- government relations, engaging the Chinese government on China’s Africa policy, negotiating market access for South African goods, and branding and marketing South Africa as world-class investment and tourist destination.
Billy Selekane - Author, Inspirational Keynote Speaker, Facilitator and Executive Chairman of The Billy Selekane Group
- Delegate: Focus on high value activities and delegate the rest
- Create a Constant Growing Pipeline
- Learn 3 Critical Skills Finance - Marketing - Technology
- Focus on Long Term Vision
- Strive for Mastery in whatever your Path is...
Hendri Terblanche, the businessman who successfully campaigned for stronger paternity leave rights in South Africa, has petitioned parliament to extend similar rights to people looking after elderly relatives. According to him, elder care is just as important as childcare, and employees should receive three days paid leave‚ or six weeks unpaid leave‚ when a parent or adoptive parent is ill. What does the current law says about family responsibility leave and compassionate leave?
Rhulani Siweya - Pan Africanist and writer; Founder of Africa Unmasked and an MBA student at MENCOSA Martha Shumba – Zimbabwean Living in South Africa , Social Activist and Chairperson of Organization of African Youth
Mahayle Khontsiwe – Member of the #TheNationalShutdown National Steering Committee
Tomorrow marks the start of Women’s month and women and gender non-conforming people will be marching across the country under the banner of #TheTotalShutdown: Intersectional women’s march against gender-based violence.
Over the last two months, the movement has been able to mobilise more than 100 000 intersectional women and gender non-conforming individuals to form part of this mass action.
Femicide and gender-based violence continue to rise in this country and a comprehensive plan is needed to deal with it.
Andy Mashaile – Former Chairman of the Gauteng PoliceBoard and Global Ambassador if Interpol’s Turn Back Crime
Criselda Dudumashe – SAfm Talk show host @the International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands
GUESTS (studio): Albert – Chef
Guest (studio): Dr Thomas Mukala
Guest (studio): Lauretta Muinda - CEO
Karibu Wote is a five star fine dining African restaurant in the heart of Johannesburg, Rivonia Sandton. They serve purely and proudly 100% authentic dishes from all over Africa (but as a start-up they’re focusing on SA, Nigeria and the DRC).
guest : Martin Manamela - Life Coach, Author, Mentor, Relationships and Marriage Counsellor
The biennial conference is organised by the International AIDS Society International AIDS Conference - Criselda Dudumashe – SAfm Talk show host @the International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Siyabonga Magadla – Convenor of the SMME sustainability summit and business plan competition
Criselda Dudumashe – SAfm Talk show host @the International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Billy Selekane - Author, Inspirational Keynote Speaker, Facilitator and Executive Chairman of The Billy Selekane Group
Criselda Dudumashe – SAfm Talk show host @the International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Aobakwe Mosime - Author, life coach, speaker, entrepreneur, hand Model and a previous Miss Commonwealth Ambassador 2017 (24 years old)
Refilwe Ralefeta - GSK’s Oral Healthcare Marketing Manager Larry Khumalo - Head of Havas PR
Criselda Dudumashe – SAfm Talk show host @the International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Mthunzi Luthuli – Chairperson of the Luthuli Foundation, Council Member of the Luthuli Museum and Businessman
Prof John De Gruchy - Emeritus Professor of Christian Studies at the UCT ... AND ExtraordinaryProfessor in the Faculty of Theology at Stellenbosch University
Prof John De Gruchy - Emeritus Professor of Christian Studies at the UCT... Extraordinary Professor in the Faculty of Theology at Stellenbosch University
Nic Spaull - Senior Researcher for Socio-Economic Policy at Stellenbosch University's Department of Economics, Stellenbosch University
"The Wealth Code: Wealth Creation is not an individual pursuit but can be achieved within a construct" Billy Selekane - Author, Inspirational Keynote Speaker, Facilitator and Businessman and Executive Chairman of The Billy Selekane Group
Guest (phone): Veli Ndaba - The Engineered Mind - to WIN! Motivational Speaker, Author, Entrepreneur, Life and Business Coach@0833049773
Fumani Shilubana - Father, Actor, Speaker, Film&TV Producer, CEO Father Figure South Africa
The Disclaimer - John Vlismas is a Zimbabwean-born South African stand-up comedian and comedy promoter who is well known on the comedy circuit for his outspoken and observational humour and his ability to understand and comment on political, social and economic affairs
Hector Motivator - Motivational Speaker | Conference and Corporate Motivational Speaker | Personal Motivation
Mr. Jabu Stone - Associate Executive Producer of Freedom Was Never Free Nosipho Nguse – Chief Albert Luthuli African Foundation Plus 3 casting member to sing on air
Professor Pitika Ntuli - Sculptor, poet, writer and academic
Mark Roch - Swedish Married to Moipone Kgaudi
Keorapetse Chakela – Married to a Hindu called Merishka
André Kalis - Specialist in Advocacy, Policy and Children’s Matters for the National Council of and for Persons with Disabilities
Veli Ndaba - The Engineered Mind - to WIN! Motivational Speaker, Author, Entrepreneur, Life and Business Coach
Mbuyiselo Botha – Commissioner at the Commission for Gender Equality in South Africa Yusuf Abramjee – Social Cohesion Advocate ad Anti-crime activist
GUEST (OB): Juanita Els and Michele Kloppers from The Long Table The Long Table is a restaurant and bar that opens each year during the Grahamstown National Arts Festival. It is a favourite for many performers, and regular festival-goers
GUESTS (OB): Director: Kirsten Harris Language: Eng Written By: Created by the Cast & Director Featured Artists: Ameeera Patel, Katlego Letsholonyana, Jaques de Silva, Ryan Dittmann, Tebogo Machaba Company: ZikkaZimba Productions and Hijinks Theatre Human beans come to the theatre and allow your imagination to take flight! Follow Roald Dahl as a young boy and journey with him through Mrs Pratchett’s sweet shop, his early school years and meet his favourite teacher. Plunge into scrumdiddlyumtious worlds of dirty beasts; filthsome creatures, crocky-wocks and vitches. Get ready to take a leap, a jump, and fly with us through Dahl’s magical worlds.
Guest (OB): Jade Bowers – Director of the Play Jangfrau and was the 2017 Naledi award winner for best director and 2016 Standard Bank Young Artist for Theatre.
Now Emily Jade was no ordinary child. She was shy and timid but adventurous and wild. She was odd-looking, unpopular but also quite smart, despite failing Science, Geography, Maths, History and Art. You see Emily could not stay focused – a major flaw – she never stopped daydreaming – not ever – at all. But, although Emily always had her head in
GUESTS (phone): Dr Vuyo Mahlathi – President of African Farmers Association of South Africa (AFASA) and Founder of Ivili Loboya Wool and Cashmere Processing Factory in Butterworth
GUEST (OB): Neo Motsase - Violinist Language: Eng Director: Ntshieng Mokgoro Written By: Nick Motsatse Featured Artists: Neo Motsatse Company: FMA/Neo Motsatse Neo Motsatse, an eighteen year old violinist and the 2016 Standard Bank Ovation Awardee for Music, returns to the NAF with the music production: Letters with Ma’Sisulu. The Production commemorates Albertina Sisulu: The Mother – to her siblings, children and The Nation – on this the centenary of her birth.
Language: Eng Zul Soth Director: Sipho Mnyakeni Written By: Sipho Mnyakeni Choreographer: Joe Radebe Music Composed By: Sipho Mnyakeni and Freedom Songs Featured Artists: Ofentse Khutsoane, Dabulamanzi Sithela, Lindiwe Mavuso
GUESTS (OB): Yvette Hardie - Director of ASSITEJ SA, also theatre producer, director, educator, writer and actor, who has been active in the world of theatre and performance, across a variety of arena
Guest (PHONE): Billy Selekane - Author, Inspirational Keynote Speaker, Facilitator, Businessman and Executive Chairman of The Billy Selekane Group
She has just been announced as one of the 200 Young South Africans 2018 by Mail & Guardian One of the top emerging voices in South African Comedy, Devil’s Advocate marks Angel Campey’s second hour of comedy and was heralded as her “triumphant return” to stand up at the Fest in 2017. She is back by popular demand after largely sold out houses with standing ovations last year. Having toured to New York City and Lagos Nigeria, Angel’s deeply personal, well scripted and refreshingly witty show explores the nuances of life as a South African.
GUEST: Blaq Tye is one of the freshest and hottest properties of the Nelson Mandela bay and the Eastern Cape. His origional song, 'Dudlu Ntombazana', has been a hit onn the BayFM playlist. It is for that reason that the team felt fit to award Tye the very first #LekkerMos star of the week award. His track 'Dudlu Ntombazana' is a smooth and soulful song that is guaranteed to get you singing along.
This work re-imagines a time of independence and pride, breaks the hold of negative colonial attitudes and stereotypes about African incapacity, and contributes new narratives about the roles played by women and children in times of war. At the same time, the work explores history and performance as a tool to interrogate the past of the amaXhosa as a nation and how they are perceived today, and to trace their painful past in order to find ways of healing and reconciliation GUEST (OB): Masi Heshu – Xhosa Chronicles Writer, Director and Actor
Guest (PHONE): Veli Ndaba - The Engineered Mind - to WIN! Motivational Speaker, Author, Entrepreneur, Life and Business Coach
GUEST: Musa Hlatshwayo – multitalented, and award winner performing artist, choreographer, teacher and director currently working under Mhayise Productions and the Movement Laboratory.
GUESTS: Ernestine White-Mfetu - Vice Chair and Artistic Committee Member for Visual Art
GUEST (STUDIO): Wayne Kaminsky - CEO and founder of FitChef
FitChef is a health food company that provides healthy pre-prepared frozen meals and snacks. Wayne is an expert on food and healthy living.
His focus is on healthy living and as we wrap up Men’s Month, he’s bringing some healthy delicious meals for us.
GUESTS (phone): Xhanti Payi - Economist and head of research at Nascence Advisory and Research
Are our concerns about the cost of living exaggerated? Petrol prices have gone up and this affects many things, VAT has gone up, employees are tightening their belts and giving little, or no, increment… Are you feeling the pinch?
GUEST (phone): Nopasika Mxunyelwa - Chief Marketing Officer at Eastern Cape Parks and Tourism Agency
***Eastern Cape Tourism sites to visit
***You could talk to her about what else visitors can do in the Province
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Beach holidays
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Addo Park
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Things for kids to do
Sathyandranath Ragunanan (Mac) Maharaj is a political activist and first SA Minister of Transport in the democratically elected government in 1994. He is also former spokesperson to former president Jacob Zuma.
Mac was born in Newcastle, Natal, and as minister he formulated a new policy and restructured the Department of Transport (DoT).
During the years prior to his appointment as minister, he had been an activist, a detainee, a political prisoner, an exile, an underground commander, and a negotiator. He was the main accuser of Bulelani Ngcuka of abuse of power as Director of Public Prosecutions in 2003. This came at the time Ngcuka's office was investigating him for corruption and fraud during his tenure as the Minister of Transport.
Guest (phone): Billy Selekane - Motivational Speaker, Author, Entrepreneur, Life and Business Coach
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Remove the unimportant: Delegate - Outsource
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Work on 80/20: 20% Effort for 80% Results
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Be deadline Driven: Create all your projects like a movie project with an end attached to financial gain / loss
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Create a Clear Value Chain: create clear Processes for your business
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Automate: are-engineer and automate as quickly as possible to free up valuable time
GUEST (KZN Studio): Nirode Bramdaw - writer, author and Honorary Consul of the Republic of Mauritius in Durban
“The overall contribution by the Indian community to date has been very significant – in fact one that far outweighs the small size of the population.
The Indian community has produced outstanding leaders of the ANC and individual Indians continue to make a very meaningful contribution to the reconstruction and development of South Africa.
As this is to be encouraged into the future, so too should the role of the Coloured and white communities in ensuring a democratic dispensation in South Africa. Every effort must be made to forge non-racialism”.
Ms Tintswalo Cassandra Makhubele - Secretary General of South African Congress of Nonprofit Organisations (SACONO)
Do we not recognise their rights and their will to prosper regardless of their disabilities?
Dan Kekana – Director of the Self Help Association of Paraplegics (SHAP); Provincial Chairperson of the Disabled People South Africa (DPSA) , Llyod Bapedi – Founder of Barkzz Foundation
GUESTS (phone): Jarred Doyle - Brand connector. Content strategist. Entertainment Entrepreneur. MD of Jarred Doyle Consulting in South Africa
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Whitney Houston show by Belinda Davis
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Heather Locklear suicide attempt
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Casper Nyovest flew economy for the first time in 3 years – Upgrade was 100k
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BET Awards, what went down – Sjava real name Jabulani Radebe scooped a BET Award for the International Viewers’ Choice for Best New Act
GUEST (PTA Studio): Lungelo Zulu – Chairperson of the KZN Crime Prevention Youth Desk Major General Thokozani Mahonsi of South African Police Service
NATIONAL CRIME YOUTH CRIME PREVENTION SUMMIT: 27-29 JUNE , PRETORIA
Youth Crime Prevention is a strategic and operational response towards youth criminality, where young people are both victims and perpetrators of crime. It is also a platform to trigger legislative development and policy review to reinforce protection for the youth as a high risk sector of the community. The undertone is youth development as a long term objective through enhanced economic participation and coordinated mentorship and life coaching programs. The youth generally should be encouraged to actively participate in crime prevention and societal development in realizing the ideals of Vision 2030. Youth Crime Prevention strategically will lay the foundation for developing and implementing the Junior Community Safety Fora programs through consolidation of Provincial, District and Local Municipality Safety Plans. These would also incorporate and complement the ideals of Spatial Development, Infrastructure Development Plans, Crime Prevention through Environmental Design, Reclaiming of Public Spaces and Moral Regeneration.
Thokozani Shongwe - Executive Chef AND Tumelo Maepa - entrepreneur, consumer marketing specialist and owner-founder
Patrick Kulati, National Director, Habitat for Humanity South Africa and Luzuko Kati – Nelson Mandela Foundation
GUEST (studio): Brendan J Mullen – MD of Secha Capital
GUEST(studio): Danie Venter - Stoffelberg co-founder
Ntsikie Kote - Strategy, governance and organisational performance specialist AND author of 'The Strategic Mind'
Vakhegula Vakhegula which means 'grannies grannies', is a group of elderly women have been invited to play in a veterans league championship at #WorldCup in Russia!
Lusungu Kanyama-Phiri - Legal Advisor for the Statelessness Project at Lawyers for Human Rights
Don Laka - music legend, co-founder of Kalawa Jazmee, pianist, music teacher and history lecturer
Veli Ndaba - The Engineered Mind - to WIN! Motivational Speaker, Author, Entrepreneur, Life and Business Coach
Bomi Njoloza – Language Research Practitioner at Fort Hare University, Writer, Performance poet, Projekt23 ambassador
Sello Maake ka Ncube - Actor, Theatre Director, Playwright, Screenwriter, Supporter of Gender Relations Issues
Dewa Mavhinga - Director for the African Division at Human Rights Watch Southern Africa
Mr Fanyana Mazibuko – he contributed immensely to education in South Africa. Mr. Mazibuko taught at the Morris Isaacson High School between 1967 and 1977. Ms. Bavelile Hlongwa - Deputy Executive Chairperson of the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) Mcebo Dlamini – Former Wits SRC President ad Fees Must Fall Activist Omry Makgoale - Hector Peterson's former classmate
Zizile Khumalo- Nyembe - Assistant Director for Youth Development at the National Department of Social Development
Prof Steward Van Wyk - Head of our Afrikaans Department, at UWC (University of the Western Cape )
Steve Letsike – Head of Chapter 2 (a organisatio that focuses on LGBTI Concerns Somizi Mhlongo - popular South African choreographer and radio personality
Lebo Ramafoko – CEO of the Soul City Institute GUEST: Dr Shaheeda Omar - Clinical Director of the Teddy Bear Clinic
Sipho Rihlamvu - Founder of Disability, Identity and Events
increasing the temperature of awareness concerning disability and its place within the socio-economic spaces
Kuhlekonke Ntuli - Former president of the SRC at the University of KwaZulu-Natal Howard College AND she was a semi-finalist for One Day Leader 6.
GUEST (STUDIO): Jarred Doyle – Founder of Jarred Doyle Consulting (JDC)
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry announced their first royal tour
Vince Vaughn arrested for Driving under the Influence (DUI)
Avicii – Death Certificate Revealed
Dj Zinhle bagged an international deal, launches book and shows off her closet
Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper star in the remake of “A star is born”
Comrades Marathon 2018 – Bongumusa Mthembu(Men) and Ann Ashworth are winners
Xolani Luvuno ran the marathon with one leg and crutches
Andy Mashaile – Former Chairman of the Gauteng PoliceBoard and Global Ambassador if Interpol’s Turn Back Crime campaign
GUEST (phone): Motshabi Hoaeane – Social Media Editor at Media Monitoring Africa
Guest: (phone): Anele Siswana – Author/Writer, a Healer (Psychologist), a Preacher, an Academic interested scholar of (African Philosophy and Systematic Theologian). Radio/TV commentor
Dr Ramneek Ahluwalia, the CEO of the Higher Education and Training Health, Wellness and Development Centre (HEAIDS)
Daphne Mashile Nkosi - Executive chairwoman of Kalagadi Manganese and Founder of Stanley and Daphne Nkosi Foundation
Phil Mphela - Entertainment Commentator | Blogger | Brand Influencer | Media Consultant | Content Creator
Jabulani Sithole - former lecturer in the history department at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg campus
Lusanda Mbane – Actress, Radio Personality| MC | Brand Ambassador - SAA inflight safety | Founder: Lusanda Mbane Foundation
Billy Selekane - Author, Inspirational Keynote Speaker, Facilitator and Businessman and Executive Chairman of The Billy Selekane Group
Mugwena Maluleke - The General Secretary of SADTU Ian Ollis - DA Basic Education Spokesperson (whatsapp voice note)
Neo Tlaka - Communications and Public relations manager of the National Council of and for persons with disabilities
Bongani Drama - opera singer, TV and radio host
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NOT-SO-CONFIRDMED INDUSTRY NAPTUALS - Dineo Moeketsi and 29 year old rapper Solo are to be made one in a wedding communion
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WILLOW SMITH SHOCKS MOM ON SLITTING HER WRISTS WHEN YOUNGER
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LAST NIGHT WE CROWNED MISS SA WITH A BIT OF DRAMA FROM DENISE ZIMBA AND THE HOST
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BEYONCE BUYS A CHURCH
Gogo Dineo Ndlanzi - Qualified Heal your Life coach, a registered traditional practitioner and the founder of Gogo Dineo Ndlanzi Institute of Spiritual Healing
Billy Selekane - Author, Inspirational Keynote Speaker, Facilitator and Businessman and Executive Chairman of The Billy Selekane Group
Ezra Ndwandwe – Group Chairman & Founder of Dual Point Holdings and creator of television series The Big Break Legacy
Dr. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka - Former Deputy President and current Executive Secretary for the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, also known as UN Women
Dr. Creflo Dollar - founder and senior pastor of World Changers Church International (WCCI)
Pastor Taffi Dollar - World-renowned author, teacher, spiritual leader, and motivational speaker, Co-pastor at World Changers Church International (WCCI) based in College Park, Georgia AND World Changers Church-New York
Adv Sipho Mantula - Researcher at the Institute for Dispute Resolution in Africa ( IDRA)
GUEST: Major Carin Holmes, PR Secretary of Salvation Army
· GUEST: Siphiwe Mngomezulu – Author, Former Street Kid, Motivational Speaker and The Director of 80D Albert Street Foundation in Newtown Carolyn Steyn - Founder of 67 Blankets
Koko Khumalo: Chief Executive Officer at Motlanalo Chartered Accountants & Auditors Inc
Thami Ka Plaatjie - a former secretary general of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) and is the adviser to Minister Lindiwe Sisulu
Billy Selekane - Author, Inspirational Keynote Speaker, Facilitator and Businessman and Executive Chairman of The Billy Selekane Group
Yusuf Ismail – Spokesperson for the Islamic Propagation Centre International (IPCI) (he’s also a Lecturer and Debate Lead Attorney) Zakiyah Ebrahim – Media Officer at Muslim Hands
Bra Willy Seyama – Founder and CEO of eNitiate Integrated Solutions (a Pan-African digital agency)
Veli Ndaba – The engineering mind to Win! : Motivational Speaker, Author, Entrepreneur, Life and Business Coach
Dr. Benita Moolman –Research Specialist in the Human and Social Development Unit at the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC)
Adv. Rams Ramashia - An advocate of the high court in private practice and a former director-general at the department of labour
Douglas Kruger - Author of 6 business books and global speaker. 5 x SA Public Speaking Champion. Inductee into the Speakers Hall of Fame. Hugely anti-Victimhood Mentality
Professor Jairam Reddy. Chairperson of the Council of the Durban University of Technology and former Director of the UN University International Leadership Institute
Billy Selekane - Author , Inspirational Keynote Speaker, Facilitator and Businesman. I am Executive Chairman of The Billy Selekane Group
GUEST (STUDIO): Bongani Drama - opera singer, TV and radio host
- KANYE WEST Putting Mother's Plastic Surgeon on Album Cover 'IT'S AN ACT OF LOVE'
- MOBI DIXON AND SANDS ‘TIGI, TIGI’ ARE OFF THE SAMAS LIST
- PEOPLE’S POET MZWAKHE MBULI TAKES ON GOOGLE
- ROYAL WEDDING DRAMA
Siphiwe Mngomezulu – Author, Former Street Kid, Motivational Speaker and The Director of 80D Albert Street Foundation in Newtown
Dr Benita Moolman – She is a Research Specialist in the Human and Social Development Unit . She holds an M (Phil) in Women and Gender Studies at the University of the Western Cape and obtained a PhD in Feminist Geography from the University of California, Davis in the United States. She currently a Geographer who oversees projects at the Human Science Research Council (HSRC) and has a particular interest in youth-focused and gender-related research.
Carol-Anne Dixon - Counseling Psychologist – specializing in Imago relationship therapy
Bulelani Balabala - professional speaker, who speaks on entrepreneurship, branding & inspiration
Badibanga Promesse - CIMA Regional Vice President: Africa, Buyane Zwane - CEO of Breakthrough Development
• Guest (STUDIO): Jack Mpogeng - Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic programming & Life coach
GUEST (studio): Joshua Maponga - A farmer of thoughts: multi-instrumentalist -writer-speaker (business consultant) preacher-all things are connected
Jarred Doyle - Brand connector. Content strategist. Entertainment Entrepreneur. MD of Jarred Doyle Consulting in South Africa
Somizi got roasted for his young bae. Everyone who knew Akhumzi Jezile loved him. Barack Obama, Oprah and More A-Listers Attend Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson's 30th Anniversary Party Harvey Weinstein Believes Hollywood Will Ultimately Forgive Him, According To… Piers Morgan
Musa Zulu - Creative Director for Valhalla Arts and Author, writer, motivational speaker, entrepreneur and Director of Valhalla Arts. His latest book is titled “Mastering the art of Self-Motivation, tapping the inner you” • His new book is available at all leading bookstores. For more information, visit: valhallaarts.co.za
Dr. Disa Mogashana – Author of Unfathered, Student Success consultant, coach, mentor and advisor at True Success Institute (Pty) Ltd - True Success Institute
Linda Ntuli – Inspirational speaker, Trainer, Facilitator, Team builder, Life Coach and an Author
GUEST: Sifiso Kubheka - full time job/internship. I have a degree in Industrial Organisational and Labour Studies (UKZN). I have 1 year experience as an HR&Payroll (pastel& SAGE VIP) Admin@0604116012 / 0736498173
· Guest {STUDIO}: Katlego Mafa -25 year old from Soweto, looking for aarticles or any legal admin job. I have a law degree and a BA degree@0782417769
· Guest: Bongani Mthembu - 26 year old looking for a job i used to work at makro strubensvalley as a cashier and cml melger investment as a general worker@0717468004
· Guest: Dimakatso Lefofane - 24 year old from soweto, looking for any entry level job ,no experience willing to learn@0793445463
Professor Kelly Chibale – Founder and Director of Africa’s first integrated drug discovery centre who has been named as one of Fortune Magazine’s 50 World’s Greatest Leaders for 2018
Dr. Shingai Mutizwa-Mangiza – Political Scientist at the University of Western Cape’s Political Studies Department
Mr Tebogo Lekgethwane - (Acting) Media Liaison Officer: at the North West Department of Health
GUEST (studio): Robert Laverge Flair Mobile Bar is South Africa’s top premium bar service. Our professional attitude and prompt service will ensure a hassle free success for your upcoming event. Our passion and love of the industry, we will ensure fresh ideas and WOW factors for your event! The Flair experience is a blend of mouth-watering cocktails, passionate bartenders, and stylish bars. This is shaken up and garnished with a little bit of magic to create an explosive atmosphere only experienced at our bars
Prof Muxe Nkondo - Policy analyst and member of Freedom Park Council and Council of the University of South Africa
Joshua Maponga – Author / A farmer of thoughts: multi-instrumentalist -writer-speaker (business consultant)
Mthetho Tshemese - Clinical psychologist and social commentator President of the Congress of Traditional Leaders of SA (Contralesa) Kgosi Setlamorago Thobejane
Jarred Doyle - Brand connector. Content strategist. Entertainment Entrepreneur. MD of Jarred Doyle Consulting in South Africa
Prof Monde Makiwane - Chief Research Specialist in the Human and Social Development (HSD) research programme of the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC)
Mahlatse Mahlase - SANEF Chairperson William Bird - Director Of Media Monitoring Africa
Singabakho Nxumalo – National Spokesperson for the Department of Correctional Services Andy Mashaile – Former Chairman of the Gauteng Police Board and Global Ambassador if Interpol’s Turn Back Crime campaign
Jarred Doyle - Brand connector. Content strategist. Entertainment Entrepreneur. MD of Jarred Doyle Consulting
Nqobile Joyful Hlongwane - Awareness Campaign Co-ordinator at the Jess Foord Foundation