5 Breakfast

The team and the listeners reminiscence about their favourite childhood games and asks whether any of these could feature on a real-life South African version of Squid Game.  

We catch up with Lelowhatsgood, writer,  DJ and Creative Board member at Night Embassy.

Dan catches up with Cheerleader hitmaker OMI and British electronic group Sondr for the release of their new track Telephone Love

Mathapelo Moloi returns with her third edition of the much requested feature, Matty's Affirmations

We chat with Investigative journalist, and Carte Blanche producer, Latashia Naidoo about the leaked Pandora Papers in what has become one of the biggest stories in the world. But what is the significance of this leak and how does it affect South Africa. In a nutshell the close to 12 million documents implicate many of the world's wealthy elite and details how their money is often used to manipulat...

For the first time on Secret Service we had a caller with an incredibly unique condition. She suffers from Love Addiction, a chronic condition similar to sex addiction or any other addiction where she struggles with dependency and fantasy.  She feels she can't tell her family as they might not believe her and is terrified other people in her life might take advantage of her. What should she d...

Last night WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram went down for 6 hours without warning. Dan chats with Editor in Chief of 'Stuff Studio' to find out not only what happened, but what this signals for us as a digitally dependent society. Should we be concerned, do these companies have too much power over us?

Gamane Gama from Right2Know's Anti-Disinformation Project chats to us about the danger of Dis-information and mis-information around the upcoming municipal elections. Why is it important that we as voters arm ourselves with the correct information and hold political parties accountable for sharing fake news or dis-information?

This weekend The Boks made history against the All Blacks achieving a hard won victory in the final moments of the game. But everyone's favourite moment has to be Lukhanyo Am's switch pass behind his back to Sbu Nkosi witch set up a monumental try for Damian De Allende. We asked the listeners to commentate the moment in their own style to hilarious effect.

Dan catches up with Canadian hitmakers Neon Dreams who are joined by South African vocalist Mthandazo Gatya. They chat about their South African tour, the success of their single 'Life Without Fantasies' and the joy of working with Mthandazo. 

We catch up with our favourite SAMA winning act, Jetho Tait. He chats about his brand new release called 'Will You Stay' and sneaks in a cheeky live performance of one of his early tracks called 'Running Wild' with Pascal and Pearce, which nearly brings the team to tears.

Johnny Clegg's sons, Jesse and Jaron visit 5 Breakfast for an incredibly emotional interview and release of their father's biography 'Scatterling of Africa'.

After being inundated with requests Matty returns with her second edition of Matty's Affirmations. If you need to centre yourself or calm down during the rush hour traffic take a listen to this moment of pure bliss from our very own Mathapelo Moloi.

The listeners tell us what jobs they think each member of the team could do if they weren't in radio, we even get a couple calls for actual job offers.

5 Breakfast has an exclusive with Charli XCX and she reveals the inspiration for her funeral themed music video for 'Good Ones' as well as her teenage love for 'Stromae'. Listen to the full interview to hear Dan teach her his favourite drinking game.

The Team talks Heritage Day and what it means for them as they recount personal stories of their heritage and the significance of the day to them.

Matty discovered a brand new talent this morning. She has a gift for soothing the nation, we loved it so much we've decided to make it a regular thing.

Dan chats with British superstar Becky Hill about her years-in-the-making debut album, 'Only Honest On The Weekend'. Having been a global hitmaker since her teenage years, Becky decided it was time for an official album. Her debut single off the album 'My Heart Goes' sets the tone for what is going to be an album to remember.

We received a surprise 'Caraoke' submission for Mumford and Son's Little Lion Man which absolutely blew us away. 10 Year old Mckayla from KZN was such a sensation on the whatsapp line that we simply had to find her in person, and we did! This is our interview with her own unique version of Dua Lipa's Levitating.

Dan get's his second jab live on air completing his full covid 19 vaccination. Lisa from Medirite guides him through the whole process and chats a little bit about why we need to push our vaccination numbers up.

The team chat about words that are untranslatable. Each member of the team comes from a different language and cultural background and they ask us to guess what certain words mean in their language.

Our favourite newsreader, Mathapelo Moloi is back after an extremely difficult 7-week struggle with Covid 19.  After being hospitalized in High Care for 2 weeks and suffering a variety of different traumas associated with long Covid she has the bravery to speak about her experience to the nation.