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She learned to balance numbers before learning to command a close-up, Then crossed oceans to enter a fictional palace in someone else’s kingdom, Before returning home to help resurrect one of Africa’s most famous dynasties.

Each day a buzzword is announced, and 5 questions are asked to a listener, all of which will contain the buzzword.

With proposed changes to driver’s licence renewal periods currently open for public comment, the 5 Breakfast team explores whether South Africans actually use this channel to have their say. Listeners share their experiences of responding to Government Gazette proposals, including submitting comments through professional bodies and public participation platforms, and whether those submission...

There are people who spend their early twenties trying to figure out what they want to do with their lives. And then there’s our next guest, who at 20 has apparently decided: “Cool, I’ll just sing the songs, write the songs AND produce the songs.” Max More has been quietly building some serious momentum in South African pop. His song “High” s...

This Women’s Month, 5 FM is celebrating Women Who Move Us; women whose work, ideas, leadership and personal journeys are helping to move South Africa forward. Xoliswa Mahlangu, is a leader in digital learning, AI and educational technology. With a background in software engineering and experience across teaching, educator development and national innovation programmes, she’s helping sh...

Joining us now is Lara Toselli, a South African writer, performer, director and producer whose career began remarkably early , as a nine-year-old presenter on SABC 1's YoTV. Since then, she's worked across television, film and theatre, and has created award-winning work of her own. Her latest project is particularly personal. Mother Load is a one-woman show written and performed by Lara and direct...

What happens when an African music legend finally gets a piece of Hollywood real estate Because Angelique Kidjo is officially getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. And this isn't just another celebrity getting their name on the boulevard. She is making history.

He started with a college dropout’s dream and turned a simple nickname into a global identity, Made beats before making headlines, Then spent years proving that one man could keep changing the conversation.   He went from making beats in Chicago to making stadiums listen, Crossed fashion, music and controversy like they were separate lanes on the same highway, And no...

What happened on this day in history. 

This morning on 5 Breakfast, we’re getting into a new SABC1 documentary series called Born After The Fire. The series marks the 50th anniversary of the Soweto Uprisings by looking at South Africa through the eyes of the generation born into democracy - the young people who inherited the freedom others fought for, but are still living with the unanswered questions aro...

A woman in Italy is being declared the “luckiest person alive” after she recovered a lost lottery ticket worth the equivalent of 18 million rand. She had initially thrown away her ticket at a shop after thinking it was worthless. When she got home, her family told her that her numbers that she always plays were read out. After rushing back to the shop, they discovered th...

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