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For a long time, conditions like high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke and kidney failure were thought of as older people's problems. But that picture is changing. We're seeing more and more stories of people in their 20s, 30s and 40s suffering strokes, being diagnosed with hypertension, and facing serious health challenges that previous generations might only have encount...

When did supporting your national team become a financial decision that needs a spreadsheet, a prayer circle and maybe a side hustle selling koeksisters at scale? Because for South Africans dreaming of watching Bafana Bafana at the 2026 FIFA World Cup, the dream is giving “global football festival”… but the receipt is giving “deposit on a small car.” We&rsq...

How is petrol going up while diesel is going down? That’s not a fuel price update, that’s a plot twist with a pump nozzle.  

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Why is your 2026 playlist suddenly sounding like your parents’ CD wallet, your auntie’s wedding playlist, and a Stranger Things trailer all had a group project?  

HEADLINE:  A Whistleblower Claims the CIA Is Searching DNA Sites for [BLANK] [BLANK] Presented by Thabo, this segment delivers a humorous and unique take on the weird, wacky,  and risqué news of the day. It adds a playful twist to current events, making news consumption  entertaining To get the tea, the Team and listeners have to guess the missing word[s] in the headline .

“He is too windswept to be a traditional balladeer, too emotionally available to be a detached indie boy, and too earnest to hide behind irony for long. He writes like someone who still believes in grand gestures, sings like someone raised on technique, and moves through pop not as a rebel smashing windows, but as the smiling architect replacing them with bigger glass.” 

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Bet You Can't Find: Someone who has been stuck

It’s Monday; which means it’s time to stretch your money mindset on Money Mondays  with Xoli Zondo and Gerald Mwandiambira.  This week, we’re unpacking a financial trend that’s becoming more and more common;  “Buy Now, Pay Later.”  You’ve probably seen it while shopping online or in stores. Instead of paying the full  amount upfron...

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“In one life, she is a teenage television asset trapped in an eternal sitcom loop.  In another, she is a Broadway veteran who got lost on the way to the pop charts.  In another, she is a high-altitude weather pattern capable of bringing both sunshine and  rain simultaneously.  In this one, she wore a ponytail like armor and outgrew every box they built for her.”&nbs...

The team battles it out - in this quiz - to find out who best remembers what happened during the week. 

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“He is winter logic with steady hands, a builder of rooms people had stopped entering. Where others brought speeches, he brought measurements. Where others brought hope, he brought habits. And slowly, the old house remembered how to stand."

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“She proves that some waves don’t ask permission to travel. They start in Joburg, pick up log drums, collect a little controversy, and suddenly the whole world is trying to pronounce the tide.” 

Bet You Can't Find: People with foreign objects in them

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

Presented by Thabo, this segment delivers a humorous and unique take on the weird, wacky, and risqué news of the day. It adds a playful twist to current events, making news consumption entertaining HEADLINE: Dehydrated [BLANK] [BLANK] trap passengers on bus until they hand over water.

Who is the northern emperor who learned to conquer by collaboration, borrowing accents like passports and turning emotional confession into stadium currency? He stood among three giants, claimed a throne by streaming numbers, then met a smaller, sharper blade that made the crown feel suddenly heavy.

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