5 Breakfast

Announcing the Durban winner of the Unlock Your Talent competition.  Unlock Your Talent gig live on radio and online from 6pm on 31 December. Dan Corder and Zanele Potelwa will MC the night away with a whole of lot surprise DJ sets from our very own 5FM DJs and Unlock your talent winners!  

Announcing the Pretoria winner of the Unlock Your Talent competition.  Unlock Your Talent gig live on radio and online from 6pm on 31 December. Dan Corder and Zanele Potelwa will MC the night away with a whole of lot surprise DJ sets from our very own 5FM DJs and Unlock your talent winners!  

Newly appointed Mayor of Cape Town Goerdin Hill-Lewis joins us to chat about the significance of the UK lifting its travel ban on South Africa.

Dan catches up with South African - British mega-star Baby Queen after being announced to join Olivia Rodrigo on a world tour.

Business Unit Manager of 5FM JD Mostert joins us on the show to talk about the new plan for the Unlock Your Talent Competition.  Due to the rise in Covid numbers the station has decided to pivot to a full scale virtual event on New Years Eve.

We catch up with microbiologist Dr Tim De Wet who sheds some light on the latest developments about the Omicron Variant.

Every Wednesday at 7:50 am Matty shares an affirmation for the week. Tune in and unwind.

Is it ok for someone to take the spotlight at your event? Listen as the team give their advise to someone who finds themselves in this potential situation.

Listen as Dan finally apologises or attempts to apologize to Marli after he dragged her for buying a very important book and not reading it. But was Dan actually wrong? Listeners and the rest of the 5 Breakfast team chime in. 

The search continues for Mzansi’s best talents who will be performing as opening acts for December Streets during 5fm’s Unlock Your Talent Tour. Listen as Tristan from December Streets let’s us in on what he’s looking for in an opening act.

The Spar National Women’s Netball Championships in Cape Town will start today as the S.A  netball fraternity mourns the loss of players and an official who lost their lives in a bus crash on their way to the tournament. 5 Breakfast's Xoli was joined by Netball SA President Cecilia Molokwane to talk about this horrific development

We catch up with Advocate Bernadine Bachar, Director at the Saartjie Baartman Centre for Women and Children. She tells us about how they operate as a 'one-stop-shop' for women and children suffering from GBV and need urgent help.

We ask the listeners what Secret Santa gift they would buy each member of the team and why.

Dan catches up with Dr Judy Mann who explains the science of Shell's seismic blasting project on the East Coast of South Africa. What is the impact on our incredibly vulnerable Wild Coast and what is the state of the legal battle at the moment. 

Xoli challenges the listeners to whistle the end of 'Ke Dezember Boss' in the style of the famous '36 Tomato advert'. Can you do it? 

As a part of the Unlock Your Talent campaign Tristan from December Streets shares 5 steps that he believes will help any artist achieve success in South Africa and the world.

Every Wednesday at 7:50 am Matty shares an affirmation for the week. Tune in and unwind.

Her partner is 12 years older than her and has 6 kids with his baby mamma, but she had no idea. She thinks he's still in love with her, should she leave?

From 'Family Meeting' to 'Decuplets' what is South Africa's word of the year?

Hear the viral BBC News clip of Dr Ayoade Alakija speaking out against vaccine and Covid related racism against the continent of Africa. "Had Covid first been discovered in Africa they would have locked us up and thrown away the key"

Dr Tim De Wet is a genomic sequencer and explains that South Africa is world class in this regard, this may be why the new variant was discovered here first. He also explains that the decision to close borders was much more of a political decision than a scientific one.

After the President's address last night we learnt that the government is still considering a 'vaccine mandate'. We caught up with constitutional law expert, Professor Pierre de Vos to hear whether the proposed vaccine mandate actually infringes on our rights or whether it is deemed a public good.

The team brings you the cringiest stories from the world of the news and we vote to crown the Sheesh of the Week.