5 Breakfast

2022 has been a turbulent year in world, which had so many interesting events. As we’re counting down to our Top 100 Chart of Saturday, 31 December,  we reflect on the highlights and the year that was. 

As we celebrate international Card Playing Day, Doron the Magician stopped by the studio  to tell us about his journey as a magician since at the age of 10 and performed a couple of card techniques!

A study has found something that women do better than men, what may this be?

2022 has been a turbulent year for South Africa, Thabo gives us his top 5 stories of the year.

According to research, we hear sound differently based on the language you speak, which is very tricky for bilinguals sometime. In honour of hearing enthusiasts everywhere, let’s put this to the test and play the “Guess the sound game”

Can the team spell these words?

We think employees who probably had the best experience of all time and had a “lit” one is Eskom employees…! Imagine what went down during the party?!

The world’s most boring person may be the same person who does what in your life or in life?

We get the 5 breakfast team to name all of the songs that they think represent South Africa. How many can you name in 30 seconds?

The team writes a script for their hometown’s. We have a story about Zama Zama’s. We have a story about a football team being sold for corruption money. We have Nobel peace prize winners. It gets interesting.

In the first edition of you choose what we speak about, we chat to IronMan who asks us to chat about cars. As Smash says, its an extreme sport allowing people to choose what we speak about.

What is the song of the year for you? The song that makes you move. The song that makes you jam in traffic? The song that makes you and your special one feel good!

We ask you how you are going to smash today! We have people who are Gym-ing! We have people who are Singing! We have people who are Driving! All of whom are smashing today!

Smash and the team look at how you are celebrating Santa Paws Day. How do you celebrate your dog on Santa Paw Day? Do you celebrate your dog by making it a pasta dinner like Ed?

Thabo does an edition of the good good news, he discusses a man who didn’t take leave for 27 years. The man was given a small hamper to say thank you from his employees. The internet went bezerk.

In the first edition of 5 Breakfast can I get permission to sleep in, we call Walter and get him to give permission to Hein to sleep in for the rest of the day.

The question is would Lionel Messi and Killian Mbappe want to see the portraits he has just painted. Who should Rasta paint next? What about the Ukrainian president?

Smash Afrika and the rest of the team choose their headlines of the day, we focus on music, politics and sport. With Travis Scott, Justin Bieber and the Argentinian football team being made mention.

The Team sings Christmas carols, We discover that Traffic stand in reader Yonaka Teledi does a cover version on a Mariah Carey song that gets the whole of South Africa singing along.

5 Breakfast takes a look at a fire at the UNISA building. The conspiracy theorists in us ask if someone started a fire for nefarious reasons?

Th team chats about how they combat bad breath.

What works as well as bug spray to repel mosquitoes

Each member of the team talks about their self care routines.

New Zealand decided to ban cigarettes, could this ever work in SA?

Aaron tries  to list as many things you take to the beach as possible.