5 Mid Mornings

What does freedom mean to the youth of South Africa?

Freedom Day, Cynthia Shange, South Africa's first Black woman to represent the country at Miss World in 1972, has passed away at the age of 76. She made history during apartheid, breaking barriers on the global stage and paving the way for generations of Black South African women in pageantry, film, and television  Today, we honour South Africans like these that contributed to the Freedom we...

Lebogang Mashile. The daughter of exiled South African parents, Mashile was born in the United States, and returned to South Africa in the mid-1990s after the end of apartheid. She began to study law and international relations at the University of the Witwatersrand but became more interested in the arts. Today, she is one of the biggest poets in our nation and we are so honoured to have you...

Refilwe Modiselle is a Soweto-born visionary, published author, award-winning actress and multimedia personality. She is affectionately known as Africa’s first successful model with albinism, Refilwe is a history-maker whose trailblazing career has earned global recognition from platforms such as CNN and Oprah’s Power List.

Whether it's for love, money or values - people have different reasons for choosing their romantic partners. Yonaka asks students to cast tradition aside and choose their partners based on their degrees. There is a particularly popular profession among students - and for good reason.

We are with Johan Barnard - Franchisee at Plato Hennopspark.

A barista gives us the top tips on making a coffee at home.

Karabo doesn't like matcha?

Karabo's coffee making skills get put to a test.

What are essentials for a festival?

Karabo is looking for people that lend other people clothes and they never return them.

What basic skills are you loosing slowly?

Women and Men Against Child Abuse brings us Alex Talbot from the advocacy division to speak on the collective effort of society in protecting children. We also learn more about the GROUNDed Justice volunteer program and the sensitive courtroom and justice system support required of the volunteers in the program

Deadlines are the bread and butter of students, but sometimes, life gets in the way and an assignment gets forgotten or neglected. This then calls for some embellishment, so Yonaka asked students about their craziest excuse to get out of an assignment. Some of these students got super creative with their lies!

What is your stance on visitors just rocking up to your place?

Would you leave money for love?

Would it be chaos if we all knew each other’s salaries?

You get invited to coffee with the person who you partner has warned you about! Do you go?

No budget limitations, what does your perfect house have?

Founder of Vuyolethu's Haven, Ayanda Larkin, joins us for a conversation about how the organization is supporting the ASD community by amplifying a fun walk. She also shares parenting gems for along with the organization's message for Autism Awareness/Acceptance Month this year and how Mzansi can amplify this.

If you could have the perfect Monday cheat meal, what would it be?

What song are you obsessed with right now?

If you had a child now, a Gen Beta Baby, would you send the to university or would you let them learn through other means?