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The Solidarity Fund is committed to the eradication of Gender Based Violence and as part of its commitment; we shall be having ongoing conversations every Monday afternoon at 14h05 discussing topics that will challenge all of us to find solutions towards ending the GBV scourge. #SolidarityForGBV Guest: Wendy Tlou - Executive Head: Humanitarian and Behavioural Change Pillars Solidarity Fund

KHONA LA launched its first store in October 2020 launching in Alexander Townships Jhb. It is the Network of Local Spazashops operating under the same trade name. The Network aims to transform the township retail market. Guest: Mxolisi Buthelezi – Founder and CEO

South Africa has a long history of violence. It was used as a tool of power and governance by colonialists to repress and control the indigenous people. The apartheid regime from 1948 used violence as part of its repertoire to gain and maintain social and political control. Such a culture of violence is hard to stop, especially when it has become a legitimised and institutionalised form of coercio...

Guest: Selaelo Selota - Award winning Musician

Guest: Barbara Elshove.

Earlier this morning The Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) hosted a webinar on Alcohol and Substance Abuse as Contributing Factors in Gender – Based Violence and Femicide (GBV-F). Guest: Javu Baloyi - Spokesperson Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) Guest: Dr. Leane Ramsoomar-Hariparsaad - Public Health Researcher and Research Uptake Specialist, Gender & Health Research Unit (GHRU) South Afric...

In early October, the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development announced it was making almost 900 farms available for emerging farmers to lease on underutilised or vacant state land. Agriculture Minister Thoko Didiza said on Tuesday that 5,838 online applications had been received from cooperatives, companies and individuals. A number of physical applications were also made, wh...

Students Concerned students and the SRC of the Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University in GaRankuwa, north-west of Pretoria,organized a march to Pretoria West Police Station on Friday, 6 November 2020. Management of the University resolved to join the march in solidarity with the students with a view to recommitting themselves and to standing firm against gender based violence in the country. G...

Parliament announced that it shall investigate the working and living conditions of Farmworkers across the country. What are these conditions and what needs to be done to change them. Guest: Collette Solomon - Co-Director Women on Farms project (WFP) Guest: Mr. Anghenick Jonas - Secretary of the Central Karoo Farm Community Association

Elangeni Green Zone A group of displaced men have transformed a plot of land behind Durban’s famous beachfront Elangeni Hotel into a small scale farm in just a few months. Guest: Fred Mbambo - Leader of the Initiative Guest: Lungelo Mdladla - Junior Business Development Analyst SAKHA IZWE SOUTH AFRICA (SISA) BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AGENCY

The coronavirus and nationwide lockdown highlighted the need for food security in the country’s most vulnerable communities. Growbox founder Renshia Manuel, 38, has launched a fully fledged vegetable production farm, called the Urban Farmers’ Market, on November 1st to introduce sustainable vegetable farming in the Cape Flats and Hanover Park in Cape Town. Guest: Renshia Manuel – Growbox CEO

Guest: Ntebo Mokobo - SABC Journalist Guest: Xolani Dube, Political Analyst from the Xubera Institute of Research and Development

We have seen the picture of Angelo Agrizzi on social media laid on his back in ICU with his book “Inside The Belly of The Beast” with him was Author Melinda Ferguson who wrote the article ‘They tried to kill me. Twice’ – up close and personal with Angelo Agrizzi in ICU’’ Guest: Melinda Ferguson – Author & Publisher

The University of the Free State Qwaqwa Campus Department of History has collaborated with US University of Nebraska-Lincoln. New digital humanities project gives voice to Africans who aided British exploration in the nineteenth century Guest: Dr. Jared Mcdonald – Project Scholar & Lead Contact for Southern African research, he is also the Assistant Dean of Humanities at the University of the Free...

Zenzile Miriam Makeba (4 March 1932 – 9 November 2008 died at 76 years), nicknamed Mama Africa, was a South African singer, songwriter, actress, United Nations goodwill ambassador, and civil rights activist. She was an advocate against apartheid. She died of a heart attack during a 2008 concert in Italy. Guest: Roberto Meglioli – Was Mama Miriam’s Manager

Guest: Anton Ressel – Strategic Head and SME Mentor Support at FETOLA Business Growth Professionals Guest: Carol Van Rooi – Red Pilot Clothing Manufacturing Business in Cape Town (4 years old)

In recent years, a little over half of youths have obtained a Matric certificate, in part because many leave school before Grade 12. This is often portrayed as a crisis. But is it? What is somewhat unusual is that there is no national qualification below Grade 12 serving as a fallback for those not reaching Grade 12. The fact that a Grade 9 certificate should now be on the policy agenda seems a st...

Lucky Philip Dube 3 August 1964 – 18 October 2007 died at the age of 43 This year he would be 56 years. Reggae musician and Rastafarian. He recorded 22 albums was South Africa's biggest-selling reggae artist. He has recorded mbaqanga, Afrikaans and reggae albums. Dube was murdered in the Johannesburg suburb of Rosettenville on the evening of 18 October 2007 GUEST: BONGANI MAHLANGU – Writer and Soc...

Stress spills into our personal lives in many ways, affecting the quality of our close relationships. When people are stressed, which can lead to alienation between partners. Guest: Leah Sefor – Life and Relationship Coach

The outcome of the US presidential election hangs in the balance as five swing states continue to count their ballots. To capture the White House, a candidate must amass at least 270 votes in the Electoral College. Most major TV networks gave Biden a 253-214 lead in electoral votes. Results in Pennsylvania (20 electoral votes), Georgia (16), North Carolina (15), Arizona (11) and Nevada (6) remaine...

Many men say their health just isn't something they talk about, they even drag their feet about seeing a doctor The Importance of men talking up and asking questions about their health. Today we encourage men to call and ask their questions. GUEST: Prof Shingai Mutambirwa - Head of department of Urology at George Mukhari academic hospital and Head of Department of Urology, Sefako Makgatho Health S...

Disinformation …from social media to communications platforms across the globe have become the norm. How do we identify the fake news from what is real? Guest: Adam Armstrong - Project Head for Digital Narrative Manipulation Programme at DFRLab (Digital Forensic Research Lab) Guest: Stewart Jones

Following a number of deliberations with various co-ops and forums focusing on the development of cooperatives SA CO-OPS ASSOCIATION AND RETAIL NETWORK are marching to the Dept of Small Business in Pretoria GUEST: Sizwe Mkhwanazi - Interim Leader of the SA Co-Ops Association and Retail Network

Eight people between the ages of 30 and 40 died when two gunmen entered a house in NY78, Gugulethu, on Monday night and fired indiscriminately at the occupants. The perpetrators fled the scene in a waiting getaway car. It’s believed the crime was premeditated. Residents of Gugulethu, Khayelitsha, Crossroads, Nyanga and Browns Farm say the massacre is likely to be linked to the Boko Haram gang’s at...

Today we are talking about African Psychoactive Plants; Jean is to publish a book on these particular plants and their healing role. GUEST: Jean Francois Sobiecki