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Musicians Master KG and Nomcebo Zikode have been officially named as young ambassadors for the country by the Department of Arts, Sports and Culture for bringing millions of people together with their hit song Jerusalema. Jerusalema currently has over 53 million YouTube views, and has sparked numerous social media dance challenges. GUEST: Percy Mabandu – Music Journalist & Historian

Masks and Makeup Don’t Mix, So Cosmetic Fans Seek Permanent Fix In 2015 Phiwe Mngadi decided she was done being an employee. She knew she had plenty to offer as a business owner and launched her own beauty studio in Soweto. She travels across the African continent offering beauty training to those who are equally dedicated. GUEST: Phiwe Mngadi – Permanent Make Up Artist & Founder of Plush Art Stud...

KZN Churches launch “Hope Vouchers” as part of their ongoing food relief. A coalition of concerned churches have flagged emergency relief as their most immediate focus and are roll-outing out “Hope Vouchers” to vulnerable families in each of the 11 districts over the next three months. GUEST: Bishop Nathi Zondi - Leader of the Truevine Family of Churches

As of today, a cumulative total of 482 169 confirmed COVID-19 cases in South Africa have been recorded with 11 046 new cases identified. GUEST: Prof Burtram Fielding - Director of Research Development at the University of Western Cape and Virologist specializing in Covid-19.

COVID-19 is a new virus and the fear of the unknown drives stigma about the disease and can cause people to hide their illness. Stigma is the workplace is an emerging issue. How do we deal with it? GUEST: Mike Bagraim – Labour Law Expert and Lawyer GUEST: ANONYMOUS

How is Your Garden Looking Like? Today we reflect on what we have covered so far and the plants that will help you with inflammation • Plants to aid Arthritis / Devil’s Claw • African Potato • Red Onion GUEST: Jean Francois Sobiecki - Ethnobotanist, Medicinal plant researcher, and qualified nutritionist

Cape Town has its hands full with land occupations. Fiery commentary from the national minister of human settlements, mayco member for human settlements and mayor emphasizes the need to protect public and private land. All state that lawlessness is not to be tolerated. Guest: Adi Kumar - Executive Director Development Action Group

This Mandela month Foonda has decided to step in by helping to provide extra support to matric learners through Madiba Sessions, a virtual tutoring program aimed at connecting learners with tutors free of charge. GUEST: Vuyo Pakade - Founder & CEO FOONDA

Edwina Makgamatha is the Founder and Chairperson of Thusanang Enabling Support Services and Thuso Ke Botho. She is a woman on a wheelchair due to a motor vehicle accident. The company has created jobs for 15 Individuals to provide for their families. Guest: Edwina Makgamatha - Founder and Chairperson of Thusanang Enabling Support Services and Thuso Ke Botho

The annual Jakes Gerwel Fellowship Summit will be taking place virtually This Thursday and Friday 30-31 July, some of the sessions will include a line-up of local and international education experts. Exploring the education system and the "wicked" problems that various players are trying to solve. Guest: Carla Watson - Head of the Jakes Gerwel Graduate Teaching Fellowship Guest: Julian Hewitt - CE...

The Republic of South Africa is a parliamentary republic with three-tier system of government and an independent judiciary, operating in a parliamentary system. Legislative authority is held by the Parliament of South Africa. Executive authority is vested in the President of South Africa who is head of state and head of government, and his Cabinet. Guest: Tessa Dooms - Social Analyst and Director...

40% of marriages end in divorce before their ten-year anniversary, Stats SA. And, divorce in general tends to be a very expensive affair. “Four out of 10 of the 25,326 marriages in 2016 came to an end before the ten-year mark. Since the lockdown started, a local legal firm has noted a 20% increase in divorce applications. Guest: Vanessa Mogorosi - Relationship coach

In The School of Nursing at the University of the Free State (UFS) – a senior lecturer has become the first UFS staff member to win the prestigious Sigma Emerging Nurse Researcher/Scholar award, making him the third African to achieve this. GUEST: Dr Champion N Nyoni - SENIOR LECTURER : SCHOOL OF NURSING FACULTY / HEALTH SCIENCES

A Christian school has barred a Grade 2 pupil from attending classes because he is wearing isiphandla (cultural bracelet made from animal skin). The nine-year-old pupil at Christian Life Private School in Buccleuch, Johannesburg, was prevented from entering the school on Thursday and was sent home. Then his parents received a letter dated July 23. Guest: Shenece Linderboom - Attorney Section 27

More than half of all children in the country live mired in poverty and it's getting worse, according to a new report on Child Poverty in South Africa. More than six out of 10 children (62.1%) are identified as multidimensionally poor as indicated by health, housing, nutrition, protection, education, information, water and sanitation. GUEST: Paul Smith - Kagiso Trust's local government support hea...

Bongeziwe Mabandla has just release his new single Jikeleza off his latest album iimini. “Jikeleza means ‘Go Round’, and it is about that moment when you realise how powerful the feeling of love is,” explains Mabandla. “The song is also about our universal need to connect. It is about those things that bind us and make us the same.” Guest:Bongeziwe Mabandla

London-based and Durban-born opera singer Njabulo Madlala has conducted the very first Online Voices of South Africa Opera Singing Competition. Njabulo Madlala and his voices of south africa trust have launched an urgent campaign to help provide food for their wonderfully talented artists during the covid-19 crisis. Guest: Njabulo Madlala

Health Minister Zweli Mkhize has announced 153 more deaths owing to Covid-19, as well as 13104 new infections, taking the total confirmed cases over 408 000. On Wednesday night, he had announced 572 new deaths - South Africa's deadliest day at the hands of the Covid-19. GUEST: Prof Burtram Fielding – Director of Research Development at The University of Western Cape (UWC) and Virologist specializi...

Live-Cook Channel is a solidarity initiative for the culinary industry. Live-Cook episodes are streamed on YouTube every second Thursday at 6pm. The show is hosted by Masterchef’s Pete Goffe-Wood. GUEST: PETE GOFFE-WOOD - Host Guest (WINNER): GERRIT VAN ZYL from Noordhoek Cape Town

Live-Cook Channel is a solidarity initiative for the culinary industry. Live-Cook episodes are streamed on YouTube every second Thursday at 6pm (link for tomorrow’s episode is in the mailer link above).The show is hosted by Masterchef’s Pete Goffe-Wood. Participants can purchase tickets via Webtickets and receive a box of ingredients to cook along with the chef. GUEST: Pete Goffe-Wood - Host GUEST...

The International Bar Association reports that almost half of South African female legal professionals say they have been sexually harassed, and 73% have been bullied. It is time for women in the profession to unite and fight back. Research on Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa indicates high levels of sexual harassment in newsrooms. GUEST: Mfanozelwe Shozi - Gender Activist and Lecturer at Durban Un...

The Minister of Social Development, Ms Lindiwe Zulu, will together with the Deputy Minister Ms Hendrieta Bogopane-Zulu, present on Wednesday, July 22, the Department’s budget to the National Council of Provinces (NCOP). It is expected that on the day, the Department’s readjusted budget and plans will be presented as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic which has led to the country’s national lockdown...

UJ student Mabel Maleka can see again after the medical team at the Safe Sight Clinic in Morningside with the Nelson Mandela Foundation operated on her cataracts. Her family, friends and school mentorship group reached out for financial assistance on social media, catching the attention of the Nelson Mandela Foundation who connected them to an eye surgeon, Doctor TB Maleka, who agreed to operate o...

It is imperative that taxpayers ensure that their rights are protected, especially during the unprecedented times of COVID-19, where we have seen that SARS has adopted a firmer position in collecting outstanding debt. GUEST: Gert Van Heerden - Senior Legal Manager at Tax Ombud

*GOTU KOLA ALSO KNOWN AS CENTELLA ASIATICA, commonly known as Indian pennywort or Asiatic pennywort, is a herbaceous, perennial plant in the flowering plant family Apiaceae. It is native to the wetlands in Asia. It is used as a culinary vegetable and as a medicinal herb. *VALERIAN Valerian is a perennial flowering plant native to Europe and Asia. In the summer when the mature plant may have a heig...