Life Happens

President Cyril Ramaphosa announced on Wednesday announced that Andrew Mekete Mlangeni, the last remaining Rivonia trialist, has died. Mlangeni, who turned 95 on June 6, was admitted to 1 Military Hospital in Pretoria on Tuesday with an abdominal complaint. Guest: Mandla Mathebula - Author of "Backroom Boy: Andrew Mlangeni's Story"

Educo Solutions, the organisation that supplies free, accredited education to the youth, has fast-tracked its digital services, launching Educo Academy in an attempt to counter the negative impact Covid-19 is having on the educational environment. The online learning portal allows all Educo students to conduct their courses remotely and for free, helping them to continue progressing during lockdow...

Veteran actor Allen Booi has died, talent agency Trinity Management confirmed in a statement on Monday. The star, who featured in several major productions, including Tsha Tsha, Soul City, Backstage, Generations, Muvhango Zero Tolerance, Mponeng, After Nine and Isidingo died at his Johannesburg home on Monday morning. Guest: Vusi Thanda - Legendary Actor

Legendary South African casting director and agent Moonyeenn has passed away. On Sunday, Lee's company Moonyeenn Lee Associates, announced that she passed away on Saturday morning in Johannesburg. She was renowned as one of South Africa's leading agents, probably the most famous one in the country, and represented some of SA's best-known actors through her company, & Associates (MLA). GUEST: Dr Jo...

The Itumeleng Sekhu Foundation in partnership with The Angel Network are helping people that need assistance. Throughout the National Lockdown we have contributed and donated over 2000 food parcels in Gauteng and continue to do so. This week they will deliver over 200 food parcels to feed the hungry. GUEST: Itumeleng Sekhu - Founder of Itumeleng Sekhu Foundation

The emotional wellbeing of children is just as important as their physical health. Good mental health allows children and young people to develop the resilience to cope with whatever life throws at them and grow into well-rounded, healthy adult GUEST: Dr Sheri Fanaroff - Family Physician

Official statistics indicate, since the end of the hard lockdown, farm attacks have been on the rise; however, farm attacks for the first half of 2020 are still lower than the first half of 2019. Agriculture and safety experts said farm attacks were in the vast majority not racially motivated, and mostly driven by economic gain. What will it take to end farm murders & rural crime in SA? Guest: Dr...

The loss of a loved one is always extremely difficult and painful. It’s a roller coaster” of all sorts of emotions. How do you pick up the pieces and heal? GUEST: Khosi Jiyane - Clinical Psychologist

Despite the level 3 regulations not permitting leisure travel, hard-hit tourism businesses want the government to reconsider. Tourism organisations from across South Africa are trying to get their voice heard in hopes that President Cyril Ramaphosa revises the policies around leisure travel. GUEST: Hylton Langley - Hylton Langley Safaris & Adventures GUEST: Tshifhiwa Tshivengwa - Ceo Tourism Busin...

Guest: Wendy Alberts - Restaurant Association of South Africa CEO

The Music of Nelson Mandela • Simple Minds - Mandela Day • Johnny Clegg & Savuka - Asimbonanga • Hugh Masekela - Bring Him Back Home GUEST: RJ BENJAMIN

Zazi and Ziwelene are the grand children to Ambassador Zindzi Mandela and their great-grandad is Nelson Mandela. Once day, they ask their grandmother 15 questions about him and his life. As their conversation unfolds, Zazi and Ziwelene learn that Nelson Mandela was a freedom fighter, a President, and a Nobel Peace Prize–winner, and that they can carry on his work today. Guest: Zikhona Valela – His...

GUEST: Razia Saleh – Head of Archives Nelson Mandela Foundation

The City of Cape Town has been dealt a blow after the Western Cape High Court found in favour of poor residents of Hangberg, Hout Bay, that the DA-led council had evicted in the middle of winter and lockdown. Judge Gayaat Salie-Hlophe found the City’s conduct unlawful and unconstitutional, ordering it to rebuild the structures demolished by City Law Enforcement within 48 hours. The residents’ lawy...

What is the support men need from society in order to thrive. What is essential in how we communicate and relate to men as women and society as a whole to help you become the men you hope to be? GUEST: Mfanozelwe Shozi - Gender Activist & Member of the KZN Men’s Forum GUEST: Dr Frans Corb - Psychiatrist

Guest: Prof. Prof Burtrum C Fielding - Director of Research Development at the University of Western Cape & Virologist specializing in Coronavirus

TODAY is World Youth Skills Day, the City of Johannesburg is rolling-out 650 internships and 200 bursaries in addressing skills shortages concern. This is part of the City’s commitment to address skills shortages challenge and give young people skills to compete in the economic space and to ensure that they are employable when they attain these skills. GUEST: MMC Loyiso Masuku - MMC for Group Corp...

Guest: Jacob Molepo - Denosa Limpopo Secretary General

Today we are talking Eucalyptus Valerian, Passion Flower and CBD the non-psychoactive compound in cannabis. GUEST: JEAN FRANCOIS SOBIECKI - Ethnobotanist, medicinal plant researcher, and qualified nutritionist

The most-recent poverty statistics by Statistic South Africa showed that despite a decline in poverty between 2006 and 2011, poverty levels had once again over half of all South Africans (55.5%), 30.4 million people, were living in poverty. Stats SA has published its latest Quarterly Labour Force Survey for the three months to March 2020, revealing that the country’s unemployment rate rose in the...

Food4Thought is an initiative by the Barkzz Foundation which is the disability awareness and activism organization which advocates for the social integra-tion of people with disabilities. A new activation “Food4Thought with Hloni-Walker” has been introduced as is an online TV program that focuses on Disability Awareness, Keeping safe during Covid-19 as person with disability, breaking disability s...

Born on Dec. 23, 1960, in the Soweto township of Johannesburg, Ms. Mandela was 18 months old when her father was arrested and convicted of sabotage and treason. She was 3 when he was sentenced to life imprisonment on Robben Island, off South Africa’s west coast. At age 12 she wrote to the United Nations, urging it to intervene to protect her mother, herself an anti-apartheid activist, from the Sou...

SA-TIED Southern Africa – Towards Inclusive Economic Development (SA-TIED). The programme’s goal is improved economic research for informed, evidence-based policy to promote inclusive growth in South Africa and the region. The programme is the result of a unique collaboration between local and international officials and experts. GUEST : AMINA EBRAHIM - Research Associate at UNU-WIDER(United Natio...

While tons of quality food end up on landfills, millions starve each day. Food Forward SA has developed an innovative, data-driven solution to a very human problem, feeding thousands every day while supporting social development in our most vulnerable communities. GUEST: Andy du Plessis – MD of Food Forward South Africa

Remember when dating was about meeting a potential partner through a friend, at a braai and getting to know them over dinner and a movie? Well, if you're dating in your 50s, you know that it can be so much more complicated than that idyllic scene of your younger years. You might be reemerging on the dating scene following a long hiatus, perhaps after being divorced or widowed—only to find that the...