Life Happens

The National Arts Jazz Festival in Makhanda (Grahamstown) – now in its 33rd year - where artists meet and challenge audiences to expand their expectations of the art form. 2020 faced one of the biggest problems faced by the arts world and live performances with the arrival of the Covid-19 pandemic. The performances this year are online on www.nationalartsfestival.co.za this Saturday 4th July you c...

July is Nelson Mandela Month, the people who do great things and contribute to the communities they occupy. This year’s #PlasticFreeMzansi campaign collaborated with five designers who have made garments and accessories using waste plastic. Applying their creativity, the designers are treating it as a valuable resource and illustrating the circular design concept of keeping materials in use. GUEST...

From Koe’siestes To Kneidlach is the bizarre, comedic and true story of what happens when a girl from the Cape Flats gets involved with a Jew-ish boy from Joburg’s East Rand –an online run on now until 10 July. It’s basically the story of Chantal Stanfield her husband musician RJ Benjamin on how they met and how they have had to deal with the dynamics of coming from such different backgrounds as S...

The number of health-care workers lodging claims with the Compensation Fund after being infected with Covid-19 at their workplaces is increasing at an alarming rate. The fund provides compensation to employees who are injured or contract dis-eases through the course of their employment. It is financed by levies paid by employers. GUEST: VUYO MAFATA – Commissioner Compensation Fund

Guest: Lauren Juries

Guest: General secretary for social justice coalition

Guest: Sherylle Dass - Regional Director of Legal Resources Centre Guest: Richard Bosman - Exec Director Safety & Security

Guest:Dr Koon

Guest: Carolyn Cramer

Guest: Gerald Mwandiambira - Cerified Financial Advisor

Healing can begin in your garden and here on Life Happens we believe we can all start and care for your own little piece of soil to help us not only with subsistence farming for our families during these difficult time but to also be aware and work with plants that may bring great energy in our spaces. GUEST : JEAN FRANCOIS SOBIECKI - Ethnobotanist, medicinal plant researcher, and qualified nutrit...

Guest:Prof Julian May, Director of the @FoodSecurity_za

Hlayisani Sono, a builder believes she has what it takes to be a player in this male-dominated industry of construction. As a young entrepreneur she is faced with many challenges but is ready to persevere. GUEST : HLAYISANI SONO – Builder

Daniel Canodoce "Can" Themba (21 June 1924 – 1968) was a South Afri-can short-story writer. Born in Marabastad, near Pretoria, he wrote most of his work in Sophiatown. He was a student at Fort Hare University College, where he received an English degree (first-class) and a teacher's diploma. GUEST: Dr SIPHIWO MAHALA - Novelist & Playwright / Phd on Can Themba/ GUEST: SELLO MAAKE KA NCUBE - Actor a...

Blind SA has accused President Cyril Ramaphosa of having failed in his constitutional duty, by not signing the long awaited Copyright Amendment Bill into law. The Copyright Amendment Bill was referred to the President in March 2019 and has been in his in-tray since. Guest: JACE NAIR – CEO BLIND SA

“Let us pay taxis the R20 000 they want” this is what VICTOR KGOMOESWANA author of Africa is Open for Business and Speaker on Afri-can business affairs. Upward of 15 million commuter trips daily would not happen without taxis. Yet only buses and trains are subsidized by the gov-ernment. Let us take this subsidy discourse further to show how elitist we are. GUEST: VICTOR KGOMOESWANA - author of Afr...

Mbali Nwoko is an Award-wininning farmer, entrepreneur, speaker, and agri blogger who has brought a unique perspective to the agricultural sector. She started her vegetable farming operation a few years ago, but her determination to succeed has been rewarded and recognised. GUEST: MBALI NWOKO - Agri-Preneur and Founder of Green Terrace

Today we talk Relationships in the workplace looking at the organi-sational culture a system of shared assumptions, values, and be-liefs, which governs how people behave in organizations. These shared values have a strong influence on the people in the organization and dictate how they act and perform their jobs. How has this evolved in the midst of covid-19? Guest: SIHLE BOLANI - Strategist & Aut...

The new President of Malawi, Lazarus Chakwera, has said that his win in the rerun election was a "victory for democracy and justice”. He defeated incumbent Peter Mutharika with 58.57% of votes in Tuesday's poll. In February, Malawi's constitutional court annulled Mr Mutharika's poll win in May 2019, citing vote tampering. GUEST : DR STEVE SHARRA - Educationist, Education & Public Policy Analysis b...

A tender the City of Cape Town published on 15 June, asking for bids from private companies to demolish illegal informal structures, has come under fire. The Legal Resources Centre (LRC) in Cape Town has vowed to challenge the tender. GUEST: Councillor MALUSI BOOI - Cape Town’s mayoral committee member for Human Settlements GUEST: SHERYLLE DASS - regional director of the Legal Resource Centre

Musician Zakes Bantwini has been accepted at Harvard University as he celebrated his 40th birthday. Zakes will be studying the business of entertainment, music and sports at Harvard Business School. His Love, Light & Music album turns 10 years, and launching an international dance label ALL ELECTRONIC MUSIC. GUEST: Zakes Bantwini – Award Winning South Africa Musician

GUEST: Xolelwa Kashe-Katiya is the Director Of Project Management Responsible For The Implementation And Monitoring Of All Mistra Projects.

The coronavirus has rebooted every aspect of life as we know it. Across Africa, home-grown ideas might be what we need to help combat it's consequences and navigate our way to what has forced the future to be today. We have seen trends analysis for 2030 and years beyond; how do these now translate with the pandemic disruption we are now faced with? GUEST: Bronwyn Williams is a Trend Translator and...

The cumulative number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in South Africa is 111 796. The mortality rate is 2.0%, with the number of recoveries standing at 56 874, which translates to a recovery rate of 50.9%.A total of 1 416 894 tests have been completed, of which 34 122 were new tests. Guest: Prof BURTRUM C FIELDING – Director of Research Development at The University of Western Cape (UWC) and Virologis...

“Motheo Brodie is a legal researcher in the Education Rights Programme at the public interest law centre, SECTION27. In this role, he has worked on various basic education related matters, amongst them; challenging the state to fix sanitation and eradicate pit toilets in our public schools as well as conducting workshops on sexual and reproductive health and rights in mainly rural schools across t...