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Guest: Lindelwa Nxumalo- Women’s Rights Coordinator for Action Aid Plan to shut down Sandton in protest over gender-based and xenophobic violence Tens of thousands protest outside parliament against gender-based violence following a week of brutal murders of young South African women in Cape Town, South Africa, 05 September 2019. Picture: EPA-EFE / NIC BOTHMA Tens of thousands protest outside parl...

Guest: Kaiser Khoza – National Chairperson for the Black Management Forum Policy and Research Touching tributes are flooding social media as South Africans remember Steve Bantu Biko, who was killed 42 years ago today. As one of the most recognisable members of the Black Consciousness Movement, Biko's outspokenness and fearlessness saw him confront the apartheid government, mainly on students' grie...

According to the statistics provided by Statistics South Africa (StatsSA 2013:3) women in South Africa - regardless of race or location - are more impoverished than men. Despite this, female-headed households, particularly those in rural areas, are larger and more complex in structure than those headed by men. The large size of households, the fact that more than half of all the households (55.2%)...

Last Saturday Goodman Gallery Johannesburg opened Over Time, Carrie Mae Weems' first solo exhibition on the continent. Weems is considered one of the most influential contemporary American artists. Using photography, text, fabric, audio, digital images, installation and video, Weems compels viewers to actively consider how the world is structured, bringing to light systems of oppression and inequa...

South African women have called on their fellow compatriots to join the ‘Without Us’ demonstrations, a daring display of dissatisfaction with the way the government has dealt with gender-based violence. Guest: Sibabalwe Sesmani - Founder of Unorthodox PR & Media Group and Founder of #WithoutUsSA march Farah Fortune - Founder of African Star Communications. She is solidarity with the #WithoutUsSA m...

Dr Adriana Marais, theoretical physicist, technologist and aspiring extraterrestrial, believes that we are living at a unique point in the history of life on Earth. Developments in engineering and science are taking place at an unprecedented rate, and the expansion of our society beyond this planet is within reach. In December 2020, Adriana and the Off-World team will depart for an overwinter, off...

Fatima Meer was born in Grey Street, Durban on 12 August 1928, the daughter of Moosa Meer and Rachel Farrel and the second born of their nine children. Her mother, Rachel, was an orphan of Jewish and Portuguese descent, but she converted to Islam and took the name Amina. Fatima Meer's father, Moosa, was born in Surat, Gujarat and came from the small Sunni Bhora community. Although not formally tra...

Today (10 September) is World Suicide Prevention Day. * How can one use Mindfulness as a tool to deal with depression which can lead to suicide? Mindfulness involves acceptance, meaning that we pay attention to our thoughts and feelings without judging them—without believing, for instance, that there's a “right” or “wrong” way to think or feel in a given moment. Guest: Jazzy Mbangwa – Executive Co...

Parts of Africa have turned on SA, with the country's businesses being attacked and forced to shut doors while travel warnings were issued to citizens. SA businesses operating in Nigeria were forced to shut down in retaliation for this week's attacks on foreign nationals. Guest: Selby Xinwa- Researcher the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation Guest: Zinhle Olayi –Spokesperson for To...

Rape culture has become a part of South African culture. It is normalised in our daily interactions in the taxi, at school, at places of worship, in the office, walking down the street, or shopping. It is part of our mundane activities; it features heavily in both the public and private sphere. It is a product of a system and a history of institutionalised coloniality, racism, patriarchy, misogyny...

The Yofa Kitchen & The Mandala Kitchen, she is also a nutritional health coach and hosts wellness retreat on their farm, Somerset Gift Getaway Farm. Guest: Marlien Wright - Author of two cookbooks

A second person had been confirmed dead following a spate of violence that spilled over to the Johannesburg suburb of Malvern on Sunday. Apparently Joburg Metro Police Department chief David Tembe has confirmed that a second person has been killed during clashes in the city. Tembe reportedly said the latest victim was shot in Malvern on Sunday night. Earlier on Sunday, one person was killed in vio...

Beatenberg is a South African band based in Cape Town, composed of Matthew Field, Robin Brink, and Ross Dorkin. The group signed with Universal Music Group label in 2012. They gained national attention in 2014 from their collaboration with the artist DJ Clock with "Pluto (Remember You)" and became the number one popular song on South African radio for over 19 consecutive weeks. Their second album...

Guest: Siggi Nonhono - Manager of The Munching Mangoos

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have announced a global travel initiative and they want you to sign up. Guest: Nathan Adams – Travel Blogger

Cape Town - Ndlovu Youth Choir have made it into the finals of America's Got Talent! The group performed a powerful and localised rendition of Whitney Houston's Higher Love on Wednesday and received a standing ovation to reach the end of the reality competition. On Thursday the results - of audience voting - were announced and at the last moment, the South African music group were "saved" by the j...

Zibusiso Mkhwanazi is the founder and Group CEO of M&N Brands a holding company with diversified investments in leading advertising, media and communication businesses. M&N Brands, owns Avatar JHB, Avatar CPT, Avatar PR, Mela Events, Bozza and AMA a full-service media agency. The group also has M&N Entertainment, a content hub that has already made its first acquisition through the purchase of Zkh...

Registered Educational Psychologist at University of the Western Cape On Monday the 2nd September marked a significant day for the University of the Western Cape. It officially opened The Office for Students with Disabilities which has been moved to a new, universally designed space on the ground floor. The Office for Student Disabilities formally began operating in 1996 as a result of the foresig...

Xenophobic unrest has flared up again in South Africa’s Gauteng province. Violent attacks against foreign-owned businesses and incidents of looting have been reported in the cities of Johannesburg and Pretoria. While videos and images help to better inform the public about the issue, when used in the wrong context they can inflame tensions and cause harmful consequences in the real world. Guest: C...

Studies have suggested that personality disorders may be common among men who habitually commit domestic violence. The study reported here attempted to characterize personality traits and psychological and cognitive characteristics of men who batter women in order to distinguish them from no battering men. Guest: Buti Manamela - Deputy Minister of Higher Education and Training science and innovati...

Guest: Professor Elizabeth Henning - Professor of Educational Linguistics and the founding Director of the CEPR on the Soweto campus of the University of Johannesburg.

There have been repeated and constant attacks on Nigerians and other foreign nationals in South Africa. These attacks which first started in the late 90s were infrequent and occasional, but they have now become regular and seem systematic. Other nationals often targeted include the Somalis, Ethiopians, Malawians, Zimbabweans, Namibians, Zambians, Tanzanians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis and Mozambican...

Gregory Vuyani Maqoma became interested in dance in the late 1980’s as a means to escape the political tensions growing in his place of birth. He started his formal dance training in 1990 at Moving Into Dance where in 2002 he became the Associate Artistic Director. Maqoma has established himself as an internationally renowned dancer, choreographer, teacher and director. He founded Vuyani Dance The...

Nadine Gordimer was born in Springs, Transvaal (now Gauteng), an East Rand mining town outside Johannesburg in 1923. Her father, Isidore Gordimer, was a Jewish jeweller originally from Latvia and her mother, Nan Myers, was of British descent. From her early childhood, Gordimer witnessed how the White minority increasingly weakened the few rights of the Black majority. Guest: Brooks Spector - Assoc...

Guest: Ingrid Louw - CEO of Aware.org Guest: Kabelo Mabalane - Aware.org Ambassador