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iSchoolAfrica, a South African education initiative, has empowered more than 100,000 South African learners and 3,000 teachers in rural and township-based schools. Operating across all nine provinces, with one of the world's best technology and classroom practices, the initiative helps schools overcome a lack of infrastructure and other essential resources, and improves their numeracy results by a...

A lot has happened in 2020 and more will happen in the future. The Covid-19 pandemic brought various challenges to the healthcare system and nurses have been at the coalface of these challenges. The mental health of nurses has been challenged, their resilience tested, and their teamwork strengthened. In the future, a collective approach related to the function and role of nurses needs to be enhanc...

Guest: Clairvoyant Psychic Medium -Jade David

A recent judgment by the Labour Court implores employers to consider whether existing Covid-19 health and safety protocols are being taken seriously by employees. Such protocols are meaningless if they are merely "in place and on paper" In this judgment*, the Labour Court upheld the dismissal of an employee who reported for duty / work despite knowing that he had tested positive for Covid-19. Gues...

Guest: Sboniso Mkhize, from, SB Mkhize attorneys Incorporated, Managing Director

Guest: Dr Natalia Novikova -is a highly skilled female gynaecologist and laparoscopic surgeon.

The chief inspector of mines has issued a guidance note to assist mining companies to manage and control HIV in the workplace, which requires employers to put policies, plans, awareness and monitoring in place. More than 40-million people worldwide are infected with HIV and it is estimated that 26-million of these are workers aged between 15 and 49 (the prime of their employable years). South Afri...

Thembi Ngubane was a young woman who became famous through the American National Public Radio show Thembi’s AIDS Diary: A Year in the Life of a South African Teenager.. She was vibrant, punchy, and full of life. She recorded the consultation when, as a doctor, I started her on antiretroviral therapy in 2005. Jo Menell’s documentary film, Thembi, gives a sensitive and nuanced account of her fast ri...

*who pays for what in a relationship especially when going out on dates? *Men are expected to be providers and pay for almost everything in a relationship/marriage- even when the partner is working. Guest: Coach Mathawe Matsapola -She wears many hats, life coach, seasoned journalist, inspirational speaker and entrepreneur among other things

Since the October 2017 attacks by alleged Islamist insurgents- commonly referred to as Ahlu Sunnah Wa-al-Jama and locally know as Al Shabab- on Mocimboa da Praia, it has not been entirely clear who the attackers were, what their strategic objectives are, and on whose domestic and international support they rely. Today, almost everyone is aware of who these people are: the disgruntled youth of Cabo...

South Africa is facing a severe teacher shortage, despite there being thousands of teaching positions vacant across the country. To better understand why more of the country’s millions of young jobseekers are not pursuing teaching qualifications, online professional learning community Zibuza.net has put out a survey to its network of teachers, the full results of which can be found in the press re...

Guest: Psychic Medium - Tebogo Mathebeng Mfete

In October 2013, the revised Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (Codes of Good Practice) Codes were gazetted by the Minister of Trade and Industry (DTI). These (new) BEE Codes of Good Practice came into operation on 30 April 2015 (“new codes”), thereby replacing the existing BEE Codes of Good Practice (“old codes”). Guest on the line: Nicolene Schoeman-Louw - the Managing Director of Schoemanl...

WHAT DOES PRESCRIPTION MEAN? Prescription is when a debt arising from a cause of action is extinguished after a determined period of time has elapsed. It is regulated by the Prescription Act 68 of 1969 and starts to run on the day that the debt becomes legally due to be paid. The general prescription period applicable in most cases run for a period of three years. The prescription periods in relat...

Guest: Dr. Natalia Novikova is a gynaecologist specialising in minimally invasive surgery, pelvic floor disorders, and cosmetic gynaecology in the Gardens area of Cape Town and Sandton area in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Health/social conversations – New breast cancer movement stresses the importance of early detection through regular screening Breast cancer is the most common cancer type amongst women in South Africa and a lack of regular screening through mammograms and breast sonars are adding to the already heavy burden. Radiology Group, Keystone Radiology, says that they have launched a national campaign, urg...

There are 50 million children under the age of 15 living with asthma in sub-Saharan Africa; most of them are reportedly in South Africa. For parents or caregivers of these children managing the illness can be complicated and stressful. Added to that, new information suggests that asthma treatment needs urgent re-examining, leaving parents with questions about the dangers of being over reliant on r...

Guest: Dr Mariam Khan - is a natural medicine doctor registered with the Allied Health Professions Council of South Africa.

Social conversations –Mindfulness Wednesday- Heart and Mind Coherence: The foundation of a life being made epic... Guest on the line: Billy Selekane - Africa’s #1 Professional Inspirational Speaker. CSP, SASHoF, Speaker Expy recipient.

Being in nature has benefits for people, as studies have shown. There’s ample evidence that experiences of nature have positive physical and psychological outcomes. But these insights have largely come from the Global North. There’s very little research on how urban communities in the Global South experience or view urban nature. A recently published book we co-edited, Urban Nature Enriching Belon...

Guest: Hakeem Anderson-Lesolang, a complementary therapist, relationships coach, podcaster (SincerelyBlackLove), Best Selling Author (200TruthsAboutLove & In Rosewater) and a black love Yoda.

He would be able to discuss the following in relation to open education resource: • learner performance and how open education resources improve access to quality and culture sensitive and relevant material • the difficulty that learners in disadvantages communities have in accessing books and other learning materials • Possible solutions: could be to make literacy materials readily and freely ava...

An estimated 600 000 children with disabilities are out of school, according to a 2019 Human Rights Watch article, but the L.U.C.C.A Support and Care Centre in Randburg is bridging this gap by supporting neuro-atypical children from birth to 21 years with their diverse educational, vocational, and functional mobility needs. Guest on the line: Alison Moschetta -L.U.C.C.A Support and Care Centre fou...

Guest: Psychic Medium - Tebogo Mathebeng Mfete

Around the world more and more people are taking an interested in plant-based diets and a vegan lifestyle, but in meat-loving South Africa the idea of ditching meat might sound like an unrealistic idea. The thing is that most of the media talking about vegan diets is either focusing on the reasons that someone might want to eat less meat - like health, environmental and ethical concerns - or focus...