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What Is Sexual Medicine? Sexual Medicine is that branch of medicine that deals primarily with sexual health, considering the wide range of social, physical and psychological factors that can impair sexual functioning and lead to an individual or couple’s distress. Guest: Dr Anthony Smith –family physician and medical sexologist

How do you break down well-established barriers and encourage more women to enter a growing - yet wholly male-dominated - industry? For Siphindokuhle Mazibuko, director of service delivery for Middle East and Africa at global cybersecurity firm Mimecast, the answer lay in building a global support centre where women would have equal opportunity to develop their technical and leadership skills in t...

Guest: Coach Mathawe Matsapola - She wears many hats, life coach, seasoned journalist, inspirational speaker and entrepreneur among other things

Ms Makoma Lekalakala joined Natural Justice as a Board Member in June 2019. Makoma is the Director of Earthlife Africa, a civil society environmental justice and anti-nuclear organisation. She has long been active in social movements tackling issues from gender and women’s rights, social, economic and environmental justice issues.  In recent years, Makoma has focused on targeting enviro...

The UCT Online High School is an ecosystem that has been designed to enable an entirely new generation of quality, affordable online and blended learning opportunities for learners from all socioeconomic backgrounds across the country. Learners are afforded the opportunity to choose an aspirational school regardless of where they live. The UCT Online High School redefines what it means to be a sch...

Guest on the line: Nthabiseng Ngwetsana, Spiritual Medium and founder of Thebeng Medium Readings.  

Guest: Gogo Skhotheni is a traditional healer, community leader, businesswoman, and above all a mother to many young women under her wing in their journey to becoming traditional healers.

It’s well documented that post-partum depression (being depressed after childbirth) is a serious and not uncommon condition. In some women, it can lead to post-partum psychosis, which has a range of symptoms such as delusions or strange beliefs, hallucinations, extreme irritation, restlessness, reckless behaviours that aren’t usual for the person, decreased need for sleep or the inabil...

Emanating from a meeting by and between the five teacher unions on Wednesday, 4 August 2021, it was Confirmed that all unions have been approached by the media to comment on the intention of the DBE to approach Cabinet in regard to the possible reduction of social distancing in primary schools from 1m to 0,5m. This new development takes place after the publication of the new DBE Covid Directions o...

I-G3N, the only black empowered female-owned SME to successfully develop lithium-ion batteries specifically for the African continent, has successfully raised R 20 million from Edge Growth and the ASISA ESD initiative. Recognising I-G3N’s capability in designing developing and manufacturing battery energy storage systems, Edge Growth and the ASISA ESD initiative have partnered with Secha Cap...

The answers to escaping poverty and becoming wealthy are actually well known; they have been tested by time and replicated in different countries, by families and by individuals who have become astonishingly rich. And when you simply follow the principles, they work. So what are these principles that genuinely lift people out of poverty and ensure their personal wealth? Here are 50. They all work....

According to the Sexual Advice Association, sexual problems affect around 1 in 3 young and middle-aged women, and around 1 in 2 older women. To identify the reasons behind sexual dysfunction, both physical and psychological factors have to be considered, including a woman's relationship with her partner. Guest on the line: Dr Anthony Smith –family physician and medical sexologist.

Full Potential has officially launched its online learning platform, which aims to develop one million young African leaders by 2025. Mabore Sithole, an established human resource professional and the founder of Full Potential, created the virtual development centre as one of the services to help organisations cultivate the remarkable potential of their employees and leadership teams. Guest on the...

We cannot celebrate this Women’s Month when South African women are suffering. The spiraling status of women in the country has prompted its leading nonprofit organisations to put out a collective statement hoping to steer attention to the growing toils society’s most vulnerable group faces. The impact of climate change, poverty and the Covid-19 pandemic has served South African women...

The word discipline means to impart knowledge and skill – to teach. However, it is often equated with punishment and control. There is a great deal of controversy about the appropriate ways to discipline children, and parents are often confused about effective ways to set limits and instill self-control in their child. In medical and secular literature, there is great diversity of opinion ab...

The SylvesterMashilo Foundation has a 3 pronged focus. The Mentorship of Boys between the ages of 8-16. Why are we focusing on these boys under the theme “rediscovering the heart of a boy to a man”? Without an intentional upbringing of our boys we run the risk of the vicious cycle of broken men continuing to plague our society. Think of the men who commit a rape or murder (GBVF) at the...

Guest on the line: Patricia Did Dream interpretations

Litigation is often the first route that parties take when a dispute arises. It is often pursued when it is evident that the other party does not wish to co-operate and litigation thus ensures that the matter is adjudicated. The decision of the court binds the parties. But there are many downfalls to litigation, especially when the parties have familial ties or run in the same crowds. It may even...

Appointing former prisoners – or ex-offenders – as prison wardens is an international trend in corrections from which South Africa’s Department of Correctional Services can take constructive note. This idea has gained traction with recent budget cuts in the department. It has informed parliament that its mandate of rehabilitation might be affected negatively because many posts in...

Guest on the line: Dr Mariam Khan - a registered Natural medicine doctor with a Masters degree focusing on sexual and reproductive health and rights and its intersections with gender and religion

Guest: Dr Prithy Ramlachan- the past president of the African society for sexual medicine (ASSM)

“A great leader possesses a clear vision, is courageous, and has integrity, honesty, humility and clear focus. ... Great leaders help people reach their goals, are not afraid to hire people that might be better than them and take pride in the accomplishments of those they help along the way.” Guest on the line: Fred Bohasu - Inspirational speaker, Team Builder, Author, Chicken Farmer,...

Appointing former prisoners – or ex-offenders – as prison wardens is an international trend in corrections from which South Africa’s Department of Correctional Services can take constructive note. This idea has gained traction with recent budget cuts in the department. It has informed parliament that its mandate of rehabilitation might be affected negatively because many posts in...

Everyone with even a little bit of debt has to manage their debt. If you just have a little debt, you have to keep up your payments and make sure it doesn’t get out of control. On the other hand, when you have a large amount of debt, you have to put more effort into paying off your debt while juggling payments on the debts you’re not currently paying. Guest: Tony Buys -financial advise...

Siblings that are compared often may breed feelings of superiority and inferiority, eventually leading to rift between them. ... Some children may intentionally perform poorly in academics, or distant themselves from studying, when they see that their worth is based on their sibling's performance. Guest: Coach Mathawe Matsapola -  She wears many hats, life coach, seasoned journalist, inspirat...