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Guest: Fadia Arnold -is currently the Director of Arnold Law Legal Consultancy, a private legal consulting company she founded in 2020.

Can you please tell us the kind of issue that arise in men? •What signs should men look out for when they need to consult a Urologist? • Why is there apprehension or reluctancy in men to consult Urologists? • Please tell us what is erectile dysfunction? • Urologists diagnose and treat diseases of the urinary tract in both men and women. They also treat all parts of the male reproductive system lik...

South Africa’s mining industry has long been an important part of the country’s economy. In 2020 alone, despite COVID-19, mining contributed R361.6 billion (almost 20 billion US dollars) towards South Africa’s gross domestic product, a share of over 8%. The industry employs 451,000 people. But despite its value and the regulations in place to protect workers, it has been criticised for a poor reco...

South Africans can be divided into two broad groups: those that are largely adhering to Covid-19 preventative measures, and those that show only limited adherence to the recommended guidelines. It is this latter group that should be of concern as they are potentially super-spreaders of Covid-19. According to Ask Afrika’s Covid-19 Tracker study, the larger of these groups, representing around 65% o...

How do transgender people transition? Coming out to your friends and family as transgender and asking people to use pronouns (she/her, he/him, they/them) that match your gender identity. Guest on the line: SHIBU –is going through transitioning process

Don’t just dream, act on them. Only then will you have a chance of making your dreams a reality. Guest on the line: Billy Selekane - Africa’s #1 Professional Inspirational Speaker. CSP, SASHoF, Speaker Expy recipient.

Environment /social Conversations: An indigenous tea maker edges her way into SA cuppa industry (Time of article published Oct 28, 2019) Setšong Tea Crafters is an Award Winning Agri-business and vehicle for development of natural indigenous flora found in the natural landscapes of South Africa, more prominently within the rural areas of Limpopo. The enterprise stimulates the economy in a collabor...

A betrayal in a relationship can encompass more than cheating. From financial infidelity to talking behind your partner's back…..etc Guest on the line: Coach Mathawe Matsapola - She wears many hats, life coach, seasoned journalist, inspirational speaker and entrepreneur among other things

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...