NIGHT FALL

Jellyfish can be found in almost every ocean in the world. These beautiful, graceful creatures are a sight to behold; their swift, pulsating motions gently propel them through the water. But the scene can quickly turn ominous as the animal transforms into a ferocious, formidable predator. Guest: Verena Ras - PhD candidate, University of the Western Cape

Guest: Rose Makhwahlela - Rose is looking after her 10 year old twin girls Guest: Gugu Manana - is raising her son who is Autistic and has cerebral palsy (He can’t talk) Guest: Mosa Mosothwane - she raising 8 year old boy (Cerebral palsy) Guest: Ntombi Khumalo - 2 year old boy with cerebral palsy

COVID-19 has imposed shocks on all segments of food supply chains, simultaneously affecting farm production, food processing, transport and logistics, and final demand. Not all sectors and products have been equally affected, and different products have experienced disruptions at different stages of the supply chain. Guest: Janine Van Rooyen - Managing Director at Unilever Food Solutions

A recent poll run by Debt Rescue found that 85% of South Africans have been affected by the Covid-19 crisis, and only 11% said they would be able to pay their loans back when the payment holiday is over; 45% said they had been affected by retrenchments and salary cuts. Guest: Neil Roets, Debt Rescue founder and CEO

Guest: Makhosi Sikhakhane

A parent or guardian of a minor child may have full or specific responsibilities and rights which may varied by agreement or court order. The Children’s Act provides that the biological mother of a minor child holds full parental responsibilities and rights towards the minor child while the position for biological fathers is distinguished between rights of married fathers and unmarried fathers. Gu...

Guest: Dr Ba’ba’lwa Funda kaMaboza aka Antu from Western Breeze & one of the owners Aphro Love Expo

Service providers have been blasted for not having proper security measures in place to protect the identities of their clients. This after several cellphone users from different service providers fell victim to identity theft in a number-porting scam. The online crime sees fraudsters transfer clients' cellphone numbers from their network service provider to another without the clients' knowledge....

Guest: Dr. Nelouise Geyer, Chief Executive Officer at South Africa Nursing Education Association

Guest: Dr. Thabani Nkwanyana, Independent Medical Practitioner with interest in human rights, ethics and social sciences,

They point out that the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear disasters, “which still remain problematic today”, remind the world of the “significant dangers” of nuclear power. “When we factor in the costs of nuclear fuel, construction, radioactive waste management and end-of-life decommissioning, nuclear power stations ultimately end-up producing very expensive electricity,” says Earthlife director Mak...

This August in a bold effort to stop women suffering in silence from common health issues like infertility, heavy menstrual bleeding and painful menstruation - 3Sixty Biomedicine through their Salome range is shining a spotlight on these conditions and appealing to all South African women and the public to help #BreakTheSilence. While both men and women suffer from various common health conditions...

Guest: Mrs Mandisa Dukashe – Married in sero discordant marriage,Clinician and Founder of HIV Survivors and Partners Network

The higher education sector globally has been disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Academics have been discussing various aspects of the disruptions in a series of webinars organised by the University of Cape Town. One area of particular interest is how the pandemic could affect international research collaborations. Guest: Professor Salome Maswime is an Associate Professor and the Head Global Surg...

Guest: Makhosi Sikhakhane

Guest: Howard

Guests: Dr. Ba’ba’lwa Funda kaMaboza aka Antu from Western Breeze & one of the owners Aphro Love Expo

Guest: Prof Grey

Guest: Carly Morgan

Guest: Dr Thabani Nkwanyana – Independent Medical Practitioner with special interest in Human rights,Ethics and Social Sciences

South Africa is currently one of the world’s largest carbon emitters. And it’s increasingly being viewed as a pariah that isn’t contributing as much as it could to the international fight against global warming and climate change. With a lot of other countries now moving away from fossil fuel-based electricity, there’s considerable pressure for South Africa to follow. Guest: Hartmut Winkler -Profe...

He has a Master’s degree in Environmental Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a Master’s degree in Contaminated Land Management from Nottingham University in England. Guest: Rico Euripidou - is ground Work's Environmental Health Campaign Manager.

Guest: (Couple 1) Mr Patrick and Gontse Muthusi (Gontse is in South Africa and Patrick in Uganda) Patrick has been away for 7 months and his gave birth to their son who is 3 months now and he has never seen him. Guest: (Couple 2) Nelson (My Husband): He’s in South Africa. Miranda (in Cameroon): They haven’t seen each other for more than 200 days.

Could your next juicy cheeseburger be part of a global strategy to reduce the risk of future pandemics? Findings from a new report on Food and Pandemics, together with advances in food technology, lead us to think it could be. For many South Africans, the Covid-19 origin story involves foreigners, eating foods that we wouldn’t eat, from the kinds of markets we don’t frequent. Guest: Donovan Will -...

Internationally, education theory favours mother-tongue instruction and recommends that schooling should begin in the language the child knows best, often their mother tongue. Even with limited studies in Africa, evidence in Botswana, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Kenya and South Africa supports this. Guest: Nompumelelo Mohohlwane - Researcher at department of basic Education and a Student at Stellenbosch U...