The Alternative Breakfast

  GUEST: SICELO MBATHA - Wilderness Guide

  GUEST: FRITS VAN RYNEVELD - General Manager Darling Sweet

  GUEST: SIOUXSIE GILLETT - Host of Snakes in The City & Herpetologist 

  GUEST: NOMSA MAZWAI - Founder of Funk it Im Walking

              GUEST: HERMANN VIVIER- Co Founder & Program Manager

Dr. Ela Manga practices integrative medicine with a special interest in Burnout and energy management. Her founder of Breathwork Africa, an organisation committed to empowering people with all walks of life with simple tools of self-awareness, health, resilience and peace. We offer private sessions, monthly workshops and training of breathwork facilitators locally and abroad. I write, speak and fa...

  Thousands of historic artefacts have been destroyed in the Congolese town of Gungu after a private museum burnt to ashes. The objects at the National Museum of Gungu represent one of the Democratic Republic of Congo's most important collections, says the BBC's Emery Makumeno in the capital, Kinshasa. At least 8,000 or 9,000 items dating back to the end of the 18th Century were ruined. The c...

  Johannesburg-based diver Zalika Methula is fundraising to cover her expenses to participate in the world junior diving championship in Russia.  Grade 9 pupil Methula has been doing just that since the age of 11, as she is more than determined to pave her way into the not so popular aquatic sport of international diving. Guest: Zalika Methula - 15 year old Diver Guest: Danilo Cogrossi -...

  housed in a boutique shopping complex, 44 Stanley, in Johannesburg. It is built around his collecting practice focused on preserving archives and memorialising social and cultural history from southern Africa. He’s turned his own personal library and archive into a public art project.   Guest: Kudzanai Chiurai - Artist

  Covid-19 has had a major impact on our daily lives, in different ways, and with other groups feeling deserted and hopeless due to the new or old behavioural patterns and trends that we see in our society when it comes to treatment. The LGBTQIAP+ community and people living with dis-abilities are amongst those groups that feel left out than ever before in terms of opportunities, inclusion in...

  A more than 400-page report was compiled by The Inkathalo Conversations and commissioned by the City of Cape Town in 2020 into life as a homeless person in Cape Town. The report covers eight general areas, including the criminalisation of homeless people, and the institutional drivers of homelessness. It also features “special reports” on what it calls homeless tax, and on the c...

GUEST: UNATHI HENAMA-Tourism Academic Tshwane University of Technology

Tracing The (Post) Apartheid Novel Beyond 2000   GUEST: DANYELA DIMAKATSO DEMIR – Co –Editor of the Book (co-editor is Olivier Moreillon)

The Open Book Festival returns with an eight part podcast series celebrating just some of the works of literature to come out of SA this year. The series will run from    8 – 24 November 2021.   GUEST: VASTI CALITZ -  Open Book Festival Organiser

Google has announced the launch of the Global Initiative for Excellence in Journalism Education to enhance journalists’ training in Africa. GUEST: DOROTHY OKOO - Google Head of Communications and Public Affairs

We are checking in on The Square Kilometre Array  ( SKA ) project - building the world's largest radio telescope to explore the Universe. The SKA Observatory has signed agreements with the Australian and South African governments to host its telescopes and associated infrastructures.   GUEST: TAKALANI NEMAUNGANI - Director: Multiwavelength Astronomy   At the Department of Scien...

  Its Voting Weekend and the New Centre for Social Development in Africa has produced a research brief that unpacks how gender differences may play out at the polls   GUEST: PROF. LEILA PATEL - South African Research Chair in Welfare and Social Development and was the Founding Director of the Centre for Social Development

Last year during the Covid-19 lockdown, forty wooden forms representing the letter B in Willem Boshoff’s seminal work The Blind Alphabet (1991), were presented in wood, steel and aluminium as part of an online documentary project for the Moving Cube, UJ Art Gallery’s online platform. This is part of the extensive MTN Art Collection. GUEST: NIEL NORTJE - Manager : MTN Art Collection

    GUEST: Prof GERHARD STEENKAMP - veterinary specialist in dentistry and maxillofacial surgery at the Faculty of Veterinary Science University of Pretoria

GUEST: TOBY SHAPSHAK - Editor Stuff Magazine

GUEST: JUSTUS FRANTZ - Conductor (from Germany)

GUEST: YANDISA XHAKAZA - Principal UCT Online High School