The Alternative Breakfast

Since its launch on 15 February 2019, the NRC supports the Read to Lead Campaign and the President Cyril Ramaphosa’s renewed call to improve reading nationally – from the classroom to the living room. In the endeavour to build a community around reading, the NRC is networking reading clubs across the country to extend the permeation of the reading culture across the country. GUEST: GODWIN KHOSA -...

Rhino conservation and Mapungubwe feature in the adventure for tweens book THE GOLDEN RHINO by Griffin Shea. Zazi Books’ first fiction title for middle grade readers is Never Mashamba’s 12th birthday couldn’t go worse. His father, the scientific genius Dr. Mashamba, is shot and wounded by poachers. But the criminals are really after the hybrid rhino calf Sipho, which his father crossbred against a...

Southern Guild in Cape Town and Friedman Benda in New York galleries will co-present iThongo (Ancestral Dreamscape), a solo exhibition by Andile Dyalvane, at Southern Guild in Cape Town (10 December, 2020 – 5 February, 2021) and Friedman Benda (3 June – 2 July 2021). GUEST: ANDILE DYALVANE – Artist

On Saturday, 14 November, Trinityhouse Little Falls learner, Carleigh Palmer took top honours in the Taste Bud Battle, South Africa’s premier kids and teens cooking and baking competition. The Taste Bud Battle Final Cook-Off was held at the Capsicum Culinary Studio in Rosebank, Johannesburg. GUEST: CARLEIGH PALMER – Grade 7 Student Young Chef

The PepsiCo Foundation announced programs that will bring much-needed access to water and sanitation for thousands of people in South Africa. Currently, over three million people do not have access to a basic water supply service, and 14.1 million people do not have access to safe sanitation. GUEST: JUSTIN SMITH - Head of Business Development Unit, WWF-South Africa Business Partnerships, Marketing...

Guest: Madri Engelbrecht

SAMA Award winning musician Matthew Mole recently added his voice in calling for increased ocean protection within Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in South Africa, in partnership with local environmental NPO, WILDTRUST. South Africa currently only protects 5% of its oceans and the need to increase this is urgent. GUEST: RUTH MTHEMBU – Strategic Manager for Communication at Wild Oceans a programme of...

SA musician, documentary maker and artist Jack Mantis has just won Best Music Video at this year’s Hollywood South Film Festival for the video to his single Beth - work created by Mantis and German director Roman Muelleger. GUEST: JACK MANTIS – Artist WWW.JACKMANTISBAND.COM

The 2020 Jazz & Classical Encounters Festival Vol 2 @ Spier Amphitheatre featuring some of South Africa’s jazz and classical artists takes place this afternoon from 1pm. Pianist Paul Hanmer and Guitarist and Singer Neo Muyanga, will present a shoe entitled “in Conversation”. They will present new material written especially for this festival.

Telkom, and the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) have announced a partnership to launch a new streaming channel, TelkomONE. The mobile operator channel will house the public broadcaster's free-to-air radio and TV channels. GUEST : IAN PLAATJIES – COO (Chief Operating Officer) SABC

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Lockdown cost Davy Tsopo his job washing dishes at a Johannesburg restaurant. Today he runs his own cake-baking business - and is making twice his previous salary. For Davy Tsopo, a WiFi password changed his life. When Tsopo lost his cleaning job at a Johannesburg restaurant during lockdown, a neighbour thought sharing his password might help distract Tsopo from his money worries. GUEST: DAVY TSOP...

The partnership with Galileo - a drive-in surf movie in Constantia and an outdoor film at Kirstenbosch Gardens - will add a welcome physical element to a diverse programme of online and hybrid events hosted by Wavescape in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. The flagship Slide Night of talks by ocean gurus from around the world goes online, while Oceans Alive Surf Night: Cape Town, Cold Water and C...

I heart Market in Durban– is up and running in time for the Festive Season Shopping; it returns next week Saturday, 5th December and Saturday, 19 December from 8:30am to 2pm at The Hay Store, Point Waterfront. GUEST: ANNA SAVAGE - Founder of I Heart Market

How do you get the general public to still happily follow social distancing guidelines without them even knowing it? South African artists, Baba Tjeko, and Lauren Colin Mitchell (aka Curious Lauren), have partnered with Stella Artois to create an art installation. GUEST: LAUREN COLIN MITCHELL / CURIOUS LAUREN – Artist GUEST: BABA TJEKO

A South African media expert termed "rainmaker" is making waves across the country supplying solutions to the water crisis using atmospheric water generators to droughtstricken areas, in particular the Eastern Cape. His innovations are making a significant social and environment impact. GUEST: RAY de VRIES – Founder AIR Water / WWW.AIRWATER.CO.ZA

The PAN AFRICAN VISUAL JOURNALISM EXHIBITION kicks off today until 13 December at The Market Photo Workshop in collaboration with the World Press Photo & The Windybrow Arts Centre GUEST: LEKGETHO MAKOLA - CEO Market PhotoWorkshop

ABEY MOKGWATSANE – Managing Executive of Brand, Communications and Sponsorships at Vodacom, overseeing the brand across South Africa, Lesotho, Mozambique, Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Prior to joining Vodacom in 2018, he was CEO of Ogilvy South Africa. The contribution and role of black women in the development of the marketing industry is visibly missing. Multiple conversati...

DOUGLAS STUART has won the Booker Prize for SHUGGIE BAIN, his debut novel about a boy in 1980s Glasgow trying to support his mother as she struggles with addiction and poverty. Chair of judges Margaret Busby said the judges' decision was unanimous and they only "took an hour to decide". The book is "challenging, intimate and grip-ping... anyone who reads it will never feel the same" she said. The...

2020 The Year that killed Retirement - Ageing, adapting and reflecting on disruption and change by Michael Hook GUEST: MICHAEL HOOK – Author

Kwasha! Theatre Company, launched in 2018 by the Market Theatre Laboratory and the Windybrow Arts Centre, is looking for exceptional performing arts graduates to join the company in 2021. The purpose of the company is to serve as a bridge be-tween graduates’ education and their professional careers. GUEST: RUDY MOTSEATSEA – KWASHA! COMPANY MANAGER

Parklands College, a school situated in Parklands, Cape Town, has announced the release of TouchBase - an app created by five of the school's female learners and through the mobile application development incubator Mad Studios. Team CapeAble came up with the idea for the app for the 2020 global Technovation Challenge with the vision of 'helping people help people'. GUEST: SEDIRA MAMROO – Grade 10...

Guest: Dr. Iraj Abedian

Matrics In Antarctica: Riaan Manser on a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity If you are in matric, you could be on your way to Antarctica in January 2021. GUEST: RIAAN MANSER – Pioneering Explorer

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Coffeebeans Routes celebrated 15 years in the industry and has won two awards at the 2020 Africa Responsible Tourism Awards. BEST URBAN TOUR OPERATOR AFRICA Award in the LuxLife Magazine Travel and Tourism Awards 2020. On the 6th of April, we won SILVER in the category BENEFITTING LOCAL PEOPLE in the Africa Responsible Tourism Awards 2020. GUEST: IAIN HARRIS...