The Alternative Breakfast

South Africa produces enough food to feed all its people. Farmers, agri processingplants, food manufacturers, retailers, warehousing and logistics companies, food distributors,and thousands of other businesses that operate in the Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) industry, all typically generate huge amounts of ‘waste’. Since most of this food, if intercepted in time, is good for human consumption...

John Stremlau is Honorary Professor, International Relations, at the Universityof the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He served from January 2006 until January 2015 as vice president for peace programs at The Carter Center, where he oversaw the Center's programs to advance human rights, democracy, and conflict resolution globally; regional cooperation in the Americas; and promotion of...

SARAY KHUMALO - Explorer and Mountaineer

A RECORD OF ACTS OF KINDNESS IN EXTRAORDINARY TIMES. SOUTH AFRICA IN LOCKDOWN a site that collects stories of kindness Initiated by Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, North West University Jess Auerbach GUEST: JESS AUERBACH

GUEST: BRENDA SAKALLERIDES, National School of the Arts (NSA) Artistic Director

Two National School of the Arts (NSA) matriculants have produced and dedicated a song to the Matric Class called New Day (Gotta Get Up), which was released on November 4th. GUEST: LIEBAH MASANGO - Grade 12 Student and Lead Vocalist

GUEST: ONTHATILE DITSHEGO - Asset Based Community Development Facilitator as part of the Arts and Culture Trust.

GUEST: ATIYYAH KHAN - Arts Journalist and Researcher

Re-imagining eating out in a time of Covid - Africa’s first Covid-designed dining experience opens in Cape Town GUEST: GLENDA PHILIP - Head of Strategic & Special Projects, Real Foods

Sfiso Atomza Buthelezi we know him as one of the Lead Singers of the Award Winning bandTHE MUFFINZ. He has released new music as a solo artist but insists the group is still together. A few months ago we spoke with another band member “Kekelingo” when he also released a single. GUEST: SFISO ATOMZA - Writer, Singer, Guitarist

Peeling Shadows is the latest theatrical experience from Kwasha! Theatre Company, and the first production with an audience since the COVID-19 pandemic to be staged at the Market Theatre, running till tomorrow November 8th. GUEST: JÖEL LEONARD - Peeling Shadows Director

An inability to access funding is one of the biggest challenges small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) face in their quest to build successful and resilient businesses. Yet, access to finance is more important than ever in order to stimulate recovery in the South African SME sector, says Retail Capital CEO Karl Westvig. GUEST: KARL WESTVIG - Retail Capital CEO

The Pebbles Kitchen, a division of the Pebbles Project, which works to improve the lives of children in the Western Cape farming communities,reached a milestone this week of one million meals served in eight months of lockdownby their emergency feeding scheme. GUEST: DOMINIC JOHNSON ALLEN - Consultant for the Pebbles Kitchen on Klein Joostenberg Farm in Stellenbosch

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The collection features messages created to celebrate and remind us of our individual rights using our country’s Bill of Rights. GUEST: KNEO MOKGOPA - From The Nelson Mandela Foundation Advocacy and Communications office.

Procrastination? There’s an app for that. Procrastination affects 45% of adults at some point in their lives and a quarter of adults describe themselves as procrastinators. One study estimated that procrastinating employees wasted a quarter of their working days, at a loss of $10,000 (R165,000) per year per employee. GUEST: SAM ORTON - MBA Student University of Stellenbosch Business School

YESTERDAY 6 November marked the annual Southern African Development Community (SADC) Malaria Day commemoration, which aims to create awareness about malaria and highlight malaria control programmes, given that it is one of the deadliest diseases in the world. GUEST: SHERWIN CHARLES - Co-Founder and CEO Goodbye Malaria

Using pollen to solve legal cases – either civil or criminal – is gaining prominence globally due to crime investigation television shows and publicity surrounding high profile cases where forensic palynology (pollen analysis) has been used to determine guilt or innocence or in some instances even overturning past verdicts. GUEST: Dr DILYS BERMAN - SA Leading Pollen Analyst

The Second Annual Social Justice Summit is convened by Professor Thuli Madonsela, Law Trust Chair in Social Justice at the Law Faculty of Stellenbosch University. The event, she says, comes at a time when ordinary South Africans are more in need of social justice than ever before. Guest:Prof Jonathan Jansen Guest:Karyn Maughan

David Barker was one of the UK’s first internet entrepreneurs in 1994 and spent ten years working with global corporations including Intel, Cisco and Microsoft. David decided to exit in 2004 and became a social entrepreneur to tackle some of the issues facing society – mainly around social mobility, unemployment and poverty. Since 2005 David has been innovating new social enterprise start-ups usin...

A commentary on issues that are of strategic importance in our time and has provided many good ideas about how to deal with them. He has used his extensive experience as a consultant and academic, as well as his significant international exposure and local business experience, to bring together a thoughtful and incisive account of our times. We can all see that COVID-19 has shaken and stirred our...

The ArtsAbility Festival, presented annually by Cape Town’s UNMUTE Dance Company, is Africa’s premier inclusive arts festival which takes place online from 3 November until 3 December. GUEST: NADINE MCKENZIE – Unmute Artistic Director

“Cracking down on lockdown shows police have capacity of act on other crimes. State must find same will to fight GBV as Covid-19” opinion piece by MBUYISELO BOTHA. GUEST: Commissioner MBUYISELO BOTHA - commissioner of the South African Commission for Gender Equality

Over the past two decades various African National Congress (ANC) administrations in South Africa have sought to redistribute income to the poor and the vulnerable. They have also sought to stimulate rapid economic growth. The administrations have made progress in the redistribution effort, but on economic growth the performance has been dismal. For example, the National Development Plan, the first...

A major campaign to reignite the Cape Town CBD economy was announced by the Cape Town Central City Improvement District (CCID). Aimed at attracting employees, businesses and local, national and international visitors back to Cape Town and its Central City following the various levels of Lockdown restrictions, Called “Come Back To Town” GUEST: TASSO EVANGELINOS - Cape Town Central City Improvement...