The Alternative Breakfast

A recent study reveals that a downward trend in the intake of iron and other vital nutrients is contributing to poor brain function and other health problems. The study, by the UK’s University of Sunderland, collected micronutrient data from two national nutrition surveys and found that people of all ages showed low levels of intake of iron, vitamin A, calcium, magnesium, iodine, selenium and zinc...

Guest: PROF HELEN REES - Chair of The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA). Member of the World Health Organisa-tion International Health Regulations (IHR) Committee in Covid 19. Medical researcher and the founder and Executive Director of the Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute of the University of Witwatersrand

A penguin at Australia's Perth Zoo has taken to binge-watching episodes of the beloved children's television series 'Pingu' to get over his loneliness. Pierre is an endangered Northern Rockhopper penguin who was found washed up on a beach in the south west of the country. He is the only penguin of his kind to be found in all of Australasia. GUEST: DANIELLE HENRY - Communications Manager Perth Zoo...

Sami’s childhood is much like any other - an innocent blend of family and school, of friends and relations and pets (including stray cats and dogs, and the turtle he keeps on the roof). But growing up in one of the largest cities in Syria, with his country at war with itself, means that nothing is really normal. And Sami’s hopes for a better future are ripped away when he is conscripted into the m...

Passionate about human rights, ethical leadership and social justice. Institutional transformation with a focus on race and gender justice have been central to her work both in SA and abroad. Guest: Ambassador Nozipho January- Bardill is the Chairperson of the Council of the Nelson Mandela University and the United Nations (UN) Global Compact Local Network in South Africa (SA). Guest: AYA CHEBBI -...

The Jakes Gerwel Foundation & LitNet present the Kommadagga writing workshop. A mentorship programme for promising English and Afrikaans writers in Somerset East from 12 October to 1 November 2020. The Kommadagga writing workshop, intended for short-prose writers, seeks to encourage new writing in South Africa. GUEST: THEO KEMP - Executive Director Jakes Gerwel Foundation

Actor Chadwick Boseman, best known for playing the role of T'Challa in the hit Marvel superhero movie Black Panther, has died of colon cancer at age 43. Veteran actor John Kani who played the role of T'challa's father in the highly acclaimed movie said he was devastated by Boseman's passing: “I am devastated by this young man who was such a great promise. But he worked so hard knowing that his tim...

Guest: SJ Nicholson - Founder of the Africa Rising Music Conference Paradise Africa Distribution and Africa Rising Music Conference are backing 5 South African women artists, producers and managers to provide a gateway for them to be groomed as independent artists.

Showing at this year’s Encounters Documentary Film Festival Influence charts the recent advancements in weaponised communication by investigating the rise and fall of the world’s most notorious public relations and reputation-management firm, the British multinational Bell Pottinger. GUEST: DIANA NEILLE - Film Director “Influence”

The end of August signals the arrival of the pollen season, which this year, is said to possibly be more troublesome during the pandemic as tree pollen counts start to surge throughout most of the country. GUEST: PROF. Guest:JOHNNY PETER - Head of the University of Cape Town's Lung Institute’s Allergy and Immunology Unit

Former Scotland Yard detective and an inspiration for the character of DCI (Detective Chief Inspector) Jane Tennison in the award winning series “Prime Suspect”, Jackie Malton joined the force in 1970 and spent most of her service in the Criminal Investigation Department, probing all aspects of crime including armed robberies, rape, murder, fraud, arson, and blackmail. She served on The Flying Squ...

Guest:NICO SMIT

AGRICOLLEGES international (ACI) is celebrating Women’s Month with fearless and fierce women who break boundaries. Women who think about the future of food security and celebrate the formidable female farmers producing fresh produce for families. The future of farming is female Guest: Nsuku Nhlangwini - a Mixed Farming Management graduate and alumni

Guest: Kristen Buttress - owner of Kristen Kick-Ass Ice Cream exchanged her nurses scrubs for ice cream scoops and within two weeks she’d opened her first store and is now a flavour alchemist with branches in South Africa and Mauritius.

Guest: Kwandisiwe Nhlapho

September 1st marks World Letter Writing Day, an opportunity for people to remember and embrace the handwritten word. The day calls on children and adults to pick up a pen or pencil and write a letter to a loved one, or even a younger or future self. To help celebrate the day and pay tribute to the art of letter writing, BIC is kicking off a #WriteWithBIC challenge in South Africa. Guest: Reabatsw...

Guest: PROF HELEN REES - Chair of The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA). Member of the World Health Organisation International Health Regulations (IHR) Committee in Covid 19.

Guest:Mike Alsop

PAT HORN - Collective Bargaining Project coordinator, WIEGO (Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing – www.wiego.org)

ANDREW HARDING - Author & Award Winning Foreign Correspondent

A new short film designed to teach children about Covid-19 stars life-sized wooden puppets created by the Ukwanda Puppet and Designs Art Collective. GUEST: SIPHOKAZI MPOFU - Member of the Ukwanda Puppet Collective & Puppeteer of 14 year old character Nande

Fourteen-year-old social media star Oxipinion has taken the world by storm after a tik tok video of her confronting adults who told her to stop making videos about her opinions on history and politics went viral all over the world Guest: OxiPinion - A fourteen year old South African Youtuber, Reader and Change Agent.

Close to 3,000 women are murdered in South Africa every year. This means that a woman is murdered roughly every three hours in our country. About 110 women are raped every day. About one in three South African women experience abuse by an intimate partner in their lifetime. This is from the article “Herd solidarity: A vaccine for the shadow pandemic of gender-based violence” GUEST: PROF. FRANCIS P...

STEM education specialist, Sakhikamva Foundation has announced the launch of an action-packed, virtual science event that is free to attend, it kicked off Friday and continues through to 4 September which will connect South African children, teachers and parents to the global science community. GUEST: FATIMA JAKOET - Founder of Sakhikamva Foundation, Forensic Scientist and airline pilot

A recently released special edition of the South African Journal of Science asked experts in the humanities and social sciences to weigh in. The collection of articles is not comprehensive, but it adds nuance to the national debate. GUEST: JESS AUERBACH - Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, North West University