The Alternative Breakfast

Our guest presenter was Dr Crispian Olver, founder and CEO of Linkd Environmental Service, and author of the books ‘A House Divided' and “How to Steal a City”. He spoke to us about his extensive experience at senior management level in local government, environment and development issues and shard his views on local politics. We were also joined by his two guests Shan Bolton, CEO of the Ahmed Kath...

Patricia van Heerden Creative Producer and Director spoke to us about Marguerite Poland’s bestselling novel titled Shades being nominated as one of the C21 Media finalists for the 2019 Drama Series Pitch out of 30 projects. The winning project will be announced at The International Drama Awards, which take place at 6pm on Thursday 5 December.

We spoke to Ulrike Hill co-author of the book titled:" A Dream Realised: The Challenges and Triumphs of Building a Mandela Legacy," about the book.

Michelle Constant visited the Wits Art Museum this week where the youth art Workshops were running. She spoke to Nthabiseng Sekhobela from Skillful Spaces about the programme and she also spoke to the young exhibitors about their art work. Later on we were joined by Julia Benadie, COO of Bank of America Securities South Africa .

Our Thought Leaders were Getty Myeni, Activity Coordinator at healthcare NGO, IHPS, and Donna Rachelson, director of Seed Academy. Getty spoke about making a call for better healthcare for SA transgenders on Transgender Day of Remembrance held annually on 20 November and Donna spoke about South Africa’s largest entrepreneurship survey, which found that the entrepreneurship sector remains upbeat de...

Multi-award-winning Journalist Ivor Price, co-founder of Food For Mzansi spoke about his news website which shares the latest success stories and good news from the farms and agri-businesses who feed South Africa.

Last month, multiple award winning singer, songwriter and performer, Amanda Black, dropped her highly anticipated sophomore album POWER. She spoke to us about the album which boasts 13 tracks.

Afrobalkan supergroup, Bombshelter Beast has partnered with one of South Africa’s original craft breweries Copperlake, to introduce 2 brand new bouncing beers: Bombshelter Beast and Bombshelter Blonde. Music composer and producer, Marcus Wyatt spoke about this new venture.

After a successful UK tour the film about an extraordinary Pan-African hero , titled Hero returns to South African shores to feature at the Joburg Film Festival this month. Actor Nickolai Salcedo, spoke about playing the lead role of Ulric Cross in Hero.

South African barista Teddy Nzama spoke about beating 29 Starbucks employee finalists to be crowned best barista in the 2019 Starbucks Europe, Middle East and Africa (emea) Barista Championship Finals.

Ria Catsicas, founding partner of Nutritional Solutions spoke about how to deal with a diabetes diagnosis in the family.

William Bird, director of Media Monitoring Africa (MMA), Ashoka & Linc Fellow was our guest presenter, talking about media and journalism and his work at MMA. He was also joined by his mother, Flo Bird, and Carol Mohlala, executive director at the Association for Independent Publishers

Environmental scientist and author, Fortunate Mafeta Phaka was recently awarded the 2019 SAB Environmental Community Award. He spoke about his community-based environmental projects and compiling a list of indigenous names for South African frogs and reptiles.2019 SAB Environmental Media Environmentalist of the Year Awards

Dr Cobi Labuscagne, author of Explore! Awesome South African Artist spoke about her mesmerising children’s book which tells the story of SA’s finest living contemporary artists, like Lady Skollie, William Kentridge, Nandipha Mntambo, Athi-Patra Ruga, Penny Siopis, Banele Khoza, Zander Blom and more.

7 year old, Prince Mashawana and his father, Collen Mashwana joined us in-studio. Prince has created a compelling new superhero – SuperMash. Accompanied with a comic book– the adventures of SuperMash will help young kids face some of life’s biggest challenges.

Our Thought Leaders were Philip Saunders, SAA’s Chief Commercial Officer and Matthew Leighton, spokesperson at online shopping platform OneDayOnly.co.za. Saunders spoke about the knock-on effect of the SAA employees strike on SAA customers. Leighton discussed how employee productivity on Black Friday could nose dive.

Dr Edward Snelling from the University of Pretoria’s Department of Anatomy and Physiology in the Faculty of Veterinary Science spoke to us about being part of a new study that changes scientists’ understanding of evolution of human intelligence. The study finds that today’s gorillas may be smarter than human ‘ancestors’ of three million years ago.

Cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro spoke to us about his new award and launching his annual book at Exclusive Books this coming week. This year the book, titled Which Side is Up looks at : the year of the Zondo Inquiry picking through the debris of the Gupta and Bosasa empires; uncovering State Capture while Zuma-era spooks frantically cover up; Pravin Gordhan joining the dots as the Public Protector ped...

Clive Hlabathi spoke to us about Toasted Barrels, a wine agency he co-founded with his partner Michael Khoza. Toasted Barrels was born in June 2017 with the objective of making quality boutique wines more accessible and enjoyed by the broader market. The agency currently handles the sales and marketing of ten South African wine brands or estates that largely showcase the wine regions across variou...

Bheki Dubi, founder of Curiosity Backpackers spoke about being the recipient of the prestigious “I Do Tourism” award. Introduced in 2018, this award recognises proudly South African organisations or individuals who, through sheer dedication and passion, have excelled in positioning the country as a tourism destination of choice, contributing to the vibrancy and growth of the sector.

Lucky Netshidzati, CEO and co-founder of Rudzambilu Holdings spoke about how he came up with the concept of smart gloves. The gloves translate sign language into speech via the use of sensors and an app. Lucky was born to two deaf parents, he spent his life thinking of ways to better the lives of both the deaf community and loved ones so he invented a glove.

Dr. Frank Neumann senior researcher at the University of the Witwatersrand spoke to us about his upcoming public lecture titled: Climate, hay fever, murder and honey - What pollen can tell about the past, present and future’.

Alexander Shannon is the brains behind the Instagram profile Follow The Nap. He spoke to us about his job as a travel influencer, who is on a worldwide quest for a good quality sleep.

Dr Justin Howlett, a leading urologist at Groote Schuur Hospital and co-founder of Project Peacock spoke about the aim of Project Peacock. Peacock is a ground-breaking initiative that offers Low Dose Rate brachytherapy to men diagnosed with prostate cancer.

Nthabi Mofokeng , SmartStart Project Manager spoke about celebrating the early learning practitioners who are changing children’s futures. Four years ago, SmartStart was established with the vision of ensuring that every child in South Africa has the foundations in place to succeed at school and beyond.