The Alternative Breakfast

Karl Tessendorf and Greg Gilowey talk about their book "Beer Country’s Beer. Food. Fire"

Dr Francois Johannes Cleophas, Ph. D. Sport Science, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of Stellenbosch explains why South African sport history needs to be retold from a decolonised perspective

Johann van Tonder, Researcher and Economics at Momentum talks about the decline in decline in household wealth

Raquel de Castro Maia, talks about the indigenous flora and fauna on Gondwana Game Reserve along the Garden Route and the discovery of a rare orchid population that was thought to be nearly extinct

Yvette Young, founder of Adult for People with Autism (APPA) talks about the challenges that parents of autistic adults face and the limited number of autism-specific facilities on offer for autistic adults

Our guest presenter, Dr. Imtiaz Sooliman who is a world-renowned Philanthropist and Founder of ‘Gift of the Givers’ spoke about how he terminated his practice in June 1994 to concentrate fully on Gift of the Givers Foundation, which he founded in 1992. He is later joined by DR Gideon Groenewald hydrologist, geologist and palaeontologist and Dr Yakub Essack-head of the Gift of the givers medical te...

Emerging Eastern Cape artist Sonwabiso Ngcai spoke about being crowned as the overall winner of 2019 PPC Imaginarium Awards. He took home R150 000 in cash for his sculpture entitled Isigu, or The Snare.

Guy Yachdav, project supervisor spoke about how computer algorithms predict next characters to be eliminated in 'Game of Thrones'. Computer science students at the Technical University of Munich have developed an application that scours the internet for data on the popular "Game of Thrones series," and uses an algorithm to predict which characters are most likely to survive to the end of its final...

Astrid Treffry-Goatley, Post-doctoral Fellow at Networks of change and wellbeing at Centre for Visual Methodologies for Social Change at University of KwaZulu-Natal spoke about how storytelling can help alleviate the effects of disease. A team of researchers from the University of Kwazulu Natal working across education, medicine and health conducted a study which combines storytelling with compute...

Our Thought Leader Koffi Kouakou, Africa analyst and scenario strategist spoke about 39 year old Senegal-born Sibeth Ndiaye who has been recently appointed as the French government spokeswoman. Later we were joined by Xolelwa Kashe-Katiya, Director of Project Management at Mapungubwe Institute For Strategic Reflection who spoke about the MISTRA Arts and National Development Imbizo.

Moude Maodi-Swartz, paralegal officer for the OUT wellbeing at Love Not Hate Legal Clinic spoke about the new LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex) legal clinic that has been opened in Hatfield. A 2016 study by the organisation found that 44% of LGBTI people surveyed said they had experienced discrimination in the previous two years, and 88% hadn’t reported these incidents.

Fehmida Jordaan, founder of the Halaal Goods Market talks about the market, which was launched in July 2017. The Halaal Goods Market is the first artisanal halaal food and design market in South Africa, which offers a variety of goods from halaal meals, delicacies, beverages and clothing.

Anaesthesiologist, Dr Bruce Biccard talks about the in-hospital maternal mortality rate following a Caesarean delivery in Africa, which may be 50 times higher than in high-income countries. These were the findings of the African Surgical Outcomes Study that followed more than 3500 mothers from 22 African countries during a week of surgery in 2016.

Mapalo Makhu, Financial coach, author at founder of Woman & Finance talks about paying off your debt, from payday loans and credit cards to overdraft and store clothing accounts. According to the National Credit Regulator, nearly 25 million people in South Africa are in debt, and 40% of them are behind on their repayments. This is a staggering number.

Seven year old Simthandile Tshabalala aka SimTiger is a golf prodigy, having competed and won several Golf competitions worldwide. He spoke to us about being ranked 15th in the world in his age category and winning over 20 trophies. We were later joined by his father - Bonginkosi Tshabalala

Daniel Torres from Astroland agency talks about his company’s latest project. Astroland is creating a mock human settlement in a cave in Cantabria, Spain intended to simulate what life could be like for a team of Martian pioneers.

Journalist and Writer Pippa Green spoke about her career, the South African media industry and being recently appointed as a press Ombudsman. She was later joined by Advocate Dumisa Ntsebeza who became a member of SERI's Board of Directors in June 2016 and Mathatha Tsedu who is an Adjunct professor and Acting Executive Director for South African National Editors Forum.

Maryana Iskander, CEO of Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator talks about winning the 2019 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship. Founded by Silicon Valley entrepreneur Jeff Skoll, this prestigious award recognises change agents whose innovations have had significant, proven impact on the world’s most pressing problems.

Kamo Sesing, founding member of BookBeak spoke about a new mobile app BookBeak, which aims to take African short stories to the world. BookBeak is the first African app-based platform to aggregate African short stories from published, unpublished and self-published writers and serve them to a global audience.

Karyn Maughn who is an Author & Journalist at TisoBlackstar spoke about the Party Funding Bill and how it will improve transparency of political party funding. Later on we also spoke to Marius Reitz, Head of Africa at cryptocurrency company Luno who spoke about why Bitcoin surged by 20% in the last week.

Dr Robert Morrell who works in the Office of the Vice Chancellor at the University of Cape Town, spoke about how globalisation and new technology have changed the ways that knowledge is made, disseminated and consumed.

Eastern Cape’s rising star Ami Faku talks about her latest single Ubuhle Bakho, her music endeavors and being a contestant on the music programme The Voice.

Executive chef, Amori Burger, joined us in-studio to chat about her latest venture - Van Der Linde Restaurant, which is located in Linden in Johannesburg

Angus McIntosh, also know as Farmer Angus talks about regenerative agriculture.

Dr Duncan Carmichael, author of the book, Younger For Longer, explains how individuals can achieve optimum health through understanding vital workings and processes of the body.