The Alternative Breakfast

Interview:   Experience the 2nd edition of the Linden Night Shop: Plain Jane in June Market taking place  Saturday 1st of June   GUEST: FRANCO FERRARESE -  Organiser of the Market 

INTERVIEW :  The Embassy of France in South Africa, Lesotho and Malawi and the French Institute of South Africa (IFAS) revealed it is now entering Création Africa’s final incubation and immersion stage. GUEST: SOPHIE BOULE - Cultural Attache of France to South Africa and Deputy Director IFAS   

Interview:  Understanding the National Health Insurance Bill that has now become an Act. GUEST: DR. DONALD GUMEDE - Chairperson at the National Health Care Professionals Association 

Interview :  The Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM) is a flagship project of the African Union Agenda 2063, an initiative of the African Union to create a single unified air transport market in Africa. GUEST: SIBUSISO MKHWANAZI - Travel Writer 

Interview : I hate my job : how to navigate career dissatisfaction and burnout  GUEST: ADRIAN GARDEN - Deputy Dean of Teaching and Learning 

INTERVIEW: Alastair McAlpine, a palliative paediatrician    on his book Prescription: Ice Cream - A Doctor's Journey To Discover What Matters   GUEST: DR. ALASTAIR McALPINE        

Interview : South Africa’s Tourism sector continues a positive trajectory the latest official release of international arrival figures by Statistics South Africa for January to March 2024 points to a growing South African tourism sector. GUEST: THANDIWE MATHIBELA  · Global Manager: PR, Communications and Stakeholder Relations at South African Tourism              

GUEST: JULIA SOTIRIANAKOS -  CEO Reach for a Dream INTERVIEW: This year’s Slipper Day will be on 31 May, in support of children with life-threatening illnesses. This year’s theme, “Step into My Slippers”, focuses on empathy, fun, and stepping into the shoes (or rather, slippers) of these brave children.    

GUEST: BRIONY BERNING -  National Nursing Education Manager Interview  International Nurses Day with the theme "Our Nurses our Future: The Economic Power of Care"            

Almenkerk Wine Estate is a small, family-owned wine estate, situated in the Elgin valley just east of Cape Town, South Africa. INTERVIEW :    Regenerative Farming and Winemaking in a farm in Elgin  GUEST: JORIS VAN ALMENKERK - owner of Almenkerk Wine Estate            

Guest: REUBEN ICHIKOWITZ - Trustee of Ichikowitz Family Foundation INTERVIEW :   The Ichikowitz Family Foundation launched the African Youth Survey. The survey was conducted through more than 1 000 face-to-face interviews with 18 to 24-year-olds across Mzansi and found that less than one in two young people are keen to vote.     

GUEST: ADAM ZANOLINI - Multi-instrumentalist, composer, ethnomusicologist, writer, arts organizer and Executive Director of Elastic Arts Foundation in Chicago Interview:  Adam Zanolini - The Heliacal Rising of Sothis: A Celebration of Chicago’s Masterful Phil Cohran" at the State Theatre in Tshwane at 7; featuring the Tumi Mogorosi Quartet    

Interview: Jonathan Freemantle's solo exhibition "The Fallen Tree” is currently showing at Gallery Momo in Parktown.    GUEST: JONATHAN FREEMANTLE - Artist  Song: Adam Zanolini - All That We Know             

GUEST: MORNE BOTES - Commercial Director of Southern Oil  Interview :  What Drives the Cost of Cooking Oil?          

Guest: Nico Smith, Petrol Head

INTERVIEW : Hiking in the Elgin Valley Question : What is a Biome? Guest: ANDRIES GROENEWALD - Lead Guide in the trails in Elgin Question: What does it mean to be a nature guide? Guest: PATRICK MAPONJE - Nature Guide 

GUEST: KAREN BESTER - Lamelle Research Laboratories Interview:  BODY ACNE : prevention and treatment    

GUEST: GRANT DODDS - SA Rowing Technical Performance Manager  Interview :  South African rowing team gears up to compete in Switzerland to qualify for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris    

Thandiswa Mazwai Returns With New Album “Sankofa” and a leading single ‘Kulungile’ GUEST: THANDISWA MAZWAI - Singer-Songwriter Instudio The new offering carries the profound message of overcoming past wounds and finding peace within. ‘Kulungile’, translating to ‘it is well’ in isiXhosa, reflects on her journey, reminding us that pain fades and wounds can be mended. The release of ‘Kulungile’ sets...

Michelle : Seeing a variety of books that include Joanne Joseph - Children of the Sugarcare; Barbara Boswell - The Comrades Wife; How do you go about selecting the books to have in the store GUEST : CHRISTI BYER - Owner and Manager Liberty Books N2 in Elgin

"Man in the Mirror" is a collection of quotes and proverbs, written by Charles Robert Koopman, an American-born global traveler and history teacher. GUEST: CHARLES KOOPMAN - History and Author of Man in the Mirror

An urgent appeal has been filed with two United Nations Special Rapporteurs on behalf of the family of Toomaj Salehi, an Iranian rapper and activist who has been sentenced to death in Iran.   GUEST: PROF. MAHMOOD AMIRY-MOGHADDAM - Human Rights Advocate and Norwegian-Iranian neuroscientist

SOUTH AFRICA AT THIRTY – WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR THE MOST VULNERABLE – THE CHILDREN? A thought piece  By Dr Linda Ncube-Nkomo published by Sowetan Live GUEST: DR. LINDA NCUBE-NKOMO - CEO of the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund

In a demonstration of collective impact, the DO MORE FOUNDATION (founded by RCL FOODS) and Care for Education - supported by other business and non-profit partners - are distributing 1,800 DUPLO Play Boxes to 682 Early Childhood Development (ECD) centres across South Africa to be used for play-based learning by 33,492 young children.   GUEST: LUNGILE THABETHE - DUPLO Project Manager at the DO MORE...

SA / Swiss collab band SKYJACK returns to Joburg to launch our 3rd album Light Cycle on Fri 10 and Sat 11 May.  They will perform at the Chris Seabrooke Music Hall at Wits University. Performance takes place at 7pm GUEST: SHANE COOPER - Bass