The Alternative Breakfast

INTERVIEW - KEKELINGO Interview -  Nomfundo Moh

GUEST: MILISUTHANDO BONGELA – Filmmaker Interview: ENCOUNTERS 2023 celebrates 25 years and opens with MILISUTHANDO the most ‘talked about’ new voice in South Afri-can filmmaking (22 June)  

GUEST: CAROLINE McCANN- Harvesting Heritage Interview: HUMBLE HERITAGE CROPS IMPRESS FOODIES AT NEW CULINARY COMPETITION  

Guest: Nico Smith, Petrol Head

GUEST: LAUREN van NIJKERK – Director Marketing Communications at Wildlands Conservation Trust Interview: Campaign Connects South Africans with Sharks and Rays on World Ocean Day  

GUEST: DR. ALISON BENTLEY - Sleep Expert Interview: #JSBHEALTH: Are you struggling with insomnia  

Guest: PHILIP du TOIT - Project Architect at BPAS Architects Interview: A new lens for viewing our cities

GUEST: Marie Snyman – Drip AM Co -Founder – Interview: Decorex Africa  

Green spaces are good for people – but in South Africa many cannot access them. This is a finding from researches at Rhodes University in the department of Botany and Anthropology. GUEST: SUSANNE VETTER - Associate Professor, Department of Botany, Rhodes University GUEST: VALERIE MOLLER - Professor of Sociology, Rhodes University GUEST: MICHELLE COCKS - Associate Professor of Environmental Anthrop...

Monday 5th June is World Environment Day. A day commemorated by the United Nations encouraging worldwide awareness and action to protect our environment.   Guest: Catherine Constantinides - •Environmental & Climate Activist   Note: Catherine has just returned from France, where she visited the Maison Moët & Chandon to learn about Moët & Chandon’s Natura Nostra sustainability programme...

Workshop Week is organised by the Open Book Festival and takes place from 5-10 June 2023 at Bertha House in Mowbray. GUEST: FRANKIE MURREY - Event curator for the Open Book Festival “We piloted Workshop Week in 2022 to offer aspiring and experienced writers the chance to participate in practical workshop sessions with experienced writers. It turned out to be very popular and sessions were fully bo...

THE BOOKISH DR. Is back with a call to grow our involvement as parents and guardians in encouraging reading in our homes as regular practice. She has selected 2 titles to consider for your children’s book collection list & the book news. GUEST: DR. NOKUTHULA MAZIBUKO- MSIMANG - University of Pretoria based researcher and writer of children’s books and historical novels.   ABOUT DR. Nokuthula M...

Making Friends with Feelings is inspired by raising sons who often struggle with expressing their feelings in a world where there are labels like “boys don’t cry”.   GUEST: Sewela Langeni - Owner of Book Circle Capital and Author of “Making friends with feelings”   Making Friends with Feelings is a compassionate story that teaches boys that it is OK to cry when you are sad and that it is healthy t...

Sign language is set to become South Africa’s 12th official language after a long fight for recognition GUEST: PROF. THEODORUS DU PLESSIS - Professor Emeritus: South African Sign Language & Deaf Studies, University of Freestate Sign language is on its way to become the 12th official language in South Africa after parliament recently agreed to amend the constitution to this end. The move will b...

South Africans are among the heaviest drinkers in the world. The country has the highest per capita rate of alcohol consumption in Africa. Excessive drinking is especially widespread in the Western Cape. Research estimates that per capita alcohol consumption in the province is between 30% and 40% higher than the national consumption. GUEST: SAMANTHA FILBY - Research Officer, Research on the Econom...

Blood cancers, such as Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and Leukaemia, are some of the most common childhood cancers, with patients having a 50% survival rate. However, South Africans who are between the ages of 17 and 55 and in general good health can help to increase the cancer survival rate amongst the country’s children by becoming blood stem cell donors. GUEST: Palesa Mokomele, Head of Community Engage...

Guest: Ali Conn – Chief Innovation Officer at Sea Harvest Interview: The work of SA HAVERST  

Guest: Rob Herring - A crochet fundi Interview: The 2023 67 Blankets Local Blankets is Lekka tour Continues.  

Guest: World book day and fostering reading in children Interview: WORD DOMINATION  

Guest: Cynthia Morrison – Director A Chance to Play South Africa Interview: The importance of play for children living with disability  

Guest: Mabuyi Mnguni – Covid -19 coordinator Interview: FOR THE LOVE OF NURSING    

Guest: Mala Suriah – Chief Marketing Officer FUNDI FOUNDATION THOUGHTLEADERS: FOR THE LOVE OF NURSING  

Popularly referred to as spinach king, Lufefe Nomjana, is a Khayelitsha-based entrepreneur who farms spinach and produces baked goods and refreshments that have spinach as a main ingredient from bread to muffins. GUEST: LUFEFE NOMJANA - Founder of The Spinach King In 2011, Nomjana started his business with just as little as a R40, with four bunches of spinach and his big idea. This is where he was...

Zandile Kumalo, a hydroponics farmer who started a rooftop garden at the Morningside Shopping Centre in Sandton and supplies the shops and restaurants. GUEST: ZANDILE KUMALO - Hydroponics Farmer She says she was motivated to start the hydroponics farm on the concrete rooftop of Morningside Shopping Centre in Sandton after realizing she could supply fresh vegetables to those in her vicinity.  

THE BOOKISH DR. Is back with a call to grow our involvement as parents and guardians in encouraging reading in our homes as regular practice. She has selected 3 titles to consider for your children’s book collection list. GUEST: DR. NOKUTHULA MAZIBUKO- MSIMANG - University of Pretoria based researcher and writer of children’s books and historical novels.