The Alternative Breakfast

GUEST:SNOWY MATTERA - Daughter of Don Mattera and Board Member of the Don Mattera Legacy Foundation  

GUEST: PROF. SCOTT HAZELHURST - Professor of Bioinformatics in the School of Electrical & Information Engineering Wits University 

GUEST: THANDUXOLO MXOLI  - SABC Sportscaste

GUEST: NICHOLAS COLE - part of SANParks & co-authored this article

GUEST: SONGEZO ZIBI  - National Leader of Rise Mzansi, Chairperson of Parliament's Standing Committee On Public Accounts Interview:   CIVIC EDUCATION :  Hope Is Not A Strategy in the New Trump World.  The US President presents enormous risks for South Africa and the world.    

GUEST: DR. IRAJ ABEDIAN - Economist, Author and Founder and Chief Executive of Pan-African Investment and Research Services  Interview:  US Sovereign Wealth Fund and ‘Reciprocal’ tariffs on every country to be announced next week, Trump says    

GUEST: MKHULU NSINGIZA -  Co-founder of the Kemet/Afrikan Royal calendar. GUEST: KAREL NEL - Artist, Curator, Scholar, works with a team of the world’s foremost astronomers on COSMOS GUEST: DR. MOUMITA AICH - Astrophysicist & Head of the Wits Anglo American Digital Dome (WAADD) OUR CONNECTION TO THE STARS -  Aligning to the COSMOS      

GUEST: WANDILE SIHLOBO - Chief Economist of the Agricultural Business Chamber of South Africa (Agbiz) and the author of  “A Country of Two Agricultures: The Disparities, The Challenges, The Solutions”  SA needs to hone export strategies amid rising trade friction & What can Farmers and Agribusinesses harvest from the SONA?      

GUEST: ANDI NORTON -   Trustee of the Stellenbosch Outdoor Sculpture Trust. The  Stellenbosch Triennale returns from 19 February to 30 April 2025 , transforming the town into an open-air gallery.          

GUEST: NOLUVUYISO VUVU MPOFU  - Soprano Soloist

GUEST: TONY LANKESTER  - Incoming CEO Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society

GUEST: LIEZEL ENGELBRECHT  - Innovation Manager in the All Children On Track Portfolio from the DG Murray Trust

GUEST: TOBY SHAPSHAK  - Editor at large Stuff Magazine   

GUEST: DR. IFEDAYO ADETIFA  - Chief Transformation Officer and CEO of FIND

GUEST: THANDUXOLO MXOLI  - SABC Sportscaste  

GUEST: CONWAY SHIRINDZA -  S enior Conservation Officer at the National Zoological Garden 

Guest: HAPPY MAKHUMALO NGIDI - Chief Marketing Officer of Proudly South African As the State of the Nation Address (SONA) 2025 approaches, Proudly South African is calling on officials and guests to make a statement by wearing locally made fashion.       

GUEST: BRUCE HENDERSON -  Author Interview: WOOD, IRON AND STEEL: Shipwrecks Mapped Off the Western Cape     

GUEST: DR. YASEEN KHAN - Co-founder and CEO of EMGuidance Prevention or crisis: the hidden economics of South Africa’s healthcare choice      

GUEST: JEROME SEPTEMBER - Guest: Dean of Students Wits University Interview:  Student Debt Cleared for 800 Wits students amounting to R63 million collectively.           

GUEST: ZACKIE ACHMAT - Co-Founder of the Treatment Action Campaign, Activist and Film Director Interview:   CIVIC EDUCATION : CIVIC ORGANISATIONS ON PEPFAR and NHI      

New National Survey Reveals SA’s Experiences of Education and Dropout GUEST: COLIN WARDLE - Communications Lead for the Zero Dropout Campaign.  

GUEST: MPUMELELO BOND NYOKA -  Lawyer & Analyst  Interview:   CIVIC EDUCATION : THE CONSTITUTION PART 2  The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, was approved by the Constitutional Court (CC) on 4 December 1996 and took effect on 4 February 1997.        

GUEST: PETER GODWIN - Author Interview: EXIT WOUNDS: A Story of Love, Loss and Occasional Wars (A Memoir)