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The local government elections, and how they work, are not as complicated as they seem, even the little ones can explain them. In a series that will run over 5 days on 5Drive, listeners will get explainers on how the local government elections work from children who will be uncomplicating the process for them.

Today on the Earliest Pub Quiz Ever, see if you've got what it takes to solve our anagram. Listen out as Nick gives a clue to help you, if you manage to figure it out, WhatsApp the team with your answer to the number 082 550 5151

On the road to the upcoming municipal elections we asked a few kids from the Helen O'Grady Drama Academy to explain a little more about our voting rights. We'll be chatting to a new kiddo every day so stay tuned for the rest of this week.

Today on the Earliest Pub Quiz Ever, see if you've got what it takes to solve our anagram. Listen out as Nick gives a clue to help you, if you manage to figure it out, WhatsApp the team with your answer to the number 082 550 5151

It’s been trending for most of the Alec Baldwin allegedly accidentally shot two crew members with a prop gun while on the set of a movie they were filming. There are so many questions here including “why did they have a real gun for a shoot?” To chat more on that we have production designer Luarnae Roos to shine a bit of light on how all this works.

Today on the Earliest Pub Quiz Ever, see if you've got what it takes to solve our anagram. Listen out as Nick gives a clue to help you, if you manage to figure it out, WhatsApp the team with your answer to the number 082 550 5151

The 20th of October marked one year since 120 people lost their lives at the Lekki Toll Gate in Nigeria in the #EndSARS protests. Bibi chats to lawyer in Nigeria Ayokunle Faith Adetula about the memorial held across the country and to get an update on how things are looking a year later.   

Athinga Ramabulana is a young woman student who’s not holding back in any way as she pursues her medical studies, while running a food business on campus and she’s also exploring her musical interests - all this at the age of 21. She joined the team and told them about student entrepreneurial journey. 

Today on the Earliest Pub Quiz Ever, see if you've got what it takes to solve our anagram. Listen out as Nick gives a clue to help you, if you manage to figure it out, WhatsApp the team with your answer to the number 082 550 5151

Newcastle united became the 2nd premier league club to be owned by a state after being bought by Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund. Premier league clubs have called an emergency meeting to ban them from bringing in sponsors related to the new owners. Jude explains why this is the case

Bibi had a chat with artist and activist Kudzanai Chiurai about the work he's done in the art space and he's exhibition 'The library of things we forgot to remember'. Listen as he talks to Bibi about the importance of art history to youths. 

Today on the Earliest Pub Quiz Ever, see if you've got what it takes to solve our anagram. Listen out as Nick gives a clue to help you, if you manage to figure it out, WhatsApp the team with your answer to the number 082 550 5151

You know the game where you try and keep a balloon off the floor, well, there's a world cup for it, Jude explains it in Extra time

It's 'Biggest Fan Week' on 5 Drive and we want to celebrate the best fans of anything! It’s very simple, tell us what you’re the biggest fan of and we’ll be put you to test! Listen as we put S.A's Biggest Taylor Swift fan to the test. 

DJ Snow is a music producer and mix DJ from Macassar, Cape Town and he has been at it for 8 years. He’s currently trending after releasing a yaadt remix to Adele’s new track ‘Easy On Me’.   He joined the team to chat about how the remix happened so quickly and why he wants remixes to be his thing. 

Today on the Earliest Pub Quiz Ever, see if you've got what it takes to solve our anagram. Listen out as Nick gives a clue to help you, if you manage to figure it out, WhatsApp the team with your answer to the number 082 550 5151

Emiliano Sala never got to play in the premier league after signing for a premier league team due to a plane crash that took his life as well as the pilots life. Someone was responsible for this, Jude explains what happened

Miss SA 2021 has been crowned, her name is Lalela Mswane, hailing from Richards Bay in KZN. She's a bachelor of law graduate from the University of Pretoria and let us in on her plans for her year of reign including her #BeReady campaign.

We teleported to the future and spoke to international music reporter, Barbelicious Mbalula, and she gave us her experience while at an environmentally friendly Coldplay concert. Listen as she let's us in on why she actually prefers 2020 to 2022

The first black African woman to summit Mount Everest, Saray Khumalo, joined Nick Hamman to chat about her achievement and what it means to her, and how she kept returning after failed attempts. 

Today on the Earliest Pub Quiz Ever, see if you've got what it takes to solve our anagram. Listen out as Nick gives a clue to help you, if you manage to figure it out, WhatsApp the team with your answer to the number 082 550 5151

Jude gives an update on the 5 Drive fantasy football league.

Imagine the roles are reversed. ( e.g queer person suggesting a straight person date another person they know who is straight, based on the fact that they are straight.) We heard from you and got some of your examples of weird and ridiculous things that people say or do based on sexual or gender identity, and chronicled in this short series. 

Multi-award winning artist Tresor’s star keeps rising, with international collabos and platinum selling music. Today he’s dropped a new album titled ‘Motion’ and joined the 5 Drive team to give us a little taste of the new body of work.

Nadia Romanos chats to the co-director and curator of the European Film Festival in South Africa, Peter Rorvik, about this year’s festival. Following the success of last year’s virtual festival, the 2021 edition will take place predominantly online from 14 to 24 October. A selection of 18 films from Europe, 13 of which have been directed by women, will be screened free of charge, provi...