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Young LGBTIs are exposed to the same challenges as most South African youth – but these are made worse by continuing homophobia at home, at school, in churches and in society at large, despite the social changes of the recent past. In 1995, the country’s groundbreaking, progressive Constitution outlawed discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, promising full citizenship to a post-aparthe...

Today we will touch on some topics, at a high level – which topics will be amongst the topics we shall be tackling in the next weeks. But our year as Amandla Omnotho started last week already – where we held a virtual session on medicinal herbs (both markets and funding opportunities)   Guest on the line: Gugulethu G. Xaba -Chairman Adamo Holdings (Pty) Ltd / Amandla Omnotho

Social conversations: Fort Hare vice-chancellor pleads with Ramaphosa to take action following attacksThe University of Fort Hare’s vice-chancellor Professor Sakhela Buhlungu says he has never known peace since he took up his current job, accusing politicians and business people of working as part of a syndicate to have him ousted or resign in fear. Bahlungu, whose bodyguard was shot dead recently...

Guest on line: Matseleng Mogodi - a Life and Executive Coach and founder of I Get It Now. Fear of abandonment is a type of anxiety that some people experience when faced with the idea of losing someone they care about. Everyone deals with death or the end of relationships in their lifetime. Loss is a natural part of life. However, people with abandonment issues live in fear of these losses. They m...

Guest on the line: Hartmut Winkler-Professor of Physics, University of Johannesburg STRUGGLING South African consumers have been warned to brace for even more intense load shedding next year as Eskom moves ahead with its six-months outage at Koeberg nuclear power station while scrambling for money to buy diesel. This will cripple economic growth and is a major source of investor concern. This come...

Guest on the line : Divesh Sooka, General Manager at ALX, a leading technology training provider. Future-proofing your career means choosing to acquire skills that most employers want in their organisations now and well into the future. Certain digital skills rank highly in this category. Every industry has been impacted by digitisation and soon there will be no career path that doesn’t require so...

Tonight we are doing cross overs with our guest. We need your name and surname and the person you would like to connect with. Guests on the line: Buhle the Medium, isalukazisekhehla on social media

President Cyril Ramaphosa has called for an end to sanctions against Zimbabwe, saying that is one the reasons those citizens flood into South Africa. South Africa has seen an influx of Zimbabweans coming to the country over the years, some documented and some illegal. This has caused tensions as some South Africans accuse Zimbabweans of stealing their jobs due to cheap labour. For a few years, the...

The Companies Act 71 of 2008 aims to provide for the incorporation, registration, organisation and management of companies, the capitalisation of profit companies, and the registration of offices of foreign companies carrying on business within the Republic Guest on the line: Adam Pike, the founder of Pike Law, a corporate and commercial law firm.

✓ More than just the measure of how effectively resources are used to produce outputs. ✓ Using less to create more – working smarter, not harder. ✓ A mindset that continuously aspires to better ways of accomplishing tasks and conducting business. ✓ “Doing what I do today better than I did yesterday and even better tomorrow”. ✓ Creating and delivering Superior Value (quality goods and services at t...

Ntunja stardom became evident at a very young age when she would perform for friends and family early. That’ s where her love for ‘Traditional Folk Music ’ and confidence was honed. She’s a Singer-Songwriter whose career in music bloomed in 2006 when she began performing as a vocalist with the Sunshine Jazz band. This opportunity inspired her to study Popular Music and major in Vocal and Keyboard...

Policing unions have called for urgent action to prevent police murders after two officers were found dead on Christmas day. The South African Policing Union (SAPU) said it was outraged by the two murders and called for the murder of police officers to be declared as treason. "We call on the state President Cyril Ramaphosa to declare police killings as treason for it is a crime against the state,...

Closet Conversations – Musician Profile   Guest 1: Xoli mazibuko, Guest 2: Lefa Diamond, Guest 3: Siyabonga Mabaso, Guest 4: Gugu Radebe   Tonight we are joined in studio by Ingoma ZaseAfrika Marimba Band    

Guest 1 on the line: Ras. Gareth Prince - Lawyer and campaigner Social conversations: How big is the Cannabis industry for South Africa? In the Country Investment Strategy (CIS) released mid-2022 by the Presidency for public comment, cannabis, alongside green hydrogen, is one of five big frontiers of government-identified strategic foreign direct investment opportunities designed to meet the ambit...

Guest 1: Letta Phala -ToGaTa Guest 2: Belinda Radebe -ToGaTa Guest 3: Pumzile Manikela -Manager   Festive conversations: Musician/s profile Group name: ToGaTa Bottom of Form        

Guest on the line: Thembisa Fakude, Senior Research Fellow at Afrasid Social conversations: the Taliban government,   Activities Prohibited by Taliban   The Taliban government, which came into power in August, last year in Afghanistan, promised a moderate rule respecting the rights of women and minorities. However, after coming into power the insurgent group has announced a series of prohibitions...

Sello Galane is a vocalist and percussionist extraordinaire who was born in 1966 into a musical family. His father, Maeke, was a Kiba music and dance leader (malokwane) and his mother, Moaki, was a singer in the Lutheran Church. Sello grew up in Leboneng, Hammanskraal where he completed his elementary schooling. He received tertiary education at the University of Cape Town where he met other music...

Guest on line: Mathawe Matsapola -Seasoned Journalist & Editor/Entrepreneur/Certified Life Coach and COMENSA member/ Speaker/ Closet conversations: Is it rude to bring your own food and other resources to someone's house?   One A Teamer said: Bringing your own food to someone’s house is understandable if you have specific food requirements that are unusual or is you who have other food needs....

Guest on the line: Corna Olivier -Registered counsellor and lecturer at Stadio.(A private higher educational institute) Social conversations: How to reduce anxiety while waiting for exam results?  Occupying the space between finishing your exam and waiting for your grades to get released can feel like you’re reading a suspenseful Gothic novel... ...particularly when you aren’t very sure about how...

Guest 1 on the line: Uyanda Maboea, Candidate Attorney at Adams & Adams Legal conversations: Unnecessary hindrance to parenthood. South Africa protects the rights of minorities or previously marginalised groups through legislative and constitutional means. The right to equality is constitutionally entrenched. Section 294 of the Children’s Act 38 of 2005[1] (hereinafter referred to as “the Act”...

Guest 1 on the line: Dr Thomas Brennan, founder and CEO of Franc: (Franc – an award-winning app that helps South Africans save) For this reason, Franc, an award-winning app that helps South Africans save, invest and learn about investments, has developed child accounts that parents can link to their own account. It takes a few clicks to open an account and then a few seconds more to open a linked...

Guest on the line: Thato Molope- co-founder and director of operations at Cuplings Foundation This year the foundation aims to raise more than R 7 million to fund the distribution of 25 000 reusable soft silicone menstrual cups that collect, rather than absorb, periods. And Abdulla wants to achieve this target by Christmas. She said: “Each cup has a lifespan of ten years and eliminates the depende...

Guest on the line: Dr Mpumelelo Ncube -HoD & Senior Lecturer Dept. of Social Work University of the Free State Known to many as a “bride-price” or bride-worth” and to some extent as a “down payment” or “dowry” but in the African culture, it is a ritual that brings two families together.   According to the English usage ‘dowry’ is the gift of money, goods or both, offered by the bride or bride’...

Tshepang Sesoane. A 3rd year student at UNISA studying B.Ed in senior phase majoring in Mathematics and Physics. A gay being who identifies as being non binary and gender fluid. Whether you say he or she as long as it comes from a genuine place, it's all good with them.     Differences between Dominance Submissions Explain the different roles, from the everyday lifestyle to the bedroom. Toys or no...

Guest 1 on the line: Dr. Sello Galane - a musicologist, composer, educationist and music performer  Sello Galane  is a vocalist and percussionist extraordinaire who was born in 1966 into a musical family. His father, Maeke, was a Kiba music and dance leader (malokwane) and his mother, Moaki, was a singer in the Lutheran Church. Sello grew up in Leboneng, Hammanskraal where he completed his element...