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This Women’s Month, 5 FM is celebrating Women Who Move Us; women whose work, ideas, leadership and personal journeys are helping to move South Africa forward. Xoliswa Mahlangu, is a leader in digital learning, AI and educational technology. With a background in software engineering and experience across teaching, educator development and national innovation programmes, she’s helping sh...

Joining us now is Lara Toselli, a South African writer, performer, director and producer whose career began remarkably early , as a nine-year-old presenter on SABC 1's YoTV. Since then, she's worked across television, film and theatre, and has created award-winning work of her own. Her latest project is particularly personal. Mother Load is a one-woman show written and performed by Lara and direct...

What happens when an African music legend finally gets a piece of Hollywood real estate Because Angelique Kidjo is officially getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. And this isn't just another celebrity getting their name on the boulevard. She is making history.

He started with a college dropout’s dream and turned a simple nickname into a global identity, Made beats before making headlines, Then spent years proving that one man could keep changing the conversation.   He went from making beats in Chicago to making stadiums listen, Crossed fashion, music and controversy like they were separate lanes on the same highway, And no...

What happened on this day in history. 

This morning on 5 Breakfast, we’re getting into a new SABC1 documentary series called Born After The Fire. The series marks the 50th anniversary of the Soweto Uprisings by looking at South Africa through the eyes of the generation born into democracy - the young people who inherited the freedom others fought for, but are still living with the unanswered questions aro...

A woman in Italy is being declared the “luckiest person alive” after she recovered a lost lottery ticket worth the equivalent of 18 million rand. She had initially thrown away her ticket at a shop after thinking it was worthless. When she got home, her family told her that her numbers that she always plays were read out. After rushing back to the shop, they discovered th...

BUZZWORD:  LAY Each day a buzzword is announced, and 5 questions are asked to a listener, all of which will contain the buzzword.

What happened on this day in history.

She was named in the shadow of a hill before climbing one herself, Learned harmony in rooms built to manufacture British pop futures, Then spent years behind other voices before the foreground finally found her.

19-year-old Jonella Sibiya, a business owner that owns a tuckshop in her hometown village 

It’s Monday, which means it’s time to stretch your money mindset on Money Mondays with Xoli Zondo and Thuli Magubane. This week, because it’s Women’s Month, we’re talking about something called the female tax. And no, this is not an official SARS category hiding somewhere between PAYE and VAT. The female tax is the extra financial pressure women often carry simply bec...

What happened on this day in history.

She was given a heavenly name because of an elephant, Learned to disappear first through ballet, then beneath somebody else’s face, And eventually won gold while wearing a nose history remembered better than hers.

This morning on Game On: Woza Weekend, Xoli is joined by Proteas wicketkeeper Sinalo Jafta; fresh off a major honour at the Cricket South Africa Awards. Sinalo has just received the Makhaya Ntini: Power of Cricket Award, an award that recognises players whose journeys speak to perseverance, humility, resilience and the transformative power of cricket. And for Sinalo, this one is deeply p...