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Let’s face it; parenting is not for the faint hearted. From broken bones to broken hearts… we survive one crisis after another, right? Truth is, raising a healthy child is not easy, but raising a child with a mental illness is taking parenting to a whole new level, its life altering. When a child is diagnosed with a mental illness, it ricochets to the entire family. Guest: Corna Olivier - HPCSA Re...

Connecting African universities to high speed internet can help drive the development of digital skills and capabilities. This would also benefit secondary schools and technical and vocational colleges. A strong argument has been made, that improving connectivity should be viewed as a priority infrastructure investment. Guest: Prof Willie Chinyamurindi - Senior lecturer in business management, Uni...

Head Start Education serves as the gateway to Africa for the leading education technology companies in the world, in order to lead the advancement of education across the continent. Head Start is a full-blown edtech provider, having exclusive licenses of over 20 of the leading educational apps worldwide and in South Africa. We have been described as the ‘Netflix for Education’ with a catalogue tha...

Guest: Aida Coertse, Spiritual Master Coach

The impact of COVID-19, and the ensuing financial crisis, will have a lasting impact on society and business as a whole. Those who are unable to work because of the lockdown are facing serious economic challenges. Because of job losses and reductions in income, many South Africans are worried that their assets such as their home, car or other financed goods could be repossessed over lack of paymen...

The world is facing a health crisis with the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, and every workplace has to help fight it. As an employee, it is your right to be kept as safe as possible. Indeed, the law is on your side, as it has rules that your employer must follow to protect and support you throughout this difficult time. Guest: Ayanda Baepi, co-founder and Director at Baepi Dyasi Attorney's

Guest: Dr Mariam Khan is a registered Natural medicine doctor with a Master’s degree focusing on sexual and reproductive health and rights and its intersections with gender and religion

“The increase in STIs is cause for great concern. STIs drive HIV infection. When left untreated, an STI will ulcerate and become a thriving access point for HIV to easily enter the body. Uncircumcised men are far more vulnerable to STIs like herpes and syphilis. “VMMC services were suspended for five months last year. With facilities repurposed for the Covid-19 response, men wanting to circumcise...

A Mrs SA semi-finalist, whose golf champion father took his own life four years ago, has spoken out for the first time about the agonising ordeal in a bid to help break the stigma around mental illness and to urge those struggling with stress, anxiety and depression to reach out for help immediately. Mother, entrepreneur and social activist, Chane Todd, 31, has broken her silence about her world-f...

Is society too judgemental towards Men and what can be done to create an environment, where healing can happen ... to Men and the Boy Child... Guest on the line: Billy Selekane - Africa’s #1 Professional Inspirational Speaker.

A year ago, at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, we predicted that school closures in South Africa would result in learning losses. A loss of contact learning time would lead to lower educational outcomes, and the losses would be higher in no-fee schools (serving children from low income families) than in fee-paying schools. Now we can update how much contact teaching time was lost in 2020 and m...

Guest on the line: Coach Mathawe Matsapola - She wears many hats, life coach, seasoned journalist, inspirational speaker and entrepreneur among other things

The modern research university was designed to produce new knowledge and to pass that knowledge on to students. North American universities over the last 100 years have been exceptionally good at that task. But this is not all that universities can do or should do. The COVID-19 pandemic has made it even easier to reduce teaching to knowledge dissemination and to obscure other, equally important, f...

A World Gone Mad is a collection of 15 stories written by the students. All come from rural villages or low income, highly populated settlements on the edge of metropolitan areas (also known as “townships”). Some of them wrote their stories on their cell phones. In March 2020, when South African president Cyril Ramaphosa announced the country’s first lockdown, students had to evacuate campus and r...

Guest: Aida Coertse, Spiritual Master Coach

Although vacancies are up, evolving trends indicate that the office is not obsolete. In fact, John Jack, CEO of Galetti Corporate Real Estate argues that as both employers and employees continue to embrace the new world of work, the office’s purpose has evolved – and that it still plays a crucial role. “In 2021, companies are rethinking the office and are using it as a much-needed catalyst for pro...

For many women, whilst becoming pregnant brings an incredible amount of joy, it also comes with significant fear and insecurity as to how your employer will handle the news. You may ask yourself many questions such as “will I still have a job to come back to?”, “I am on unpaid maternity leave, can I come back after a month or two?” and “will I be treated differently?” Guest : Gabriella Keeble - Se...

Genital herpes is a sexually transmitted infection (STI). This STI causes herpetic sores, which are painful blisters (fluid-filled bumps) that can break open and ooze fluid. Guest: Dr Anthony Smith –family physician and medical sexologist

Guest: David Bayever - Director of SAIDS (South African Institute for Drug-Free Sport) and Guest: Simon Ramara - Director of Security for Khaume Security and Training

Guest: Dr Tamara Stephens, founder of KetoGevity South Africa.

Guest: Dr Natalia Novikova - a highly skilled Gynaecologist and Endoscopic Surgeon practicing in both Cape Town and Johannesburg

Mindfulness Wednesday – Youth Resilience: Have we failed our Youth by not preparing them thorough for life ... making things to appear easy? Guest: Billy Selekane - Africa’s #1 Professional Inspirational Speaker

It can be from relationships or friendship, even work. Unfortunately, we can't walk away from families. Guest: Coach Mathawe Matsapola - She wears many hats, life coach, seasoned journalist, inspirational speaker and entrepreneur among other things

South Africa’s youth unemployment crisis is fuelled by a shortage and mismatch of skills, but also by a lack of internships to help younger work seekers obtain the experience they need to secure permanent jobs. Covid-19 isn’t helping. Civil society and corporate players are working to solve this often-overlooked challenge with an innovative youth talent hub that matches skilled youngsters with pra...

It is often said that Africa ought to learn from the west – but not much is said about what there is to learn from Africa. At this point in time, there is in actual fact much that the rest of the world can learn from Africa. Africa has come a long way in shaking off the image of a continent that is consistently dependent on and trailing the rest of the world for investment, development, direction...