The Jet Set Breakfast

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 - Senior 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)    

 GUEST: RUTH HALL - Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), University of the Western Cape    

Guest: Tanya Nel, Operations Director Paws R Us Interview: Separated Dog Siblings “Lilo and Stitch” Reunited, an adoption story.          

GUEST: COLLEN DLAMINI -  Head of Public Affairs – Mining Indaba As the global spotlight increasingly focuses on sustainable practices and community empowerment, Mining Indaba 2025 is set to lead the conversation by placing communities at the heart of mining's future.          

GUEST: ISABEAU JOUBERT -  Cape Town-based texture designer and yarn bomber GUEST: VERONICA MITCHELL - Facilitator and Researcher in medical education at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. GUEST: PULENG SEGALO -Professor of Psychology at the University of South Africa GUEST: GEMMA McKENZIE - Researcher. Crocheter: #ThreadsOfProtest

GUEST: PROF. LARS CHITTKA - Professor in Sensory and Behavioural Ecology at Queen Mary University of London  

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: MPUMELELO BOND NYOKA - Lawyer & Analyst 

GUEST: BHEKISISA MNCUBE - Author and Columnist who won the national 2024 Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism Award for columns/editorials, as well as the same category at the regional 2020 Vodacom Journalist of the Year Awards.  

GUEST: DR. SANDY AFRICA - Director of Research MISTRA Interview: The Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA) appoints Dr Sandy Africa as the new Director of Research

GUEST: NADIA LUBOWSKI - Director at the Anton Lubowski Educational Trust Art therapy is an invaluable tool for addressing childhood trauma,  

GUEST: MARK BANKS: Comedian  

GUEST: DR. IVAN LUKANDA - Senior Lecturer, Department of Journalism and Communication, Makerere University Uganda

GUEST: NICO SMIT 

GUEST: ENVER DUMINY - Chief Executive Officer of Cape Town Tourism 

GUEST: PROF. JON PATRICIOS - Professor in the Division Of Sport And Exercise Medicine at Wits University

GUEST: JONO HALL - Filmmaker, Writer, Cartoonist    

GUEST: PROF. JASPER KNIGHT - Wits Geography And Environmental Science

GUEST: ALLAN OATS - Medical Orthotist Prosthetist & Partner Barkley & Oates  Interview:  It is estimated that globally 65 million people live with limb amputations, according to a study by the African Journal of Disability. In South Africa, amputee care is a service most cannot afford.  

Sibongile Mongadi is the founder of Ukuhamba Prosthetics, a small business that uses 3D technology to produce low cost prosthetic limbs out of recycled materials such as water bottles.  GUEST: SIBONGILE MONGADI - Founder Ukuhamba Prosthetics  

GUEST: KATE ROGAN - Owner of Love Books Bookstore in Melville A look into Book Shop Culture, 2025 Book Titles and more    

GUEST: DR. ADEM K ABEBE - Senior Advisor in governance, comparative constitutional design, human rights and democratization, Extraordinary Lecturer at the University of Pretoria Interview: The African Union has a poor record of protecting democracy. 2024 was no different, an opinion piece by Dr. Adem K Abebe      

GUEST: PJ SABBAGHA - Choreographer & Arts Activist  Interview: A tribute to Dance and Choreographer Dada Masilo    

GUEST: DUMISANI SIBANDA - Executive Head: Strategic Projects and Analytics at Fundi The Fundi Foundation is calling deserving students for their 2025 Registration Fee Bursary Campaign            

GUEST: CLAIRE JOHNSTON - Lead Singer Mango Groove

GUEST: NEIL RUSCH - Associate Researcher Archeology Division School of Geography Wits University 

GUEST: SETH SHEZI - Stylist 

GUEST: WILLIAM BIRD - Director Media Monitoring Africa

GUEST: YOLANDA ARENDSE - Wellness Therapist and Ontological Coach. Author of “Gentle: A Healing Journey in No Particular Order”    

GUEST: Dr Jörgen Vogt - President of GKA Kite World Tour

GUEST: DEAN FERREIRA - Managing Director NCC Environmental Services

GUEST: ANGELA DEH - Clinical Psychologist, Psychotherapist and Speaker  •    How do we go navigate our way into the year with a sense of peace and purpose? •    The new year can also come with anxiety and still needing to deal with previous years, how do we face this anxiety? •    How do we know our state of mental health is beyond our own management and that we need to seek help? •    What tools would you recommend to manage our day to day living, disappointments, plans and overall outlook on life?

GUEST: LISA VETTEN  - research and project consultant in the faculty of humanities at the University of Johannesburg ‘Teen pregnancies, other social ills prevalent in fatherless homes’ The Executive Director of the Family Policy Institute, Errol Naidoo, says broken family structures are the biggest contributors to the high number of teenage pregnancies in the country. A significant number of teenagers under the age of 16 gave birth on Christmas and New Year’s Day, the youngest being a 12-year-old girl from the Eastern Cape. This has raised alarm and some men have been charged with statutory rape

GUEST: PHINAH KODISANG - CEO of the Soul City Institute for Social Justice”.      Gauteng recorded 31 births to mothers aged between 15 and 19 on New Year’s Day. Additionally  the concerning case of a 12-year-old girl among the youngest mothers in South Africa. Teen pregnancy is a pressing issue in South Africa, with 1 in 7 mothers being teenagers, and nearly 365 teenage girls giving birth daily. This statistic not only highlights a public health crisis but also underscores the systemic issues contributing to cycles of poverty, educational setbacks, and limited future opportunities for young girls.

GUEST: LEBO PULE - A teacher at Stretch School, a life coach, podcast host of the Stretch Podcast

GUEST: MAMETIWE SEBEI - GIWUSA (General Industries Workers Union of South Africa)

GUEST: SIBUSISO MKHWANAZI - Travel and Lifestyle Writer