The Jet Set Breakfast

GUEST: KIM TUCKER - Gqeberha Ambassador for 67 Blankets  The 67 Blankets for Nelson Mandela Day celebrates 11 years  of knitting blankets on 20th March the United Nation’s international day of Happiness at Nelson Mandela University.  

GUEST: MARIAN CLAITE - Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Afrika Tikkun Services

GUEST: BENEDICT JOHNSON - Executive Head: EBS and New Initiatives at Fundi SA. Interview: South Africa’s student accommodation crisis: urgent need for safety, security and solutions      

GUEST: BENOIT LE ROY - CEO of the SA Water Chamber Interview: Johannesburg is grappling with a severe and ongoing water crisis, leaving residents without reliable access to water for weeks. What will it take to solve this crisis?   .   

GUEST: PROF. JOHN STREMLAU - Honorary Professor of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand  Interview: TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDER: What's Trump's beef with South Africa?      

GUEST: PROF. MUSA XULU - Cultural Expert & Heritage Development Trust Executive Director. GUEST: JARRED THOMPSON - Author of The Institute for Creative Dying

GUEST: DOMAINE RAUTENBACH - Senior Brand Manager for Jacobs Coffee

GUEST:SNOWY MATTERA - Daughter of Don Mattera and Board Member of the Don Mattera Legacy Foundation  

GUEST: PROF. SCOTT HAZELHURST - Professor of Bioinformatics in the School of Electrical & Information Engineering Wits University 

GUEST: THANDUXOLO MXOLI - SABC Sportscaste

GUEST: NICHOLAS COLE - part of SANParks & co-authored this article

GUEST: SONGEZO ZIBI - National Leader of Rise Mzansi, Chairperson of Parliament's Standing Committee On Public Accounts Interview: CIVIC EDUCATION : Hope Is Not A Strategy in the New Trump World.  The US President presents enormous risks for South Africa and the world.    

GUEST: DR. IRAJ ABEDIAN - Economist, Author and Founder and Chief Executive of Pan-African Investment and Research Services  Interview: US Sovereign Wealth Fund and ‘Reciprocal’ tariffs on every country to be announced next week, Trump says    

GUEST: MKHULU NSINGIZA -  Co-founder of the Kemet/Afrikan Royal calendar. GUEST: KAREL NEL - Artist, Curator, Scholar, works with a team of the world’s foremost astronomers on COSMOS GUEST: DR. MOUMITA AICH - Astrophysicist & Head of the Wits Anglo American Digital Dome (WAADD) OUR CONNECTION TO THE STARS - Aligning to the COSMOS      

GUEST: WANDILE SIHLOBO - Chief Economist of the Agricultural Business Chamber of South Africa (Agbiz) and the author of  “A Country of Two Agricultures: The Disparities, The Challenges, The Solutions”  SA needs to hone export strategies amid rising trade friction & What can Farmers and Agribusinesses harvest from the SONA?      

GUEST: ANDI NORTON -  Trustee of the Stellenbosch Outdoor Sculpture Trust. The Stellenbosch Triennale returns from 19 February to 30 April 2025, transforming the town into an open-air gallery.          

GUEST: NOLUVUYISO VUVU MPOFU - Soprano Soloist

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