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GUEST: PANDORA LONG - Ashburton Festival Coordinator Interview: ENVIRONMENT

GUEST: DR. NOKUTHULA MAZIBUKO- MSIMANG - University of Pretoria based researcher and writer of children’s books and historical novels. This WEek's Children's Book Titles to consider for your bookshelf Jafta’s Father by Hugh Lewin Waiting for the Waves by Michelle Nkamankeng Making Friends with Feelings by Sewela Langeni THIS WEEK'S Book News & Events

Book Dash is a not-for-profit, South African social impact publisher of open, African picturebooks for very young children. Based on evidence, our vision is that “Every child should own a hundred books by the age of five”, long before they enter school! GUEST: Dorette Louw - Director · Book Dash Getting relevant, quality books into the homes of very young children and families is an evidence-based way to support all aspects of a child’s lifelong development and increase positive parenting practices. The earlier we start, the more the benefits compound.

South Africans read more than we think – but still do not have enough books, this is a statement from one of the key findings presented in the 2023 National Reading Survey (NRS), launched alongside the National Reading Barometer (NRB) project by the Nal’ibali Trust, the National Library of South Africa (NLSA), and a multi-sector project steering committee.GUEST: NQABAKAZI GINA - Director Nali'bali Trust Key findings 55% of adults read online materials, up from 7% in 2016. 52% of adults who live with children read with them, up from 35% in 2016 Positive attitudes towards reading and reading with children have increased significantly since 2016 63% of homes do not have a single fiction or nonfiction book 65% of homes with children under age 10 do not have a single picture book 76% of African language speakers who read for enjoyment want to read in African languages, but book access lags behind demand Only 58% of adults can access a library, and most library users don’t borrow books A new national survey reveals that South Africans read more than we think: 83% of South Africans read in some way, whether for pleasure, to learn new things or to communicate with others, and 32% read books regularly. But they still face significant challenges accessing reading material, especially in African languages, and most children are growing up without any children’s books at home. This is one of the key findings presented in the 2023 National Reading Survey (NRS), launched alongside the National Reading Barometer (NRB) project by the Nal’ibali Trust, the National Library of South Africa (NLSA), and a multi-sector project steering committee in Sandton, Johannesburg, on 13 June 2023

The recent passing of the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill by the South African National Assembly marks a significant milestone in the nation's journey towards universal healthcare. This comprehensive legislation aims to provide equitable access to quality healthcare services for all South African citizens. What does it all mean? GUEST: GARY FELDMAN - Head of Healthcare Consulting at NMG Benefits The impact of NHI on the Medical Scheme sector What will the effect be on the Private and Public Healthcare Facilities How will it shift the Role of Healthcare Consultants What are possible concerns for the healthcare system? NHI Bill: Do we need it? Who will pay for it? How will it affect my medical aid? All your questions answered South Africa has embarked on an ambitious journey towards universal healthcare, with Parliament on Tuesday passing the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill

As Pride Month takes centre stage, it's important to recognise the significance of fostering a culture of inclusion within the workplace. In an era where diversity and acceptance are fundamental values, organisations that prioritise creating an inclusive environment are reaping the rewards of increased productivity, innovation, and employee satisfaction. GUEST: DR. CLAUDIA NAGEL - Full Professor Vrije University Amsterdam; President of ISPSO (International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations) coach, and Senior Advisor to international organisations and their board members .

Percy Malepe, from Diepsloot in Johannesburg works hard to improve the lives of people in his community. He is the founder and chairperson of Ikemeleng Foundation – an NPO that feeds 400 people a day, offers free sports and afterschool classes to learners and a food garden. The youth organisation operates in Extension 1, and was founded in 2020 during the hard lockdown. We spoke to him last year, and catch up with him on the needs of the organisation as the schooling year commences… GUEST: Percy Malepe - Founder and chairperson of Ikemeleng Foundation

The Undone follows the stories of three brave women who dare to say what’s been left unsaid. In their stories, we discover what the face of resilience looks like against calamity. Their stories are an ode to life; the humour, the tragedy, the loss and the success of it all. Written and performed by Serena Steinhauer and produced by Daphne Kuhn, The Undone is inspired by overcoming adversity. Guest: Serena Steinhauer – Writer and performer of Undone

In September 2021, multi award winning South African guitarist Vuma Levin was named as the Standard Bank Young artist for jazz. To this end he undertook to create a work commensurate with the scale of this achievement. The resulting product is his new album titled The Past is Unpredictable: Only the Future is Certain, out on renowned Dutch Jazz Label, DOX Records, on 19 May 2023. "Vuma Levin is destined to be one of South African jazz's greatest musicians" - Mail and GuardianBorn a South African and raised during the unstable interregnum years of Post-Apartheid South Africa, Guitarist Vuma Ian Levin's music is an attempt to interrogate conceptions of identity, nation, culture, power and being both globally and in the emergent, post 1994 South African Democratic project. Beginning his studies in jazz at age 18, Vuma received lessons from the South African Jazz guitar legend, Johnny Fourie. He went on to attend the Conservatorium Van Amsterdam where he graduated with honours. His time in the Netherlands saw him successfully contest several competitions including The Keep an Eye Jazz Awards, The Dutch Eindwerk Prijs, Keep and Eye: The Records, The Dutch Jazz Competition and the Montreux Socar Internationl Jazz Guitar Competition.

Community-backed projects have received a boost from the Social Employment Fund and The Craft and Design Institute. We zone in on Khayelitsha. Today the Africa Jam Youth Outreach will perform their play “IDINGA” in Kilombo Village in Khayelitsha GUEST: LOYISO DAMOYI – Event Organiser Tickets are R50 per person and there’s space for approximately 300 guests. IDINGA tackles the issue of generational poverty and explores the idea of enterprising youth bootstrapping their way to financial freedom. Doors open at 3pm.

Guest: Nico Smith, Petrol Head

Elephant Sands Bush Lodge and campsite is located 53 km north of Nata on the main road to Kasane, and offers 20 En-suite safari tents and 8 En-suite chalets, each with a unique view of the watering hole frequented by numerous elephants. The lodge has a restaurant, bar and a plunge pool. Activities include game drives, bush walks and mountain biking. There is plenty of different wildlife around on the unfenced 16000 hectare private conservancy. The campsite and lodge are unfenced; all animals roam freely which means you can expect to see various wildlife. Bring a good torch or headlamp with you, if you do not want to bump into a browsing giant at night on your way to the bathroom or tent.

Chip packets and polystyrene, which are not popular recycling materials and are often found dumped, may have a second life as useful construction material. GUEST: ABRAHAM AVENANT - CEO Centre for Regenerative Design and Collaboration (CRDC ) "Chip packets are my worst, because nobody wants chip packets," said Forestry Fisheries and Environment Minister Barbara Creecy. The minister voiced her frustration over plastic pollution, on Monday, World Environment Day

Right to Care is a leading healthcare non-profit organization that was started in response to the public healthcare emergency of HIV and AIDS in South Africa in 2001. It was one of the first organizations to make HIV treatment available to South African public patients. GUEST: DR. CHUKA ONAGA - Acting Chief of Party for Right to Care’s Accelerating Program Achievements to Control the Epidemic (APACE) programme

GUEST: Dr Ruan Veldtman – Senior Scientist Interview: ENVIRONMENT: The little invasive beetle causing problems for South Africa’s trees

INTERVIEW - KEKELINGO Interview - Nomfundo Moh

GUEST: MILISUTHANDO BONGELA – Filmmaker Interview: ENCOUNTERS 2023 celebrates 25 years and opens with MILISUTHANDO the most ‘talked about’ new voice in South Afri-can filmmaking (22 June)

GUEST: CAROLINE McCANN- Harvesting Heritage Interview: HUMBLE HERITAGE CROPS IMPRESS FOODIES AT NEW CULINARY COMPETITION

Guest: Nico Smith, Petrol Head

GUEST: LAUREN van NIJKERK – Director Marketing Communications at Wildlands Conservation Trust Interview: Campaign Connects South Africans with Sharks and Rays on World Ocean Day

GUEST: DR. ALISON BENTLEY - Sleep Expert Interview: #JSBHEALTH: Are you struggling with insomnia

Guest: PHILIP du TOIT - Project Architect at BPAS Architects Interview: A new lens for viewing our cities

GUEST: Marie Snyman – Drip AM Co -Founder – Interview: Decorex Africa

Green spaces are good for people – but in South Africa many cannot access them. This is a finding from researches at Rhodes University in the department of Botany and Anthropology. GUEST: SUSANNE VETTER - Associate Professor, Department of Botany, Rhodes University GUEST: VALERIE MOLLER - Professor of Sociology, Rhodes University GUEST: MICHELLE COCKS - Associate Professor of Environmental Anthropology, Rhodes University The benefits of experiencing nature for physical, psychological and spiritual well-being are widely documented. But much of the research on these benefits has been done in relatively affluent countries in the global North. There’s little research that has been done in developing countries on the benefits of being in nature. Developm

Monday 5th June is World Environment Day. A day commemorated by the United Nations encouraging worldwide awareness and action to protect our environment. Guest: Catherine Constantinides - •Environmental & Climate Activist Note: Catherine has just returned from France, where she visited the Maison Moët & Chandon to learn about Moët & Chandon’s Natura Nostra sustainability programme and attended the ChangeNOW summit in Paris. · Key sustainability initiatives that form part of this programme. · So it’s all about the terroir and about biodiversity. · What are some of the sustainability initiatives each Maison is championing. -

Workshop Week is organised by the Open Book Festival and takes place from 5-10 June 2023 at Bertha House in Mowbray. GUEST: FRANKIE MURREY - Event curator for the Open Book Festival “We piloted Workshop Week in 2022 to offer aspiring and experienced writers the chance to participate in practical workshop sessions with experienced writers. It turned out to be very popular and sessions were fully booked at a rapid rate. It therefore made perfect sense to bring this event back for 2023,” says Frankie Murrey, event curator for the Open Book Festival.

THE BOOKISH DR. Is back with a call to grow our involvement as parents and guardians in encouraging reading in our homes as regular practice. She has selected 2 titles to consider for your children’s book collection list & the book news. GUEST: DR. NOKUTHULA MAZIBUKO- MSIMANG - University of Pretoria based researcher and writer of children’s books and historical novels. ABOUT DR. Nokuthula Mazibuko Msimang Dr NM Msimang is a writer, academic, producer and broadcaster who holds degrees from the University of Cape Town (UCT), the University of the Western Cape (UWC) and has a PhD in African Literature from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). DR NM Msimang is also the Director of Special Projects and Fundraising for PUKU

Making Friends with Feelings is inspired by raising sons who often struggle with expressing their feelings in a world where there are labels like “boys don’t cry”. GUEST: Sewela Langeni - Owner of Book Circle Capital and Author of “Making friends with feelings” Making Friends with Feelings is a compassionate story that teaches boys that it is OK to cry when you are sad and that it is healthy to express your emotions.

Sign language is set to become South Africa’s 12th official language after a long fight for recognition GUEST: PROF. THEODORUS DU PLESSIS - Professor Emeritus: South African Sign Language & Deaf Studies, University of Freestate Sign language is on its way to become the 12th official language in South Africa after parliament recently agreed to amend the constitution to this end. The move will bring to fruition three decades of a struggle to empower the country’s deaf community. An official language has legal status in a state and serves as the language of administration (conducting day-to-day state business). We asked Theo du Plessis, an emeritus professor of South African Sign Language and Deaf Studies, for his insights.

South Africans are among the heaviest drinkers in the world. The country has the highest per capita rate of alcohol consumption in Africa. Excessive drinking is especially widespread in the Western Cape. Research estimates that per capita alcohol consumption in the province is between 30% and 40% higher than the national consumption. GUEST: SAMANTHA FILBY - Research Officer, Research on the Economics of Excisable Products, University of Cape Town

Blood cancers, such as Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and Leukaemia, are some of the most common childhood cancers, with patients having a 50% survival rate. However, South Africans who are between the ages of 17 and 55 and in general good health can help to increase the cancer survival rate amongst the country’s children by becoming blood stem cell donors. GUEST: Palesa Mokomele, Head of Community Engagement and Communications at DKMS Africa

Guest: Ali Conn – Chief Innovation Officer at Sea Harvest Interview: The work of SA HAVERST

Guest: Rob Herring - A crochet fundi Interview: The 2023 67 Blankets Local Blankets is Lekka tour Continues.

Guest: World book day and fostering reading in children Interview: WORD DOMINATION

Guest: Cynthia Morrison – Director A Chance to Play South Africa Interview: The importance of play for children living with disability

Guest: Mabuyi Mnguni – Covid -19 coordinator Interview: FOR THE LOVE OF NURSING

Guest: Mala Suriah – Chief Marketing Officer FUNDI FOUNDATION THOUGHTLEADERS: FOR THE LOVE OF NURSING

Popularly referred to as spinach king, Lufefe Nomjana, is a Khayelitsha-based entrepreneur who farms spinach and produces baked goods and refreshments that havespinach as a main ingredient from bread to muffins.GUEST: LUFEFE NOMJANA - Founder of The Spinach KingIn 2011, Nomjana started his business with just as little as a R40, with four bunchesof spinach and his big idea. This is where he was motivated and turned 24 loaves into120 making enough money to purchase his own equipment and employ people.

Zandile Kumalo, a hydroponics farmer who started a rooftop garden at the Morningside Shopping Centre in Sandton and supplies the shops and restaurants.GUEST: ZANDILE KUMALO - Hydroponics FarmerShe says she was motivated to start the hydroponics farm on the concrete rooftop ofMorningside Shopping Centre in Sandton after realizing she could supply fresh vegetablesto those in her vicinity.

THE BOOKISH DR. Is back with a call to grow our involvement as parents and guardians in encouraging reading in our homes as regular practice. She has selected 3 titles to considerfor your children’s book collection list. GUEST: DR. NOKUTHULA MAZIBUKO- MSIMANG - University of Pretoriabased researcher and writer of children’s books and historical novels.

The Kingsmead Book Fair has become a significant event on South Africa's literary calendar.Kingsmead College will host its 11th annual Book Fair this comingSaturday 27 May from 8h30 to 18h00, in Johannesburg, opposite the Rosebank Gautrainstation.GUEST: ALEX BOUCHE - Director of Marketing Kingsmead Bookfair

Millions of young South Africans are jobless: study finds that giving them ‘soft’ skills likenetworking helps their prospects. Senior Lecturer at the University of the Free State Chijoke Nwosu wrote about this on “The Conversation”GUEST: CHIJOKE NWOSU - Senior Lecturer, University of the Free State

The hiring of persons with disability continues to be a concern with a need to domore. The Disability Summit and Career Expo wrapped up this week including dialogues about opportunities and the challenges faced.GUEST: JUSTENE SMITH - Disability Specialist at Progression

Top creative talent who currently operate within the Creative Uprising Hub (at Transwerke) will be showcasing their talent at as part of OPEN STUDIOS JOBURG - South Africa’s largest visual arts festival - taking place on May 27 & 28 from 10:30–16:00. GUEST: LESOLE TAUTSWALA - Exhibitions Coordinator Transwerke

The latest Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), released on Tuesday, found that 81% of Grade 4 learners in South Africa cannot read for meaning in any language. The country ranked lowest out of the 43 participating countries in learners’ reading skills. The previous PIRLS study in 2016 stated that 78% of children in Grade 4 in South Africa can’t read for meaning. GUEST: Jenny Katz, the Research and Development Manager of the Molteno Institute for Language and Literacy

Bassline Fest 2023 is hotting up! Just announced is the inclusion of Simmy. In celebration of Africa Day, the final lineup is Pan-African and bedecked with South African Stars. Enjoy headliner Sjava, DBN GOGO, Simmy, Afro-futuristic act Afrotronix from Chad/Canada, Techno-Punk act Scurru Fitchada from Cape Verde/Portugal, dance hall act Fayazer from Reunion Island and the Planetoids from Germany featuring SA/ Zambian Namakau Star

MOTORING WITH NICO SMIT

For almost 50 years, National Geographic Explorer has been carefully watching the elephants of Kenya’s Amboseli National Park. Over that time she’s gotten to know them by name and has started decoding their sounds, smells, and body language to figure out just what the world’s largest land animal is talking about. She has a Ph.D. in elephant behavior from Cambridge University, and has studied the social behavior and communication of elephants for over 40 years, dedicating her life to their conservation and welfare GUEST : DR. JOYCE POOLE - Co-Founder and Co-Director of ElephantVoices

A potentially dangerous pregnancy complication characterised by high blood pressure. Every year on May 17, World Hypertension Day is celebrated to bring attention to the condition commonly known as high blood pressure. Hypertension is a chronic medical condition characterised by high blood pressure that increases the risk of heart disease, stroke, and other cardiovascular conditions. Today we discuss hypertension in pregnant women. Guest : Dr Vuyo Makhanya – Gynaecologist and Obstetrician

Guest: Jabu Lukhele - Principal Technical Officer at StellenboschUniversity’s Department of Chemistry and Polymer Science spends his days inspiring first-year chemistry students as one of the principaltechnical officers of the Department of Chemistry and Polymer Science. Aformer Latin dancer, Jabu now gets his endorphin fix from road running andspending quality time with family and friends.As we kicked off May commemorating Workers' Day, we dedicate this series ofarticles to our staff and their important contribution to the University. In theinterview below, Jabu tells us more about his work.