The Jet Set Breakfast

We challanged Zola Nene to cook up a Vegetarian Christmas GUEST : ZOLA NENNE – CHEF

The Valley of a 1000 Hills Community Tourism Organisation hosted a launch to reveal their latest attractions to stakeholders ahead of the festive season to highlight the various experiences to be enjoyed over the summer holidays GUEST: SHELDON WELLS - Director of a 1000 Hills community tourism organisation

The Kingsley Holgate explorer team have completed the Mzansi Edge Expedition travelling in new Land Rover Defenders, by mountain bike and even on foot, on a marathon humanitarian mission that delivered over 250,000 nutritional meals to needy families still affected by the Covid-19 lockdown and clocking up more than 16,000 kilometres in 80 days.GUEST: ROSS HOLGATE – Expedition Leader, humanitarian, and author

The Market Photo Workshop is calling for future photography students in 2021 , with the final closing date set for January 15, 2021.GUEST: KHONA DLAMINI - Market Photo Workshop Programmes and Projects Manager

UNESCO and Foundation L’Oréal recognize 20 young women scientists in Sub-Saharan Africa The names of the 20 Young Talents of the 11th edition of the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Sub-Sahara Africa Programme were revealed. GUEST: LATOYA SEOKE – PhD Student Veterinary Virology who won in the Biological Sciences Category

Health experts have encouraged South Africans to embrace the Covid-19 vaccine expected to be rolled out in the country in the second quarter of next year, offering the assurance that rigorous monitoring will ensure its safety.GUEST: PROF HELEN REES – Chair of the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA). Member of the World Health Organisation In-ternational Health Regulations (IHR) Committee in Covid-19. Medical Researcher & The Founder and Executive Director of the Wits Repro-ductive Health and HIV Institute of the University of Witwatersrand

Renowned TV Chef, author and businesswoman; Chef Nti has just launched her own website and online store WWW.CHEFNTI.CO.ZA where she houses a range of sauces and spices.GUEST: CHEF NTI (Nthabiseng Ramaboa) - Chef, Entrepreneur and Author of “My Modern African Kitchen”

Award-winning singer, humanitarian Yvonne Chaka Chaka is conquering new frontiers with the establishment of an all-women-led online radio station called WOMan Radio.GUEST: GUEST: YVONNE CHAKA CHAKA – Singer / A champion for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and malaria, the United Nations MDG Envoy for Africa, and the Goodwill Ambassador for the Roll Back Malaria Partnership

HAS THE WAY WE READ CHANGED because of the Lockdown?Are we reading more, buying different types of books, which books have sold the most copies? What are you reading? SEND US A VOICENOTE on Whatsapp EXCLUSIVE BOOKS have released their Christmas List & have seen a change in book buying trends in 2020GUEST: BATYA BRICKER – General Manager Exclusive Books

Big Wave Surfer Frank Solomon Opens Parley Ocean School withParley for the Oceans and Sentinel Ocean AllianceGUEST: FRANK SOLOMON – Pro Surfer

Google has revealed the results of its 2020 Year in Search, sharing what the world and South Africans searched for, asked about, looked for, ate and dreamt of exploring in 2020.GUEST: MICH ATAGANA – Google South Africa Head of Communications & Public Affairs

The Durban FilmMart Institute has opened the call for project submissions for the 2021 Durban FilmMart. The deadline for submission is 21 February 2021.GUEST: MAGDELENE REDDY – Acting General Manager of the Durban FilmMart Institute

Tens of thousands of matric learners face rejection in 2021 as South Africa’s statefunded public universities are unable to meet the demand for spaces. Education specialists have urged parents and matric learners to consider pursuing tertiary qualifications outside of the public system with institutions registered with the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET).GUEST: DR. DIVYA SINGH - Chief Academic Officer at Stadio Holdings (an investment company in private higher education )

Joburg Zoo in association with the City of Johannesburg entities; Joburg Theatre, City Parks and City Power present the second annual Joburg Zoo Festival of Lights featuring a collection of illuminated life-size animal characters and classical, harmonious entertainment, food and craft night market for visitors to the Joburg Zoo.GUEST: NTOMBI MASHABA – Marketing Manager Joburg Theatre

The Parlotones have unveiled their brand new album ‘STRIKE THE HARP’. A project that has been in the back of lead singer Kahn Morbee's mind for many years finally set to add to their vast discography in the form of a Christmas / XMAS album which out now on CD through Gallo Record Company and available from today, Friday 11 December, across all digital platforms. GUEST: KAHN MORBEE – Artist

mmmMOO's unique creamery is a home based ice cream business who wants to spread the love of unique and different ice cream flavours to adults and kids alike.MOO’S UNIQUE CREAMERY if offering a R2000 value voucher for an event at your home which includes 40x125ml ice cream, vintage bike hire, dry ice & delivery & collection. GUEST: MAXINE WIEHE

Chef Zola Nene steps up to the plate for Starfish Dinner of Hope campaignCook along with the bubbly celebrity chef by hosting your own virtual Dinner of Hope party in aid of the Starfish Greathearts Foundation.The Starfish Greathearts Foundation’s annual Dinner of Hope in aid of vulnerable children in South Africa has gone virtual — and global — in 2020.GUEST: ZOLA NENE – Jetset Masterchef Chef

52 Week Challenge LUCKY ALLEN ROGER ROGER POLLY THEMBA HANS JETCREW IAN HANS VISH LUCKY RANJAY RADITI ROD XOLANI THEMBA GAIL RAY ANTHONY AN-THONY NICK THEMBA CAL MAHUNGU ELDRID UWE LYN LYN’S HUSBAND (CHARLIE) RANJAY CASPER GERALD AUBREY ALAN JETCREW PETER BONGANI IMRAN KEN SHANE TUMELO JUDY JETCREW AWARD

Guinea Bissau’s Siphiwe Baleka is hoping to swim in his first Olympic Games in Tokyo next summer GUEST: SIPHIWE BALEKA – (He is African American but was given his South Afri-can name in 2006 when he was here)

It is said to be the most anticipated hotel in Africa - Kruger Shalati: The Train on the Bridge - opens up in the heart of the Kruger National Park this Monday 14 December. GUEST: JUDIET BARNES - Sales, Marketing and Brand Executive for Kruger Shalati

Nepal had never previously measured the height of Mount Everest on its own but had used the 8,848 metres (29,028 feet) estimate made by the Survey of India in 1954 that includes snow.GUEST: SIBUSISO VILANE – Mountaineer & Expedition Leader; Co-Author of “To the top of nowhere”

The winners of The Innovation Hub’s annual competition, the Gauteng Accelerator Programme (GAP), were announced on Thursday 10 December. This year’s winners will receive their share of R3 million in seed funding to further incubate and establish their businesses. First prize winners of the Biosciences category are MicroMab Diagnostics / UP devel-oped a rapid test for SARS-CoV2. Professor Tahir Pillay, Dr Bettina Chale-Matsau, and Mr Reggie Govender, founders of MircoMab Diagnostics/UP led the winning innovation in the GAP Biosciences category receiving R500 000. GUEST: Professor TAHIR PILLAY - MicroMab Diagnostics / University of Pretoria)

Nurdle plastic waste found along beaches is now being converted into concrete mate-rials, which allows it to be used effectively instead of ending up in landfills.GUEST: MEGAN-ROSE FRANCIS – Operations Manager The Beach Co-Op

Adriana Marais is a South African theoretical physicist and technologist.She is director of the Foundation for Space Development, South Africa,an organisation that aims to inspire children in developing countries via education and science. Marais is the founder of Proudly Human,an initiative of which is Off-World Antarctica, an off-world settlement simulation experiment to take place over the winter of 2021.She was of four South Africans chosen in the third round of astronaut candidate se-lection for Mars One[ and was awarded the 2015 L'Oreal-UNESCO International Ris-ing Talent AwardGuest:DR. ADRIANA MARAIS - Theoretical Physicist, Technologist, Aspiring Extraterrestri-al, Founder of Proudly Human

NATURE & ARTEASTERN CAPE WESTERN CAPE Guest: Alison Green Guest: Geoffrey Groenewald

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) announced an Imaging Scientist award to Dr Caron Jacobs, postdoctoral fellow in the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine (IDM) and the Wellcome Centre for Infectious Diseases Re-search in Africa (CIDRI-Africa) at the University of Cape Town (UCT), for her programme “Democratizing Imaging for Infectious Disease Research in Africa”. DR. CARON JACOBS - postdoctoral fellow in the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine (IDM)/

Globally, creative industries are increasingly gaining attention as drivers of economic growth, innovation, and job creation. The World Economic Forum’s 2017 report on The Future of Jobs and Skills in Africa listed the creative industries as one of the “trending” professions, which had an average growth rate of 7% between 2011 and 2016. Added to this, is the evident ‘African Art Boom’, resulting in a growing market buzzing with optimism around contemporary African art. GUEST: ALEXANDRE TILMANS - Co-Founder BAZ-ART

3 December20: It’s difficult to say what the long-term repercussions of 2020 will be. My hope is that even though we are still struggling through the emotional, physical and economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, and are likely to feel these effects for months, if not years to come, that this year has also shone a spotlight on some of the most critical issues we have been facing as a society.GUEST : IAN FUHR - CEO THE HATCH INSTITUTE

Students at The International School of Cape Town have joined with more than 1 million youth to take action for the environment by studying and finding solutions to the climate change crisis. GUEST: RENE FAHRENFORT - Teacher at The International School of Cape Town

The 2020 Standard Bank Young Artist for Jazz, Sisonke Xonti launched his new rec-ord, uGaba The Migration GUEST: SISONKE XONTI - Saxophonists/ Musician

Zolani Mahola recently released a new single entitled “Remember Who You Are”GUEST: ZOLANI MAHOLA – Musician

Each year, lexicographers at Oxford Languages, the maker of the Oxford English Dictionary, choose a single word or phrase to define the past 12 months. In 2019, it was "climate emergency," and in 2018, it was "toxic." But this year, they couldn't pick just one.GUEST: DR. PHILIP LOUW - Oxford University Press South Africa - Lead Publisher: Dictionaries and Dictionary Data

Guest: ZOLA NENE – Chef Extraordinaire!

52 Week Challenge LUCKY ALLEN ROGER ROGER POLLY THEMBA HANS JETCREW IAN HANS VISH LUCKY RANJAY RADITI ROD XOLANI THEMBA GAIL RAY ANTHONY AN-THONY NICK THEMBA CAL MAHUNGU ELDRID UWE LYN LYN’S HUSBAND (CHARLIE) RANJAY CASPER GERALD AUBREY ALAN JETCREW PETER BON-GANI IMRAN KEN SHANE TUMELO JUDY AWARD

GUEST: ASANDA BIYANA - Realness Institute Partner and Project Manager of the Episodic Lab

Quinton de Villiers, from Beyers Park, recently walked away with the Sir Johannesburg 2021 title. The 47-year-old CEO of a logistics company said he is honoured about winning the competition.GUEST: QUINTON DE VILLIERS – SIR JOHANNEBURG

In South Africa, a significant portion of the population (50%) lives under the poverty line, with many working in the informal sector.GUEST: JAMES FORMBY – CEO of RMB Rand Merchant Bank

A Concert for Refugees 2020 Wendy Oldfield, Yvonne Chaka Chaka, BUSKAID amongst the line up, share the plight of RefugeesGUEST: AYHAN CETIN - CEO of Turquoise Harmony Institute and spokesperson of the Concert for Refugees

Is it a bird? Is it a bee? No, it's a lizard pollinating South Africa's 'hidden flower' How a chance encounter with a ‘weird plant’ in the Dra-kensberg mountains led to a startling discoveryGUEST: RUTH COZIEN - Member of the Pollination Ecology Research Group at the University of KwaZulu-Natal

LEWIS PUGH – ENDURANCE SWIMMER & UN PATRON OF THE OCEANS & recently appointed the Ambassador of Royal Commonwealth Society. GUESTS: Dr. LAUREN WALLER Penguin scientist and Ecologist GUESTS: RONNIS DANIELS Head of Communications at SANCCOB (Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds

Since its launch on 15 February 2019, the NRC supports the Read to Lead Campaign and the President Cyril Ramaphosa’s renewed call to improve reading nationally – from the classroom to the living room. In the endeavour to build a community around reading, the NRC is networking reading clubs across the country to extend the permeation of the reading culture across the country.GUEST: GODWIN KHOSA - CEO of the National Education Collaboration Trust (NECT)

Rhino conservation and Mapungubwe feature in the adventure for tweens book THE GOLDEN RHINO by Griffin Shea. Zazi Books’ first fiction title for middle grade readers is Never Mashamba’s 12th birthday couldn’t go worse. His father, the scientific genius Dr. Mashamba, is shot and wounded by poachers. But the criminals are really after the hybrid rhino calf Sipho, which his father crossbred against all odds.GUEST:GRIFFIN SHEA – Author of “The Golden Rhino Guest: Kopano Dijwe

Southern Guild in Cape Town and Friedman Benda in New York galleries will co-present iThongo (Ancestral Dreamscape), a solo exhibition by Andile Dyalvane, at Southern Guild in Cape Town (10 December, 2020 – 5 February, 2021) and Friedman Benda (3 June – 2 July 2021). GUEST: ANDILE DYALVANE – Artist

On Saturday, 14 November, Trinityhouse Little Falls learner, Carleigh Palmer took top honours in the Taste Bud Battle, South Africa’s premier kids and teens cooking and baking competition. The Taste Bud Battle Final Cook-Off was held at the Capsicum Culinary Studio in Rosebank, Johannesburg.GUEST: CARLEIGH PALMER – Grade 7 Student Young Chef

The PepsiCo Foundation announced programs that will bring much-needed access to water and sanitation for thousands of people in South Africa. Currently, over three million people do not have access to a basic water supply service, and 14.1 million people do not have access to safe sanitation. GUEST: JUSTIN SMITH - Head of Business Development Unit, WWF-South Africa Business Partnerships, Marketing and Fundraising

Guest: Madri Engelbrecht

SAMA Award winning musician Matthew Mole recently added his voice in calling for increased ocean protection within Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in South Africa, in partnership with local environmental NPO, WILDTRUST. South Africa currently only protects 5% of its oceans and the need to increase this is urgent.GUEST: RUTH MTHEMBU – Strategic Manager for Communication at Wild Oceans a programme of The Wild Trust

SA musician, documentary maker and artist Jack Mantis has just won Best Music Video at this year’s Hollywood South Film Festival for the video to his single Beth - work created by Mantis and German director Roman Muelleger.GUEST: JACK MANTIS – Artist WWW.JACKMANTISBAND.COM

The 2020 Jazz & Classical Encounters Festival Vol 2 @ Spier Amphitheatre featuringsome of South Africa’s jazz and classical artists takes place this afternoon from 1pm. Pianist Paul Hanmer and Guitarist and Singer Neo Muyanga, will present a shoe entitled “in Conversation”. They will present new material written especially for this festival.

Telkom, and the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) have announced a partnership to launch a new streaming channel, TelkomONE. The mobile operator channel will house the public broadcaster's free-to-air radio and TV channels.GUEST : IAN PLAATJIES – COO (Chief Operating Officer) SABC