The Jet Set Breakfast

Peeling Shadows is the latest theatrical experience from Kwasha! Theatre Company, and the first production with an audience since the COVID-19 pandemic to be staged at the Market Theatre, running till tomorrow November 8th.GUEST: JÖEL LEONARD - Peeling Shadows Director

An inability to access funding is one of the biggest challenges small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) face in their quest to build successful and resilient businesses. Yet, access to finance is more important than ever in order to stimulate recovery in the South African SME sector, says Retail Capital CEO Karl Westvig.GUEST: KARL WESTVIG - Retail Capital CEO

The Pebbles Kitchen, a division of the Pebbles Project, which works to improve the lives of children in the Western Cape farming communities,reached a milestone this week of one million meals served in eight months of lockdownby their emergency feeding scheme.GUEST: DOMINIC JOHNSON ALLEN - Consultant for the Pebbles Kitchen on Klein Joostenberg Farm in Stellenbosch

LUCKY ALLEN ROGER ROGER POLLY THEMBA HANS JETCREW IAN HANS VISH LUCKY RANJAY RADITI ROD XOLANI THEMBA GAIL RAY ANTHONY ANTHONY NICK THEMBA CAL MAHUNGU ELDRID UWE LYN LYN’S HUSBAND (CHARLIE) RANJAY CASPER GERALD AUBREY ALAN JETCREW PETER BONGANI IMRAN AWARD

The collection features messages created to celebrate and remind usof our individual rights using our country’s Bill of Rights.GUEST: KNEO MOKGOPA - From The Nelson Mandela FoundationAdvocacy and Communications office.

Procrastination? There’s an app for that.Procrastination affects 45% of adults at some point in their lives and a quarter of adults describe themselves as procrastinators. One study estimated that procrastinating employees wasted a quarter of their working days, at a loss of $10,000 (R165,000) per year per employee.GUEST: SAM ORTON - MBA Student University of Stellenbosch Business School

YESTERDAY 6 November marked the annual Southern African Development Community (SADC) Malaria Day commemoration, whichaims to create awareness about malaria and highlight malaria controlprogrammes, given that it is one of the deadliest diseases in the world.GUEST: SHERWIN CHARLES - Co-Founder and CEO Goodbye Malaria

Using pollen to solve legal cases – either civil or criminal – is gaining prominence globally due to crime investigation television shows and publicity surrounding high profile cases where forensic palynology (pollen analysis) has been used to determine guilt or innocence or in some instances even overturning past verdicts.GUEST: Dr DILYS BERMAN - SA Leading Pollen Analyst

The Second Annual Social Justice Summit is convened by Professor Thuli Madonsela, Law Trust Chair in Social Justice at the Law Faculty of Stellenbosch University. The event, she says, comes at a time when ordinary South Africans are more in need of social justice than ever before.Guest:Prof Jonathan Jansen Guest:Karyn Maughan

David Barker was one of the UK’s first internet entrepreneurs in 1994 and spent ten years working with global corporations including Intel, Cisco and Microsoft. David decided to exit in 2004 and became a social entrepreneur to tackle some of the issues facing society – mainly around social mobility, unemployment and poverty. Since 2005 David has been innovating new social enterprise start-ups using Tech for Good. To increase capacity and scalability, in 2015 he founded Techcentre, The Social Innovation Agency, to work in partnership with clients to innovate new tech-enabled social enterprise start-ups.GUEST: DAVID BARKER – Founder Techcentre

A commentary on issues that are of strategic importance in our time and has provided many good ideas about how to deal with them. He has used his extensive experience as a consultant and academic, as well as his significant international exposure and local business experience, to bring together a thoughtful and incisive account of our times. We can all see that COVID-19 has shaken and stirred our systems, institutions, infrastructure and deeply challenged leadership in every sector of society. This is certainly true of managers, entrepreneurs, government officials, political leaders – but also for society as a whole. GUEST : ABDULLAH VERACHIA

The ArtsAbility Festival, presented annually by Cape Town’s UNMUTE Dance Company, is Africa’s premier inclusive arts festival which takes place online from 3 November until 3 December. GUEST: NADINE MCKENZIE – Unmute Artistic Director

“Cracking down on lockdown shows police have capacity of act on other crimes. State must find same will to fight GBV as Covid-19” opinion piece by MBUYISELO BOTHA. GUEST: Commissioner MBUYISELO BOTHA - commissioner of the South African Commission for Gender Equality

Over the past two decades various African National Congress (ANC) administrations in South Africa have sought to redistribute income to the poor and the vulnerable. They have also sought to stimulate rapid economic growth. The administrations have made progress in the redistribution effort, but on economic growth the performance has been dismal. For example, the National Development Plan, the first draft of which was released in August 2012, was intended to move the country to a higher annual growth trajectory of 5%. This hasn’t happened. GUEST: MATTHEW KOFI OCRAN - Professor of Economics and Deputy Dean Academic Affairs at the Faculty of Economics and Management Sciences, University of the Western Cape

A major campaign to reignite the Cape Town CBD economy was announced by the Cape Town Central City Improvement District (CCID). Aimed at attracting employees, businesses and local, national and international visitors back to Cape Town and its Central City following the various levels of Lockdown restrictions, Called “Come Back To Town” GUEST: TASSO EVANGELINOS - Cape Town Central City Improvement District (CCID)

Guest: Ingrid

Guest:Aline - Assistant programme officer

Guest: Simon Gear

Guest: Zola Nene

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 AWARDGuest:Last Week’s Winner : BONGANI PIETERMARITZBURG

Guest: Monde Sithole

Guest: Tracey

NASA scientists announce the first unambiguous detection of water molecules on the lunar surface – a breakthrough that could help facilitate an eventual crewed mission to Mars.GUEST: DR ADRIANA MARAIS - Theoretical Physicist and Technologist. Aspiring Extraterrestrial, Founder of Proudly Human.

Mary Metcalfe has worked in education since 1974 as a teacher, principal, and lecturer. After working in the field of remedial education, she lectured at the Johannesburg College of Education and the University of the Witwatersrand. From 1994 – 2004 she served as the MEC for Education and then for Agriculture, Conservation, Environment and Land Affairs in Gauteng. She was the Head of the School of Education at Wits from 2005 to 2009 before joining the Department of Higher Education and Training as Director General in 2009. She served on the General Education Advisory Board of the Open Society Foundations from 2005 to 2016 and was chairperson from 2013. GUEST: NONCEDO MADUBEDUBE – Equal Education General Secretary GUEST: ZAKHENI NGUBO – FOUNDER & CEO OF SYAFUNDA

A diverse Group of outdoor therapy enthusiast sharing an approach to healing through adventures in the wilderness. GUEST: BELAL ABDUSSALAM - Founder Insight Seekers

The 2020 Skal International Sustainable Tourism Awards was presented at their annual general assembly on Saturday 17 October 2020. This year's world congress assembly was held virtually after the intended Croatian event was cancelled due to the Coronavirus pandemic. The virtual assembly, together with the presentation of its internationally acclaimed awards, gave a glimmer of hope while the tourism economy of the world is recovering from the COVID19 lockdown, and some regions going back into strict regulations.GUEST: JOHAN VAN SCHALKWYK – Marketing Manager Aquila Private Game Reserve & Spa

Earlier this year the National Science and Technology Forum (NSTF)-South32 Awards was presented as an online event. The NSTF requests the lists of top performers in physical science and mathematics (in the National Senior Certificate exams) from all the provincial education departments. At least two students from each province are selected, based on their performance (of 90% and above for the average of both subjects), as well as their chosen field of study.GUEST: SIPHOKAZI MAGAGULA – 18 Years Studying towards a BSc (Mathematical Sciences) at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) Bursary: Sasol Foundation

“How Covid-19 changed community engagement in South Africa's low income areas" an article put together by Myrna van Pinxteren and Christopher J Colvin GUEST: DR. MYRNA VAN PINXTEREN - Research Coordinator in the division of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Department of Public Health at the University of Cape Town.

A movement to stop police brutality in Nigeria has taken over the streets – and international headlines. #EndSARS, the youth-led movement demanding an end to police violence, and specifically to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), has created a moment of reckoning for Nigeria’s government. Why #EndSARS protests are different, and what lessons they hold for Nigeria is an article written byour guest today. GUEST: DR. DAMILOLA AGBALAJOBI - Lecturer Political Science at Obafemi Awolowo University Nigeria

We received a tweet from Noel Crowie telling us about a community initiative in Ocean’s View in Cape Town. They are an organic farm and call themselves the Kos Gangsters GUEST: SOFIA GRODES – Chairperson Oceanview Organic Farmers Cooperative and parent organisation to the Kos Gangsters Initiative

GUEST: JESSE CLEGG – Musician

GUEST: ALICE TOICH – Artist GUEST: ANTHONY HESS - Leads the Bot River Education Foundation (befoundation.co.za) who been the beneficiary of our garden’s show.

Motherland Cooking Xperience, the African food cooking resource, announced its launch as “The online cultural connection” for food and fun GUEST: MIRABEL UMENEI – Founder Motherland Cooking Xperience

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

South African e-commerce startup Luntu has launched its platform, enabling conscious consumers to purchase goods that align to their values in an easy way whilst empowering ethical businesses. GUEST: AMAHLE NTSHINGA – Founder of LUNTU

TODAY is the 75th UN Day – October 24th is observed as United Nations Day since the year 1948. It was established in 1945. Therefore, this year marks the 75th anniversary of UN Day. It is also 25 Years of UNAIDS GUEST: Dr MBULAWA MUGABE – UNAIDS Country Director for South Africa @MbulawaMugabe @UNAIDS_ZAF

The CEO of Constitution Hill, in Johannesburg, South Africa, Dawn Robertson has led the museum to become a key destination for young people in the city through events and festivals and a fundamental belief in sharing power. Constitution Hill, in essence, represents South Africa’s capacity for change.GUEST: DAWN ROBERTSON – CEO Constitution Hill

Robots and artificial intelligence has caught the public’s imagination. A survey of public attitudes to these technologies in eleven countries, including South Africa, on how people feel about robots that look and behave like humans. GUEST: PROF. PHILLIP BREY - Professor of philosophy of technology at the Department of Philosophy, University of Twente in the Netherlands

South Africa’s first road made from a mixture of recycled tyres and asphalt has been hailed a success, and it may be the start of a new road structure for the country. GUEST: SAIED SOLOMONS – CEO SABITA

The Handspring Puppet Company is a puppetry performance and design company established in 1981 Kohler, Jones, Weinberg and Joubert. It is situated in Cape Town, South Africa. Jones and Kohler met at the Michaelis School of Fine Art in Cape Town. At first, they designed puppets for children-targeted productions, which Jones initially disliked. Kohler "introduced him [Jones] to the West African tradition of puppetry for adults,” working with Malcolm Purkey and Barney Simon, among others. Guest: Adrian KohlerGuest: Basil Jones Guest: AMIR NIZAR ZUABI

IF YOU DON'T DO POLITICS, POLITICS WILL DO YOU…: A guide to navigating office politics effectively and ethically. (And yes, it is possible.) GUEST: NIVEN POSTMA - Author and MD of Niven Postma

Soweto born, Kgaogelo Bopape, a grade 12 student from Horizon International High School made history when he won a bronze medal at the 61st International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) which was held in Russia this year. The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) is the World Championship Mathematics Competition for High School students and is held annually in a different school. GUEST: KGAOGELO BOPAPE - Grade 12 Student

Rising surfing prodigy, Ntokozo Maphumulo from KZN will be surfing the waves at Sun City’s Valley of Waves. Ntokozo, who is only 14 years old, has been competing within the surfing junior championships for a number of years and a product of the SA Surfing Legends High Performance Academy. GUEST: NTOKOZO MAPHUMULO - Surfer

The Reverend Frank Chikane will end his time as Chairperson of the Kagiso Trust during an unprecedented year that has impacted every aspect of our lives, happy in the knowledge that the Trust is well set to take on these challenges and thrive. GUEST: REV FRANK CHIKANE - Continues to be part of the board of Trustees at Kagiso Trust; departure as the chair.

On Monday 19 October will be Media Freedom Day, the Aggrey Klaaste Trust (AKT) in partnership with Sowetan, Wits University, the South African National Editors’ Forum (SANEF) and DM5 Attorneys will host a virtual Aggrey Klaaste Colloquium; Themed “Surviving 2020 and Media Credibility Going Forward...” GUEST: PROF FRANZ KRUGER : Head of Wits University Journalism

12-17 October is MARINE WEEK in South Africa, a Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries led awareness campaign. The Green Connection is an environmental justice organisation that works with coastal communities and small-scale fishers, who are dependent on the ocean for their livelihoods. They are saying more needs to be done in protecting our oceans. GUEST: NEVILLE VAN ROOY - The Green Connection Community Empowerment Co-ordinator

The Center for the Less Good Idea (founded by world renowned artist William Kentridge.) has partnered with celebrated writers and culture-shapers on an exciting highway project. We spoke to them earlier in the year when they called out for entries. Recently center successfully installed the first billboard by William on the M1 and M2 and announced the selected artists who made the cut. GUEST: LINDA RADEMAN - One of the Selected Artist

A diverse Group of outdoor therapy enthusiast sharing an approach to healing through adventures in the wilderness. GUEST: Greg King

Guest: Dr Nick

Guest:Pragna Parsotam-Kok, Executive Director, NEWF Congress.