The Jet Set Breakfast

Chrischené Julius is the manager of the Collections, Research and Documentation Department at the District Six Museum and has worked in the museum for 12 years. She also heads the collections, research and documentation department.She was born in the last decade of apartheid in 1981. She remembers not being al-lowed to go to particular places during apartheid. Today, she feels that discrimination continues in people’s dialect. Guest: SHANNON VAN WYK – Co-Organizer Save The Six campaign Guest: FATIMA SWARTZ - Director of Programmes, Institute for healing of Memories

Maaza Mengiste (born 1974) is an Ethiopian-American writer and author of the novels Beneath the Lion's Gaze (2010) and The Shadow King (2019), the latter of which was shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize. Mengiste was born in 1974 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, but left the country at the age of four when her family fled the Ethiopian Revolution. She spent the rest of her childhood in Nigeria, Kenya, and the United States. She later studied in Italy as a Fulbright Scholar and earned an MFA degree in creative writing from New York University.

CAPE MUSLIM HERITAGE ART EXHIBITION & IMAM HARONEXHIBITIONS LAUNCHED AT THE CASTLE OF GOOD HOPE, CAPE TOWN this week on Reconciliation Day. GUEST: Calvyn Gilfelan – CEO Castle Control Board

Last Year her mother took her to Guardians of Hope and when it was her birthday this year on 14th November she said she doesn’t want a birthday gift and said “mommy this year I don’t want gifts or party packs; I would like to get nappies and presents for the kids” this is when she initiated her foundation in honour of her grandmother. Guest: Magcinandile Ngcakane - Grade 6 (12 years ) - Founder of NPZ Foundation named after her grandmother passed away this July (Nozibele Princess Zbesh Foundation )

THREE 2 SIX is a refugee childrens education project, it has been of service to the refugeee community for 12 years. GUEST: DR. MARK POTTERTON - Director of the Three2Six & Principal at Sa-cred Heart College

Limpopo teacher Mokhudu Machaba was named as a top ten finalist in the Global Teacher Prize 2020, which recognises the best teachers in the world.GUEST: MOKHUDU MACHABA – Grade 3 Teacher at Ngwanamago Primary School in Polokwane, Limpopo

Waste picker’s success story receives national kudos A Mpumalanga recycling project has received acclaim for improving the lives and livelihoods of Ermelo community members while making a positive difference to the environment. GUEST: JOHANNA LESHABANE – Founder of Bophelo Recycling

Over 70 000 people from all walks of life have been on trail with the Wilderness Lead-ership School since we were founded by Dr. Ian Player and Magqubu Ntombela in 1957. Earlier in the year they asked for support to continue with their work having faced major challenges due to the national lockdown. They also decided to diversify their work and we find out how things are at this point. GUEST: CHERYL CURRY – CEO Wilderness Leadership School

NBCUniversal International Networks acquired hit Canadian drama Transplant The 13 one-hour premiered in South Africa on 30 November The medical series follows Dr. Bashir “Bash” Hamed, a Syrian doctor with battle tested skills in emergency medicine, who flees Syria with his younger sister to forge a new life in Canada. But if Bash ever wants to be a doctor again, he must redo his medical training from the ground up, and obtaining a coveted residency position is nearly impossible.When a horrific truck accident nearly kills a senior doctor right in front of him, Bash saves the doctor’s life and earns a residency in the Emergency Department of York Memorial, one of the best hospitals in Toronto. Guest: JOHN HANNAH (Four Weddings and a Funeral)

If you want it easy, don’t buy my book, says author of “A Book about Bread”GUEST: ADAM ROBINSON – Master Baker & Author of “A Book about Bread”

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