The Jet Set Breakfast

Given the disruption of COVID-19 and school closures, learners are facing challenges such as work overload, a rushed syllabus, teacher shortages, overcrowded classrooms, stress, and anxiety. The Learning Trust is supporting a number of programmes that offer direct support to students at different schools. GUEST: NALEDI MOTSOENENG Grade 10 Student & participates in the Bophelong Tutoring Programme supported by The Learning Trust. She attends Hoerskool Vanderbijlpark

Archive of Kindness is a platform created to record the kind deeds that are holding South Africa together during this extraordinary time. Dr. Jess Auerbach is archiving acts of compassion and generosity from around the country. GUEST: DR. JESS AUERBACH - Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, North West University

The Department of Basic Education and E³ have launched the COVID-19 digital pre-screening, risk assessment and mapping tool HealthCheck on the newly launched platform TeacherConnect. GUEST: DR. TADDY BLECHER - E³ National Chairperson

The Table Mountain Aerial Cableway Company (TMACC) has been nominated in the "leading tourist attraction category" of the 2020 World Travel Awards. We as the public have been asked to vote to ensure a win; Public voting closes next week Thursday 24 September 2020. GUEST: WAHIDA PARKER - Managing Director Table Mountain Cableway Company

August House and the Meta Foundation have partnered with artist Bambo Sibiya to champion his career. He manages to interlace South Africa’s history using the faces of experience in the current generations, providing them with a loud, articu-late and clear voice, the voice of his generation. Through his experimentation with fabric and his extensive printing experience (at Artist Proof Studios), his work contains a level of intricacy and fragility which is in contrast to his characters confidence, providing a new depth and asking the audience to question their preconceived notions about topics of masculinity, family, gender, history, race and youth. Guest: Bambo Sibiya’s

During lockdown Stevenson offered free portfolio reviews to unrepresented artists, in collaboration with VANSA. These reviews took the form of virtual studio visits, offering a moment of encounter and exchange during a time of withdrawal and isolation. We looked at the work the artists were doing, and at the way they presented themselves to the world, offering feedback on both aspects of their professional practice. Guest: Dineo

Under the strictest safety precautions, the FOUR PAWS team, consisting of wildlife veterinarians and experts, performed Kaavan's examination. After the overweight bull elephant was sedated, the veterinarians took blood samples, measured him, and inserted a microchip in his left shoulder. The “world’s loneliest elephant,” Kaavan, has finally received medical clearance to relocate to a peaceful, friendly sanctuary after languishing in a Pakistani zoo for over 35 years.GUEST: FIONA MILES - Director of FOUR PAWS in South Africa

ZOLA NENE - Author of Simply Delicious & Simply Zola

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 AWARD

Level 1 will will give the Tourism Sector the lifeline to be back in business again. Knysna Ziplines opened to visitors Yesterday (Friday 18 Sept) Now the Garden Route's longest and highest zipline is ready for those scouting for an expedition. The zipline is located at the Kranshoek gorge, with scenic views of the ocean, fynbos and indigenous forests.GUEST: Clinton

It’s all things CLEAN UP, with this week (14 – 20 Sept) being Clean Up & Recycle Week in SA which ends off with International Coastal Clean-up Day this Saturday, 19 Sept.Every year, the world produces about 300 million tonnes of plastic, and at least 105 tonnes is estimated to reach the sea from land-based sources in South Africa each year – making SA a massive contributor to plastic sea water. Further to this South Africa sends around 95 million tonnes of waste to its 826 landfill sites and less than 40% of the materials are recycled. Additionally we produce upwards of 65 million tonnes of hazardous waste of which only 6% is recycled.Guest:Michelle Harvey

Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a genetic, hormone, metabolic and reproductive disorder that affects women of reproductive age. It is the leading cause of female infertility and a known precursor for other serious conditions including obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and endometrial cancer.GUEST: DR KERUSHA NAIDOO

PROF HELEN REES - Chair of The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA). Member of the World Health Organisation International Health Regulations (IHR) Committee in Covid 19. Medical researcher and the founder and Executive Director of the Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute of the University of Witwatersrand

The Sagole Baobab (also Sagole Big Tree, Muri kunguluwa (i.e. tree that roars), or Muvhuyu wa Makhadzi) is the largest baobab tree in South Africa. It is located east from Tshipise, in Vendaland, Limpopo Province and has a trunk diameter 10.47 metres, circumference 32.89 metres. That means, there is a need of approx. 18–20 people to com-plete embracing the tree with open hands. This is also the stoutest tree in South Africa, after two other large baobabs, the Glencoe and Sunland Baobabs, collapsed in 2009 and 2016 respectively. GUEST: DR. SARAH VENTER - Boabab Ecologist (She is also wife to Casper who is last week’s 52 week challenge winner)

July 2020 The Market Theatre Foundation Council announced TSHIAMO MOKGADI as its new CEO. She started in her new job August 1st. Tshiamo Mokgadi’ s passion for the creative industry and her work experience, which is centred mostly around planning, financing & administration gave her competitive edge over other candidates. Her in-depth knowledge comes from over a decade experience in cultural and theatre management, at three major cultural institutions - the Market Theatre Foundation in Johannesburg, the Playhouse Company in Durban, and the State Theatre in Pretoria. Her academic background includes a BA degree in Dramatic Arts from Wits University, and a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) from Henley Business School. Guest:Constance MokhoantleGuest: Nothando Migogo

A Pan African collaboration has been underway this week at the South African Book Fair as a virtual event from September 11th till today the 13th. The initiative is a collaborative and co-ordinated approach towards increasing the promotion of local, African-owned and -controlled book production industries as well as the exchange of writers, illustrators and storytellers on the continent’s national book fair platforms. GUEST: ERNESTICIA LARTEY ASUINURA - Executive Director Ghana Book Development Council

Rachel Kolisi, wife of 2019 Rugby World Cup winning Springbok captain, Siya Kolisi, recently took to social media to voice her unhappiness with the publication of an updated edition of the unauthorised Siya Kolisi biography penned by author Jeremy Daniel: Siya Kolisi Against All Odds. Rachel Kolisi expressed the view that Siya Kolisi’s story should be his to tell and he did not approve the biography, or benefit from it in any way. In an emotive post, she called for a boycott of the unauthorised biography in order to #SaveSiyasStory. Guest: NICOLE SMALBERGER - Senior Associate and Trademark Attorney at Adams and Adams

The Children’s Hospital Trust is an NPO that raises funds to advance child healthcare through the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital. From upgrades to its buildings and facilities, to the implementation of several projects and programmes and upskilling of medical professionals from across Africa since 1994. The Children’s Hospital Trust has embarked on a frontline campaign to raise funds for the upgrade and expansion of the Emergency Centre. Guest: PAULINE SOLOMONS - Donor Relations Manager Children’s Hospital Trust

Pareto Limited is thrilled to be pioneering new pathways for visual artists working in Gauteng through Ubuciko, a uniquely curated Professional Development Programme. GUEST: ROLIHLAHLA MHLANGA - Art Curator

In 2002, at the age of 16, Claire Reid found herself sitting in her vegetable garden with a tape measure between her knees and centimetre marks drawn on her fingers. She knew that she wanted to grow vegetables to sell to her parents for extra pocket money. However she soon became frustrated by the wastage of seed and fertiliser and her inability to get the seed to stay in the soil at the correct depth and distance apart. Guest: CLAIRE REID - Founder and CEO of Reel Gardening

GEORGE BIZOS 14 November 1927 – 9 September 2020 passed away at 92 years; was a Greek-South African human rights lawyer who campaigned against apartheid in South Africa. Bizos did not go to school for his first two years in the country, because he could not speak English or Afrikaans. He gained entry to the University of the Witwatersrand in 1949, where he met Nelson Mandelaand undertook a 3-year Bachelor of Arts degree, followed by a three-year LLB law degree. It was during this time that he first became politically active, joining the Students' Representative Council under the leadership of Harold Wolpe Guest: SELLO HATANG - CEO Nelson Mandela Foundation

In keeping with its 2020 theme of innovation, Mail & Guardian 200 Young South African's took the form of a virtual reveal this week the event launched the list that will be showcased in this week's issue of the paper, on shelves this morning and featuring profiles of all 208 winners. Guest: ATHANDIWE SABA - News Editor Mail and Guardian

GUEST: Singer & Songwriter #Karma

The way food is produced, processed, distributed, consumed and wasted has a huge impact on our lives, communities and the environment. To give people a hands-on understanding of why our choice of food matters, the Embassy of Sweden is inviting participants to explore food and the way you eat. GUEST: AMI LARSSON-JAIN - Deputy Head of Mission Embassy of Sweden

How To Make Roast Chicken That Does Not Look Like Minister Tito Mboweni’s? Chef Zola Nene tells us how. ZOLA NENE - Author of Simply Delicious & Simply Zola

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 AWARD Guest: NICO SMIT

In a world first, a captivating new short dance film created by Cape Town City Ballet and Norval Foundation honours the work of internationally acclaimed artist William Kentridge. GUEST: DEBBIE TURNER - CEO of Cape Town City Ballet

It’s part of what we hope is a continued deepening and maturation of the medium in African media spheres. But what does it take to build a successful and sustainable podcasting enterprise in these contexts, when so much the discussion on podcasting is focused on North America and Europe? To get the conversation started, SAMIP hosted a roundtable discussion featuring expert voices from our own cohort and the industry to share reflections on what it takes to reach sustainability with their podcast products and companies on the African continent.GUEST: PAUL MCNALLY - CEO and Co-Founder VOLUME

20-year old Tony McPherson believes in quality healthcare and medical access for all After identifying a need for medical consumables and disposables to difficult-to-deliver regions and rural communities across Africa, 20-year old Capetonian, Tony McPherson launched McPherson Trading, a tender based procurement consultancy to help fill this gap. Since opening doors in January 2019, the company has serviced countries such as Mali, Malawi, Tanzania, the DRC, Sudan, Somalia, and Yemen, and consigned roughly R30 million worth of stock to date. GUEST: TONY MCPHERSON - Entrepreneur

PROF HELEN REES- Chair of The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA). Member of the World Health Organisation International Health Regulations (IHR) Committee in Covid 19. Medical researcher and the founder and Executive Director of the Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute of the University of Witwatersrand

During the last weekend of August 2020, Jamie Marais became the only known person to cycle a vertical ascent of 9,000 metres, the equivalent elevation of Mount Everest (8,845m), in a Big 5 game reserve over 36 hours. Jamie chose to put himself through extreme discomfort and great personal risk to raise much needed funds to protect endangered wildlife and feed communities affected by COVID-19. GUEST: JAMIE MARIAS - Endurance Athlete

Katlego Maphai is the Co-Founder and CEO of Yoco, an African technology company that builds tools and services to help small businesses get paid, run their business better, and grow. Yoco offers card payment acceptance, software-driven business tools and working capital. Katlego was born to aca-demic parents in Johannesburg in 1983, their work took the young Maphai from Soweto to Cape Town, Cambridge, Princeton, Palo Alto, Pretoria and eventually back to Cape Town. Guest: DAVID DONDE - Entrepreneur, Founder of Truth Coffee & Co Founder of SCASA Guest: Mpumelelo Mtintso - the founder of Book iBhoni, a bicycle tour company in Soweto that doubles as a book donation drive for rural libraries

At the start of Heritage Month 2020, South African Heritage Publishers, in co-operation with the University of Pretoria, are thrilled to make the following announcement about ancestral writings they came across during their research to identify historical events to be included in the Our Story series:GUEST: TERENCE BALL - Publisher at Heritage Publishers

“Dear Start-up Entrepreneur" -by Tshepo Moses Mosiedi entrepreneur, accountant, and business consultant.In this book the author outlines the principles and concepts that he wishes he could have been exposed to when he faced and experienced challenges of starting his own business. GUEST: TSHEPO MOSIEDI - Entrepreneur

“Today, South Africa is facing a crisis on three fronts. We face an energy crisis, an economic crisis and an unemployment crisis. they present us with unprecedented challenges that will require concerted effort, innovative thinking and speed”. This is from the opinion piece “Wake Up The sun is Shining” by Wido Schnabel, Chairperson of SAPVIA (South African Photovoltaic Industry Association) GUEST: CHANDA NXUMALO - Spokesperson for SAPVIA

Tomorrow is International Day of Clean Air for blue skiesUN Member States recognize the need to substantially reduce the number of deaths and illnesses from hazardous chemicals and air, water and soil pollution and contamination by 2030, GUEST: CECELIA NJENGA - Head of United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

After a decade of connecting people to nature through world-class storytelling, Cape Town based NGO, the Sea Change Project are about to unveil their first feature documentary titled My Octopus Teacher. It will premiere on Netflix to-morrow Monday, 7 September. The film showcases the delicate ecosystem that lies beneath the waves in The Great African Sea Forest for the very first time. GUEST: PIPPA EHRLICH Director of the My Octopus Teach & Environmental Journalist.

The Durban FilmMart Institute (DMI) has announced the programme for the 11th Durban FilmMart (DFM) Virtual Edition, which opened yesterday Friday and on until 13 September this year.“Using the theme Brave New Cinema, bringing together leading and emerging African film professionals in an online space, to benchmark themselves, learn from peers, pitch their ideas and projects and network, and collectively demonstrate our courage to tell our own stories,” says Toni Monty, Head of the DFM. GUEST: TONI MONTY - Head of the Durban FilmMart

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 AWARD Guest:NICO SMIT Guest: Charlie - LYN’S HUSBAND - PORT ALFRED

The Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (the dtic) has partnered with the South African Innovation Summit (SAIS) to host the 2020 Innovation Summit that will be held from 30 September to 01 October 2020. The event will be held virtually, due to the Covid-19 pandemic.The summit brings together innovation leaders from different countries, back-grounds, disciplines and worldviews. GUEST: NONKULULEKO SHINGA - Chief Director Innovation and Technology Dept of Trade & Industry

A recent study reveals that a downward trend in the intake of iron and other vital nutrients is contributing to poor brain function and other health problems.The study, by the UK’s University of Sunderland, collected micronutrient data from two national nutrition surveys and found that people of all ages showed low levels of intake of iron, vitamin A, calcium, magnesium, iodine, selenium and zinc. In South Africa, research also indicates a high level of nutrient deficiency and hunger, both contributing to poor health.GUEST: GIULIA CRISCUOLO - Pharmacist, Complimentary medicines expert

Guest: PROF HELEN REES - Chair of The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA). Member of the World Health Organisa-tion International Health Regulations (IHR) Committee in Covid 19. Medical researcher and the founder and Executive Director of the Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute of the University of Witwatersrand

A penguin at Australia's Perth Zoo has taken to binge-watching episodes of the beloved children's television series 'Pingu' to get over his loneliness. Pierre is an endangered Northern Rockhopper penguin who was found washed up on a beach in the south west of the country. He is the only penguin of his kind to be found in all of Australasia. GUEST: DANIELLE HENRY - Communications Manager Perth Zoo a Zoological park in South Perth, Western Australia

Sami’s childhood is much like any other - an innocent blend of family and school, of friends and relations and pets (including stray cats and dogs, and the turtle he keeps on the roof). But growing up in one of the largest cities in Syria, with his country at war with itself, means that nothing is really normal. And Sami’s hopes for a better future are ripped away when he is conscripted into the military and forced to train as a map maker. Guest: Eva

Passionate about human rights, ethical leadership and social justice. Institutional transformation with a focus on race and gender justice have been central to her work both in SA and abroad. Guest: Ambassador Nozipho January- Bardill is the Chairperson of the Council of the Nelson Mandela University and the United Nations (UN) Global Compact Local Network in South Africa (SA). Guest: AYA CHEBBI - first ever African Union Special Envoy on Youth and the youngest diplomat the African Union Commission Chairperson’s Cabinet

The Jakes Gerwel Foundation & LitNet present the Kommadagga writing workshop. A mentorship programme for promising English and Afrikaans writers in Somerset East from 12 October to 1 November 2020. The Kommadagga writing workshop, intended for short-prose writers, seeks to encourage new writing in South Africa. GUEST: THEO KEMP - Executive Director Jakes Gerwel Foundation

Actor Chadwick Boseman, best known for playing the role of T'Challa in the hit Marvel superhero movie Black Panther, has died of colon cancer at age 43. Veteran actor John Kani who played the role of T'challa's father in the highly acclaimed movie said he was devastated by Boseman's passing: “I am devastated by this young man who was such a great promise. But he worked so hard knowing that his time was limited. He will leave a memorable mark in Hollywood.” GUEST: JOHN KANI - Legendary Actor

Guest: SJ Nicholson - Founder of the Africa Rising Music ConferenceParadise Africa Distribution and Africa Rising Music Conference are backing 5 South African women artists, producers and managers to provide a gateway for them to be groomed as independent artists.

Showing at this year’s Encounters Documentary Film Festival Influence charts the recent advancements in weaponised communication by investigating the rise and fall of the world’s most notorious public relations and reputation-management firm, the British multinational Bell Pottinger. GUEST: DIANA NEILLE - Film Director “Influence”

The end of August signals the arrival of the pollen season, which this year, is said to possibly be more troublesome during the pandemic as tree pollen counts start to surge throughout most of the country. GUEST: PROF. Guest:JOHNNY PETER - Head of the University of Cape Town's Lung Institute’s Allergy and Immunology Unit