The Jet Set Breakfast

Dancer and choreographer Mamela Nyamza talks about the rebranding of the Dance Umbrella to The Dance Umbrella Africa Festival. It showcases from March 31to April 7 at the State Theatre Complex in Pretoria.

Tali Nates, director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre talks about the official opening of the centre and its world class permanent exhibition.

Willem van der Post, founder and CEO of xTech.Institute talks about the Exponential Quotients research results. Later we are joined by David Dickens, CEO of the Direct Marketing Association of SA who talks about spam marketing campaigns. Jamil F. Khan Wits PhD Critical Diversity Studies candidate and Columnist for Sowetan talks about the Christchurch attacks this week.

Teacher Phenyo Victorian Violet Koka is the winner of the Excellence in Primary school teaching category at the recent National Teaching Awards and she talks about what this awards means to her as a teacher

Michael Richard actor and narrator of Into The Woods talks about the new musical . In this magical and witty production, James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim take everyone’s favourite storybook characters and bring them together for a timeless, modern classic.

Chef Didier Philipot talks about his French fine dining restaurant Gout De France based in Pretoria. He has over 20 years of experience in French Cuisine and his menu is focused on intense flavours and traditional dishes from all regions of France.

Paracyclist Jaco van Gass talks about the Absa Cape Epic, an annual mountain bike stage race to be held in the Western Cape, South Africa

Siphesihle Lwazi Mshibe talks about being selected for the 6- to 12-month apprenticeship for the 2018 Design Foundation Awards

Behavioural Strategist Joni Peddie, MD of Making Resilient People talks about World Sleep Day and the importance of good quality sleep .

Nonhlanhla Phalama founder of Davinon Hydroponics talks about winning the Startupper challenge 2018 – 2019 organised by Total South Africa.

Wandile Sihlobo Chief Economist at the Agricultural Business Chamber of South Africa and Commissioner at the International Trade Administration Commission of South Africa talks about his life journey . We are later joined by his 2 guests Thabi Nkosi Executive Director of Research and Investments at AFGRI Group Holdings and Isaah Mhlanga Executive Chief Economist at Alexander Forbes.

Palesa Madumo, co-convenor of the Prism Awards talks about the PRISM Awards celebrating it’s 22nd anniversary and this year, the main focus is on transformation within the communications industry.

South African social entrepreneur, David Apostolov talks about being shortlisted for the 1 million-dollar Hult Prize. The Hult Prize was established in 2009 by an MBA student at Hult International Business School - Ahmad Ashkar and it has become the biggest engine to launch for-good, for-profit start-ups.

Thomas Mnguni, community campaigner at groundWork, and co-founder of Greater Middleburg association talks about how carbon emissions affect the environment and its effect of humans.

Busisiwe Mavuso– COO of Business Leadership South Africa talks about South Africa’s GDP growth rate which was predicted by World Bank to grow to 1.3% in 2019. Her interview is followed by Sabine Dall’Omo CEO of Siemens Southern and Eastern Africa who talks about the gender gap in the field of technology.

Willemien van Niekerk, CSIR senior researcher and project lead talks about a new online climate risk profiling and adaptation tool to assist municipalities across South Africa.

Talent manager Takunda Bimha & Comedian Prins join us in studio to talk about The Johannesburg International Comedy Festival to open with variety of shows full of music and laughter .

Michelle Constant interviewed sous chef at Club Med La Pointe Aux Cannoniers in Grande Baie, Gerrish Ragbo,in Mauritius . He has been working at Club Med for the past 4 years.

Christine Colvin, Senior Manager at Freshwater Programmes talks about WWF South Africa's fourth Journey of Water which aims to reconnect water users with their water source areas,

Dr Sudesh Sivarasu, Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town’s Department of Biomedical Engineering talks about UCT partnering with India university to develop a drug dispensing technology .

Dine With is a new platform that bridges the gap between townships and cities through hosting conversational dinners accompanied by African cuisine in different households. We spoke to the founder Luthando Dyasi

Winner of the 1986 Two Oceans Marathon and a prostate cancer survivor Thulani Sibisi talked about The Hollard Daredevil Run which takes place on the 15th of March at the Zoo Lake in Johannesburg.

Methil Renuka, Managing Editor of Forbes Africa and Forbes Woman Africa speaks about the Forbes Woman Africa Leading Women Summit which took place on 8 March 2019. The Summit was hosted by the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Government and themed ‘New Wealth Creators’.

Celebrity chef, David Higgs talks to us about his restaurants, his cook book titled Mile 8 and being one of the judges of My Kitchen Rules SA. We are later joined by his two guests - musician J’Something and Greg Maloka, Managing Director at Kaya FM.

Annemarie Meintjes, deputy editor of VISI, talks about the publication's 100th edition and it's tremendous milestone

Author Niq Mhlongo is the guest curator of the Time of the Writer programme and he talks about the festival and literature in South Africa

Dr Admire Mare, Senior Lecturer: Journalism and Media Technology Communication at Namibia University Of Science And Technology talks about the study they have conducted to understand how journalists determine what to publish and how metrics are changing editorial decisions in African newsrooms

Prof. Kwandi Kondlo, Professor of Politics and Lisa Vetten, PHD fellow research associate, at Wits City Institute shared their highlights of the week focusing on the political spirituality of Robert Sobukwe’s leadership and its relevance today and the role of #NotOurLeaders campaign in fighting sexual harassment.

Lizette Moolman, Scientist (Forest & Fynbos Plant & Fauna Ecology) at San Parks talks about the study that was conducted that confirms the presence of a female elephant in the Knysna forest and its surrounds s

18 year old Marcin Patrzalek is a Polish guitar prodigy. He joined us in-studio to talk about his multi-dimensional style of acoustic guitar playing

Stacey Kirshenbaum, founder of Eat Your Heart Out, talks about their Jewish-inspired food

Julian Kubel, the founder of Butan, talks about the inspiration and growth of this local fashion brand

Niall Morris, secretary of The South African Gaelic Sports Foundation, talks about Gaelic Football and the growth of the sport in South Africa

Dr Cameron Bruce, founder of Chariot Health, talks about the reasons home care and home visits is making a come back

Musharrat Sharmee, co-founder of the Mango Meter app, talks about this feminist film review app, which was recently launched in Jakarta, Indonesia

Author Fred Khumalo, was our guest presenter this week. We were also in conversation with Dr Bongani Ngqulunga, a Director: Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study (JIAS) at the University of Johannesburg (UJ) and playwright and arts activist, Mike van Graan.

Dr. Same Mdluli, curator of "A Black Aesthetic: A View of South African Artists (1970 -1990)" speaks about the exhibition currently on at the Standard Bank Gallery in Johannesburg that draws from the University of Fort Hare art collection.

Urban designer and Keynote Speaker at the upcoming #cocreate Design Festival, Ifeoma Ebo, talks about design and built environment initiatives exploring the use of design to address public safety and social justice in marginalized communities

Michael Nassen Smith, editor of the book "Confronting Inequality: The South African Crisis" talks about the inequality crisis in the country and gives us some insight of the book.

This week Dr Imtiaz Sooliman, founder of Gift of the Givers and Dr Chris Thurman, Associate Professor in the School of Literature, Language and Media (SLLM) at Wits share their story of the week focusing on the water crisis in Makhanda and Tito Mboweni's budget speech

Dr Mmaki E. Jantjies, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Information SystemsFaculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of the Western Cape talks about her research that looks at the role of language in mobile maths and science learning platforms

Shaun Miller, co-founder of Urban Micro Greens & Luke Van Der Merwe, farm manager talk about growing microgreens

Cape Town based musician Yanga Yaya joined us in-studio to talk about his musical journey

Dr Martin How, Royal Society University Research Fellow in the School of Biological Sciences, talks about the study they have undertaken that has found that stripes deter flies from landing on zebras.

The World Health Organisation has ranked ‘vaccine hesitancy’ as one of the top 10 threats to public health everywhere. Prof Shabir A. Madhi, Professor of Vaccinology: University of Witwatersrand talks about the importance of vaccination.

Dr Sze Wai Chan, medical oncologist and director at Sandton Oncology, talks about immunotherapy treatment for cancer patients and how it works

Hatem Alkhafaji, CEO and co-founder of Space Roasters, talks about how their start up is exploring launching a space capsule full of coffee beans into space and use the heat generated by atmosphere re-entry to roast them.

INTERVIEWEE: Sbusiso Tshabalala INTERVIEWEE: Refiloe Mpakanyane

Neo Maditla, Content strategy & partnerships at Design Indaba

Carla Tsampiras, Senior Lecturer in Medical Humanities, University of Cape Town