5 Mid Mornings

After stumbling across a video of drag rugby, the 5 Mid-Mornings team couldn't believe it was a real sport. Combining the physicality of rugby with the creativity and self-expression of drag, drag rugby has built a global following by celebrating inclusivity, community and fun. The team explores why the sport has flown under so many people's radar and asks listeners whether they've ever come across it before.

We often talk about the red flags in other people but what about us? 

Clubbing isn't what it used to be.

It's no longer just "meet at the club at 11 and leave when the sun comes up." Now we've got day parties, silent discos, paint parties, listening sessions, run clubs, book clubs with DJs, and even people dancing in coffee shops! Around the world and here in South Africa, people are looking for experiences rather than just another nightclub. It really is so longer obvious that people are going out on a friday night. 

So today Karabo wants you to become your club's marketing manager.

As an organisation, Loyiso Lindani Foundation focuses its efforts on abandoned and abused women and children. We learn from the founder, Loyiso Lindani how this has shaped how they approach conversations around GBV. This, however, does not limit the organisation - we learn about the Mandela Day efforts of the foundation with feeding the homeless and how that can have a lasting impact.

What is a song that is burned into your brain? and why. What Song is the soundtrack to your life right now?

Negativity culture. What gets you into a negative mindset?

This Mandela Month, we are shining the light on organisations that are making a real impact in their communities and Geraldine Ruiters is among the founders making that a reality in Pefferville, Eastern Cape. Her organisation has been operating with limited resources and donations, but she has expanded to include bedridden senior citizens on the list of people that she consistently shows up for.

In this Mandela Month Edition of Campus Queen, Yonaka Theledi visits the GCI Green Campuses Conference at Wits University to speak to the LOC Head & Conference Convenor Njabulo Maphumulo about sustainability on campuses and how the youth today are showing up for the planet. We also hear from students from different universities what they think Mother Nature would say to us if she could send us a voice note.