Afternoon Drive with John Maytham

Guest:  Sarika Modi

South African digital agency, Triple Eight, has won two gongs and a bronze award in the annual Shorty Awards which honors the people and organisations that produce the best real-time short form content across social media.

It was recognised for its innovative WhatsApp Mathbot, which it developed together with Nestle as part of its Math Moment Campaign.

This sought to address the challenges of poverty and inequality faced by children in the country, which is consistently ranked among the lowest in the world in terms of its maths abilities.

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Guest: Dr Alex Pravda

Yesterday, US President, Joe Biden, and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin met at a villa in Geneva in their first summit since Biden came to office.

 

The one-day meeting came at a time when relations between the two countries are tense and analysts' expectations about what could be achieved in the meeting were low.

And there were no major breakthroughs in the talks.

But they did pledge to resume work in several areas, including arms control and cyber security, which analysts say gives some hope for relations between the two countries going forward.

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Guest: Dr Nicholas Crisp, deputy DG in the national department of health

Following reports on a local TV station suggesting that chronic patients under 60 with medical aid are now eligible for Covid-19 vaccinations, we get clarification from Dr Nicholas Crisp, deputy DG in the national department of health, who says this is not correct.

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Guest: Garth Elliot 

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Guest: Rebecca Davis 

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Guest: Marianne Merten 

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Guest: Stuart McLean

The 121st United States Open Golf Championship gets underway in Torrey Pines in San Diego, California, tomorrow.

We speak to Stuart McLean, editor of the golfing website, SA Top 100 courses, which notably keeps track of the golf course rankings in South Africa, to get a preview of the competition.

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Guest: Pavitray "Pavs"  Pillay | Manager of the Sassi Programme  at WWF-SA

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Guest: Prof John Stremlau, professor of international relations at Wits University

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Guest: Dan Moyane | Veteran broadcaster

Today is the 45th anniversary of the 1976 Soweto Uprising in that began in Soweto and spread countrywide with thousands of children taking to the streets.

 They were protesting against the Bantu education system which in 1974 decided that African high school students would be taught in both English and Afrikaans, with Afrikaans used as the medium of instruction in the sciences and mathematics.

Hundreds were killed when police responded to the peaceful protests by firing on the students.

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