Breakfast with Martin Bester

Francois Hougaard is used to taking on challenges, but his next one will look a little different from a rugby match.

Speaking to Breakfast with Martin Bester, the former Springbok chatted about life after rugby, his years overseas and what he expects from ‘Tropika Island of Treasure’.

Squishy toys have long been popular among children, but recently, these toys have boomed in popularity like never before.

But what seems like an innocent children’s toy has now raised safety concerns around the world.

The talented Kelly Khumalo joined Breakfast with Martin Bester to talk all things music, situationships and her new song ‘Merry Go Round’.

One of South Africa’s biggest exports to the global entertainment industry, Arnold Vosloo, has welcomed a baby at the age of 64.

‘The Mummy’ actor and his 32-year-old girlfriend, Anika du Toit, welcomed a baby boy, and the pair’s lives have already changed for the better.

Look around a supermarket and almost everything you see carries a label. Before the brand, barcode and product information are added, many of those labels begin as rolls of self-adhesive material.

South African manufacturer Morgancoat makes enough of that material every year to cover Robben Island about 11 times.

Its story began in 2007, when Richard Morgan and his father Mike developed machinery to apply recyclable barrier coatings to paper.

The idea was ahead of its time, so they adapted the machinery and began manufacturing self-adhesive label material instead.

Speaking to Breakfast with Martin Bester this morning, national police spokesperson Athlenda Mathe confirmed that the police service is concerned that more bodies could potentially be discovered as investigators work to establish whether the deaths of five women in Ekurhuleni are connected.

“It's a big concern and we are hoping that we won't get more bodies. The team is on the ground. We've got a multidisciplinary team consisting of experts. We've got tracking teams on the ground, we've got our criminologists who form part of our investigative psychology unit. We also have psychologists on the ground trying to study the behaviour of each, you know, case.”

This was moments before it was confirmed that a sixth woman’s body had been discovered in Kwa-Thema, Springs.

It is the sixth woman’s body found in Ekurhuleni in the past two months, but there is not yet any confirmation that the latest discovery is connected to any of the other cases.

Springbok coach Rassie Erasmus and Springbok captain Siya Kolisi are sporting new bald looks following the final match of the 2026 Rugby’s Greatest Rivalry series.

Both Erasmus and Kolisi took to social media to show off their new bald looks.

Is there really anything wrong with dating a colleague?

That is what Anonymous wants to know in this week’s Asking For A Friend on Breakfast with Martin Bester.

Anonymous wrote to Breakfast with Martin Bester, asking: “Why am I not allowed to date my colleague? What’s so wrong with that?”

This is what the team and listeners had to say.

South Africa's future isn't only found beneath our soil. Some of it is being designed in Stellenbosch and sent into space.

Dragonfly Aerospace, founded by Bryan Dean and his colleagues in 2020, designs and builds sophisticated Earth-observation cameras and the satellites that carry them.

It is an extraordinary South African business story, one built on decades of hard-won experience.

South Africa developed valuable satellite engineering expertise around Stellenbosch University, but as projects ended and companies closed, that knowledge risked being lost to other industries.

Bryan and his team saw an opportunity to keep the capability together and turn it into a sustainable product business.

Justice prevailed for a Johannesburg woman after her two-and-a-half-year battle over a municipal water bill ended in her favour.

Following an investigation by the Public Protector, it was revealed that a faulty water meter had been behind the billing dispute.

According to eNCA, more than R2.6 million has now been credited to Bot’s municipal account.