Early Breakfast with Africa Melane

Guest: Jean - Jacques Cornish, Africa Correspondent

Topics: WHO looking into Africa

The world is facing one of the biggest health pandemics of our generation and we need innovation and creativity to find solutions to the issues we are facing right now. M&C SAATCHI ABEL's Street Store has popped-up in countries all over the world from Pakistan to Paraguay, France to Australia clothing an estimated 500,000 people. They are fast closing in on its 1000th store.

Guest: Neo Mashigo, Chief Creative Officer at M&C Saatchi Group

Topics: The Street Store closing in on 1000 outlets worldwide

Topics:From the Continent: Curing Malaria-infected Mosquitoes Could Save Thousands of African Lives

Guest: Sokhu Sibiya, Editor - Africa.com

Laughing is said to lower your blood pressure and reduce stress. Scientists say laughing increases the circulation of antibodies in the bloodstream and makes us more resistant to infection. South Africans have a reputation for finding humor in almost any situation. Memes appear at lightning speed as soon as something funny happens. These are stressful times. Anxiety is running high because you don't know what's next.

Guest: Kim Stephens

Topics: Finding humor during a pandemic

Guest: Jean - Jacques Cornish, Africa Correspondent

Topics: Tanzania lab chief sacked after pawpaw tests positive for COVID19.

Cote d'Ivoire prime minister evacuated to France for medical treatment.

Microbe found that it blocks malaria parasites.

Doctor David Rosenstein speaks to Abongile Nzelenzele about the misconceptions around introverts. Do all introverts like lockdown? Apparently not.

Guest: David Rosenstein, Vincent Palloti Hospital

Topics: Check in with your introvert friends, they get lonely too

Topics: From the Continent: Some African Scenery for Your Next Conference Call

Guest: Sokhu Sibiya, Editor - Africa.com

In this unprecedented time of Covid-19, the spotlight has arguably never before been so firmly trained on those who are helping make the world a better place every day. For the past 10 years, Relate Bracelets has been working to do exactly that, committing resources to, and creating jobs for, the most vulnerable in South African society.

Topics: Why NPOs matter now more than ever

Guest: Neil Robinson, CEO of Relate

According to Premier Alan Winde, the Western Cape government has adopted a much more rigorous approach toward actively locating cases, tracking and tracing contacts and conducting targeted screening and testing in identified clusters. This active case finding approach strategy means the Western Cape has a far higher success rate in identifying and fighting the virus. Winde’s since called on other provinces to adopt the same approach, in order to identify the more positive cases.

Topics: Making sense of the Western Cape being the epicenter of Covid-19 in SA

Guest: Dr. Jo Barnes, Epidemiologist in the department of global health at Stellenbosch University

The government’s social grant budget will now include increases announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa as part of the measures to alleviate the socio-economic impact caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.  These include child-support grants which will increase by R300. Other grants, including the disability and the old-age grants, will see an increase of R250 until October.  Last month, we saw long queues at grant payout points, posing a serious health risk to many, particularly the elderly and those with underlying conditions.

Topics: SASSA payouts today: All you need to know

Guest: Henry De Grass, General Manager of Grants Administration at South African

Social Security Agency