During Saturday’s Role with Renos Nicos Spanoudes, our representative in Greece Katerina Simboni Paraskeva pays tribute to Kakia Panagiotou who was born in 1923 in Athens, Greece. She was an actress, known for Ilektra (1962), The City Never Sleeps (1984) and A Touch of Spice (2003). She died on April 6, 2013 in Athens. Katerina also updates us on the latest news. Listen to the podcast to find out more!

VETERAN actress Euodia Samson has stepped away from the screen to pen her first cookbook. Entitled Good Gut Health, Samson shared her go-to detox plans, cleanses, meal plans and explains food triggers with nutritional information. The book takes a look at her discovery of how fixing your gut health is imperative for longevity in life. Her personal experience in health and wellness started nine years ago when she joined Tim Noakes's foundation. Samson formed part of the Eat Better South Africa campaign, a six-week community outreach course that promotes health and wellness. Samson’s interest in sharing recipes started when her sons, Cameron, Matthew and Alexander, left home in 2020 and she experienced the empty-nest syndrome. Samson’s interest in sharing recipes started when her sons, Cameron, Matthew and Alexander, left home in 2020 and she experienced the empty-nest syndrome. Samson said the Facebook lives have become a big hit. part from acting, Samson also works as a tension and trauma release therapist and an integrated wellness consultant, offering counselling sessions. Fans of Samson can look forward to her role in upcoming movie, Old Righteous Blue, where she plays the mother of the lead character.

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During Saturday’s Role, radio host Renos Nicos Spanoudes chats to Euodia Samson. Listen to the podcast and find out more!

Join Us For A MOTHERS DAY SPECTACULAR with Tracey Lange & Friends. Treating the women we love to good music, great comedy, some motivation and lots of dancing with an All Star Line-Up: Tracey Lange, Alfred Adriaan, Belinda Davids, Katlego Maboe, Tarryn Lamb, DonVino Prins, Loukmaan Adams, Emo Adams. Take Note Band. (Tickets Start from R220 with Special Gift Bag for BLOCK A)•

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Renos Nicos Spanoudes chats to Sean De Vries about Mama Mia during Saturday’s Role on Hellenic Radio. Listen to the podcast!

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Jessica Roberts is an actress, voice-over artist and creator and has been in the industry for over 10 years. Jessica has a serious love for the industry and wanted to explore being behind the camera as she loves all aspects of film. ROSE is her first film that she Directed and Acted in. Get your popcorn ready!! The Shortfilm is live and ready for everyone to watch online. Please find the link to the festival in her bio(linktree). There is an entry fee, once you've paid you can watch a ton of other films too, please support them and the festival. They would love your vote for Rose.

During Saturday’s Role on Hellenic Radio, radio host, Renos Nicos Spanoudes chats to Jessica about ROSE. Listen to the podcast and find out more!

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During Saturdays Role with Renos Nicos Spanoudes, our representative in Greece Katerina Simboni Paraskeva pays tribute to Greek singer Dimitris Mitropanos. Mitropanos was renowned for his mastery of Laïkó. Katerina also updates us on all the latest news. Listen to the podcast for more!

During Saturday’s Role with Renos Nicos Spanoudes this week, our representative in Greece, Katerina Simboni Paraskeva pays tribute to the one and only Manolis Chiotis, a Greek rebetiko and laiko composer, singer, and bouzouki player. He is considered one of the greatest bouzouki soloists of all time. He popularised the four-course bouzouki and introduced the guitar-like tuning, who found it better suited to the kind of virtuoso playing he was famous for. Katerina also updates us on all the latest news. Listen to the podcast and find out more!

SA advertising entrepreneur aims to raise R160 000 in his quest to highlight the realities about depression and anxiety, by putting his pedal to the metal

Malawian-born and raised entrepreneur, Bongani Chinkanda, aims to put the spotlight on the realities of anxiety and depression as he attempts to cycle 160km on a gravel road from Hartbeespoort  to Sun City in May this year. Chinkanda, who was schooled in Harare, Zimbabwe before completing a degree at Rhodes University in Makhanda (formerly Grahamstown) in the Eastern Cape, has launched his R160 000 in 160km Back A Buddy campaign, which he aims to achieve on Saturday 7 May 2022. After suffering from acute depression and anxiety in 2015 and 2016, Chinkanda’s idea for the race attempt was born after he enlisted to undertake his first Ultra-marathon this year - which is 160km – in the Race to the Sun event. Having already raised R10 000 for the campaign, Chinkanda says that “every amount counts” and is appealing to the public to support this worthy cause. The 42-year-old Johannesburg-based media entrepreneur who has been cycling for the past 2 years is currently in training for the upcoming event.  “I completed my first 70km marathon last year in December alongside two of my friends, we rode 271km from Blantyre to Lake Malawi over 3 days and on 13th March I cycled the Cape Town Cycle Tour which is 109km. This has all been a build up to the big one, 160km on gravel in one day.” For Chinkanda, cycling and exercise has proven to be his stress manager and helped him through his time with anxiety and depression. He emphasizes that exercise, along with the assistance from SADAG, helped save his life and he wants to highlight the amazing work they do in South Africa.  Chinkanda is very passionate about creating further awareness about the role South African Depression and Anxiety Group (SADAG) played in his journey in healing from anxiety and depression.

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Radio host, Renos Nicos Spanoudes chats to Bongani Chinkanda during Saturday’s Role on Hellenic Radio. Listen to the podcast and find out more!

During Saturday’s Role with Renos Nicos Spanoudes, our representative in Greece, Katerina Simboni Paraskeva dedicates the Markos Vamvakaris song Fragosyriani, a famous Greek song composed and written by Vamvakaris himself. Fragosyriani means Catholic girl from the Greek island of Syros. The song was written in 1935 when Vamvakaris visited the island of Syros for the second time. It is said that, when Vamvakaris was playing music close to the beach, he saw a woman there, the one referred to in the song. When Vamvakaris returned to Athens, he created the song Frangosyriani. Markos Vamvakaris was not certain that this woman was Catholic, and this woman never learned that this famous song was actually written for her. This woman from Syros inspired a classic song, Fragosyriani, one of the most known rempetika songs, created by Vamvakaris, a Greek composer who introduced and developed the rempetika songs in Greece. Katerina also updates us on all the latest news. Listen to the podcast to find out more!

Κατά τη διάρκεια του Ρόλου του Σαββάτου με τον Ρένο Νίκο Σπανούδη, η εκπρόσωπός μας στην Ελλάδα, Κατερίνα Σιμπόνι Παρασκευά αφιερώνει το τραγούδι Φραγκοσυριανή του Μάρκου Βαμβακάρη, ένα διάσημο ελληνικό τραγούδι που συνέθεσε και έγραψε ο ίδιος ο Βαμβακάρης. Φραγκοσυριανή σημαίνει καθολική κοπέλα από το ελληνικό νησί της Σύρου. Το τραγούδι γράφτηκε το 1935 όταν ο Βαβακάρης επισκέφτηκε για δεύτερη φορά το νησί της Σύρου. Λέγεται ότι, όταν ο Βαμβακάρης έπαιζε μουσική κοντά στην παραλία, είδε μια γυναίκα εκεί, αυτή που αναφέρεται στο τραγούδι. Όταν ο Βαμβακάρης επέστρεψε στην Αθήνα, δημιούργησε το τραγούδι. Ακούστε το podcast για να μάθετε περισσότερα.

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LEADING COMMUNITY LOYALTY PROGRAMME SUSTAINS DONATIONS DURING PANDEMIC

Despite the tremendous challenges many faced during the Covid-19 pandemic, South Africans continued to make a difference by donating nearly R95 million over 2021. MySchool MyVillage MyPlanethopes to accelerate its impact in 2022, as the programme celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. To date, the program has raised R890 million for worthy causes.

MySchool MyVillage MyPlanet (MySchool) was established in 1997 by a Johannesburg-based parent who wanted to help his child’s school raise more funds in an easy and sustainable manner. Since then, MySchool has gone from strength to strength and is celebrating its 25thanniversary this year. While the community loyalty programme has many retail partners nationwide, its main partner is Woolworths South Africa. The give back platform initially focused solely on providing supporters with the opportunity to give back funds to their local schools every time they shopped at participating retailers but expanded in 2007 to assist “Village” and “Planet” causes due to the vast and growing need in South Africa. Despite the challenges, many South Africans continued to find an opportunity to give Pieter Twine, General Manager of MySchool said, “Despite the unprecedented socio-economic challenges the world has faced over the past two years, it has really been encouraging to see that South Africans have continued to give back and support those in need.” Twine added; “We currently raise over R7 million a month for good causes and are very fortunate to have well over a million regular supporters who swipe their MySchool cards with their purchases, thereby supporting over 8 000 schools, charities, as well as animal and environmental organisations across the country.”

The programme’s goals for 2022 include growing the number of active users, increasing support for partners and the funds given back to beneficiaries. MySchool also aims to complete several major corporate social responsibility initiatives over the year.

“MySchool has recorded good, sustained growth, even during tough economic times which reflects South Africans’ unyielding commitment to building a country we can all be proud of. Our success also illustrates the great faith that the public has placed in us, to ensure transparency and to distribute funds raised for charities and schools that they have personally chosen to support. We are excited as to what this year has in store for us as we celebrate 25 years of giving,” concluded Twine.

The programme delivers funding to schools, charities, communities, animal and environmental organisations via a card (physical and virtual) system that allows supporters to raise funds for their chosen causes by simply “swiping” every time they shop at retail partner stores.

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Renos Nicos Spanoudes chats to GM of MySchool, Pieter Twine during Saturday’s Role on Hellenic Radio. Listen to the podcast to find out more!

ELECTROLUX & POWEROPTIMAL ANNOUNCE PIONEERING AFRICAN-BORN SOLAR PV SMART GEYSER SOLUTION

This unique smart geyser system transforms the installation, maintenance, energy efficiency, and overall cost of geysers for property developers, insurers, and households.

South Africa, March 2022

Electrolux South Africa and PowerOptimal today announced the Elon Smart Water Solution, the world’s first smart geyser with integrated solar PV capability. With improved efficiency, the locally designed solution reduces cost and risk across the entire hot water and services value chain. “We are excited about this new smart and environmentally sensitive water heating solution as we believe it will revolutionise the installation, customer experience, maintenance and cost of geysers for property developers, insurers and households alike. Once the Elon Smart Water Solution is widely implemented in the region, the demand will only grow because businesses and consumers will quickly reap the environmental, maintenance and financial benefits,” said Murray Crow, Managing Director at Electrolux South Africa. He added, “We aim to become a global sustainability leader in our product lines, our company constantly seeks solutions that help shape living for the better. The smart hot water solution exemplifies the Electrolux Group’s ambition to reduce the carbon footprint of our products and our operations overall.” Through its sustainability framework, For the Better 2030, Electrolux is committed to becoming climate neutral across the value chain and globally works at reaching its climate targets. Since 2015, the company has reported a 70% reduction in absolute CO2 emissions from operations. The brand aims to develop products and services that enable people to save energy, water, and resources every day while helping to foster a more circular economy.

During Saturday’s Role, radio host Renos Nicos Spanoudes chats to the MD of Electrolux Murray Crow. Listen to the podcast to find out more!

For more detailed information on the environmental, financial and risk mitigation benefits of the Elon Smart Water Solution, please visit elonsmartwater.com.