BOOK 1: Exploring South African Artists by Cobi Labuscagne - Designed for kids but great for everyone, exploring living SA artists
BOOK 2: South African Animal Portraits A-Z by Nicolaas Maritz - For kids, with beautiful illustrations
BOOK 3: Rebirth by Daniel Browde and Josh Ryba - For teens, a story of vampires in SA, in which van Riebeck was the first vampire in the country
BOOK 4: Catching Tadpoles by Ronnie Kasrils, a new memoir about his young life becoming a revolutionary. He’s at Bridge Books Saturday for a launch
BOOK 5: Fresh Water by Akwaeke Emezi

Guest: Griffin Shea – Owner of Bridge Books

International Day of Persons with Disabilities is an international observance promoted by the United Nations since 1992. The SABC Information Library is celebrating this day with different authors and doing book reviews.

Guest: Sihle Sibiya,
Darren Burn
Nontokozo ka Mondise - Author of Bipolar and Me
Deborah-May Coetzee – Author of Soaring above the clouds an
autobiography of perseverance and victory – She is living with
Cerebral Palsy

The Agricultural Youth Indaba is currently underway in Dundee Research Station Endumeni Local Municipality KZN under the theme “KZN Youth in Agriculture. A Radical Approach towards Job Creation in the Province“.

Guest: Sihle Zikalala - KZN Premier

The price of petrol (both 93 and 95) is set to increase by 22 cents a litre on Wednesday, the Department of Energy has announced.

Guest: Xhanti Phayi – Economist

Guest: Jerry Mofokeng - Actor
Guest: Fumani Shilubana - Actor
Guest: Gavin Moffat - Activist from the Mankind Project of South Africa
Guest: Professor Monde Makiwane

Guest: Cindy Pivacic - Trainer, Speaker, Author and Activist living with HIV

Guest: Dr Yogan Pillay - Deputy Director General National Department of Health

Guest: Kate Skinner - Executive Director at SANEF

The minister of basic education, Ms Angie Motshekga together with the chairperson of the National Education Collaboration Trust (NECT) Mr Sizwe Nxasana and Mr Godwin Khosa, CEO of the NECT will launch the National Reading Improvement Plan (NRIP) final consultation meeting. Over the past three months, the National Reading Coalition (NRC) - which is a multiple stakeholder organisation currently incubated in the NECT has been at the forefront in driving consultations on the NRIP with relevant stakeholder groups such as education funders, teacher unions, academics and NGOs.

Guest: Sizwe Nxasana - Chairperson of the National Education Collaboration Trust

Two students from Walter Sisulu University - a historically disadvantaged institution - have invented a groundbreaking prosthetic leg which will give financial and physical relief to the over three million below knee amputation casualties occurring annually. They join us now to tell us more about their invention…

Guest: Zanodumo Godlimpi - Walter Sisulu University Medical Orthotics and Prosthetic student

Guest: Siphosethu Mgwili’s - Walter Sisulu University Medical Orthotics and Prosthetic student

The Living Link, a non-profit, training centre for youth living with an intellectual disability, with branches in Johannesburg and Cape Town, has been changing the perceptions around the abilities and employability of people with intellectual disabilities (PWID) for the past 19 years. BP SA Education Foundation has partnered with The Living Link for the second year in a row, sponsoring 6 students to attend the adult integration and workplace readiness programme.

Sterotypes and misunderstandings

Guest: Gerna van Rooyen – Head sustainability on behalf of the Living Link