Lunch with Pippa Hudson

Johannesburg director, Phumi Morare's film, "Lakutshon’ Ilanga" or "When the Sun Sets" has been shortlisted for the 2022 Academy Awards in the Live Action Short Film category. It tells the true story of a woman who desperately tries to save her brother from a horrific fate, and was inspired by her mother, touching on the violence against freedom fighters during apartheid.

Phumi spoke to Zain earlier today from Los Angeles.

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At the end of last year, Cape Town-born singer-songwriter, Alice Phoebe Lou, released her fourth studio album, "Child's Play".

Alice grew up in Kommetjie with her documentary filmmaker parents and began taking piano and guitar lessons at a young age.

A summer holiday with her aunt in Paris when she was just 17 saw her take up fire dancing, and she returned to Europe for a gap year after finishing school in 2012.

There she decided she would rather buy an amplifier and busk in Berlin than return home to university, and her musical career has gone from strength to strength since then.

In addition to the studio albums, Alice has released three EPs, and her song, "She" from the film "Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story" was shortlisted for an Academy Award in 2017 for Best Original Song.

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Last year, a listener contacted the show about an issue she had had at the Fish Hoek Civic Centre when she went to apply for a pensioner's rebate for her rates and taxes. She says she was told by a woman at the counter that she didn’t qualify for one because she doesn't receive a pension.

The listener says her understanding was that as she had turned 60 and earned under R17,500 pm - she did qualify.

 So, she did some research herself and later submitted an online request after which she was granted a 60% rebate.  

 There seem to be 2 issues here.  Firstly, the lady at the counter was giving incorrect information.

 And secondly, although the process turned out to be easily done online, there are many people who may not know how to do this and find the process intimidating.

 

We speak to Trevor Blake, who is Director of Revenue at the City of Cape Town.

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The start of the academic year, whether it be for children at school OR university, is inevitably a very expensive time for parents. There's not only the fees that need to be paid, but books and stationery that must be bought and, for school children, those costly uniforms.

So what can parents do to make things easier on their budgets?

To get some top tips, we're joined on the line by Erica Liebenberg, the editor of Just Money.

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Time for our monthly check-in with Angelo d’Ambrosio of IPMT remedial building consultants and paint project management. 

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In On the Couch today, we're speaking to Joshua Cox of Fix Forward about a new project, Cleaning Fix, that came out of their Mothers in Need campaign.

It works with women in the townships who want to work, but have small children that need looking after.

So, Cleaning Fix connects them to domestic cleaning opportunities, but unlike other services of this kind, part of the money they earn goes towards payment of childcare with a person the mom nominates.

To find out more, we're joined by Joshua Cox is founder and CEO of Fix Forward.

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Guests:

Consumer journalist Wendy Knowler

Natasha Wells van der Merwe | Aunt of the 17-year-old

Trudie Broekmann | Consumer attorney

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Guest:  Motoring journalist Ciro de Siena of www.cars.co.za 

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An environmental group in Noordhoek has been calling on the City of Cape Town to stop using herbicides containing Glyphosate to control weeds in the area.

It says there is evidence that the product found notably in a pesticide called Roundup, is dangerous for both fauna and flora in the ecologically sensitive region.

This includes the endangered Western Leopard Toad.  To find out more, we're joined by Glenn Ashton, of the Noordhoek Environmental Action Group.

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At the end of last year, singer-songwriter and South African pop music sensation, Carli J Myers, released her latest single, "Authentically Yours". Carli grew up in Johannesburg with a lawyer father who writes music and a maths teacher mom, who is a also professional Latin American dancer,  and so she has been around the arts her whole life. She entered the music industry professionally in 2014 and her first single, released in the same year she got her Master's in industrial organisational psychology, went to number 1 in the charts in South Africa.

Since then, she's toured all over the country and has performed abroad in both the United States and Canada.

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