Lunch with Pippa Hudson

Last Thursday of the month means it’s time to talk Style and Design with Bianca Resnekov. She’s standing by to chat to us about some new exhibitions and collections worth checking out, and a new app that has bene design with breast cancer detection in mind.

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We want to pick up on a query sent in by our listener Roger Codrai a while ago. Roger is a landscaper with a passion for birding, who tells me he tries to include bird-friendly plant palettes in his designs whenever he can.

Should we be doing it at all? And if we should, are we using the right ingredients? Roger expressed concern about the ingredients in some bird feed products, including inappropriate proteins, as well as artificial colourants and adhesives. To answer his question, we’ve called on Dr Coetzee de Beer, who is a registered avian vet who works at the Centre for Avian, Reptiles and Exotics

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A lot of pet owners go to a great deal of time and effort to choose the pet food they think will be best for their dog – but there’s nothing more frustrating that taking that expensive bag of vet-approved food home, only to have your pooch turn its nose up at it. Thankfully that conundrum can now be a thing of the past, as the SPCA has just launched a kind of do it yourself deli for dogs – their new store in Plumstead has a tasting station where you pooch can sample the goods before you commit to the purchase! To tell us more, I’m joined on the line by Belinda Abraham of the Cape of Good hope SPCA.

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A UCT LAW student recently took top honours at a national competition this year, in a Chinese 'language and culture competition' earning him the privilege of representing the South Africa at a global Chinese proficiency competition. 27 year old Katleho Ntahale's passion for Chinese culture and language is what led him to participate in the 2021 Chinese Bridge competition – an event described as a Chinese proficiency competition for foreign college students.

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The 2021 Local Government Elections are just five days away, and as we've been on this show over the last few week's, we're touching base with our Eyewitness News Reporters. Our EWN team has been on the ground, listening to the people, hearing what their grievances are, what their demands are, and of course the promises made by politicians to address those issues. Today we take a look at one of the largest communities in Cape Town. Situated about 25 kilometres outside of the City Centre, Mitchell's Plain was built in the 1970's by the Apartheid government. Today Mitchell's Plain is home to an estimated 300 000 people, the biggest in Cape Town, and one of the largest in the country.

EWN reporter, Shamiela Fisher visited the community to get a better sense of what they're feeling ahead of the polls on 1 November.

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This Saturday, The Zip Zap circus is presenting the 4th rendition of its show ‘Journey Returns’, which is a collaboration with the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra, for one day only at the Artscape Opera Theatre. It's a circus show unlike any other, and somewhat of a musical extravaganza. The Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra will bring in popular songs and movie soundtracks from a range of genres. From pop to rock to soul featuring hits from Queen, Tina Turner, and Aretha Franklin, while Zip Zap’s world-class circus troupe soars effortlessly through the air in gravity-defying aerials and astonishing acrobatics. Show director and co-founder of Zip Zap, Brent van Rensburg joins us on the line

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Her name is Dr Elena Moore and she is an Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town, specialising in the sociology of the family. Elena is director of the varsity’s Families and Societies Research Unit where she is supervising a number of postgrad students who are researching different aspects of family life.

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