Lunch with Pippa Hudson

Guest: Shafeeka Anthony - Marketing Manager of personal finance

Fraudsters are always coming up with new, innovative ways to dupe unsuspecting consumers out of their hard earned money.

According to the South African Banking Risk Information Centre (SABRIC), cybercrimes are increasing at an “alarming” rate, with digital banking incidents up by 20% in 2019 on the previous year.

And with the shift and increase towards digital banking, more people are falling victim to cybercrime.

But consumers are not just being caught out by online criminals, given the current Covid-19 conditions, some fraudsters are even asking for donations on behalf of real or fake non-profits, claiming to assist people affected by the pandemic.

There's a multitude of ways that criminals can con you out of your money, but there are also ways in which you can prevent thus from happening.

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Guest: Cherise Viljoen - Kirstenbosch Senior Horticulturist

Firewise plants  

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Guest: Mikayla Isaacs - BALLET DANCER 

Artscape celebrates their 50th birthday and mark the return of Cape Town City Ballet to the stage.

Cape Town City Ballet have launched their new season with a double-bill that is just so clever in its choice of ballets.  First you get the ethereal fantasy of Les Sylphides, one of the most famous classical romantic ballets of them all, awash with white tulle, fairy wings and moonlight woods, accompanied by the gorgeous piano composition of Chopin.  It’s light and delicate and pretty and the stuff that little ballerina dreams are made of.

There is so much to applaud about this piece including the stunning lighting work, but today we have the privilege of acknowledging the leading lady, dancer Mikayla Isaacs who is with us on the virtual couch.

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Guest: Consumer Talk with Wendy Knowler (Trudie Broekmann standing in for Wendy)

Timeshares & Clearing Credit Records

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Guest: Ciro De Siena

Car review - Audi RS5

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Guest: Isak Pretorius

Young President's Organisation member and Group Executive Director of Joint Aid Management (JAM), an African humanitarian relief and development organisation.

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Guest: Larah Eksteen

Today's music guest is a multiskilled singer-violinist, pianist and music producer. who started playing the violin at the age of 3, and has not looked back.

Larah Eksteen regards herself as an innovator, helping to take classical music mainstream, by position string instruments in comtemporary, electronic, jazz and Latin genres among others.

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Guest: Keo Mokolopo

Gymnastics South Africa is determined to get people fit and healthy.

 To do this, it has launched two initiatives: The Skipnation Rope Skipping Challenge - and - Rope Skipping in a Box packages for schools across the country.

The first is a competition which kicks off today and is a virtual competition which will see participants from across  the country participate in a basic 30-second speed competition.

 And, it has been distributing hundreds of Rope Skipping in a Box packages to schools, which include all the resources schools and communities need to get active. 

 We speak to Keo Mokolopo, second VP of Gymnastics SA. 

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Guest: Hannah Altman

FAMILY MATTERS – RECOVERING FROM ANOREXIA

The scourge (SKERJ) of eating disorders is one which plagues many families, and which can have long-lasting health consequences. 

My guest today is bucking that trend, because she’s not only speaking about her own experience of anorexia, she has written a short e-book about it which is brutally honest about how she got there, what she was feeling and thinking as she suffered through the disease, and how she found her way out of it.

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Guest: Mitch Reardon

TRAVEL – ADDO ELEPHANT PARK 

Well after that conversation on the couch I thought we’d better take a closer look at Addo itself and invite you to do some armchair travel there with us in our tavel and tourism segment today.

Mitch Reardon who is a former game ranger turned wildlife photographer and writer, and the author of a new book called “Shaping Addo – the story of a South African National Park

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