Lunch with Pippa Hudson

Today Pippa wants to give you the heads up about an online art auction which is offering a

number of emerging artists the chance to sell their work in lockdown.

Acuity Art Advisory launched its inaugural online auction on Thursday last week.

To tell us more, Pippa is joined on the line by their Managing Director, Wendy Tyson

Yesterday we received a Whatsapp Voicenote from a listener, who needs to travel to

Johannesburg to be with a relative who has stage 4 terminal cancer.

But there will obviously be exceptional circumstances where people will need to apply

for an exemption from the regulations.

Joining us now is Mike Evans, a partner at Weber Wentzel law firm to explain what the

process is that one needs to follow in order to get an exemption from lockdown

regulations.

Today we are joined by local musician, Ann Jangle. Ann has spent 2 years performing in 17 countries across Europe. She was constantly touring, busking in streets and subways, performing in festivals and theaters, house shows and clubs. Ann joins Pippa on the line now to tell us how she’s been dealing with lockdown.

Marshall Nelson identified the increased lack of opportunities for young people from marginalised communities to participate in the audio/visual and digital media industry. Marshall runs an NGO called Youth Media Movement in Mitchell's Plain for the past 12 years. Even since founding YMM in 2007, together with partners, the NGO embarked on a series of programmes to start the process of stimulating a skills development programme in the digital media industry for youth from Mitchells Plain and surrounding areas.

Charly’s Bakery, that famous pink bastion of all things iced, chocolatey and wicked in the most wonderful way… They’ve been closed since the lockdown began, but even before then, the drop in tourism arrivals was having a serious impact on the business.

While many restaurants are hanging on for dear life and wondering if they will make it through lockdown to cook another day, some chefs are finding a way to contribute to hunger relief while their usual business model is disrupted. One of those is Chef Jason Whitehead, a renowned restaurateur, TV chef and hospitality consultant. He’s opted to

launch an e-cookbook filled with recipes for lockdown cooking, with the proceeds going to support the NGO Streetscapes.

Jason joins Pippa on the line

Last week we told you how the country’s biggest restaurant review platform, Eat Out, had stepped up to help with hunger relief efforts by establishing the Eat Out Restaurant Relief Fund. Its aim is to support restaurants which have repurposed their kitchens to assist in feeding the hungry during these difficult times. The money is intended to keep

the restaurants afloat and generating meals for those who have been left in the most dire circumstances. It was set up with half a million rand’s worth of seed funding from Eat Out’s owners New Media, and since then the donations have kept rolling in.

On the line to give us an update is Katy Rose, Eat Out’s Social Media and Digital Content Specialist.

The South African Social Security Agency will in May pay out R200 billion in social grant payments to more than 11 million recipients, which will see close to 19 million South Africans benefit. The government’s social grant budget will now include increases announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa as part of the measures to alleviate the socioeconomic impact caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Guest: Shivani Wahab | Senior Spokesperson at SASSA

Guests

Charlotte Kilbane | Cape Town Editor at EWN

Chanel September | EWN Entertainment reporter

Craig Falck | Deputy Editor of TVPlus magazine

Guest: Claudia Gray | Paediatric Allergy Specialist at Red Cross Children'S Hospital &

UCT Lung Institute