NIGHT FALL

Around this time of year, many South African Grade 12 learners are sacrificing their social life and putting in the hard work to ensure that they are fully prepared to write their final exams in November.

While this is a stressful time for some learners, many will already have an eye on the future, confident that they will fulfil their ambition to further their studies and gain the knowledge that will help them prosper in their chosen career.

Guest on the line: Professor Zaheer Hamid- Academic Director at MANCOSA.

We need your Name, Date of birth and one burning Question.

Guests on the line: Star Brown - is a well-known and trustworthy Psychic with over 30 years’ experience.

On 10 November 2022, this year’s Global Day of (Climate) Action, about 1500 people from Gauteng - communities affected by the energy and climate crises, environmental activists and other CSOs - will march to the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg. Demonstrators are calling on decision makers at COP27 to take climate action as a global state of emergency, and to develop strong policies that will fast track the just transition to a low carbon economy.

According to Earthlife Africa Jhb Program Officer Ulrich Steenkamp, “This year’s Global Day of Action (10 November) is dedicated to celebrating the lives of all of the environmental justice activists that have lost their lives opposing harmful, extractive industries. We remember Ken Saro-Wiwa and the other eight activists that were hanged in Nigeria for challenging oil extractions by Shell. And here in South Africa, Bazooka Rhadebe and Mam’ Fikile Ntshangase and all the others that are unknown, here and beyond.”

“We are also calling on the negotiators at the COP27 for protection of those fighting against the exploitation of the environment. We urge the South African government to accelerate the just transition. The country already has a just transition framework but we need a clear guide as to what needs to be done. We need to end coal and oil in South Africa, especially if we are serious about the just transition.”

Guest on the line: Makoma Lekalakala, Director at Earthlife Africa Johannesburg

The Constitutional Court recently delivered a judgment which overturned the High Court’s ruling that certain sections of the Births and Deaths Registration Act 51 of 1992 (hereinafter referred to as “BADRA”) were unconstitutional due to there being a prohibition on the burial of foetuses which were either miscarried or aborted at less than 26 weeks of gestation, normally referred to as “pre-viable foetuses”.

This article is an analysis that indicates how denying prospective parents the right to bury pre-viable foetuses is a violation of their rights to autonomy. In this instance the parents are not granted the option to bury their deceased child, but rather have the remains of such a child regarded as “medical waste” and simply incinerated by the hospital. This article has three segments: 1) A summary of the Constitutional Court’s judgment; 2) An observation of what determines viability and whether the standard currently used by our courts is problematic, and 3) How legislation and case law in the UK should serve as an example of how to properly give effect to the parents’ autonomy.

Guest 1 on the line: Uyanda Maboea, Candidate Attorney at Adams & Adams.

- Stretching out vaginas

- The Hymen and Virginity

- "One size fits all" (what one person likes, everyone likes)

- Men have to PERFROM and women are OBJECTS of pleasure

- Toys are competition instead of tools

- Orgasm is always the end goal

- Hygiene (especially vaginal and anal)

- Where do these myths come from and how do we stop the cycle of newer generations learning them?

Guests on the line: Justine Maidwell -an Intimacy Coach and an Adult Store retail assistant

The Acting Secretary of the Eastern Cape House of Traditional and Khoi-San Leaders, Vuyo Stofile, has called on all involved in the summer initiation season, including initiation schools, parents, health workers, NGO partners and others to work together to ensure that the 2022 summer initiation season takes place safely without putting the health and lives of young men at risk.

The Eastern Cape summer initiation season commences on 4 November 2022, and approximately 40 000 young men are expected to undergo customary male initiation (CMI) this year. The early opening of the summer season is meant to cater to boys who are not in school as per the provisions of section 27(4) of the Customary Initiation Act. The school-going boys are expected to first finish their school exams before they can undergo the rite of passage to manhood.

Stofile says, “This is a sacred and serious time for young men and they deserve to go through initiation safely and without fear. We want them to emerge from this important process as healthy men who are ready to become responsible, successful adults. We live by our philosophy of “Mabaye bephila, babuye bephilile, siyazingca ngesiko lethu” – our culture is sacred, let our young men go to initiation schools and return as healthy and responsible men.

Guest: The Acting Secretary of the Eastern Cape House of Traditional and Khoi-San Leaders, Vuyo Stofile,

Recently we have heard about A 37-year-old man has been sentenced to five years direct imprisonment after he admitted to raping and impregnating his 14-year-old daughter.

The man, who cannot be identified, proposed that he serve a non-custodial sentence.

Magistrate Toboshe, at the Mitchells Plain Regional Court, wasn’t satisfied with the man’s plea and sentenced him to five years behind bars and deemed him unfit to possess a firearm.

He said in his findings that the step-father had been in a position of trust which he had broken and that the man’s name would be added to the National Sexual Offender’s Register.

The State had also rejected a Section 105 agreement, a plea agreement by the man and his legal representative.

Guest : Prof. Hlati is a well-known traditional health practitioner who graduated in 1982.

First up, what's the difference between the two types of title? Simply put, sectional title speaks to complex living, where you essentially own everything within the four walls of your property, but whatever is outside that – hallways, lifts, gardens and recreational spaces – is communally owned and cared for.

With freehold title, in contrast, you're the queen or king of your complete kingdom – house, out-buildings, land and leisure areas.

Guest in studio: Herman Mazibuko, founder Agent Director of Amalga Real Estate Agency

When we are younger and have no kids, we have more sexual spontaneity. When kids come into the picture, it gets trickier. With the holidays around the corner, kids at home, family visiting, and not much personal time, how do we make time for intimacy? At the same time, for couples who juggle children and aged parents, how do we make time for intimacy? Guest on line: Dr Mariam Khan is a registered Natural medicine doctor in private practice for the past 12 years. She has a Masters degree focusing on sexual and reproductive health and rights and its intersections with gender and religion.

For many South African learners, maths is a major stumbling block. A young Western Cape-based entrepreneur- Thobeka Nkabinde - is changing this, one equation at a time, with the WhatsApp-based eRank Play app.

Her vision? To make maths fun to learn for all South African children.

The eRank Play app is built around everyday actions like working out what change is due from a taxi driver when collecting fares or how to use maths to slot a car into a small parking spot, and can be played anywhere, anytime.

The app, which already has 1,000 regular players and is growing daily, seeks to strip away learners’ fear of maths - a problem that Nkabinde says that she had while at boarding school, battling with maths, and finding it difficult to get help with the subject.

A young Western Cape-based entrepreneur- Thobeka Nkabinde