Guest on the line: Karen Vally New Insights Life Coach

American feminist Gloria Steinem on various occasions has spoken on the "pull her down" syndrome, a way in which too often women denigrate other women. This infighting happens in any society or group that has been impoverished or disenfranchised for a long time.

Guest on the line: Coach Mathawe Matsapola -

She wears many hats, life coach, seasoned journalist, inspirational speaker and entrepreneur among other things

Mathapelo More sees herself as part of the transformation of the civil engineering and related industries, together with all of the other women hard at work in the field, and those about to embark on their journey. “I think being active in industry automatically inspires young women to join, as it shows it is possible to operate in this male-dominated world,” says Mathapelo on the occasion of Women’s Day on 9 August.

Guest on the line: Mathapelo More- is a Professional Engineer

An estimated 1.24-million South African children between the ages of three and five do not attend an appropriate early learning programme. Over 750 000 of these children are from impoverished communities, where affordability is a key consideration. SmartStart, a national early learning social franchise, is taking a community-centred approach to providing an affordable solution, to give every child the power to succeed.

Guest on the line: Justine Jowell, Programme Design Lead at SmartStart.

Guest on the line: Nthabiseng Ngwetsana, Spiritual Medium and founder of Thebeng Medium Readings.

Gangs may deprive non-members of all their personal belongings or deny them access to privileges. Several ex-prisoners described to us the experience of arriving in the section for awaiting trial to have everything they had brought to prison taken away from them. One prisoner described having to "buy" the right to a bed from gang leaders in the cell. Another stated that he had been deprived of access to his visitors on several occasions by gang leaders who had demanded payment to allow him to see them next time.

Guest: Golden Miles Bhudu- South African Prisoners Organisation for Human Rights (SAPOHR)

Guest: Gabriella Keeble - Senior Candidate Attorney at Schoeman Law Inc

Maintenance might sound more like something you have to do to a car or a property, but the term itself has been increasingly talked about in relation to sex and relationships.

This is largely thanks to model Caprice Bourret, who touted the benefits of so-called “maintenance sex” in a recent interview.

Guest: Dr Mariam Khan - a registered Natural medicine doctor with a Masters degree focusing on sexual and reproductive health and rights and its intersections with gender and religion

In many countries, including South Africa, there is stark economic inequality between adults with disabilities and those without. One key to reducing these disparities is improving access to education for children with disabilities or difficulties.

South Africa developed a White Paper on Inclusive Education in 2001, recognizing disability as a factor that hinders learning and participation in schools. This policy emphasizes that learners with disabilities or difficulties should be provided with the support they need, in their local school, wherever possible. 

Guest: Nicola Deghaye - PhD candidate in Economics, Stellenbosch University

Financially vulnerable women in South Africa are more likely to become victims of gender-based violence (GBV) whilst financially vulnerable men were more likely to be perpetrators of GBV.

• Instances of financial dependency - For a young woman that is forced to sleep with her stepfather in order to attain sanitary towels and other basic needs, the BIG is a means of cultivating human dignity. For the women unable to leave their abusive husbands because they rely on him for food, it is a vital tool for survival. For the many women burdened with the full-time care of their children, often deserted by their male partners, it is a means of compensation for their often-unpaid care work. Women are starving right now according to NIDS CRAM (Press release)

Guest: Tina van Straten - researcher at Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute (Specializes in GBV)