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South Africa’s current basic education system and the grading standard produce poor academic outcomes. Because of this, students exiting high school don’t qualify to study further at university level.

On top of this the bachelor, diploma and certificate passes at the matric level (the final year of high school) create false hopes for learners because they believe that they automatically qualify to study at any university.

I (Dr. Zamokuhle Mbandlwa) wrote a paper that looked at the mismatch between the weak education outcomes of South Africa’s basic education system – including the grading practice for students in their final year of school – and what’s required of students to transition to higher education.

Guest on the line: Dr. Zamokuhle Mbandlwa -Lecturer in Public Administration, Durban University of Technology

In a nutshell, CSOS seeks to partner with its stakeholders on issues that affect the different types of community schemes, learn from each other and solve the myriad of challenges faced by property owners, managers and agents alike. The CSOS addresses issues typically experienced in any community schemes raging from luxurious lifestyle estates to smaller sectional title complexes. Many of these issues fall under neighbour law (noise, pets, property encroachment, etc.).

The organisation also provides guidance on common misconceptions concerning general safety, the limitations of insurance and the freedom (and limitations) of Home Owners Associations or Body Corporates to levy fines as well as privileges.

Guest on the line: Adv. Boyce Mkhize, Chief Ombud at the   Community Schemes Ombud Service (CSOS).

Guest on the line: Dr Moshokoa, Evelyn Mmapula, is a healthcare practitioner, specialising as an Urologist & Surgeon (Urogynaecologist)

South Africa celebrates National Disability Rights Awareness Month annually between 3 November and 3 December. 3 December is the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, and is also celebrated as National Disability Rights Awareness Day.

Disability is the consequence of an impairment that may be physical, cognitive, mental, sensory, emotional, developmental, or some combination of these. A disability may be present from birth, or occur during a person's lifetime.

Guest on the line: MUSA E. ZULU is a published author, an award winning entrepreneur, international artist, celebrated motivational speaker and prominent.

Brenda Nokuzola Fassie was born in Langa, Cape Town on the 3rd of November 1964[5] as the youngest of nine children. She was named after American singer Brenda Lee.[5] Her father died when she was two, and with the help of her mother, a pianist, she started earning money by singing for tourists.

When she was 16 years old in 1981, she received a visit by Koloi Lebona.[5][6] As a result, she left Cape Town for Soweto, Johannesburg, to seek her fortune as a singer. Fassie first joined the vocal group Joy (filling in for one of the members who was on maternity leave)[7] and later became the lead singer for a township music group called Brenda and the Big Dudes. She had a son, Bongani, in 1985 by a fellow Big Dudes musician.

Guest on the line: Dr.Yvonne Chaka Chaka

Guest on the line: Coach Mathawe Matsapola - She wears many hats, life coach, seasoned journalist, inspirational speaker and entrepreneur

People who live in countries where arranged marriages are very common understand the pitfalls of this type of matchmaking, but they also recognize the benefits that such partnerships can provide. One of the biggest reasons that arranged marriages are often successful is that these partnerships are created between people who have similar ethnic, religious, social, and cultural backgrounds.

The question is: What is the origin of these arranged marriages?

Guest on the line: Dr Mpumelelo Ncube -HoD & Senior Lecturer Dept. of Social Work University of the Free State

Rapidly reducing global emissions and adapting to a warmer world requires a collaborative effort across businesses, governments, and society. In Glasgow, BCG, the exclusive consultancy partner of COP26, will join leaders from the public, social, and private sectors to seek solutions.

2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference

Sun, 31 Oct 2021 – Fri, 12 Nov 2021

Guest on the line: Makoma is the Director of Earth life Africa, a civil society environmental justice and anti-nuclear organisation

My name is Gogo Mmabatho my clients call me Gogbojour, I'm an ancestral empath, I read ancestral energy and vibrations. I help depression and anxiety from an African ancestral perspective, through talk therapy.

Guest on the line: Gogo Mmabatho

The Consumer Goods and Services Ombud (CGSO) has over the years identified a trend where certain suppliers operating specific types of businesses engage in unfair business practices and tend to not cooperate with our office to resolve complaints lodged against them. These businesses tend to accept money from their customers but fail to deliver the goods or deliver inferior quality goods or services. An analysis of the sectors and type of complaints shows that small and micro-businesses in the following sectors tend to flout the CPA and don’t address complaints lodged against them:

Guest on the line: Consumer Goods and Services Ombud, Ouma Ramaru