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

It’s been in existence since the 1500s but the Kaaps language, synonymous with Cape Town in South Africa, has never had a dictionary until now. The Trilingual Dictionary of Kaaps has been launched by a collective of academic and community stakeholders – the Centre for Multilingualism and Diversities Research at the University of the Western Cape along with the hip hop-driven community NGO Heal the Hood Project. The dictionary – in Kaaps, English and Afrikaans – holds the promise of being a powerful democratic resource. Adam Haupt, director of the Centre for Film & Media Studies at the University of Cape Town, is involved in the project and tells us more.

Guest on the line: Prof Adam Haupt is Director of the Centre for Film and Media Studies.

Following the successful expansion of Cheeba Cannabis Academy's online offering to its first in-person learning campus in the Vaal Triangle in February this year, Cheeba Africa has announced the opening of its second campus situated in the Garden Route of the Western Cape.

The new campus is located in the scenic Bitou River area of Plettenberg Bay and is a partnership with the Garden Route Retreat, home of the CannaClub & Growers Co-op, a non-profit initiative that meets and promotes the European Union’s stringent ENCOD Cannabis club standards in South Africa.

Guest on the line: Cheeba Africa’s CEO and co-founder, Trenton Birch

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

The South African Young Academy of Science (SAYAS) is celebrating its tenth anniversary. In 2011 then Minister of Science and Technology, Derek Henekom was instrumental in launching the first cohort of young scientists of this academy.  Ten years later, SAYAS remains boisterous and fully cognisant of its essential mandate.

The foci to this work, to be a voice of young scientists as a panacea to the national and global challenges. Inevitably, there is a need for such work to trickle into influencing policy decisions. In essence, framing the work of young scientists in South Africa is essential for the collective work of a re-imagined country we seek to build.

Guest on the line: Willie Chinyamurindi is a Professor in the Department of Business Management at the University of Fort Hare

Many South Africans are deprived of their right to decide who will inherit their estate when they die, a University of Cape Town (UCT) study has found.

Section 37C of the Pension Funds Act 24 of 1956 does so by removing death benefits from one’s estate and, therefore, from their testamentary control, and transfers the right and responsibility of allocating their death benefits to the trustees of retirement funds.

Karin Lehmann, a lecturer at UCT’s Department of Commercial Law, challenges this Act in her PhD thesis as being unconstitutional. She argues that most South Africans do not own substantial assets when they die; therefore, for most employed people, their retirement savings is the most valuable property they own, which means that they effectively do not have the right to select the recipients of their most valuable property.

Guest on the line: Dr.Karin Lehmann, a lecturer at UCT’s Department of Commercial Law

When does an ejaculation problem become a disorder? This is a subjective question and is based on the level of distress that is experienced by the man or his partner. The time from initiating sexual activity to ejaculation varies from one individual to another. This time period is called the ejaculatory latency. What may be a problem for one man may be acceptable to another. Typically, ejaculatory disorders fall into two categories. These are: delayed ejaculation and early ejaculation. This column will explore some of the psychological factors and treatment options related to these two distinct male dysfunctions.

Guest on the line: Dr Anthony Smith - a practicing Family Physician and a sexologist

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Guest on the line: MUSA E. ZULU - a published author, artist, poet and motivational speaker.

The University of Johannesburg (UJ) has become the first academic institution to sign up as a supporting member of the South African Plastics Pact.

The UJ faculty of engineering and the built environment’s Process Energy and Environmental Technology Station (UJ Peets) initiated the university’s involvement with the SA Plastics Pact, resulting in UJ joining the pact.

Guest on the line: UJ Peets project lead, Katharina Gihring

The truth is painfully obvious. Men are programmed to provide. I would even argue that their every action upon meeting a woman is signaling — I can provide for you.

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