NIGHT FALL

What Is Sexual Medicine?

Sexual Medicine is that branch of medicine that deals primarily with sexual health, considering the wide range of social, physical and psychological factors that can impair sexual functioning and lead to an individual or couple’s distress.

Guest: Dr Anthony Smith –family physician and medical sexologist

How do you break down well-established barriers and encourage more women to enter a growing - yet wholly male-dominated - industry? For Siphindokuhle Mazibuko, director of service delivery for Middle East and Africa at global cybersecurity firm Mimecast, the answer lay in building a global support centre where women would have equal opportunity to develop their technical and leadership skills in the cybersecurity space.

"Cybersecurity has been considered a non-traditional career for women for decades," says Siphindokuhle. "And despite the rapid growth in this industry in recent years, it's a perception that is still pervasive today."

Guest: Siphindokuhle Mazibuko -Director of service delivery at Mimecast

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

Ms Makoma Lekalakala joined Natural Justice as a Board Member in June 2019. Makoma is the Director of Earthlife Africa, a civil society environmental justice and anti-nuclear organisation. She has long been active in social movements tackling issues from gender and women’s rights, social, economic and environmental justice issues.  In recent years, Makoma has focused on targeting environmental corruption.

Her commitment to climate justice in South Africa has led civil society to win the first South African climate change legal case against the government and the reversal of the nuclear deal by South Africa and the Russian government. For her efforts, she received the Goldman Environmental Prize for Africa 2018 award and SAB Environmentalist of the year 2018 award. Makoma has her roots as a liberation fighter and is strong campaigner for a just and fair society.

Guest: Makoma Lekalakala- is the Director of Earthlife Africa

The UCT Online High School is an ecosystem that has been designed to enable an entirely new generation of quality, affordable online and blended learning opportunities for learners from all socioeconomic backgrounds across the country. Learners are afforded the opportunity to choose an aspirational school regardless of where they live. The UCT Online High School redefines what it means to be a school: We’ve put every learner front and centre, right where they should be. By using the latest data-driven technology we’re able to offer a state-of-the-art personalised learning experience for every learner.

Guest: Robert Paddock, the founder and CEO at Valenture Institute

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

Guest: Gogo Skhotheni is a traditional healer, community leader, businesswoman, and above all a mother to many young women under her wing in their journey to becoming traditional healers.

It’s well documented that post-partum depression (being depressed after childbirth) is a serious and not uncommon condition. In some women, it can lead to post-partum psychosis, which has a range of symptoms such as delusions or strange beliefs, hallucinations, extreme irritation, restlessness, reckless behaviours that aren’t usual for the person, decreased need for sleep or the inability to sleep, paranoia, rapid mood swings and difficulty communicating.

Guest on the line:  Jackie Phamotse, author of the award-winning Bare – The Blesser’s Game

Emanating from a meeting by and between the five teacher unions on Wednesday, 4 August 2021, it was

Confirmed that all unions have been approached by the media to comment on the intention of the DBE to approach Cabinet in regard to the possible reduction of social distancing in primary schools from 1m to 0,5m.

This new development takes place after the publication of the new DBE Covid Directions on Saturday, 31 July2021 that determine social distance as 1m. But, despite warnings from the teacher unions that 1m social distancing is not possible when all primary school learners return to school, it is clear after two school days that compliance with the 1m social distancing is virtually impossible when the traditional time table is followed.

Guest on the line:   Basil Manuel - Executive Director Naptosa - National Professionsl Teachers' Organisation of South Africa. (Naptosa)

I-G3N, the only black empowered female-owned SME to successfully develop lithium-ion batteries specifically for the African continent, has successfully raised R 20 million from Edge Growth and the ASISA ESD initiative.

Recognising I-G3N’s capability in designing developing and manufacturing battery energy storage systems, Edge Growth and the ASISA ESD initiative have partnered with Secha Capital, an impact fund manager that shares a common vision of creating value via financial returns, job creation, funding of local, black-owned businesses and positive environmental outcomes.

Guest on the line: Tumi Mphahlele, Chief Operations Officer, I-G3N.