NIGHT FALL

The impact of COVID-19, and the ensuing financial crisis, will have a lasting impact on society and business as a whole. Those who are unable to work because of the lockdown are facing serious economic challenges. Because of job losses and reductions in income, many South Africans are worried that their assets such as their home, car or other financed goods could be repossessed over lack of payment. Knowledge is power especially when it comes to these types of financial matters.
To assist consumers to be empowered and to know their rights, The Ombudsman for Banking Services outlines the differences between Repossession, Surrender of Goods and Bank Assisted Sales.
Guest: Kwanda Vabaza, Manager: Communications at The Ombudsman for Banking Services

The world is facing a health crisis with the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, and every workplace has to help fight it. As an employee, it is your right to be kept as safe as possible.
Indeed, the law is on your side, as it has rules that your employer must follow to protect and support you throughout this difficult time.
Guest: Ayanda Baepi, co-founder and Director at Baepi Dyasi Attorney's

Guest: Dr Mariam Khan is a registered Natural medicine doctor with a Master’s degree focusing on sexual and reproductive health and rights and its intersections with gender and religion

“The increase in STIs is cause for great concern. STIs drive HIV infection. When left untreated, an STI will ulcerate and become a thriving access point for HIV to easily enter the body. Uncircumcised men are far more vulnerable to STIs like herpes and syphilis.
“VMMC services were suspended for five months last year. With facilities repurposed for the Covid-19 response, men wanting to circumcise were often not able to. Transportation, which Right to Care offers to support those wanting to circumcise, was also negatively affected because we put strict Covid-19 adherence protocols in place - allowing only 50% occupancy of vehicles transporting our clients. Services started again and by the end of 2020, the programme had gained momentum,” concludes Hlongwani.
Guest: Sizwe Hlongwane, deputy chief of party for voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) at health NGO Right to Care

A Mrs SA semi-finalist, whose golf champion father took his own life four years ago, has spoken out for the first time about the agonising ordeal in a bid to help break the stigma around mental illness and to urge those struggling with stress, anxiety and depression to reach out for help immediately.
Mother, entrepreneur and social activist, Chane Todd, 31, has broken her silence about her world-famous father, golfing champion, Wayne Westner, who died at 55 after battling depression for years. Westner won 14 pro titles, excelled on the European tour, and was about to conduct work with the PGA when he took his life.
Guest: Mother, entrepreneur and social activist, Chane Todd

Is society too judgemental towards Men and what can be done to create an environment, where healing can happen ... to Men and the Boy Child...
Guest on the line: Billy Selekane - Africa’s #1 Professional Inspirational Speaker.

A year ago, at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, we predicted that school closures in South Africa would result in learning losses. A loss of contact learning time would lead to lower educational outcomes, and the losses would be higher in no-fee schools (serving children from low income families) than in fee-paying schools.
Now we can update how much contact teaching time was lost in 2020 and make an “informed speculation” on the amount of learning loss based on changes in test scores between 2019 and 2020.
Guest: Dr Vijay Reddy -Distinguished Research Specialist Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa

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

The modern research university was designed to produce new knowledge and to pass that knowledge on to students. North American universities over the last 100 years have been exceptionally good at that task.
But this is not all that universities can do or should do. The COVID-19 pandemic has made it even easier to reduce teaching to knowledge dissemination and to obscure other, equally important, forms of education that help students be better citizens, thinkers, writers and collaborators.
These other forms of education are the cornerstone of human flourishing and democratic participation.
Guest: Robert Danisch -Professor, Department of Communication Arts, University of Waterloo in Canada.

A World Gone Mad is a collection of 15 stories written by the students. All come from rural villages or low income, highly populated settlements on the edge of metropolitan areas (also known as “townships”). Some of them wrote their stories on their cell phones.
In March 2020, when South African president Cyril Ramaphosa announced the country’s first lockdown, students had to evacuate campus and return to their homes. During this lockdown, citizens were not allowed to travel, shops had to close and people had to remain indoors.
Guest: Dr. Brian Sibanda -Lecturer/Researcher: Centre for Teaching and Learning at the University of the Free State, University of the Free State