NIGHT FALL

Guest: Dr Mariam Khan - is a natural medicine doctor registered with the Allied Health Professions Council of South Africa.

“We support the Department’s efforts to limit landfilling, but they need to take more drastic steps and ban problematic and non-essential single-use plastics if we are ever to defeat the growing plastic pollution crisis,” said Angelo Louw, Greenpeace Africa Pan-African Plastic Project Lead. “It is time to hold companies to account for what they put into the marketplace without consideration of their products end-of-life management”
Greenpeace Africa, groundWork and other Break Free from Plastic partners have on several occasions called on Pillay to take measures that will ensure greater accountability for companies who manufacture and sell plastic products in South Africa. Producers have a responsibility to reduce plastic production at source and find alternative delivery channels that will ensure a sustainable future and an end to the plastic pollution crisis.
Guest on the line: Angelo Louw, Greenpeace Africa Pan-African Plastic Project Lead

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

“There is a need for the promotion and preservation of our country’s languages and culture in the 21st century. South African languages are protected by the Constitution and UJ is fully committed to the values enshrined in the Constitution. At UJ, we pride ourselves on the multicultural diversity of our students and academic body. We live in a multicultural country, therefore there is a need for multilingual recognition,” said Professor Marné Pienaar, the Head of UJ’s Multilingual Language Services Office.
Guest on the line: Professor Marné Pienaar, the Head of UJ’s Multilingual Language Services Office.

“South Africa could be facing a health-care worker crisis if the current and projected shortage of skilled health professionals is not addressed.”
This is a stark warning issued by the Health and Welfare Sector Education and Training Authority (HWSETA), following the recent release of data around critical skills.
While the World Health Organization projects a worldwide workforce shortfall of about 18 million healthcare workers by 2030, recent local data showed that South Africa also has cause for concern.
Guest on the line: Health and Welfare Sector Education and Training Authority (HWSETA) chief executive -Elaine Brass

Guest: Dr prithy Ramlachan- the past president of the African society for sexual medicine (ASSM)

On Steve Biko Street, taxi horns blare and horse carts trot down Gugulethu’s busy main road. But over a high wall, a woman has grown an oasis of green in the highly-developed, urban landscape of Gugulethu, where almost 100,000 share just 6.42km² (or 2.5 miles²) of land.
It’s here in Gugulethu where Nomonde Kweza, or “Mama Nomonde,” is reclaiming her agricultural heritage, and teaching her community to support their families with home gardens, with the goal of becoming self-sustaining. In 2006, she founded Ulimo Lwethu Food Garden, a 0.65 hectare organic urban farm outside the Ikhaya Loxolo Old Age Home.
Guest on the line – Mama Nomonde - Farmer

This episode of Civic Education is proudly brought to you by SABC Radio Education at (this radio station) in partnership with Government Employees Pension Fund. Enriching minds, Enriching lives.

Guest: Itumeleng Modise –Client liation officer at the Government Employees Pension Fund - GEPF

Dating as a single parent is tough. And the big question is as a single parent- when do you introduce a new partner to your kids?

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

Girls experience gender and sexual violence in schools around the world, and South Africa is no exception. Research has shown how learners, and girls in particular, are vulnerable to violence.
Despite the country’s political response to violence against women and girls, school-going girls struggle with male violence in and out of school.
Learners who are victimised at school often show poor academic performance, regular school absenteeism, anxiety and depression, drug and alcohol use, psychological trauma, and dropping out of school.
We conducted a study to learn more about South African teenage girls’ experiences at school. Violence emerged as a key aspect of their school life.
Guest on the line: Deevia Bhana -Professor Gender and Childhood Sexuality, University of KwaZulu-Natal