Guest: (Couple 1) Mr Patrick and Gontse Muthusi (Gontse is in South Africa and Patrick in Uganda)
Patrick has been away for 7 months and his gave birth to their son who is 3 months now and he has never seen him.

Guest: (Couple 2) Nelson (My Husband): He’s in South Africa.
Miranda (in Cameroon):
They haven’t seen each other for more than 200 days.

Could your next juicy cheeseburger be part of a global strategy to reduce the risk of future pandemics? Findings from a new report on Food and Pandemics, together with advances in food technology, lead us to think it could be.

For many South Africans, the Covid-19 origin story involves foreigners, eating foods that we wouldn’t eat, from the kinds of markets we don’t frequent.

Guest: Donovan Will - Director ProVeg South Africa

Internationally, education theory favours mother-tongue instruction and recommends that schooling should begin in the language the child knows best, often their mother tongue. Even with limited studies in Africa, evidence in Botswana, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Kenya and South Africa supports this.

Guest: Nompumelelo Mohohlwane - Researcher at department of basic Education and a Student at Stellenbosch University

Guest:Rosemarie Gultig/Schmidtke - Internationally renowned psychic healer

It seems time spent indoors with “loved ones” has not turned out well for many South Africans, with local legal advice firm reporting a 20% increase in divorce following the most stringent levels of lockdown.

According to DIY Legal, most couples site enforced time spent together, stress and challenges of COVID-19 as well as financial stress due to losing their jobs during the pandemic, as reasons for their divorce.

Guest: Brendan McNulty, Founder - DIY Legal

Guests: Dr. Ba’ba’lwa Funda kaMaboza aka Antu from Western Breeze & one of the owners Aphro Love Expo

Guest: Basil Manuel - Executive Director Naptosa

Guest: Dr. Ryan Barnette - Critical Care Physicians, Keck Hospital, Los Angeles, California

Mandisa and her husband, Siya tied the knot in 2007.
Siya was HIV negative; Mandisa openly HIV positive. “The marriage came with cultural pressures,” Mandisa remembers. “In our culture, we’re expected to reproduce once we’re married.”

Guests: Mr. Siya and Mandisa Dukashe

New technologies mean states must reconsider what ‘reproductive rights’ are

A number of technological advances have revolutionised human reproduction in the past few decades. One example is in vitro fertilisation (IVF), the process of fertilising a woman’s eggs with a man’s sperm in the laboratory. This can be a solution when men and women have problems conceiving. It also allows infertile couples to use donor sperm or eggs.

Guest: Bonginkosi Shozi - Doctoral Fellow with the UKZN African Health Research Flagship, University of KwaZulu-Natal