NIGHT FALL

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

Guest: Dr Thabani Nkwanyana - Independent Medical Practitioner with special interest in Human rights,Ethics and Social Sciences.

The hopes and dreams of all those whose livelihood is connected to the liquor industry have been put on hold with “immediate effect” and without notice nor prior warning. If you are not going to work today, it is probably because you are among those whose livelihoods were affected when President Cyril Ramaphosa announced a ban on the dispensing and sale of alcohol products.

Guest: Lucky Ntimane - A national convenor for the National Liquor Traders Council

Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng, popularly known as Dr T, was appointed by the global organisation as a special rapporteur for the right of enjoyment and attainable standard of physical and mental care.

Guest on the line: Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng, popularly known as Dr T,

Guest: Makhosi Sikhakhane