NIGHT FALL

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NIGHT FALL episodes

  • Social Conversations: Are You Living Vicariously Through Your Child?
    Psychologists have long suspected that some parents try to fulfil their unfulfilled achievements through their kids, and Experts say it is important to let children follow their own paths in life.

    Guest: Anupama Dalmia - Karamveer Chakra Awardee (Silver), Sheroes Champion, 20-time award winning Blogger, Author, Serial Entrepreneur, Social Influencer, Sociopreneur, Mentor

    Guest: Dr Neo Pule - Counselling Psychologist and an Academic
    21 min
  • Science/Environmental conversations: Climate change could cause abrupt biodiversity losses this century
    The impacts of climate change on species and ecosystems are already evident. Poleward shifts in the geographic distributions of species, catastrophic forest fires and mass bleaching of coral reefs all bear the fingerprints of climate change.
    But what will the world’s biodiversity look like in the future?
    Projections indicate that unless emissions are rapidly reduced the climate crisis will get substantially worse. Up to 50% of species are forecast to lose most of their suitable climate conditions by 2100 under the highest greenhouse gas emissions scenario.

    Guest: Dr Chris Trisos - Senior Researcher African Climate and Development Initiative University of Cape Town
    32 min
  • Social Conversations: Is Change Possible In An Abuser?
    While people do have the capacity to change, they need to deeply want to and be committed to all aspects of change in order to begin to do so — and even then, it’s a lot easier said than done.
    In discussing why abusers abuse , it’s clear that a lot of the causal factors behind these behaviors are learned attitudes and feelings of entitlement and privilege — which can be extremely difficult to truly change. Because of this, there’s a very low percentage of abusers who truly do change their ways.

    Guest: Dr. Carel – Piet Van Eeden – Phd in Holistic Life Counseling Doctor of Ethnomedicine
    13 min
  • Education conversation: How South Africa can address digital inequalities in e-learning
    South Africa’s education system is complex, with historical inequalities dating back to apartheid. Most of the country’s pupils come from disadvantaged backgrounds. Language is an issue; most pupils do not speak English as a mother tongue, yet English dominates in many classrooms. And, as the COVID-19 crisis has showed, there’s a huge digital divide at play.

    Guest: Dr. Mmaki Jantjies - Is currently the Head of the Information Systems academic department at the University of the Western Cape.
    35 min
  • Social Conversations: Spike in child abandonments and the physical abuse of youngsters during lockdown
    For the operations manager of Door of Hope, Nadene Gabham, it is a further indication of how desperate families have become as the lockdown continues to inflict financial hardship across the country.
    “You have no income, a mouth to feed. What are you going to do? Some mothers will give their child up for adoption, others will leave their child to die,” said Gabham.

    Child abandonments have increased since lockdown, as have acts of violence against minors.

    Guest: Nadene Gabham - the operations manager of Door of Hope
    14 min

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