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Guest: Paul Nzimande – Life Coach, Author and Mental Wellness Advocate

Holistic Approach to Insomnia with Homeopathy

1. What is insomnia?
2. What are the types of insomnia diagnosis?
3. What are the causes of insomnia?
4. What is the impact of insomnia if left untreated?
5. What holistic treatment is available and what lifestyle changes should one consider to treat insomnia?
6. What homeopathic medicine is available for insomnia?

Guest: Dr Thols – Homeopath and Family Doctor

Guest on line: Makhosi Andile Ngubane(I HAVE A DREAM)

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Girls and Boys Town South Africa

Girls & Boys Town (GBT) is a national non-profit organisation established in 1958. They run proven and successful programmes to strengthen vulnerable youth. Through a combination of interventions they, on average, assist between 16 000 to 20 000 beneficiaries a year. Their core focus is to remove the obstacles and barriers that prevent children from finding their light. Most of the children served by GBT are orphaned, abandoned, abused or rejected by their families or caregivers. Many of the youth also come from broken or poverty-stricken homes, perform badly at school, have discipline issues, reject authority and lack social skills. GBT co-operates with many other NPO’s and childcare structures in strengthening and empowering youth, families and communities, and the portal through which many youth enter the organisation’s care.

Karen Winnefred Farred is a highly experienced social worker and the current Head of Residential Services at Girls and Boys Town South Africa (GBTSA). With a BA Honours in Social Work from the University of the Western Cape, Karen has dedicated over three decades to improving the lives of children and youth. She has held various positions within GBTSA since 1999, managing all residential services nationally, overseeing financial management, ensuring regulatory compliance, and developing training programmes. Karen is also a published researcher and active member of professional bodies like the S.A. Council for Social Work and NACCW.

Guest: Karen Winnefred Farred - Social Worker and the current Head of Residential Services at Girls and Boys Town South Africa

UKUTYISWA AMASI No UTSIKI

 In Xhosa culture, Utsiki is the ritual where the bride to be (umakoti) has to eat a goat meat and drinks the sour milk of that particular family in which she is married to.

Utsiki is the ritual where umakoti has to eat goat meat and drink the sour milk from that particular family in which she is married to. Utsiki ceremony is performed on behalf of makoti. This is when a sheep or goat is slaughtered on behalf of the newlywed after which she is also allowed to taste sour milk known ukutyiswa amasi. The sheep or a goat is slaughtered in the evening and a part of it, - the waist- known as injeke, is given to the new bride to eat it alone and not share with anyone. This is a belief that the she will bear the heir for their son when she gets pregnant. She is then dressed in a makoti attire in the form of umbhaco or amajelumane (blue long attire worn by new brides), black head scarf (ighiya), a small blanket around the waist, and given a small grass mat (ukhuko) called umahambehlala, meaning (something that stays everywhere), and will sit behind the door. The new makoti will use this grass mat wherever she goes to sit on, for example when speaking to the elders of the family, instead of sitting on the chair, she sits on her grass mat. The purpose for this ritual ceremony is to introduce the new bride to the ancestors of this home so that the know that there is a new

What is it?

Where did the custom come from, why is it done/The purpose?

Is there anything wrong if you don’t do it in your family? Or you refuse to do it and you don’t believe in the custom?

And are there different ways of doing the custom?

What is the point of it and is it relevant in today’s society?

Guest: Fezeka Ntlemeza – Sangoma with knowledge of African/Xhosa culture?

Guest: El Sun Mbatha

Guest: Clement Chauke, Life coach brand strategist