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On #LockdownCommunity Samuel Hlonyana, popularly known as Sam The Challenger, is the founder of 90 Days Without Sugar. He is also the author of Life after Dieting. He joined Mandla Shongwe on #SAfmSoundAwake to discuss the online weight-loss programme and more.

#SheIsPower is the station's hashtag for Women's Month 2020 and our guest this week is Azana - a Durban born singer whose Neo-soul, Afro-pop and house body of work channels the vocal powers of heavyweight musicians such Camagwini, Simphiwe Dana, Letta Mbulu, Nina Simone and Erykah Badu. In July, the songstress released her 14-track debut album, Ingoma – meaning drum – which features award-winning musician Sun-EL Musician in a hit titled “Uhuru”. She joins us for a hangout on the show, tune in as we get to know her & listen to her music.

#WomensMonth2020 Well, now that we’re in the middle of a pandemic what does the furture of work look like for most African professionals, especially women? Well, Through a series of expert panel discussions, CNBC Africa; a leader in business, financial data, news and insight, in partnership with Forbes Africa, will be hosting a first-of-its-kind virtual Pan African summit on 20 August 2020. The Future of Work Virtual Conference aims to find solutions to the crisis in Africa’s work and job system, and to drive home the need for a much more effective implementation strategy.

Two women speaking at the summit join us later on the show; Kavitha Prag who is the Supply Chain and Network Operating Lead within Enterprise Technology & Performance & Canninah Mapena who is the Managing Director and Country Sales Director for Rockwell Automation Sub-Saharan Africa.

On today’s #Leadersofindustries, we’ve invited two women leading the pack in medicine whilst devoting their time & lives to making a change in society. Doctor Patience Ntshani affectionately known to many as Dr Pashy is an award-winning anesthesiologist with a penchant for fashion and finer things in life. She’s recently established the Dr Pashy Foundation and called upon the services of young female women in medicine – one of those women is Katlego Mathosa, Medical Dr and acting senior clinical manager — Helene Franz Hospital, Sekhukhune District, Limpopo.

How have these two women impacted each other & how are they progressing as we showcase forward-thinking & progressive wowmen this #Womens2020? Find out in our conversation with them as we observe #84Yearsofsabc & show that #SheIsPower

As part of #WomensMonth2020 we’re featuring women solving problems in society… This week’s edition of #MindingMyBusiness features Tsitsi Marote, a co-owner of Guardian Health, a maternal and foetal health solution that won the ITWeb Business Intelligence Summit data hackathon earlier this year. The app helps healthcare professionals by using AI and data to help determine risks for complications, ITWeb reports. For her work as a data scientist and in developing Guardian Health, she was also named among Geekulcha’s Top 15 Geeks for Youth Month 2020.

On today’s #OpinionPiece So you’re a woman & suddenly you’ve become the breadwinner in your home or, you’ve been a breadwinner but the impact of Covid-19 are weighing on you with the scarcity & loss of & no means to get an income through a side hustle… You might feel overwhelmed but in the South African society, many women have overcome traditional notions of gender by becoming primary breadwinners in their homes and providing primary financial support for their families.
In 2016, Professor Puleng Segalo & Dr Bianca Parry wrote a paper, Eating Burnt Toast: The Lived Experiences of Female Breadwinners in South Africa that contextualises the individual lived experiences of South African female breadwinners, utilising data collected from ten female breadwinners from the Mpumalanga and Gauteng provinces respectively using in-depth, semi structured interviews – to make you understand what the realities of Female Breadwinners are in South Africa. This morning we revisit this paper & look at updated data regarding Women Breadwinners in SA with Dr Bianca Parry.

#WomensMonth2020 Cape Town-based WOMEN’S right activist, Lucinda Evans is known for having led nationwide marches and was one of the speakers at the #AmINext protest outside South Africa's parliament calling for government action against gender-based violence and femicide. She has emerged as a powerful voice for women in South Africa as we battle high levels of femicide and sexual violence, her voice is also being heard and recognised internationally, making it onto the BBC's list of 100 inspiring and influential women from around the world in 2019.
She joins us to reflect on the work she’s done & impact it has on communities she works with as we highlight #WomensMonth2020 and showcase how #SheIsPower

It’s Tuesday and we get into conversations with individuals solving problems in their communities on #MindingMyBusiness our guest is Manti Maifadi, who along with her husband, Sam, own Naledi Farm, an agritourism destination for guests who come from the city. She shares how they’ve built a business around the land, beyond just your traditional sales of fresh produce & crafted a special niche for themselves by creating a place for healing and teaching, where they give guests the opportunity to reconnect with nature and walk the land as they teach them about gardening and also teach kids how to work with their hands and be self-reliant – how does it benefit the community? Stick around because she joins us on the show a little later as we celebrate #WomensMonth2020

#TheConnection
Have you been having dreams that bother you?
We have Traditional healer, Gogo Magosha joining today to help us understand our dreams – everything from understanding & interpretation and the significance of dreams. Send us a WhatsApp message if you wish to engage with Gogo Magosha. Do it now!
Today’s Talking Points;
1. Dreams with different types of water colous – murky water, clear blue water, grey water to white water – what does the element of water have in dreams and what do the different types of water colours symbolize?
2. Does the flow of the water carry any significance, water that is still, raging waters, waves in the water etc?
3. Does the temperature of the water also carry any significant message – hot, cold, warm?
4. What about water that changes colour – grey to clear and vice versa, what about the sudden look of blood in the water?
5. What about being on top of the water vs being in shallow water, in deep water and more?

#SheIsPower is the station's hashtag for Women's Month 2020 and we've invited a vocal powerhouse whose vocals will make you travel back in time and back. She's Soweto-born Sebe Spring and she's our #WomensMonth2020 feature as we celebrate #84YearsofSabc with amazing South African woman and remind you that #SheIsPower