Family Motivation: : Sir Max is a Knowledgepreneur, CEO of Sir Max Corporation , a consulting firm specializing in high performance culture, building . He is an extraordinaire speaker,  a leadership captain and an author of three books:

Topic: Building value

INTERVIEW: The State Theatre has been defrauded more than R20 million over the past 5 years. We now get reaction from Ayanda Roda, Secretary General, of the Cultural and Creative Industries Federation of SA.

Guest: Ayanda Roda, Secretary General, CCIFSA,

#FamilyInterview| One of the most inspiring entertainment stories of 2019 is that of the Ndlovu Youth Choir and their incredible voices being recognised all over the world. 

The choir shot to international stardom on the reality show America’s Got Talent, which is in its 14th season. They were beaten for top honours by American singer Kodi Lee, but they signed with Sony Music Entertainment, which shares a global joint venture with reality-TV show judge Simon Cowell’s company, Syco Entertainment.

They have released an 11-track album  ‘Africa ‘ in December last year
It includes an inspirational repertoire of South African and international tracks, such as Sipho "Hotstix" Mabuse's hit Burnout, Higher Love by Steve Winwood, Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas and U2's Beautiful Day.
It also features choir’s first original song, Believe, written by Ralf Schmitt, the group's conductor and artistic director

Ndlovu's incredible 2019 was preceded by a significant moment in the latter half of the previous year on 15 October 2018 when everything changed.
That's when Grammy-winning South African musician WOUTER KELLERMAN uploaded a video of himself and the young, vibrant group performing a Zulu version of Ed Sheeran's hit song Shape of You and it went viral, and the producers of reality competition of America's Got Talent asked them to audition for the 2019 season of the show after watching it. 
The Ndlovu Choir was established in Moutse Valley in rural Limpopo, over a decade ago in January 2009. 
Formed by the Ndlovu Care Group's child care community programme to give children from disadvantaged backgrounds the same opportunities as their more advantaged counterparts

#FamilyBusiness : Jarlyne Joel, Co-Founder, The JHB Pastry and culinary
School

The school offers short courses, edutainment classes to the public and full time City and Guilds accredited diploma and certificate courses. They also offer a training facility to train prospective chefs from under-resourced communities in and around Johannesburg through its Seabiscuit Foundation.

Founded in 2012 by husband and wife team, Kelvin and Jarlyne Joel.
The couple didn't know how they were going to pay the rent in the "suicidal" first six months of opening the Johannesburg Culinary and Pastry School in 2012
To help get the business off the ground, Jarlyne resigned from her job as an insurance broker and used her pension in the business
The Johannesburg Culinary School is a black-owned gastronomic academy situated in the hub of Johannesburg’s Central Business District. In 2016 the academy received a R2.2 million business loan from the National Empowerment Fund (NEF) with the aim to further upscale and expand it’s already growing business
The school has since had more than 600 graduates. Most of them have gone on to work at The Hyatt, The Saxon Hotel and African Pride hotels, among many others. According to the Joels, some of their students are also working overseas and others have started their own businesses

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BE DRIVEN :   Lebogang Mokubela is the founder of Lemok Group. The township-based digital marketing agency focuses on helping SMMES grow their businesses using a combination of online marketing tactics including animation and explainer videos. The serial entrepreneur also recently released a new smartphone. We’re now joined in studio by Lebogang Mokubela, CEO and founder of LEMOK group.

INTERVIEW: Maps Maponyane’s burger joint has been named one of the world’s best by Bloomberg.
BunsOut Burgers was the only South African burger joint to make international publication Bloomberg's list of “The World’s Best Burgers as Picked by Stars of Gastronomy”.
The list was selected by Michelin-star chefs and other culinary experts from around the world, and looks at a variety of burgers from fast-food restaurants to five-star establishments.

Eskom says its going ahead with its plan to switch off power to the cash-strapped Letsemeng Municipality in the Free State. The power utility says the municipality which incorporates towns such as Oppermansgronde, Koffiefontein, Petrusburg, Jacobsdal and Luckhoff, has failed to honour its payment arrangement of 5.4 million rand. Thabiso Radebe reports..
We also speak to Letsemeng local Municipality's Municipal Manager, Lucas Mkhwane...

EFF leader Julius Malema's wife Mantoa Matlala is suing ANC MP, Boy Mamabolo an amout of one million rand following his utterances about her during the State of the Nation Address last week. In a letter sent to Mamabolo by Matlala's lawyers, it's stated that he made defamatory statements against her - where Mamabolo claimed that Malema abused his wife. We spoke to our reporter, Abongile Dumako..

Six weeks into the 2020 academic year- learners at Reitumetse High School at Kgobokwane village in Limpopo are still to start schooling. Learners who were doing Grade 11 in 2019, are demanding to be promoted to grade 12 after they all failed last year. They say it's not their fault that they did not have teachers in four subjects. We spoke to our reporter, Rudzani Tshivhase...