GUEST: Marie Snyman – Drip AM Co -Founder

– Interview: Decorex Africa

Green spaces are good for people – but in South Africa many cannot access them. This is a finding from researches at Rhodes University in the department of Botany and Anthropology.

GUEST: SUSANNE VETTER - Associate Professor, Department of Botany, Rhodes University

GUEST: VALERIE MOLLER - Professor of Sociology, Rhodes University

GUEST: MICHELLE COCKS - Associate Professor of Environmental Anthropology, Rhodes University

The benefits of experiencing nature for physical, psychological and spiritual well-being are widely documented. But much of the research on these benefits has been done in relatively affluent countries in the global North. There’s little research that has been done in developing countries on the benefits of being in nature.

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Monday 5th June is World Environment Day. A day commemorated by the United Nations encouraging worldwide awareness and action to protect our environment.

Guest: Catherine Constantinides - •Environmental & Climate Activist

Note: Catherine has just returned from France, where she visited the Maison Moët & Chandon to learn about Moët & Chandon’s Natura Nostra sustainability programme and attended the ChangeNOW summit in Paris.

· Key sustainability initiatives that form part of this programme.

· So it’s all about the terroir and about biodiversity.

· What are some of the sustainability initiatives each Maison is championing. -

Workshop Week is organised by the Open Book Festival and takes place from 5-10 June 2023 at Bertha House in Mowbray. GUEST: FRANKIE MURREY - Event curator for the Open Book Festival “We piloted Workshop Week in 2022 to offer aspiring and experienced writers the chance to participate in practical workshop sessions with experienced writers. It turned out to be very popular and sessions were fully booked at a rapid rate. It therefore made perfect sense to bring this event back for 2023,” says Frankie Murrey, event curator for the Open Book Festival.

THE BOOKISH DR. Is back with a call to grow our involvement as parents and guardians in encouraging reading in our homes as regular practice. She has selected 2 titles to consider for your children’s book collection list & the book news.

GUEST: DR. NOKUTHULA MAZIBUKO- MSIMANG - University of Pretoria

based researcher and writer of children’s books and historical novels.

ABOUT DR. Nokuthula Mazibuko Msimang

Dr NM Msimang is a writer, academic, producer and broadcaster who holds degrees from the University of Cape Town (UCT), the University of the Western Cape (UWC) and has a PhD in African Literature from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). DR NM Msimang is also the Director of Special Projects and Fundraising for PUKU

Making Friends with Feelings is inspired by raising sons who often struggle with expressing their feelings in a world where there are labels like “boys don’t cry”.

GUEST: Sewela Langeni - Owner of Book Circle Capital and Author of “Making friends with feelings”

Making Friends with Feelings is a compassionate story that teaches boys that it is OK to cry when you are sad and that it is healthy to express your emotions.

Sign language is set to become South Africa’s 12th official language after a long fight for recognition

GUEST: PROF. THEODORUS DU PLESSIS - Professor Emeritus: South African Sign Language & Deaf Studies, University of Freestate

Sign language is on its way to become the 12th official language in South Africa after parliament recently agreed to amend the constitution to this end. The move will bring to fruition three decades of a struggle to empower the country’s deaf community. An official language has legal status in a state and serves as the language of administration (conducting day-to-day state business). We asked Theo du Plessis, an emeritus professor of South African Sign Language and Deaf Studies, for his insights.

South Africans are among the heaviest drinkers in the world. The country has the highest per capita rate of alcohol consumption in Africa. Excessive drinking is especially widespread in the Western Cape. Research estimates that per capita alcohol consumption in the province is between 30% and 40% higher than the national consumption.

GUEST: SAMANTHA FILBY - Research Officer, Research on the Economics of Excisable Products, University of Cape Town

Blood cancers, such as Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and Leukaemia, are some of the most common childhood cancers, with patients having a 50% survival rate. However, South Africans who are between the ages of 17 and 55 and in general good health can help to increase the cancer survival rate amongst the country’s children by becoming blood stem cell donors.

GUEST: Palesa Mokomele, Head of Community Engagement and Communications at DKMS Africa

Guest: Ali Conn – Chief Innovation Officer at Sea Harvest

Interview: The work of SA HAVERST