Johannesburg-based diver Zalika Methula is fundraising to cover her expenses to participate in the world junior diving championship in Russia.  Grade 9 pupil Methula has been doing just that since the age of 11, as she is more than determined to pave her way into the not so popular aquatic sport of international diving.

Guest: Zalika Methula - 15 year old Diver

Guest: Danilo Cogrossi - Coach

Thousands of historic artefacts have been destroyed in the Congolese town of Gungu after a private museum burnt to ashes. The objects at the National Museum of Gungu represent one of the Democratic Republic of Congo's most important collections, says the BBC's Emery Makumeno in the capital, Kinshasa. At least 8,000 or 9,000 items dating back to the end of the 18th Century were ruined. The cause of the fire is still unclear

Guest:  Khehla Chepape Makgato - Artist, Curator, writer and philanthropist

A more than 400-page report was compiled by The Inkathalo Conversations and commissioned by the City of Cape Town in 2020 into life as a homeless person in Cape Town. The report covers eight general areas, including the criminalisation of homeless people, and the institutional drivers of homelessness. It also features “special reports” on what it calls homeless tax, and on the controversial Strandfontein Camp that was established by the City for local homeless people as a response to the Covid pandemic.

Guest:  Lorenzo Davids - CEO Development Impact Fund

Covid-19 has had a major impact on our daily lives, in different ways, and with other groups feeling deserted and hopeless due to the new or old behavioural patterns and trends that we see in our society when it comes to treatment. The LGBTQIAP+ community and people living with dis-abilities are amongst those groups that feel left out than ever before in terms of opportunities, inclusion in the economy, participation in the community etc.

Guest:  Zakhele Mgobhozi - Founder Modern Community Foundation (MCF)

GUEST: UNATHI HENAMA-Tourism Academic Tshwane University of
Technology

Google has announced the launch of the Global Initiative for Excellence in Journalism Education to enhance journalists’ training in Africa.

GUEST: DOROTHY OKOO- Google Head of Communications and Public Affairs

The Open Book Festival returns with an eight part podcast series celebrating just some of the works of literature to come out of SA this year. The series will run from    8 – 24 November 2021.

GUEST: VASTI CALITZ -  Open Book Festival Organiser

Tracing The (Post) Apartheid Novel Beyond 2000

GUEST: DANYELA DIMAKATSO DEMIR – Co –Editor of the Book

(co-editor is Olivier Moreillon)

We are checking in on The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project - building the world's largest radio telescope to explore the Universe.

The SKA Observatory has signed agreements with the Australian and South African governments to host its telescopes and associated infrastructures.

GUEST: TAKALANI NEMAUNGANI - Director: Multiwavelength Astronomy   At the Department of Science and Innovation