Nepal had never previously measured the height of Mount Everest on its own but had used the 8,848 metres (29,028 feet) estimate made by the Survey of India in 1954 that includes snow.

GUEST: SIBUSISO VILANE – Mountaineer & Expedition Leader; Co-Author of “To the top of nowhere”

The winners of The Innovation Hub’s annual competition, the Gauteng Accelerator Programme (GAP), were announced on Thursday 10 December. This year’s winners will receive their share of R3 million in seed funding to further incubate and establish their businesses.
First prize winners of the Biosciences category are MicroMab Diagnostics / UP devel-oped a rapid test for SARS-CoV2. Professor Tahir Pillay, Dr Bettina Chale-Matsau, and Mr Reggie Govender, founders of MircoMab Diagnostics/UP led the winning innovation in the GAP Biosciences category receiving R500 000.

GUEST: Professor TAHIR PILLAY - MicroMab Diagnostics / University of Pretoria)

Nurdle plastic waste found along beaches is now being converted into concrete mate-rials, which allows it to be used effectively instead of ending up in landfills.

GUEST: MEGAN-ROSE FRANCIS – Operations Manager The Beach Co-Op

Adriana Marais is a South African theoretical physicist and technologist.She is director of the Foundation for Space Development, South Africa,an organisation that aims to inspire children in developing countries via education and science. Marais is the founder of Proudly Human,an initiative of which is Off-World Antarctica, an off-world settlement simulation experiment to take place over the winter of 2021.
She was of four South Africans chosen in the third round of astronaut candidate se-lection for Mars One[ and was awarded the 2015 L'Oreal-UNESCO International Ris-ing Talent Award

Guest:DR. ADRIANA MARAIS - Theoretical Physicist, Technologist, Aspiring Extraterrestri-al, Founder of Proudly Human

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The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) announced an Imaging Scientist award to Dr Caron Jacobs, postdoctoral fellow in the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine (IDM) and the Wellcome Centre for Infectious Diseases Re-search in Africa (CIDRI-Africa) at the University of Cape Town (UCT), for her programme “Democratizing Imaging for Infectious Disease Research in Africa”.

DR. CARON JACOBS - postdoctoral fellow in the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine (IDM)/

Globally, creative industries are increasingly gaining attention as drivers of economic growth, innovation, and job creation. The World Economic Forum’s 2017 report on The Future of Jobs and Skills in Africa listed the creative industries as one of the “trending” professions, which had an average growth rate of 7% between 2011 and 2016. Added to this, is the evident ‘African Art Boom’, resulting in a growing market buzzing with optimism around contemporary African art.

GUEST: ALEXANDRE TILMANS - Co-Founder BAZ-ART

3 December20: It’s difficult to say what the long-term repercussions of 2020 will be. My hope is that even though we are still struggling through the emotional, physical and economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, and are likely to feel these effects for months, if not years to come, that this year has also shone a spotlight on some of the most critical issues we have been facing as a society.

GUEST : IAN FUHR - CEO THE HATCH INSTITUTE

Students at The International School of Cape Town have joined with more than 1 million youth to take action for the environment by studying and finding solutions to the climate change crisis.

GUEST: RENE FAHRENFORT - Teacher at The International School of Cape Town

The 2020 Standard Bank Young Artist for Jazz, Sisonke Xonti launched his new rec-ord, uGaba The Migration

GUEST: SISONKE XONTI - Saxophonists/ Musician