The South African Chefs Association (SA Chefs) and The Festive Vegan & Plant Powered Show (FVPPS) are looking for the country’s most talented young chefs and home cooks to take part in an upcoming culinary competition. The Invitation is to showcase plant based culinary skills.

GUEST: JOCELYN MEYERS-ADAMS - Executive Chef of Table Bay Hotel and Regional Chair of the South African Chef’s Association.

GUEST: Sipho - Wine Merchant

NEW DISCOVERY
Trailblazer Dr. Melissa Boonzaaier-Davids discovered nine new marine moss animal species and is one of only two scientists in sub-Saharan Africa who are competent in bryozoan taxonomy.

GUEST: DR. MELISSA BOONZAIER - DAVIDS - Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) and assistant curator (Marine Invertebrates) at the Iziko South African Museum

Dr Taddy Blecher is CEO and co-founder of the Maharishi Invincibility Institute, a multi-award winning educational institution, as well as Imvula Empowerment Fund and the Invincible Group. He co-founded the Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship with Sir Richard Branson.

GUESTS : HUBERT MATHANZIMA MWELI - Director-General for Basic Education

GUESTS :SHILOH NAIKEN - Chief Information Officer - Department of Basic Education

Tomorrow, Monday 5th October is World Teacher’s Day, and the theme is “Teachers: Leading in Crisis Reimagining the Future”.

A book that highlights the contribution of Teachers was recently published is called “Where Light Shines through :Tales of Can Do Teachers in South Africa’s No Fee Public Schools”

GUEST: KIMON PHITIDIS - MD Social Innovations

GUEST: WILTON PHILLIPS - Acting Principal at GANSBAAI ACADEMIA (Western Cape) He was a teacher when the book was being written and currently the Acting Principal.

11 OCTOBER will be the United Nations International Day of the Girl Child. This year’s theme is “My voice, our equal future” which focuses on providing adolescent girls with opportunities and to be recognised, counted and invested in. Leading up to this day, the Imbumba Foundation is partnering up with the Dept of Education in Mpumalanga with an activation tour to 5 schools.

GUEST: RICHARD MABASO - Founder Imbumba Foundation

Hungry children go hunting to get food

Children in Tsakane Ekurhuleni are missing lunch time meals because they are not in school every day due to Covid-19 regulations.
Some go hunting for pigeons and rabbits in the woods to get something to eat.

GUEST: FIKILE MOTHER TO - 13 years old (we need to check if we need to use alternative name for child)

GUEST: DR. IMTIAZ SOOLIMAN - Founder Gift of The Givers

Statistics South Africa released the Quarterly Labour Survey (QLS) yesterday which as predicted painted a grim picture about employment. The economy in South Africa has lost 2.2 million jobs and for a country that has been in economic trouble before the Covid19 pandemic crisis. This means that nearly 10 million people are out of work in South Africa and this has major social implications for our country.

GUEST: UNATHI HENAMA - teaches tourism at the Tshwane University of Technology

Why we should be making cities smart, rather than building new smart cities

GUEST: TIJS VAN DEN BRINK - Advisory Group Director: Digital Services and Smart Asset Management at Royal HaskoningDHV

The answer to South Africa’s youth unemployment lies in real partnerships between private sector, public sector and civil society.

GUEST: CHANTELLE OOSTHUIZEN - Executive Director, CRET (Cyril Ramaphosa Education Trust)