For the 24th consecutive year, the Poetry Africa festival, presented by the Centre for Creative Arts at the University of Kwazulu-Natal from 12 to 17 October 2020, sets the stage for poetry from South Africa and around the world. Freely available online on all their social media platforms.

GUEST: SIPHINDILE HLONGWA - Curator Poetry Africa

GUEST: MANEO MOHALE - POET

The 24th annual Poetry Africa festival, presented by the Centre for Creative Arts at the University of KwaZulu-Natal from 12 to 17 Octo-ber 2020, will be held virtually this year. You can view the festival in its entirety for free on Poetry Africa’s Facebook, YouTube and Twit-ter pages,

The six-day programme will be presented over three slots daily, fea-turing performances, competitions, book launches, seminars and workshops.

The Festival also supports young voices and their development in poetry.

Guest: TUMELO MOHOTO - 16 year old Poet George Campbell school of Technology

Gauteng leads the way with plan to stimulate township businesses
Policies include the designation of specific businesses and sectors for locals

GUEST: DR. THAMI MAZWAI - on the National Planning Commission (NPC) and leads the think-tank on township and rural economies. He wrote this article in his personal capacity.

The programme for the fourth annual SingularityU South Africa Summit has been finalized taking place 14 & 15 October 2020. The five key themes at the summit that is designed to help future proof Africa

GUEST: MIC MANN - Co-CEO Singularity

This year's Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the World Food Programme (WFP) for its "efforts to combat hunger" and its "contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas."

The Norwegian Nobel Committee, which presented the award in Oslo on Friday, also described the organization as "a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict.”

GUEST: ANGIE KHUMALO - Radio Personality & Farmer

Kuzuko Lodge in Addo Eastern Cape, has successfully relocated four sub-adult lion cubs to neighbouring game reserve, Magic Hills.
Kuzuko is also known worldwide for the adventures of “Sylvester the Lion”, who was successfully relocated to Kuzuko in 2015 after a series of daring escapes from the Karoo National Park .

GUEST: GERHARD DE LANGE - General Manager Kuzuko Lodge

LGBT History Month is an annual month-long observance of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history, and the history of the gay rights and related civil rights movements. It was founded in 1994 by Missouri high-school history teacher Rodney Wilson.

In 2020, during the global lockdown, filmmaker and activist Bev Palesa Ditsie went online to commemorate with some of the activists from around the world who were behind this campaign.

GUEST: DR. BEVERLY DITSIE - South African lesbian activist, artist, and filmmaker. Ditsie is one of the founders of the gay rights organization, Gay and Lesbian Organisation of the Witwatersrand (GLOW)

With this year’s Arts Alive festival being hosted virtually, many more people will now be able to access the annual showcase of music, dance and diverse cultural expression. The City of Johannesburg has promised that this year’s line-up of events reaches across traditional art barriers

GUEST : VUYISILE MSHUDULU - Director Arts, Culture and Heritage City

GUEST: ANDRE KRIEL from the Black Cat Bones – Musician

The concept of 'World Homeless Day' emerged from online discussions between people working to respond to homelessness from various parts of the world. The Inaugural World Homeless Day was marked on the 10th of October 2010.

Here is South Africa, the NS Impact Foundation a social development initiative by business couple Nosipho and Sakhile Fakude are giving away survival backpacks including personal care products to 200 beneficiaries.

GUEST: NOSIPHO FAKUDE – Co Founder of NS Impact Foundation

STEAK AND CHAKALAKA followed with COFFEE AND CHOCOLATE SEMIFREDDO.

Guest: ZOLA NENE - Author of Simply Delicious & Simply Zola