A new short film designed to teach children about Covid-19 stars life-sized wooden puppets created by the Ukwanda Puppet and Designs Art Collective.

GUEST: SIPHOKAZI MPOFU - Member of the Ukwanda Puppet Collective & Puppeteer of 14 year old character Nande

Fourteen-year-old social media star Oxipinion has taken the world by storm after a tik tok video of her confronting adults who told her to stop making videos about her opinions on history and politics went viral all over the world

Guest: OxiPinion - A fourteen year old South African Youtuber, Reader and Change Agent.

Close to 3,000 women are murdered in South Africa every year. This means that a woman is murdered roughly every three hours in our country. About 110 women are raped every day. About one in three South African women experience abuse by an intimate partner in their lifetime. This is from the article “Herd solidarity: A vaccine for the shadow pandemic of gender-based violence”

GUEST: PROF. FRANCIS PETERSEN - Rector & Vice Chancellor University of The Free State

STEM education specialist, Sakhikamva Foundation has announced the launch of an action-packed, virtual science event that is free to attend, it kicked off Friday and continues through to 4 September which will connect South African children, teachers and parents to the global science community.

GUEST: FATIMA JAKOET - Founder of Sakhikamva Foundation, Forensic Scientist and airline pilot

A recently released special edition of the South African Journal of Science asked experts in the humanities and social sciences to weigh in. The collection of articles is not comprehensive, but it adds nuance to the national debate.

GUEST: JESS AUERBACH - Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, North West University

#PollywogSurfluencer Online surf brand and travel experts, Pollywog, launched a creative

THE VELDSKOEN is taking over the world

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) launched the Hand-in-Hand geospatial platform with a large and rich set of data on food, agriculture, socioeconomics, and natural resources to help strengthen evidencebased decision-making in the food and agriculture sectors. The platform is a crucial tool for all efforts to build back better and create more resilient food systems post COVID-19.

Mauritius issued an appeal to the international community for emergency assistance in this unprecedented ecological catastrophe. On 7th August, nearly two weeks after the Japanese shipwreck, the Mauritian government declared the incident a national emergency. It is thought that more than 1,000 tonnes of fuel have leaked out of the ship and into the lagoon. Mauritius is a biodiversity hotspot with a high concentration of plants and animals unique to the region.

64 Years ago; 9 August 1956 about 20,000 women from different backgrounds marched to the Union Buildings in Pretoria to petition against the country's pass laws. The march was led by Lillian Ngoyi, Helen Joseph, Rahima Moosa and Sophia Williams. The women left 14,000 petitions at the office doors of prime minister J. G. Strijdom. The last living member of the leaders of this march MAMA SOPHIA WILLIAMS -DU BRUYN was 18 years old on the day and the youngest of the women leaders. Today she is 82 and has served South Africa is many positions