Matt Brownell, Head of Brand Marketing at Yoco spoke to us about the Point of Sale payments provider which is at the forefront of payment democratisation in South Africa that builds tools and services to help small businesses get paid, run their business better, and grow.

South African mountaineer and businesswoman, Deshun Deysel is part of the the first all-women team from Africa who will summit Mt. Everest in April 2020. She talked to us about their preparation and training to summit Mt. Everest next year

Plant Swaps are becoming increasingly popular, bringing gardening enthusiasts together to barter for bulbs and trade tips. Shani Krige, Market Lead for Candide talked to us about these events that connect gardeners with fellow plant lovers, public gardens and plant nurseries.

Arthur Case from Evergreen Lifestyles talks to the importance of broadening the horizon beyond traditional avenues of post-retirement planning, including how and where retirees will want to live, and what their own priorities are in terms of living comfortably and ensuring that they will be taken care of.

Tebogo Mathe has won the 2019 SME Toolkit BUSINESS/PARTNERS Business Plan Competition for Aspiring Young Entrepreneurs after beating 1,000 other entrants. He spoke to us about his business and how it started

Our guest presenter was Dr Crispian Olver, founder and CEO of Linkd Environmental Service, and author of the books ‘A House Divided' and “How to Steal a City”. He spoke to us about his extensive experience at senior management level in local government, environment and development issues and shard his views on local politics.

We were also joined by his two guests Shan Bolton, CEO of the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation and Lesley Lokko, Professor and Director of the Graduate School of Architecture at UJ’s Department of Architecture.

Patricia van Heerden Creative Producer and Director spoke to us about
Marguerite Poland’s bestselling novel titled Shades being nominated as one of the C21 Media finalists for the 2019 Drama Series Pitch out of 30 projects.

The winning project will be announced at The International Drama Awards, which take place at 6pm on Thursday 5 December.

We spoke to Ulrike Hill co-author of the book titled:" A Dream Realised: The Challenges and Triumphs of Building a Mandela Legacy," about the book.

Michelle Constant visited the Wits Art Museum this week where the youth art Workshops were running. She spoke to Nthabiseng Sekhobela from Skillful Spaces about the programme and she also spoke to the young exhibitors about their art work.
Later on we were joined by Julia Benadie, COO of Bank of America Securities South Africa .

Our Thought Leaders were Getty Myeni, Activity Coordinator at healthcare NGO, IHPS, and Donna Rachelson, director of Seed Academy.

Getty spoke about making a call for better healthcare for SA transgenders on Transgender Day of Remembrance held annually on 20 November and Donna spoke about South Africa’s largest entrepreneurship survey, which found that the entrepreneurship sector remains upbeat despite sluggish growth.