Stina van Rooyen, Brand Specialist, Insights Division at Kantar
spoke about how resilient brands defied macroeconomic challenges in the 2019 BrandZ Top 30 Most Valuable SA Brands.

Mathis Wackernagel, PhD, the co-creator of the Ecological
Footprint and President of Global Footprint Network spoke to us about Earth Overshoot Day. Earth Overshoot Day, previously known as Ecological Debt Day is the calculated illustrative calendar date on which
Humanity’s resource consumption for the year exceeds Earth’s capacity to
regenerate those resources that year.

Tamryn Raynor is a matric learner at Wordsworth High School in Benoni. She spoke to us about being the youngest licenced boxing assistant coach and making history for being the youngest female coach in SA.

Our Thought Leader, Dr Morné du Plessis, chief executive officer of WWF South Africa spoke about the Amazon rain forest fires.
He was followed by Jacob van Garderen, Director of The Public Interest Practice, who spoke about the International Association of Refugee and Migration Judges’ Africa Chapter 2019 Conference.

Jo-Ann Bekker author of Asleep Awake Asleep, spoke about her book which entails 39 interlinked short stories which can be read as a hand-drawn narrative map, charting the course of South Africa’s turbulent history.

South African musician and charismatic guitarist Sibusile Xaba, reframes maskandi into his own humanist manifesto. He spoke to us about his debut LP, Open Letter to Adoniah which was released by local label Mushroom Hour Half Hour. He will be holding an intimate performance in the Untitled Basement on Saturday 7th September 2019

SA entrepreneurs, landowners and farmers are fast waking up to the profit potential of the Périgord, the truffle cultivated worldwide. Leon Potgieter, national director of Truffle Growers SA spoke to us about growing and selling truffles.

Mignon Hardie, FunDza's Executive Director spoke to us about extending the learning platform onto WhatsApp.

FunDza Literacy Trust has partnered with Turn.io to launch FunDza on WhatsApp to get its already popular reading content into the hands of thousands of new readers.

Last night the winners of the 2019 Sunday Times Literary Awards were announced at an event held at The Empire Conference & Events Venue in Parktown. Michelle constant spoke to them and to Jennifer Platt, the Sunday Times Book Editor.

Prof Jonny Peter is the Head of the Allergy unit at UCT’s Lung Institute responsible for monitoring pollen in SA. He spoke to us about this year seeing some of the highest recorded pollen counts in history, which had cities from Europe to the US covered in clouds of pollen as a result of global warming.