SA-born fashion designer Thebe Magugu spoke to us about winning this year’s LVMH Prize for Young Fashion Designers at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris.
Earlier this year, Magugu won the International Fashion Showcase at London Fashion Week beating out 15 other designers from across the globe. His exhibition, titled Dawning, featured Magugu’s African Studies collection.

Sizwe Snail Ka Mtuze, senior partner at Snail Attorneys at Law spoke to us about the latest developments around defamation law in SA and how the law seeks to strikes a balance in protecting victims while also ensuring the practice of freedom of expression.

Sizwe Snail Ka Mtuze is a member of the South African Information Regulator and senior partner at Snail Attorneys at Law . He is also the International Co-ordinator of the African Centre for Cyberlaw and Crime Prevention based in Kampala, Uganda.

Musician Ndabo Zulu joined us in-studio to talk about the Umgidi Ensemble project, which was his recent master's project at the Norwegian music Academy. He talks about how his project aims at looking at what could be a possible orchestration of a Nguni orchestration. Like in a western symphony orchestra which comprises of instrument that have a huge traditional significance to the west, the ensemble aims at assembling both conventional and Nguni traditional instruments that will complement the compositional content.

Joanne Techow, zoologist and owner of the edible insect business, Ensekta, discussed the subject of entomophagy (the eating of insects) and about the nutritional and environmental benefits of insects as a food source.,

Musician Danny K talks about his new company, Masterpiece Capital, which is the first company in South Africa dedicated to offering finance for the purchase of artworks.

Tshidiso Motlhabane is the founder of the Shoe Mechanic. He talks about the company, which takes old sneakers, trainers and jeans and transforms them into new, colourful products.

Approximately 1.5 million people are diagnosed with schizophrenia every year, around the world. Gwen Tonyane, a specialist psychiatrist, talks about what you need to know about Schizophrenia, related symptoms and how it should be treated.

Our guest presenter was foodie, author, TV cook and mother, Hilary Biller. The Sunday Times Food Weekly editor spoke to us about her illustrious career writing for publications and publishing food books.

We were also joined by Jenny bell, sister of Hillary who is a social worker that has established an NGO Justice & Woman.

Chef Zola Nene, who joined the Expresso show on SABC 3 as food stylist and resident chef after a stint as catering manager in Johannesburg, also joined the conversation .

Anne Githuku-Shongwe, a representative of UN Women South Africa’s Multi-Country Office spoke to us about the UN Women collaborating with Dove to host a masterclass during Loeries Creative Week at the Durban ICC, to advance #ProjectShowUs, an initiative by Dove, that concerns itself with the representation and inclusion of all women and non-binary individuals in media campaigns, across the world.

Sthembile Dlamini, Acting CEO of SA Tourism spoke about the launch of tourism month and the latest in the local tourism sector.