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.

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.