Mapalo Makhu, Financial coach, author at founder of Woman & Finance talks about paying off your debt, from payday loans and credit cards to overdraft and store clothing accounts.

According to the National Credit Regulator, nearly 25 million people in South Africa are in debt, and 40% of them are behind on their repayments. This is a staggering number.

Seven year old Simthandile Tshabalala aka SimTiger is a golf prodigy, having competed and won several Golf competitions worldwide. He spoke to us about being ranked 15th in the world in his age category and winning over 20 trophies. We were later joined by his father - Bonginkosi Tshabalala

Daniel Torres from Astroland agency talks about his company’s latest project. Astroland is creating a mock human settlement in a cave in Cantabria, Spain intended to simulate what life could be like for a team of Martian pioneers.

Journalist and Writer Pippa Green spoke about her career, the South African media industry and being recently appointed as a press Ombudsman. She was later joined by Advocate Dumisa Ntsebeza who became a member of SERI's Board of Directors in June 2016 and Mathatha Tsedu who is an Adjunct professor and Acting Executive Director for South African National Editors Forum.

Maryana Iskander, CEO of Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator talks about winning the 2019 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship.
Founded by Silicon Valley entrepreneur Jeff Skoll, this prestigious award recognises change agents whose innovations have had significant, proven impact on the world’s most pressing problems.

Kamo Sesing, founding member of BookBeak spoke about a new mobile app BookBeak, which aims to take African short stories to the world.
BookBeak is the first African app-based platform to aggregate African short stories from published, unpublished and self-published writers and serve them to a global audience.

Karyn Maughn who is an Author & Journalist at TisoBlackstar spoke about the Party Funding Bill and how it will improve transparency of political party funding. Later on we also spoke to Marius Reitz, Head of Africa at cryptocurrency company Luno who spoke about why Bitcoin surged by 20% in the last week.

Dr Robert Morrell who works in the Office of the Vice Chancellor at the University of Cape Town, spoke about how globalisation and new technology have changed the ways that knowledge is made, disseminated and consumed.

Eastern Cape’s rising star Ami Faku talks about her latest single Ubuhle Bakho, her music endeavors and being a contestant on the music programme The Voice.

Executive chef, Amori Burger, joined us in-studio to chat about her latest venture - Van Der Linde Restaurant, which is located in Linden in Johannesburg