Focus: Our next guest has been working in the gospel industry for the past 15 years and has reached 2.4 million listeners. He has worked alongside Winnie Mashaba, Omega Khunou, and the late Neyi Zimu and Sfiso Ncwane. His work has won the Best Album at the Ingoma Awards for his 2016 album: Time of God Manifest. He has also been nominated for the South African Music Awards and the Crown Gospel Music Awards.

Guest: Paul Kganyago - Gospel Artist

This year has been tough and it has been most distressing when it comes to our personal finances. While there has been a decrease in overdue balances for credit accounts by 12% in the past twelve months, consumers are still under significant pressure due to the increases of the interest rates. Beyond the impact of inflation, most South Africans that fall into the middle class are worried about the cost uncertainties associated with food, petrol and loadshedding. They are also worried about the social uncertainties associated with rise in violent crime, substance abuse and climate change (water shortages/flooding).

Guest: Brandon De Kock - Director of Storytelling at the BrandMapp

Guest: Andrew Fulton - Director at Eighty20

Earlier this week, two beaches in Cape Town were closed due to a sewage spill. This spill was induced by loadshedding in the Fish Hoek and Muizenberg areas. There have been sewage spills that have affected beaches in Kwa-Zulu Natal (Ballito, North Coast) and Eastern Cape (Nahoon, East London) this year. These spills compromise the quality of water leading to their closure to the public. While municipalities have warned the public of the

health implications, there are environmental and tourism implications due to this closure.

Guest: Desmond D’Sa - Environmentalist and Coordinator of the South Durban Community Environmental Alliance

Guest: Duncan Heafield - Chairman of The Umhlanga Tourism Association

Guest: Herman Radali - PPF Gauteng Chairperson and the member of PPF National Executive Council

Guest: Rev. Mpho George Molebatsi – Social Commentator

Guest: Sineo Perry 

Guest: Tankiso Makanka - Director of the Kasi Hero Foundation

Guest: Austin Mashawana - Chief Operations Officer of the Collen Mashawana Foundation

Collen Mashawana Foundation, Kasi Hero Foundation, and SA FM are hosting a Christmas Party

This morning we come to you live from the Kasi Hero Foundation Centre in Pimville Soweto. This is part of our promise to you our listeners that we will host a Christmas party from one of the charities in the country. So we will be talking to the founders about the work they do and the kind of things that this community goes through. Our first guest believes that nurturing and caring for children will break the cycle of poverty. One of their core values is being of service and key to building better communities. To tell us more on this, we are joined now by…

Guest: Austin Mashawana - Chief Operations Officer of the Collen Mashawana Foundation

PROFILE: Kasi Hero Foundation

Our next guests are a group of young people who are trying to make a valuable contribution in their community through weekly soup kitchens, donation drives targeted at school-going children's needs and helping persons with disabilities. We are joined by...

Guest: Tankiso Makanka - Director of the Kasi Hero Foundation

Guest: Eddie Thwabala – Founding Director of the Moboke Foundation (They deal with young people on career development)

Guest: Busisiwe Dlamini - Patron of the Hope Fountain Early Learning Centre (Hope Fountain ELC was established in response to the growing number of kids left unattended on the streets of Doornfontein, Johannesburg)

 Guest:  Raymond Perrier from the Dennis Hurley Centre out in Durban. (They deal with homeless people with a focus on adults (18-30) and the elderly (60+). They have quite a number of programmes during the festive season for people not only to donate but also be volunteers)

Active Citizenry and what it means to give back to their communities

This morning, we thought to speak to those people who are giving back to their communities. They are community builders that make a difference either to young people, the elderly and so on about the work they do.

Guest: Lorenzo Davids - Chief Executive Office of the Development Impact Fund

Guest: MKVA

This weekend has seen intense horse trading with provinces Limpopo, North West and Gauteng being hotly contested voting blocks on who will win the presidency of the African National Congress. Some experts have argued that the congress should not be about second term for President Cyril Ramaphosa or new era for Zweli Mkhize. It should have been a conference that either writes an obituary for the party or potential writes a new vision statement for the country as emulated by the class for 1972.

On the sidelines, the Mkhonto weSizwe Veteran League... For a perspective on this, we are joined on the line by…

This weekend has seen intense horse trading with provinces Limpopo, North West and Gauteng being hotly contested voting blocks on who will win the presidency of the African National Congress. Some experts have argued that the congress should not be about second term for President Cyril Ramaphosa or new era for Zweli Mkhize. It should have been a

conference that either writes an obituary for the party or potential writes a new vision statement for the country as emulated by the class for 1972.

On the sidelines, the Mkhonto weSizwe Veteran League.

Guest: Lorenzo Davids - Chief Executive Office of the Development Impact Fund

Earlier this week, we received a letter from one of our listeners who asked us to highlight the plight of unemployed doctors in South Africa. In this hour, we focus on the stories of doctors who have qualified for their medical degree and completed their community service programme but have not found a job since then. For some of our guests, absorption into government hospitals is critical for them to specialize in their preferred niche. For many who studied medicine abroad through government scholarships, there are fewer opportunities to be considered by government hospitals.

Guest: Dr. Nandipha Singano - Community Service Medical Doctor

Guest: Dr Snqobele Zungu - Community Service Medical Doctor

Guest: Dr. Cedric Sihlangu - Medical Doctor and General Secretary of SAMATU

Guest: Victor Khanyile - Director: Human Resources at the Department of H