Our guest is making strides in the Sepedi music genre. She recently won the Best Sepedi award at the Limpopo Music Awards. In some pages she is being referred to as her Majesty Motlanalo with her new single Sewela having been featured on an international radio station. Who is she and how does she describe herself?

GUEST (Studio): Motlanalo – Sepedi songstress and winner of the Best Sepedi singer award

Government has published a report looking at some of its achievements and failures in tertiary education for the last 25 years of democracy. The findings reveal an increase in a number of students graduating but also reveal an increase in a number of students graduating but also shows that University students are set up to fail due to inadequate student housing, which can decrease student pass rates significantly…

GUEST: John Schooling, co-founder of student accommodation group STAG African

As workers down tools at SAA from today (Friday) over salaries and other issues, we take the opportunity to understand how the principle of ‘No work no pay’ works. Unions have been struggling with the question of a secret ballot to decide whether workers should embark on a strike or not. What is it we as the public should know about all of this?

GUEST: Advocate Tertius Wessels - Legal Director of Strata-g Labour Solutions.

The Institute of Race Relations yesterday released their report on the state of the LGBTQ community. They say that the views on this community are becoming more tolerant around the world. But in South Africa, they are not happy about the country’s reluctance of defending their rights in Africa. This follows Deputy President David Mabuza’s refusal to condemn those African states where the rights of the LGBTQ community are being abused. For more on this, we are joined on the line by….

GUEST: Gerbrandt van Heerden, an analyst at the Institute of Race Relations

AmaXhosa King Zwelonke Calvin Mpendulo Sigcau has died in an Mthatha hospital in the Eastern Cape aged 51. He ruled AmaXhosa nation for more than 14 years. He has been described as a peace maker and very passionate about developing rural communities. This morning we will get to learn more about King Zwelonke Calvin Mpendulo Sigcau, about rituals observed in the Xhosa culture in regards to when a king has passed on. Our guest will also take us through the various ceremonies that are performed and the various roles to which family members are expected to uphold during this period.

GUEST: Nkosi Jongisilo Pokwana Ka Menziwa, Cultural development Strategist and Director of the Vusizwe Foundation for Historical Research

Speaking to Professor Lynette Denny who has been researching methods of cervical cancer prevention among poor women for 25 years. She says that cervical cancer is the second most common cancer among women in the country, after breast cancer, yet it is preventable through mass screening – and early detection saves lives. The other report is that it is significantly higher among black women in South Africa.

GUEST: Professor Denny, Senior specialist in gynecological oncology in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at UCT and Groote Schuur Hospital

The British Council's Creating Opportunity for South Africa's Youth (COSY) project has taken 80 young people between the ages of 18 and 25 through a 10-week entrepreneurship programme. To find out more on this and how it has benefited these youngsters.

GUEST: Itumeleng Dhlamini, Project manager for the Creating Opportunity for South Africa's Youth (COSY) project

Government has been calling on the private sector to get involved in job creation and the empowerment of women and the youth. Well the De Beers Group and UN Women started a capacity-building programme to upskill 500 women micro-entrepreneurs in Limpopo. Well the women have now completed the programme and we find out what it entailed and what happens moving forward as we welcome…

GUEST: Gregory Petersen, De Beers’ Enterprise and Supplier Development Manager

We looked at how a franchise works. We were Joined in studio by Tyrone Harding, who is the co-founder of Soft Coffee, a holding company to Hard Rock Cafe and Capello to speak about how to apply for a franchise and the necessary steps that go into owning a franchise

GUEST: Jimmy Tembo, who is the brand manager of Soft Coffee, a holding company to Hard Rock Cafe (in Pretoria, Johannesburg, Sun City and Cape Town) and Capello.

Trade unions NUMSA and the South African Cabin Crew Association have issued the South African Airways, SAA with a 48-hour strike notice over the planned job cuts at the national carrier and this means strike action will commence on Friday. The unions have been briefing the media in Johannesburg. SAA earlier announced its intention to restructure - and that could result in job cuts. Meanwhile the Chief Financial Officer of SAA Deon Fredericks says they do not have the financial capacity to increase wages at this point in time…

CLIP: SAA CFO

LINK: And that was the Chief Financial Officer of SAA Deon Fredericks. For the latest we are now joined on the line by Aviation economist, Joachim Vermooten…

GUEST: Aviation economist, Joachim Vermooten....