MOTORING: History was made at the Intercontinental GT race this past weekend when the first all-black team competed in the Kyalami 9-hour race. The team consisted of driver Tschops Sipuka and his partners Xolile Letlaka and Philip Kekana. We’re joined on the line by Tschops Sipuka.

Deputy Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation has visited two private colleges as part of a campaign to warn the public against bogus institutions of higher learning.

FASHIONABLE FRIDAYS: Tomorrow we toast to National Beer Day.
The day has been celebrated every first Saturday in February since

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2017. We now find out more about a local beer brand called ZAR
Beer. We joined on the line by Tom Berti who is the Marketing and
Brand Manager of the brand.

Digify Africa has launched DigifyBites which is a nationwide digital literacy programme. The project, which will be implemented across all 9 provinces in South Africa, will seek to equip youth, women, persons with disabilities, and the elderly with basic digital literacy skills for social and economic development. We now speak to Nothando Gininda who is the Digify Bytes Project Manager.

BE DRIVEN: We’ll speak to 29-year-old Eastern Cape school principal Abonga Mdze who is being hailed as a hero after steering his under-resourced rural school from a 28% matric pass rate in 2018 to an impressive 88.6% in 2021.

South Africa has exited its fourth wave of Covid-19 and the government has amended its level one lockdown regulations. We’ll speak to Prof Mosa Moshabela, Acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Research and Innovation at UKZN.

TECH TUESDAY: We now find out more about Syked which works as an online mental wellness platform that connects clients to a network of vetted and qualified therapists via video call, text and telephonic support. We’re joined on the line by Wandile Khumalo who is the founder of the platform.

Young South Africans spend almost R1, 300 per month looking for work. This is according to a survey by Open Dialogue. A total of 2 200 participants took part in the survey. We now speak to Siboniso Bophela, Founder and Researcher at Open Dialogue.