It’s now official, President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed the Basic Education Amendment Bill into law and according to Professor Hanlie Dippenaar – the bill will enhance equal opportunities and education for all the children in South Africa while going a long way towards regulating Homeschooling in the country.

GUEST: Prof Hanlie Dippenaar, Assistant Dean of The Faculty of Education at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology in Cape Town

Adobe is continuing its AI venture with new video generative and editing tools. The Firefly Video Model joins Adobe’s suite of generative AI tools, though only available in beta for now. The model also marks their foray into the video generation corner of the AI market. To make this easy for us to understand, I’m joined on the line by Tshepo Chauke from Stuff…

GUEST: Tshepo Chauke

President Cyril Ramaphosa has postponed the full implementation of the BELA Bill to allow for further engagements on two clauses over three months. Speaking at the signing of the bill at the Union Buildings today, Ramaphosa said he had agreed to pause the implementation of two clauses which deal with school admissions and language.

GUEST: Kallie Kriel, CEO of AfriForum

Kate Roebertson chats to us about the next One Young World Summit which will take place in Montréal, Canada (from next week Wednesday till the 21st of this month). One Young World identifies, connects and promotes young leaders, giving them a global platform. But what can we expect from this year’s event?

GUEST (CANADA): Kate Robertson, Co-Founder of One Young World, the global forum for young leaders

Tributes continue to pour in following the passing of struggle stalwart and former Minister Pravin Gordhan. Some have made it clear that they will always remember him for his principled fight against corruption and his transformation of Sars. Let’s now hear from another struggle stalwart Derek Hanekom about Pravin’s life and legacy…..

GUEST: Derek Hanekom, ANC Veteran & Anti-Apartheid activist

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Today we give you another side of the story in relation to the recent Israeli protests and various interpretations thereof in terms of what exactly is happening in the Middle East region. You may recall that on the 2nd of this month I interviewed Thembisa Fakude, Senior Research Fellow at the Africa-Asia Dialogues after Israel’s military recovered the bodies of six hostages killed in Gaza. He made remarks that the South African Zionist Federation felt needed to be challenged as according to them - they were not a true reflection of what’s happening in that region.

GUEST (ISRAEL): Ruth Wasserman Lande, former advisor to the late President Shimon Peres & she also served as an analyst in the Israeli Defense Force 

As Gold-Youth celebrates 20 years of youth-led change across Africa this month. We hear from the organisation’s founder Susannah Farr on how they hope to develop 10 million young African leaders with character and integrity in the next coming years.

GUEST: Susannah Farr, CEO & founder of Gold-Youth

DA leader John Steenhuisen addressed the Cape Town Press Club earlier today. He opened his speech by quoting Vladimir Lenin: 'There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen.' And boy, a lot has been happening. We’ll play clips from the briefing as well as clips from the guest we spoke to when the show started. In this clip, John Steenhuisen spoke outlines the DA’s role and objectives within the Government of National Unity

Alongside the iPhone 16 announcement this week, Apple also announced that their Air-Pods Pro 2 will also feature a software-based Hearing Aid capability. This is part of an industry wide initiative by consumer electronics makers to make hearing assistance more accessible.

GUEST: Paul Hjul, Managing Executive at Hjul Consulting