Today we are joined by Acapella ensemble Gwijo Avenue from Alexandra Township 

Today we are joined by Acapella ensemble Gwijo Avenue from Alexandra Township 

Today we are joined by Acapella ensemble Gwijo Avenue from Alexandra Township 

Today we are joined by Acapella ensemble Gwijo Avenue from Alexandra Township 

During the show, one of our listeners tagged us in a tweet where school children were suffering from symptoms of food poisoning after consuming snacks and had been rushed to hospital. We approached the Eastern Cape Department of Health to find out more information regarding this video and they have confirmed that 120 pupils have been transported to the Frontier Hospital in Queenstown. To tell us more about this incident, we are joined by..

Guest: Dr Sizwe Kupelo - Spokesperson of the Department of Health in the Eastern Cape

A lot has been said about South Africa being the most unequal country in the world and what is even more worrying is the fact that this inequality will somehow affect the country’s capacity to deal effectively with its internal food insecurity realities. In May this year, Professor Barney Pityana warned that South Africa has a "problem of governance and government", and as a result, there is a high level of unemployment, poverty and food insecurity. To add to this, a Shoprite food index report that was released almost two weeks ago, projects that by 2025 nearly half of South Africa’s population will be food insecure, with 48.96% of the population potentially not having enough to eat. So how should our country respond to this problem? For more on this, we are joined by …..

GUEST:  Professor Barney Pityana, Human Rights Lawyer & Chairperson of the National Lotteries Commission

The air traffic controllers worldwide annually celebrate their professional day on October 20 and today we tell you more about this profession. This as International Day of Air Traffic Controllers was created to commemorate the foundation anniversary of the International Federation of Air Traffic Controllers Associations (IFATCA) in 1961. Celebrating International Day of Air Traffic Controller reminds people about the hard work men and women do on the ground to make air traffic safe.

GUEST: Patrick Sithole, Air traffic controller

Earlier today, the National Commissioner of the South African Police Services, General Fannie Masemola oversaw the destruction of drugs with a street value of R800 million in Johannesburg, Gauteng. This is The drugs that were confiscated included heroin, mandrax and marijuana. Operation Shanela has also apprehended 15 400 suspects in the last financial year over three drug destruction processes. To tell us more, we are joined by...

Guest: Brig. Athlenda Mathe - Spokesperson of the South African Police Services

We tell you more about the Provincial World Food Day that is currently underway in the Free State province. The reason the provincial government is hosting this event is to create awareness on the importance of World Food Day and also to give more details in terms of how the department of agriculture and rural development will respond to hunger and poverty issues affecting the province.

GUEST: Saki Mokoena, Free States MEC for Agriculture and Rural Development 

A new study by Helsinki-based nonprofit organisation, the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) has revealed that delaying the decommissioning of South Africa's coal-fired power plants beyond 2030 would cause a projected 15,300 excess air pollution-related deaths between 2023 and 2050. So what can be done to avert the situation and where are we going wrong as a nation in relation to air pollution?

GUEST: Dr Jamie Kelly, Air Quality Analyst at the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA)