Weekend Breakfast with Sara-Jayne Makwala King

Africa Melane talks to Gerhard Kotze MD of RealNet Estate Agency Group

You and I live in an age of connectivity. Cellphones, wifi and an easily accessible
internet connection means many of us can move our offices anywhere like your
neighbourhood coffee shop or even your home.

Pumla’s own mother was a co-founder of Ikamva Labantu’s Seniors Programme, and when she was a young girl, she began as a volunteer at the club – teaching sewing to seniors in order to assist them in generating an income to supplement their pensions, and eventually working alongside her mother as a programme co-ordinator and an employee of Ikamva Labantu. When Pumla’s mother retired, she took the reins as the Seniors programme co-ordinator, working tirelessly to both ease the suffering of elderly persons within her community as well as forge a self-governed senior community through the 19 Seniors Clubs that Ikamva Labantu oversees and supports.

Africa Melane talks to Leslie Mudimu Post-graduate at Dept of Political Studies, UCT and intern at IJR

Africa Melane talks to Janine Ogle MyVoteCount national coordinator

If you are not sure who is bank rolling your preferred party, then does that not
question how informed your vote is?
Well that is the thinking of the My Vote Counts organisation who have taken this
fight for complete transparency to the Cape High Court.
This has prompted Judge Yasmin Shenaz Meer to order Parliament to pass
legislation to force political parties to disclose who funds them. Judge Meer
found that information about private funding of political parties is needed for
South Africans to effectively exercise their right to vote.

Africa Melane talks to Megan Lee registered dietitian at the Heart & Stroke Foundation of SA

Rheumatic heart disease is a type of preventable heart disease that manly
affects children and young adults, particularly those who live in poverty and
overcrowding. The disease is not common in high income countries, but is still
affects millions of people and causes hundreds of thousands of deaths annually,
mainly in Africa, the Middle East, Central and South Asia.