Weekend Breakfast with Sara-Jayne Makwala King

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

Every year 82 000 South Africans lose the battle to heart diseases and strokes. That's
one out of every five deaths in this country. And our next guest is here to explain that this figure can and must be reduced. But it is not just about eating healthy and excercising. There are many factors like pollution, stress, Hiv status, smoking and even socioeconomic inequality that leads to heart disease.
In this country we know poverty is a daily reality for millions and raising awareness and
appropriate treatment is much lower among those living below the breadline.
It is difficult to making healthy food choices when you don't know where your next
meal is coming from. But September is Heart Awareness Month, and the Heart and Stroke Foundation South Africa (HSFSA) is preparing to reach the global goal of reducing premature deaths from cardiovascular disease (CVD) by 25% by the year 2025.

Abongile Nzelenzele talks to Akosua Koranteng

And it is now that time of the morning where we focus on Africa Literature and
specifically, women writers on the continent.
And we are joined by UCT literary student Akosua Koranteng who is here to enlighten us
on the writings of Miriam Ba.

Abongile Nzelenzele talks to Gayle Edmunds, of City Press

PLOT: The movie by Kathryn Bigelow, who also brought us Zero Dark Thirty and The
Hurt Locker, this time sets her camera on Detroit in the summer of 1967.
That was the year when rioting and civil unrest ripped the American city to shreds. This leads to the involvement of the Detroit Police Department, the Michigan State Police and the Michigan Army National Guard in a violent invasion of a motel that eventually leads to three deaths. This is a gritty, hard hitting look at those events through the eyes of an award winning director.

Abongile Nzelenzele talks to Simphiwe Sisanti

Abongile Nzelenzele talks to Leann De Bassompierre:

We are turning our focus now to Luanda, where our intrepid journalist and BRICS
correspondent, Leanne De Bassompierre is trying to make sense of the pending polls
now that Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos has decided to step down after 38
years at the helm of Africa’s second largest crude producer.
The MPLA party has chosen Defence Minister Joao Lourenco as its presidential
candidate.
It also comes at a time when it seems freedom of expression is also under fire in the
African country as Angola has banned activists from protesting or demonstrating prior
to the polls, if they are not on the ballot.

Abongile Nzelenzele talks to Sizwe Mbebe

Sizwe Mbebe lives for the Beautiful Game and he joins me now to take a look at what
the PSL season holds in store.
And maybe we can entice him into giving us a few predictions, even though we know
there is a clear leaning towards Ajax from his side...

Abongile Nzelenzele talks to Dr Deon Snyman COO of Restitution Foundation

Guest: Deon Snyman is chief operating officer for the Restitution Foundation, a Cape
Town based NPO promoting socio-economic justice, healing and reconciliation through
restitution.

Describing the stark difference in living conditions, he says: "In the new South Africa we
still live in Milnerton and in Dunoon; we don’t know each other”.

Abongile Nzelenzele talks to Fiona McCurdie Groote Schuur Hospital’s organ transplant co-ordinator

In this province the situation is even more serious.
We only have to look at kidney transplants to see how bad the situation is. 59 out of the 134 transplants done in the Cape in the last year were kidney transplants. And the
shortfall is heartbreaking when you take into account that 10 000 of us die each year
because of kidney related conditions.

Bonnie Mbuli talks to Jonny Blundell member of Amathongo

Amathongo describe themselves as an “evolving world music project which mixes
traditional African styles with Jazz and a great variety of other music genres.”
They feature sounds of traditional southern African musical bows and other traditional
African instruments. (They are made up of Madosini, Hilton Schilder, Pedro espi Sanchis, Jonny Blundell. together with Whawha Mosiea and Eldred Schilder).
The name Amathongo means "Ancestral spirits". And joining us now is band member and SA musical legend, Jonny Blundell. He is going to tell us more about the band, but also about their upcoming gig at the Blah Blah Bar.