Weekend Breakfast with Sara-Jayne Makwala King

Africa Melane talks to Tshepo Motsepe

Scores of teachers have raised concerns about the Western Cape Education Department’s proposal on collaboration or Collab schools as they are known.
Two unions representing teachers(Sadtu and Naptosa) sounded the alarm during a recent portfolio committee on basic education oversight visit to Cape schools.

The unions say they want closer consultation with education bosses on the rules that will apply to the seven public schools operating as Collab institutions

Africa Melane talks to Other Jenny Wright

The UN organisation says babies foods and liquids in addition to breast milk before six months were up to 2.8 times more likely to die than their exclusively breastfed peers.

With us approaching the end of international Breast Feeding Week, you have to then wonder why so few women in South Africa are adhering to their advice.

Stats SA research reveals that exclusive breastfeeding (up to 6 months) has risen to 32 percent from a low 8 percent.The world average sits at 43 percent.

So we are moving in the right direction, but are we doing it fast enough?

Africa Melane talks to Philip Miller Composer of African Choir

A few weeks ago we spoke to Thuthuka Sibisi about the production Grace
Notes. And this week we are touching on another project that involves Thuthuka and composer Phillip Miller.
Phillip joins us this morning to tell us more about "The African Choir 1891 Re-imagined." The installation tells the story of a 14 member African choir and their first tour to Victorian England in 1891. It is made up of five songs re-created by the composers from an original nineteenth century concert programme along with twenty photographic portraits of the original members of the Choir re-discovered in London at the Hulton Archive after 125 years. The choir had members from mission stations and church choirs in the Eastern Cape. They toured England and the USA and included such social activists as Charlotte
Maxeke (née Manye), her sister Katie Makanya and Paul Xiniwe. They performed to great acclaim to large audiences in England, and before Queen
Victoria.

Africa Melane talks to Ylva Rodny-Gumede | Department of Journalism, Film and Television at Uni of Johannesburg

Fake news has become quite a common phrase in the news and social media lately.
If you are a Facebook or Twitter user you will know that feeds and social media
platforms are bombarded with dubious stories and some outright false information that
suits some party's agenda. In this country we have experienced it all first hand. we only have to look at the Bell Pottinger saga and their media campaign.

Africa Melane talks to Kate Emmerson

Our next guest is a best-selling author with a degree in industrial psychology, a master
life coach, as well as an international speaker and expert on the topic of de-cluttering
your life. And Kate Emmerson joins us today to talk about an experience most of us have to endure at least once in our adult lives: selling your home. She recently launched her new book "Shift Your Home" and she joins us to share some
tips...

Africa Melane talks to Katrine Classens

When Katrine Classens heard that UCt was sending a special team to investigate the
Marginal Ice Zone in Antarctica, she booked her place.
Not only would it be a cutting edge probe into climate change, but it would also
provide her with an opportunity as an artist to tell the story of climate change and how
we can create a space to respond to this approproately and effectively.

Africa Melane talks to Prof Richard Van Zyl Smit | Pulmonologist at UCT's Dept of Medicine

Are you one of those people who are proudly puffing away at your e-cigarette or vape
device, thinking you are doing your lungs a favour?
Well, then our next guest might have some news for you.
It is widely accepted that vaping is a healthier option than smoking tobacco. And that it
can be used as a tool to wean yourself off more harmful tobacco products.
But that does not mean you are in the clear if you are vaping.
Prof Richard Van Zyl Smit of UCT's Lung Research Unit is joining us this morning to shedsome light on a condition known as "popcorn lung" and it is not as fun as it sounds...

Africa Melane talks to Sbonakaliso Ndaba

Loss is part of the human condition. We lose loved ones, our lives change, and we move forward. Our next guest is has taken that sense of loss, it's fallout and turned it into a aesthetically beautiful and moving work of art.

Sbonakaliso Ndaba is an accomplished choreographer and the artistic director of the Indoni Dance Arts & Leadership Academy.
And she is part of the creative collective behind “iKhaya”  - a brand new work showing the lives of children having to gropw up without the guiding hand of parents or guardians.