Joyce Piliso-Seroke was born in Crown Mines, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) on 11 July 1933 (now 87). She completed her matric at Kilnerton High School in Pretoria. She holds a BA degree and a diploma in Communication. Upon completion she went to the University of Fort Hare.

GUEST: Joyce Piliso-Seroke – Former Chairperson of the Commission on Gender Equality from 1999 to 2007. In 2008 she was conferred to South Africa's national Order of the Baobab in Gold, for her contributions to "freedom, development, reconstruction and the struggle for gender equality" in South Africa.

Guest: Professor Barney Pityana