19 March - Health - This week marks World Salt Awareness Week

In today’s show, we spoke to Lucy Gericke – A registered Dietician from the Heart and Stroke Foundation. This week marks World Salt Awareness Week and according to the World Action on Salt and Health, 3 million women and 2.5 million men die from stroke every year worldwide. This year’s WASH’s World Salt Awareness Week theme is salt reduction and stroke prevention since salt is the major factor that raises blood pressure and high blood pressure is the single most important risk factor for stroke. Lucy explained more about the benefits of salt reduction. For more information you can contact their sharecall on 0860 143 278 or visit their website www.heartfoundation.co.za

Flying Needle Project offers Acupuncture clinics

We also spoke to Gidon Levenbach – Creator and Developer of the Flying Needle Project. We were talking about free Acupuncture clinics he runs in Cape Town. The mission of the Flying Needle Project is to provide complementary healthcare to the impoverished and vulnerable populations living in South Africa and HIV/AIDS infected people. It utilizes registered Acupuncturists and Doctors of Traditional Chinese Medicine who practice Acupuncture and adjunctive therapies. The clinic offers services to those with little or no resources. Gidon explained to us the health benefits of acupuncture. How it works and conditions that can be treated using acupuncture. For more information your can visit www.flyingneedle.org or send an email to flyingneedleproject08@gmail.com

16 March - Arts, Culture & Environment - Ismaël Lô to perfom in Cape Town & Arts Update

In today’s show, we were joined by Bulelwa Makalima-Ngewana - Managing Director of Cape Town Partnership and spokesperson for the City Hall Sessions. City Hall Sessions launches its 2012 season on Tuesday the 20th of March, in celebration of Human Rights Day, by hosting Senegal’s Ismaël Lô at the Cape Town City Hall for one night only. Joining the bill is the Azania Ghetto Sound band, the internationally active reggae group from Nyanga. City Hall Sessions is a project of the Cape Town Partnership’s Creative Cape Town programme, and is aimed at bringing a diversity of world class music performance into the heart of the City. City Hall Sessions works within the historic space of the City Hall, pushing musical and presentation boundaries. Tickets for this show are priced at R75 (unreserved) and R120 (reserved seating upstairs), available from Computicket. The concert starts at 8pm. For more information contact (021) 419 1881 or visit www.cityhallsessions.co.za
PIC taken from: www.cityhallsessions.co.za

We closed off the show with arts update brought to you by our arts fundi Nigel Vermaas.

15 March - Labour - Youngster launches portal for jobless youth

In today's show, we spoke to Bruce Dube – Founder of Youthjobs.co.za, a portal that aims at facilitating or better access to jobs among the youth. The portal strives to avail job posts that the youth can easily apply to, jobs that do not require too much work or academic experience, a criteria most youth do not fit. For more information you can contact him on (012) 335 8461
or visit www.youthjobs.co.za

NETwork empowering unemployed

We closed off with an interview with Ruben Coetzee - Manager of NETwork. The organisation empowers people to stand on their feet in response to unemployment by inviting them to workshops, building relationship, facilitating a transformational job readiness process and creating links to work opportunities. They also offer English lessons. For more information about (021) 761 5370 or visit their website www.network.org.za

14 March - Gender - Young Women’s Leadership Project hosts ‘Talking Sexual Pleasure’ campaign

In today's show we spoke to Christel Antonites – From the Young Women’s Leadership Project. We were talking about the ‘Talking Sexual Pleasure’ campaign. The Young Women’s Leadership Project at the African Gender Institute hosted a range of events under the campaign, ‘Talking Sexual Pleasure’ which happened from Monday, the 27th of February to Thursday the 1st of March. They will conclude the campaign with a formal funtion next week Monday at 19H00. If you want more information contact the African Gender Institute contact (021) 650 4206 or visit www.agi.ac.za

Male sex workers share the highs and lows of the industry

We closed off with an interview with Innocent and Prince (not their real names) - Members of Siyasebenza. Siyasebenza is a support group for male sex workers who meet on a weekly basis to share narratives about their work experiences, gain insight through workshops, and participatory group in the areas of male sexual health, human rights abuse, HIV, STI’s, TB, substance abuse and other mental health issues. We were talking about about some of the highs and lows of being male sex workers. They have a helpline for sex workers in trouble on 0800 60 60.