RC 260807SAfmBertha Charuma
Friday, 7 August 2026
A Women’s Month special packed with trailblazing South African women, alongside a 90-year SAFM reflection and a short news bulletin on elections and security.
- 20:26
Apiwe Mawela said Tolokazi Beer has expanded from a 2023 pop-up to national rollout, with export interest from the UK and Canada, after surviving a pandemic shutdown and reopening.
- 20:44
Melanie Schultz traced a 25-year jazz career from UCT opera training to seven solo albums, a 2025 SAMA for Best Adult Contemporary Album, and plans for a solo-voice record and New Orleans collaborations.
- 21:27
Penny Haynes said her 1996 Olympic breakthrough came through months of detailed visualisation, and she framed her career and post-sport life around “swimming your own race” and controlling only what she can.
- 21:36
Professor Mamoketi Pakeng said parenting was her hardest and biggest achievement, and urged young women to “do hard things” because excellence comes from choosing the difficult path.
- 21:54
Zinam Shobe said she remains an author-storyteller first, credited her grandmother for shaping her love of language and travel, and described storytelling as her lifelong work across books, radio, and stage.