MFM 92.6 Interviews
With multiple South African Radio Awards under its belt, MFM 92.6 goes beyond just playing music—it’s a space for intelligent conversations and meaningful content.
Whose Home Was Safe? | Prof Amanda Gouws on Women, Lockdown and COVID Diaries
August was Women's Month, with its annual invitation to reflect on equality, care, work, safety and belonging. On SiyakhulaLive, that reflection turns backwards – to a time not so long ago when COVID-19 turned everything upside down, and to the question of what that moment looked like through the eyes…
Success for Whom? | Making Sure Every Student Belongs
SU Student Success Initiative Series: Episode Seven. Recorded on Thursday 3 September 2026. Two students can sit in the same lecture hall, hand in the same assignment, and walk out with completely different senses of whether they belong there. This conversation asks whose definition of student success the university is…
Three Out of Four Maties | What Student Success Looks Like for Commuter Students
SU Student Success Initiative Series: Episode Six. Recorded on Tuesday, 01 September 2026. Three out of every four Maties do not live in a university residence. Some walk in from Victoria Street. Some are up before dawn for a taxi from Khayelitsha or a lift club from Worcester. This conversation…
From Silos to Synergy | How Stellenbosch University's Integrated Support Model Works
SU Student Success Initiative Series: Episode Three. Recorded on Friday 28 August 2026. Counsellors, academic advisers, faculty support coordinators, the CSCD, the Student Success Initiative. Students hear the names but rarely know who does what, or who to approach first. This conversation answers that — and argues you should not…
Academic Language Is Nobody's First Language | Inside SU's Reading and Writing Labs
SU Student Success Initiative Series: Episode Five. Recorded on Friday 25 August 2026. You can read a paragraph three times and still have no idea what it said. That is not a sign that something is wrong with you. Academic language is its own language, and nobody grew up speaking…
Cracking the Code | What Learning Really Is, and How to Master It
SU Student Success Initiative Series: Episode Four. Recorded on Friday 21 August 2026. You have been studying since Grade 1. Somewhere along the way, did anyone actually teach you how learning works? Most students arrive at university with habits built for school, discover those habits no longer hold, and conclude…
Confronting the Inheritance | Lidia Rauch on Apartheid's Granddaughter and White South Africans' Reckoning
July was Mandela Month, with its call to reflect on dignity, community and what we owe one another. On SiyakhulaLive, that reflection turns inward – to the question many white South Africans carry but rarely say aloud: what do I do with what I inherited? In this episode, recorded on…
Dignity in the Everyday | Qaqamba Mdaka on Residence Life, Belonging and Becoming at Stellenbosch University
July was Mandela Month, with its call to reflect on dignity, community and what we owe one another. On SiyakhulaLive, that reflection turns to a question every parent dropping a child at university quietly carries, and every first-year silently asks: will I belong here? In this episode, recorded on 15…
The Student Voice | Three Students on What Success Actually Costs
Recorded on Tuesday 4 August 2026. In the first episode the people who built Stellenbosch University's Student Success Initiative explained how it works. This week the students explain what it is like to need it. A gap year spent delivering pizzas. Nine modules in one semester. A first-generation student who…
Student Success Is Everyone's Business | Inside Stellenbosch University's Student Success Initiative
Every year, thousands of students arrive at Stellenbosch University and find the gap between school and higher education wider than anyone warned them. Some struggle quietly. Most do not know a support system already exists, or how to reach it. This conversation is about closing that gap. Jacolette Kloppers hosts…
Dignified From the Door | Abongile Quthu on Queer Rights and Access to Healthcare in South Africa
Pride Month has just closed, and July brings Mandela Month, with its call to reflect on dignity, justice and human well-being. On SiyaKhulaLive, that reflection turns to a question many South Africans don't have the luxury of taking for granted: what does it take for queer communities to access healthcare…
Breaking the Silence | Inside Stellenbosch's Frontline Response to Gender-Based Violence
Gender-based violence is not a private matter, it is a community one. In Stellenbosch and its surrounds, the people who respond to it every day, from the first phone call to the courtroom to the recovery room, rarely get to explain how the system actually works, or how to reach…
The Cost of Carrying a Gun | Dr Stanley Maphosa on Gun Violence and Public Safety in South Africa
Fifty years ago, young South Africans were gunned down in the streets of Soweto. Half a century on, gun violence still cuts short young lives across the country, and communities are still left to carry that grief largely on their own. Dr Stanley Maphosa, Executive Director of Gun-Free South Africa,…
African Microbiomes and the Frontiers of Science | Professor Thulani Makhalanyane on Health, Agriculture and Innovation
What if the answers to some of Africa's biggest health and food security challenges are too small to see? Professor Thulani Makhalanyane, Professor in Microbiology at Stellenbosch University and recently appointed SARChI Research Chair in African Microbiome Innovation, joins Dr Katlego Letlonkane on SiyaKhulaLive to explore the world of microbiomes…
WOW Telfees 2026 | Fiona van Kerwel oor hoofrekene, pret met syfers en WOW se eerste landwye Telfees
Wiskunde-angs is ’n werklikheid in duisende Suid-Afrikaanse klaskamers – maar wat gebeur wanneer jy syfers in ’n speletjie omskep? Fiona van Kerwel, bestuurder van die Universiteit Stellenbosch se Woorde Open Wêrelde-projek, sluit by Kyle op Lunch Club aan om die eerste landwye WOW Telfees bekend te stel: ’n mondelinge wiskundekompetisie…
Cyber Violence and the Digital Age | Professor Delano Cole van der Linde on Online Harm and Safer Digital Communities
Professor Delano Cole van der Linde, Public Law Associate Professor at Stellenbosch University's Faculty of Law, joins Dr Katlego Letlonkane on SiyaKhula Live for a searching conversation on cyber violence - what it is, how South African law responds to it, and what it reveals about the societies producing it…
Pat Mahlangu: Youth, Brands & The Future of Africa
Entrepreneur and founder Pat Mahlangu joins Dr Katlego Letlonkane on SiyaKhula Live during Youth Month for a conversation that reframes youth entrepreneurship as a form of economic activism. Recorded 50 years after the Soweto Uprising, the discussion moves from the tactical - building sustainable youth-led brands across Africa - into…
The Right to a Clean Environment | Advocate Rantsho Moraka on Environmental Justice as a Human Rights Issue
Civil society practitioner and environmental justice advocate Advocate Rantsho Moraka joins Dr Katlego Letlonkane on SiyaKhula Live for a wide-ranging conversation on what the constitutional right to a clean, safe and healthy environment actually means for communities on the ground. Recorded during Human Rights Month, the discussion moves from the…
The Hippo's Calf | Dr Panashe Chigumadzi on Radical Ubuntu and the Global Reparations Struggle
Author, essayist, and rapporteur for the African Union's Committee of Experts on Reparations, Dr Panashe Chigumadzi joins Sibulele and Nalo in the Lift Club studio ahead of her 8th Annual Africa Day Lecture at Stellenbosch University on 27 May 2026. The conversation moves from the Zulu dictum at the heart…
Who Gets to Stay Home? | Ebrahiem Abrahams on parental leave, caregiving, and the law that changed everything
For most of South Africa's labour history, the answer was simple: the mother. She got four months. The father got three days. And the law called that equal. On this episode of SiyakhulaLive on Lunch, host Dr Katlego Letlonkane sits down with Ebrahiem Abrahams, Director of Employment Relations at Stellenbosch…