Drive Moment - Rate The Year 2025

Guest: Mari Payne - Deputy Managing Director and Senior Director Education And Programmes Sesame Workshop International South Africa. The DBE told parliament it is developing national guidelines on screen time for children aged 2 to 6, marking South Africa’s first targeted intervention on children’s digital exposure. How will they enforce…

Today on the Drive Moment we’re taking millennials back to childhood games. Before smartphones and WiFi, we played House using pure imagination but somehow certain friends always got certain roles. Maybe you were always forced to be the baby when you wanted to be the parent. When you played House…

South Africa continues to experience extremely high levels of unemployment, with the latest figures released by Statistics South Africa, the official unemployment rate stands at 32.7% in the first quarter of 2026. The high unemployment rate has increased pressure on government and private sector initiatives aimed at improving access to…

According to Statistics South Africa, Gauteng attracts the largest share of internal migrants in the country. Approximately 4.5 million lifetime migrants (people residing in Gauteng but born elsewhere) live in the province. Roughly 28% of all South Africans who relocate across provinces do so for paid work, with Gauteng as…

CONTRALESA has publicly criticised aspects of the burial and memorial practice linked to American actress Gabrielle Union, after reports that she placed her father’s ashes beneath a vine tree she planted in 2022 as a personal act of remembrance. In its response, CONTRALESA argued that the practice does not align…