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Hosted by News24 · 🇺🇸 US · EN-ZA · 18 episodes
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Welcome to The Odds In Our Favour, a Good News Podcast proudly brought to you by Old Mutual Wealth. Hosted by seasoned broadcaster Saskia Falken, every Friday at 07:00, Saskia speaks to pioneering South Africans who are rolling up their sleeves to fix things. Produced by An Wentzel and quality-controlled by News24's editors.
News24 hosts The Odds in Our Favour, a news show with 18 episodes published.
In a world where many young people are told what they cannot do, Zip Zap Circus offers a different answer: Watch what becomes possible when you learn to fly. Saskia Falken chats to the founders on this episode of the Odd
In South Africa, more than 70% of children in Grades 1 to 3 cannot read at grade level in their home language*. By Grade 4, just over 80% cannot read for meaning**. In Episode 18 of The Odds in Our Favour, Erica Wicomb f
In Episode 17 of The Odds in Our Favour, Jaraad Hassim of PatchPal tells us how a flat tyre was the breaking point that motivated him and two co-founders to establish a business to fix South Africa’s great pothole proble
Throughout Africa, small businesses power local economies; yet, many remain trapped in survival mode, not for lack of ambition, but because of missing systems, structure, and long-term strategy. From spaza shops to commu
In Episode 15 of The Odds in Our Favour, Saskia Falken chats to Dr Tom Ellman of Doctors Without Borders about the new HIV prevention breakthrough, Lenacapavir, and asks: “Who will actually get it?” While science moves f
In Episode 14 of The Odds in Our Favour, Saskia Falken chats to the indomitable Sabrina Walter, whose foundation, Women4Change, has led many successful and viral campaigns against gender-based violence (GBV). Most recent
In Episode 13 of The Odds in Our Favour, Saskia Falken chats to Shaqeel Less about Uthutho: a platform designed to bring visibility, safety and real-time information to commuters. The spark for Uthutho began with a poign
In Episode 12 of The Odds in Our Favour, Saskia Falken resumes her focus on access to land with activist Lungisa Huna on freeing up access to critical water sources and crop seeds for rural women farmers. Huna discusses
What if the foundation for learning isn't intelligence but the ability to keep calm? In Episode 11 of The Odds in Our Favour, Saskia Falken chats to Janna Kretzmar from the Earthchild Project, which works in schools acro
In Episode 10 of The Odds in Our Favour, Saskia Falken chats to Mercia Andrews from the Rural Women's Assembly Southern Africa, who shows how women in rural spaces are organising, leading, and reshaping systems. This is
In Episode 9, Saskia is joined by not one but two guests: Luyolo Lengisi and Sibusiso Diko of Langa for Men, a Cape Town non-profit that assists boys and men in rising above gender-based violence (GBV). Founded in the af
In Episode 8, Saskia calls in former pro football player turned philanthropic endurance trail runner, Stefan van Neel. We know that most men are taught to stay quiet, endure, and carry pain alone, but Van Neel uses extre
In Episode 7, Saskia sits down with Sheriff Ramoabi, a grassroots activist who represents the incredible but lesser-known Rural Women's Assembly and The Healing Circle. In many rural communities today, there are no shelt
Every item of clothing tells a story, but not all of it is visible. In episode 6, Safiyya Karim shares why she walked away from a corporate career to challenge one of the world's most exploitative industries. As director
In episode five, Saskia attempts to figuratively walk for about 30 minutes in Gerald Nomlala's shoes, hearing how the founder and CEO of the Kasi Angels Foundation sacrificed almost everything to assist underprivileged S
In episode four, Saskia is inspired by Gift of the Givers founder Dr Imtiaz Sooliman and what it takes to respond to a natural disaster with a relief aid group now synonymous with the South African story. Sooliman reveal
In Episode 3, social entrepreneur Leana de Beer shares how confronting unequal access to higher education led to the creation of entities Feenix and WaFunda – and why systemic change can start with bold, practical soluti
In episode two, Jessica Dewhurst unpacks why she founded Justice Desk Africa to help plug the gap between constitutional rights and lived reality in South Africa – and why young South Africans are key. In a world where r
In episode one, Siv Ngesi joins us in the News24 studio to talk about period poverty. Every month, millions of South African girls miss school because they can't afford sanitary towels. The activist and actor shares how
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