5B MONEY MONDAYS - PINK TAX WITH THULI MAGUBANE (17 AUG 26)

It’s Monday, which means it’s time to stretch your money mindset on Money Mondays with Xoli Zondo and Thuli Magubane. This week, because it’s Women’s Month, we’re talking about something called the female tax. And no, this is not an official SARS category hiding somewhere between PAYE and VAT. The female tax is the extra financial pressure women often carry simply because of gender; from beauty and grooming expectations, to safety costs, caregiving responsibilities, period products, clothing standards, career interruptions, and sometimes even paying more for similar products marketed specifically to women. So the big question is: Is the female tax real? How does it show up in everyday life? And what can women actually do to reduce it, challenge it, or plan around it? Because money is not always just about what you earn. Sometimes it is also about the invisible costs society expects you to carry.

5B MARLI'S MONDAY MOTIVATION - JONELLA SIBIYA (19-YEARS-OLD), FOUNDER OF ‘YAYA’S GOODIES’

19-year-old Jonella Sibiya, a business owner that owns a tuckshop in her hometown village 

5B I BET YOU CAN'T FIND - SOMEONE WHO IS SICK (17 AUG 26)

5B GUESS THE CELEBRITY (17 AUG 26)

She was named in the shadow of a hill before climbing one herself, Learned harmony in rooms built to manufacture British pop futures, Then spent years behind other voices before the foreground finally found her.

5B ON THIS DAY (17 AUG 26)

What happened on this day in history.

5B CONGRATULATIONS ZANELE ON HOSTING THE SAMA'S

5B BUZZWORD - LAY (17 AUG 26)

BUZZWORD:  LAY Each day a buzzword is announced, and 5 questions are asked to a listener, all of which will contain the buzzword.

5B I BET YOU CAN'T FIND - BEEN TO PRISON (14 AUG 26)

5B GAME ON, WOZA WEEKEND! - SINALO JAFTHA (14 AUG 26)

This morning on Game On: Woza Weekend, Xoli is joined by Proteas wicketkeeper Sinalo Jafta; fresh off a major honour at the Cricket South Africa Awards. Sinalo has just received the Makhaya Ntini: Power of Cricket Award, an award that recognises players whose journeys speak to perseverance, humility, resilience and the transformative power of cricket. And for Sinalo, this one is deeply personal, because Makhaya Ntini is also the reason she first picked up a cricket bat. Her story stretches from East London to the Proteas, across all three formats, with Sinalo becoming one of South African cricket’s most respected athletes; a wicketkeeper, batter, World Cup finalist, and someone whose impact now goes far beyond the boundary through her SJ10 Foundation, where she mentors and uplifts young people through sport. So this is a conversation about cricket, yes; but also about resilience, representation, Women’s Month, bouncing back, and what it means to use sport to open doors for the next generation.

5B ON THIS DAY QUIZ (14 AUG 26)

5B GUESS THE CELEBRITY ( 14 AUG 26)

She was given a heavenly name because of an elephant, Learned to disappear first through ballet, then beneath somebody else’s face, And eventually won gold while wearing a nose history remembered better than hers.

5B ON THIS DAY (14 AUG 26)

What happened on this day in history.

5B PAP AND POLITICS - HRH EURIKA MOGANE ON THE COMMISSION FOR GENDER EQUALITY (13 AUG 26)

The Commission for Gender Equality is a key chapter 9 institution that plays a key role in supporting and protecting constitutional democracy. This week on Pap & Politics, Thabo speaks to HRH Eurika Mogane, a commissioner from the CGE to learn more about the institution.

5B CHEF NOKX MAJOZI - THE SA COOKBOOK (13 AUG 26)

This morning on 5 Breakfast, we’re is joined by Chef Nokx Majozi; a South African chef who has taken the flavours of home all the way into some of London’s most serious kitchens. Nokx grew up around food in KwaZulu-Natal, learning early from the rhythms of a home kitchen near Richards Bay before building a career that took her from South Africa to the United States and then to London, where she spent more than a decade at Rosewood London, most recently as Head Pie Maker and Senior Chef. Now she is bringing that journey back to the plate with The South African Cookbook; a celebration of South African food in all its range, from boerewors rolls and bobotie to melktert, rainbow salad and the everyday recipes that carry memory, family, place and identity. The book features 90 recipes and is built around the diverse, vibrant flavours of South African cooking. So this is a conversation about food, yes; but also about home, nostalgia, township kitchens, Sunday tables, global kitchens, and why South African food deserves to be taken seriously without losing the warmth that made us love it in the first place.

5B I BET YOU CAN'T FIND - LEFT HANDED PEOPLE (13 AUG 26)

5B GUESS THE CELEBRITY (13 AUG 26)

He signs laws he does not write, opens parliaments he does not govern, Then goes home to paint hills and argue with modern architecture, A constitutional figurehead with surprisingly strong opinions about compost.

5B ON THIS DAY (13 AUG 26)

What happened on this day in history.

WHAT'S THE STRANGEST THING YOU'VE SEEN SMUGGLED INTO A PRISON

A Western Cape prison warden has allegedly been arrested after members of the Anti-Gang Unit stopped and searched his vehicle outside Goodwood Prison, reportedly finding drugs, cellular phones, USB sticks, condoms and libido tablets. The unusual haul has the 5 Mid-Mornings team wondering what exactly gets smuggled into prisons and what some of the strangest things listeners have seen or heard about being brought behind bars.

5B I BET YOU CAN'T FIND - WILL THE REAL KAREN STAND UP

5B POOFYFONTEIN (12 AUG 26)