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Guest: Tshepo Kgadima - Energy Analyst 

Guest: Tshepo Kgadima

Guest: Andile  TLHOAELE. -B-BBEE and Transformation Analyst This evening we discuss the black industrialists policy and look at what it has achieved since inception in 2015, and how it has changed the landscape of our economy, and how sustainable it has been in terms of the entrepreneurs and enterprises created. 

Guest: Mary de Haas - Independent researcher and violence monitor  South African police Minister Bheki Cele briefed the media in Pretoria, and he highlighted some of the South African Police Service’s (Saps) recent successes. Amongst other things:  -Police Minister Bheki Cele says academics, members of the media, and certain forces within the police have an agenda to undo their work  - Cele says h...

Guest: Rumbi Chidoori Regional Advocacy and Policy Coordinator at sonke Gender Justice South Africa could soon have a new gender-neutral parental leave policy. A case against the Minister of Employment and Labour recently heard at the Gauteng High Court recently, is seeking a gender-neutral parental policy that enables all employees to take parental leave regardless of their gender.  Current laws...

Guest: Dave Steward - Chairperson of the FW de Klerk Foundation  Guest:  Mr Julius Dantile -PanSALB Executive Head of Languages Heritage Day on 24 September recognises and celebrates the cultural wealth of our nation. South Africans celebrate the day by remembering the cultural heritage of the many cultures that make up the population of South Africa. As we mark heritage day, we put a focus on lan...

Guest: Stella De Kock - Managing Director at TELL  Approximately 4700 people are waiting for a life-saving organ or cornea transplant in South Africa, but only 0.2% of our population are registered organ donors. Organ and tissue donation is a simple choice that will cost you nothing but a few minutes of your time to register.  How can attitudes towards organ donation be changed?  Our guest today i...

Guest: Carin Bosman - Independent water governance advisor. Rand Water and Johannesburg Waterrecently made a call to consumers and citizens, cautioning them to use water sparingly due to an alarming deficit between supply and demand. In the begginning of this year, the country saw the community of Hammanskraal struck by a deadly cholera outbreak, Tshwane Mayor Cilliers Brink has come out to say th...

Guest: Mathew Parks - Spokesperson for the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) Do labour movements still have significant influence over electoral politics outcomes? Also touching on the role we can expect them to play, as SA's political landscape moves towards being that of coalition government?

Guest: Thandeka Chauke - Statelessness Project Manager at Lawyers for Human Rights The Minister of Home Affairs had previously revealed in Parliament in the year 2020 that his department was dealing with more than 800,000 blocked ID cases, involving alleged duplicates and what it claims are “fraudulent” IDs. In response to this, Lawyers for Human Rights launched a campaign: “My ID, Unlock My Life”...

Guest: Sandile Swana - Political and Governance Analyst South Africa has released a draft law that is aimed at facilitating the creation of a holding company which will house struggling SOE Such as power utility Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. But some experts have said that this newly published National State Enterprises Bill- aimed at re-organizing SOEs, is not immune to state capture. Does this bill ai...

Guest:  Roland Henwood - Lecturer in the Department of Political Sciences at the University of Pretoria While delivering the country statement to the United Nations General Assembly in New York., President Cyril Ramaphosa made a call to transform the global financial architecture. He also says urgent action is needed to address the effects of the covid-19 pandemic - and climate change. The Preside...

Guest: Dr Simon Howell - Senior Researcher, Center of Criminology at the University of Cape Town.  South Africa has opted for a human rights-based rather than a stringent law enforcement punitive approach to the management of the country's correctional facilities.  

Guest: Prof Hatmunt Winkler - University of Johannesburg Physics professor with a research in interest in sunlight modeling. Guest:  Tshepo Kgadima - Energy Analyst  The Executive Mayor of Tshwane Metro, Cilliers Brink has announced that the City is  considering a private partnership to enhance the functioning of the Rooiwal and Pretoria West Power Station. This they foresee assisting the city to...

Guest: Adekunie Owolabi - Journalist and Researcher Digital Editor at the Diplomatic Watch now a US based Diplomatic Affairs news agency. Nigeria's electricity distribution companies reported "a total system collapse"on Thursday, causing widespread blackouts across Africa's economy. Power generation fell to zero in the early hours and had risen to 273 mega watts (MW) by 10:30 GMT, still well below...

Guest: Alexandra Abrahams - Democratic Alliance (DA) Member of Parliament (MP) and Deputy Shadow Minister for Social Development  Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu says those responsible for the delays in social grant payments will be held responsible. Thousands of social grants recipients were affected. 

Guest: Mr. Sakhile Hadebe - Academic in the School of Politics at UKZN President Cyril Ramaphosa has declared a Special Official Funeral. Prince Mangasuthu Buthelezi will be burred on Saturday. (16 September 2023) "The Inkatha National Cultural Liberation Movement founded by Dr. Mangosuthu Buthelezi in1975 had some of its roots in the cultural organisation, Inkatha" established by King Solomon in...

Guest: Chris Trisos - The Director of The Climate Risk Lab based at the African Climate and Development initiative at University of Cape Town While Africa global carbon emission stand at 4%, according to the African development bank, Africa is the most vulnerable continent to climate change impacts under all climate scenarios above 1.5 degrees Celsius. There are fears the number of fatalities in L...

Guest: Trevor Shaku - South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) Spokesperson  President Cyril Ramaphosa this evening held a closed-door meeting with organised labor federation to discuss among other things , concerns over economic crisis. In the end of August, National Treasury send a communication to all government departments instructing them to implement austerity measures as part of the...

Guest: Hulme Scholes - Director of Malan Scholes Attorneys and we practice exclusively in the field of mining and mineral law Guest: Tshediso Matona - The Commissioner of the B-BBEE Commission  Black Economic Empowerment is a policy of the South African government which aims to facilitate broader participation in the economy by black people. A form of affirmative action, it is intended especially...

The African Union has been made a permanent member of the G20. The African Union now has the same status as the European Union, previously the only regional bloc with a full membership. Its previous designation was invited international organisation. The G20 includes 19 of the world's wealthiest nations  and the European Union represents two thirds of the world's population. Oliver Dickson was in...

The ANC is turning to the Constitutional Court in a final bid to appeal a judgment ordering it to release its cadre deployment records to the Democratic Alliance. The party faced a deadline to hand over the records. This follows the Supreme Court of Appeal dismissing with costs the ANC's application for leave to appeal a previous ruling, saying there are no reasonable prospects of success.   Olive...

According to the Health Justice initiative Global pharmaceutical giants bullied South Africa into securing COVID-19 vaccines worth three-hundred-and-seventy-four million US dollars/ This was during the height of the pandemic.  South Africa secret Covid19 vaccine deals which were secret,  were released by the Health Justice Initiative (HJI) following a high court ruling in August ordering the depar...

We get to know Elisabeth Valerio The founding President of the United Zimbabwe Alliance (UZA) a political party formed in May 2021.  She is the only woman of the 10 candidates on the 2023 Presidential ballot in Zimbabwe. Prior to entering politics, Elisabeth began her career as a biochemist working in the biotechnology industry. We reflect on her party's perfomance at Zimbabwe's recent election, h...