The Daily Discourse

Guest: Sekgupi Malebo – Member of the ANC’s Interim Regional Executive Committee in Mangaung   Guest: Gopolang Lipale – EFF Regional Chairperson in Mangaung   Guest: Johan Pretorius - DA caucus leader in Mangaung Metro

 During the course of the past week, many have experienced traumatic events and lost loved ones before their eyes. Essential services have been working around the clock without a moment to debrief after the devastation they have witnessed on their search and rescue missions. We take a moment to speak about the role of psycho-social support during a time of crisis and how to provide communitie...

National Treasury has come up with a pilot project called the Infrastructure Knowledge Management Programme which aims to help municipalities deal with fruitless and wasteful expenditure.  Guest: Thabo Mashamba - Acting Chief Director: Capacity Building in National Treasury

On 13 April 2022, Tanzania celebrated the centenary of the late Mwalimu Julius Nyerere. Guest: Thami Ntenteni – Anti-apartheid activist who lived in exile for many years, Tanzania and Zambia under the ANC

 Guest: Nikelwa Maqula - Spokesperson of Ndifuna Ukwazi Housing Task Team (waiting for formal designation) Guest: Councillor Malusi Booi - MMC of Human Settlements in the City of Cape Town

The death toll from the widespread flooding in KwaZulu-Natal has risen to at least 3-hundred and 6.  Guest: Sipho Hlomuka - MEC of Cooperative Governance in Kwa-Zulu Natal Link: Let’s hear now from the emergency workers as we welcome….. Guest: Shawn Herbst - Media Liaison for Netcare Group (Emergency Services) RESIDENT: Themba Ntinga – Resident of Ward 15 in Durban (To do a...

Guest: Adam Glasser - SAMA Award winning South African pianist and harmonica virtuoso

 As the floods continue to ravage KwaZulu-Natal, horrific scenes are starting to show. Pictures of people carrying the bodies of their loved ones to the street and houses collapsed. News24 has posted some of these pictures on their website and to talk more on this, we are joined on the line by… Guest: Juniour Khumalo – Journalist at News24 Guest: Kayleen Morgan – Journalist...

Guest: Prof. Dirk Kotze - Professor of Political Science at the University of South Africa

Guest: George Themba – SADTU’s Provincial Secretary in the North West Guest: Tladi Sedikane - North West Secretary for the National Association of School Governing Bodies

The Mangaung Municipality is being placed under national administration, due to a series of governance failures and financial mismanagement. President Cyril Ramaphosahas ordered Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, to lead efforts to rescue the municipality. This is what she said when making the announcement….   CLIP – NKOSAZANA - M...

 The flood situation in KZN is getting worse with reports of landslides, flooded houses, emergency services stretched and images and videos on social media showing a very hectic situation. Emergency services have been responding to calls for help from the victims of heavy rains. To get a sense of how bad the situation is on the ground, we are joined on the line by…. LINK: A lot of peop...

Focus: This morning Bryan is talking about Keeping emotions out of investment decisions. What does he mean by this? Well, he joins us now in studio to explain…. Guest: Bryan Hirsch, Chairperson of Bryan Hirsch, Colley & Associates (Pty) Limited (Radio line: 011 880 4888)

The first 100 days of 2022 have come and gone. Whilst the year has brought the return of conventional warfare and a new post-lockdown reality to the fore, it's important for us to take a step back from the newsfeed and balance out our timelines with feel good stories that remind us of what builds the fabric of this society. Our next guest says that good news are all around us, we just need to know...

Judgment in former president Jacob Zuma's legal team's application to further postpone the start of his corruption trial will be delivered this afternoon. Zuma's legal team has argued that the High Court in Pietermaritzburg should be slow to refuse a postponement application where the constitutional rights are implicated, unless the sole purpose is to cause undue delay. Zuma's petition to the Supr...

The latest on the Russia/Ukraine war is that   NATO yesterday (Sunday) announced that it will deploy a permanent full-scale military force on its border with Russia. This they say is to defend its territory against a future Russian invasion. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg was speaking to The Telegraph newspaper where he said that the deployment will involve deploying sufficient...

In the world of music, acapella is often an overlooked genre that does not attain as much status as say, pop or rock. Guest: Buhlebendalo Mda - Member of the Soil (Vocalist) Guest: Luphindo ´Master P´ Ngxanga - Member of the Soil (Beatboxer)

Guest: Dr. Deepak Patel - Discovery Vitality Wellness Clinician

 A new study has found that communities exposed to disaster (natural, protest action and others) are likely to experience depression in the long-term. The study showed that those worst-affected are black women, uneducated and poor communities.   This is according to the findings of a decade-long study of more than 17 000 South Africans conducted by UKZN and international researchers. the...

Newly appointed National Police Commissioner, Fannie Masemola deployed a thirty-man tactical response team with over twenty members from public order policing. The team also includes officials from the national intervention unit. This response team has been stationed in Diepsloot since Wednesday night after violent protests in the area. On Thursday, the Police Commissioner said that further discus...

A coup military tribunal in Burkina Faso yesterday (Wed) sentenced former president Blaise Compaore to life imprisonment for complicity in the 1987 murder of his predecessor Thomas Sankarain. Sankara was gunned down in the West African nation's capital Ouagadougou at the age of 37, four years after he took power in an uprising. Compaore was charged in absentia along with his former head of securit...

Let’s tell you now about the Student Debt Stokvel campaign. Many people till today know the pain of having to deal with student debt. It’s just one of those things that one does not really have a choice, but to take it in order to study. Well, there may be a solution in the form of s student debt stokvel. What is it exactly and how can those in debt take part in it? Guest: Tsietsi Ngob...

The National Food and Nutrition Security Survey begins in their third phase in Gauteng, Eastern Cape and Kwa-Zulu Natal this coming Monday. These include the head of the household and/or the person responsible for food procurement and food preparation. Other participants will include children under the age of 5 years and biological mothers of children in this age group. This phase starts mere days...

The African Rail Industry Association says that it welcomes Transnet’s commitment to invite the private sector to bid for slots on the national rail network. They say that this is work in progress for attracting major investments into the sector and unlocking significant benefits for the broader economy and create massive job opportunities. Guest: Mesela Nhlapo – CEO of the African Rai...

Since the conflict between Russia and Ukraine started, media coverage around it became a focal point with commentators around the world looking at who drives the narrative. We’ve seen how the international media was choosing the different angles and views to portray a particular narrative that was sometimes viewed as choosing sides. Well, last week Media Monitoring Africa, the Goethe Institu...