The Daily Discourse

Last week Friday the 15th of October was World White Cane Safety Day. As much as we could not do this interview on that day, we thought it was important to still talk about the issue. The idea behind the day is to highlight the importance of a white cane especially among motorists to help the visually impaired move safely and independently. To help us understand some of the problems still faced by...

As an organisation responsible for ensuring that its members are empowered and capacitated to provide good services to the people at local level, what programmes are in place and what are the challenges that are being faced by the SA Local Government Association? The organisation has previously mentioned that some barriers to good service delivery by its members include political party infighting,...

October is breast cancer month and in our Personal Finance today we thought to look at the cost of cancer to your medical aid. According to the Liberty Claims Statistics 2020 cancer and leukaemia made up 27% of all claims that year However, it has been theorised that these numbers are not reflective of the actual number of potential cancer patients out there, as health industry experts suspec...

Today on our personal development feature we focus on the subject of career transition after turning 40 years old. What motivates people to do so? Is this a good idea? What are the challenges that one who has decided to change their career at this age potentially face? For more on this we are joined on the line by...   Guest: Brian Wasmuth - Managing Partner and Director at the Human Capital...

  "Uproar over vaccination of children without parental approval"  Some parents are up in arms over news that their minor children can decide to get vaccinated without their approval. The Health Department has announced that children as young as 12-years old will be allowed to get one doze of the Pfizer vaccine from tomorrow. Government is targeting 3.5 million children up to the age of...

Two people have been taken in for questioning in connection with the murder of Siyabonga Mkhize - the ANC's ward 101 candidate in the Ethekwini Municipality. Mkhize and another ANC member - Mzukisi Nyanga - were killed in a hail of bullets at Cato Crest in Durban on Friday evening (15 October). Two others survived the attack. The four had just concluded a door-to-door campaign when they were attac...

We wrap up the show by talking to the National Arts Council about how they would like to encourage artists to use their art forms to make a living especially after the industry was hard hit by Covid-19. They would also like to share some of the programmes they have running which can assist artists. Sadly they were in the news lately for all the wrong reasons where funds were mismanaged, a scandal...

The South African Human Rights Commission is from today (Monday) convening an inquiry into reports of racial discrimination in the country’s advertising sector. The advertising space is a very controversial one and in most times deliberately to get their message across and draw attention to a product. What exactly will the commission be looking into and how are they going to balance? Also wh...

Tertia Jacobs is a Treasure economist at Investec and she says that she has noticed apathy from citizens and the verbiage from parties ahead of the elections. She is warning South Africans about how important local government elections are and why they should take them seriously. She now joins us on the line to share her thoughts… Guest: Tertia Jacobs - Treasure economist at Investec

At least 56 former MK, Apla and Azanla soldiers will appear in court later this morning on three counts of kidnapping. These ex-combatants allegedly held three ministers hostage last night.. The three ministers included Minister of Defence and Military Veterans Thandi Modise and her deputy Thabang Makwetla as well as Minister in the Presidency Mondli Gungubele.  The group also demanded to see...

Tomorrow (16 October) marks World Food Day and our guest is of the view that the world is wasting millions of tons in food. The world’s population is growing at a very fast pace and the scary part is that in South Africa just this year, 10 million adults and 2.8 million children experienced hunger in the past week according to our guest. As far as he’s concerned, where are we going wro...

Today (15 October) reminds us of the day one of the upright leaders the on the African continent was assassinated. Thomas Sankara’s name is synonymous with anti-colonial revolution. He was nicknamed “The African Che Guevara”. Let’s remind ourselves about who he was as we listen to this report by Dinilohlanga Meketu…. Guest: Dr Morose Leshoele – Postdoctoral res...

As many of you keep sending us questions about social grants, we have invited the Social security Agency to come and deal with your queries. Questions around the R350 social relief of distress grant has proven to be a problem for many of you. Let’s welcome now….   Guest: Fanie Sethokga – General Manager for Grants Operations at SASSA

Let’s tell you now about a disability survey done by the Institute for Development Studies in the UK in partnership with the Human Sciences Research Council and the National Council of and for Persons with Disabilities.  It has revealed that COVID-19 has worsened challenges faced by persons with disabilities. To tell us more on this, we are joined on the line by… Guest: Adv Gary...

Yesterday (Wed) during the open line we received a call from Bonginkosi, a street vendor who spoke about being harassed by Johannesburg Metro Police officers even after showing them that he had a permit to trade. Let’s take a listen to what he had to say…..   Guest: Wayne Minaar – Spokesperson for the Johannesburg Metro Police

Yesterday (Wed) government’s communications agency, GCIS and the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment held a Masterclass on waste management. It’s an initiative that aims to empower young people in the business of waste management and innovation. One of the entrepreneurs attending it was Ofentse Rabaj, he is the owner of Green Innovationz who uses discarded cloth to pr...

Cash flow is one of the biggest challenges facing small and medium enterprises (SMEs) around the world, and South Africa is no different. The global pandemic devastatingly exposed this, with many shutting their doors and others being squeezed to their limits. According to research conducted by SMEgo at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in South Africa, 93% of small business owners had no other so...

Let’s talk all things Covid-19. In the past few weeks there has been more reports of people not wanting to take the jab while government is coming up with different initiatives to get people vaccinated. Let’s deal now with all the questions you may have as we welcome…  Guest: Dr Richard Lessells – Infectious Disease Specialist at the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation...

Many of you have been faced with load shedding for the past few days with Eskom not really telling us much about what some of the reasons are. To get an experts perspective on this, we are joined on the line by…   Guest: Ted Blom – Energy Analyst

The issue of changing street name is always a controversial one in our country. Well, the City of Ekurhuleni is embarking on a number of name changes under their derestriction. One of the most noticeable changes is that of Gilloolys Interchange which will now be known as George Bizos.

The authorities in e-Swatini have deployed the army to primary and high schools where students have been protesting in favour of democratic reforms. Pupils who boycotted classes for the past month are also calling for free education and better learning conditions. Guest: Thokozane Kunene – General Secretary of the Communist party of Swaziland

Let’s talk now about the launch of the Durban Tourism Awards. Must be exciting news for those in the industry and the city itself. To tell us more on this, we are joined on the line by…   Guest: Cllr Diana Hoorzuk - Deputy Mayor Elect, eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality

As we draw closer to the local government elections, we look at the public’s obligations in paying for services rendered by municipalities. Many would argue that the reason they are not paying for services is because there are none rendered and as a sign of protest, they will simply not pay. But then, municipalities can’t survive if people are not paying. How then do we change the mind...

Motivational speakers have very beautiful terms when talking about how one should stay calm during a chaotic situation. Some go on to say that staying calm during a storm is the best skill one should develop and live by. But, this is always easier said than done. How can we learn and practice this? Being someone who panics, is it the type of person you are or something you can learn to overcome? T...

This morning Bryan continues on the importance of drawing up a budget and how you go about it. What is the bst way to start? Guest: Bryan Hirsch, Chairperson of Bryan Hirsch, Colley & Associates (Pty) Limited