The Daily Discourse

Let’s tell you now about the Aids Healthcare Foundation’s Vaccinate Our World Campaign. Why have they decided to preach the message of vaccinations? To tell us more, we are joined on the line by.. Guest: Dr Nduduzo Dube - Associate Director Quality Management AIDS Healthcare Foundation- Africa Bureau

On our Health Talk this morning we feature Dr Winile Makhaye who is an Ear Nose and Throat surgeon in private practice in Cape Town. This being this being breast cancer awareness month, she will also raise awareness about Human Papilloma virus associated throat cancer. When it comes to ear, nose and throat, what is it we need to watch out for and is it something we pay attention to as human beings...

    Focus: Calls are mounting for South Africa to intervene in the unrest currently taking place in eSwatini. Earlier in the week, King Mswati III ordered the indefinite closure of schools in the in that country as pro-democracy protests flared up in the country. To look at what role South Africa can play in this and whether it’s fair for Pretoria to be expected to intervene, we ar...

  Focus: With less than two weeks to go before the local government elections, all parties are promising a better life to their voters. Things like building houses in affluent areas for the poor, doing away with land expropriation, running taps, jobs for young people and the list goes on. But then, what are the key competencies of municipalities when some of the promises sound like things tha...

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