The Daily Discourse

The City of Cape Town has welcomed the Cape High Court ruling that will allow it to enforce its by-laws outside the Central Methodist Church where hundreds of foreign nationals are sheltered. The court yesterday granted the City an interim order to remove the group of foreign nationals living on the pavement outside the church. The City applied for an interdict last year after members of the group...

SABC Education has launched a campaign against Femicide and rape. The year-long campaign aims to raise awareness against the abuse and killing of women. SABC Education says “we need to teach our sons to respect ALL women”. Guest : Neo Nthite, SABC Education marketing manager

The different investments one can make before the end of February which have tax savings benefits. GUEST : Bryan Hirsch, Chairperson of Bryan Hirsch, Colley & Associates (Pty) Limited

Since the controversy around former president FW De Klerk’s comments on apartheid, different views have been coming through mostly in an angry tone. Interestingly, people are starting to link the TRC to this matter and questioning what all of that evidence means and also why the ANC has not acted on the information that came out during the hearings. How does all of this put the spotlight on the TR...

Time now for our regular Monday feature Legally Speaking. This morning we will look at the right to basic education for undocumented children. This after the department of basic education published a national circular notice to all schools to allow undocumented pupils access to education following a landmark judgment by the Eastern Cape High Court in Makhanda in December, which ruled it was uncons...

Eskom announced yesterday that it will stop rotational loadshedding but the probability of loadshedding during the week remains. Over the weekend the embattled power utility implemented Stage-3 power outages, due to low emergency reserves. Meanwhile Eskom's new CEO, Andre de Ruyter, says he will extend lifestyle audits to lower level staff, in renewed efforts to curb wastage and cleanup the power...

78% of Grade four learners can't read for meaning in South Africa. Nic Spaull, a Senior Researcher at Research on Socio-Economic Policy at Stellenbosch University's Department of Economics says instead of addressing that issue with books and meaningful teacher training, we're instead going to invest in coding and robotics for young children. Nic Spaull was responding to President Cyril Ramaphosa's...

Meanwhile, the Nelson Mandela Foundation says it's time Parliament looked at ways to enact what it calls a 'Hate Law'. The Foundation's CEO, Sello Hatang was reacting to utterances by De Klerk on the SABC last week marking 30 years after Mandela's release and the unbanning of political parties, De Klerk said that he did not "fully" agree with the UN's ruling that apartheid was a crime against huma...

Last week, the ANC came under widespread criticism following the party's defence of the last apartheid president FW De Klerk's presence at the State of the Nation address. In turn, the FW De Klerk foundation then released a statement in which it further reiterated that the former president's statement that he does not agree that apartheid was a crime against humanity. Guest: Mac Maharaj

The EFF has threatened to heighten what it calls "militant protests" against former president F.W De Klerk, if the ANC and government continue to include him in public events. In a statement the De Klerk Foundation claims that the UN's classification of apartheid as a crime against humanity formed part of an agenda by the Soviet Union and the ANC along with its allies to stigmatize white South Afr...

The Federal Legal Commission of the DA has written to George Mayor, Melvin Naik, informing him that his membership with the party has ceased. The DA's constituency head for George, Geordin Hill-Lewis says Naik is no longer a member of the party. He was given 48 hours to resign as Mayor, which he refused to do. The action taken by the party comes after the DA caucus in George passed a motion of no...

Food security researchers are calling for change in regard to government’s policy on food security. They go on to say that the child support grant of R430 a month is insufficient to significantly impact malnutrition rates among South Africa’s children. This they said ahead of President Cyril Ramaphosa State of the Nation Address calling on him to do something. Now that the president is done with h...

SABC is hosting the #CXOseries a quarterly event with the goal of establishing an exclusive network.

SABC is hosting the #CXOseries a quarterly event with the goal of establishing an exclusive network.

guest: Professor Natalie Shellack speaking about the paedriatic drug access

SABC is hosting the #CXOseries a quarterly event with the goal of establishing an exclusive network.

SABC is hosting the #CXOseries a quarterly event with the goal of establishing an exclusive network.

The City of Johannesburg has been in the news lately for all sorts of reasons. The highlight was when the ANC took over after Herman Mashaba. The DA has been making all sorts of accusations against them. Well this morning we host the Speaker, Nonceba Molwele about her role in restoring order and making sure that things run smoothly as politics seem to overshadow service delivery… GUEST: Nonceba Mo...

The Public Servants Association says it is concerned about the safety of Field Social Workers employed by the Department of Social Development in KwaZulu-Natal. This follows reports of 14 workers being hijacked while on duty over the past six months. Just how bad is the situation and what sort of engagements have they had with government so far? Guest: Mlungisi Ndlovu – PSA Provincial Manager at t...

We have seen and heard calls by some African countries for all African states who are signatories to the Rome Statute to withdraw from the International Criminal Court, ICC. Over the years the ICC, which is tasked with bringing to justice perpetrators of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, has been accused of political and regional bias, and of failing to achieve convictions in some...

Newsmakers and Guest Experts offer their insights and perspectives into the national and global discourse on politics, economics, education, social matters and comprehensive dialogues on cultural diversity and other essential issues of public interest like, poverty alleviation, unemployment rate and health related issues.

Newsmakers and Guest Experts offer their insights and perspectives into the national and global discourse on politics, economics, education, social matters and comprehensive dialogues on cultural diversity and other essential issues of public interest like, poverty alleviation, unemployment rate and health related issues.

Newsmakers and Guest Experts offer their insights and perspectives into the national and global discourse on politics, economics, education, social matters and comprehensive dialogues on cultural diversity and other essential issues of public interest like, poverty alleviation, unemployment rate and health related issues.

South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa took over the chairmanship of the African Union yesterday, where he committed to ensuring peace and security on the continent. Speaking during his inaugural speech, Ramaphosa said that that in May this year South Africa will convene an extraordinary summit on silencing the Guns and to assess the progress made to end conflicts. For a perspective on this, we...

Some residents of South Africa's mega township of Soweto are re-connecting themselves to the grid. This is after power utility Eskom cut them off in an effort to recoup the R18 billion electricity bill owed by the township. It has emerged some residents have formed vigilante groups to guard illegal electricity connections as Eskom faces a serious backlash from communities for the electricity cuts....