The Daily Discourse

The ‘Talking Book’ is a solar powered book, that is said to literally speak to uneducated parents, and guide them through their rights and those of their disabled children concerning access to education. Section 27 has championed the book, who believe that the book can be used a as tool to empower communities across the country to advocate for the rights of their children. GUEST: Nontsikelelo Mpul...

The Blackhouse Kollective is hosting a Summer School Camp aimed at introducing young people to a conversation on decolonialty by distilling Decolonial Thought from Black Consciousness and Pan Africanists thoughts. The Blackhouse Kollective is a youth-founded Soweto based Black Consciousness Pan Africanist organization. The purpose of the camp is to help learners and educators make sense of educati...

Yesterday the SABC's Special Assignment programme aired an episode looking into issues of whether or not banks discriminating against black people. Frans Mokomane one of the prejudice clients interviewed by Special Assignment said he was ripped off with R 150 000 due to unfair discrimination with interest rates on mortgages by FNB. For more we are now joined by financial investigating consultant,...

A high court in the Eastern Cape has found that the government officials were involved in the misappropriation of public funds during the burial of former president Nelson Mandela. Last week the court dismissed an application by provincial government director-general, Marion Mbina-Mthembu to set aside Mkhwebane's findings concerning the funeral of Mandela in 2013. Public Protector Advocate Busisiw...

Time now for our regular Friday Music Wind Down feature. Today we profile Johannesburg-based Jazz artist and pianist, Keenan Meyer. Meyer is a Mandela Rhodes Scholar and has received numerous accolades for his work in the academic and music space. Keenan will be performing at the Youngblood Gallery, on 20th of March. Youngblood's main focus is to provide a platform for up and coming artists. GUEST...

The term ‘Friend-Zoned’ is a popular culture term, the friend zone is a situation in which one member of a friendship wishes to enter into a romantic or sexual relationship, while the other does not. Many men will admit that they try by all means to avoid the ‘friend-zoned’. As it is generally considered to be an undesirable situation for the rejected person. None the less, many friendships betwee...

Yesterday 2 Boksburg schoolboys were arrested for the rape of a 13-year-old pupil. In other shocking stories, four primary school boys are being investigated for allegedly raping four younger boys at school and in another separate case three Grade 8 pupils have been suspended from School in Diepkloof, Soweto, for allegedly raping a fellow pupil. So how does the judicial system deal with such young...

Today Marks International Women’s Day (IWD). This is a day celebrated globally on March 8 and has become a day to celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women the world over. This year’s theme, #BalanceforBetter & as we celebrate this Day, we look at occupying influential government positions in the SADC region, but also, get to understand the work of the SADC Parli...

Dr Ismail Lagardien is a writer, columnist and political economist debates in his recent article whether they are economic boosters or recolonisation? This morning, apart from understanding what the value for Charter cities are, if at all for Africa, we get a deeper understand of what exactly are they? GUEST: Dr Ismail Lagardien is a writer, columnist and political economist with extensive exposur...

We now look at Eureka, another whites-only community such as Orania and Eden. The new whites-only town in the Northern Cape is situated outside Garies and was created as a settlement to preserve white culture and as a place for white people to live "safely and independently". Meanwhile the leader of the Freedom Front Plus in the Northern Cape, Dr Wynand Boshoff has cautioned the founder of Eureka,...

Students are currently protesting at the Nelson Mandela University at the campus in Port Elizabeth. Classes for the day have been postponed until further notice. Evening classes were also suspended yesterday due to the protest action. The protest is about a number of students that were unable to register. Sasco says many students have been excluded from registration as they do no have registration...

Yesterday our conversation on South Africa's prison system and how such institutions punish and rehabilitate Inmates sparked conversations around life after prison. Many of you called in with mixed opinions on whether or not to give ex-offenders a second chance. Others, who were ex-convicts, expressed frustration about how people with criminal records find it hard to find work. People with a crimi...

Advtech, Curro and Pembury are small-cap companies listed on the JSE, and have a focus on private education in South Africa – a growing market sector. There is increasing demand for an alternative to public education in the country, which is seen as offering poor levels of teaching in the country. Education franchises continue to grow and spread across South Africa, fulfilling parent’s needs to in...

South Africa Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies on Tuesday announced the newly appointed South African BRICS Business Council which is set to promote and strengthen trade and investment ties among the BRICS countries. The council, established in 2012, aims to promote and strengthen business, trade and investment ties between the five Brics countries. This morning we understand the work the cou...

Gauteng Premier, David Makhura, has blamed some foreign nationals for contributing to the crime rate in South Africa - saying specific nationalities are involved in drugs, cash in transit heists, violence and even murders. Makhura, who was speaking at post-budget discussions yesterday, emphasized that he was not being xenophobic. Meanwhile, Home Affairs minister, Siyabonga Cwele says he has given...

Many people have criticized the prison system for being a walk in the park for inmates‚ who receive free meals‚ medical care, no rent and a free education. Others believe the country's prisons are a breeding ground for criminals‚ where drugs and gangs are common. This morning we aim to understand what is the aim on our Prison System as a country? Is it rehabilitation? Punishment? Alienation from s...

South Africa ranks sixth globally as a nation of drinkers; this ranking is according to the 2018 global status report on alcohol and health published by the World Health Organisation (WHO). Meanwhile, Dr Grieve Chelwa, a Senior Lecturer in economics at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Cape Town says given its societal harm, taxation of alcohol products must be urgently revisite...

In her recent Memoir titled ‘My Blood Divides and Unites’ my next guest Jesmane Boggenpoel writes affectingly about the pain and difficulty of growing up in South Africa during the apartheid era as a mixed-race person. She speaks of overcoming Apartheid and also, how according to her, reconciliation can transform pain into hope and change the world. GUEST: Author Jesmane Boggenpoel, who is an expe...

We start off the show by looking at the growing unrest at Sibanye-Stillwater's gold operations, in the Westrand, which has seen nine people dead since workers downed tools in November last year. The crisis has prompted Mineral Resources Minister, Gwede Mantashe to call for the assistance of the Police Minister, Bheki Cele to "restore and safeguard the safety and security of the community" in Carle...

We continue our focus on the worrying tensions between India and Pakistan following the atrocious attacks and escalating tit-for-tat aggression in Kashmir. Several organizations have tweeted us asking for a platform to share their respective views on this dispute, which escalated following a suicide bombing killed 41 Indian soldiers in Indian-administered Kashmir, last month. The conflict over the...

Zambia, landlocked country in Africa. It is situated on a high plateau in south-central Africa and takes its name from the Zambezi River, which drains all but a small northern part of the country. The total number of languages spoken in Zambia is 73, with the most popular being Nyanja, Bemba, Lozi, Tonga, Luvale, Lunda, and Kaonde. Like any country, there are a lot of customs, such as food customs...

Jamil Khan believes that a failed rainbow nation and a race card is all we have to show for South African race relations 25 years on. Conversations about race, in a country plagued by a brutal history of race discrimination and inhumanity, still range from doubtful contemplation to fervent denialism. Therefore the rainbow is dead, and white is not a colour. GUEST: Jamil F. Khan, who is a Writer, R...

Many of you have expressed anger and frustration over a viral video of Gqom musician Babes Wodumo, who is seen in the video footage being physically abused by a man believed to be her long-term boyfriend, musician Mampintsha. Others have taken to social media to express their dismay as to why Babes Wodumo has stayed in such an abusive relationship, especially when this incident was not the first c...

We are now in conversation with former acting national police commissioner, Lieutenant general Khomotso Phahlane, who remains adamant that he is innocent of the fraud and corruption charges leveled against him. Phahlane who is facing the charges as accounting officer for the police, insists that former Independent Police Investigative Directorate head Robert McBride is pursuing a personal vendetta...

The SABC will today launch a multi-platform production called Democracy Gauge to mark 25 years of South Africa's democracy. South Africans go to the polls in crunch general elections on May the eighth. The public broadcaster's Democracy Gauge will profile the experiences of ordinary South Africans. It will include their views on the country's successes and failures. Over 200 South Africans will be...