The Daily Discourse

This morning the Talking Point is coming to you live from the Mother City, Cape Town. We are here for the 25th Annual Investing in African Mining Indaba, which will take place from today until - Thursday, at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, under the theme Invest in SA Mining. Mineral Resources Minister, Gwede Mantashe is expected to officially open the annual Investing Mining Indaba...

This morning the Talking Point is coming to you live from the Mother City, Cape Town. We are here for the 25th Annual Investing in African Mining Indaba, which will take place from today until - Thursday, at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, under the theme Invest in SA Mining. Mineral Resources Minister, Gwede Mantashe is expected to officially open the annual Investing Mining Indaba...

This morning the Talking Point is coming to you live from the Mother City, Cape Town. We are here for the 25th Annual Investing in African Mining Indaba, which will take place from today until - Thursday, at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, under the theme Invest in SA Mining. Mineral Resources Minister, Gwede Mantashe is expected to officially open the annual Investing Mining Indaba...

In 2018, different presidential elections took place around Africa, and for many, it was the continuation of the status quo. Elections in Cameroon and Egypt resulted in re-elections. As 2019 kicks off, many consequential and important elections are set to hold on the African continent. There will be more than 10 general elections around the continent in 2019, Senegal will be holding its 11th presi...

This morning the Talking Point is coming to you live from the Mother City, Cape Town. We are here for the 25th Annual Investing in African Mining Indaba, which will take place from today until - Thursday, at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, under the theme Invest in SA Mining. Mineral Resources Minister, Gwede Mantashe is expected to officially open the annual Investing Mining Indaba...

This morning the Talking Point is coming to you live from the Mother City, Cape Town. We are here for the 25th Annual Investing in African Mining Indaba, which will take place from today until - Thursday, at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, under the theme Invest in SA Mining. Mineral Resources Minister, Gwede Mantashe is expected to officially open the annual Investing Mining Indaba...

This morning the Talking Point is coming to you live from the Mother City, Cape Town. We are here for the 25th Annual Investing in African Mining Indaba, which will take place from today until - Thursday, at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, under the theme Invest in SA Mining. Mineral Resources Minister, Gwede Mantashe is expected to officially open the annual Investing Mining Indaba...

This morning the Talking Point is coming to you live from the Mother City, Cape Town. We are here for the 25th Annual Investing in African Mining Indaba, which will take place from today until - Thursday, at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, under the theme Invest in SA Mining. Mineral Resources Minister, Gwede Mantashe is expected to officially open the annual Investing Mining Indaba...

Are "Workplace foods a source of unhealthy calories?" Foods eaten in workplaces - whether purchased in cafeterias, or available to employees for free - are usually unhealthy, this according to a recent study in the United States. A survey of what working adults ate over the course of a week found that one in four people got food at work one or more times, and that it was generally high in empty ca...

Who owns the patent of the Please Call Me idea? Vodacom has admitted that MTN invented the Please Call Me. Nkosana Makate, the Please Call Me inventor, says he invented the concept when he worked for Vodacom 18 years ago. However, Ari Kahn, a former MTN consultant, came out publicly in 2013 claiming he is the actual patent owner of Please Call Me. On the Talking Point this morning we will On the T...

The South African Broadcasting Corporation, SABC will conduct a skills audit process into the competency of its employees, to ensure the sustainability of the public broadcaster. This after the SABC scrapped its plans to retrench over two-thousand permanent staff and freelance workers by invoking Section 189 of the Labour Relations Act. For more on this we are now joined on the line by SABC spokes...

Vodacom has shut down its headquarters and Vodacom World mall ahead of protest action by the Please Call Me movement and other Lobby Groups. The Movement is demanding for Vodacom to compensate Please Call Me inventor, Nkosana Makate by 10am today. GUEST: Vodacom's head of Legal and Regulatory Affairs, Nkateko Nyoka

The Please Call Me Movement and political parties have given Vodacom until 10AM this morning to compensate the inventor, Nkosana Makate. The movement says it will continue with its plan to shut down Vodaworld in Midrand, Johannesburg, this morning. Protestors are demanding Vodacom to pay Makate R70 billion for his Please Call Me concept. For more on this we are now joined by Gauteng education MEC,...

The ANC has recently released a campaign video featuring a model, in the lead up to the 2019 elections in May. The video, described as “sultry”, features shots of the model winking to camera and giving looks over her shoulder. It got mixed reaction on social media, with the party being accused of exploiting female sexuality in a bid to convince the electorate to vote for them in May, while others...

The Trump administration recently imposed sanctions against Venezuela’s state-owned oil company on Monday, seeking to cripple the government of embattled President Nicolás Maduro by cutting off its main source of cash. Yesterday, a day after the Trump administration’s imposition of sanctions on the state-owned oil firm PDVSA, senior U.S. and Venezuelan diplomats traded jibes at a U.N.-sponsored Co...

This morning we are in conversation with "Please Call Me" inventor Nkosana Makate, who has been negotiating with Vodacom for several years in an attempt to get "reasonable compensation" his role in the launch of the Please Call Me concept. Currently there are threats by the Please Call Me Movement and politicians to shut down Vodacom on the thirty-first of January if the company does not pay Nkosa...

The 2017 Democracy Index ranked Mauritius as the only country with a full democracy in Africa, with South Africa ranking at number four. In 2018, it placed three African countries, Chad, Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo in the bottom 5 of its least democratic countries. Yesterday I spoke to Professor Steven Friedman, a political analyst and research professor at the Un...

There continues to be widespread reaction and debate over Helen Zille's proposed tax revolt. The Western Cape premier tweeted over the weekend that she would advocate that people withhold paying their taxes if corrupt individuals are voted into power in the upcoming elections. The DA has however distanced itself from Zille's views and says her tweets are not party policy but merely an expression o...

Sudan protests against President Omar al-Bashir have intensified with calls for him to resign. Omar al-Bashir, who has ruled for 30 years, has presided over alleged crimes against humanity in Darfur, for which he is wanted by the International Criminal Court, as well as massive graft and mismanagement. Since the protests began, officials say that over 26 people have died so far, but rights groups...

Western Cape Premier Helen Zille has threatened a tax revolt should those implicated in the Zondo commission of inquiry are not jailed for corruption. The DA has however distanced itself from Zille's views, saying her tweets are not party policy but merely an expression of her opinion. Meanwhile Political analyst, Somadoda Fikeni, says Zille's threats to organise a tax revolt - is a sign of desper...

The University of Pretoria is doing away with Afrikaans as its Medium of Instruction. The Institution says a 50% drop in the students whose mother tongue is Afrikaans prompted the change. Meanwhile, Finance Minister Tito Mboweni, in his personal capacity, came out against the decision. Mboweni says the country will be shooting itself in the foot by phasing out of Afrikaans as one of the mediums of...

Time now for our regular Friday feature the Friday Music Wind Down, this morning we profile Berita, a multi-award winning, gold selling Afro Soul sensation. Born Gugulethu Khumalo in Bulawayo Zimbabwe, Berita has worked with music with both music legends Oliver Mtukudzi and Hugh Masekela, who we paid tribute to earlier on. She now joins us in studio to speak about her new single "Ndicel' ikiss", w...

The Moral Regeneration Movement (MRM) recently launched the Charter of Election Ethics, which is aimed at encouraging ethical conduct during the campaigning for the 2019 general election. The Moral Regeneration Movement says politics is a form of warfare without a bloody conflict, the use of dirty tricks to win an election is morally reprehensible. MRM chairperson, Father Smangaliso Mkhatshwa, sai...

In the lead up to the final voter registration weekend this weekend, Citizen Surveys have released their latest SACS data which shows that 4.5-million of the 37-million eligible voters don’t intend to even register. According to the South African Citizens Survey (SACS) by Citizen Surveys, there are 37-million South Africans aged 18 years and older who were eligible to vote in the fourth quarter of...

The DA's head of policy Gwen Ngwenya has resigned from the post a month ahead of the party's manifesto launch. In her resignation letter Gwen Ngwenya says the party spends more money on billboards and marketing than on policy development. GUEST: DA spokesperson, Solly Malatsi