The Daily Discourse

The Department of Basic Education will be visiting some schools in provinces that produced poor matric results in 2018. Last week, it listed 13 schools that had the worst track-record - which are from KwaZulu Natal and Limpopo. Guest: Department of Basic Education Spokesperson, Elijah Mhlanga

Unisa's College of Human Sciences will be hosting its 6th annual Decoloniality Summer School, which seeks to interrogate power, knowledge and being and to find answers on what de-colonization truly means for South Africa and Africa. Conversations on Decoloniality officially started in 2011 under the umbrella of the Africa Decolonial Research Network (ADERN) which consisted of scholars who were tir...

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.

In a recent column, Author Letepe Maisela reflects on his attendance of the first Black Consciousness Movement Reunion, which was organised by the Steve Biko Foundation, under the stewardship of his first-born son, Nkosinathi Biko. In reflection, he says “With recent talk by our Department of Education to rewrite South African history and make it a compulsory subject in our schools, it is also not...

Time now for our regular Tuesday feature “Talking Finance with Bryan Hirsch”. This morning we are in conversation with Brendan Gace, who is in for Bryan, who is away on holiday. Today we will look at Market Performances for 2018 (which have generally been poor) and also give some tips for investors on coping with this bad performance. GUEST: The Head of Anchor Private Clients, Brendan Gace

The Black Management Forum (BMF) says it has written a letter to Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan to establish whether there was no black person who could have filled the position of group chief executive of arms manufacturer DENEL. This after cabinet approved the appointment of Daniel du Toit to the position with effect from January the 14th, 2019. Du Toit recently vacated a position as...

We are now in conversation with Mpumalanga MEC for Education, Sbusiso Malaza, about the state of education in the province. The class of 2018 for Mpumalanga Province obtained an overall pass rate of 79% compared to the 74.8% pass rate obtained in 2017. The statistics depict a 4.2% improvement. MEC Sbusiso Malaza has attributed the improvement to support displayed by education stakeholders. Malaza...

A video is circulating on social media of a rat eating food on display in the Food Lovers Market Diepkloof branch. This incident follows a Facebook post in December showing food at the branch being exposed to flies. We contacted Food Lovers Market legal and compliance director Nigel Meintjies who said they will not be doing anymore interviews, but that they will be issuing an interview later today...

A week after crucial elections to replace long-term president Joseph Kabila, the DR Congo was on tenterhooks Sunday with no date for the announcement of delayed results and just over half of ballots counted. Opposition parties in the Democratic Republic of Congo have called the postponement in the announcement of provisional election results in the presidential election, a ploy by the government t...

This morning we will pay tribute to a man who played a major part in South Africa's Freedom and Democracy. A man known as the ‘Lion of the North'. A man who would have been turning 60 years old today. Who is this man? Here are more clues; he was expelled from school after becoming a leader of school boycotts during the 1976 uprisings. He was a founding member of the South African Youth Congress (S...

The ANC's national leadership says it is confident that its upcoming national events in KwaZulu-Natal will be successful, despite organisational problems in some regions. Both the January 8th statement and the Election Manifesto launch will be held in the embattled KwaZulu-Natal province. The party believes it still enjoys significant support in the province despite pockets of infighting in some r...

How much is too much when it comes to cologne? I've heard many women say that the best thing about men is the way they smell. There is even scientific research that suggests that a good smelling man automatically earns bonus points on the attractiveness scale. Why do some men wear so much cologne that it can smelled from across a room? Although are focus is on men, I suppose this applies to women...

The National Lotteries Commission is warning the public about illegal lotteries operating in South Africa. The Commission says there are opportunistic operators offering bets on results of the National Lottery and lotteries from other countries with the intention to target unsuspecting players, by acting as agents to place bets on behalf of South Africans in the UK and USA lotteries. GUEST: Philem...

Recently ANC branches nominated former president Jacob Zuma to the party list is a strong statement regarding the state of the party, while he is still ANC NEC Member. Recently President Jacob Zuma posted videos on his social media, saying he supports nationalizing land. This as the country's ruling party takes steps to change the country's constitution to make it easier to take it without compens...

The ANC says the Methodist Church of South Africa has implored it to allow the Presiding Bishop, Ziphozihle Siwa, to internally deal with the allegations against one of its reverends. The governing party has announced that the Reverend Vukile Mehana who is also the Chaplain-General of the ANC will no longer officiate at the ANC's January 8th Statement in Durban next week. This comes after the dero...

Police Minister Bheki Cele visited Monwabisi beach as part of his New Year’s Day safety program. Following the incident that took place at Clifton Beach, Police Minister promised to deal with the saga. Yesterday however he briefed the media at the South African Police Service (SAPS) central liquor storage facility in Belhar where 10,000 litres of alcohol was destroyed. He stated that alcohol is on...

The South African Communist Party (SACP) will commemorate the death of its former general secretary and anti-Apartheid activist Joe Slovo, this weekend. The Communist Party will address the 24th annual commemoration ceremony of the death of Joe Slovo at the Avalon Cemetery in Soweto, this Sunday. Slovo died of cancer on the sixth of January 1995, after years of service to both the SACP and ANC. GU...

Understanding the difference between Independent Examination Board (IEB) and the National Senior Certificate (NSC) examinations FOCUS: Gauteng Education MEC, Panyaza Lesufi has expressed dissatisfaction with Umalusi for adjusting upwards Maths marks for the Independent Examination Board (IEB) / Private Schools, while taking raw marks for public schools. Panyaza has asked if this is an admission th...

Being an addict is not a difficult. It take one try and, depending on the type of person you are, one try is all it take to be hooked. We’ve in conversation with Nani Matsosi – a recovering addict who has founded a movement called #DrugsMustFall. After seeing the turmoil that was caused by his addiction and how the neighbors had turned against his mother, he decided to go clean and recruit others...

Umalusi has approved the release of the 2018 national examinations results after successfully conducting the quality assurance of the management and administration of exit point examinations GUEST: Department spokesperson, Elijah Mahlangu

In an opinion piece, Francois Baird - Founder of FairPlay gives reasons why ethanol should be a priority in SA. He says the country produces abundant amounts of sugar, from which more than 60% of the world’s fuel ethanol is made. However, much of this sugar is exported at a loss, because production exceeds local demand. Together with rising imports, the result is that the South African sugar indus...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Unsaid yesterday that he is ready to meet U.S. President Donald Trump anytime to achieve their common goal of denuclearising the Korean Peninsula, but warned he may have to take an alternative path if U.S. sanctions and pressure against the country continued. In his New Year address, Kim said denuclearisation is his "firm will" and suggested for the first time that Nor...

Guest: Patrick Bond is a professor of political economy at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. His most recent book, coedited with Ana Garcia, is BRICS: An Anti-Capitalist Critique (Haymarket Books, 2015).

guest: Thembinkosi Ngcobo - Head of Parks at the recreation and Ethekwini municipality an agreement between Ethekwini municipality and Former President Jacob Zuma to record struggle songs

Political analyst Protas Madlala says the ANC has itself to blame for the killing of its members. During the Moerane Commission, looking into political killings in KwaZulu Natal, almost all political parties had testified that the killings in the province were due to internal party conflicts. Protas Madlala says the question we should be asking is why such killings are not happening in other polit...