The Daily Discourse

The ANC will hold a press conference at One-O'clock today to respond to attack's on Public Enterprise Minister, Pravin Gordhan, attacks on the State Capture Commission and recently the attacks leveled against the media. GUEST: Zizi Kodwa, the ANC's head of the presidency at Luthuli House

Power utility Eskom recently announced that it would be expanding its load shedding plan to eight stages, allowing for up to 8 000 MW to be shed from the national grid. It previously had four stages that allowed for up 4 000 MW to be cut. This morning we attempt to understand what alternative ways exist in the energy sector for South Africa? GUEST: Laura Caetano, Energy and Environmental Analyst a...

Every year nearly 700000 high school students write the Matric examination in South Africa. In recent years about 70% of them pass annually. Only 18% of matriculants manage to access tertiary education. That means that over 500000 matriculants become part of South Africa’s labour market annually while at the same time over 40% of the adult working population is unemployed and the economy is in rec...

The Government is scrapping experience as a requirement for entry-level jobs. The Department of Public Service and Administration is currently reviewing regulations for all entry-level posts in the public service. GUEST: ANC Youth League National Executive Committee member, Ndumiso Mokako

20 November every year is celebrated as World Children's Day. The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has urged world leaders to protect the rights and welfare of children across the world. UNICEF says children have their rights denied every day and their aim is to build a world where every child has the right to basic human needs such as freedom, food, water, shelter a...

The next six months will determine the relevance of the Democratic Alliance for the future beyond the next election. Every time the DA calls for the ANC to be brought under the 50% mark, it probably terrifies more of the party's traditional supporters than advances the party in new constituencies, according to former party leader and executive chairman of Resolve Communications, Tony Leon. GUEST:...

The Copyright Amendment Bill was introduced to Parliament in May 2017 to amend the Copyright Act of 1978 and its earlier amendments. On Friday the Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry has adopted reports on the Copyright Amendment Bill and the Performers Protection Amendment Bill which seek to establish and protect the rights of creators and copyright owner. GUEST: Dr Nicol Faase...

Former Cape Town mayor and DA member Patricia de Lille announced the launch of a new political party over the weekend. This after her resignation from the party. In the same breath, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa has also launched its own political party, the Socialist Revolutionary Workers' Party. Is it time for an electoral system that balances representivity with accountabil...

Time now for our regular Friday Music feature the Friday Music Wind Down. Today the spot light is on Moonlight, a musical project initiated by Phillip Mabote, in order to bring together diversified sounds and different artists with different musical and cultural background to entertain and bring awareness to social good and social-ills. GUEST: Phillip Mabote, who is a former stage actor and a poet...

What does your car as a man say about you? What message are you conveying by driving the car you drive? Cars from Asia, primarily Japan, are said to represent a man relationship with women that hinges on a defined role, while a man who drives truck is inherently community minded and enjoys being part of something bigger than himself. A man who drives a SUV is a take-charge man and man who drives a...

The Water Research Commission, in partnership with the Green Youth Network, hosted a Youth in Water Innovation Summit. The Summit aimed to unlock the innovation and entrepreneurial potential of South Africans in the innovation/technology space. The Water Research Commission believes the youth, and young professionals, should start paying attention to research and technology solutions based on curr...

Minister of Small Business Development Ms Lindiwe Zulu in partnership with the Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN) Africa will, on Monday, 12 November 2018, launch the Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) at Africa’s first Start-Up Campus 22 on Sloane, in Bryanston, Gauteng. Speaking of Global Entrepreneurship week, Minister Zulu said, “Global Entrepreneurship Week is a great platform for entrepre...

Parliament's joint constitutional review committee yesterday adopted a report which recommends that section 25 of the Constitution be amended to explicitly allow for land to be expropriated without compensation. Meanwhile, Black First Land First (BLF) leader, Andile Mngxitama, says there will be no amendment of the constitution. He says President Cyril Ramaphosa and EFF Leader Julius Malema "lied...

In an article where he reflects on what has gone wrong with the ANC, Ben Turok - Former African National Congress (ANC) Member of Parliament says ”We face two major crises: the crisis in the economy and the moral crisis in public life” He continues on to day “we have created a black bourgeoisie on a scale that means inequality between black people is now greater than inequality overall. At the sam...

There is an on-going debate over the role of online activities in the radicalisation process. However, much of this debate has focused on Western countries; less is known about patterns of online radicalisation in Africa and about the extent to which African national governmental strategies focus on addressing this issue. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) commissioned RAND Europe to...

On Friday the Right2Know Gauteng will march to the Joburg Mayor’s office and the Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department (JMPD) offices to call for a scrapping of the Joburg Protest Fees, and an end to the City’s unlawful protest practices. GUEST: Murray Hunter, Right2Know’s spokesperson

The ANC has expressed its disappointment at the criticism that former Public Enterprises minister Barbara Hogan has levelled against its deployment policy. In her submission to the Zondo Commission on State Capture, Hogan accused the ANC of interfering in the appointment of board members of state-owned enterprises and questioned the relevance of the governing party's deployment committee. Speaking...

The interviews for a new National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP) are underway at the Union Buildings in Pretoria. President Cyril Ramaphosa appointed a panel, led by Minister Jeff Radebe, to shortlist and interview candidates and makes three recommendations to him. The process to interview candidates for the position has been set down for three days and will conclude this Friday. For more...

This week Mfanozelwe Shozi joined Stephen Grootes on Sunrise to discuss issues around Sexual harassment in the workplace. During the interview, he mentioned “"people should remove their traditional caps in a workplace and behave according to policy demands and stop using their culture as an excuse because different rules apply in a work environment" So he is back, on the Talking Point now to discu...

Rosie Thomas, one of few females in this very distinct field, she's worked on multi-award winning series', bringing a female flair to a much dominated male career. Rosie has over 13 years of experience and some of her best work can be seen on the new series of BBC Earth's Dynasties. She has spent the last 4 years on location in east Senegal, filming a single group of chimpanzees in a remote part o...

Since the huge voter turnout in the 1994 national elections we’ve seen a steady decline, with millions of South Africans becoming disillusioned and not participating in elections every five years. However, a new far-left party has successfully registered recently and will participate in the 2019 elections. It is the NUMSA initiated Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party (SRWP) that came about when...

The Institute for Dispute Resolution in Africa (IDRA) in the College of Law at the University of South Africa (UNISA) hosted a Community Indaba/Conference yesterday under the theme: Dagga, Culture, Spirituality and the Colonial Law in Africa” The purpose of this Community Indaba on Dagga was to unearth the wealth of community knowledge, formal knowledge and to discover a holistic view based on the...

Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba has resigned from his post. Opposition parties say his resignation as minister was long overdue. Meanwhile the ANC has praised Gigaba for putting the country and the party above his own personal interests. For more on this we are now joined on the line by political analyst, Mpumelelo Mkhabela, who saw this coming… GUEST: Mpumelelo Mkhabela, political analyst wit...

Guest: Victor Manavhela acting director at NCPC (National Cleaner Production Centre)

Time now for our regular Tuesday feature; the African Perspective, where we profile different countries on the African continent. Today the spotlight is on Burundi, one of the world's poorest nations, which is still struggling to emerge from a 12-year, ethnic-based civil war. Since gain independence in 1962 the country has been plagued by tension between the usually-dominant Tutsi minority and the...