The Daily Discourse

The informal sector in South Africa is a significant source of employment. Statistics South Africa said its quarterly labour force survey that the formal sector, private households and agriculture recorded declines in employment, while the informal sector had employment gains. Should we be taking the informal sector a lot more seriously? Should it be enabled to thrive? If so, how? GUEST: Dr Thami...

Time now for our regular Tuesday feature; the African Perspective, where we profile different countries on the African continent. Today the spotlight is Tunisia, the country wedged between Algeria and Libya on the southern coast of the Mediterranean Sea and is the smallest of the North African states. In 1956 Tunisia gained its independence from France after two years of negotiations between the F...

The month of October has been declared Mental Health Awareness month with the objective of not only educating the public about mental health but also to reduce the stigma and discrimination that people with mental illness are often subjected today we put our focus on Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD, which is said to affect 1 in 20 children, and an estimated 1-million South African a...

On the last Tuesday of each month we deal with questions that have come in during the month, either by email or on my radio line that I think are of a similar and more general nature. GUEST : Bryan Hirsch, Chairperson of Bryan Hirsch, Colley & Associates (Pty) Limited

The African National Congress (ANC) says the party will solicit input from citizens on its draft manifesto, with a final document to be revealed in January during the party's birthday celebrations. Political analyst and researcher, Ongama Mtimka says the ANC is either genuinely transformed in its views about the role that the wider public should play in this regard or it is employing Machiavellian...

The South African government will this week hold a presidential summit on gender-based violence and Femicide in a bid to determine a road map to end the scourge. In his speech on the occasion of the National Women’s Day 2018, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that a National Summit on Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and Femicide would be held between government and civil society to jointly determine...

As per usual on the last Monday of the month we will answer all your property related questions. GUESTS (In studio): Dineo Molomo, from Dineo Properties

Various companies have promised 290-billion-rand in actual investment; while another 400-billion-rand in future investment has been pledged. Is this cause to celebrate? GUEST: Nedlac community convenor, Thulani Tshefuta

Hlanganisa Institute for Development in South Africa (HiDSA) in partnership with Heinrich Böll Foundation and the National Shelter Movement of South Africa cordially invites members of the media to the launch of their new research report titled: “WHAT IS RIGHTFULLY DUE? Costing the Operations of Domestic Violence Shelters”. The purpose of this report is to look at developing innovative ways for fi...

Last week we held a discussion with a panel of experts around the Investment Conference and how best to ignite economic activity, restore investor confidence and investment in the country. During the discussion Political Economist, Ms Lebohang Pheko, a senior research fellow for the Trade Collective, raised a valid point by asking why South Africa always looks abroad for Investments when the count...

Last week Tuesday we had a discussion with Prof Barney Pityana, discussing are universities in SA conducive to black intellectualism? Do we still have high calibre of black intellectuals in SA universities? Are they allowed expression? GUEST: Former Unisa vice-chancellor, Professor Barney GUEST: Dr Tiri Chinyoka – Acting Chair of the UCT Black Academic Caucus

COSATU in Gauteng has announced that it will march on Friday against Etolls. The Labour Federation insists that Etolls do not serve the people of the province. During his Medium Term Budget Policy Statement, Finance Minister Tito Mboweni said that motorists needed to pay their e-toll. GUEST: COSATU's Gauteng Secretary, Dumisani Dakile

Professor Rinie Schenck SARCHI chair Waste & Society at UWC has done research on waste pickers in SA and how we can move towards a responsible waste society. The aim of the study was to investigate the food in security, nutritional status and socio- economic status of the waste pickers on nine landfill sites in South Africa. Amongst others, the study looks at Environmental risks, dietary intake of...

With the foreword written by Albie Sachs, the heart of Mavimbela's narrative lies in his unique experience of working as a top administrator and counsellor in the offices of Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma. In the most intimate detail, he describes the emergence and escalation of the conflict between those two flawed principals. He captures the drama of their struggle and its destructive fallout for th...

The month of October has been declared Mental Health Awareness month with the objective of not only educating the public about mental health but also to reduce the stigma and discrimination that people with mental illness are often subjected to. Have we as a society woken up to the reality of how serious mental illness is? Is there still stigma, surrounded with Mental illness? Are we active in res...

Finance Minister, Tito Mboweni has identified the agricultural sector as one of the catalysts for Job creation. Speaks during his Mid Term Budget yesterday, Mboweni says Agriculture will be an important driver of our economic recovery. GUEST: Paul Makube, Senior Agricultural economist

A new innovative electronic hailing (e-hailing) application is threatening to disrupt the meter taxi industry, but this time with the traditional meter taxis as partners. Emergency Taxi is an application that was designed by a Zimbabwean-born IT entrepreneur, Prince Pirikisi, who investigated the problems plaguing the meter taxi industry, including violence and loss of life GUEST: Zitha Dube, the...

The National Assembly has formally adopted the Competition Amendment Bill. The primary objective of the Bill is to address structural challenges that are seen by government to be a constraint in the country's economy. The Bill has now been sent to the National Council of Provinces. What impact will this have on Small Businesses in SA? GUEST: Sandile Zungu – President of the Black Business Council

We continue yesterday's conversation with Western Cape MEC for Human Settlements, Bonginkosi Madikizela. Yesterday we spoke to MEC Bonginkosi Madikizela about their efforts to assist almost 1,000 homeless and destitute residents of Khayelitsha's SST Section, who were displaced following a deadly blaze this past weekend. The discussion sparked mixed views about the measures to ensure the affected f...

We are now in conversation with Fix it Forward, an initiative which connects homeowners and tradespeople. Fix Forward also works with contractors from the townships to help them grow their businesses, by offering them entrepreneurship training. They recently launched their initiative in Gauteng, with 30 local contractors who all run their own small businesses in the building trades. GUEST: Joshua...

The Association of Black Securities and Investment Professionals (ABSIP), was established in 1995 to address the apparent lack of representation of black professionals in the securities and investment industry. Recently they were part of the Young Professional formations of which included Black Management Forum, Association for the Advancement of Black Accountants of Southern Africa (ABASA) & Afri...

Ikhayalami is a Nonprofit Organisation whose primary aim is to develop and implement affordable technical solutions for Informal Settlement Upgrading. These are designed, where appropriate, to be imbedded into a community-driven process and scaled up with the support of the State. Ikhayalami was established in 2006 as a response to conventional approaches in dealing with informality, which is unsu...

Residents of the SST informal settlement in Cape Town, Khayelitsha, on the Cape Flats have started rebuilding their shacks. The fire destroyed over 300 dwellings on Saturday and left more than a thousand people displaced. For the latest developments we are now joined on the line by… GUEST: Thapelo Mohapi – Spokesperson of Abahlali Base Mjondolo

In last week’s show we looked at the state of the working class and its prospects of survival during the current period. In this week show we take a look at the state of public healthcare and how it affects working class people. For several years many of us have lamented the state of public healthcare. Millions of South Africans who rely on state healthcare facilities like clinics and hospitals of...

We continue our conversation on the anticipated Investment conference with Business Leadership South Africa, CEO, Bonang Mohale. President Cyril Ramaphosa, will be hosting the inaugural South African Investment conference in Sandton, north of Johannesburg, from Thursday. Earlier this year Ramaphosa, appointed a team of economic heavyweights to head up an investment drive to try to attract up to 1-...