The Daily Discourse

As South Africans commemorated Youth Day yesterday that issue of unemployment amongst the country's youth dominated addresses by various party leaders. In his address at the official commemorations in Soweto, President Cyril Ramaphosa heeded the call for job creation and urged the private sector and big companies to employ graduates as part of efforts to bring down the high unemployment rate. For...

Time for our regular Friday feature 'men Talk'. Divorce is hard for both men and women. The more stressful the divorce, the more likely it is that illness will follow. Strong emotions such as sadness, anger, and confusion are quite common following the end of a marriage, especially if you're grappling with financial strains or additional responsibilities. Today on Men Talk, we will discuss "How Me...

Described as the world’s largest international choir competition, the World Choir Games comes at a time when South Africa is commemorating the centenary of former President Nelson Mandela's birth. Madiba, who passed away on 5 December 2013, would have turned 100 on 18 July 2018. The World Choir Games invites all non-professional choirs globally to participate. The competition offers a platform for...

Last year, The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Competitiveness Report ranked South Africa’s primary education system as 126th out of 138 countries. This year, IMD Business School’s World Competitiveness Report positioned SA as number 62 out of 63 countries for youth unemployment. Guest: Dr Alistair Witten from LeadershipLabSA

Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) have ordered the release of former Democratic Republic of Congo rebel leader and Vice-President Jean-Pierre Bemba. Last week, appeal judges overturned his 2016 conviction on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Bemba is yet to be sentenced for the separate charge of bribing witnesses. On the twenty-first of March 2016, the Trial Chambe...

RAIL AFRICA CONFERENCE TO CREATE 50 000 JOBS IN THE RAIL SECTOR Focus: Africa Rail together with The Jobs Summit initiative will be signing an agreement to provide at least 50,000 jobs in the rail sector for the next three years. The Africa Rail has grown to become the continent's largest and most established rail event in Africa, will host its 21st railways conference and exhibition, at the Sandt...

Khumbula Ngcobo, a young black industrialist, who will be talking to us about their oil business Nfuzed Energy, which is based in Centurion, Pretoria. For more he now joins us in studio... Guests: Khumbula Ngcobo - Founder of Nfuzed Energy

The Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in South Africa: A Brief Review released by Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation(CSVR) GBV cannot be attributed to a single factor, but an interplay of individual, community, economic, cultural and religious factors interacting at different levels of society. All these factors ranging from gender inequalities between men and women, social construction...

The biggest threat the ANC faces going into the 2019 elections is the state of leadership in the provinces, according to political analyst, Ralph Mathekga. In one of his recent columns, Mathekga says that If provincial leadership squabbles continue to intensify in the ANC, it will undermine the talk of a "new dawn" pushed by President, Cyril Ramaphosa. For more on this we are now joined on the lin...

The South African Youth Chamber of Commerce (SAYCC) is calling upon all the municipalities to employ qualified Young professionals in the accounting field to manage their finances and get rid of illiterates who are deployed to collapse the municipalities by the political parties. According to the SAYCC South Africa is faced with a mounting crisis of unemployed graduates, and these unemployed, yet...

With threats of "fire and fury" and "an enveloping fire", bringing the horror of nuclear war closer to reality again, the World Council of Churches (WCC) commission of the churches on international affairs decided to hold its meeting in South Korea so it could interact with church leadership and concerned organisations about the crisis in the Korean Peninsula. Frank Chikane, the moderator of the c...

In September last year we looked at the situation of waste-pickers and how their survivalist situation could be improved. We learnt about a project led by Gauteng MEC for Economic Development, Mr Lebogang Maile, and the Waste Recyclers Project for which a pilot was launched in Tembisa then. The project promised thousands of sustainable jobs that would not only provide stable income for waste-picke...

In honour of the memory of the Gabisile Shabane, Channel Africa hosted a dialogue in Nelspruit, Mpumalanga, ahead of International Albinism Awareness Day, which is commemorated annually on the 13th of June, which is today, to raise awareness on the plight of people with albinism. Gabisile Shabane, 13 year old girl, with albinism, from Witbank was murdered in February 2018 by witch doctors that cut...

In his 2018/19 budget speech delivered this week, Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba reinforced the country’s commitment to the implementations of the NHI with the following budget allocations: -The NHI is allocated an additional R4.2 billion, over the medium term. This will be funded through an amendment to the medical expenses tax subsidy -In a quest to improve overall healthcare services, the state...

Time now for our African Perspective feature, where we profile different African countries. Today we profile the state of Somalia. Created in 1960 from a former British protectorate and an Italian colony, Somalia collapsed into anarchy following the overthrow of the military regime of President Siad Barre in 1991. Somalia hasn't had a government since 1991, when warlords and extremist groups like...

Throwing children from households on to the streets for doing drugs may become an easy way out in dealing with substance abuse by most parents. This morning, we discuss the trauma they put their family through, and also, asking the important question of what should the appropriate be behavior in handling a child who is addicted to drugs? Sipho Mathebula a former drug addict says according to him,...

As long as inequality exists, the land issue is going to be part of the debate. We can't avoid that." This is according to Roelf Meyer, the Chairperson of the "In Transformation Initiative" and Former Minister of Constitutional Development. Speaking to the current anxiety experienced by South Africa's farmers on the land debate, he says there is willingness from the agriculture community to partic...

The network of journalists around the world, held a Journalism Summit: God and the Newsroom, in Ruimsig, Roodepoort, over the weekend. The purpose of this Summit was to discuss trends in religion reporting, religious literacy in the media and media literacy in the church, religious freedom and press freedom in South Africa and the continent more broadly. So, are there still too many impediments fo...

It takes more than pro-choice laws to end deaths from unsafe abortions", this according to Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng, a Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Activist. Dr Mofokeng says In South Africa, the procedure is legal, but major barriers to access remain. Experts believe that 50% of abortions occur outside designated health facilities, despite South Africa legalizing abortion in 1997. For mor...

Mining permits will be granted to thousands of illegal miners in an attempt to curb illegal mining. The Mineral Resources Department is formalizing Zama Zamas or informal miners. The Department handed legal papers to nearly one-thousand artisanal miners at the Mayibuye Multipurpose Centre in Kimberley in the Northern Cape last week. The informal miners had been illegally extracting diamond fragmen...

The man arrested for allegedly shooting and killing his son after he mistook him for a criminal at the Fred Norman Secondary school in Ennerdale south of Johannesburg has been released on a warning. Sibusiso Tshabalala applied for bail in his first court appearance in the Lenasia Magistrate's Court following the fatal shooting on Tuesday. Guest: Adèle Kirsten, Director of Gun Free SA

When the millionaires flee your country, be afraid, this is according to a recent article by Tony Leon, published in the Rand Mail. Tony Leon continues to quote a 2016 survey that noted that in 2015, South Africa lost 950 millionaires to emigration. Guest: Tony Leon – Founding Leader of the Democratic Alliance leader and Former Ambassador to Argentina

It will take much more than ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa's "Thuma Mina" campaign for the party to regain lost reputational fortunes after the Zuma years. Solly Moeng, says the ANC needs to face South Africans openly and acknowledge that they were wrong to defend former president Jacob Zuma for all these years. GUEST: Solly Moeng, brand reputation management adviser and CEO of strategic corporate...

When she was diagnosed with HIV at age 27, Sameshni Moodley thought her life was coming to an end. Sameshni, who was raised in an Indian household with a mentality that HIV would not affect her, resorted to substance abuse and binge eating, after finding out that she was positive. After realizing that the virus does not discriminate, she made something of herself and now lives as a pillar of hope...

While steps have been taken to make Zimbabwe a more investor-friendly destination, notably the recently repealed Indigenization Act which was previously a deterrent for investors, there is still much work to be done to lure Foreign Direct Investment. Structural and liquidity issues face the country, and policies need to be adopted to promote trade. Norton Rose Fulbright South Africa hosted an inte...