The Daily Discourse

Public transport is an essential service but over the years it seems that instead of improved public transport, it has actually deteriorated. This is despite several government initiatives to improve public transport. Workers and members of the public regularly complain about late and overcrowded trains, overloaded and dangerous taxis, taxi violence, problems of their personal security and crime,...

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We get their response on the Moeletsi Mbeki, regarding Julius Malema being a racist, which he alluded to in an interview we had with him on Monday, on Land Expropriation. Following the land summit, the ANC says it will redistribute land under existing laws rather than by changing the constitution following a ruling party summit. The EFF has insisted that the constitution must be changed to ensure...

Time for our African feature, as per usual on a Tuesday, we profile an African country. Today the spotlight is on Mozambique, a country in Southeast Africa which gained independence from Portugal in 1975. Mozambique has suffered civil war and natural disasters but still remains a nation of great potential despite its deep-seated problems. For more on this country, we are now joined in studio by Fr...

This morning we put our focus on the issues around our higher education department, with special focus on the issues around the accommodation for tertiary students, funding for higher Education i.e. NSFAS, Relevance of the SITAs today – what is their role? Guest: Minister in the Department of Higher Education and Training Naledi Pandor

Super sport will proceed with internal investigations, following Saturday's dramatic on-air incident, which saw Rugby analyst, Ashwin Willemse walk off set, citing his dissatisfaction with his fellow colleagues. In a video that has since gone viral on social media, Willemse can be heard saying to his fellow presenters Nick Mallet and Naas Botha: "I will not be patronized by two individuals who pla...

SAfm will be broadcasting from there later this week. Guest: Mark Kramer, who is the Keynote Speaker at the Africa Shared Value Summit this year. He is co-founder and Managing Director of FSG, a nonprofit consulting firm established in 2000 and specializing in strategy, evaluation, and research. He is the co-author of four Harvard Business Review articles with Professor Michael E. Porter of Harvar...

In a panel discussion at the “Nation in Conversation” at the Nampo gathering in Bothaville, Political Commentator Moeletsi Mbeki says the African National Congress (ANC) and the Economic Freedom Fighters’ (EFF) stance on land expropriation without compensation is a mere attack on the white population. According to him, this is not about land, it’s about the loss of votes by the ANC. He says “They...

Leading platinum producer, Lonmin, Is set to shed thousands of jobs following its planned sale of the company to the mining giant, Sibanye-Stillwater. Last week Lonmin announced that it would be shedding about 12,600 jobs, in the next three years. The mining company will also retrench 3,700 workers in the current financial year. To further discuss the impending retrenchments, we are now joined on...

Young people are definitely a demographic that is both passionate and energetic. Young people constitute 41.2% (20.5 million) of the total population. Youth in 2015 were definitely not apathetic, and they expressed this as we saw them taking ownership of their issues and saying things need to change as we saw in #FeesMustFall. In 1976 we saw with the youth uprising that young people have the poten...

10 defaulting municipalities owe Eskom a combined nine-point-eight, billion rands. The standing committee on public accounts (Scopa) has resolved to meet with the municipalities to find out why they are not paying their debts. To find out what efforts are being made to address the escalating municipal debt owed to Eskom, we are now joined on the line by the power utility’s National Spokesperson, K...

The Tune Recreation Committee (TRC) presents their first southern African music tour entitled The Future Is Now. The band will present their debut album, Voices Of Our Vision, nominated in the Jazz category at the SAMA’s 2018. Mandla Mlangeni says: “This TRC tour will focus on the different venues in the SADC with a strong emphasis on workshops contributing new works and collaborations. The Future...

Just over 4% of all South African men will develop prostate cancer in their lifetime and more than 4 300 are newly diagnosed each year. On average, five South African men die from prostate cancer every day. Side effects from the surgical removal of a cancerous prostate include possible erectile dysfunction and incontinence. Guest: Dr Lance Coetzee – Urologist from The Urology Hospital, Pretoria

Cash-in-transit heists have increased dramatically over the past year, according to the South African Banking Risk Information Council, Sabric. This follows several attacks on Cash-in-transit vans in recent weeks. Sabric's statistics show that there were 378 robberies in 2017. In 2016, 268 cash vans were attacked during the same period. On the Talking Point this morning, we examine some of the fac...

Malebo Mabitje-Thompson, who is the Deputy Director General, Responsible for Incentive Development and Administration at department of Trade and Industry. She will be speaking to us about the progress of the Black Industrialist Programme.

In a video where Vusi Thembekwayo has a conversation with white South Africans he says “I think you guys have to decide if you want project South Africa to work”. This morning he chats to us about what White South Africans should be doing in playing their part for transformation. We ask, how should we move forward as a country, and what should we each be bringing to the table to make project South...

Africa's industrialisation will be top of the agenda at the 8th African Unity for Renaissance International Conference and Africa Day Expo, next week. The Human Science Research Council's Expo will bring together continental experts to look at the question of Africa's industrialization and associated benefits. For more on the event we are now joined on the line by Dr Emmanuel Owusu-Sekyere, Chief...

South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya make up the top three of the 2018 Enabling Digitalization Index, digitagility ranking in Africa, which measures the ability of countries to go digital. Euler Hermes' Digitalization Index illustrates each country's ability to provide the necessary environment for business to succeed in an increasingly digitalized global economy. For more on this, Justin Jacobs, R.I.C...

Are Black Economic Empowerment (BEE), codes inhibiting the development of Small, Medium and Micro-sized Enterprises? On our Small Business feature we speak to Karabo Mashugane, the chief executive of 20/20 Insight, who argues that corporate incentives are needed in order to allow corporates to offer large contracts to small businesses. Karabo is also running a petition under the hash tag B.E.E4Me...

Significant strides have been made towards the emancipation of women's rights and addressing gender discrimination but are women still being left out when it comes to participating in international relations? On The Talking Point this morning, we speak to one of Japan's most influential thought leaders, Dr Tomoko Kitagawa, also known as "Lady Samurai", in recognition of her courageous and thought-...

South Africa's rape and murder rate remains one of the highest in the world. Currently South Africa ranks among the world's worst three countries, after the US and Russia, for serial murders and rapes with local police identifying on average between 200 to 300 new cases each year. Many of the perpetrators are never caught. This morning we speak to a brave woman, Rochelle Pimentel, a rape survivor,...

** Guest(s) from Post-Budget Vote Speech Breakfast event, at the Cape Town ICC, which is to be hosted by the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) on 16 May 2018 Guest: Mr Xolisa Makhanya - deputy director general for africa at DIRCO

Rhodes University has accused one of two expelled students of lying about the reasons for her expulsion at the Institution. Yesterday we spoke to Yolanda Dyantyi, who was issued a life ban from the institution after being involved in anti-rape protests in 2016. Dyantyi was expelled for allegedly committing "acts of criminality". She denies the claims and says that she was denied the chance to test...

** Guest(s) from Post-Budget Vote Speech Breakfast event, at the Cape Town ICC, which is to be hosted by the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) on 16 May 2018 guest: Ambassador Annil Sooklal - deputy director general at DEIRCO responsible for Asia and middle East

Minister of Transport, Blade Nzimande has appointed an interim board at Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa, PRASA, to stabilize the firm. Three board members were removed at the troubled state-owned logistics firm following after reports of irregularities in the awarding of state contracts. On The Talking Point we speak to the new interim board chairperson of PRASA Khanyisile Kweyama, who has s...