The Daily Discourse

Corruption in South Africa's National School Nutrition Programme (NSNP) is robbing vulnerable children of their future. Meant to provide meals to 9 million learners across all nine provinces, the programme is marred by corruption, mismanagement & neglect. Malnutrition, poor academic performance, stunted development & increased dropout rates are just a few devastating consequences. The impa...

Guest: Carlos Correia – CEO of Fundamentum Property  Wherever there is new development in an area, it usually translate to good news for the property market. And to tell us the spin-offs for the property sector in this area, we are joined by...      

We turn our attention now to scientific innovation where we speak to those operating in this space. What sort of challenges did they face and what their innovations are all about. Let’s welcome now... Guest: Sibongile Nkala - Innovator Guest: Lina Maphanga - Innovator

Guest:  Dr. Anitha Ramsuran, Manager Innovation for Inclusive Development at the Technology Innovation Agency Let’s go back now to issues of technology and gender transformation especially how that will be achieved through the Women in Technology Innovation Programme . Let’s welcome now...  

Guest: Loyiso Tyira – Board chairperson at the Technology Innovation Agency We are coming to you live from the NH Johannesburg Hotel in Sandton where the Technology Innovation Agency is launching its Women in Technology Innovation Programme. The idea is to celebrate the contribution women are making in building the transforming society through technology, innovation and entrepreneurship. To...

Guest: Lerato Tsebe - Independent African Researcher We continue our series on the G20 with Lerato Tsebe looking at how South Africa uses this opportunity of being at the helm for 2025 .    

In this interview, we wanted to close off Human Rights month in South Africa by talking about our responsibilities that go along with the Bill of Rights. We wanted have this discussion to encourage our listeners why it is still important to remain active citizens who positively influence communities. Through the month, many of listeners have been despondent on the realization of human rights and f...

Today being the last Tuesday of the month, we take all of your personal finance questions. Sandy joins us now to engage with you on how to build a strong foundation for your personal finance and the 10 essential keypoints for financial success. We are joined by… Guest: Sandy van der Zanden - Partner at Bryan Hirsch, Colley & Associates (Pty) Limited

So many of you have been calling the show commenting on what Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traore is doing in turning the country around. He has been compared to his late predecessor, Thomas Sankara who was assassinated in 1987 after being in power for only four years. He managed to turn that country around by opening up education to all including women, vaccinating millions of people, cutting gove...

A new report by the Teddy Bear Foundation has brought into focus the alarmingly low conviction rates of child abuse cases in South Africa. In the report, only 4% of over 5000 child abuse cases result in convictions. In this hour, we unpack the report and ask if specialized courts are proving an effective intervention to safeguard children's rights Guest: Dr Shaheda Omar - Executive Director of the...

Last week the Independent Electoral Commission, IEC hosted a dialogue at the Nelson Mandela University aimed at finding out why young people are not interested in voting. The dialogue themed: ‘Strengthening democracy though youth participation’, featured academics, the IEC and young people to get them to share their views on how the youth can realise their importance in active particip...

Last week during the openline, several listeners shared their dissatisfaction surrounding how the country’s inability to process its mineral resources. In a mineral rich country like South Africa, its important for us to build our capacity to process its own minerals. Only 30% of natural resources are processed in southern African. The G20 presidency is looking to secure local agreement with...

R2,95 trillion has been allocated to the nine provinces and 257 municipalities over the medium term expenditure (up to March 2028). This announcement was made during last week's Budget Speech tabled by Finance Minister, Enoch Godongwana. The Minister also highlighted that National Treasury will be issuing grant funding to municipalities based on performance and reward functional municipalities. Th...

Guest: Gilbert Musina, President of NAFCOC The National African Federated Chamber of Commerce and Industry, NAFCOC is this year marking 60 years of existence. They pride themselves as being Africa’s oldest and largest chamber of commerce with great names like Richard Maponya and Dr Sam Matsuenyane at the helm to name a few. Speaking to the current leadership, how do they describe the chamber...

We continue our series on the G20 with Lerato Tsebe looking at how South Africa uses this opportunity of being at the helm for 2025 . Guest:   Lerato Tsebe - Independent African Researcher

Guest: Bruce Collins - Social work supervisor at the Tshwane Regional office (Worked in the substance abuse unit since 1991) Guest: Nokuthula Maseko - Social work supervisor in Gauteng office of the Department of Social Development Tuesday ,18th of March marked World Social Work Day. For Citizens Corner we thought to pay homage to social workers and the work they do. They are the people who have t...

Guest: Neptal Khoza - Head of Market Development at Santama We speak now to some of the companies that have contributed to making the campaign a success over the years as we welcome    

Guest : Dr Jennifer Molwantwa - CEO of the Water Research Commission South Africa is a water scarce country and is facing aprojected to have a 17% deficit by 2030. Some of contributing factors to our water scarcity challenges include water leaks, wastage and illegal connections. South Africans use 61,8% more water than the world average (up to 279 litres, per day). This conference will be unpackin...

The international average water usage per day is 173 litres. Global water security is under threat as a result of climate change and increased demand for water in urban areas. There has been a shift towards a water-saving model where water reuse can be the key to create sustainable water supply. Water reuse reclaims water from a variety of sources. The water is treated and gets reused it for benef...

Guest: Bryan Hirsch, Chairperson of Bryan Hirsch, Colley & Associates (Pty) Limited This morning, Bryan talks about the following topic:  What investment strategy should younger people have in relation to their investment. He now joins us to expand on the issue…    

Cape Town is not only a host city for this conference but has made interventions to save and reuse 300 million litres of water in the next 5 years. Our next guest will speak to us on the plan to build Water Reuse facilities in Cape Town, Beaufort West and Mossel Bay. We also want to unpack how getting consumers to socially accept water reuse in formal water supply and framing it as a meaningful re...

The 14th till the 21st of Match is marked as Anti-Racism week. This year is very significant as it not only marks 10 years of the campaign, but also 70 years of the Freedom Charter and the 60th anniversary of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. South Africa is a signatory to it, binding itself to taking concrete measures to illuminate all forms of...

We come to you live this morning from the Sandton International Convention Centre where Proudly South Africa is hosting their annual Buy Local Summit. The event is aimed at not only promote local procurement, but also get big business to source from local SMMEs while establishing market access for member companies. To talk about some of the successes over the years and who the campaign is received...

Guest: Masha Kumire - Corporate Brand Director at South African Breweries We continue speaking to some of the companies that made the annual event possible to also get their views on the success of the campaign as we welcome..    

According to Lightstone's latest Residential Property Index, national year-on-year house price inflation remains steady at 2.2%. At a provincial level, the Western Cape inflation significantly outperformed Gauteng and Kwa-Zulu Natal. In terms of property segments, annual inflation for High-Value properties has risen to 2.3%. Meanwhile, the Low-Value properties (under R300 000) remained steady at 8...