The Daily Discourse

Driven by the need to identify solutions to drive economic recovery and address the unemployment crisis, our next guest investigated whether localization has been an effective method of providing local work opportunities and conducive business environments for communities to buy local. Since 2018, they have worked towards localization commitments with corporates to ensure products are made local....

 Whatever stage in life, hearing loss can affect all of us. While there is limited data available on hearing impairment in South Africa, an estimated 19.88% of people suffered from hearing impairment and 8.94% suffered from a disabling hearing impairment. Audiologists suggest that the first step is always to identify the type of hearing loss that they have and what is causing it. This will determi...

In our last interview of the series, the Industrial Development Corporation will be sharing the role it plays in the government's plans to develop a Green Hydrogen economy.   Guest: Rian Coetzee - Head of Industry Planning & Project Development at the IDC

 The Department of Arts and Culture last week announced new names for some of the towns around the country. The changes will mostly affect KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape. Cradock will now be known as Nxuba while Morgan’s Bay will now be known as Gxarha just to name a few. We thought to use this opportunity to look at how we should interpret name changes and whether they are good for social coh...

Judge Tshifhiwa Maumela has ruled that Brigadier Philani Ndlovu's statement should be read in the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial. Ndlovu, who was a former provisional head of SAPS, was one of the first people at the scene of the incident - passed away in May 2022. He was due to testify as a state witness in the trial. To find out what this means for the trial and also what we should read into how thing...

Former President, Jacob Zuma, has filed papers in court, launching a private prosecution against journalist Karyn Maughan and State Advocate Billy Downer. Zuma claims Downer and Maughan disclosed information that wasn't meant for the public. His lawyers accuse the two of breaching the National Prosecuting Authority Act. But the NPA says it's not concerned by the latest developments. For more on th...

Today Lionel focuses on the psychology of money. How many of us really understand what it is? He now joins us to educate us on the subject… Guest: Lionel Makokotlela - Founder of Financial Wise Corner

The City of eThekwini defended itself against the findings of Auditor General, Tsakani Maluleke who said that the City failed to manage its water tankers properly during the floods. They responded by saying that the AG needs to understand that they were severely. Spokesperson for the Mayor Msawakhe Mayisela is quoted as saying that this was a disaster of great proportion, meaning that certain plan...

Yesterday (Monday), the KZN Education Department decided to close a Durban high school indefinitely after pupils torched several classrooms in retaliation for their cell phones being confiscated. Menzi Busani, principal of Ndengetho High School which is situated in Kwandengezi township in Outer West of Durban, says that the school’s code of conduct prohibited carrying of cell phones in school prem...

Last week Bryan was no unavailable to do the show and as it was the last Tuesday of the month, the programme is always devoted to answering questions that have been submitted to him during the month. However, this week’s programme relates to a few areas including insurance, medical aid and shareholding to name a few... Guest: Bryan Hirsch, Chairperson of Bryan Hirsch, Colley & Associates (Pty)...

Last week scores of disgruntled unemployed social workers and some self-funded graduates marched to the Union Buildings demanding equal employment opportunities. The presented their memorandum and gave the Presidency 72 ours in which to assess and address their concerns. According to the Council for Social Practitioners, there’s an approximately 9 000 unemployed graduate social work graduates in t...

The Department of Human Settlements is currently hosting their housing and Exhibition Indaba in Durban. They are hosting the Indaba under the theme how to transform human settlements through accelerated planning, implementation of policies, and public-private partnerships. To talk about this and what their plans are in dealing with the huge housing backlog and also the rising population our countr...

Last week, COGTA Minister Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma announced that nearly 300 public servants have been serving as councillors within municipal council. These officials had not reported their councillor work as other renumerative work to their provincial or national headquarters. Whilst the act of moonlighting has contravened the Public Service Act, there are many legislative precursors and judici...

This week’s events around Cope and its leadership crisis, the common phrase they were using was reuniting the party. This is a favourite line among politicians especially the ruling party. The PAC also had their elective conference over the weekend talking about growing the party. Basically the point we are making is how almost all the political parties are talking about strengthening themselves a...

As much as September is celebrated as Spring Month, Heritage Month and festivities, on of the highlights is jazz. And this morning we invited one of South Africa’s big jazz exports. He has been in the jazz scene for many years and played with some of the big names our country has ever produced. Sisonke Xonti need no introduction to those who listen to jazz   Guest: Sisonke Xonti – Jazz musician an...

Guest: Thembisa Fakude - Senior Research Fellow and Director of Africa - Asia Dialogues

Guest(Studio): Mpumelelo Mkhabela – Author of a book entitled The Enemy Within

Guest: Dennis Bloem Spokesperson

Guest: Ntsako Mkhabela - Grant Manager and country coordinator

IDC Awareness Campaign

Guest(Studio): Dr Surprise Mogakane - Healthcare practitioner, specialising as a Dentist, in Norwood

This coming Wednesday marks exactly two years since housing activists won their court challenge setting aside the sale of Tafelberg to private developers. The activists are accusing the Western Cape government of dragging its feet. Premier Alan Winde promised that the land would be unblocked for social housing. But two years later, nothing has happened. To discuss this further in an effort to unde...

As you heard in the news that he Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, the CSIR, says that hunger has continued to be the main cause of poor nutrition in the country, with food security still overlooked. Researchers say the effects of malnutrition and disease mostly affect people in rural areas. This emerged in Pretoria at the council's celebration of the role of women in science. The CS...

Focus: Yesterday (Sunday) the Newly elected KwaZulu-Natal ANC leaders visited former president Jacob Zuma. They are on a quest to seek wisdom from the former ANC presidents. About two weeks ago, they visited both former presidents, Kgalema Motlanthe and Thabo Mbeki. So this time around it was Zuma’s turn whom they say has a lot of political experience. To talk about this further and to also unders...

Guest(Studio): Eusebius McKaiser – Political analyst     Focus: This morning we start the show by revisiting issues around the “Kill the boer song court case”. There has been mixed reaction around whether this does constitute as hate speech and this morning we use the opportunity to reflect on this issue. To help us navigate this issue, we are joined in studio by …