The Daily Discourse

The staff members of Coastal KZN TVET College have not been paid. The College has been under the administration and reporting to the Department of Higher Education for the past twelve months. The workers have cited that there have been problems with payments dating back to last year. In March 2022, its administrator wrote to the Deputy-Director General and Chief Financial Officer for the Departmen...

For our Africa Unlocked feature today we speak to Mbuso Khoza. He will be presenting a selection of Africa-centric music called iJadu Le Afrika tomorrow (Friday) till Sunday which seeks to reflect on the past and the present through music, which mirrors African history. He will also be educating the audience about Africa Day and what we should all know about it and our African heritage.  Gues...

 We speak now to the uMkhonto we Sizwe Liberation War Veterans Interim Committee. They have renewed themselves by setting up a committee that has been mandated to unite, renew and deal with the welfare of the community of former and ex MK combatants. Over the years, questions have been asked as to who the real MK Veterans are and which formation is being recognised.  Guest: Dan Hato &nda...

In the 2021 State of the Nation Address, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that he would break ground on the smart cities in Lanseria and Giyani. Our next guest was inspired by that speech and started planning a development in the Collins Chabane Local Municipality. At the end of this month, Nkuna City is set to launch the first completed phase of the project.  Guest(Studio): Dr Mike Nkuna...

According to the 2020 Global Healthcare Index, South Africa's healthcare system ranks 49th out of 89 countries. In the past two years, our local healthcare system has been under severe pressure due to the pandemic. With hospitals facing issues surrounding staff shortage and lack of maintenance of critical infrastructure, there are concerns surrounding how the healthcare system will recover as no n...

Striking Sibanye-Stillwater mineworkers have vowed to remain camped outside the Union Buildings. They want President Cyril Ramaphosa to intervene in their ongoing wage battle with the gold miner. The workers, affiliated to AMCU and NUM, have been in Pretoria for five days. Sibanye-Stillwater, meanwhile, is adamant that its wage offer is fair. Let’s use this opportunity now to speak to a mine...

Today we focus on Hereditary Angioedema. According to medical journals, it is a chronic disorder characterised by sudden swelling attacks in the skin’s deeper layers which is caused by a lack of a protein inhibitor in the blood. Up to 150,000 individuals are affected by this disorder worldwide. To educate us on it, we are joined on the line by... Guest: Prof. Jonathan Peter - Unit Head of th...

As the National Land Summit is set to be held this coming Friday and Saturday, we thought to revisit the issue looking at where we are. But most importantly the aspect of communal and traditional land. Who owns the most communal land and under what authority is it classified? What is the progress of land restitution for communal land and why is it important to build legislative framework for commu...

The National Youth Development Agency recently held its first annual Integrated Youth Development Strategy. The aim of the summit was for young people to gather, discuss, and reflect on the implementation of youth development and also look into challenges that youth are facing. To talk about what is different this time around seeing how young people are losing patience due to job scarcity. If I&rs...

 Today Bryan focuses on why innocent investors always lose out. What is it that they are doing wrong and what should they be looking out for? Guest: Bryan Hirsch - Chairperson of Bryan Hirsch, Colley & Associates (Pty) Limited

‘Removing of a head of a Chapter 9 Institution’ Focus: As you’ve heard throughout the morning that Members of the public have until the end of today (Monday) to notify Parliament's Section 194 Committee in writing, if they wish to give evidence in favour or against the investigation into Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane's fitness to hold office. The invitation was extended on...

 A few weeks ago, we received a letter from inmates at the Kutuma Sinthumule Correctional Centre. They have raise a lot of issues they say infringe on their constitutional rights, one of them being around their rights to vote. In their letter they would like to see more political parties being allowed to campaign as they say the ANC is the only party that is allowed to campaign. Now, as we en...

Director of the Aid organisation Gift of the Givers Dr Imtiaz Sooliman, says from what he sees in Kwazulu Natal, many people are not keen to be moved from their homes despite renewed flooding in the province following more heavy rains. The rains have caused substantial damage in parts of eThekwini - including uMdloti. Premier Sihle Zikala and the provincial Department of Local Government and Tradi...

 This Sunday, young people will gather at the Chris Hani Sports Complex for the start of a week-long summit. The Summit brings together over 150 speakers from various sectors: Technology, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Arts & Culture, Health, Transport and Retail. The summit is set to bring workplace expertise, learning opportunities and business funding within reach of young people. Guest: S...

In the past 48 hours, two sexual assault cases have emerged on university campuses. Whilst the University of Stellenbosch has condemned any criminality on campus and provided assistance to affected students, the University of Cape Town has published a statement alleging that the student in question refused the assistance the university and refuting claims made by a Twitter account surrounding sexu...

Focus:in Umlazi, KZN, she started in the church singing in the choir where she is said to have learnt how to sing. One of the characteristics highlighted in her biography is that She is motivated by love, inner strength.  Guest: Hlengiwe Pearl – Singer and songwriter

For our Africa Unlocked feature this morning, we take a look at Kenya's former Prime Minister Raila Odinga chosing the country's former Justice Minister Martha Karua to be his running mate in the upcoming General Elections. The move evoked excitement among supporters and some in the opposition camp. In case of an Odinga victory, Karua would be the highest ranking female politician in the country's...

The Criminalization of Hate Speech and Hate Crimes This week, oral and written submissions were presented for the second round of public hearings on the Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill in Parliament. In this round of submissions, many organizations agreed that the Bill needs to define harm more specifically to avoid the failures of the Domestic Violence Act, stakeholde...

The latest PPS Graduate Professional Index has revealed that the number of graduate professionals in the older age groups committed to a career in South Africa is diminishing. Some of their concerns are around the volatile economic situation, political challenges and the impact of COVID-19. On the other hand, black 18- to 24-year-old graduate professionals show the strongest confidence. What are w...

Guest: Dan Corder – Host of the 5fm Breakfast | Producer of the documentary Luister

On 16th May, the health fraternity commemorated World Hypertension Day. Our next guests looked through the data of their medical scheme membership and recognized that those diagnosed with hypertension had consistently increased over the past three years from 377 784 members to 405,000 registered members. Last year, Discovery Health Medical Scheme claims related to cardiovascular and circulatory co...

Yesterday (Tuesday) the Human Sciences Research Council launched their research report into the Covid-19 Social Relief of Distress grant and social protection in the country. The report entitled ‘It’s a lifeline, But it’s not enough’ looked at what an adult’s experience is when applying for the SRD grant and how it impacted their lives. Now if you have been listening...

Learners of the Itumeleng School for intellectually disabled children have been struggling to gain access to identity documents from the Department of Home Affairs in Gauteng. Some of the pupils were not registered at birth. A former pupil was assigned a birth certificate that does not appear on the Home Affair system. Our next guest has raised concerns on how children who are not registered at bi...

Last week residents of Nkomazi in Mpumalanga shut down the offices of the embattled local municipality over a lack of service delivery, demanding clean drinking water, electricity, and roads, among other things. By the end of the week municipal workers had still not returned to work. Since a new councillor was sworn in after the November 2021 local government election- there has not been stability...

Bryan is back this morning and he is going to focus on two things that many of you have been calling about. The advice for those looking for debt counselling and also the issue of interest rates. With interest rates rising, how can one possibly get a better bond rate?  Gues: Bryan Hirsch, chairman of Bryan Hirsch, Colly and Associates