The National Pulse

guest: Mr Lunga Siyo

BSS: Transport Minister, Fikile Mbalula, says grievances by the taxi industry should not result in lawlessness behaviour by members of the industry. Some taxi operators heeded the call - by taxi council, SANTACO, - for vehicles to transport commuters with 100-percent capacity starting today. Taxi associations have accused the Transport Ministry of failing to accommodate the concerns from the indus...

We are now in conversation with Deputy Minister in the Presidency, MsThembi Siweya, who met with foundations of liberation stalwarts in an effort to strengthen collaborative relations with Government to fight Covid-19. At this session the Deputy Minister reported on government's efforts, invited advise on areas of possible improvements as well as request presentations of proposals on areas of poss...

Trade union, NUMSA, has accused the Department of Public Enterprises of lying to the South African Airways' Business Rescue Practitioners over the minimum number of workers that unions expect to be included in the SAA rescue plan. This after the department announced yesterday that it has withdrawn from the Leadership Consultative Forum - that was established to facilitate employee engagement to de...

What are some of the important aspects of the Protection of Personal Information Act? On Wednesday this week, the Personal Information Act will commence – which means that organisations will be required to comply and start implementing good data management practices. The act will be the go-to piece of legislation for consumers when their personal information is abused. Guest: Adv Rian Schoeman, He...

World News today: Post the elections – what next for Malawi? Malawi’s new president Lazurus Chakwera was sworn in for a five-year term on Sunday, just hours after unseating former leader Peter Mutharika in a re-run election. Chakwera won by 58.57% of the vote in Tuesday’s poll, a dramatic reversal of the result of the original election in May 2019, which was later overturned by the courts Guest: M...

Recently, the department of basic education released statistics which indicate that 775 schools had to close and that 523 learners and 1,169 staff members had been infected by the novel coronavirus. Following this revelation, Educators Union of South Africa (EUSA), says schools should shut their doors in order to save lives Guest: Scelo Bhengu, President of the Educators Union of South Africa (EUS...

On Beyond Innovation - today we look at an attempt by two Wits University students to commercialize their novel process for the recovery of platinum group metals from used car catalytic converters. The two, Collins Saguru and Muofhe Singo, both Wits University MSc graduates, have big plans to establish their platinum recycling operations which would provide a cost effective and locally based solut...

Tourism portfolio committee chairperson Supra Mahumapelo says the economic potential of tourism in townships and villages has been failing under the ANC government since coming into power. Addressing a meeting of the legislative tourism oversight forum on Wednesday, Mahumapelo says villages had not been taken seriously since the ANC government came into power 26 years ago Guest: Tourism portfolio...

The Fair Trade Independent Tobacco Association (Fita) has lost its application to have the sale of tobacco products unbanned. FITA’s application was dismissed by the Gauteng North High Court. Guest: Sinenhlanhla Mnguni, Chairperson of the Fair Trade Independent Tobacco Association (Fita)

Tensions are simmering in Eersterust, Tshwane after police reportedly fired rubber bullets at protesters over land grabs in the area. Eersterust residents say they are protesting over the lack of proper housing and as a result people have started erecting shacks on vacant land. Guest: Tshwane metro police department spokesman Senior Superintendent, Isaac Mahamba

Professor Eric Atmore says about 375 000 children across the country could be left to fend for themselves, if real political will is not shown in rescuing the country’s early childhood development centres from collapse. Currently, South Africa has around 2,5million children that receive education and care from the ECD sector. He joins us now to explain the seriousness of this issue…… Guest: Profes...

An Escourt family in KwaZulu-Natal is being treated for poisoning after drinking cattle de-worming medication, hoping it would prevent them from contracting the coronavirus. It is believed that one of their employees also drank the toxic liquid. KwaZulu-Natal Private Ambulance Service spokesperson, Craig Botha says when emergency services arrived at a doctor's room they found six people in a criti...

The South African Democratic Teachers Union (Sadtu) is still calling for schools in Eastern Cape to close, due to the growing Covid-19 infections in schools. Meanwhile in the Western Cape, a group of concerned high and primary school principals have written to the department of Education and President Cyril Ramaphosa, to object to the phased reopening of schools amid the spread of the virus Guest:...

In the past two days, the National Planning Commission hosted a Colloquium on the role of SMMEs in economic recovery post Covid-19. Joining us to unpack some of the key issues that emerged from the deliberations is….. Guest: Dr Thami Mazwai, National Planning Commission Commissioner

On World News today we ask – what is India and China border fight about? Some experts believe that the border conflict between India and China is partly due to India's assertion of ownership of its territory. But is there any truth to this? If so, what is it? Guest: Sanusha Naidu, Senior research associate at the Institute for Global Dialogue

Following Helen Zille's controversial tweets that there are more racist laws in the country now compared to apartheid. We speak to the DA’s Gauteng leader John Moodey who says that Zille has caused too much damage to the party's image. Guest: John Moodey, DA’s Gauteng leader

Guest: Zwelinzima Vavi, General Secretary of the South African Federation of Trade Unions

Yesterday many of our listeners called in and sent through WhatsApp voicenotes on why South Africans rarely focus on Intimate partner violence where men are the victims. Many of you also asked why there is always uproar and public demonstrations when a woman is killed but hardly the same reaction when the victim is a man. So why does violence against women warrant a national action plan as opposed...

Guest: Steve Swart, ACDP MP

Guest: Wouter Wessels, Freedom Front Plus MP and also Head of Campaigns for the party

Guest: Former mayor of Johannesburg and founder of the People's Dialogue, Herman Mashaba

Guest: Geordin Hill-Lewis, DA MP and DA Shadow Minister of Finance

President Ramaphosa has insisted that South Africa’s economic recovery should be state led. This begs the question of exactly how government will fund this recovery and how it will quickly address the inefficiencies that have plagued state led activity over the last two decades if it does push ahead as intended with a state led plan.. Guest: S’fiso Skenjana, chief economist and thought leadership...

Today on Both Sides of the Story we ask, how best should we tackle the issue of unemployment in this country? Analysts say although an increase in the unemployment rate has been recorded in the first quarter of the year, a more significant rise in unemployment can be expected in the second quarter due to the impact of Covid-19 and the lockdown. This after data by Statistics South Africa indicated...