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 GUEST: PETER FABRICIUS - FOREIGN POLICY ANALYST AND DAILY MAVERICK JOURNALIST  HOW DID THE GUPTA BROTHERS SLIP THROUGH OUR FINGERS?

  Dr Trevor Ngwane is a socialist and anti-apartheid activist. He previously worked as a sociology lecturer at Wits University where he helped found the Wits Workers' School, to teach literacy to the campus cleaners and gardeners. He was the National Education Officer for the Transport & General Workers Union of the Congress of South African Trade Unions. In 1995 he was elected Ward Councillor...

#2024 African Continental Free Trade Agreement Business Forum   The three-day 2024 African Continental Free Trade Agreement Business Forum (AfCTFA), which got under way at the Cape Town International Conference Centre on Sunday, is the first in-person forum of its kind since AfCTFA was established in July 2019, and is aimed at implementing an actionable plan arising out of their first report “AfCT...

Guest: Prof. Bonang Mohale, President of Business Unity South Africa Guest: Connie Mulder, Head of Research at Solidarity   Guest: Matthew Parks , COSATU’s Parliamentary coordinator     President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed the Employment Equity Bill into law. The Employment Equity Amendment Bill, 2020 was passed by Parliament in May 2022.   According to the Presidency, the new laws will promote di...

Guest: Joan van Dyk, News Editor at Bhekisisa We’re in conversation with Joan van Dyk, the news editor at Bhekisisa. She recently wrote an article that speaks about how the past three health ministers have failed the nursing profession by not speeding up on the necessary amendments to give nurses more authority in prescribing and dispensing medicines, and eventually easing the burden on the public...

As we are all aware by now, it appears that the man who works for Eskom that switches our power on and off has returned from leave, with loadshedding having been reimplemented and now the country is on stage 6. Apart from loadshedding being an annoyance and inconvenience to many South Africans, it can also result in individuals and businesses suffering damage in various forms. Does Eskom have the...

Guest: Mr  koffi Kouakou, Analyst with interest in France Politics #What to expect from this week's pension protests in France          

Guest:  Prof. Pitika Ntuli, South African sculptor, poet, writer, and academic #Durban Art Gallery to stage Pitika Ntuli’s acclaimed exhibition            

#TUESDAYTAKEOVER - Dr Sithembiso Bhengu – Director at Chris Hani Institute Guest: Dr. Sithembiso Bhengu , Director at Chris Hani Institute    Guest: Prof. Mandla J. Radebe ,Associate Professor in the Department of Strategic Communication and the Director for the Centre for Data and Digital Communications at University of Johannesburg. ]    

Guest: Ms Theresa Michel, CEO Afrika Tikkun Bambanani Bambanani - Creating a better future for children through education - Bambanani Sifunde = Coming Together To Learn          

The South African public  had until the 25th of February to respond to the Constitution Eighteenth Amendment Bill, B1 – 2023, that intends to amend section 6 of the constitution in such a way that South African Sign Language (SASL) is added to the list of 11 existing official languages. Prof Theadorus du Plessis of the University of the Free State says it is not necessary to make SASL an official...

The South African Council for Social Service Professions (SACSSP) should advocate more for the profession, and supervisors must undergo a specific training course and be accredited with the Council. This is according to Dr Sandra Bredell, who believes that this is necessary in order for the council to be able to support social workers and help them with their work-life balance. In an attempt to ga...

The United Kingdom is gearing up to pass new laws that will ban trophy hunters from importing of the body parts of endangered animals into the country. The law has been highly contested as some believe that the law will undermine sustainable hunting and conservation efforts in the form of anti-poaching unit. Others have raised questions surrounding trophy hunting being a colonial practice and that...

  It has been a hundred years since the existence of Langa township, in Cape Town, and mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis has outlined the city’s plans to commemorate the 100th anniversary. A number of cites have been identified and they will be redeveloped and refurbished. But will this translate to job creation and sustainable development for the community? Will these projects indeed benefit the community...

Guest: Prof. Mike Brookes, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal | Co-founder of the UKZN Aerospace Systems Research Institute  Our next guest is part of a team that has successfully competed a test launch of a 1-D hybrid rocket. The Phoenix 1-D was carrying experimental sensors and cameras as part of the mission. Sounding rockets are rocket-propelled la...

Guest:  Marcus Low, Editor of Spotlight NSP  During the COVID-19 pandemic (2021), a survey into the prevalence of Tuberculosis was conducted. The first of its kind in country, it illustrated that thousands of ordinary citizens were not getting diagnosed for the disease and that patients presenting themselves at the clinic was not enough to reduce transmission of the disease. Two years after the in...

Guest: Roland Harris , (former) MMC in the City of Joburg ]   Guest: Athol Trollip, Chairperson of ActionSA in EC & former mayor of Nelson Mandela Metro]   South Africa’s municipal government elections in 2021 produced a number of local government coalitions. There’s now a strong possibility that the next government that’s formed at national  level may be a coalition too. This would be the fir...

Nic Spaull is an Associate Professor in the Economics Department at Stellenbosch University and part of the Research on Socioeconomic Policy (RESEP) group in the Department. Nic’s research centres on education policy in South Africa with a focus on inequality and early grade literacy and numeracy. Nic has held visiting fellowships at Stanford University in the US and the OECD in Paris and is curre...

Award-winning jazz musician, composer and songwriter Gloria Bosman has died. The Southern African Music Rights Organisation (Samro) confirmed the news and the cause of death has yet to be shared. The musician was recently appointed to Samro's board as a non-executive director. She boasts two South African Music Awards (Samas) and more than 11 nominations, as well as two Kora nominations. Bosman wa...

Our next guest have filed a complaint at the North Gauteng High Court to have Judge Willie Seriti and Judge Hendrick Musi called before the Judicial Conduct Committee (JCC) to account for their failure to adequately investigate the Arms Deal. The organization wrote a letter to the JCC to investigate if the actions of the judges amounted to criminal misconduct and called for the NPA to intervene ba...

Our next guest is a Philanthropist, Entrepreneur and Television Producer. She was scouted in her school uniform at the age of 16 and recruited to be a model, which lead her into the spotlight at a tender age. She later became one of the first black super models in new post-apartheid South Africa. In 1996 she was crowned the first Black Miss Cape Town while studying for her bachelor of commerce at...

Focus: Our next guest is concerned that the Independent Electoral Commission will be faced with another budget cut after the Minister of Finance tabled his Budget Speech in February. The chapter nine institution is set to lose up to R240 million in the medium term (2022 - 2025). The IEC has raised its concerns on the budget cuts given that their mandate has been expanded in the last 18 months. The...

Since 2005, the Africa Institute of South Africa under the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) has been building research capacity and initiate collaborative projects among young academics across the continent. This week, it will host a conference brining together researchers from Cameroon, Congo-Brazzaville, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Uganda, Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa. The schol...

Guest: Mashango Sithole, Coordinator of the Peer Assisted Learning and Foundation Provision at the Teaching and Learning Development Centre at MUT In an attempt to strengthen academic support to students and stop the revolving door syndrome in higher education, where large numbers of students drop out without completing their qualifications, a study by Mangosuthu University of Technology (MUT) res...

Guest: David Verity, Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London AND Hospitaller in the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem London-based opthalmologist David Verity is visiting South Africa as a special guest of the Order of St John. Over the weekend, he was in Durban as Guest of Honour and Keynote speaker at the Ophthalmological Society of SA nation...