The View Point

Guest: Hilal Kaplan, Turkish journalist and TRT board member and columnist for the Turkish newspaper Sabah An update on the Turkey Syria Earthquake    What humanitarian support you received - which organisations are on the ground? The global communities - what have other countries done so far to assist Turkey and Syria? Can now say how much damage has been caused - has there been any assessment? A...

Guest: Ross Volk , Managing Director - MSC Southern Africa  For the 2023/ 2024 cruise season, MSC Cruises will bring a new class ship for the first time to South African shores.  MSC Splendida, the 14-deck vessel will arrive in South Africa in November 2023 and will take cruising in the country to a whole new level. The vessel can accommodate up to 4 363 guests and for the first time in South Afri...

Guest: Vuyisa Ramokgopa, RISE Mzansi National Campaign Team Member  Reactions to president Cyril Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address are flooding in, with most commentators left wanting.   Proceedings were disrupted by the Economic Freedom Fighters, who were subsequently ejected from the sitting. The rest of the address was littered with information South Africans are already aware of. Broadly...

Mogamad Ganief Ebrahim Hendricks was born and raised in District Six. He is the Leader of Al Jama-ah party he founded in 2007. Al Jama-ah is the only Muslim political party to have obtained a seat in Parliament. Mr Hendricks is a tsaunch sunni who learned his Aqeeda from the best Ulema. He was exposed to politics at a very young age by his activist mother, Gairooneesa Ally Hendricks. His deceased...

More than 5,000 people have been killed with tens of thousands injured across Turkey and Syria after a magnitude-7.8 earthquake and powerful aftershocks struck. The first earthquake hit at 4:17am (01:17 GMT) and was centred in Turkey’s Pazarcik district of Kahramanmaras province. Less than 12 hours later, a second 7.6-magnitude tremor rocked the same region.   Turkish authorities say some 13.5 mil...

Pregnancy can be a time of joy — and stress. Research suggests that about between 21% and 47% of South African women experience depression during pregnancy, and 31% to 50% suffer postnatal depression, compared to the global rate of approximately 12% of women experiencing depression during or after pregnancy. Rates might be higher in low and middle income countries.   But in most cases, depression...

Seven years have passed since the Fees Must Fall protests took place, but many previously disadvantaged students continue to experience financial exclusion. Fees Must Fall and other movements inspired and fuelled the work of organisations like WeSolve4x, a nonprofit that assists with student fee settlement. The organisation has since introduced a new sustainability model to fund various academic a...

On the first Monday of every month we host a public lecture on some of the burning issues that South Africa is grappling with. We’ve spoken to ratings agencies and got an understanding of their rating mechanisms entail; we’ve spoken about the chaos at Eskom and how we find ourselves here; we’ve spoken to StatsSA and naked them to break down the unemployment stats.  Today, we speak about the land i...

Guest: Jeremy Osborn, Head of ESG at AICPA and CIMA   

Guest: Adriaan Kruger, CEO and Co-Founder of nuvoteQ #HealthOnMonday: nuvoteQ: The SA company making waves in the global medtech field        

A look at the state of Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality Guest: Piet Odendaal, Mayor of Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality    

Analysis: The decision of Judge Piet Koen on recusing himself from arms deal case Guest: Benedict Phiri, Legal Analyst    

Dan Moyane is a South African-born host, journalist, and radio station manager. Moyane started as a trainee reporter and climbed to a news editor. Later, he moved from being a newsreader to a talk show host. From a station manager of 702, he became the executive chairperson of Primedia Broadcasting. Dan also worked for the British Broadcasting Corporation, as a freelance journalist, from 1985 to 1...

During the apartheid era in South Africa, Nigeria was one of the foremost supporters of anti-apartheid movements, including the African National Congress; the Nigerian government issued more than 300 passports to South Africans seeking to travel abroad. With change and the advent of democracy, a lot has changed between the two countries. Improvements in business and trade and a decay in social rel...

Desperate South Africans have fallen victim to solar energy scams, according to the SA Banking Risk Information Centre. And according to the Institute for Security Studies, there has also been an increase in house burglaries and robberies during load shedding. According to Sabric CEO Nischal Mewalall, the impact of load shedding on the banking industry had been an area of specific focus and planni...

#The Horizon Educational Trust Guest: Zafer Zor, School principal at Horizon High School  Guest: Kgomotso Shoke, Learner at Horizon High School  Transformational in intention, the Horizon Educational Trust has played a vital role in the development of South Africa youth by providing quality education and opportunities for academic excellence and social mobility to students from underprivileged bac...

#FASSET Women’s Legacy Programme Guest: Irene Charnley, President of the International Women's Forum South Africa (IWFSA)    The FASSET (Finance and Accounting Services Sector Education and Training Authority) Women’s Legacy Programme was launched last week and it seeks to empower executive and middle management women in the finance sector on leadership areas and will provide vital mentoring.  Nin...

# HealthOnMonday:   Support group Therapy Guest: MS Krystle Kemp, SADAG Support Group Co-ordinator Sadag, the South African Depression and Anxiety Group, is celebrating their third annual Support Group Awareness Week from today until Friday the 27th of January 2023. Their Support Group offering is very close to the work that they do, as Support Groups were the core of where it all began for SADAG....

#Enviro - The impact of technology on the agricultural sector in Kenya Digital agricultural services have proliferated across Africa over the last decade. Most are services that work on mobile phones, although more advanced technologies are in use too – like satellite images, sensors, blockchains and big data analytics.   Kenya is at the forefront of this development in Africa. The country is home...

#BATHOPELE: Trade Unions reply to the viral video of the MEC of Health in Limpopo Over the weekend, a series of videos went viral of the Limpopo MEC of Health reprimanding the staff of the Rethabile Community Health Centre in Polokwane. In one of the videos, MEC reprimanded a manager for taking lunch while patients were still waiting in long queues. DR RAMATHUBA x SUPERVISOR According to reports,...

Masehletse Lucy Balimba is an Economic Sociologist who spent the last 10, out of her 14 years of work experience, building strategic knowledge over a range of specialist communications areas. She has had experience providing strategic advice to a dynamic portfolio of JSE, FTSE 100 and NSE listed and unlisted clients on a range of issues that include strategic brand positioning, corporate M&As,...

In what can be described as a golden feather in the cap of Stellenbosch University's (SU) fast-expanding international collaborations, SU's Faculties of Law and of Economic and Management Sciences have partnered with the prestigious Harvard Law School's Institute for Global Law and Policy (IGLP) in the United States to host the Global Scholars Academy (GSA) in South Africa.   This initiative, whic...

GUEST: PROF INNOCENT PIKIRAYI MAARIF CENTRE FOR TURKISH STUDIES

GUEST: DR RHODA MALGAS

GUEST: LAWSON NAIDOO