The View Point

GUEST: Nosipho Hlatshwayo - Programme Manager at the South African Cities Network

what Israel backing Morocco means in the dispute over Western Sahara Songezo spoke to Prof Mammo Muchie - Analyst on Africa

GUEST  Joost Strydom   [• Head of the Orania Movement] @StrydomJoost GUEST    Karel Boshoff   [• Head of the Freedom Foundation - a research institute based in Orania ] GUESTS   Ismail Lagardien]  [• Writer, Columnist and Political economist]

Tomorrow morning, the Department of Strategic Communication at UJ will host a webinar to discuss the importance of media freedom during conflicts in the digital age. The focus will be on the implications of the banning of the Russian-backed channel Russia Today (RT) by Western controlled platforms which affected broadcasters such as Multichoice. As the media are always at the centre of global conf...

Although the Finance Minister, Enoch Godongwana, announced a temporary emergency intervention to reduce the general fuel levy by R1.50 to cushion cash strapped consumers, the Mineral Resources and Energy Department has announced an increase in all grades of petrol, diesel and paraffin. It remains to be seen how the intervention will help cushion consumers from sky high fuel prices; not even a week...

The Department of Social Development handed the Early Childhood Development (ECD) function over to the Minister of Basic Education. This handover came as a response to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s announcement during the 2019 State of the Nation Address (SoNA), that the responsibility for ECD centres would migrate from the Department of Social Development to Basic Education. It is said that t...

South Africa’s champions of heritage were honoured at the National Heritage Council’s NHC) annual Golden Shield Heritage Awards.  According to the Chief Executive Officer of the NHC, Dr Ndivhoniswani Lukhwareni, these awards are a means for the NHC to be able to identify quality projects and put them on a platform for the project leaders to grow while others learn from them. World...

We’re profiling a Researcher, Content Producer, Policy Academic and MSG Afrika’s Commercial & Stakeholder Relations Manager Sibongile Gangxa. She is also a thought leader contributor for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) training, at the Cohesion Collective. Here, she delves into issues of organizational culture change, transformation and other nuanced lived experiences of ma...

Optometry is a health care profession that is autonomous, educated and regulated, and Optometrists are the primary health care professionals of the eyes and visual system who provide comprehensive eye and vision care. World Optometry is Day was celebrated last week, in the same week as World Optometry Week, and it is a day set aside to celebrate every optometrist and eye care professional worldwid...

Today Statistician General Risenge Maluleke announced the unemployment statistics for the last quarter of 2021 and it seem like South Africa will be grappling with high unemployment figures for quite some time. But job scarcity is not unique to South Africa alone. Despite having human capital and a vibrant workforce, many African countries are battling to create secure jobs for their citizens.&nbs...

From 28 - 30 March, legal practitioners will come together for a workshop on how to better cooperate between agencies and countries on asset forfeiture cases. In a learning programme arranged by the Attorney General Alliance Africa (AGA-Africa) in collaboration with the Pan African Bar Association of South Africa (PABASA), a national association of advocate practitioners the workshop will cover va...

We’re in conversation with Abner Mariri, he recently launched his book titled THE DOOR. Abner says, “This isn’t your usual ‘township boy memoir’ - this is a gritty, scary and too real story that could happen to anyone”. The Door – An Addict’s Journey, candidly tells a story of a man who is in constant danger, depravity and has unquenchable thirst for...

When Cynthia Stimpel was appointed Group Treasurer of South African Airways, she thought she had found her dream job, and that she would be at SAA for years. While on a walking pilgrimage in France in 2016, she received word from a colleague that a dirty deal between SAA and BNP Capital had been signed off – a deal against which Cynthia had given strict orders. Despite knowing that she might...

This weekend, the Javett Art Centre at the University of Pretoria (Javett-UP) will be opening the much-anticipated Yakhal’ Inkomo exhibition, the first curatorial iteration from the Bongi Dhlomo collection. Yakhal’ Inkomo aims to incite, inspire and sustain new engagement with various creative forms that are at the heart of articulating a raw and truthful experience of apartheid. ...

The right to adequate housing is an important basic human right which is recognised in the Constitution and international human rights instruments. Housing provides shelter, a place to eat, sleep, relax and raise a family. The right to adequate housing ensures that people enjoy physical and mental health and live in a safe place in peace and dignity. But in South Africa, owning or staying in a dec...

On this year’s Human Rights Day we are marking 62 years since the brutal Sharpeville massacre where the still-alive apartheid regime murdered almost 70 Black African working class people for defying the unjust pass law system. Have we seen significant changes since the democratic dispensation? Are we seeing the much needed  socio-economic gains for the working class majority?. Despite b...

Julia Chaskalson of SECTION 27 argues that for healthcare, a post-pandemic human rights-focused budget would have allocated funding specifically for backlogs in access to health services from the past two years, as well as tackling the present inequities in access to healthcare that characterise the public health system. She says that this year’s budget does not do enough to enable the gover...

Last week, international credit bureau TransUnion, confirmed that it was a victim of a hack by a 'criminal third party'. The company also confirmed that it will not be paying the extortion demand that was received. Data breaches have been on the rise globally and South Africa has seen unprecedented increases in the number of cyber victims. Over the past two years, companies have been reporting tha...

  GUEST: Adv. Dali Mpofu – Senior Counsel GUEST: Nelvis Qekema – President of Azanian People’s Organization

  GUEST: Moky Makura - Executive Director of Africa No Filter GUEST: Adv. Dali Mpofu – Senior Counsel

Over 2000 military veterans plan to bring a class-action suit against President Cyril Ramaphosa over unpaid benefits. The former MK, APLA, and AZANLA members are demanding R4 million each. They claim the President disregarded their demands for reparations and benefits which include pensions, housing, and medical benefits among others. Last month, they marched to the Union Buildings but there were...

We’re talking about the National State of Disaster and what the possible outcomes for the Command Council meeting could be. If there is an extension - what would it entail?  If it is done away with, will it mean the end of social distancing and the death of a vaccination drive that has been battling to get a favourable response? Title:         &nb...

Tomorrow, the Walk Free Foundation project, will host an event for a global signing declaration to end modern day slavery. Other events have taken place in the DRC and in kenya. This global initiative was started with Pope Francis declaring his support at the Vatican and calling on global leaders to support this important movement. In a just world, everyone, everywhere has the right to a life free...

Social enterprise, Kusini Water, based in Gauteng builds water treatment systems from nanotechnology and macadamia nut shells. A few months ago, they launched their biggest water purification plant at eMalahleni in partnership with DuPoint, producing 10,000 litres of water per hour. With so many parts of the country facing a water crisis, we hear more about this social enterprise and what it hopes...

#TuesdayTakeover - Kenneth McCallion   Kenneth McCallion heads an accomplished team of civil litigation and human rights attorneys at McCallion & Associates LLP in New York. He is an internationally recognized expert on various fields in the law industry.  McCallion spent the early part of his law career working as a federal prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice, handling hi...