The View Point

Globally, weaknesses in health-care systems have been exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, including the provision of sexual and reproductive health information and services, which have been severely disrupted. The consequences will be felt at all levels – families, communities, and countries. During pandemics, women and girls are among the most severely affected population groups, with a heigh...

A shift to remote learning and teaching in 2020 wasn’t easy for South Africa. One of the main roadblocks was connectivity: many students lacked affordable access to the internet to participate in virtual classrooms. In response, educational institutions started offering data packages and even zero-rating online resources – meaning students could access them without needing or using any...

  Zuma Corruption case Unrests, looting and racism (in Phoenix) - is it a state of emergency? EFF and DA’s views on the public protecting its resources Caf Final – Ohh Kaizer Chiefs   Title:                   [• Mr.]    Name:          &nb...

The 67 Logos Designathon is back again, this time it was hosted by Over the Rainbow. This is an initiative aimed at helping SME’s and entrepreneurs by giving them the boost that they need at no cost to the SME/entrepreneur. The 67 Logos campaign is important, now more than ever as we are currently living in a pandemic which is negatively affecting a lot of small businesses and entrepreneurs....

Born on the cusp of South Africa’s new dawn, Lebo Lion is a rainbow nation millennial marketer from the humble streets of Vosloorus township and the bustling corridors of Johannesburg, a unique combination of grit & street smarts.    The daughter of a Woolworths trolley parker turned entrepreneur, & cleaning lady turned corporate executive Lebo Lion is the product of resili...

Prof Kopano Ratele | Author “Liberating Masculinities”

Ziyanda Stuurman | Author / MA Security Studies Author “ Can we be safe? The future of policing in South Africa ”   Caryn Dolley | Author / Reporter Author “ The enforcers, inside cape town’s deadly nightclub battle ”             “ To the Wolves, how traitor cops crafted South Africa’s underworld...

Prof. Lindy Heinecken  | Lecturer Industrial and Political Sociology – Stellenbosch University Lecturer in Industrial and Political Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology , Stellenbosch University

Title:            [• Mr]    Name:       [• Xolani Dube]   Position at organisation:  [• Senior Political Researcher at Xubera Institute for Research and Development] 

PART 2 of Pitch Battles: Sport, racism and resistance Just a year after the controversial D’Oliveira affair, the organised disruption of the all-white 1969/70 South African rugby and cricket tours to Britain represented a significant challenge to apartheid politics. Led by future cabinet minister Peter Hain, the ‘Stop the Seventy Tour’ campaign brought about the cancellation of b...

Gabriella Nechama Farber is a Jewish activist, an ANC deployee in the Wits SRC 2021 committee as a legal officer. She sits on the national committee of the ANC Women’s League Young Women’s Desk’s health subcommittee.      Gabi went to Yeshiva College (a religious Jewish only girls high school) and then went on to a women’s seminary in the old city of Jer...

Last year, Adcock Ingram OTC started a campaign looking for the ordinary South African healthcare providers in pharmacies. The Sponsors of Brave campaign aims to celebrate these unsung heroes of brave, professionals who walk the extra mile attending to the medical and healthcare needs in their communities making a real impact Title:           &nbsp...

Stokfolio is a continuous crowd funding  model designed by Fincamp for its participants to build a passive income portfolio from small businesses using their Stokvel savings.  Founded by a former investment banker-turned-entrepreneur, the rules of engagement are being rewritten as far as connecting startups with funding opportunities. We’re in conversation with Founding CEO of Finc...

By easing some of the industrialization constraints, the regional economy can generate more than sufficient jobs and reduce the youth unemployment rate. This is according to Lebo Letsoalo, founder and Managing Director of SINCPOINT.   Title:            [• Ms]    Name:           ...

Nkandla Angie Motshekga is acting president of the republic The reinstatement of the UIF covid-19 Ters scheme Jacob Zuma’s application for a rescission of his 15-month sentence  Title:       [• Dr. (Mr) ]    Name:        [• Metji Makgoba ]  Position at organisation:  [• Independent Political A...

Pitch Battles: Sport, racism and resistance We’re in conversation with Prof Andre Odendaal, an Honorary Professor in History and Heritage Studies at the University of the Western Cape and a former first-class cricketer and anti-apartheid activist. Now he has authored and co-author dozens of books on the social history of sport and the history of the liberation struggle in South Africa, but today t...

Ari Katz – CEO of Boston City Campus & Business College Ari served articles of clerkship with Levitt Kirson and subsequently joined Ernst and Young in 1983. He was appointed a partner in the informations system audit department and was involved in audits of national and international companies whilst conducting extensive consulting in the area of information systems auditing. Ari has also been ext...

The Board of Healthcare Funders (BHF) in collaboration with the Industry Technical Advisory Committee (ITAC) has developed an Alternative Reimbursement Model (ARM) tool for the healthcare sector in response to the ongoing impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in South Africa and in particular its management from a health financing perspective. The alternative reimbursement model tool is aimed at assisti...