The View Point

Parental alienation is a set of processes and behaviors conducted by a parent to deliberately damage the relationship between a child and another parent. In 2005, the United Nations' World Health Organization adopted this definition as part of their International Classification of Diseases and many advocates of father’s rights consider parental alienation a human rights violation. There is an Amen...

1. #COVID-19Vaccine (Dr. Zweli Mkhize holds media briefing to outline government procurement plans for the vaccine) 2. #MohokareRiverBorder (death of six people at Lesotho-SA & beefing up of border management as commuters return to work) 3. #AlcoholBan (Marked decrease in trauma unit caseload at Baragwanath Hospital & fewer road accidents recorded in GP) 4. #MatricResults2021 (Marking of NSC final...

Slay Queen Cleaning Service Helpers cook, clean and wash for us. They know some of our deepest secrets, and even know what the husband’s boxers look like. Without them, some families would be in chaos. Domestic workers are becoming so powerful that many marriages and relationships are threatened. There are cases of men sleeping with their helpers and it is said that these women are often younger,...

The South African Emergency Personnel’s Union (SAEPU) has expressed its concern about government’s readiness to deal with the second wave of Covid-19. They say that their concern was triggered by the number of deaths and positive cases reported per day recently and the report that the country has crossed the 1 million mark of positive cases. The other worrying factor which they have brought up is...

On Monday evening, the President announced that the country will be going back to lockdown alert level 3 – which means the will be no alcohol sold, gatherings are prohibited and the curfew has been extended. When the country first went into lockdown, there we several complaint about the deployment of the SANDF and the harassment that people are faced with. Now that the SANDF is no longer around an...

The vaccine race and the challenges facing the continent when it comes to accessing affordable medication We have seen a lot of South Africans complain about why the state is waiting until May 2021 for vaccine distribution when the Kenya and Morocco are getting their dosages before the end of next month. Whilst people love to point at our late payment to COVAX facility as a reason, there may be ot...

We’re in conversation with Mokhudu Machaba, a foundation phase teacher from Ngwanamago Primary School in Polokwane, Limpopo. She has spent the last 17 years of her life as a teacher and as much as teaching has brought her tremendous joy, she admitted it was a career she was never interested in. Earlier this month, Mokhudu was named as a top ten finalist in the Global Teacher Prize 2020, which reco...

We’re in conversation with Dr. Ismail Mahomed from the UKZN’s Centre for Creative Arts. He will talk to us about Covid-19 has had an impact on the four large festivals - Time of the Writer festival (in March), Durban International Film Festival (July), Jomba Festival (August) and Poetry Africa (September). He will also talk to us about the UKZN Centre for Creative Arts’ plans for 2021, kicking off...

Does South Africa suffer from the same denialismwith Covid-19 that we saw when the AIDS pandemic came about? Guest: Dr Renne Schetteman - Associate Professor of Postcolonial and World Literature | Georgia State University

As a former high school teacher, she was frustrated when disadvantaged students African failed to seize opportunities for further learning as provided by government and private funders. As she worked as co-ordinator of the Nelson Mandela-Fidel Castro Medical Collaboration programme in the School of Clinical Medicine at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, she realised that transnational partnerships a...

Eased lockdown levels and social grants may have provided relief to some, but the queues for food support remain long at Mustadafin Foundation. According to data analysed by iKapaData, Mustadafin was the largest distributor of food in the Western Cape during lockdown. During the course of the lockdown, Mustadafin supplied 406 572 people with nutritious cooked meals, thanks to the tireless efforts...

As many countries around the world have already started celebrating Christmas, our homes are filled with lengthy debates on what will make it to the Christmas lunch table this year. Will trifle still be the king of desserts? Which salads will be outlawed? Will the box of Choice Assorted biscuits to entertain unexpected guests? Who will be chopping? Who will be cleaning after all is said and done?...

This time of the year comes with a lot of traveling and visiting families in the rural homesteads. Over the years, we have seen a number of women who opt to bring their domestic workers with when going to family gatherings that entail domestic work. Today we’re asking, where should the role of the domestic worker end and when is time for one to handle the ‘makoti’ duties by themselves? Is it okay...

The South African Government Leaders on Twitter is a newly launched report which aims to prioritize building a capable state through trends and best practice of communicating in the digital age. The purpose of this report is to put a spotlight on the presence and activity of South African government leaders in the Cabinet and provincial Executive Councils on Twitter. The report is quantitative in...

The festive season is upon us and it has been a tough financial year for South Africans. With 78% of consumers still experiencing the effects of the pandemic in the finances, this has meant that many intend on reducing their holiday shopping spend. Our next guest suggests that there is an affordable alternative to gifting friends and family: subscription. Rentoza offers gift givers a way to treat...

With online delivery demand soaring and just ahead of festive season mayhem, app-based delivery service Quench has expanded their offering to include on-demand delivery of Dis-Chem. Quench will deliver the retailer’s goods at store prices across major cities in South Africa. According to our next guest, Quench has re-engineered their app a few times since the start of lockdown. As a result, the de...

Earlier this year, we had a conversation about COVID-19 related retrenchments and spoke listeners whose industries were directly affected. At the time of the interview, over 3 million people had either been retrenched or forlorn as a result of the pandemic. Today, we catch up with these men and women who shared their journey and see what they up to now. Guest: Refiloe Seseko - Event Manager | Circ...

Ukukipita, Masihlalisane, Vat ‘n sit or cohabitation, is a reality in Southern Africa. Yet despite the many reasons for couples opting out of tying the official knot, many people in these relationships find that legal rights protecting them are far less than for their married counterparts. They also find that culturally, they have to keep their living arrangements a secret because it is unheard of...

We look back on our first #TuesdayTakeOver co-host, Member of EFF and Parliamentarian, Naledi Chirwa who spoke about dignity, decolonization and systemic injustice in her profile interview. She also touched on the foundation laid by the class of 1976. Let us look back at her interview on decriminalization of sex with Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng of Commission for Gender Equality and Dr Katlego Rasebitsi o...

We look back on our #TuesdayTakeOver co-host, Teresa Oakley-Smith who spoke about diversity and the importance of Heritage month in her profile interview. She also touched on white privilege and the state of the country. Let us look back at her interview on conflict resolution, transformation and Organizational Change with Zed Xaba.

Every Tuesday since June, we have brought you co-hosts from all walks of life: Ambassadors, Members of Parliament, social justice Activists, Entrepreneurs, Academics, Stalwarts, CEOs, Journalists, Actors, Theologians, Doctors, Playwrights and many well-known South Africans. At first, the purpose of the new feature was to provide a platform that would bring forward the issues that are foremost to t...

Today we turn our attention to bone marrow transplants – we often have conversations about organs donations and blood donations, but we seldom look at the bone marrow. Do we know all there is to know about it and do we understand what a person who needs a transplant needs? A few weeks ago, South Africa reached a milestone when the South African Bone Marrow Registry (SABMR) received the nod from it...

Last week, the Department of Social Development launched the Unaccompanied Children’s Funding Programme which is aimed at mitigating some of the challenges faced by unaccompanied minors as the country is battling with the global Covid-19 pandemic. South Africa has over the years experienced the migration of unaccompanied and undocumented children, especially, from SADC countries such as Zimbabwe,...

We’re in conversation with the Gauteng department of education; tomorrow, they will open their online applications for the 2021 academic year. The online system has been riddles with glitches and many parents have expressed their frustrations. There have also been concerns about learner placements and the delay in responding to parents who have declined the placement that they got. Guest: Steve Ma...

On Tuesday night, South Africa’s promising young scientists were honoured at the 2020 Eskom Expo virtual awards ceremony. Top performing learners who submitted their research in the Eskom Expo online assessments, were awarded prizes in the form of bursaries and scholarships sponsored by the University of Pretoria and the Wits University to study toward degrees in science, technology, engineering a...