The View Point

1. #ANCNEC (Will Magashule be asked to step aside according to the legal opinion? | Mbeki appears at NEC meeting as Pres. Ramaphosa does AU Chairperson duties) 2. #SADTU (Appealing the DBE decision to rewrite NSC Maths and Physical Science papers in court) 3. #VanDammeSabbitical (DA leader, John Steenhuisen, orders Phumzile van Damme to extend sick leave | DA will not enter in a coalition with EFF...

Work is good for your mental health but many employees with mental health-related disability face an uphill battle against discrimination, stigma and ignorance as they strive for equality and full participation in work. At the same time, employers who fail to offer reasonable accommodation or adapt working conditions or duties for an employee with psychosocial disability can find themselves on the...

The Nelson Mandela Foundation and the Hanns Seidel Foundation will be hosting a virtual dialogue event commemorating the passing of Nelson Mandela on the 5th of December. This dialogue will explore liberation’s social imaginaries in the contexts of profound social, political and economic divides. Guest: Sello Hatang - CEO | Nelson Mandela Foundation

Guest: Francois Britz - African Championship Debater & Professional Debate Coach

The final lecture in the series, titled “Arts and Culture as a mechanism for Liberation” will be delivered by theatre legend, award-winning actor, director, playwright, and anti-apartheid activist, Dr John Kani, who has spent his illustrious career telling the stories of the voiceless and giving dignity to those that the system mercilessly sought to deny this basic human right. This lecture will l...

The arts and culture sector in South Africa has been struggling for a number of years. However, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing lockdown – considered one of the harshest in the world – has brought this industry to its knees. Contributing an estimated 1.7 % to the GDP of South Africa, the industry has long been recognised as one critical to creating social cohesion and the progressi...

According to UNAIDS Seize the Moment Report on HIV/AIDS released earlier this year, while access to life-saving treatment has increased, inequalities still keep many women and children vulnerable in Africa. The report shows unequal progress, with too many vulnerable people and populations left behind. Gues: Yvette Raphael - Executive Director at Advocates for the Prevention of HIV in Africa (APHA

Mark is in conversation with the chairperson of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), Ms Sibongile Tshabalala… Their conversation will be based on Activism; Being a woman leader of the TAC; and the struggle around aids and health systems in South Africa. Guest: Sibongile Tshabalala - National Chairperson of the Treatment Action Campaign Guest: Dr Lekopane Mogaladi - CEO | Tembisa Hospital

After South Africa achieved its liberation in 1994, Mark Heywood joined the AIDS Law Project (ALP) alongside Justice Edwin Cameron and Zackie Achmat. His activism in civil society spans the whole of the democratic period in South Africa. Between 1997 and 2010 he was the head of the ALP, one of South Africa's most successful post-apartheid human rights organizations. Guest: Mr Mark Heywood - Social...

The highly infectious novel coronavirus has swept across the world, devastating health systems and laying waste to economies as governments introduced drastic measures to contain the spread. Not since the HIV/AIDS pandemic of the 1990s have countries faced such a common health threat. This explains why UNAIDS has selected the theme “Global Solidarity, Shared Responsibility” for this year’s World A...

Around 70 tourism SMME’s from various parts of the Northern Cape welcomed the initiative by South African Tourism to include a workshop as part of the recently launched Summer Campaign. The SMME’s formed part of proceedings at Naba Lodge in Upington this weekend and were exposed to a masterclass on doing business in a COVID-19 environment as well as expert advice on marketing and embracing digital...

The hard lockdown has been a missed opportunity for South Africa to turn the fight against gender-based violence (GBV) into one that successfully protects survivors, adequately deals with perpetrators, and prevents abuse from happening in the first place - this is according to Afrika Tikkun, an NPO dedicated to the reduction of the socio-economic challenges in south Africa. Guest: Alef Meulenberg...

1. #GordanVsMoyane (Moyane's legal team cross examines Gordan at Zondo Commission) 2. #LocalLockdown (National Coronavirus Command Council Meeting to add restriction on provincial and municipal level) 3. #Geoff Makhubo (R35.7 million in Payments made into his private company) 4. #PublicProtector ( Update on court case into CR17 funding) 5.#DA (SAPS must charge Malema with hate speech) Guest: Matsh...

Around the world, many people are choosing to delay treatment for serious and chronic ailments because they are worried about being exposed to COVID-19 in healthcare settings. Although there are no concrete figures, anecdotal evidence collected by members of the Hospital Association of South Africa (HASA) suggests that this worrying trend is also playing out in South Africa’s private clinical sett...

Guest: Professor Sakhela Buhlungu - Vice-Chancellor of the University of Fort Hare

The battle for the consumer’s money will be fierce this Black Friday. GfK’s Consumer Pulse research indicates that 71 percent of online consumers have seen their household income decrease and a third (32%) are experiencing lower expenditure. Guest: Nicolet Pienaar - Head of Market Insights | GfK

As #16DaysOfActivism campaign go into full swing countrywide, gender-based violence is especially harrowing for the queer community who regularly experience violence because of their gender expression and sexual identities. There have been concerns raised on whether the judicial system or law enforcement protect LGBTI rights. Guest: Lethabo Mailula - Academic and Gender Activist Guest: Steve Letsi...

The work of innovative entrepreneurs is to take new knowledge and opportunities to create new businesses, and even new markets, to deliver increasing value. In the framework of the United Nations (UN) 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), entrepreneurs are poised to make a significant impact on increasing people’s access to their human rights when they bring products and services to market that...

The COVID-19 pandemic gave the global economy very little time to prepare for what many economists had predicted would be a permanent shift in the future of work. How is this affecting Africa’s workplace & the economy? According to a report done by the Anzisha Prize, of the 2.1 billion people expected to join the global population between 2019 and 2050, half will be on the African continent – wher...

South African small and medium enterprises (SMEs) remain resilient and hopeful as they stay focused on the light at the end of the tunnel. The Business Partners Limited SME Index is a quarterly measure of the attitudes and confidence levels of South African SME owners. The SME Index saw a unanimous uptick across broad business confidence indicators. Local SMEs conveyed an average confidence level...

We’re talking about the unrests in the trucking industry – zooming in on the fight between SA truck drivers and foreign national truck drivers. Is there a scarcity of skilled SA truck drivers? Is it justified for SA truck drivers to say that their jobs are being taken by foreign truck drivers? Have there been any confirmed reports about falsified permits and licenses and cheap labour? How true is...

Making sense of Violence against women: A reflective conversation of women one generation apart on what they have learnt from their activism Mmatshilo Motsei is an author, speaker and spiritual healer with a keen interest in integrating indigenous wisdom with modern innovations. She started her career as a nurse, midwife, psychology graduate, social science researcher, rural development facilitato...

There are many inspirational South Africans but a few who have made the name that Lebogang Ramafoko has done, as the former Chief Executive of the Soul City Institute and now the current CEO of the Tekano Atlantic Fellowship Health Equity South Africa. Growing up in Munsieville, west of Johannesburg, Lebogang Ramafoko was raised by a father who worked flexi-hours in the taxi-industry and a mother...

Smoking cigarettes is the most harmful form of consuming nicotine and it is the duty of government, industry and society to ensure that smokers have access to less harmful nicotine products. Our next guests argues that South Africa’s approach to regulating less harmful nicotine products should include a review of the scientific evidence and best practices from other countries that are making rapid...

Last week, a group of international academics and lobbyists got together to discuss the impact the latest policies for drug control have had on the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals. This session addresses the impacts of the war on drugs on vulnerable populations, the consequences of the new movement towards legalization of recreational drugs, linkages of health treatment alternative...