The View Point

Atilla Dag – Executive Director at Universal Rights Association spoke to Asanda Beda about the Concert for Refugees that’ll be help on Friday the 21st of June at the Linder Auditorium A Concert for Refugees will be held at the Linder Auditorium, Johannesburg on June 21st, 2019, a day after World Refugee Day to create awareness about the challenges of the refugees and other forcibly displaced peopl...

Asanda Beda spoke to Martin Mande – representative of the Refugee Communities Organisation AND Albert Mpazayabo who has has been in South Africa since 1997 – He left his home country (Rwanda) in 1994 during the war and he is currently based in Cape Town World Refugee Day, international observance observed June 20 each year, is dedicated to raising awareness of the situation of refugees throughout...

Asanda Beda spoke to Monako Dibetle – Former Mail ad Guardian Journalist, PR and Marketing Specialist. His father was a policeman during the time of the massacre and the trauma had a huge effect on the family As part of youth month, we look at various life changing moments in our country’s history that young people need to be educated and engaged on. Today we zoom in on the Boipatong massacre. On...

Asanda Bed was in conversation with Dr Nelson Igaba, a Senior Technical Advisor for Medical Male Circumcision Programmes at Right to Care. Circumcision season is underway and around this time of the year (when it’s winter holidays) boys are sent to initiation schools and some are taken to clinics to get circumcised. We’re in conversation with Right To Care, an NGO that plays a pivotal role in rais...

Asanda Beda was in conversation with Tracey Henry – CEO at Tshikululu Social Investment about NGO fraud and corruption. Illicit flow of funds in the NGO sector: How much do NGOs know about their funders and where their aid comes from? I the past couple of years we’ve heard numerous reports about corruption, fraud and illicit flow of funds and some of these reports link a number of NGOs. With the r...

Asanda Beda spoke to Ms Hester Stephens – President of SADSAWU (South African Domestic Service and Allied Workers Union) about the costs of having a domestic worker and the working conditions which some domestics workers are exposed to. On May 23rd, a judge ruled in the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria that the exclusion of domestic workers in the Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases...

Guests: Youth Squad - Zanele, Tulz, Kourtney from Blom, Marelize from CP, Sima from PE and Dr Foster

Guest: Dr Foster

Guest: Simi Siwisa is an executive director of Stratvest, a research and advisory firm

#YouthInDialogue #OwnYourSpace #SAfmJune16 Questioning the high youth unemployment in South Africa #YouthInConvo

Figures from Statistics South Africa show increasingly more young people are out of work. Guest: 5 Squad - ZAnele and Tulz Guest: Risenga Maluleke - Statistician general

The Jesuit Institute has launched a new documentary: Cape Town exposed beyond the beaches”. The documentary reveals the despicable reality of the crime and desperation lived in Nyanga. In stark contrast to the Cape Town known to many — as a tourist’s paradise — we wanted to highlight the inequality and the multitude of problems faced by its people. Guest: Ricardo da Silva -who was part of the crew...

Earlier this year Cyril Ramaphosa made it very clear that inclusion will be an objective he intends to see come to fruition during his presidency. This is commendable – but is it realistic? Jenny Retief is of the opinion that coding alone will not prepare today’s children to face the fourth industrial revolution. She continues to say There should be a shift. Moving into Grade R and up, rather than...

According to Deloitte’s 2019 Millennial Survey, 58% of currently employed South African millennials believe that Industry 4.0 will make it harder to get a job in the future and 53% plan to leave their current employers within two years. Further to this, millennials believe business is most responsible for training workers to meet evolving challenges, while Gen Zs put this responsibility on academi...

The National Department of Arts & Culture (DAC) in the partnership with State-Owned Entities Communicators Association (SOECA) will host the final colloquium in celebration of Africa month focusing on the imaging of Africa and the forging of intra- African solidarity for Africa's people. The theme of solidarity has been part of many conversations this Africa month – why is Africa divided; what are...

Ms Thandi Modise is currently serving as Speaker of the National Assembly of South Africa. She served as chairperson of the National Council of Provinces from 2014 to 2019. She left South Africa in 1976 to join the African National Congress and received training in Angola. Ms Modise has recently assumed her role as speaker of parliament – we engage her on various issues including the composition o...

The Constitution of the Republic stipulates that the President must assume office within five days of being elected by the National Assembly – and thereafter appoint a Cabinet and assign its powers and functions. President Ramaphosa has announced his new cabinet – what do you make of it? Are you happy with it? Was it enough to cut the departments from 36 to 28 or could he have made more cuts? What...

Live from the union buildings in Pretoria where the President of the Republic was announcing the new cabinet

Children need families and communities who have courage to take steps to protect them and address all forms of violations of their rights. We also need to familiarise ourselves with Children’s rights covered in Chapter 2, Section 28 (1 d & e) of the Constitution of South Africa of 1996 which states that every child has the right to be protected from maltreatment, neglect, abuse or degradation. But...

Short-term insurance is something that many people buy and know just the A.B.Cs of (i.e. we need insurance to protect ourselves; if we don’t pay a premium it’ll affect the claim; insurance premiums go up every 18 to 24 months). But how often do we ask “Is this insurance right for me” or “Am I underinsured”? How much do we understand about insurance? Are we paying too much or too little for our ins...

The Africa Criminal Justice Reform’s (ACJR) released a report titled “Liberty not the only loss: the socio-economic impact of remand detention in the Western Cape” – it investigates the socio-economic impact of remand detention at Pollsmoor Remand and Pollsmoor Female prisons in the Western Cape. The report focusses on accused persons held in remand and the impact on their families and dependents....

Sipho Simelane shares his story on what happened in four days while he was trying to kill himself before he turned 41. A Killer In My Head is a book that includes poems written in hospital and stories about friends that he met in hospital. We engage him on suicide and why it seems to have a hold on more men. We also talk to him about the need to intensify access to psychological health services in...

When President Cyril Ramaphosa took the oath of office to become the country’s sixth democratically-elected Head of State on Saturday, another South African was on her own path to greatness - in the skies. KZN Ntuzuma-born Major Mandisa Nomcebo Mfeka made history of her own by becoming the first black woman combat fighter pilot in the country. At the presidential inauguration, recognition was also...

Two weeks ago, the Methodist Church of Southern Africa celebrated with jubilation and thanksgiving, the election of Rev Purity Malinga as Presiding Bishop who will succeed Bishop Ziphozihle Siwa. Having endured the cross and discrimination of patriarchy for over 200 years, women of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa (MCSA) have finally broken through the stained glass ceiling by the election...

On the 08th of May we spoke to Raymond Perrier, Director of the Denis Hurley, and we were tracking the progress they made as the centre was used as a voting station. The Centre had also been involved with assisting homeless people to get ID documentation. During our interview, Raymond mention two women (Nosipho Makhanya and Thandeka Magwaza) who were part of a group of around 200 homeless people w...