The View Point

Songezo Mabece spoke to Siya Qoza – Spokesperson for the Minister of Home Affairs (Dr Siyabonga Cwele) about the upgrades that have been launched in the Stellenbosch Home Affairs office. The state-of-the-art infrastructure will ensure that applicants no longer wait up to six months for an ID, as smart IDs will be issued within a week. They also spoke about the systems upgrades and the challenges t...

Dr Gerard Hagg - Chief research specialist in the Democracy and Governance research programme at the HSRC (Human Sciences Research Council) talks about the publication HSRC’s publication titled The Poverty and Inequality – Diagnosis, Prognosis and Responses. South Africa is now considered the most unequal country in the world; in addition, the complexity of poverty and inequality, and the multiple...

Songezo Mabece spoke to Nkcubeko Mbambisa - Director at Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr Inc. AND Yonela Mvana – Director at Mvana & Associates Inc. AND Provincial Deputy Chairperson of the Black Management Forum (BMF) in the Western Cape about their journey to the executive positions that they hold in Cape Town’s corporate world; we get their views on ‘the struggles faced by black professionals in Cape Town...

- Safe Schools Seminar (Friday 10th May) Songezo Mabece spoke to Marc Hardwick - MD of The Guardian: a specialist child abuse Investigation Company about the Safe Schools Seminar taking place in Durban on the 10th of May. The seminar is the first in a series of day-long seminars to interrogate ways of making schools a safer place for high school learners. Educators, Governing Bodies and other stak...

Songezo Mabece spoke to Prof Shadreck Chirikure - Head of the Department of Archaeology at the University of Cape Town Professor Shadreck Chirikure is one of only 10 recipients of the inaugural and fiercely competitive British Academy Global Professorships. He won this accolade last month for his work dating historical artefacts and the study of pre-colonial urban societies in Africa. Chirikure, w...

The IEDC-Bled School of Management, in partnership with various stakeholders, will deliver the first ADVANCED MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP PROGRAM in Africa. The programme will cover 2 modules of 5 days in Kenya and in Slovenia and it will cover themes around: Leadership for High Performance, Strategy and Change Management, Decision Making, Big Data Analytics AND Purchasing Management Guest: Nontwenh...

The Centre for Social Development in Africa (CSDA) at the University of Johannesburg (UJ), recently released the findings of its second survey on voting behaviour titled: The 2019 elections: Socio-economic performance and voter preferences. The study tracks the drivers of voter behaviour over a twelve month period and it measures the influence of socio-economic rights delivery, issues of governanc...

Today marked day one of the 2019 Africa's Travel Indaba which is being held at the Inkosi Albert Luthuli International Convention Centre in Durban. In February this year when President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the 2019 general election date, there were concerns about how this would affect the Indaba – which is dubbed the African continent's biggest travel exhibition show. GUEST: Ayanda Allie-Pain...

We’re in conversation with Mobi Dixon, Tats Nkonzo and Dj PH – talking about the journey of working their way from East London to international stages. How do they sustain their careers and what does their success mean for the people of their home province? GUESTS: Tats Nkonzo, Mobi Dixo and Dj PH

Today being Workers’ Day, we zoom in on the contentious issue of executive remuneration in our country. Are South Africa company executives being fairly remunerated, considering the amount of industrial action that our country has had because of minimum wage disputes? Is the pay gap between CEO and man on the ground rational and justifiable? GUEST: Mr Bonolo Ramokhele – Treasurer General of the Bl...

We speak to members of Team E-Smart – a group of four students from Rhodes University who beat 45 other teams when they won the 2019 Hult Prize regional summit, which was held at the Brookhouse International School in Nairobi, Kenya last week. The Hult Prize challenges innovative university and college students from across the world to create a social entrepreneurship start-up that will create mor...

Justice Kriegler hasn’t been a stranger to South African media in past couple of years; he has always been vocal and he has always done his part to uphold our democracy. A week before we head to the polls for our sixth general election since the dawn of democracy in 1994, we engaged him on various issues relating to democracy and governance, elections in South Africa (and Africa) and the rule of l...

Songezo Mabece was in conversation with Nonthuthuzelo Somdyala – a Senior Scientist in the Burden of Disease Research Unit of the medical Research Council AND she is also a member of the Ministerial Advisory Committee on the Prevention and Control of Cancer. They spoke about cancer in South Africa and what contributes to it becoming a crisis and what makes it grow rapidly among the South African p...

Songezo Mabece spoke to Verne Harris – Head of Leadership and Knowledge Development at the Nelson Mandela Foundation – about ‘Why should the old South African flag be banned?’- The Nelson Mandela foundation first approached South Africa’s Equality Court in February last year, following the so-called Black Monday protests in October 2017, when the old flag made its appearance as part of a protest a...

Sogezo was in conversation with Professor Barbara Boswell - Associate Professor for English Literature at UCT AND Shanel Johannes – Masters Student at UCT (she is working with Prof Boswell on the petition) about a report, titled Age- and education-related effects on cognitive functioning in colored South African women, which has sparked outrage but Stellenbosch University's Faculty of Medicine and...

South Africans have on many occasions proven to be a nation that thrives and finds solutions to difficult problems through dialogue, discussion and reaching out to one another. But why are we not overcoming the hurdles that are blocking our progress in inclusively embracing our indigenous languages? When declaring 2019 as the INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF INDIGENOUT LANGUAGES (IYIL2019), UNESCO stated tha...

South Africans have on many occasions proven to be a nation that thrives and finds solutions to difficult problems through dialogue, discussion and reaching out to one another. But why are we not overcoming the hurdles that are blocking our progress in inclusively embracing our indigenous languages? When declaring 2019 as the INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF INDIGENOUT LANGUAGES (IYIL2019), UNESCO stated tha...

Guests : Miranda Madikane - Director of the Scalabrini Centre of Cape Town (an NGO which provides specialized services for refugee, migrant and South African communities in Cape Town) AND Abigail Dawson - Media and Communications Officer at the Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in South Africa – CoRMSA) (the NGO coordinates and represents over 25 organizations in South Africa working with migra...

Guest : Dr Abraham Serote – Director for Social Cohesion at the Department of Arts and Culture Tomorrow evening, the National Department of Arts and Culture in partnership with the Eastern Cape Provincial Department of Sports, Recreation, Arts and Recreation will be hosting a Freedom Month Dialogue as part of the build-up activities for 2019 Freedom Day. This panel discussion on social cohesion, c...

Guests : Michael Masutha – Minister of the Department of Justices and Correctional Services AND Clare Ballard – Attorney at Lawyers for Human Rights and Head of the Prisoners’ Rights Litigation Programme With the month of April being Human Right’s month, we zoom in on the rights of inmates. While many people believe that inmates shouldn’t have rights, the Constitution says otherwise. • It is very...

Songezo Mabece spoke to Gideon Chitanga – Political Analyst and Expert on African Governance issues about what other African countries can learn from South Africa’s democracy South Africa is 2 weeks away from the 6th General Election and when comparing elections seasons with our African counterparts, is there nothing that Africa can learn from us? Would we be pompous if we said – and if we agreed...

An improvement, but transformation still trumps sustainability Songezo Mabece spoke to Terence Corrigan - Project Manager at the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) – about the Mining Charter We’re in conversation with the Institute of Race Relations about what they term “Government Interference in the mining sector” – The IRR released a report titled The September 2018 Mining Charter: An improvemen...

Songezo Mabece was in conversation with Dr Michael Gastrow - A research specialist in the Education and Skills Development research programme at the HSRC (Human Sciences Research Council) AND Dr Sibongiseni Thotsejane – Co-Founder of FlavaLite Innovations, Adjunct Senior Lecturer at UCT and IT Lecturer at Walter Sisulu University about the 4th Industrial Revolution Can you imagine a world where cy...

Songezo Mabece is in conversation with Mpho Mpogeng – President of the South African Emergency Personnel Union (SAEPU) AND Jolene Page – She is a paramedic, she has been working this weekend and she’s also part of the Community Medics Media team, talking about the plight of EMS workers We’re wrapping up the Easter Weekend and in a couple of hours, reports will be handed in and the Easter Weekend A...

Guests: Prof Digby Sqhelo Koyana – Advocate of the High Court of South Africa and author of a textbook titled: Customary Law in a Changing Society Adv. James Pusch Commey – Author of 100 Great African Kings and Queens, Researcher and Advocate of the High Court of South Africa Inkosikazi Nosandi Mhlauli - Deputy Chairperson of the National House of Traditional Leaders Zolani Mkiva – Secretary Gener...