The View Point

In most cases, there are many things that lead to car accidents and we tend to miss them. What is it that investigators and accident construction professionals find at this time of the year? Is there something that we’re battling to understand about road crashes hence there are so many of them? GUEST: Darrell Strydom - Accident Analyst and convener of the Magalies Drive Safe Campaign

LISTENERS’ OPINION ‘Only when we understand how sacrifice can be a force for good, have we any hope of restraining our destructive capabilities’ unknown The Easter period begins with the fast for Lent which is a 40 day period where people fast to repent. As a part of the Easter season, the death of Jesus Christ by crucifixion is commemorated on Good Friday, which is the Friday before Easter Sunday...

Guest : Ferrial Adam - Associate and Climate Activists at COPAC COP25 will be held in Chile in December 2019 – world governments will sign agreements and promise to honour all sorts of policies that advance environmental sustainability. But how many of the previous agreements have been fully honoured? Ok, say we put politics aside and introspect on our individual consciousness of matters pertainin...

Songezo Mabece spoke to Makwe Masilela - Chief Investment Officer at Makwe Fund Managers (Pty) Ltd. about the significant number of rich and/or highly skilled people who are migrating to others countries. Global wealth migration is accelerating ad South Africa is not immune to this. According to a report by New World Health, about 3 000 super-rich (those with wealth of about R14m or more) "migrate...

Songezo Mabece spoke to Zwelinzima Nkwinti, a Sport lover and founder of Amazing Events, about the Royal St Andrews Hotel Amanzi Challenge EASTER in Kowie is set to be filled with boundless sports excitement as Amazing Events presents the Royal St Andrews Hotel Amanzi Challenge to kick off at various water and beach locations from the 19th of April. Amanzi promotes adventure and water sports among

Songezo Mabece spoke to Judge Albie Sachs - an activist and a former judge on the Constitutional Court of South Africa about the Legacy of our democracy and the importance of protecting our Constitution and the rule of law (now more than ever) We’re in conversation with Judge Albie Sachs, who delivered the keynote address at the Trialogue Business in Society Conference in Sandton. In his address,...

Guest: Mustafa Mehta – Head of the African Desk at Media Review Network Libya is on fired and with every conversation that we hear, colonial influence is at the root of the unrest. When you take a closer look at most of the problems that Africa faces, one sees the ghost or hidden hand of colonial imperialists in one form or another (e.g. Libya, Sudan, Algeria, Boko Haram in Nigeria, the terror thr...

Aadil Patel - National Practice Head, Director of the Employment Practice at Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr (CDH) Political campaigning in the workplace is not illegal, but there are restrictions that apply. With the general elections looming, how can employers and employees avoid potential conflict? What are the rights and responsibilities that are laid out in South African labour law? • Can it be avoided...

The African’s experience in the workplace and the institutional shortcomings I the protection of African professional advancement Guest : Andile Nomlala – President of the Black Management Forum We’re in conversation with the Black Management Forum about a range of issues, including it having the youngest President; the mandate of the BMF and the lobbying powers that it has with business and polit...

#TheAfrikanNarrative: Iyeza Health receives funding from Bill & Melinda Gaates Foundation Guest:: Sizwe Nzima - Founder of Iyeza Health, a service that delivers chronic medication to residents in Khayelitsha Iyeza Health startup has received $10 000 (est. R140 000) from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation after winning the foundation’s Vaccine Delivery challenge. Sizwe Nzima, a Social Entrepreneur...

Alternative Sources of Government Revenue in South Africa – where are they and why hasn’t anyone tapped into them? Guest:: Dr Bhaso Yalezo – Lecturer at the UKZN Graduate School of Business (they are the conveners of the public talk) The University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) will host the 7th Business Forum of the UKZN Graduate School of Business and Leadership themed: Alternative Sources of Governme...

Guest:: Zolani Mkiva – Secretary General and Spokesperson for Contralesa (Congress of Traditional Leaders in South Africa) The VhaVenda king Khosikhulu Toni Mphephu Ramabulana's ascension to the throne has been challenged by his niece, daughter of the previous king for a couple of years now. Princess vhoMasindi Ramabulana says she was sidelined because she is a woman. Last week, the Supreme Court...

LISTENERS’ OPINION ‘Only when we understand how sacrifice can be a force for good, have we any hope of restraining our destructive capabilities’ unknown The Easter period begins with the fast for Lent which is a 40 day period where people fast to repent. As a part of the Easter season, the death of Jesus Christ by crucifixion is commemorated on Good Friday, which is the Friday before Easter Sunday...

Guest:: Sihle Bolani – Author, Strategist and Facilitator Corporate South Africa is not immune to the challenges that we see in government institutions –From structural racism in organisations and the role executives play in sustaining discriminatory practices, to the emotional and psychological trauma suffered by black professionals as a result of corporate abuse and the suppression of black tale...

GUEST (studio): Adv Dali Mpofu This is part one of our election readiness conversations with the top four political parties. Over 26 million people have registered to vote and there are about 285 political parties that have registered to participate in the elections on the 08th of May – 27 days from today. Are political parties ready and do they fully comprehend the magnitude of the task that lies...

Guest: Mark Heywood – Executive Director at Section 27 Last week, Cancer Alliance and Treatment Action Campaign convened a summit to deliberate on the cancer crisis that is looming in South Africa. Civil society says they are concerned by the dramatic increase in the number of people with and they believe that we’re faced with a problem that is similar to that which we faced years ago, when we wer...

Guest: *Raks Seakhoa – Founding Director of wRite Associates There are key metaphors and litmus tests for the devolution of democracy and political power. Among them is the burning of books, schools and libraries. Last night, copies of Pieter-Louis Myburgh’s book, Gangster State: Unravelling Ace Magashule's Web of Capture, were ripped apart and trampled upon at the publication’s launch at Sandton...

We’re celebrating the life of one of South Africa’s fearless liberation stalwarts; reminding ourselves of his ideologies; and trying to find that leader in each and every one of us

Guest: Professor Nombe Mpako - Director of School of Arts in the College of Humans Sciences at Unisa A Black Aesthetic: A View of South African Artists (1970 – 1990), an exhibition that draws from the University of Fort Hare Art Collection. Presented for the first time outside of the Eastern Cape since 1992, the Collection features one of the country’s largest holdings of Black South African artis...

H. E Vincent Karega – Rwandan High Commissioner to South Africa Bongani Majola – Chairperson of the South African Human Rights Commission – And the previous Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN) International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) In just 100 days in 1994, about 800,000 people were slaughtered in Rwanda by ethnic Hutu extremists. They were targeting members of the mi...

Guests Joe Leshabane – he’s the Deputy Director General responsible for programmes and Projects in the Department of Human Settlements and Edward Molopi – Community Research and Advocacy Office @SERI – Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa. We’re talking about the failure of democratic SA in addressing the apartheid spatial planning; spatial planning as it is and how it has stripped many...

Guests: Nkosana Matyeshana, Senani Mangisa and Sijadu Mzozoyana - Members of the Gwijo Squad

Guests: Waseem Carrim – CEO of the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) The past weekend marked the commemoration of the 40th anniversary of Kalushi Solomon Mahlangu’s execution by the apartheid regime. How is his legacy being kept alive – especially to be in line with the needs and challenges that today’s youth is facing? Why is Kalushi important to the history of South Africa?

Guests: Themba Mabaso – Director at the Bureau of Heraldry at the Department of Arts and Culture and Pieter Odendaal – Poet; Translator; Researcher ad PhD Candidate at Queensland University of technology in Australia We’re exactly one month away from the voting polls and it is quiet difficult for us to talk about strengthen our democracy without looking at our national anthem and the discomfort th...

Guests: Thandi Smith - Head of Policy at Media Monitoring Africa, Sam Mkhokheli – Chairperson of the SANEF Media Freedom Sub Committee Are journalists not capable of handling criticism? What is it that journalist do that upsets politicians and the public at large? And when we look at freedom of speech and ethical conduct, where should journalists draw the line (in order for them not to infringe ot...