Afternoon Drive with John Maytham

Guest: We speak to Gareth Newham, the Head of Governance, Crime And Justice Division at the Institute for Security Studies, about his view that there is an urgent need to reform the SA Police before it is too late. He says the July attacks on the country's economic infrastructure exposed severe weakness in the police and intelligence services at a time of national crisis. 

 

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Guest: Professor Shabir Mahdi | Executive Director at National Institute For Communicable Diseases

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Guest: Craig Ray | Sports Editor  at Daily Maverick

A leaked video of Springbok director of rugby, Rassie Erasmus, shows him expressing his concerns about what he described as 'unfair' decision taken by the referee during the first Test against the British and Irish Lions.

The hour-long clip includes 26 pieces of footage from the game and sees him address issues such as him being the water carrier in that Test, officiating mistakes, and instances where foul play by the Lions wasn't penalised.

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Guest: Rebecca Davis | Journalist and Author at Daily Maverick

Instead of our usual Plan B chat with the Daily Maverick's Rebecca Davis, this week we are speaking to her in Durban about the aftermath of the recent looting in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal.

 

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Guest: Kate Thompson-Davy

Freelance journalist and an impactAFRICA fellow, Kate Thompson Davy, writing in the Business Day yesterday speaks about the so-called 'dirty dozen" pedding most of the anti-vaccination conspiracies on social media.

Her information is based on a report published earlier this year but the Centre for Countering Digital Hate which analysed anti-vax content shared on Facebook and Twitter for a month and a half.

It found that almost two-thirds of the content could be traced back to the accounts of just 12 people.   

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Guest: Penny Heyns

South African swimmers, Tatjana Schoenmaker and her teammate Kaylene Corbett have both made it into the finals of the women’s 200m breaststroke at the Tokyo Olympic Games.

100-metre silver medalist, Schoenmaker, finished as the fastest swimmer heading into the final, with Corbett the fourth fastest.

We speak to former swimmer and Olympic double gold winner, Penny Heyns, who is with the team in Tokyo.

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Guest: Dr Claire Spencer

Tunisia is facing its worst political crisis in a decade of democracy after President Kais Saied earlier this week ousted the government and suspended parliament with help from the army. This came after violent mass protests nationwide on Sunday as anger over the handling of a recent spike in Covid-19 cases, together with dissatisfaction about the country's economic and social turmoil boiled over. The move has been denounced as a coup by the country's main parties.

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Guest: Thabang  Rapuleng | Director in the Employment practice  at Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr

Following three months of talks with public sector employees, the government's has finally secured a wage agreement with unions after the Public Servants Association said it was on board, taking the deal over the required 50% threshold.

The agreement gives workers a below-inflation 1.5% pay hike and a monthly cash allowance of over R1,000 for a year.

However, two of the sector's largest unions, the National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu), and POPCRU, the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union, have rejected the deal and say they hope to block its implementation.

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Guest: We speak to cybersecurity expert and CEO at J2 Software, John McLoughlin, about how we can maintain tight security for all our devices.

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Guest: Fatima Hassan | Founder at Health Justice Initiative (HJI)

The World Trade Organization has again failed to agree to a proposed waiver of intellectual property rights on Covid-19 vaccines in order to boost production and increase access for poor nations.

 

South Africa, together with India, has been pushing for a temporary suspension of some IP rights which could allow local manufacturers to produce the jabs.

WTO states held talks yesterday at the its headquarters in Geneva but failed to reach a consensus.

We get comment from Fatima Hassan, director of the Health Justice Initiative and a human rights lawyer.

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