iLembe is one of the 11 district municipalities in KwaZulu-Natal and is also the smallest District Municipality in the province, with a total population of approximately 657 000. The District Municipality covers approximately 3260 square kilometres and is divided into four local municipalities. The four municipalities are Mandeni, KwaDukuza, Maphumulo and Ndwedwe. The strategic location along the key corridor linking two of Africa’s busiest ports, Durban to the South and Richards Bay in the north makes it an investment destination of choice.

Guest: Nathi Nkomzwayo - CEO Enterprise Ilembe

Education department apologises after backlash over 'sexy reading' tweets

Academy to present their first dyslexia workshop in PE
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Department of Basic Education spokesperson Elijah Mhlanga has issued an apology following a backlash about his series of "Read to Lead" tweets which, among other things, encourage "making reading sexy".

The message was not so much the issue, but rather the use of images accompanying some of the messages: two tweets in particular had half-naked women in them.

Guest: Elinor Sisulu - South African Writer and Activist
Rone McFarlane - Co-Head of Research at Equal Education

Women's League wants answers about axing of ANC leaders in KZN
ANC Women's League president Bathabile Dlamini has told President Cyril Ramaphosa that the organisation wants to meet the party's KwaZulu-Natal leadership over the removal of women from office.

This came just a few hours after the party in KZN announced the removal of eThekwini mayor Zandile Gumede. Without mentioning Gumede by name, Dlamini said she was not happy about how easy it was to remove women leaders.

Guest: Sanusha Naidoo - Political Analyst with the Institute of Global Dialogue

Leaving his hometown of Klerksdorp in the North West Province to pursue an LLB degree at the University of the Witwatersrand, Zareef knew he was destined for great things. The youngest of three siblings, Mr Minty has always enjoyed the concept of breaking the conventional and disrupting the paradigm.

Shattering the myth that people from small towns are more relaxed and content with what they are doing and what they have, Zareef was led by his ambitious goals and dreams. He’s constantly innovating, changing and developing. “Regardless of where I grew up, I knew that I wanted to be impacting the lives of millions positively,” Minty reveals.

Guest: Zareef Minty - Entrepreneur

Helen Nontando (Noni) Jabavu was born in 1919 in the Eastern Cape into a literary family. From the age of thirteen, she was schooled in England, and continued to live there for many years. She went on to become one of the first African female writers and journalists.
In 1955 Noni Jabavu returned to South Africa for a three-month stay. She visited her father, Professor D.D.T. Jabavu, of Fort Hare, as well as relatives in the Eastern Cape and Johannesburg. The Ochre People, first published in 1963, is a poignant account of her trip, and contains vivid and perceptive memories of the country she loved and of the people she met.

Guest: Makhosazana Xaba - Poet and Writer

Guest: Karabo Khakhau – DA member of the Free State Legislature

Guest: Naledi Chirwa - Eff Member of Parliament

Guest : Fasia Hasaan – ANC member OF Parliament

Sex work is illegal in South Africa and the closest that it came to changing was in a highly publicised court case two decades ago. Today we ask, should sex work be decriminalized?

Guest: Katlego Rasebitse - Media and Advocacy officer at Sisonke and Leader National Sex works sector
Guest: Nosipho Vidima - Human Rights Officer at SWEAT
Guest: Grizela Grootboom - Human Trafficking Survivor and Author Of Exit

Guest: Advocate Brenda Madumise – Feminist, and is currently working on National strategic plan for Gender based violence and she’s is working to get rape kits shortages urgently fixed.

Police and metro police were on Saturday afternoon monitoring the situation in Orange Grove where vigilante groups were busy evicting foreigners from houses alleged to have been hijacked from the Johannesburg Property Company (JPC).

A group calling themselves concerned residents of Orange Grove and Alexandra evicted several foreigners from their homes in Orange Grove, claiming that they were illegally occupying houses owned by the City of Johannesburg's JPC.

Guest: Nthatisi Modingoane

I am a Harvard Business School graduate holding a General Management Program qualification. I hold a master’s degree M. Com in Business Management & Economics, University of Johannesburg; an Honours in Economic Geography and a B. Ed from the University of Zululand.