NIGHT FALL

Guest:Mrs Nokulunga Mnqeta - Director of the Fort Hare Foundation. She is governance specialist, a scientist and fundraiser.

Guest: Sibulele Ngozi- Resource Mobilization Manager at the University of Fort Hare

Guest: Siphiwe Ndlovu  -University of Fort Hare  Alumni

Guest: Collen Malatji - ANCYL President

Guest: Prof. Danny Bradlow, Professor and Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, U. Pretoria

Ethiopia has applied for membership in the BRICS group of emerging economies.

The DA recently expressed its dismay that President Ramaphosa has signed into law the Employment Equity Amendment Act.

According to the DA, The Employment Equity Act will not bring about the transformation of the workplace it purports to seek. Instead, it will further impoverish the vast majority of South Africans, while enriching a thin sliver of politically connected individuals as has been experienced under the policy of Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE).

Guest speaking to Oliver Dickson are Khanyi Tshabalalala - Transformation Specialist in the Mining Sector for the last 20 years, and legal proffessional specializing in MPRDA and its mandated regulations and provision and Michael Bagraim- Labour lawyer and labour spokesperson for Democratic Alliance

The ex-parte order gagging amaBhungane from reporting on leaked files relating to Zunaid Moti and the Moti Group has been set aside by the Gauteng High Court Deputy Judge President Judge Roland Sutherland delivered judgment in which he overturned the order the group had obtained. The court also awarded costs to amaBhungane and its journalists.

The gag order stems from AmaBhungane publishing a number of articles as part of its Moti Files series.

Guest: Ulrich Roux is the founder and managing director of Ulrich Roux & Associates. Ulrich is Zunaid Moti and the Moti Group’s lawyer in the AmaBungane matter.

Guest: Prof Dirk Kotze - Political analyst based at UNISA

French Protests

Stokvels - How can South Africans fully use it to their advantage?

Nsika Masondo is the CFO of the National Stokvel Association of South Africa, as well as the NASASA Financial Co-Operative.

The Constitutional Court has declared Section 40 of Childrens' Act invalid and unconstitutional. The section that deals with the rights of the child conceived by way of artificial fertilisation, only provides for married or unmarried couples but not same-sex marriages. Prior to this ruling, the law did not provide for a situation where two women in a committed relationship conceive a child. Last year, a lesbian couple faced with this problem approached the apex court to challenge the Act. 

In a parliamentary response in June 2022, the Minister of Basic Education, Angie Motshekga, revealed that between April 2021 and March 2022, girls aged 10 to 19 had almost 90 000 pregnancies.

Is it a governance problem? Parenting? Are parents disempowered? Is it how the kids are cultured?

Listen as we reflect on challenges and social impact of teenage pregnancy on adolescent mothers. Also, where are the fathers in the picture?

A full bench at the Pretoria High Court found that the decision by the Minister of Home Affairs to terminate the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit programme has been declared unlawful, unconstitutional and invalid. Meanwhile, the minister says is still studying the two judgements and he's taking legal advice on them.