NIGHT FALL

“I watched with keen interest the interview of President Mandisa Maya last week. I was particularly interested in her comments concerning the use of our African languages in courts and the need for the development of our languages as languages of record. My interest not only as a South African (who is able to speak isiXhosa) but as a forensic and legal linguist developing the area in SA and the African continent. I together with 2 colleagues have just compiled my PhD research into book form (handbook on Legal Languages) last year addressing these very questions and how we can implement our languages in court’ - Dr Zakeera Docrat

This also seems topical to me given that February is language month.

Guest on the line: Dr Zakeera Docrat (Andrew W Mellon Foundation Post-doctoral research fellow in forensic and legal linguistics, University of the Western Cape).

Over the coming months we’ll be talking all things ethics and corruption. But rather than focus on the challenges we know our country has, we’ll be putting a spotlight on the insights, approaches and solutions that can move us forward in this post-Zondo Commission era

Tonight we start a conversation about whistleblowing at work.

Guest on the line: Penny Milner-Smyth of Ethicalways

-early/premature ejaculation, anejaculation, anorgasmia, haematospermia (blood in the ejaculate) and then of course the common topics like erectile dysfunction.

Guest on the line: Dr Kent Pluke is an experienced Urologist

Guest on the line: Gugulethu G. Xaba of Amandla Omnotho who is our Entrepreneurial and enterprise development Mentor for supporting this initiative.

World Cancer Day is an international day marked annually on the 4th of February to raise awareness of the global impact of cancer and increase understanding of its prevention, detection, treatment, and care. This day is very significant to DKMS Africa (formerly known as the Sunflower Fund) as the organisation’s main objective is to fight blood cancers and disorders and to meet its target of reaching 35000 blood stem cell donors by the end of 2022.

Guest on the line: Dr Theo Gerdener, Clinical Haematologist at Albert Alberts Stemcell Transplant Centre and Medical Director at DKMS Africa, the South African affiliate of the global DKMS organisation, explains that there are three main types of blood cancer, including leukaemia, lymphoma and myeloma.

Guest: Basil Manuel - Executive Director Naptosa

Guest: Professor Mosa Moshabela, deputy vice-chancellor of research and innovation at the University of KwaZulu-Natal

The Union has learnt with great concern and sheer exasperation that the cause for the delay and withholding of funding statuses by the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS), is informed by a R9.6 Billion shortfall, confirming previous shortfall forecasts of R10 billion. As we speak, except for a number of SASSA recipients, all students funding decisions have been withheld by NSFAS, these include returning students who had been funded in the previous academic year and first-time applicants. The devastating impact of this, has been that while the children of the rich are registering and taking up already minimal spaces in universities, the children of the poor and working class are waiting destitute on the sidelines

Guest on the line: SAUS National Spokesperson:

Asive Dlanjwa

We require your name and one burning question…

Guest on the line: Adrian Nelson -Conscious living practitioner

Guest on the line: Penny Milner-Smyth of Ethical ways. 

Penny is the author of the specialist programme in anti-corruption for the International Compliance Association, and monitors trends in the combatting of corruption around the world.