NIGHT FALL

Guest: Mark Owen Jones

Mzukisi Makatse is an attorney and director of Makatse Attorneys

Yesterday Lawyers for Human Rights appeared before the Pretoria High Court on behalf of 5 groups of informal waste reclaimers and recyclers challenging the lockdown regulations that do not include waste reclaimers as essential provider. To tell us more we are joined by...

Guest on the line: Thandeka Chauke - legal counsellor, land and housing programme at Lawyers for Human Right

Following the burning of Soshanguve Secondary School in Tshwane, MEC for Education in the province has condemned this act of criminality and pleaded with the security cluster to protect schools.

General Secretary of the South African Democratic Teachers Union (Sadtu), Mugwena Maluleke to react to these criminal acts which are targeted at education facilities. We will also speak to him about how the union is supporting teachers during the lockdown so that they can in turn support learners. You may recall that last night we received a voice note from a teacher who said that she uses Whatsapp to send lessons to her learners but that some of her students cannot participate because they cannot afford to buy data.

Guest: Mugwena Maluleke - General Secretary of the South African Democratic Teachers Union (Sadtu)

President Cyril Ramaphosa has decided to place Communications and Digital Technologies Minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams on special leave for two months, one month of which will be unpaid. This follows the revelation on social media that the minister had recently visited the home of former Higher Education and Training Deputy Minister, Mduduzi Manana who hosted a lunch, contrary to the lockdown regulations. Minister Ndabeni Abrahams has since apologised.

The Economic Freedom Fighter have laid criminal charges against Minister Ndabeni-Abrahams for breaching lockdown regulations.

Guest: Vuyani Pambo - EFF National Spokesperson

Should the national lockdown be extended how will it affect learning, especially for learners in rural areas with no access to educational resources? Is it perhaps time to re-think learning and education by speeding up the 4th Industrial Revolution? How prepared is government to use e-learning and is this form of learning useful?

Guest : Gerald Williamson - Educationist and clinical psychologist

According to Human Rights Watch, the national lock-down will be most effective if carried out, not only in accordance with the law, but also hand-in-hand with the fulfillment of the government’s obligation to provide basic goods and services such as food, water, and health services to vulnerable community members. When the lock-down started, there were reports of abuses by soldiers in an effort to reinforce the lock-down, something which the minister of defense and military veterans, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has since condemned.

Guest: Dewa Mavhinga, Southern Africa director at Human Rights Watch

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has condemned as "racist" the comments by two French scientists who suggested a vaccine for the coronavirus could be tested in Africa. Addressing a WHO media briefing, Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that at a time when the world needs to act in solidarity such forms of racism are unacceptable.

In light of this we ask, why is Africa often belittled in this manner and viewed with a colonial-like mentality by some Europeans?

Guest: Izak Khomo - former Producer and Presenter of spotlight Africa, channel Africa

Guest: Angus Mckenzie - Ward 50 Bonteheuwel Councillor and Transport Portfolio Chair

Dr Paul Kariuki - the director of the Democracy Development Programme in Durban