NIGHT FALL

Guest: Tshepo Kgadima

Guest: Andile  TLHOAELE. -B-BBEE and Transformation Analyst

This evening we discuss the black industrialists policy and look at what it has achieved since inception in 2015, and how it has changed the landscape of our economy, and how sustainable it has been in terms of the entrepreneurs and enterprises created. 

Guest: Mary de Haas - Independent researcher and violence monitor 

South African police Minister Bheki Cele briefed the media in Pretoria, and he highlighted some of the South African Police Service’s (Saps) recent successes.
Amongst other things: 

-Police Minister Bheki Cele says academics, members of the media, and certain forces within the police have an agenda to undo their work 
- Cele says he is working hard to bolster
Cele also Parliament recently gave crime intelligence the green light to use certain technology in their fight against crime.
Should this inspire the nation's confidence? 

Guest: Rumbi Chidoori Regional Advocacy and Policy Coordinator at sonke Gender Justice

South Africa could soon have a new gender-neutral parental leave policy. A case against the Minister of Employment and Labour recently heard at the Gauteng High Court recently, is seeking a gender-neutral parental policy that enables all employees to take parental leave regardless of their gender. 

Current laws entitle birthing parents to at least four consecutive months maternity leave - while fathers are entitled to 10 days of parental leave. 
Parental leave may also be applicable in circumstances where an employee legally adopts a child or when a child is placed by a court in the care of a prospective adoptive parent.

Guest: Dave Steward - Chairperson of the FW de Klerk Foundation 

Guest:  Mr Julius Dantile -PanSALB Executive Head of Languages

Heritage Day on 24 September recognises and celebrates the cultural wealth of our nation. South Africans celebrate the day by remembering the cultural heritage of the many cultures that make up the population of South Africa.

As we mark heritage day, we put a focus on language as the indicator of the country's national identity and a part of a person's heritage or a nation.

The FW de Klerk Foundation has released  its 2023 report card on Cultural, Religious and Language Rights in South Africa. The foundation is of the view that government has failed to implement the Official Languages Act.

The Use of Official Languages Act, 2012 (Act No. 12 of 2012) strives to give effect to the constitutional obligation of multilingualism.

Guest: Stella De Kock - Managing Director at TELL 

Approximately 4700 people are waiting for a life-saving organ or cornea transplant in South Africa, but only 0.2% of our population are registered organ donors. Organ and tissue donation is a simple choice that will cost you nothing but a few minutes of your time to register. 

How can attitudes towards organ donation be changed? 

Our guest today is from an organisation called TELL -Transplant Education for Living Legacies) was created in part to educate South Africans about organ and tissue donation. Two of the three founders received lifesaving lung transplants which not only gave them a second chance at life but also put them in the unique position to make a difference in the transplant community. 

Website: tell.org.za

Guest: Carin Bosman - Independent water governance advisor.

Rand Water and Johannesburg Waterrecently made a call to consumers and citizens, cautioning them to use water sparingly due to an alarming deficit between supply and demand.

In the begginning of this year, the country saw the community of Hammanskraal struck by a deadly cholera outbreak, Tshwane Mayor Cilliers Brink has come out to say that will cost about R2.5-billion to fix the Hammanskraal water infrastructure. 
We reflect a bit on that - what has been happening? 
More recently, the SA Human Rights Commission report has revealed that Kwa Zulu Natal municipalities have violated human rights by failing to ensure clean water to locals. The commission conducted an investigation after receiving hundreds of complaints about the failure of the municipalities in the province to provide clean water to the communities.

Guest: Mathew Parks - Spokesperson for the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu)

Do labour movements still have significant influence over electoral politics outcomes?

Also touching on the role we can expect them to play, as SA's political landscape moves towards being that of coalition government?

Guest: Thandeka Chauke - Statelessness Project Manager at Lawyers for Human Rights

The Minister of Home Affairs had previously revealed in Parliament in the year 2020 that his department was dealing with more than 800,000 blocked ID cases, involving alleged duplicates and what it claims are “fraudulent” IDs.
In response to this, Lawyers for Human Rights launched a campaign: “My ID, Unlock My Life” to raise awareness around ID blocking and they have taken Home Affairs to court over its practice of blocking IDs it thinks are in some way fraudulent

Guest: Sandile Swana - Political and Governance Analyst

South Africa has released a draft law that is aimed at facilitating the creation of a holding company which will house struggling SOE Such as power utility Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd.
But some experts have said that this newly published National State Enterprises Bill- aimed at re-organizing SOEs, is not immune to state capture.

Does this bill aim to solve the wrong problem?