The Public Protector's preliminary investigation into the Phala Phala break-in has cleared President Cyril Ramaphosa of certain charges. This is while the Parliamentary inquiry (Section 89 panel) said he should face an impeachment inquiry over the Phala Phala matter.

This is not the first time in our democracy where we have Parliamentary findings bringing forward a divergent set of recommendations from a chapter nine institution or a court ruling. In this hour, we will unpack the two reports that have emerged from these institutions. We will also track the how the

spheres of governance have handled scandals of this nature (Arms Deal/Nkandla/Phala Phala) previously andwhether the President will survive the onslaught of this scandal.

Guest: Benedict Phiri - Legal Analyst

Focus: March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month and this morning, we want to speak about the importance of gut health given the different home remedies we were given to cure or clean stomach-related ailments in our respective upbringings.

Bowel cancer is the second most common cancer in men after prostate cancer in South Africa. It is the third most common cancer in women after breast and cervical cancer.

Guest: Dr Thulo Molefi - Specialist and Senior Lecturer at the Department of Medical Oncology at Steve Biko Academic Hospital and the University of Pretoria

According to the CSIR, 45% of the nation’s available food supply is wasted annually. Food Waste occurred during the early phases of production: Post-harvest handling, Storage and Processing. In 2021, 10.3 million tonnes of edible food earmarked for human consumption does not reach the human stomach.

Our next guest has been working towards ending hunger since October 2019 and have delivered over 38,6 million meals in the last three years. Their team has rescued 11,7 million kilograms of food to date through their technology. As the food rescue and hunger relief organization commemorates, it will work towards eradicating hunger with a focus on Sections 27 (Health care, food, water and social security) of the South African Constitution. Around 20 million people are on a spectrum of severe food vulnerability and the government is not fulfilling its constitutional obligation to address this catastrophe.

Guest: Alan Browde - CEO and Founder of SA Harvest

Guest: Mpho "Storyteller" Plaatjies 

Guest: Vyanan "Bhima" Das Mottian

Guest: Xolani Masango

Guest: Victor VusumuziMonna Pula Zikalala

Let’s speak now to the people behind the Pan Afrikan Comix 2085 series. They are using their comic series to tell the story of South Africa’s important historical events that define who we are as a nation and how we go to where we are today. Also how we can use these event to better build our nation? To give us a sense of what this project gets the message across and the role played by the group that puts it all together.

Last week we received a voice note from one of our callers who resides in the uThukela District Municipality. He says that they have been without water for many weeks. Let’s take a listen to what he had to say….

VOICE NOTE

LINK: The municipality has been battling to deal with the water shortage so much that the DA too some journalists to the area to show how bad the situation is. To give us a sense of how bad the situation is and what is being done to sort it out,.

Guest: Thys van Rensburg – uThukela Water Crisis Coordinator DA Councillor in the uThukela District Municipality

Guest: Municipality representative TBC (They will give me the name later)

Guest: Lionel Makokotlela – Founder of Financial Wise Corner

This morning Bryan talks to us about the principles of how to be a better saver and investor. He now joins us in studio to educate us on the subject….

Guest(Studio): Bryan Hirsch - Chairperson of Bryan Hirsch, Colley & Associates (Pty) Limited

This past Friday, we received a call from a listener, Shirley talking about her cries to the Western Cape government for a house are falling on deaf ears. She also spoke about how

they are ignoring all the proof of corruption she sent to them. The producers were approached by the City of Cape Town to have a right of reply. My producers then agreed with them that they can come on air today at 10:10am to respond to Shirley and also talk about how they are dealing with housing issues affecting their communities. Then yesterday (Sunday), they asked for a postponement and sent this response: The City of Cape Town has assisted the resident and her family with their housing related enquiries in the past. The City will investigate the recent allegations/complaints raised by the resident on SAFM last week. We await the written details from SAFM in order to act on the complaint. The City has an open door policy and encourages residents to approach us with their enquiries directly. The City will provide detailed feedback to the resident and SAFM in due course

Guest: Adi Kumar - Director of Ndifuna Ukwazi (expertise: social housing and urban planning. Ndifuna Ukwazi is a housing movement based in Cape Town advocating for spatial redress when it comes to affordable and also speak to communities on RDP housing in urban centres)

Guest: Thapelo Mohapi - Secretary General of Abahlali baseMjondolo (expertise: rural housing and organizing for the

right to fully subsidized housing. AbM is a landless housing movement in KZN who have existed for more than a decade.)

Guest: Dr. Trevor Ngwane - Director of the Centre for Sociological Research and Practice at UJ (expertise: History of the RDP Model)

Focus: Good news for people living with disabilities is that the South African National Roads Agency, (Sanral) has embarked on a program to empower Small and Medium Enterprises headed by people with disabilities to form part of the construction of Moloto Road. The agency has set aside almost R130 million to train prospective contractors from designated groups to be successful when bidding for such projects. Beneficiaries have expressed gratitude for the opportunities. To tell us more on this and also who and how does one qualify? Also why have they decided to go this route?

Guest(Studio): Melba Beca – Stakeholder Relations Manager at SANRAL

This morning we are double blessed to have both two of the countries great musicians in studio. Msaki and Tubatsi who formed a new project with a new single, ‘Zibonakalise’. This is one of their latest tracks taken from their debut album ‘Synthetic Hearts’. They now join us to talk about the thinking behind this project and why they decided to joins forces…

Guest: Msaki - Composer, singer, and songwriter and multi-award-winner

Guest: Tubatsi Mpho Moloi - Multi-instrumentalist from Soweto’s Urban Village