Dr Pali Lehohla has written an article where one of the questions he’s asking is: what Madiba would have thought today as President Cyril Ramaphosa stands before the Zondo Commission? In his article he’s making the point that South Africa is traveling a downward route with our eyes wide open. As far as he’s concerned, which direction is the ANC’s leadership driving the country and how worried should we be as a country?

Guest: Dr Pali Lehohla - Former Statistician-General of South Africa

Teacher union NAPTOSA has raised about the idea that all primary school learners should return. They also say that safety at schools is not being addressed by government. For more on their concerns, we are joined on the line by….

Guest: Basil Manuel – Executive Director of Naptosa

***THANDI MODISE ON LEAVING THE COUNTRY THROUGH BOTSWANA***
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Focus: As you’ve heard in that sound clip from the current speaker of parliament, Thandi Modise, followed by also a former parliamentary speaker, Max Sisulu and our first speaker under a democratic South Africa, Dr Frene Ginwala about their experiences. We now get a personal account from two former freedom fighters who left the country when they were young. They will share their experiences with us, from the moment they left up to when they were in exile. We welcome…..
Guest: Mbulelo Musi – Survivor of the Matola massacre in 1981. (Currently spokesperson Department of military veterans)
Guest: Makhaya Kwinana –Former activist who was deployed to Radio Freedom after receiving military

On our personal development feature we focus on developing your personal negotiation skills.

Guest: Elmarie Pretorius – Managing owner of The Mindspa Institute

Today Bryan looks at why people rely on their families for financial support. What are some of the reasons behind this?
GUEST: Bryan Hirsch, Chairperson of Bryan Hirsch, Colley & Associates (Pty) Limited

****Former late president of Tanzania Julius Nyerere addressing South Africa’s parliament under on the 16 October 1997, under Nelson Mandela’s presidency****

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Guest: H.E Major General Gaudence Salim Milanzi – Tanzania’s High Commissioner to South Africa

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As you’ve heard in that sound clip what the situation was like at the time ending that report is the late former President of Mozambique Samora Machel singing during a party gathering. Well in this hour we pay tribute to some of the frontline states who housed our liberation movements during the dark days of apartheid. We start with Mozambique that bore the brunt of the then apartheid government for allowing the ANC to operate from there and to take us down memory lane, we are joined on the line by….
Guest: President Joaquim Chissano – Former President of Mozambique

Online fraud is said to have increased by 43% in the country since the COVID-19 pandemic began. This is revealed in a new global research by TransUnion. Their other study found that 37% of South African consumers recently became targets of COVID-19 related digital fraud. To find out how this happened and why South Africans became targets, we are joined on the line by..

Guest: Hans Zachar - Head of Emerging Markets at TransUnion Africa

Tomorrow being a very historically significant day in South Africa, Prof Chitja Twala from the University of the Free State wrote an opinion piece about the role played by safe house during the hard days of apartheid. These are the houses where wanted comrades would hide while conducting operations from their mother bodies. Sadly some of the safe houses beyond our borders that housed freedom fighters were attacked by the then SANDF. One of those was on the 9th of December in 1982 where 42 people, including 30 South Africans were killed in Maseru. Let’s take you down memory lane with this testimony from Nellie Marwanqana at the TRC who with her family fled to Lesotho in 1982. Four days after their arrival in Maseru she stood by as South African commandos killed her husband and two children as well as some fellow South Africans who were staying in the same house…

Guest: Prof Chitja Twala - Department of History, University of the Free State

The City of Ekurhuleni talks to us now about issues of compliance when it comes to small businesses. Many people who lost their jobs are entering the informal market which also needs to comply with by-laws. To talk more on how the city is dealing with this issue, we are joined on the line by….
Guest: Cllr Doctor Xhakaza - MMC for Finance, Economic Development and Information Technology