Wits University staff and students from the Faculty of Human Sciences are holding a five-day picket to highlight what they deem to be a crisis in the Gauteng health system. They say that the closure of the Charlotte Maxeke academic hospital and the treat of Covid-19 point to a deeper crisis. To tell us more on this, we are joined on the line by…
Guest: Prof Ashraf Coovadia – Head of Paediatrics and Child Health at Wits University

The South African Reward Association says that it has noticed some good behaviour coming of corporates. Some executives are said to have held back their bonuses or increases during the lockdown to help staff members in need. What can we attribute this to and what does it change about the way executives are perceived?
Guest: Yolanda Sedlmaier – Chartered Reward Specialist and Executive Committee member of the South African Reward Association

Member of the South African Municipal Workers Union workers in George yesterday (Wed) downed tools over ongoing disputes regarding the payment of Covid-19 danger pay. demanding that they be paid Covid-19 danger pay by June 30th for working during the hard lockdown last year. Let’s find out now from them about what they mean by danger pay as we welcome….
Guest: Dumisani Magagula – SAMWU’s Deputy General Secretary (They will tell us what they mean by danger pay and then leave)

Guest: Bongani Masuku – Director in the Employment Law practice at Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr

Yesterday (Wed) while reflecting on parole issues and the misconception it creates for the victims and their families, we received a call from Thabiso in Kroonstand who spoke about the person who raped his niece being released on parole.

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LINK: To get an understanding on how something like this can happen and the kind of criminals that were released under the latest Covid-19 parole we are joined on the line by…

Guest: Logan Maistry - Deputy Commissioner for Communications in the Department of Correctional Services

We focus today on a very spooky business of funerals. Under the current Covid-19 pandemic, the industry has had to go through a lot of adjustments either keeping to the number of people attending funerals or dealing with a corpse. How are they adjusting and also how are their packages affected since the business is modelled around what service they give to their clients?

Guest: Unathi Saul – Co-founder of Abavaleli Funeral Directors

This morning we take it slightly different on health issues. We get to understand how diagnosis work especially now under the current Covid-19 period where pressure is even higher for laboratories as results must come out quickly. Sometimes for either blood or Covid-19 come out positive the one time then later negative. What is causing all of that also what is it that we as the public should understand about diagnosis? To help us understand, we are joined on the line by..

GUEST: Greg Northfield – Executive Member of the Southern African Laboratory Diagnostics Association

As you may have heard throughout yesterday that the family of Leigh Matthews says that they are not interested in meeting their daughter’s killer, Donovan Moodley. The family received a message from the Department of Correctional Services for mediation ahead of a possible parole hearing of Moodley. Many would say that the Matthews family is correct in their reaction. Let’s look now at the why parole of a perpetrator is shunned upon by victims and their families and what is the public’s perception of it as we welcome…

Guest: Luke Lamprecht – Head of Advocacy at Women and Men Against Child Abuse

Members of Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Public Enterprises were worried after being brief by Eskom’s management on the status of the Khusile Power Station. More than R140 billion is said to have been used to build the Station, this coming from the R161 billion that was budgeted for. Let’s get parliament’s impression on what Eskom is saying and also the controversy surrounding the power utility as we welcome…
Guest: Khaya Magaxa – Chairperson of parliament’s portfolio committee on Public Enterprises

President Cyril Ramaphosa yesterday (Tuesday) announced that the Transnet Port Authority will be run independently. This was greeted as good news at the back of the announcement of a 51% SAA stake being given to a private entity. How should we interpret this and also, is the president taking the right direction towards privatisation? Will it attract the much-needed investment to the country?
Guest: Sipho Pityana – President of Business Unity SA

We start off the show by speaking to Carol Paton who penned an opinion piece about how Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan managed to get his way around SAA. One of the things she points out about the airline is how many times it has been bailed out for the 20 years.

Guest: Carol Paton – Editor at large for the Business Day