Gail Cameron talks about the use of the voice as part of the communication and presentation skills. This is where voice training becomes important for us to get to the point where its easy, powerful and interesting for others to listen to us without sounding forceful. To explain how one can achieve this, we are joined on the line by..
Guest: Gail Cameron – Founder and MD of the Image Excellence Group

Last week was the last Tuesday of the May, and normally Bryan deals with questions that have come in during the month that are of a similar nature. So, since we didn’t have him last week, he will then deal with all the questions you may have. Let’s start off with some of the questions that have already come in….
GUEST: Bryan Hirsch, Chairperson of Bryan Hirsch, Colley & Associates (Pty) Limited

We end the show by talking to Mondli Makhanya, Editor-In-Chief of the City Press. He wrote a piece yesterday questioning how those implicated in the killings of anti-apartheid activists through the TRC have not been prosecuted. Could there be secret deals he asks? Also the fact that all the ANC presidencies since have been reluctant to follow up on what came out of the TRC? Let’s pick his brain now to find out what he thinks could be behind this attitude?

Guest: Mondli Makhanya - Editor-In-Chief of the City Press

Last week Wits University launched the Public Economy Project which does research into public financial management. Prof Michael Sachs who is the coordinator of the project talks to us now about the paper he penned which looks into how we as a country arrived at the fiscal crisis we currently find ourselves in? How much did politics play a role in it and also the transition from apartheid to democracy, what happened there and how much of that became a factor? To discuss this, Prof Sachs now joins us on the line…

Guest: Professor Michael Sachs - Coordinator of the Public Economy Project at Wits. He is also Adjunct Professor at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies

The KwaZulu-Natal Government has signed a landmark agreement with the Egyptian headquartered export-import bank, Afremix. This comes as the province continues to reposition itself as a gateway to Africa and a meaningful participant in the African Continental Free Trade Area. Last week, the investment entity of government, Trade and Investment KZN hosted a dialogue on unlocking the opportunities for the Province presented by the continent’s market of 1 point 3 billion people with a combined gross domestic product of 3,4 trillion dollars. But the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic and lack of investment in infrastructure could inhibit the positive sentiment permeating the province right now.

Guest: Mr. Ntsiki Mashimbye – South Africa’s Ambassador to Egypt

Guest: Frederick Seidu – Senior Specialist: Trade and Corporate Finance Intra-African Trade Initiative at Afreximbank

Guest: Neville Matjie - Chief Executive Officer of Trade & Investment KwaZulu-Natal

Guest: Malefetsane Setaka – Port of Durban Engineer at Transnet

Good news for unmarried fathers is that under the Children's Amendment Bill, they will have full access to their children. One of the things the bill is proposing is that a person who has custody of a child may not deny the other with parental responsibilities access to the child unless there’s an order of the court to that effect. Let’s look now at the practicality of the Bill as we know that not all situations are the same. How does it deal with those in between issues of the irresponsible father who may want to abuse the system? To discuss this, we are joined on the line by…

Guest: Dr Nokzola Mndende – Director of the Icamagu Institute

Guest: Castro Musinyali – Chairperson of the organisation: ‘We are fathers, we are parents’

Guest: Zitha Hasungule – Senior Project Coordinator for the Centre for Child Law’s Research, Monitoring and Evaluation Unit

Many of you have been calling the show complaining about water supply in your different areas. Even through our Municipal Watch feature, water is the top of the issues you raise. Will this morning we have Deputy Minister for Water and sanitation David Mahlobo who tabled his Budget Vote earlier in the week. Let’s use the opportunity to find out what his plans are to deal with the problem…..
Guest: David Mahlobo – Deputy Minister for Water and Sanitation

As the fourth industrial revolution is advancing in a very fast pace, those in the technology sector are asking whether South Africa is ready for the Digital Skills Curriculum? Our guest is of the view that the link between Mathematics and Coding and Robotics, and the role of language in teaching and learning, need to be considered before the country’s schools can be ready for such a technically advanced subject.
Guest: Dr Benadette Aineamani - Director of Product & Services at Pearson Africa

Let’s touch base now with the Companies Tribunal. It is an agency of the Department of Trade and Industry which was established in terms of the Companies Act No. 71 of 2008. It was set up to provide speedy resolutions of company disputes and operates nationally. To tell us more on what they do and how they can be approached and the type of disputes they deal with, we are joined on the line by….
Guest: Khatija Tootla – Member of the Companies Tribunal

Human Rights Watch has released a new report on how the Covid-19 pandemic is fuelling child labour. Ghana, Uganda and Nepal are pointed out as culprits in the rise of this practice. Some of the contributing factors are the economic impact and school closures. To discuss this further, we are joined on the line by…..

Guest: Jo Becker - Advocacy Director in the Children’s Rights Division at Human Rights Watch