Our health feature this morning focus on raising awareness around diabetes in our country. As we welcome…

Guest: Dr Michael Klein- Medical Director at Boehringer Ingelheim

Guest: Dr Sindeep Bhana specialist physician and endocrinologist

As we head to the festive season, the Department of Water and sanitation is concerned about public safety at dams around the country. There has been reports of drownings as the public is using these dams for recreational purposes and to talk more on this issue, we are joined on the line by…

Guest: Sputnik Ratau – Spokesperson for the Department of Water and Sanitation

Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development has allocated one-billion rand to support subsistence farmers through the Presidential Employment Stimulus Initiative. 75-thousand small scale farmers are expected to benefit from the initiative with farming input vouchers ranging from one to nine-thousand rand. This in a bid to assist these farmers whose production was disrupted due to Covid-19 pandemic. Applications will open from the 10th until the 20th of December and will target 50% of women, 40% youth with 6% targeting people with disabilities and unemployed military veterans. To get a clear understanding of how exactly this is going to work and how to apply, we are joined on the line by…..

Guest: Clinton Heimann – Chief Director: Rural Development at the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development

ANC Secretary General Ace Magashule will appear before the party's Integrity Commission on Saturday. This was announced by party president, Cyril Ramaphosa, at the end of the ANC NEC meeting which started on Sunday. The three-day virtual meeting was also attended by both former party presidents, Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma. This is what Ramaphosa said on Magashule…
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LINK: To talk now about whether there were any surprises this time around as was anticipated by the media and commentators, we are joined on the line by…
Guest: Samkele Maseko – SABC political reporter

The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) has raided the offices of the National Lotteries Commission in Pretoria following allegations of corruption and maladministration involving top executives giving grants to close associates and friends. Let’s find out how the raid went as we welcome…

Guest: Ndivhuwo Mafela – Spokesperson for the National Lotteries Commission

Guest: Kaizer Kganyago – Spokesperson for the SIU

Zimbabwean police on Friday arrested former finance minister and top MDC opposition alliance official, Tendai Biti on charges of assaulting a Russian national last month. Biti, was freed on ZW$10 000 bail on Saturday after spending the night behind bars, amid complaints that the country’s police were acting on instruction from the ruling ZANU PF. MDC Alliance Spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere explains what happened….

Guest: Dr William Mpofu – African Political Analyst

Guest: Zazi Sibanyoni-Mugamb - President of the SA Cabin Crew Association

Guest: Kgalalelo – SAA employee

We bring you the last of our series on the green economy and this time we focus on highlighting the various green economy diplomacy initiatives that the EU delegation in the country are currently supporting. These are in partnership with GreenCape and include a policy dialogue project focusing on green SMME recovery and post Covid-19 trade competitiveness.

Guest: Ambassador Riina Kionka – EU Ambassador to South Africa

We talk now to Dr Francesca Conradie, a principal investigator at the Clinical HIV Research Unit. She is calling for a renewed focus on TB testing in the country. She says that this will help find new TB cases that she says went missing during the Covid-19 lockdown. Reports indicate that South Africa’s TB programme took a severe knock during lockdown which has left many people undiagnosed.

Guest: Dr Francesca Conradie - Principal investigator at the Clinical HIV Research Unit

The Commission for Gender Equality last week welcomed a probe launched by the Department of Health into the forced sterilisation of HIV positive women at state hospitals. It was February when the Commission released its report with testimonies from some of the victims.

Guest: Promise Mthembu – Co-founder of Her Rights Initiative and PHD candidate at UKZN School of Gender Studies