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

Public Sector wage negotiations have officially broken down paving way for unions to declare a dispute. On Friday evening government and public sector unions deadlocked over the employer's proposal to increase salaries on condition that workers forfeit some of their current benefits. The offer was rejected by all public sector unions. A move by unions to declare dispute will allow negotiations to enter a conciliation process before unions can seek permission for a strike action. This is what Claude Naicker who is with the Public Servants' Association had to say…

Guest: Tony Healy - Labour consultant at Tony Healy & Associates

The PAC is celebrating its 62nd anniversary with a series of livestream webinars which started last night (25 April). The webinars under the theme ‘Carrying forward the torch lit in April 1959 by the PAC Martyrs’ to honour the road they travelled. Last night they kicked it off by discussing the topic of Decolonization and development of an African personality within the world context.

Guest: Thandolwethu Dlanga – PAC member and moderator of last night’s session

Lately intermittent fasting is praised by those who practice it as the best form of dieting. Many post before and after pictures on social media proving that it does deliver desired results. Dieticians are however warning that one has to also about the effects it may have on the metabolic health and what foods they need to it. To educate us on this subject, we are joined on the line by

Guest: Omy Naidoo – Registered Dietician and Founder of Newtricion Wellness Dieticians (an association of dieticians)

Families of rape survivors say backlogs in the processing of DNA evidence samples are preventing justice from taking its course . Police management told Parliament’s Portfolio Committee recently that backlogs at the National Forensics Science Laboratory stood at over 173 000 cases.

Guest: Gareth Newham-Director at the Justice and Violence Prevention Programme at the ISS