As per your constant request for clarity regarding the R350 Social Relief of Distress Grant, we have invited the South African Social Security Agency to answer all your questions. Last month, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that government will be extending the special R350 COVID-19 grant by a further three months. He made the announcement when he delivered his economic recovery plan at a joint sitting of Parliament. To get full explanations as per your questions, we are joined on the line by…

Guest: Totsie Memela - SASSA CEO (WILL TALK ON POLICY)
Guest: Fanie Sethokga – General Manager Grants Administration (WILL TALK MORE ON OPERATIONAL ISSUES)

Neither United States President nor the senior members of the Republican Party have officially conceded the Presidential race as Democrats Joe Biden and Kamala Harris made history on Saturday by winning both the popular vote and the Electoral College. The 77-year old Biden becomes the oldest person to win the Presidency while Harris becomes the first woman, black in this instance or otherwise, to claim the Vice Presidency… on a day that saw joy flood the streets in cities across the country. Sherwin Bryce-Pease reports......

Guest: Dr. Philani Mthembu – Executive Director at the Institute for Global Dialogue

Today (Monday) the SABC and Telkom enter into a channel carriage deal which will enable our audiences to stream the public broadcaster’s content on demand.

Guest : Ian Plaatjies – SABC COO

Let’s tell you now a project focusing on people who are visually impaired. It’s an art programme based on the work of internationally acclaimed Willem Boshoff’s “The Blind Alphabet” which transcribes complex words into tangible objects to be experienced by the blind and translated to the sighted.
Guest: Annali Dempsey – Curator of the UJ Art Gallery

The National Student Financial Aid Scheme has seen a huge increase in applications for next year which put the number close to 500-thousand. Higher Education Minister Dr Blade Nzimande says that this is a major improvement from provinces that had extremely low applications in the past two years. To find what could be behind the increase and how NSFAS is handling it, we are joined on the line by…

Guest: Phatisa Ntlonze – Media Liason Officer at NSFAS

US President Donald Trump appeared before the media last night as his grip on the White House appeared to slowly slip away, presenting a litany of grievances while he accused Democrats of trying to steal and rig the election. He promised a lot of litigation over unsubstantiated claims of fraud across multiple states, as Democratic rival Joe Biden urged calm and for every ballot to be counted. Let’s listen to this report from the BBC’s Jon Sopel in Washington…..

Guest: Brookes Spector – Us foreign policy expert

The South African Police Services has told Parliament that nearly 400 corruption cases involving its members are being investigated by various law enforcement agencies. In its briefing to the Standing Committee on Public Accounts, SAPS says transgressions are being committed by members across ranks from senior to junior levels. Lulama Matya reports....

Guest: Dr RGD Rajin – Former member of the SAPS having served 40 years in various senior ranks and now works as a lecturer in the Department of Police Practice at UNISA

The world is this morning watching developments in the USA where Trump's campaign has launched legal action in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia, calling for vote counting to be halted. The campaign officials accuse Democrats of scheming to disenfranchise Republican voters. Eric Trump has told his father's supporters in Pennsylvania that the President is sending lawyers to challenge the count there. Without providing any evidence, he has accused Democratic election officials of fraud, and insists that the Trump campaign has been left without any choice…

Guest: Prof. John Stremlau - Honorary professor of International Relations at Wits University

This morning we deal with chronic wounds. According to medical journals, a chronic wound is one that has failed to progress through the phases of healing in an orderly and timely fashion and has shown no significant progress toward healing in 30 days. What is the common cause of a chronic wound and what makes it not heal?

Guest: Sr Liezl Naude – Wound care Specialist at Eloquent Health and Wellness in Pretoria East

In light of Minister of Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation, Lindiwe Sisulu hosting a women’s summit tomorrow (Thursday), we talk to some of the women in the sector about the progress they are making in the sector. The summit is aimed at unlocking the value chain to allow broader participation of women in both Human Settlements and Water & Sanitation projects and programmes. For more on this and also how the sector can attract young women, we are joined on the line by…

Guest: Marcia Maraka - Chief Director: Construction @ Water & Sanitation Department

Guest: Nonhlanhla Buthelezi - DDG: Delivery Frameworks in Human Settlements

Guest: Kile Mteto – President of the South African Women In Construction and businesswoman