Dr Kgosi Letlape who is the outgoing president of the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA), says that the standard of healthcare in public hospitals pre-1994 was better than what is currently experienced in the private sector today. He went on to talk about how expensive the private sector is and the impact it has on health practitioners. Dr Letlape now joins us on the line to share his thoughts…

Guest: Dr Kgosi Letlape – Outgoing president of the Health Professional Council of South Africa

We take a look now at accuracy in the testing of Covid-19. Speed is of the essence around this period and we know how testing labs are overwhelmed. Well Wits University’s Centre for Biomedical Tuberculosis Research has come up with a solution that can speed up the testing process with precision and to educate us on this latest development.

Guest: Professor Bavesh Kana – Head of the Centre of Excellence for Biomedical TB Research at the University of the Witwatersrand (He is heading the team)

Last week Bryan could not deal with the questions sent to him as we had to cross to one of the big court cases. Well today is your chance to ask him questions around your finances. But first let’s deal with the questions that have been submitted to him last month of a similar nature…

GUEST: Bryan Hirsch, Chairperson of Bryan Hirsch, Colley & Associates (Pty) Limited

Yesterday former chairperson at SAA Technical, Yakhe Kwinana really tested Justice Zondo’s patience at the Commission of inquiry into state capture. The chairperson kept reminding her that she is a professional why she kept claiming that she didn’t know things like contracts and so on. Let’s listen to some of the exchange that sort of dominated her testimony….

LINK: Having listened to that exchange, what does it say about the behaviour of executives? Also seeing how many of them confess that they didn’t know the roles they were supposed to play in the positions they were in, what does it say about ethics and accountability of executives especially in SOEs?

Guest: Professor Ivor Sarakinsky – Wits School of Governance

With just a day to Election Day in the United States, critical swing states in the Midwest will be the focus for both campaigns as they try to drive their supporters to the polls. With just less than 24 hours to go in terms of campaign events, President Donald Trump spent Saturday criss-crossing the must-win State of Pennsylvania with Democratic Nominee Joe Biden close by in the State of Michigan. Their surrogates are also fanned out in critical must-win states where polling continues to show close races that will determine who wins the Electoral College and thereby the White House. Sherwin Bryce-Pease reports...

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Guest: Dr Dinesh Sharma - Director & Chief Research Officer Steam Works Studio (Also author of Barack Obama in Hawai'i and Indonesia)

For many years now all we’ve heard about the e-tolls was never in favour of motorists. The ANC government which by the way implemented these tolls kept promising to deal with them. Taking you back to everything that was said by government around e-toll will take the month. So for now let’s listen to this interview by Aldrin Sampier talking to Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula on the 3rd of March this year….

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LINK: Well this time around draft regulations to the Aarto act – are proposing a fine of R500 for defaulting motorists each time they pass under a gantry. To educate us on this, we are joined on the line by….

Guest: Howard Dembovsky - Chairperson of Justice Project South Africa

This coming Thursday matric learners will be sitting for their exams. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the exams will be starting on the 5th of November and finish on the 15 of December 2020. But some questions are being raised as to what happens should a learner test positive for Covid-19 during the exams? Also what sort of measures are in place from the department to deal with something like this?
Guest: Elijah Mhlanga – Spokesperson for the Depart,ment of Basic Education

John Steenhuisen is the Democratic Alliance's new leader. He emerged victorious at the party's virtual elective congress attended by over 2000 of the party's members this weekend. Steenhuisen's win appears to have been a forgone conclusion given the gap in support between him and the other contender KZN MPL Mbali Ntuli as Busi Chimombe reports…

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LINK: Is Steenhuisen the right man for the job and what new thing can we expect from him and the new DA leadership? For a perspective on this,

Guest: Jan Gerber – Parliamentary reporter at News24
Guest: Prof Andre Duwenage – Lecturer at North West University

As we mark National Wills Week, very scary revelations are coming out regarding top international celebrities who died without drafting a will. Black Panther actor Chadwick Boseman died without a will in place. Aretha Franklin died in 2018 without having submitted a will to her attorney. There are just so many high profile people who find themselves in this situation where they leave the family with a headache. What is it about drafting a will that seems so hard for people to look into? Why do people choose not to file a will and is it only for the high profile or should we all be doing it? To talk more on this, we are joined on the line by….
Guest: Eunice Masipa – Director of Pretoria based law firm Masipa Attorneys

Let’s tell you now about the Urban Festival 2020. It is the first iteration of the event in South Africa that seeks to provide a virtual platform for engagement on a multitude of urban development ideas and perspectives. This year’s theme is all about Empowering the Civic and contends with how technology could be used to bridge gaps and enable development.

Guest: Geoff Bickford - Programme Manager - South African Cities Network