The family of footballer Senzo Meyiwa says they want to know who orchestrated his murder. Five men arrested in connection with Meyiwa's murder appeared in the Boksburg Magistrates Court on Gauteng's Eastrand yesterday. They are facing charges of murder, attempted murder, robbery with aggravating circumstances and possession of an unlicensed firearm and ammunition. The case has been postponed to the 27th of November where a formal charge sheet will be presented before court. Tshepo Phagane was in court…

LINK: The behaviour of the suspects, the discrepancies between AfriForum and the police version raised a lot of legal questions even though the NPA believes that it has a tight case and to get a perspective on this.

Guest: Ulrich Roux – Criminal Law expert

There has been mixed reaction coming out of parliament around President Cyril Ramaphosa’s signing of the Civil Union Amendment bill into law. The bill prevents marriage officers from refusing to preside over same sex marriages. Let’s listen to what the parties had to say….
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LINK: The big question then focuses on the rights of the officers as this may go against their beliefs. What then for them? Is it a question of do your job or quit? Where do rights start and end?

Guest: Ropafadzo Maphosa – PHD candidate and researcher at the University of Johannesburg’s Institute for Advanced Constitutional Public Human Rights and International Law

David Letsoalo has written an interesting piece outlining how freedom of expression is repressed in our day under a democratic government. Under the apartheid regime one would see things like banning, arrests and so forth, but under the so called freedom era, it is done subtly. What is the deception around freedom of speech today as far as he’s concerned?

Guest: David Letsoalo – A Sankarist, activist and law academic

We close the show off with a remarkable leader who comes from a very humbling beginning and today sits at the top of Investec. Who is he and how did he make it this far? What are his thoughts around leadership and the state of the economy?

Guest: Fani Titi – CEO and Executive Director at Investec PLC

Many businesses have suffered a lot under the Covid-19 lockdown restrictions. President Cyril Ramaphosa tried to get banks and other financial institutions to work together during this period, but on the ground the story is different. The Free State Black Business Chamber is calling on the Consumer Protector to help them against landlords who are demanding rent due to them from March and to tell us more on this, we are joined on the line by…

Guest: Lucky Motsamai – CEO of the Free State Black Business Chamber

There’s been a lot of clashes in the Ivory Coast as the country gears up for elections on the 31st of October. A house belonging to one of the presidential candidates was set alight with some reports suggesting that supporters of President Alassane Ouattara were behind the attack. Last week Ivorians living in South Africa vowed to intensify their call for President Ouattara not to contest that country's polls for a third term. Commentators are also worried about the return of former President Laurent Gbagbo. Let’s speak now to someone tasked with the responsibility of engaging with the Ivorian diaspora..
Guest: Issiaka Konate – Director General for Ivorians Oversees

United States President Donald Trump and rival Joe Biden met in a final face-to-face debate last night which gave American voters a last look at them on the same stage just a few days before election day. Polls consistently gave the Democratic challenger an edge both nationally and in multiple swing states. Let’s listen to some of the highlights of the debate…

LINK: What is it about the American politics, especially the presidency that draws the world’s attention so much? Why should we care who makes it to the White House every time there’s an election?

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

There was mixed reactions yesterday in parliament as MP’s and premiers gave their input to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Economic Reconstruction and Recovery Plan which he announced last week. Some political parties were more worried about how realistic this plan is going to be as they feel there’s nothing new to it. Let’s listen to what some of the parties had to say…

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LINK: What Cosatu did not like very much was the proposal for the privatisation of some main train routes in the country. The other main one is job creation and to get their view on the labour side of this, we are joined on the line by….

Guest: Michael Shingange – Cosatu’s Deputy President

We speak now to Tanya van Lill - CEO of the Southern African Venture Capital and Private Equity Association. She is coming up with solutions that could same the SMME sector that has been severely affected by the Covid-19 lockdown. She is pointing to what she says is a “simple” amendment to Regulation 28 – a regulation in terms of the Pension Funds Act that specifies ceilings for exposures to different asset classes. She now joins us on the line to explain her thinking…

Guest: Tanya van Lill - CEO of the Southern African Venture Capital and Private Equity Association

The actual day for Black Wednesday was on Monday the 19th of October and since it is a special day that shaped the course of the media in our country, we thought to allocate it enough time looking at the role the media played in contributing to our democracy. Back in1977 just after the death of Steve Biko, the government of the day decided to crackdown on the media targeting publications that were critical of them. Now when we discuss Black Wednesday, the name of Percy Qoboza who was editor of The World newspaper in those days pops up. He was arrested and his deputy Aggrey Klaaste were arrested by the Special Branch for all the stories they were publishing. Let’s listen to this sound clip of Qoboza speaking at the City Club of Cleveland event in the US in 1981. He was appealing to the United States to take a more active approach in addressing social justice issues and human rights violations in Africa..

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LINK: In our roundtable this morning we speak to some of our colleagues in the media about the state of the media and the role it played in shaping democracies and nation building and to navigate the subject, we are joined by….

Guest: Sibusiso Ngalwa.- Sanef Chairperson

Guest: Phathiswa Magopeni - Group Executive for News & Current Affairs for the SABC
Guest: Angela Quintal - Programme Coordinator for the Committee to Protect Journalists Africa (CPJ).
Guest:Hopewell Chin’ono, Zimbabwean investigative journalist.