Since the lockdown started health experts raised concerns about the mental health situation fearing that many could face anxiety and other mental ailments. Yesterday the South African Depression and Anxiety Group hosted a briefing where research showed that 28% of employees were experiencing constant high levels of both psychological and physical distress. To help us interpret this and also what it is we can do to overcome

Guest: Prof Christoffel Grobler – Psychiatrist

The health department in the Free State is concerned about the increase in the number of infections. The province is also facing serious challenges about recoveries. To find out what the situation is there and the kind of challenges they are facing, we are joined on the line by…

Guest: Dr Sammy Mokoena – Provincial Head of Covid-19 Surveillance Team in the Free State

Dr Justin Visagie and his fellow academics have penned an article highlighting the need to transform the informal housing sector. The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed the dangers faced by overcrowding in the informal communities and one of the raised points in the article is the lack of implementation of ideas by the ANC government. As far the academics are concerned, what is the best approach seeing that resettling informal communities has not solved anything over the years?
Guest: Dr Justin Visagie - Research specialist in the department of Inclusive Economic Development at the Human Sciences Research Council

President Cyril Ramaphosa last night said that he has ordered the Special Investigating Unit to probe all government spending linked to the state of disaster declared over the coronavirus pandemic. The President made the announcement in a televised address to the nation.

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Guest: Kaizer Kganyago – Spokesperson for the Special Investigating Unit

Since the lockdown came into effect, concerns were more around the issue of education. As schools were also affected, the worry was about learners being left behind. Many schools then opted for virtual learning, something that is not very easy for both teachers and learners. This morning on our Labour Talk we speak to a teacher to find out what being in the classroom under these circumstances and having to transform into different forms of teaching is like…

Guest: Charmain Thokoane – Teacher at Nova Pioneer’s Paulshof campus

According to recent research findings from a survey conducted by First Insight, a world-leading customer-centric merchandising platform, fear around the short and long-tern effects of the pandemic is driving people to make financial decisions that aren’t in their best interest, with 54% of millennials saying that the coronavirus has significantly impacted their purchase decisions, and 63% of them stating that their biggest worry is their ability to continue paying their monthly bills. To help South Africans understand one of the main sources of peoples’ financial behaviour, in 2019, Nedbank introduced an online quiz which helped individuals discover their money archetypes and how these affect their relationships with money. To tell us more on this, we are joined on the line by…

Guest: Nthabiseng Matshekga - Nedbank Executive Head: Group Marketing

One of South Africa’s financiers of small and medium enterprise, Retail Capital is excited about retaining their national BB+ credit rating. This they say has resulted in local and international investors looking at placing more funding with them. This then is good news for the SMME sector that desperately needs the funding. To explain this and why we the sector should be happy with it, we are joined on the line by…

Guest: Guy Hosking – Chief Financial Officer at Retail Capital

For more than two months on this programme a day would never go by without a story about the Eastern Cape. Sadly it’s never good. We’ve managed to invite some of the leadership to answer questions with no satisfactory answers. Well today we speak to Karyn Maughan who wrote a feature in the Financial Mail summarizing corruption in the Eastern Cape. Karyn now joins us on the line to give some perspective on why this province in particular seems to be the worst when it comes to corruption…

Guest: Karyn Maughan – Legal journalist Business Day and Financial Mail

The Tourism Business Council of South Africa (TBCSA) has painted a grim picture of the sector. In a briefing earlier today the Council says the sector is on its knees as it tries to restore hope. Furthermore the council says government has run out of money to fund the industry. In April minister of tourism Mmamaloko Kubayi- Ngubane announced a Covid-19 Tourism relief fund of 200 Million Rands. The sector now says it is exploring its legal options against government to force it to operate fully. The industry is not fully operational and some sectors have been granted permission to operate. Amina Accram reports..
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LINK: Bret Gehren who is founder and CEO of Isibindi Lodge wrote a letter to President Cyril Ramaphosa pleading with him to open up the domestic leisure travel in the country. Bret now joins us on the line…
Guest: Bret Gehren – Founder and CEO of Isibindi Lodge

Health experts say that self-testing could help in the early detection of testicular cancer. Dr Johan Mouton who is with the Urology Hospital Pretoria says that the treatment of testicular cancer is one of the “big success stories in modern medicine”.

GUEST: Dr. Johan Mouton - From the Urology Hospital Pretoria