The Public Servants Association is calling on the health department to close the Inkosi Albert Luthuli Hospital in Durban. This comes after reports that a nurse tested positive this. Just last week, the KZN MEC for Health Nomagugu Simelane-Zulu announced that the St Augustine Hospital is closed and only one ward will remain open for positive patients.

Guest: Mlungisi Ndlovu - KZN manager for the Public Servants Association

guest: Luxolo Matini -Reverend I the Methodist Church of Southern Africa (KWT)

If one has to confess to something, that would be fear and worry about when the Covid-19 situation is going to end. Everywhere we go there are people standing with sanitisers, now we are also required to keep a social distance. Life is we know it has changed. Fear has fallen upon us. What is all of this doing to our psychology?

GUEST: Nicolette Visagie – Clinical Psychologist

In the next hour we will hear from a psychologist about the impact the lockdown is having on us all, but let’s start off on issues of accessing information. We are talking about an interactive tool that will help with our health, businesses, work, finances and anxiety levels. The tool uses mathematical models to track the spread of the virus and provide actionable insights on how to play your part in the fight.

Guest: Abu Addae - CEO of LifeCheq

Since the lockdown, smokers have been worried about how they are going to cope since shops are not allowed to sell cigarettes. This is one of the addictions many can’t do without.

Guest: Dr Jan Chabalala – A psychiatrist with special interest in addictions

No doubt how much damage the Covid-19 is causing around all aspects of life. Business in particular is feeling it the most. Now business owners deal a lot with contracts mainly for job security and so on. Under the current lockdown, workers are expecting full wages, suppliers expect to be paid. Let’s look at the legal side of things. How does one prepare staff and labour obligation when the disturbance is a directive from government? What is my legal recourse as a business owner and what is it for an employee?

Guest: Tertius Wessels – Legal Director Strata-G Labour Solutions

The Alliance for Rural Democracy has issued a statement highlighting the plight of rural communities under the current lockdown. Interestingly they trace the problem back to the days of the Bantu-stan era. They are warning of a dire social and economic result as a consequence of the lockdown.

Guest: Siyabulela Manona – PHD Student in Geography at Rhodes University, He assisted The Alliance For Rural Democracy with a strategy on how to deal with Covid19

Ever since the outbreak of the Covid-19, we have been speaking to people in different spheres of life about how the current lockdown situation is affecting them. Today we get to understand how those who are visually impaired. What challenges are they facing in a time like this?

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Guest: Ntshavheni Netshituni – CEO of Blind SA

This morning we talk issues of ideology. Often when we talk issues of borrowing money from institutions like the IMF and the World Bank, debate arises on how capitalist they are and the consequences of the transaction. Socialism is put forward as one of the solutions that will take us forward as a country. The South African Communist Party in particular raises such arguments. Well, let’s get into the issue of communism as an ideology. Where has it succeeded and in this country, how relevant is it and is it raising its voice loud enough? Ministers who are deployed by the SACP, why do they equally enjoy perks that may be deemed capitalist by nature? Why are they not showing their counterparts how true communism is followed?

Guest: Solly Mapaila – SACP First Deputy General Secretary

The Reserve Bank has cut its growth forecasts for South Africa, predicting the economy could shrink by as much as four-percent in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, the national 21-day lockdown and the recent downgrades by credit rating agencies. The bank says growth was unlikely to exceed one-percent in 2021. In its bi-annual Monetary Policy Review the Reserve Bank says there is limited scope for a rebound and there are downside risks to the dire forecasts should the lockdown be extended. The country has reported one-thousand-655 coronavirus cases, the highest on continent, with eleven deaths. The Rand has crashed to an all-time low of above 19 to the dollar while bond yields have spiked - fueling fears of a financial and fiscal crisis. For a perspective on this,

Guest: Dr Thabi Leoka - an independent economist who also sits on Ramaphosa's Economic Advisory Panel