Did you know that Since 2000/01 potatoes accounted for approximately 45% of total vegetable crops produced in South Africa and contribute around R8.5 billion to the economy? Well as good as this sounds, Covid-19 has affected global market with a surplus of frozen and processed potato products in Europe. They are now pleading with the South African government to put a temporary freeze on EU imports and to explain to us how this is hitting our industry,

Guest: André Jooste - CEO of Potato South Africa

Bryan looks at the markets particularly tech stocks and the Seven deadly sins of investing

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

Ruth Hopkins is an award-winning investigative journalist based in the country and she has written an explosive book exposing security company G4S for its brutal treatment of prisoners at Mangaung Correctional Centre in Bloemfontein. The book also exposes the failure of the Department of Correctional Services to take appropriate action.

Guest: Ruth Hopkins –Investigative journalist attached to the Wits Justice Project

As you may have heard last week when we were discussing the harassment of female journalists, this at the back of the EFF incident involving a journalist from eNCA. Some of the male callers felt that the incident was not harassment, but just the party not wanting eNCA at their protest. Let’s listen to some of the views that came in…..
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LINK: Having listened to those views, what then according to men constitutes harassment? One of the party leaders justified this as a touch and not harassment. Also looking at situations where a man greets a woman and she does not respond, does he have the right to force her to respond to the greeting? To help us navigate this subject, we are joined on the line by…
Guest: Mbuyiselo Botha – Commissioner at the Commission for Gender Equality

Guest: Professor Kopano Ratele - Director of the MRC’s Masculinity and Health Research Unit

Funeral undertakers say they have the support of crematoriums and the Muslim community as they strike for three days from today (Monday). The undertakers from 17 associations and forums, will be protesting their working conditions and remuneration. They also demand the out-sourcing of mortuary facilities. The strike will affect the movement of bodies between homes, hospitals and mortuaries nationwide.

Guest: Nocawe Makhiwane, from the Funeral Federation of South Africa, which is an umbrella body where all associations are represented

Tomorrow (Saturday) 12th of September marks 43 years since the murder of Steven Bantu Biko by apartheid police in 1977. This morning speak to some of his close former colleagues who will be hosting a talk entitled ‘Biko’s lessons for us’. One of the questions we’ve been asking over the years is what Biko would have been today? Would he have been a scholar or politician or one of those outstanding moral voices?

Guest: Dr Mamphele Ramphele - Co-founder of ReimagineSA

Guest: Dr. Saths Cooper-President of the Pan-African Psychology Union

The Clicks incident has again brought the spotlight on institutional racism. The company has apologized after public uproar from the black community. But this is not the first time corporates got it wrong. H&M also got in trouble for a distasteful advert. But then where are corporates getting in wrong? Also the other element is that some white people don’t seem to understand why such things are hurting and offensive to the black community. Where do we start in trying to address this problem and how far can we trace it?

Guest: Dr Mandisa Majavu – Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political and International Studies at Rhodes

Guest: Lovelyn Nwandeyi – Founder and Director of L&N Advisors - Also Seniour Fellow of the Atlantic Fellowship for Racial Equity, coordinated by Columbia University in New York and the Nelson Mandela Foundation

Guest: Dr Mariheca Otto - MD of Motto Business Solutions and measurement specialist (She says Diverse teams are proven to out-perform homogenic teams)

uMkhonto weSizwe’s National Council is the latest structure that has slammed ANC leaders defying party instruction to step aside while facing criminal charges. This is an issue that the ANC leadership seems unable to deal with as many of the implicated members are still holding on to their positions. Well let’s hear what they have to say as we welcome…

Guest: Gregory Nthatisi - Secretary-general of the uMkhonto weSizwe’s National Council

Freedom Front Plus leader Pieter Groenewald has expressed his anger at the revelation that the ANC delegation to Zimbabwe used a SANDF plane for this assignment. He says he will call on the Public Protector to look into this. Asked whether the ANC abused state resources, this is what Secretary-General Ace Magashule said……

Guest: Pule Mabe – ANC Spokesperson

Some educators who have chronic conditions that are flagged as high-risk co-morbidities for Coronavirus have raised concerns over the processing of concession leave applications. Government has committed to protecting high-risk civil servants by either granting them leave or approving that they work from home. Some teachers who have been approved to work from home however say they have not been provided with the necessary resources to work remotely. Pimani Baloyi reports...

Guest: Mugwena Maluleke – General Secretary for SADTU