The Daily Discourse

We hear now from the Progressive Professionals Forum. They held a special NEC meeting on Friday among other issues to communicate its position on the current global outbreak of the Covid-19 virus. We speak to them now to get an understanding of what their concerns are on the issue and whether they are satisfied about how government is handling the situation?

Guest: Kashif Wilcomb – President of the Progressive Professionals Forum

guest: Ms Zodwa Ntuli - Commissioner for bbbee commission

guest: Ms Nomusa Dube-Ncube, MEC for Economic Development, Tourism and Environmental Affairs In Kzn

guest: Mr Sibusiso Myeza - Deputy Director General for Economic Development, Tourism and Environment Affairs In Kzn

Steve Harris, who is the General Secretary of the United National Transport Union (UNTU) has informed parliament's portfolio committee on public enterprises that Transnet failed to ensure that 60% of the production and content of electric locomotives and 55% for diesel locomotives are manufactured locally.

Guest: Sonja Carstens, Deputy-General Secretary of the United National Transport Union

guest: Ms Lindiwe Madonsela - Senior Manager for Compliance at
bbbee commission

guest: Mdumiseni Ntuli - ANC Kzn Secretary General

As you may be hearing over and over on our airwaves that one of South Africa’s legendary soapies, Isidingo is coming to an end this evening. So we thought we can’t just let it go like that without paying tribute to the people who made it a success over the years. The people who made you run home and never miss an episode……..

GUESTS(Studio): Hlubi Mboya (Plays Nandipha)
Robert Whitehead – (Plays Barker Haines)
Motlatsi Mafatshe – (Plays Sechaba)
Program creator: Gray Hofmeyr

We know the story well of how musicians die in poverty with no royalties. The stories are so many that one doesn’t even know where to start. In today’s age music is downloaded on all sorts of sides. Radio stations play music over and over. How does the money owed to the musicians get to them? Well we hear now from an organization called the South African Music Performance Rights Association. They are the people who make sure that the hard-earned money does go to the artist….

Guest: Ms Tiyani Maluleke, Chief Stakeholder Officer at SAMPRA

The theft of overhead cables and railway equipment in South Africa has reached unprecedented levels with the impact being felt by critical industries such as the mining, automotive, steel and agriculture among others. Transnet which has an interface agreement with Prasa – (sharing of railway lines) has experienced the theft of cables and railway equipment such as rail tracks particularly in the Pretoria complex, one of the country’s largest rail interchange which services key rail corridors such as the Cape, Natal, Port Elizabeth and Coal lines.

GUEST: LLOYD TOBIAS – ACTING CHIEF EXECUTIVE AT Transnet Freight Rail