The KwaZulu-Natal government will hold its first climate change summit following devastating floods that claimed many lives in the recent past. The two-day provincial climate change and sustainable development summit, starts today and will be attended by members of the provincial executive council, senior leaders and officials from all spheres of government, academics and the civil society.

GUEST: Ms Nomusa Dube-Ncube, MEC for Economic Development, Tourism and Environmental Affairs

August is Women's Month, so for our business feature this morning we are in conversation with Businesswoman, Tlalane Ntuli, who is the chief operating officer and co-founder of credit life insurer Yalu, who joins me now in studio to share her story on entrepreneurship and women empowerment and how to motivate and encourage other women to pursue their dreams no matter how big or small.

GUEST : Businesswoman, Tlalane Ntuli is chief operating officer and co-founder of credit life insurer Yalu in Johannesburg

Many foreign-owned shops in Soweto have been looted. Residents say this was done in retaliation for the recent attack on police in the Johannesburg CBD by foreign nationals. Meanwhile, the mayor of the City of Johannesburg, Herman Mashaba, says the looting of foreign owned shops in Soweto is as a result of the government's failure to secure the country's borders. He says some foreigner shop owners have been bringing counterfeit goods in the country and local people are frustrated.

GUEST: Sashin Naidoo, SABC reporter

Former EFF members are launching a political party called the African Federal Convention. Babayi Vusi Mathe launched the African Federal Convention, AFCO, in Johannesburg on Wednesday. Mathe was the EFF's former Head of Intelligence in KwaZulu-Natal. In its reaction to the new party, the EFF has branded Mathe as just a disgruntled former party member.

GUEST: Babayi Vusi Mathe, Leader of the African Federal Convention (afco). Vusi describes himself as a "co-founder of the EFF"

For the past few days we’ve been discussing issues around job creation and trying to find answers for the main reasons for our unemployment situation. Yesterday we spoke to experts in the human resources, graduate placement and economic sector. To take the discussion forward we here from the Minister of Employment and Labour…

GUEST: Thulas Nxesi – National minister of Employment and Labour

This morning we will look at leading women gaming executives from across the international landscape. Clarion Gaming is promoting the role of women within the industry via the #WomenDiverse social media campaign which is running throughout the month of August. On the Talking Point this morning, we will look at the role of advancing women within the Casino or Gaming industry, where women are still facing issues in diversity and sexism...

GUEST: Adheera Bodasing - Managing Director, Polarity Consulting

We are now in conversation with Enterprise iLembe, which is an Economic Development Agency for the iLembe District Municipality, on the east coast of KwaZulu-Natal. Enterprise iLembe held a Business Engagement Breakfast Session at the Fairmont Zimbali Resort yesterday, targeting local business, and representatives from government at provincial and local level, sector departments and SMMEs to address challenges of economic growth, innovation and reduction in unemployment…
GUEST: Cobus Oelfse CEO Ilembe Chamber of Commerce

In this week’s show we look at and discuss Women in Labour. That is what the role and situation of women is in the economy and how well their interests are represented by the trade union movement. We look closely at to what extent is discrimination against women in the economy still rife and what are the trade union responses to this? It is well known that women are marginalized and oppressed at various levels of society, from our homes, our communities and in the economy, but we also explore whether they are marginalized and oppressed within trade unions.

GUEST: Ms Dorothy Ndhlovu, Vice President of the Federation of Unions of South Africa (FEDUSA)

GUEST: Ms Prakashnee Govender, former Cosatu Parliamentary office researcher

The latest unemployment stats which put the figure at 29% got many of us worried. We were worried about what more to expect seeing that many institutions are laying people off. The SOE’s are also not helping as they are also mismanaged and laying people off. We will be doing a series of discussion along economic lines. But today we look at the employment side of things. Where are we going wrong? Are we producing the correct candidates for our industries? Is it a question of skills? Is it education? Where do we start when it comes to the question of finding a job?

GUEST: Madelein Smit – Founder and Human resources expert at HR Company Solutions

GUEST: Leon Louw, Executive Director of the Free Market Foundation

GUEST: Ronnie Midaka, the COO of the South African Graduates Development Association (SAGDA)

The South African Communist Party, SACP want funders of all presidential candidates who contested the ANC's Nasrec elective conference in 2017 to be disclosed. Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane has found that President Cyril Ramaphosa deliberately misled parliament on a 500-thousand BOSASA donation to his campaign for the ANC presidency in 2017. However, yesterday's interim court order has interdicted Mkhwebane's remedial actions in her BOSASA report, pending a judicial review. The SACP says the focus which is solely on President Ramaphosa's funders is "one-sided" and that the ANC must reveal all the funders.

GUEST: SACP spokesperson, Dr Alex Mashilo