The Daily Discourse

Safety at our hospitals and other issues pertaining to health facilities are triggering calls for the health department to be nationalized. There seems to be an unexplained miscommunication between the national and departments on the implementation of policy. Just last week, a patient who was being treated for gunshot wounds was shot and killed at Witbank hospital. This has made staff at hospitals nervous. Based on this, NEHAWU is suggesting a change in governance and this is what their president Mzwandile Makwayiba had to say….

GUEST: Dr. Trevor Ngwane -Faculty of Humanities South Africa Research Chair in Social Change

Last week Eastern Cape’s MEC for Finance, Mlungisi Mvoko delivered his Medium Term Budget Policy Statement. This advances the premier’s Revised Provincial Development Plan, their Vision 2030 blue print. He agrees with this plan and says it’s realistic. What are the highlights and how is he advancing it?

guest: Dalumhlanga Majeke – Head of the Eastern Cape Treasury Department

Tshwane Mayor Stevens Mokgalapa has laid charges of extortion and blackmail. This after the leaking of an audio tape purported to be of him and his Roads and Transport MMC, Sheila Senkubuge allegedly in a compromising position. Mokgalapa claims the tape was being used by suspended city officials for extortion and to blackmail him…

GUEST: DA's Gauteng leader, John Moody

As we continue to mark 400 years since the first Africans were enslaved, there has been a series of events to mark this occasion. In September we touched on the Door of Our Return event at the Pan African Parliament where the process was outlined. So the journey continues as a group of African American and Barbados leaders started their journey back to the continent. To put all of this in context, we are joined in studio by…

GUEST (studio): Dr Julius Garvey, Board-Certified award winning surgeon, medical professor, entrepreneur and son of Marcus Garvey

Sports, Arts and Culture Minister Nathi Mthethwa is today (Friday) paying a special visit to Credo Mutwa in Mothibistad, Kuruman in the Northern Cape Province. This visit is part of the departments Living Human Treasure Project, a programme that seeks to profile and honor South Africans who possess rare indigenous knowledge, skills and techniques. To tell us more on this and who exactly Credo Mutwa is and what we should know about him,

GUEST: Matshediso Setai - Spokesperson for the Credo Mutwa foundation

This morning we start the show by reflecting on the lives of spokespeople and the drama they go through. Pity those who work in departments that are in the news for the wrong reasons. Some spokespeople switch off their phones when flooded by calls from journalists as they don’t really know what to say. Some are just plain bad in what they are doing and then there are those who are just darlings to deal with. Let’s allow them to speak for themselves and tell us how they do it and how they separate their work lives with family lives…

GUEST: JP Smith - Mayoral committee member for safety and security at the City of Cape Town

GUEST: Nana Zenani - Prasa spokesperson

GUEST: Lenox Mabaso – Spokesperson for COGTA in KZN

This morning The Talking Point is coming to you live from the Velmore Hotel Conference Centre in Erasmia, Pretoria, where the Gauteng Department of Agriculture and Rural Development is hosting a high-level gathering on climate change. The Climate Change Indaba will be held under the strategic theme "Mobilizing climate action to create a sustainable climate resilient Gauteng City Region". The Indaba will be attended by more than 300 delegates, drawn from different sectors in society, notably academia; environment organizations; government representatives; business; research think-tanks; community-based organizations; non-governmental organizations; youth and women organizations; farmers and general public…

GUEST: Gerard van Weele – Businessman from Royal Haskoning DHV

Modupi Mampa – Teacher at Zitikeni secondary school in Tembisa

Thapelo Maake – Learner at Zitikeni secondary school in Tembisa

Scientists have discovered a new strain of HIV but experts say this is not a cause for concern. The discovery was a subtype of a known existing strain which is part of the Group M version of HIV-1, the same family of virus subtypes blamed for the global HIV pandemic…

GUEST: Dr Sandile Buthelezi, CEO of the South African National Aids Council (Sanac)

This morning The Talking Point is coming to you live from the Velmore Hotel Conference Centre in Erasmia, Pretoria, where the Gauteng Department of Agriculture and Rural Development is hosting a high-level gathering on climate change. The Climate Change Indaba will be held under the strategic theme "Mobilizing climate action to create a sustainable climate resilient Gauteng City Region". The Indaba will be attended by more than 300 delegates, drawn from different sectors in society, notably academia; environment organizations; government representatives; business; research think-tanks; community-based organizations; non-governmental organizations; youth and women organizations; farmers and general public…

GUEST: Morakane Mosupyoe: Gauteng MEC for Economic Development, Agriculture, Environment and Rural Development
guest: Matilda Gasela – Head of Department: Economic Development, Agriculture, Environment and Rural Development

We speak to eThekwini Mayor Mxolisi Kaunda about the municipality's Fraud Awareness campaign. The eThekwini Municipality says it has measures for the prevention, detection and management of fraud and corruption or any other dishonest activities of a similar nature. For more on this we are now joined on the line by eThekwini Mayor Mxolisi Kaunda to speak to us about creating an environment and culture in which employees believe that dishonest acts will be detected and investigated

GUEST: eThekwini Mayor, Mxolisi Kaunda