The Daily Discourse

As the country is experience a water crisis, government is trying it’s best to get communities to start preserving water. Entrepreneurs and innovators are coming up with different ways of helping to deal with the crisis. One of those is a company called Aqua Air, they extract water from humidity. Just how sustainable are their methods and what solutions are they bring?

GUEST: Keamogetswe Matsho – Chief Executive of Aqua Air

It seems like Apartheid and its racist legacy have still not been eradicated from the workplace and the economy. From time to time we learn of extreme racially motivated acts of violence against black workers as well as various forms of racial discrimination against them. On the other-hand, some white workers and their trade unions like solidarity have expressed concern about discriminatory practices against their members due to affirmative action legislation. After 25 years of democracy, do South African workplaces and the economy still remain untransformed? Is racism ever going to be eradicated? If so, how will it happen?

GUEST: Zwelinzima Vavi – SAFTU General Secretary
GUEST: Dr Ebrahim Harvey – Political writer, analyst, author and former trade unionist

Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan says the establishment of the Transmission Entity under Eskom holdings is the most urgent priority. He says the transmission's core function will be to promote capital investment, to catalyse energy efficiency and maintain cost sustainability. Gordhan says the Transmission subsidiary will have an interim Board fulfilling an oversight role. Yesterday Gordhan said the deadline for the separation of the Eskom business is the 31st of March 2020. He says the special paper on Eskom is merely the beginning of the process and it will take time to get everything right. Gordhan was presenting the special paper on Eskom in Pretoria...

GUEST: Energy Analyst, Andrew Kenny

Economics have mixed predictions over which way today’s mid-term budget speech is likely to go. Some say that Finance Minister Tito Mboweni is likely to focus more on SOE’s while others expect a tax increase. Which way can we expect him to go under this stressful economic situation seeing that the unemployment figures have also increased?

GUEST: Alex Gwala, Deliotte Director of Global Business tax services, Innovation leader for Africa Tax and legal and mining tax specialist

Germany's foreign minister is looking at possible solutions to put an end to what they call "foreign interference" in war-torn Libya. The country's foreign minister Heiko Maas says this issue is a "fundamental problem" in Libya that will be discussed at a conference on the North African country, which will take place in Berlin later this year. Let's take a look back to how Libya found itself here. Was it about the oil? Was it Muammar Gaddafi call for one Africa and one currency? What is it exactly?

Guest: Izak Khomo - Presenter Producer of Spotlight Africa at Channel Africa

Last week we were going to deal with; why should South African's not retire early? However, as it is the last Tuesday of the month, we deal with questions that Bryan has received off air of a similar nature.

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

The Wits University is hosting an African Investigative Journalism Conference, from the 28th until the 30th of October. Award winning Cameroonian journalist, Mimi Mefo will be among 70 lauded thought-leaders from around the world who will speak at the 15th African Investigative Journalism Conference.

guest: Jeff Lowenstein, an investigative journalist from the USA, an author of four books and a visiting professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism

guest: Solomon Serwanjja, an Investigative Journalist from Uganda

Time now for our regular Monday feature Legally Speaking, In September 2018 the constitutional Court ruled that the private cultivation, possession and consumption of cannabis is legal. Since the ruling some South Africans have been using certain loopholes in the law to get around the cannabis judgement through so called 'grow clubs', which exploit the decriminalization of the personal use and cultivation of cannabis 'in private'. For more on this we are in conversation with Andrew MacPherson, who is an Associate in Dispute Resolution practice specializing in insolvency law at law firm Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr, in Cape Town.

GUEST: Andrew MacPherson, who is an Associate in Dispute Resolution practice specializing in insolvency law at law firm Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr, in Cape Town.

As South Africa is battling to deal with its energy crisis with government coming up with different options which include nuclear energy. But interestingly, now there is the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Inga 3 project which the country is being called upon not to go ahead with as it may be too expensive. The African women Unite against Destructive Resource Extraction and International Rivers- two non-profit organisations - argue that the foreign-owned hydropower would cost R400 million more per annum compared to domestic power.
guest: TRUSHA REDDY – FROM WOMIN AFRICAN ALLIANCE

guest: RUDO SANYANGA – AFRICA PROGRAMME DIRECTOR AT INTERNATIONAL RIVERS

Last week we say a breach of the City of Johannesburg’s network and some of the banks. The risk of being hacked has always been there over the years and no matter how hard companies try to protect themselves against cybercrime, somehow criminals manage to penetrate their systems. Well, those in the in the insurance sector say that there seems to be very little uptake in cyber insurance and other risk mitigation measures. For some insight on this, we are joined on the line by…

GUEST: Simon Colman - Executive Head of Digital at SHA Specialist Underwriters