The Daily Discourse

Jordan Rae Kelly is former Director for Cyber Incident Response on the National Security Council at the White House under President Donald Trump. We speak to her this morning about various issues surrounding cybercrime. Coming from an international platform and policy making, where would she say we are as the global village when it comes to dealing with cybercrime? What is it that governments are not getting right and what still needs to be done?

GUEST: Jordan Rae Kelly – Senior Managing Director, FTI Consulting

Yesterday (Tuesday) President Cyril Ramaphosa launched the new Health Sector Anti-Corruption Forum. He spoke around corruption in the health sector, but also pointing his finger at nurses saying they are moonlighting alluding to it being part of corruption.

GUEST: Simon Hlungwani – President of the Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa

Workplace stress is said to be the harmful physical and emotional responses that can happen when there is a conflict between job demands on the employee and the amount of control an employee has over meeting these demands. In today’s workplace, stress is a widespread problem with companies’ constantly pushing for higher productivity in order to be more competitive and gain greater market share. Workplace stress affects all sectors of the economy from the lowest level workers to the top management. In today’s show we discuss workplace stress as an occupational health and safety issue – its causes, effects and remedies for it. With us to discuss this we have

GUEST: Dr Spo Kgalamono, who is the acting Executive Director of the National Institute for Occupational Health (NIOH)

GUEST: Dr Sophia Kisting , Independent Occupational Medical Practitioner

GUEST: DR SIPHO KABANE, CEO AND REGISTRAR AT THE COUNCIL FOR MEDICAL SCHEMES

The Competition Commission has recommended the establishment of a Supply-Side Health Regulator (SSHR) to monitor and assess the economic value and price of health services. That's according to Dr Cees van Gent of the Commission's Health Market Inquiry which found that private healthcare and medical scheme cover in South Africa is characterized by the rising cost of healthcare. The commission further recommends that healthcare service prices be reviewed every three years. Briefing the media in Sandton, north of Johannesburg, Gent said the establishment of the SSRH would support the National Health Insurance Bill.

GUEST: Dr. Vusumuzi Nhlapho, Acting General Manager and Head of Department for the Private Practice unit at the South African Medical Association (SAMA)

Analyst and writer at the Institute of Race Relations (IRR), Hermann Pretorius says Western Cape Premier, Alan Winde should be the preferred candidate to replace DA leader, Mmusi Maimane. In an article written in his personal capacity Pretorius says "the leadership vacuum at the top of the DA and the racial confusion that has seen its once bright prospects tarnish can be addressed in one brave, respectable swoop: by electing Alan Winde as the next leader of the party as soon as possible".

GUEST: Former Democratic Alliance (DA) leader and current policy fellow for the Institute for Race Relations (IRR), Helen Zille

We now shift our focus to Newcastle in KwaZulu Natal where residents in the Signal Hill, Aviary Hill and other areas have reportedly had no water supply for the several days. For the latest on the reports, we are now joined on the line by Dumisani Thabethe, Newcastle Municipality's spokesperson…

GUEST: Dumisani Thabethe, Newcastle Municipality's spokesperson

President Faustin-Archange Touadéra of the Central African Republic (CAR) was addressing the UN General Assembly's annual general debate, where he said that his country remains fragile despite progress on the peace deal. The landmark peace agreement was signed by his Government and 14 armed groups on 6 February 2019. Let's take a journey now in the Central African Republic to find out where it all began and how they got to where they are today….

GUEST: Izak Khomo, Who is Channel Africa's Producer for a show known as "Spotlight Africa"

As usual, we do try on the last Tuesday of the month to deal with questions received off air that are of similar nature that Bryan thinks are worth repeating and discussing on air. Last Tuesday was a public holiday, so Bryan will be dealing with some of your questions this morning but if you have other questions for Bryan,

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

Quality private healthcare in South Africa is without a doubt very costly and healthcare has become a luxury available to those who can afford it. For more on the Competition Commission's report on the cost of healthcare, we are now joined on the line by Quinton Zunga, Founding partner and CEO of the black-owned-and-managed healthcare listing - RH Bophelo. The company says they strive to provide affordable quality healthcare in South Africa…

GUEST: Quinton Zunga, Founding partner and CEO of the black-owned-and-managed healthcare listing - RH Bophelo