The Mail & Guardian reported last week on the squalid conditions that black students in rural universities face (“UniZulu students’ accommodation conditions are ‘inhumane”). But those in charge are escaping blame. 25 years after democratic elections, why are students still living in shacks, Crammed together, without basic services, they walk far to campus, often in the dark, terrified of being mugged or raped?

GUEST: Bongekile Macupe is the education reporter at the Mail & Guardian

The Talking Point is coming to you live this morning from the Inkosi Albert Luthuli Convention Centre (Durban ICC), in KwaZulu-Natal. We are here for yet another gathering of the annual Africa's Travel Indaba. The Travel Indaba showcases the widest variety of Africa's best tourism products and attracts international buyers and media from across the world.

GUEST: Sonto Ndlovu

The Talking Point is coming to you live this morning from the Inkosi Albert Luthuli Convention Centre (Durban ICC), in KwaZulu-Natal. We are here for yet another gathering of the annual Africa's Travel Indaba. The Travel Indaba showcases the widest variety of Africa's best tourism products and attracts international buyers and media from across the world.

GUEST: Philani Shange, the deputy mayor of the Dr Dlamini Zuma Municipality in KZN,

The Talking Point is coming to you live this morning from the Inkosi Albert Luthuli Convention Centre (Durban ICC), in KwaZulu-Natal. We are here for yet another gathering of the annual Africa's Travel Indaba. The Travel Indaba showcases the widest variety of Africa's best tourism products and attracts international buyers and media from across the world.

GUEST: Sthembiso Madladla, Chairperson of the KZN Tourism Board

The Talking Point is coming to you live this morning from the Inkosi Albert Luthuli Convention Centre (Durban ICC), in KwaZulu-Natal. We are here for yet another gathering of the annual Africa's Travel Indaba. The Travel Indaba showcases the widest variety of Africa's best tourism products and attracts international buyers and media from across the world.
guest: John Addison, Director of Wild Frontiers Africa

The Talking Point is coming to you live this morning from the Inkosi Albert Luthuli Convention Centre (Durban ICC), in KwaZulu-Natal. We are here for yet another gathering of the annual Africa's Travel Indaba. The Travel Indaba showcases the widest variety of Africa's best tourism products and attracts international buyers and media from across the world.

GUEST: Winile Mntungwa, Head of Durban Tourism

Yesterday we commemorated Labour Day and today we look at the plight of domestic workers, their role in society, rights and why they are underpaid. Do you have a written contract with them where their responsibilities as well as yours as employers are explicitly stated and agreed upon?

GUEST: Florence Nokuzola Mosepele - Managing director of Cleaners on Call

The Talking Point is coming to you live this morning from the Inkosi Albert Luthuli Convention Centre (Durban ICC), in KwaZulu-Natal. We are here for yet another gathering of the annual Africa's Travel Indaba. The Travel Indaba showcases the widest variety of Africa's best tourism products and attracts international buyers and media from across the world.

GUEST: Jenny Chetty, travel manager at Green Corridors

The Talking Point is coming to you live this morning from the Inkosi Albert Luthuli Convention Centre (Durban ICC), in KwaZulu-Natal. We are here for yet another gathering of the annual Africa's Travel Indaba. The Travel Indaba showcases the widest variety of Africa's best tourism products and attracts international buyers and media from across the world.

GUEST: Bashni Muthaya, Chief Strategy officer at South African Tourism

Four Rhodes University PhD Chemistry students have been awarded the top position in the 2019 Hult Prize Challenge, for their electronic and electrical waste management system. The 4 students; Nobuhle Ndebele, Lindokuhle Nene, Reitumetse Nkhahle and Gauta Matlou participated in the 2019 Hult Prize Regional Summit held at the Brookhouse International School in Nairobi, Kenya. For more on their international accolade I am now joined on the line by...

GUESTS:

1. Nobuhle Ndebele, 24,a PhD Chemistry student at Rhodes University

2. Lindokuhle Nene, 25, a PhD Chemistry student at Rhodes University