The Daily Discourse

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

As per usual on a Tuesday we look at issues on the African continent. We will continue our discussions around peace and stability in countries within the Horn of Africa. This morning the spotlight is on Somalia, which has been plagued by political, economic and human rights challenges, including terrorism by extremist group al-Shabab who regularly conduct attacks and control vast segments of Somalia. This morning on the Talking Point we will also look at some of the other challenges like famine, piracy and how some of the country's challenges have devastated Somalia's agricultural sector. So what will it take to bring peace to Somalia?

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

Core inflation and consumer inflation is very different. To achieve long term growth, investors have to take on risk; however, there are different types of risk that investors need to be aware of.

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

Last week we spoke to an economist for about five minutes to explain what it means when a currency is devalued. It was one of those issues one picks up during the market update with no real explanation. Interestingly, Michael Kruger who is an investment analyst at Morningstar Investment Management SA penned an article where he picks up on how the level of the rand is being used to paint a picture of the country’s economic state. There are just so many debates around this issue that sometimes makes one wonder where people like Moody’s and so on fit into the equation and how also Eskom affects how the rand trades. To make sense of all of this, w

GUEST: Michael Kruger - Investment analyst at Morningstar Investment Management SA

There has been a lot of opposition against the roll out of the National Health Insurance (NHI), a system aimed at providing essential healthcare to all South Africans irrespective of their financial status. Yesterday we spoke to Professor Alex van den Heever, Chair of Social Security Systems Administration and Management studies at Wits School of Governance who says the NHI may turn into another vehicle vulnerable to state capture and will not address the current challenges facing our health system…

GUEST: Dr Nicholas Crisp, a Consultant for the National Health Insurance (NHI), for the Department of Health