The Daily Discourse

: Residents of Alexandra, North of Johannesburg, have vowed to continue with protests in the township; this after the Red Ants on Friday destroyed about 80 structures that were built on illegally occupied land. In last week's violent protests, three houses and an electric transformer were torched during the unrest.

GUEST: Lebogang Maile, MEC for Human Settlement, Urban Planning and Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA)

We can’t mention the townships and not mention informal settlements because that’s where most of them originate from. Some of the main causes of informal settlements are lack of resources, urbanization and poverty. Today we ask, how do we transform townships? Why do we still have informal settlements?

guest: Sbu Zikode - president of abaxhali base Mjondolo

The FF Plus has accused Patricia de Lille of selling out the Coloured vote by joining the administration of President Cyril Ramaphosa. De Lille is the new Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure and she has been sworn-in by Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng in Pretoria. Peter Marais, Leader of the Minority Party in the Western Cape and President of the Triple B movement says De Lille has broken the trust of her voters by accepting the Cabinet position.

GUEST: Peter Marais, Leader of the Minority Party in the Western Cape and President of the Triple B or Bruin Belange Beweging (BBB)

Climate-watch organisation, the Climate Action Tracker group, say the Carbon Tax Law which was signed into law by President Cyril Ramaphosa falls short of emission reduction targets pledged to in the 2015 Paris Agreement. The Carbon Tax Law kicks-in on the first of June after nearly a decade of delays. South Africa is one of Africa's worst polluters with average temperatures rising more than the global average. The world has just a decade to take action to cut carbon emissions and every country will need to significantly scale up the commitments made under the 2015 Paris climate accord if humans hope to avoid disaster on this planet. Under this agreement, 195 countries pledged to cut their greenhouse-gas emissions. The United States was a signatory of the 2015 Paris agreement, but in 2017 President Trump announced that Washington was pulling out of the pact…

Guest: Ross Harvey - Independent Economist.

We are now in conversation with Nomusa Dube-Ncube, MEC for Economic Development, Tourism and Environmental Affairs in KwaZulu Natal to talk to us about how to stimulate the economy of the province. How do we attain an Inclusive economy that does not discriminate by race and that supports mediocre by colour and gender but that which up skills...

GUEST: Nomusa Dube-Ncube, MEC for Economic Development, Tourism and Environmental Affairs in KwaZulu Natal

We are now in conversation with Numsa's national spokesperson Phakamile Hlubi-Majola, to talk about the performance of the trade union's Socialist Revolutionary Workers' Party (SRWP), in this year's elections. The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, which is the country's largest trade union, contested the elections nationally, in all nine provinces. Numsa was expelled from the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) in November 2014 for refusing to back the ANC in the general elections. The Socialist Revolutionary Workers' Party performed poorly in the elections with a low number of votes, this despite the massive membership of its parent union, Numsa. This morning we are asking you should workers support a workers' party. And can a workers' party succeed politically?

GUEST: Phakamile Hlubi-Majola, Numsa's national spokesperson

This week Lebogang Mofokeng was found guilty of the premeditated murder of 23 year old Jabulile Nhlapo. He shot her in the back of her head in May last year, she died on the scene. Today we ask, what role should the community play to ensure that we raise boys to be good men so that our communities can be a safer place for women and children?

Guest: Francois Joubert - Founder Of Strive For Exceptional and mentor at the Character Company

A new partnership has been announced with the South African Farmers Development Association (SAFDA), Coca Cola South Africa and Mintirho Foundation. Through the partnership, loans totaling R28 million will be given to help SAFDA acquire 75% of High Five-a fertilizer blending plant based in KZN. SAFDA will also acquire 5 sugarcane transporting trucks in order to pilot an owner-driver logistics programme for farmers.

GUEST: Noxolo Kahlana, Executive Manager for the Mintirho Foundation, Coca-Cola Beverages South Africa's (CCBSA) foundation

Starting a business with no money is possible but very difficult. You have an idea for a business, except you don't have any money to start it. Lack of capital is a common excuse for failing to start a business. How can one access business funding and why is it so difficult?

Guest: Daniel Moritz - Chief Financial Officer at Merchant Capital.

Are people patronizing and more lenient towards members of the LGBTQ+ communities? Do majority groups exempt LGBTQ+ groups from what would generally be deemed unacceptable or wrong?

GUEST: (In Studio) Motlatsi Motseoile – LGBQTI Activist and Entrepreneur
GUEST: (In Studio) Snowy Mamba - Transgender woman