The Daily Discourse

Why do we keep seeing sporadic protests ahead of national elections? We always tend to see the mushrooming of various protests ahead of almost every general election,

Guest: Thapelo Tselapedi - Lecturer at the Department of Politics and International relations and Rhodes University

The Alexandra Shutdown Committee says it will hand over its memorandum of demands to President Cyril Ramaphosa today during his expected visit to the township. The President's visit to the area follows sporadic protests by frustrated residents over the mushrooming of illegal dwellings and service delivery challenges…

GUEST: ANC spokesperson, Dakota Legoete

Next week Thursday the SABC Foundation will be hosting the SABC Disability Summit at Nasrec, Expo Centre. For more on the Summit we are now joined on the line by Iris Cupido, the CEO of the SABC Foundation

GUEST: Iris Cupido, the CEO of the SABC Foundation

South Africa doesn't have enough women in foreign policy, this according to Jo-Ansie van Wyk, Professor in International Politics, at Unisa. South Africa is one of at least 17 countries that have a woman foreign minister. Since 1994, all but one of the country's foreign ministers has been women. Professor van Wyk says the prognosis for a feminist South African foreign policy remains poor as long as women are excluded from or under-represented in the main areas of the country's foreign policy establishment.

GUEST: Jo-Ansie van Wyk, Professor in International Politics, at University of South Africa.

The DA in Gauteng says it has evidence that the leaders of the Alex Total Shutdown movement are affiliated to the ANC. The DA has again accused the ANC of inciting violence in Alexandra, north of Johannesburg. The DA visited the township yesterday to inform residents of the township of Mayor, Herman Mashaba's visit to the area on Monday next week. Aggrieved residents have been calling for a meeting with the mayor since protests began last week. Gauteng Premier Candidate, Solly Msimanga, has laid charges against the ANC for the alleged incitement of violence in the township.

GUEST: John Moodey, DA Gauteng leader

We are seeing a trend of business men moving into politics. President Cyril Ramaphosa, Joburg Mayor Herman Mashaba, U.S president Donald Trump are a few examples of business men who are now politicians. Should businessmen be considered as politicians? Do they stand a higher chance of understanding the economy better?
GUEST: Lumkile Mondi, Senior lecturer at the Wits School of Economics

By now many of you have heard reports about former President Jacob Zuma, who was allegedly involved in moving millions of US dollars from Libya to South Africa. The reports allege that Zuma received 30 million U.S dollars from the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. A Forensic investigator and legal expert David Loxton, the CEO of investigations firm Africa Forensics and Cyber says given the seriousness of the allegations Zuma could be added onto the US sanctions list and possibly face Incarceration...

GUEST: Forensic investigator and legal expert David Loxton, the CEO of investigations firm Africa Forensics and Cyber

Msunduzi Municipality in Pietermaritzburg has officially been placed under administration. For more on this we are now in conversation with Lennox Mabaso, the provincial spokesperson for the co-operative governance and traditional affairs (Cogta) in KwaZulu Natal

GUEST: Lennox Mabaso, the provincial spokesperson for the co-operative governance and traditional affairs (Cogta) in KwaZulu Natal

The ANC has lambasted the its Youth League in the Free State for the disruption of the launch of investigative journalist Pieter-Louis Myburgh's book on ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule. A group of people, with some wearing ANC t-shirts, stormed into Exclusive Books store at Sandton City and vandalized it. The book 'Gangster State: Unraveling Ace Magashule's web of capture' was launched last night. ANC spokesperson, Dakota Legoete, says they will instruct the league members not to proceed with their plan to burn copies of the book in Bloemfontein on Monday…

GUEST: Sello Pietersen, ANCYL Free State Provincial Spokesperson

Time now for our regular Tuesday feature; the African Perspective, where we profile different countries on the African continent. Today the spotlight is on Sudan, once the largest and one of the most geographically diverse states in Africa, split into two countries in July 2011 after the people of the south voted for independence. Currently the country has seen continuous mass protests calling for regime change in Sudan, this despite the heavy-handed response to the demonstrations by President Omar al-Bashir's government. The protests in Sudan were triggered by high inflation following the devaluation of the Sudanese currency in October last year.

GUEST: Sabir Ebrahim, a Representative of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement, here in South Africa