The Daily Discourse

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

The second annual South African Local Government Association (Salga) Research Colloquium is currently underway at the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban, under the theme "Spatially Just, Inclusive and Transformative Cities". Yesterday at the Research Colloquium Professor Oliver Fuo, presented a paper on enhancing inclusiveness in South African cities through local indigent policies: A case for permanent residents. The main argument of this paper was that the mandatory requirement for citizenship in accessing free basic services in the indigent policies of specific municipalities exacerbates socio-economic exclusion and is unconstitutional to the extent that these policies exclude foreigners permanently resident in their jurisdictions.

GUEST: Professor Oliver Fuo, an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at North West University

Public enterprises minister, Pravin Gordhan is opposing axed SARS boss Tom Moyane's application to cross examine him at the Zondo state capture inquiry. Minister Gordhan says Mr Moyane is being used to advance the EFF's political campaign against him...

GUEST: Mr Eric Mabuza - lawyer of dismissed former Sars commissioner Tom Moyane

The CEO and founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg has recently announced that he wants to reposition the social media platform as a privacy-focused platform. On a recent Facebook post, he stated his vision for how he wants to make the service more secure. For years though, Mark Zuckerberg preached the value of people sharing more and more information online, with the mission of building what he often called a "more open and connected world”, while at the same time profiting from that activity by collecting data and using it to lure advertisers. What has changed? What does the future of Facebook as a secure platform look like? Can Facebook be secure?

GUEST: Arthur Goldstuck, Founder and Managing Director at World Wide Worx

The ‘Talking Book’ is a solar powered book, that is said to literally speak to uneducated parents, and guide them through their rights and those of their disabled children concerning access to education. Section 27 has championed the book, who believe that the book can be used a as tool to empower communities across the country to advocate for the rights of their children.

GUEST: Nontsikelelo Mpulo – Spokesperson for Section27

The Blackhouse Kollective is hosting a Summer School Camp aimed at introducing young people to a conversation on decolonialty by distilling Decolonial Thought from Black Consciousness and Pan Africanists thoughts. The Blackhouse Kollective is a youth-founded Soweto based Black Consciousness Pan Africanist organization. The purpose of the camp is to help learners and educators make sense of education and the idea of a school from a decolonial and black consciousness lens with the hope of re-imagining better schools for decolonized education. It is for this reason that my next guest, Prof Nelson Maldonado-Torres - Academy of Science of South Africa (ASAF) Distinguished Visiting Scholar is in the country. To share more about what a school for a decolonized education looks like,

GUEST: Prof Nelson Maldonado-Torres - A distinguished visiting scholar at the Academy

Yesterday the SABC's Special Assignment programme aired an episode looking into issues of whether or not banks discriminating against black people. Frans Mokomane one of the prejudice clients interviewed by Special Assignment said he was ripped off with R 150 000 due to unfair discrimination with interest rates on mortgages by FNB. For more we are now joined by financial investigating consultant, Mr Emerald van Zyl, who is renowned for fighting against banking abuse. He says the Reserve Bank, Human Right Commission, Banking Council and Standing Committee Finance Parliament are aware of such discrimination but failed to act.

GUEST: Financial investigating consultant, Emerald van Zyl

A high court in the Eastern Cape has found that the government officials were involved in the misappropriation of public funds during the burial of former president Nelson Mandela. Last week the court dismissed an application by provincial government director-general, Marion Mbina-Mthembu to set aside Mkhwebane's findings concerning the funeral of Mandela in 2013. Public Protector Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane has welcomed the judgment as this affirms her 2017 findings that public funds to the tune of R300m were improperly diverted from the Eastern Cape Development Corporation's social infrastructure delivery programme towards the memorial and funeral services.

GUEST: Public Protector Spokesperson, Oupa Segalwe

Time now for our regular Friday Music Wind Down feature. Today we profile Johannesburg-based Jazz artist and pianist, Keenan Meyer. Meyer is a Mandela Rhodes Scholar and has received numerous accolades for his work in the academic and music space. Keenan will be performing at the Youngblood Gallery, on 20th of March. Youngblood's main focus is to provide a platform for up and coming artists.

GUEST: Jazz artist and pianist, Keenan Meyer

The term ‘Friend-Zoned’ is a popular culture term, the friend zone is a situation in which one member of a friendship wishes to enter into a romantic or sexual relationship, while the other does not. Many men will admit that they try by all means to avoid the ‘friend-zoned’. As it is generally considered to be an undesirable situation for the rejected person. None the less, many friendships between men and women arise from this. Can women and men, truly just be friends?

GUEST: Linda Yende, Speaker, Author, Lifestyle Entrepreneur