The Daily Discourse

A tweet by Medical Doctor Sibongile Tito, show a picture of a stack of forms with medical evidence of injuries sustained by patients who opened cases of sexual and physical assault with the South African Police Service, awaiting collection by SAPS from one of our state hospitals has sparked outrage, on how authorities deal with such case. Some of the medical evidence date back to 2018, meaning the cases are still stagnant and have yet to be investigated. A consultant at Nalane for Reproductive Justice, Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng says "this is in itself violence".

GUEST: Consultant at Nalane for Reproductive Justice, Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng

This morning the Talking Point is coming to you live from the Southern Sun Elangeni Hotel in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, where Transport Minister, Blade Nzimande will host a two-day Maritime Transport Sector Dialogue. Maritime stakeholders from government and the private sector, organized labour, shipping industry, business community and academia will participate in the dialogue, which Intends to promote strong relationship between government and private sector regarding developments, challenges, opportunities and transformation in the sector.

Guest: : Transport Minister Dr Blade Nzimande

This morning the Talking Point is coming to you live from the Southern Sun Elangeni Hotel in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, where Transport Minister, Blade Nzimande will host a two-day Maritime Transport Sector Dialogue. Maritime stakeholders from government and the private sector, organized labour, shipping industry, business community and academia will participate in the dialogue, which Intends to promote strong relationship between government and private sector regarding developments, challenges, opportunities and transformation in the sector.

Guest: Kgomotso Selokane, Chairperson of the South African Maritime Business Forum

The Taxi industry needs urgent transformation, yet is missing from political party manifestos, this according to Ralph Mathekga, a senior researcher at the University of the Western Cape's Centre for Humanities Research. As our cities grow and become more sophisticated with renewed transportation networks, Ralph Mathekga says the minibus taxis will soon be shunned as outdated and that this will only intensify violence in the industry.

GUEST: Ralph Mathekga, who is a senior researcher at the University of the Western Cape's Centre for Humanities Research, and author of When Zuma Goes and Ramaphosa's Turn.

This morning the Talking Point is coming to you live from the Southern Sun Elangeni Hotel in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, where Transport Minister, Blade Nzimande will host a two-day Maritime Transport Sector Dialogue. Maritime stakeholders from government and the private sector, organized labour, shipping industry, business community and academia will participate in the dialogue, which Intends to promote strong relationship between government and private sector regarding developments, challenges, opportunities and transformation in the sector.

Guest: Mr Mahesh Fakir, CEO of Ports Regulator South Africa

This morning the Talking Point is coming to you live from the Southern Sun Elangeni Hotel in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, where Transport Minister, Blade Nzimande will host a two-day Maritime Transport Sector Dialogue. Maritime stakeholders from government and the private sector, organized labour, shipping industry, business community and academia will participate in the dialogue, which Intends to promote strong relationship between government and private sector regarding developments, challenges, opportunities and transformation in the sector.

Guest: Mr Dumisani Ntuli - Acting Deputy Director General of Maritine -Department of Transport

"People don't really know who Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe was and the values he stood for", that was a comment made by one of our regular listeners Sbu in Dobsonville. Last month SACP's Solly Mapaila came under fire for his claims that one of the founders of the PAC, Robert Sobukwe, received preferential treatment during his incarceration on Robben Island. Mapaila has since apologized for his comments. Yesterday marked 41 years since the passing of Sobukwe. As we remember the passing away of this popular Pan-Africanist leader and thinker, we will reflect on his life, values and ideas...

GUEST: Mzwanele Nyhontso, who is the new leader of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC)

In a recent article, Mamphela Ramphele the co-founder of ReimagineSA says failure to systematically "heal the wounds of our ugly past" as enjoined by the Preamble of our Constitution, has left us with a social culture that tolerates violations of the rights of other human beings. She continues to say that State capture, gender-based violence, failure to invest in talent development for 80% of the children of our nation, and indifference to the failures to provide quality basic public services to all, are symptoms of a wounded people. How so? She joins us now to explain…

GUEST: The co-founder of ReimagineSA, Mamphela Ramphele

Yesterday the Limpopo education department expressed shock at the gruesome video on the brutal murder of 27 year old Thoriso Themane. Themane was reportedly at a park in Flora Park suburb when he was beaten up by a group of youngsters. The group of young people who carried this act are said to be in a gang. Gangsterism in South African townships is a common occurrence. Post-apartheid South Africa is riddled with poverty and unemployment, especially for the marginalised township youth, making them vulnerable to the practice. But this morning we are asking what is at the root of more and more young people becoming violent? What is a psychological make-up of a young person, with violent tendencies?

GUEST: Professor Gérard Labuschagne, who is the former head of the South African Police Service, SAPS’s specialized Investigative Psychology Section

Following the minister of finance, Tito Mboweni, delivery of his maiden budget speech, groupings forming part of the Care Work project noted with great disappointment the absence of a commitment to do the same for NPO workers in the social welfare services sector. They pointed to the Eastern Cape as just one example of the widespread payment of subsidies to the sector that is below the minimum wage of R20 per hour…

GUEST: Lisa Vetten - Care Work Project Manager