The Daily Discourse

Independent Police Investigative Directorate boss, Robert McBride is challenging Police Minister Bheki Cele's decision not to renew his five-year contract. McBride who heads several key investigations into police corruption, particularly among senior SAPS officers, had given Minister Cele two days to reverse his decision to terminate his contract. So does police minister Bheki Cele have the power to unilaterally terminate the contract of IPID head Robert McBride?

GUEST: Lawson Naidoo - Who is the Executive Secretary at the Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution (CASAC)

Independent Police Investigative Directorate, IPID Head, Robert McBride has given Police Minister, Bheki Cele two days to reverse his decision not to renew his contract. McBride says he will seek legal action if Minister Cele does not withdraw his decision. For more on this we are now joined on the line by Dr Johan Burger, a senior research consultant at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS)

GUEST: Dr Johan Burger, a senior research consultant at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS)

Former Bosasa COO, Angelo Agrizzi has confirmed to the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture that Sondolo IT received a tender for access control for the Correctional Services Department a company established just days before the tender application deadline. He was being questioned about various tenders which were obtained by Bosasa, through various front companies. Agrizzi says the tender which was granted to Sondolo IT, it required for a company to be in operation for at least five years, a requirement not met by the company.

Guest: Karabo Mashugane - CEO - 20/20 Insight

During the Colonial period in Africa, the British and the French colonized an estimated more than 95% of the continent. The British colonized twenty-two African states while the French colonized twenty. France retained control of North, and West and parts of Central Africa while the British took control of East and South Africa. After our interview last week with French Ambassador, there were a few questions and comments, pertaining to the relationship France had, and still continue to have with African countries, and their former colonies.

GUEST: The Ambassador of France to South Africa, His Excellency Christophe Farnaud

Parliament's former Chairperson for Correctional Services Oversight Committee, Dennis Bloem says that he can back up former Bosasa COO, Angelo Aggrizzi's explosive testimony about bribes and kickbacks for lucrative contracts with the Department of Correctional Services. Bloem, who chaired the committee for five years between 2004 and 2009, says he is willing to testify before the Zondo Commission of Inquiry into state capture.

GUEST: Parliament's former Chairperson for Correctional Services Oversight Committee, Dennis Bloem

The South African Editors Forum - SANEF - says the regulations of the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture criminalize journalism. SANEF has hit back the chairperson of the commission Deputy Chief Justice, Raymond Zondo, after he described as unlawful the publishing of witness testimonies prior to being heard before the commission. At the weekend, the testimony of former BOSASA boss, Angelo Agrizzi, implicating Environmental Affairs Minister, Nomvula Mokonyane, was published. SANEF says it has requested to meet with the commission on various occasions but to no avail.

GUEST: Mahlatse Mahlase, Chairperson of the South African Editors Forum - SANEF

Sango Ntsaluba -Executive chairman of NMT Capital says now that the political stalemate in the governing party has been resolved, Davos investment promise must be revisited, and that South Africa must once again open itself to the world as a politically stable and policy certain environment. He asks though, that amidst a promise of greater investment, in whose material benefit and comfort will the strengthening of the rand and an improved economy be? He stresses that We cannot attempt to create a "shared future in a fractured world" when we live in an economically fractured country with no shared future. He joins me now.

GUEST: Sango Ntsaluba -Executive chairman of NMT Capital; he co-founded Sizwe Ntsaluba Gobodo and venture capital firm WZCapital.

Under the theme Globalization 4.0: Shaping a Global Architecture in the Age of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. It picks up on two major trends. One: this is a fraught time for global cooperation, as legitimate frustration over the failure of globalization to consistently raise living standards spills over into populism and nationalism. And two: a whole new wave of change is crashing on us in the form of the high-tech digital revolution. President Cyril Ramaphosa and Finance Minister Tito Mboweni are leading the team at the largest gathering of business leaders and government. This morning we ask: How exactly will this meeting benefit Africa, and how are we putting African issues on the agenda?

Prof. Marius Oosthuizen, member of faculty and lecturer at the Gordon Institute of Business Science @GIBS_SA University of Pretoria @UPTuks & heads up the Future of Business Project that uses strategic foresight methods to explore the future of South Africa, Africa and BRICS.

A report released by Oxfam has accused world leaders of managing their economies in favour of the rich. According to the annual wealth check released to mark the start of the World Economic Forum in Davos, 2018 was a year in which the rich grew richer and the poor poorer. The report shows that the rich are using their influence to pay fewer taxes. For the latest on the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, we are now joined on the line by our senior Economic reporter, Tshepo Mongoai, who is there…

GUEST: Senior Economic reporter, Tshepo Mongoai

Oxfam South Africa recently launched its annual inequality report, titled Private Wealth vs. Public Good, under the 2019 theme “Public Good or Private Wealth?” This, as the world’s high-profile chief executives gather at Davos ski resort in Switzerland for the annual World Economic Forum. Oxfam say inequality was at record levels and called for a wealth tax to level the playing fields.

Guest: Jabulile Buthelezi, Senior Media and Communications Manager at OXFAM South Africa