The Daily Discourse

Unisa's College of Human Sciences will be hosting its 6th annual Decoloniality Summer School, which seeks to interrogate power, knowledge and being and to find answers on what de-colonization truly means for South Africa and Africa. Conversations on Decoloniality officially started in 2011 under the umbrella of the Africa Decolonial Research Network (ADERN) which consisted of scholars who were tired of the status quo within academic spaces.

GUEST: Professor Puleng Segalo, the Head for graduate studies and research at Unisa's College of Human Sciences

Newsmakers and Guest Experts offer their insights and perspectives into the national and global discourse on politics, economics, education, social matters and comprehensive dialogues on cultural diversity and other essential issues of public interest like, poverty alleviation, unemployment rate and health related issues.

In a recent column, Author Letepe Maisela reflects on his attendance of the first Black Consciousness Movement Reunion, which was organised by the Steve Biko Foundation, under the stewardship of his first-born son, Nkosinathi Biko. In reflection, he says “With recent talk by our Department of Education to rewrite South African history and make it a compulsory subject in our schools, it is also not too late to introduce Black Consciousness into that mix as an elective course module, to offer a balanced historical perspective”. He says, according to him, which will be the most commendable gift to the legacy of Bantu Stephen Biko. What benefits will such a module have on SA school learners?

Guest: Letepe Maisela, a management consultant and published author.

Time now for our regular Tuesday feature “Talking Finance with Bryan Hirsch”. This morning we are in conversation with Brendan Gace, who is in for Bryan, who is away on holiday. Today we will look at Market Performances for 2018 (which have generally been poor) and also give some tips for investors on coping with this bad performance.

GUEST: The Head of Anchor Private Clients, Brendan Gace

The Black Management Forum (BMF) says it has written a letter to Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan to establish whether there was no black person who could have filled the position of group chief executive of arms manufacturer DENEL. This after cabinet approved the appointment of Daniel du Toit to the position with effect from January the 14th, 2019. Du Toit recently vacated a position as managing director at SAAB Medav Technologies in Germany. Before that, he was chief operating officer of SAAB Grintech Defence in South Africa, where he served in several senior management positions. Du Toit began his career in the SANDF. BMF deputy president, Tasmin Fredricks says they are seeking specific information...

Guest: BMF President, Andile Nomlala

Guest: Deputy General Secretary of the Professional Industry at Solidarity, Johan Botha

We are now in conversation with Mpumalanga MEC for Education, Sbusiso Malaza, about the state of education in the province. The class of 2018 for Mpumalanga Province obtained an overall pass rate of 79% compared to the 74.8% pass rate obtained in 2017. The statistics depict a 4.2% improvement. MEC Sbusiso Malaza has attributed the improvement to support displayed by education stakeholders. Malaza says the province is now targeting to be among the best three in the country. He has committed to introducing a programme that will support all the schools that obtained below 70 per cent in the province.

GUEST: Mpumalanga MEC for Education, Sbusiso Malaza

A video is circulating on social media of a rat eating food on display in the Food Lovers Market Diepkloof branch.
This incident follows a Facebook post in December showing food at the branch being exposed to flies.
We contacted Food Lovers Market legal and compliance director Nigel Meintjies who said they will not be doing anymore interviews, but that they will be issuing an interview later today.
This morning, we want to understand Quality Assurance and quality control processes that exist, or should exist for a store such as food lovers market.
Is this cause for the branch to be closed? What are the consumer rights where this is concerned?

Guest: Nigel Sunley is a highly experienced food scientist, with extensive commercial experience, and is one of SA’s foremost labelling and regulatory experts.

A week after crucial elections to replace long-term president Joseph Kabila, the DR Congo was on tenterhooks Sunday with no date for the announcement of delayed results and just over half of ballots counted. Opposition parties in the Democratic Republic of Congo have called the postponement in the announcement of provisional election results in the presidential election, a ploy by the government to sway the vote towards President Joseph Kabila's preferred candidate Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary.

Guest: Stephanie Wolters - Central Africa analyst, head Peace and Security Research programme at the Institute for Security Studies, ISS.

This morning we will pay tribute to a man who played a major part in South Africa's Freedom and Democracy. A man known as the ‘Lion of the North'. A man who would have been turning 60 years old today. Who is this man? Here are more clues; he was expelled from school after becoming a leader of school boycotts during the 1976 uprisings. He was a founding member of the South African Youth Congress (SAYCO), becoming its first President at its launch in 1987, then became the ANC Youth League president in December 1991 a position he held until January 1994. Still no clue? Well I am talking about the late ANC MP Peter Mokaba, a widely-respected leader and former Deputy Minister of Environment Affairs and a Member of the ANC NEC.

GUEST: Deputy Minister of Correctional Services, Thabang Makwetla
GUEST: ANC elections general manager, Febe Potgieter-Gqubule

The ANC's national leadership says it is confident that its upcoming national events in KwaZulu-Natal will be successful, despite organisational problems in some regions. Both the January 8th statement and the Election Manifesto launch will be held in the embattled KwaZulu-Natal province. The party believes it still enjoys significant support in the province despite pockets of infighting in some regions.

guest: Minister of Arts and Culture Nathi Mthethwa