The Allan Gray Orbis Foundation – an organisation that invests in the development of potential entrepreneurs in Southern Africa –commissioned the Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN) and Mindcette an entrepreneurial consultancy to establish the true “DNA of a successful entrepreneur”. The mindsets study titled Toward a Comprehensive Measure of Entrepreneurial Mindset, surveyed 3 661 South Africans using quantitative research, posing questions which required answers directly relating to the key mindsets of an entrepreneur. We find out what the survey says about the South African entrepreneur.

GUEST: Nontando Mthethwa – from the Allan Gray Orbis Foundation

Pope Francis yesterday compared having an abortion to hiring a "contract killer". In an address to worshippers in the Vatican, Francis said "Interrupting a pregnancy is like eliminating someone.” This morning we get two different takes in reaction to this. The ACDP strongly opposes the public provision of abortion facilities. They consider the current legislation to be a license for promiscuity with abortion being viewed as a ready birth control method. Last year SECTION27 and the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) have made a joint submission opposing the draft amendments to the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act 92 of 1996 (TOP Act) as proposed by the African Christian Democratic Party. We reject this amendment in the strongest terms

GUEST: Sibongile Tshabalala, the National Chairperson of the Treatment Action Campaign

So much homework, assignments and extra mural activities and so little time for our kids to be kids. I know many parents who have joined the chorus of complaints about kids drowning in homework and it’s not just the marathon study sessions every night or the extra mural activities, these parents say that there are also never ending assignments as well. On the Talking Point this morning we will discuss whether such activities allow children to come home from school and properly decompress and play and also if they have any negative or positive Impact on the development of our children...

GUEST: Dr Misheck Ndebele, Senior Lecturer in Educational Psychology at the Wits School Education

The current unemployment rate in SA sits at 27.2 percent in the second quarter of 2018 from 26.7 percent in the previous period. Today is the second day on the Jobs Summit. The Summit hopes to bring together government, business, labour, and community organisations to advance job creation.
Research was conducted on what influences employees’ decisions to stay in jobs.

Our guest says she found from her research that while pay and profit are not irrelevant in employees’ decisions about work, overemphasizing monetary factors hid important motivators. Relationships were often a more significant factor than wages for decisions to accept, keep, or quit jobs.

GUEST: Christine Jeske (pronounced “Jess-key.) Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Wheaton College

SASSA SAYS IT WILL RESUME TALKS WITH TRADE UNION NEHAWU TODAY TO AVERT A PLANNED STRIKE. WORKERS AFFILIATED TO THE UNION ARE DEMANDING THAT THE BIOMETRIC ENROLMENT OF BENEFICIARIES BE SUSPENDED SINCE IS NOT PART OF THE JOB DESCRIPTION OF WORKERS, AND THAT JOB EVALUATIONS BE UNDERTAKEN IN GRANTS ADMINISTRATION.

GUEST: ZOLA SAPHETHA – NEHAWU’S GENERAL SECRETARY

For several decades, collective bargaining arrangements between trade unions and employers have operated on the majoritarian system. This simply means that where a trade union had more than 50% membership within a company or workplace, it had exclusive organizational rights such as access to company premises to meet with members, represent members, stop-order facilities for members’ subscriptions deductions as well as collective bargaining. This was codified in the Labour Relations Act of 1995 that favoured majority unions. However, in a recent case where a new minority union, SACOSWU, secured organizational rights within the Department of Correctional Services, the majority union, POPCRU objected and the case went all the way to the Constitutional Court which decided in favour of the minority union.

In today’s show we learn more about the case, the rationale for the Concourt’s decision and its implications for collective bargaining in South Africa.

With us to discuss this we have…

GUESTS:

1. Mabu Tjatji - President of the South African Correctional Services Workers Union (SACOSWU)

The Ministry of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs has denied reports that task team investigating political killings in KwaZulu-Natal raided the Willowfountain home of Minister Zweli Mkhize. Ministry Spokesperson, Musa Zondi says the raid was aimed at a security guard at Mkhize's home, who has since been arrested according to reports. The operation formed part of an investigation into the role of private security companies in political killings in the province. For more on this we are now joined on the line by....

GUEST: Musa Zondi, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs And Clive Ndou, who is a reporter of the Natal Witness Newspaper

President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed former central bank Governor, Tito Mboweni as finance minister. President Ramaphosa made the announcement yesterday. Former Finance Minister, Nhlanhla Nene had resigned over discrepancies in his accounts of meetings with the controversial Gupta family and his conflict of interest regarding his son. Does Tito Mboweni inspire confidence as finance minister?

GUEST: Deputy Editor at Financial Mail, Sikonathi Mantshantsha

Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini has announced a partnership with lobby group AfriForum. This cooperation aims to promote agriculture and ensure food security in the country. Both parties are strongly opposed to the expropriation of land without compensation. For more we are now joined on the line by...

GUEST: Kallie Kriel, CEO of AfriForum.

Time now for our African Perspective feature, today the spotlight is on Algeria, a gateway between Africa and Europe and one of the largest nation in Africa by area. Algeria has been battered by violence over the past half-century. After a century of rule by France, Algeria became independent in 1962. For more on the country we are now joined on the line by Unisa's Professor Touhami Mokrani, from the Department of Chemical Engineering

GUEST: Unisa's Professor Touhami Mokrani, from the Department of Chemical Engineering