The Daily Discourse

Continuing high levels of police involvement in serious and violent crime is the key finding of the third edition of the Broken Blue Line report released today by the Institute of Race Relations (IRR). This is the third in a series of these reports which looks at the involvement of police officers in serious and violent crime. As in previous reports, the data shows that police continue to be implicated in crime. The report details the police's involvement in serious and violent crime and puts forward three solutions to turn the tide on criminals.
GUEST: Marius Roodt- Head of Campaigns at the Institute for race relations

The South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) is one of the 12 professional accountancy bodies in South Africa (SA). SAICA supports the development of the South African economy and society by promoting and enhancing the value of the profession. It is also currently the only professional accountancy organisation in South Africa that has been accredited by the audit regulator in SA, the Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors (IRBA).
GUEST: Willi Coates, who is a Senior Brand Executive at the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants

Over the past few years, refugees and migrants have been in the spotlight all over the world. Since the end of Apartheid, millions of migrants and refugees have settled in South Africa – most coming from African and Asian countries. Those who are poor have encountered many problems here including bad treatment and corruption by state officials, xenophobic attacks in townships and discrimination in social life. At the same time our government has promoted an African renaissance and lately under President Cyril Ramaphosa, closer political unity similar to the European Union. What will this mean for us, should we still have national borders?

GUESTS:

1. Tendai Bhiza, from People Against Suffering Oppression and Poverty
2. Professor Loren Landau, from the African Centre for Migration and Society at Wits

Unemployment in South Africa increased to 27-point-5 percent in the third quarter, from 27-point-2 percent in the second quarter of 2018. According to Statistics South Africa, the sectors that contributed to the rise in unemployment include mining, manufacturing and private households.

GUEST: Brian Kantor, A Chief Economist and Investment Strategist at Investec Wealth and Investment

The informal sector in South Africa is a significant source of employment. Statistics South Africa said its quarterly labour force survey that the formal sector, private households and agriculture recorded declines in employment, while the informal sector had employment gains. Should we be taking the informal sector a lot more seriously? Should it be enabled to thrive? If so, how?

GUEST: Dr Thami Mazwai is Special Adviser to the Minister of Small Business Development. He is Adjunct Professor in Entrepreneurship at the University of the Western Cape and the University of Fort Hare.

Time now for our regular Tuesday feature; the African Perspective, where we profile different countries on the African continent. Today the spotlight is Tunisia, the country wedged between Algeria and Libya on the southern coast of the Mediterranean Sea and is the smallest of the North African states. In 1956 Tunisia gained its independence from France after two years of negotiations between the French and the Neo-Destour ("New Constitution") party, which was backed by the trade unions.

GUEST: Mohamed Ghodhbani, a doctor from Tunisia, who has worked in South Africa since 2008. He worked in Scottburg, Port Shepstone in KZN and is now working in Bethlehem in the Free State.

The month of October has been declared Mental Health Awareness month with the objective of not only educating the public about mental health but also to reduce the stigma and discrimination that people with mental illness are often subjected today we put our focus on Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD, which is said to affect 1 in 20 children, and an estimated 1-million South African adults, yet it is a condition often misdiagnosed, and plagued by myths and misunderstandings, particularly with regard to treatment.
GUEST: Mrs Margaret Barry, Chairman of ADHASA and Educational Psychologist

On the last Tuesday of each month we deal with questions that have come in during the month, either by email or on my radio line that I think are of a similar and more general nature.

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

The African National Congress (ANC) says the party will solicit input from citizens on its draft manifesto, with a final document to be revealed in January during the party's birthday celebrations. Political analyst and researcher, Ongama Mtimka says the ANC is either genuinely transformed in its views about the role that the wider public should play in this regard or it is employing Machiavellian tactics. For more he now joins me on the line...

GUEST: Ongama Mtimka, Political analyst and researcher, who lectures South African Politics, political theory, international relations, and security, peace, and reconstruction at Nelson Mandela University.

The South African government will this week hold a presidential summit on gender-based violence and Femicide in a bid to determine a road map to end the scourge. In his speech on the occasion of the National Women’s Day 2018, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that a National Summit on Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and Femicide would be held between government and civil society to jointly determine a roadmap to end the scourge of gender-based violence and killings of women and girls in our country. What can be expected from the summit?

GUEST: Advocate Praise Kambula, Head of Promotion of the Rights of Vulnerable Groups at the Department of Justice.

GUEST: Patricia Makhubu – Ekhurhuleni Convener of the Gauteng Community Health Care Forum