The Daily Discourse

Minister of Women in the Presidency, Bathabile Dlamini says the trial of controversial pastor; Timothy Omotoso lays bare questions of patriarchy and the law. Minister Dlamini says because of the historical exclusion of women from the justice system, our society has developed a culture of trivializing crimes against women. Omotoso and two others face charges including sexual assault, rape and racketeering. To elaborate further on this, Minister Dlamini now joins me on the line...

GUEST: Minister of Women in the Presidency, Bathabile Dlamini

Wandile Ngcaweni-Researcher at MISTRA says is his article owned for News 24, that the democratic dispensation did little to confront the traumatic legacies of colonial-apartheid. He continues to say that "People see poverty and joblessness as outcomes of compromises that helped protect the privileged status quo of people who benefited from colonialism and apartheid.
GUEST : Wandile Ngcaweni, who is a Researcher at the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (Mistra)

The Minister of Mineral Resources, Gwede Mantashe, together with the Mine Health and Safety Council (MHSC), will host the 2018 Occupational Health and Safety Summit ‪on 18 – 19 October 2018. Tripartite stakeholders (government, business and organised labour) will collectively assess progress made in attaining the objective of “Every mineworker returning from work unharmed every day: Striving for zero harm”, and derive solutions that will assist the industry to improve the current situation.‬
GUEST: CEO of Mine Health & Safety Council, Mr Thabo Dube

It is well known that South Africa enjoys the highest level of inequality in the world with poverty affecting over 50% of the population. In recent months, with the increase in fuel prices, we are likely to see an increase in transport and food costs, which make up a big portion of working class people’s expenses. With the declining strength of trade unions, it also seems that working class organisations are not strong enough to defend themselves from these attacks on their living standards.
GUESTS:

1. Dr Ebrahim Harvey – Political Analyst, Writer and Author:
2. Dr Trevor Ngwane – Senior Researcher UJ Center for Social Change:
3. Henriette Abrahams - #TotalShutDown Convenor in the Western Cape

The KwaZulu-Natal health department says it has significantly reduced the oncology backlogs and waiting times to just a few weeks. The Department says reports of a backlog of 8 000 cancer patients in in the province are untrue and that there is a deliberate and relentless campaign by certain members of the media to ignore the tremendous progress that has been made to expand cancer treatment and oncology services.

GUEST: KZN Health MEC, Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo

The Democratic Alliance (DA) says South Africa needs closed borders and tighter immigration control. The party says South Africa's ports of entry are in a dysfunctional state. In recent months the DA's Johannesburg mayor Herman Mashaba has taken firm stance against illegal immigration in the city, in the same breath, Tshwane mayor, Solly Msimanga, also raised his concerns around the issue in a letter to home affairs minister Malusi Gigaba. For more on this we are now joined on the line by...

GUEST: DA spokesperson on immigration, Jacques Julius

Time now for our regular Tuesday feature the African Perspective. Today we profile Morocco, which is the most westerly of the North African countries known as the Maghreb - the "Arab West". Arguably one of the most stable countries in the Middle East, Morocco is a melting pot of indigenous Berber, African, Arab and European influences. For more on the country we are now joined in studio by....

GUEST : Habiballah Ahmed, Chairman of the Moroccan Association in South Africa

The Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services (JICS) released its report on Thursday and it describes a situation of overcrowding and funding shortages for the inspectorate to do its job. The release of the report has put in the spotlight again the state of our prisons. This morning we ask: Are our prisons effective, what are we aiming to achieve with incarcerations?

GUEST: Lukas Muntingh - Manager of the Civil Society Prison Reform Initiative

Today is World Food Day. The United Nations aim to raise awareness and to gather support and understanding to approaches that can help reduce world hunger. According to statistics 870 million in the world are undernourished, most of them in rural areas where the main source of income is agriculture. World Food Day is commemorated annually on 16 October to create public awareness of the world food shortage and to strengthen solidarity in the struggle against hunger, malnutrition and poverty. The University of Johannesburg (UJ) in collaborations with the University of Pretoria, the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), the Agricultural Research Council in South Africa and the DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Food Security is hosting the 2nd International Conference for Food Safety & Security. The Theme is the Next Generation Food Safety Technologies addressing Sustainable Development Goals.

GUEST: Dr Palesa from the Human Resources Council’s Africa Institute

Former Hawks spokesperson, McIntosh Polela says he warned Sunday Times journalists that they were being fed false information but he was ignored. In a series of Tweets, McIntosh Polela says It's not enough for the Sunday Times newspaper to apologize and return awards for their false reports as Generals Sibiya, Dramat and others have suffered huge financial losses and had their careers and lives ruined by the publication's journalists.

GUEST: Former Hawks spokesperson, McIntosh Polela
GUEST: former Sunday Times journalist, Piet Rampedi