The Daily Discourse

Should Chapter 9 institutions merge for efficiency? We are now in conversation with Advocate Aubrey Sedupane, who is an admitted advocate of the high court, who says Chapter 9 institutions are too fragmented to make the desired impact, which is to see the achievement of human rights and unity.

GUEST: Advocate Aubrey Sedupane, who is an admitted advocate of the high court

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We are now in conversation with Elinor Sisulu, who is a Zimbabwean-born South African writer and human rights activist. She is a graduate of the University of Zimbabwe (1977 – 1980); the United Nations Institute for Economic Planning and Development (IDEP) in Dakar, Senegal (1981) and the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, Netherlands (1985)
She worked as an academic researcher in the Ministry of Labour in Zimbabwe (1980 – 87) before moving to Lusaka, Zambia where she worked for the International Labour Organization’s Lusaka Office on assistance to the liberation movements ANC, PAC and SWAPO (1987 – 1990)

Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba met his Lesotho counterpart, Tsukutla Au, to discuss introducing free movement between the countries. The meeting saw an announcement of sweeping changes to be introduced ahead of the festive season and beyond. To elaborate further on the new Travel changes, we are now joined on the line by...

GUEST: Rika Anker, who is the Head of Ports of Entry at the Department of Home Affairs.

The ANC is not on trial at the commission of inquiry into state capture, this according to the ANC's head of the presidency at Luthuli House, Zizi Kodwa. He says the ANC has never condoned corruption and sees the Commission as an opportunity to send a clear message to the country that corruption has no place in our democratic order. For more on this, he now joins us on the line…

GUEST: Zizi Kodwa, the ANC's head of the presidency at Luthuli House

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Time now for our Youth Employment feature, we now speak to co-founder and chief executive of SweepSouth, Aisha Pandor who says the youth need to create businesses that would impact on unemployment, access to quality education and social cohesion, in order to improve the country. Ms Pandor was speaking at the Africa Travel Summit, which took place in Langa, Cape Town, last week. According to Stats SA, the national youth unemployment rate is approximately 40%, most being graduates. On the Talking Point this morning, we are asking you: How can the youth change the high rate of unemployment?

GUEST: Aisha Pandor, co-founder and chief executive of SweepSouth, a national home cleaning service.

GUEST: Mr Vivien Reddy, the CEO of Edison Power Group. He is one of the speakers at the Business Fair and he will be talking about "The art of running a profitable and sustainable business". Reddy will do the interview at 10h45 to unpack about the topic

In 2011 we witnessed the Arab Spring in several countries of the Middle East. This saw the masses rise up against dictatorships and repressive regimes in their struggles for democracy. Long before and during the uprisings, workers and their trade unions played a major role in this struggle. Today as we know, other than Tunisia, those struggles for democracy was defeated and setback with repression even worse than before in the Middle East. Egypt is back under harsh military rule, Libya is in a constant civil war, Libya’s civil war continues with the country nearly destroyed and over half its population living as refugees in other countries. The people of Yemen are facing famine and disease due to the assaults by the Saudi regime. In today’s show we take a closer look at the situation of workers and their rights in the Middle East.

GUEST: Dr Adam Hanieh, a Senior Lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), at University of London and author of "Lineages of Revolt: Issues of Contemporary Capitalism in the Middle East"(Book was written in 2012).