The Daily Discourse

The 17 - 21 September 2018 is a National Wills Week. The week is an initiative which aims to educate members of the public about the importance of drafting a Will and to support them by drafting free Wills during this period. For more on the event we are now joined on the line by...

GUEST: Advocate Wendy Sithole, Assistant Master at the Department of Justice

Former President Jacob Zuma says the South African state has not been captured. Addressing SASCO members at the Walter Sisulu University in the Eastern Cape, Zuma said the judiciary, the legislature and the executive are not captured
GUEST: Advocate Gary Pienaar, Research Manager with the Democracy, Governance and Service Delivery at the Human Sciences Research Council

The LGBTI business summit which was held on 11 September in Johannesburg was said to put LGBTI agenda for economic empowerment. The summit was convened by the PLUS LGBTI business network, which aims to make a strong business case for the economic inclusion of LGBTI people and to open up new business and other economic empowerment opportunities. PLUS is an initiative of the Other Foundation, which is an African trust that advances equality and freedom in southern Africa with a particular focus on sexual orientation and gender identity.

GUEST : Sim Tshabalala - A board member of PLUS and member of the steering committee for the Business Summit

The chairperson of the judicial commission of inquiry into state capture, Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo, is expected to deliver his decision on applications for leave to cross-examine witnesses in Parktown, Johannesburg, today.

GUEST: Dr Llewellyn Curlewis, a senior lecturer in criminal and procedural law at the University of Pretoria

In conversation with the newly elected president of the National Teachers Union, Allan Thompson. He will tell us about their 100th anniversary celebrations and also discuss teachers’ salaries, violence in schools and the current state of public schools in general.

GUEST: Mr Allan Thompson, newly elected president of the National Teachers Union (NATU)

It's been over 66 years since 20 000 women of all races marched to Pretoria's Union Buildings on 9 August 1956, to present a petition against the carrying of passes by women. This year around 2 000 women also marched to the Union Buildings to protest against oppression, gender inequality and gender-based violence. Yesterday marked the 41st anniversary of the death of Black Consciousness Movement leader - Stephen Bantu Biko. We continue commemorating the struggle hero by looking at the Importance and Impact of women's leadership and also examine why the old generation is not supporting young women of today...

GUEST: Manku Noruka, Azapo Secretary for Environment

Gauteng MEC for Education, Panyaza Lesufi says Career guidance is the key to economic development. This as youth unemployment and poverty becomes the most serious problems facing the country and, while, ironically, along with this unemployment, we are facing a growing shortage of appropriate skills. MEC Lesufi says this is why the delivery of career guidance is central to a person's career development.

GUEST: Gauteng MEC for Education, Panyaza Lesufi

On the 20th of September, the national launch of the Constitutional Values and Principles will take place at UNISA.
Recently the Public Service Commission In Limpopo Launched The Constitutional Values And Principles. The Public Service Commission (PSC) is mandated by the Constitution to amongst others; promote the Constitutional Values and Principles governing public administration as set out in Section 195 of the Constitution, throughout the Public Service. This morning we unpack the importance of the of these launches, and unpack how they will impact on public servants? Will this strengthen the PSC’s mandate to investigate, monitor, and evaluate the organisation and administration of the Public Service?

GUEST: Public Service Commissioner, Phumelele Nzimande

Last week the country witnessed two workplace disasters, one in Cape Town and the other in the Johannesburg that saw the horrific deaths of eleven workers. Eight workers died in the explosion at the arms factory, Rhein-metall Denel in Somerset West and three fire-fighters lost their lives, ironically in the building that housed the Gauteng Department of Health in Johannesburg. In today’s labour show we unpack why this happened, whether it could have been prevented and whether workers’ lives are taken seriously in South Africa?

GUEST: The Department of Labour's chief inspector, Tibor Szana
GUEST: Dennis George, the General Secretary of Federation of Union South Africa, FEDUSA

This coming weekend, Zimbabwe's opposition party the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) is planning to inaugurate leader Nelson Chamisa as the “people’s president” this as part of their 19th anniversary celebrations.

GUEST: Maynard Manyowa, Political analyst