The Daily Discourse

The South African Police Service this week held a Crime Detection Conference. On Wednesday, General Khehla Sithole revealed that the SAPS plans to establish a crime detection academy, as police intensify crime fighting efforts in response to criminal networks reigning terror.

GUEST: Lieutenant General Lebeoana Tsumane – Head of Crime Detection in the SAPS

Anti-apartheid activist, Stephanie Kemp joins us now in studio today to discuss her autobiography; "The making of An Afrikaner Revolutionary in the South African Liberation Struggle". The autobiography speaks about the beginnings of her life in Steynsburg, in the Karroo, where she grew up in a conservative white Afrikaner family. Stephanie became resistant to Afrikaans and subsequently refused to speak it. She became politicized at a very young age and played a part in the liberation struggle...

GUEST : Anti-apartheid activist, Stephanie Kemp

According to Corruption Watch, It is important that those incentives are linked to successful enforcement/conclusion of cases and that there be mechanisms in place to prevent any abuse of such an incentive scheme.

GUEST: Leanne Govindsamy - Head of Corruption Watch’s legal and investigation unit

The judicial commission of Inquiry into allegations of state capture is scheduled to continue in Parktown, Johannesburg, today. Several people implicated in testimonies by former ANC MP Vytjie Mentor and former deputy finance minister Mcebisi Jonas have applied to cross-examine them. Meanwhile Zuma's lawyers say they have not made the request as they believe Zuma has not been criminally implicated. So will the cross-examine have any bearing on the outcome of the Inquiry, to answer this we are now joined on the line by…

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

Recently the Seed Academy reveals the State of Entrepreneurship in South Africa after surveying more than 1000 entrepreneurs across the county. The results indicate that entrepreneurs are not thriving and dramatically more needs to be done to improve SA’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. What other revelations came from the survey? What
GUEST: Donna Rachelson, CEO of Seed Academy

Mamphela Ramphele, the co-founder of ReimagineSA, has written an article on how to "Spring cleaning our democratic institutions". In the article she speaks about the growing consensus in our society that our social ills can only be tackled in a sustainable way by creating an environment that promotes greater consciousness about who we are as citizens and our right to demand ethical leadership at the personal, professional and political levels. For more on this we are now joined on the line by...

GUEST: Mamphela Ramphele, the co-founder of ReimagineSA

Chinese President Xi Jinping has said future Sino-African cooperation should focus on young people. A trade facilitation initiative to increase imports from Africa was also on the cards, including 50 000 government scholarships and 50 000 training opportunities for seminars and workshops. How will the ‘proposed’ programmes and initiatives benefit Africa, and what exactly are they? Do they speak to what respective African countries need in terms of skills?

China intended to bring 200 young Africans to the country for a skills exchange programme.

GUEST: Sanusha Naidoo – Senior research Associate based with the Institute for Global Dialogue
GUEST: Tessa Dooms – A member of the National Planning Commission tasked with youth development and the managing Director of Youth Lab, a dynamic youth-led policy think tank that mainstreams youth perspectives on policy issues through interaction, knowledge sharing and capacity development
GUEST: Thapelo Maleke: President of the SA Youth Chamber of Commerce (SAYCC)

"A third of Nigerians want to emigrate‚ but not to South Africa", this according to research by Afrobarometer. The pan-African research network found that 30 percent want to seek greener pastures on other shores. For more we are now joined on the line by...

GUEST: Sibusiso Nkomo, Afrobarometer Communications Coordinator for Southern Africa Institute for Justice and Reconciliation

In recent months we've had a spate of labour disputes that ended up in the Constitutional Court where employers found themselves on the losing side. Similarly, trade union NEHAWU has issued several media statements expression their dissatisfaction with employers of state bodies. In today's show we take a closer look at employers’ behaviour and assess whether indeed there is a trend of them defying labour law.

GUEST: Zwelinzima Vavi is the general secretary of the SA Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu)

We now shift our focus to the 12th Annual Smart Procurement World Indaba. The event focuses on the role procurement and supply chain management can play in times where economic growth is slow and legislative initiatives have impacted procurement, which normally takes place in three cities, namely Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg. For more on the Smart Procurement World Indaba, we are joined on the line by....

GUESTS (in studio): Keshni Reddy, Head of Commercial Smart Procurement (A Division of Commerce Edge)

GUESTS (in studio): Dr Ntombi Valencia Khumalo, MMC for Corporate and Shared Services, at the City of Johannesburg