The Daily Discourse

South Africa has officially entered a technical recession. The country's economy experienced its first technical recession since 2009, after gross domestic product contracted 0.7 percent in the second quarter. So what does this recession entail for ordinary citizens? To answer this we are now joined on the line by...

GUEST: Dr Azar Jammine, Director and Chief Economist at Econometrix

***We start feature with National Anthem of Rwanda***
Songs: Massamba Arihehe
Rwanda is a land-locked country located in the central part of Africa. Many times when we speak of Rwanda, it’s in regards to the genocide, where from April through June 1994, the U.N. estimates that 800,000 Rwandans were brutally slaughtered by fellow citizens in a state-led genocide targeting the Tutsi ethnic group. But what more is there to the country? The Music, the people, the traditions…

GUEST: Ms Tali Nates - Founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre.

We now in conversation with the Lungelo Lethu Human Rights Foundation, which has been leading the fight against horrific scandals of housing fraud and evictions in South Africa. The Foundation say housing fraud is being perpetrated by syndicates which include four major banks, estate agents and others involved in property development…

GUEST: King Sibiya of the Lungelo Lethu Human Rights Foundation

The Democratic Alliance claims the Gauteng provincial government has received 200 new claims for compensation from families of Life Esidimeni patients. DA Gauteng health spokesperson Jack Bloom says the new claims were revealed by Thabo Masebe‚ premier David Makhura's spokesperson‚ at a meeting last week of the Gauteng Legislature's Oversight Committee on the Premier's Office and Legislature...

GUEST: DA Gauteng health spokesperson, Jack Bloom
GUEST: Thabo Masebe‚ Premier David Makhura's spokesperson

Two regional structures of the ANC in the North West, say the decision to disband the party's provincial executive committee was a pre-determined move by the national leadership. Both the Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati and Kenneth Kaunda regions believe the decision was influenced by factional tendencies. The party's national leadership disbanded the PEC last week after a special NEC meeting in Cape Town. Meanwhile, Job Mokgoro has been announced convenor of a Provincial Task Team (PTT), which will be set up and announced today.

GUEST: Prof. Andre Duvenhage - Political analyst from North West University
GUEST: Gaolathlwe Kgabo - Regional Secretary for the Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati region

The crippling financial woes at the SABC are set to cause a jobs bloodbath that will see more than 800 employees retrenched this according to reports by the Sunday World newspaper. For clarity on the matter we are now joined on the line by...

GUEST: Neo Momodu, the SABC's Group Executive of corporate affairs and marketing

Speaking on Sunday at the annual commemoration for police officers who died on duty – Minister of Police, Bheki Cele said killing a police officer should become a “crime against the state and should be equal to treason”. What do you make of this – do you agree with him?

GUEST: Richard Mamabolo, Popcru national spokesperson

International reports are suggesting that the crisis in Cameroon and particularly in the Southern Cameroon’s Ambazonia has worsened. The country’s leader of the Ambazonian Governing Council Dr. Cho Ayaba is currently visiting South Africa to meet with compatriots in a series of conferences and gatherings in Johannesburg and Cape Town to create awareness about the injustices that are taking place in Southern Cameroon.

GUEST (studio): Dr. Cho Ayaba, Front Line leader of the Ambazonian Governing Council

The ANCYL recently held a national executive committee meeting to assess preparations and state of readiness for the national congress. The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) announced that it will hold its 26th National Congress to elect new leadership from 18 to 21 October at Nasrec Expo Centre in Johannesburg. ANCYL treasurer-general Reggie Nkabinde and KwaZulu-Natal ANCYL provincial secretary Thanduxolo Sabela have thrown their names in the hat for the position of the ANCYL president.
GUEST (In studio): Thanduxolo Sabelo, Provincial Secretary of the ANC Youth League in KwaZulu-Natal

***Still I Rise Poem by Maya Angelou***

Rowena Baird started her broadcasting career in the mid 1980’s at Radio BOP. For the past few years she has been a part of the SAfm family. She has been living, for the past two years, with stage 4 colon cancer. After her diagnosis with colon cancer, she has become the unofficial ambassador for cancer, sharing her story with the listeners of SAfm, as well as her journey with cancer. This morning she joins us for an update on that journey

GUEST: Rowena Baird – Presenter of the Weekend Fix on SAfm