The Daily Discourse

He is described as the man who gave a helping hand and shelter to Zimbabwean President, Emmerson Mnangagwa, when his life was under threat, from the country's former president, Robert Mugabe, in November 2017. Zimbabwe suffered high levels of inflation and economic meltdown under decades of iron-fisted rule by Mugabe. So who is this man this that came to Mnangagwa’s aid? The man I am speaking of is the Founder and Group CEO of Big Time Strategic, Justice Maphosa....

GUEST: Founder and Group CEO of Big Time Strategic, Justice Maphosa

In reaction to President Ramaphosa’s announcement of expropriation without compensation, AfriForum notified Parliament in writing that it would consult its legal team regarding the option to declare the process entailing that Section 25 of the Constitution be amended to empower the state to expropriate property without compensation as illegal. The civil rights organisation also expressed its objection to the fact that working people are excluded from the public participation process that the parliamentary committee is arranging regarding expropriation without compensation. This morning we get AfriForum’s position on expropriation, and why they are opposed to it…

GUEST: Ernst Roets is the Deputy CEO of AfriForum

According to a new study, published this week in PLOS Medicine by Andrew Kunzmann of Queen's University Belfast, and colleagues, the risk of mortality, and of developing a number of cancers, is lowest in light drinkers consuming an average of less than one drink per day across their lifetime, and the risk of some cancers increases with each additional drink per week. Dr Andrew Kunzmann joins us now to unpack the study further…

GUEST: Dr Andrew Kunzmann - Of the Centre for Public Health at Queens University Belfast

The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) warns that the 2018 Draft Mining Charter, is still profoundly flawed and continues to choke on investment. The Institute says though the Charter is better than its predecessor, it still falls far short of the regulatory framework required for a thriving mining sector capable of boosting economic growth and job creation. The latest Liberty report from the IRR provides a detailed assessment of the 2018 Draft Mining Charter. For more we are now joined on the line by…

GUEST: Dr Anthea Jeffery, Who is the head of policy research at Institute of Race Relations (IRR)

How far is the strategy on radical economic transformation (RET)? On The Talking Point, this morning we will examine the ANC's radical economic transformation goals, the concept of and terminology around radical economic transformation, which some say died out with former president Jacob Zuma's administration. But Zuma has always emphasized that radical economic transformation is government policy and arises from the ANC, and not from outside the country as many skeptics claim. Joining me now on the line for this discussion is...

GUEST: ANC Youth League KwaZulu-Natal secretary, Thanduxolo Sabelo…

Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa says elections will go ahead as planned on 30 July, despite an attempt on his life this weekend. Forty-one people were injured in a blast at a rally in the city of Bulawayo, which occurred close to Mnangagwa as he was leaving the stage. The vote is the first since Robert Mugabe was ousted as president. For the latest on the current political tensions in Zimbabwe, we are now joined on the line by International Crisis Group, Southern Africa Consultant and analyst, Piers Pigou

GUEST: International Crisis Group, Southern Africa Consultant and analyst, Piers Pigou

With the discussion, we aim to understand:
-Is there a pressure that men face to conform to a pre conceived idea of what masculinity is?
-Amidst rapid social and economic change, why is it that our men still feel the need to hold on to an idea of Masculinity?
-Is it a safe place to go, as things change, it remains familiar?
Kabelo Chabalala - Columnist for the Star and Founder of The Young Men Movement

Guest: Fumani Shilubana - Founder & CEO of FatherFigureZA

-When does Masculinity become toxic?
- How do we, in raising our children socialize boys and girls to be adaptable to different roles, without devaluing one over the other?

In 2013 Caribbean Heads of Governments established the CARICOM Reparations Commission (CRC) with a mandate to prepare the case for reparatory justice for the region’s indigenous and African descendant communities who are the victims of Crimes against Humanity (CAH) in the forms of genocide, slavery, slave trading, and racial apartheid. The Caricom Reparations Justice Program (CRJP) recognizes the special role and status of European governments in this regard, being the legal bodies that instituted the framework for developing and sustaining these crimes. This morning we discuss reparations, with a special focus of the Caribbean context, asking: Should former slave holding powers pay reparations to the descendants of slaves?

Guest: Yaa Ashantewaa Archer-Ngidi – Who is the Director of the Institute of Afrikology

The National Health Insurance Bill has been gazetted. Health Minister, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi was releasing details on the NHI Bill and the Medical Schemes Amendment Bill, yesterday in Pretoria. Dr Motsoaledi says the first amendment in the medical schemes bill is to abolish co-payments, which means that the full cost of care should be charged to medical schemes. Meanwhile, the Free Market Foundation has questioned the government's motives relating to the NHI scheme, the foundation says the scheme and amendments are "unequivocal violations of South Africans' constitutional rights to freedom of association and access to healthcare". For more, we are now joined in studio and on the line by….

Health Minister, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi...(In studio)
Dr Kgosi Letlape, who is currently the President of the Health Professions Council of South Africa and Chairperson of the Medical and Dental Board.

Rebecca Davis & Haji Mohamed Dawjee recently penned an article in the Daily Maverick titled: Lut's People: The struggle to be gay & Muslim in South Africa. In their article they ask: How do gay South African Muslims negotiate the seemingly irreconcilable divide between their sexual orientation and their religion?

Zakaryiya says “When I was a small innocent child, I was unable to coin the phrase "gay" for myself but I always knew I was born that way. Between the ages of 11 and 15, I battled with my queerness and was unable to fathom how God could have created me this way. I felt ashamed, suicidal and depressed for a long time.”

Guest: Zakariya Moola - A mentor for young Muslim guys going through the same experience