The Daily Discourse

Guest: Ms Mmampei Chaba – Chief Director for Multilateral Cooperation and Africa at the department of science and technology

Guest: Ms Mmampei Chaba – Chief Director for Multilateral Cooperation and Africa at the department of science and technology

Guest: Vakele Richard Mbalukwana - APOR Chairperson

Time now for the African Perspective, as customary on a Tuesday we profile an African country, today the spotlight is on Ethiopia. Ethiopia, which is nestled in the volatile Horn of Africa region, is Africa's oldest independent country and is the second largest in terms of population. Ethiopia is surrounded by Sudan and South Sudan to the west, Kenya to the south, Somalia to the east, and Eritrea and Djibouti to the north. For more on the country we are now joined on the line by....

GUEST: Hailey Shamebo - Who is a businessman and political activist

Our society lacks moral standing as long as we deprive children of capability development, this according to Social philosopher and Chairman of Read to Rise, Athol Williams. He argues that South Africa’s schooling system has structured our society to deliver inequality into the future, and based on this structure, we can pick out today who the winners and losers are going to be. To tell us more about this we are joined on the line, all the way from the UK, by…

Guest (In the UK): Athol Williams is a social philosopher and Chairman of Read to Rise, a youth literacy non-profit organisation.

Democratic Alliance leader, Mmusi Maimane says the conclusions of Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane's report into the Vrede dairy project scandal is nothing, but whitewash on corruption. Maimane says Mkhwebane's report into the controversial Estina Dairy farm in Vrede, Free State, is an embarrassing cop-out as it attempts to explain the failure to hold to account the political principals who designed and orchestrated this R220 million Gupta-linked scandal. For more on this we are now joined on the line by the Spokesperson to the DA Leader, Portia Adams

GUEST: Spokesperson to the DA Leader, Mmusi Maimane, Portia Adams

Financial services group Liberty Life says its probe into the company's data breach is at an advanced stage. The company maintains none of its clients has lost money as a result of the breach. In text messages this weekend, Liberty told clients an external party's gained unauthorized access to its information. Hackers alerted the company to potential vulnerabilities in its systems, and are now demanding compensation. Liberty says it refused to pay the ransom demanded by the hackers. For more on this we are now joined on the line by…

1. Liberty Holdings CEO, David Munro

2. Berenice Francis, who is the President of the Institute of Risk Management South Africa and Chief Risk Officer at Imperial

VUCA: volatility, uncertainly, complexity and ambiguity is a challenging and intricate imperative. The quality of leadership, be it self-leadership, organisational leadership, entrepreneurial leadership is dependent on remaining calm and centred in a higher purpose with inner clarity in order to be appropriately responsive to your external context. This morning we unpack what it takes to lead in a time of Vuca, what qualities are required?

Guest: Yogesh Sharda - International Personal Development Trainer and workshop facilitator

EFF leader, Julius Malema, has launched a tirade against South Africans of Indian descent - claiming that many Indian people are racist. Malema was addressing a Youth Day event in Klerksdorp in the North West. The EFF leader argued strongly for black people to uplift themselves in the spirit of Black Consciousness. Malema then went on to defend EFF Chief Whip, Floyd Shivambu's recent verbal attack on Treasury Deputy DG, Ismael Momoniat. He said the EFF Chief Whip had been making a valid point about an "Indian" representing treasury in parliamentary meetings - when 80- percent of Treasury staff are black Africans. For more on this we are now joined on the line by Dr Lubna Nadvi, who is a political analyst, an activist and Researcher at the University of KwaZulu-Natal

GUEST: Dr Lubna Nadvi, who is a political analyst, an activist and Researcher at the University of KwaZulu-Natal

As South Africans commemorated Youth Day yesterday that issue of unemployment amongst the country's youth dominated addresses by various party leaders. In his address at the official commemorations in Soweto, President Cyril Ramaphosa heeded the call for job creation and urged the private sector and big companies to employ graduates as part of efforts to bring down the high unemployment rate. For more on this we now speak to youth representatives from the 3 big political parties, ANC, DA and EFF to get their views on the current challenges facing the youth…
1. ANCYL spokesperson, Mlondi Mkhize
2. DA Youth Federal Deputy Chairperson, Dikeledi Selowa
3. EFF Students' Command President, Phuti Peter Keetse