The Daily Discourse

Time for our regular Friday feature 'men Talk'. Divorce is hard for both men and women. The more stressful the divorce, the more likely it is that illness will follow. Strong emotions such as sadness, anger, and confusion are quite common following the end of a marriage, especially if you're grappling with financial strains or additional responsibilities. Today on Men Talk, we will discuss "How Men should be dealing with Stress and Divorce?"

GUEST: Louis Steenkamp - Who is a family and relationship counsellor

Described as the world’s largest international choir competition, the World Choir Games comes at a time when South Africa is commemorating the centenary of former President Nelson Mandela's birth. Madiba, who passed away on 5 December 2013, would have turned 100 on 18 July 2018. The World Choir Games invites all non-professional choirs globally to participate. The competition offers a platform for competitive choirs as well as choirs with relatively little international experience to compete. This morning we find the significance of the World Choir Games to be hosted in Africa, and then, take a journey back to the History of Choral Music in South Africa…

Guest: Composer, Conductor, Arranger and Producer, Dr Thulasizwe Nkabinde has been a Music Lecturer and Conductor at Soweto College of Education, Westminster College of Education and University of Venda.
Guest: Ali Mpofu, member of the local organizing committee, and CEO of the African Cultural Development Foundation. (TBC)

Last year, The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Competitiveness Report ranked South Africa’s primary education system as 126th out of 138 countries. This year, IMD Business School’s World Competitiveness Report positioned SA as number 62 out of 63 countries for youth unemployment.
Guest: Dr Alistair Witten from LeadershipLabSA

Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) have ordered the release of former Democratic Republic of Congo rebel leader and Vice-President Jean-Pierre Bemba. Last week, appeal judges overturned his 2016 conviction on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Bemba is yet to be sentenced for the separate charge of bribing witnesses. On the twenty-first of March 2016, the Trial Chamber had found Bemba guilty beyond reasonable doubt as a military commander responsible for two counts of crimes against humanity (murder and rape) and three counts of war crimes (murder, rape, and pillaging) committed in the Central African Republic between October 2002 and March 2003. Take a listening to Presiding Judge, Sylvia Steiner, heading down the sentence
GUEST: Constitutional law expert and political analyst, Professor Shadrack Gutto

RAIL AFRICA CONFERENCE TO CREATE 50 000 JOBS IN THE RAIL SECTOR

Focus: Africa Rail together with The Jobs Summit initiative will be signing an agreement to provide at least 50,000 jobs in the rail sector for the next three years. The Africa Rail has grown to become the continent's largest and most established rail event in Africa, will host its 21st railways conference and exhibition, at the Sandton Convention Centre, today (Wednesday 13/06/18). For more on the conference, we are now joined on the line by...

GUEST: Jobs Summit Executive Director, Stefan Lauber

Khumbula Ngcobo, a young black industrialist, who will be talking to us about their oil business Nfuzed Energy, which is based in Centurion, Pretoria. For more he now joins us in studio...

Guests: Khumbula Ngcobo - Founder of Nfuzed Energy

The Gender-Based Violence (GBV)
in South Africa: A Brief Review released by Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation(CSVR) GBV cannot be attributed to a single factor, but an interplay of individual, community, economic, cultural and religious factors interacting at different levels of society. All these factors ranging from gender inequalities between men and women, social constructions of hegemonic masculinities, social perceptions of what it means to be a man, normalisation of violence, and cultural practices such as lobola and ukuthwala, which were addressed in the report.

This morning we ask: Why is GBV widespread in South Africa despite? What influences does culture and traditions play in Gender Based Violence?
We also find our more about the #TotalShutdown March organized for the 01 August 2018, aimed at Mobalising women against Gender Based Violence.

Guest: Pumla Madiba – MaMiya Intombi yakwa Mqikela, KwaGcaleka
Guest: Lesley Ncube – Spokesperson for the movement #TotalShutDown on the 1st of August

The biggest threat the ANC faces going into the 2019 elections is the state of leadership in the provinces, according to political analyst, Ralph Mathekga. In one of his recent columns, Mathekga says that If provincial leadership squabbles continue to intensify in the ANC, it will undermine the talk of a "new dawn" pushed by President, Cyril Ramaphosa. For more on this we are now joined on the line by...

GUEST: Ralph Mathekga is a Fellow at the South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI) Chair: African Diplomacy and Foreign Policy at the University of Johannesburg. He is also the author of When Zuma Goes and the upcoming book, Ramaphosa's Turn.

The South African Youth Chamber of Commerce (SAYCC) is calling upon all the municipalities to employ qualified Young professionals in the accounting field to manage their finances and get rid of illiterates who are deployed to collapse the municipalities by the political parties. According to the SAYCC South Africa is faced with a mounting crisis of unemployed graduates, and these unemployed, yet qualified graduates are an answer to the current challenges facing municipalities due to poor administration and collapse in governance.
Guest (Studio): Thapelo Maleke - President South African Youth Chamber of Commerce

With threats of "fire and fury" and "an enveloping fire", bringing the horror of nuclear war closer to reality again, the World Council of Churches (WCC) commission of the churches on international affairs decided to hold its meeting in South Korea so it could interact with church leadership and concerned organisations about the crisis in the Korean Peninsula.Frank Chikane, the moderator of the commission joins us to unpack How they, by hosting meetings in troubled areas, try to come up with solutions, including being in solidarity with those who are victims. On domestic issues, we find out from him what role should the church play in issues such as Land Expropriation?

GUEST: Rev Frank Chikane – Moderator of the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs of the world Council of Churches. He is also the senior vice –president of the South African Council of Churches