Last week Thursday (21st September) was Kwame Nkrumah’s birthday which is marked as a public holiday in Ghana. He is being praised as a visionary and one of the great leaders Africa has ever produced. Deputy Chair of the African Union (AU), Kwesi Quartey says Dr. Kwame Nkrumah's name would live forever because his ideas and teachings remain very much alive and relevant. What was is it that makes him stand out as a great African leader?

Guest: Pusch Commey – Editor of the New African Magazine and founder of Real African Writers page

Our guest this morning is asking why does South Africa experience a decline in strike action during economic downturn? The Deaprtment of Labour in its 2016 Industrial Action Report has calculated that on average, South Africa lost a collective 2.5 million working days annually due to strike action between 2005 and 2015. What can we read into the decline?

Guest: Aadil Patel - Head of Employment Practice at Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr’s

A lot has been said about the state of public health care in the Eastern Cape over the past few years. However in recent years, the province has made giant strides in turning things around.

Guest: Dr Thobile Mbengashe, Eastern Cape Health HOD

Dr Mathole Motshekga explains why we should celebrate Matriarchy as an African cultural heritage. According to him, during the ancient times, the African society was a matriarchal society based on gender equality, but that through the destruction of the African past, identity, culture and religion, the spiritual philosophy and cosmology of the African people has been lost.

guest: Dr Mathole Motshekga

What are the historical and methodological basis of the existence of these concepts? We examine how these concepts have shaped and reshaped societies in different ways over the years. Our guest argues that in South Africa the discourse has been with us since the birth of the liberation movements.

Guest: Leslie Dikeni, Researcher & Author of Habitat and Struggle: The Case of the Kruger Park in South Africa (he coedited, with William Gumede, Poverty of Ideas: The Retreat of Intellectuals in New Democracies)

Often we hear how government calls on big business to reach out to small business. This is normally done through procurement. But then where are SMME’s going wrong when it comes to issues of procurement and what is it they should know about it? Also how is big business assisting in helping SMME’s get their story right when it comes to this issue?

Guest: Debbie Tagg – COO of Commercial Edge

Guest: Thabo Makama – CEO of Talent Centric

Professor Mammo Muchie is of the view that all pan-Africanists should adopt the Ethiopian Calendar which he says is neither Julian nor Gregorian. He goes on to say that the Ethiopian alphabet - the Geez fidel - should be accepted as the African alphabet. Why does he believe we should go back to this and how will it enhance the African agenda?

Guest: Prof Mammo Muchie - Research Chair in Innovation Studies Faculty of Economics and Finance at Tshwane University of Technology

Rotarians from throughout Sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian Ocean Islands are in Johannesburg for an international conference with the theme of “World Peace Through Understanding”. How is the Rotary organisation contributing to this theme and what is it exactly that they do?

Yesterday (Tuesday) while talking about different issues on the programme, a few truck drivers phoned in to talk about their conditions of employment and the things they have to deal with on a daily basis. Their cries were almost the same as they felt that nobody was listening to them. Well this morning we get to understand what a truck driver goes through on a daily basis and why they feel ignored…

The Nelson Mandela Children's Hospital will be the home of Radio Lollipop, an international volunteer charity that provides care, comfort, play and entertainment for sick children and young people in hospital. As we know children were dear to Madiba, what role will they be playing at the hospital?