The Daily Discourse

Post the ANC’s Election Workshop, Fikile Mbalula speaks to us about the ruling party’s campaign objectives for next year’s national elections. The party wants to deal with unemployment, crime and corruption among other issues as it heads to the 2019 elections.

Guest:Pule Mabe

Yesterday, Cosatu presented its proposals on the need to decriminalise sex work to Parliament’s public hearings. They argue that they support decriminalisation because it will help to ensure sex workers are treated as human beings and that they are able to access their full constitutional, labour, human and other rights and opportunities.

Guest: Mathew Park, COSATU Parliamentary Officer

March is Endometriosis Awareness month. Endometriosis affects approximately 176 million worldwide, is a leading cause of infertility and has profound effects on quality of life for many women. Symptoms of endometriosis include: bleeding, pain, infertility, fatigue and suppressed immune system. This morning on Living with it, we get to understand what life is like living with endometriosis.

Guest(InStudio): Lynne Zurnamer - Founder of the Endometriosis Society of South Africa

At The roundtable discussion on Encoding and Decoding the Social Phenomenon of Violent Destruction of Public Infrastructure, as part of the I Care We Care campaign, initiated by the Department of Infrastructure Development, and now driven by the Moral Regeneration Movement, the aim was to galvanize the communities to protect public infrastructure. How can protesters and community members be made to understand that they are not just the users but that they have a certain level of ownership and benefits of the property?

Guest Father Smangaliso Mkhatswa – Chairman of the Moral Regeneration Movement

The Nelson Mandela Foundation has applied to the Equality Court in Johannesburg for an order declaring the gratuitous display of the old flag as hate speech, unfair discrimination and race-based harassment. AfriForum has opposed any restriction on the display of the old South African flag as an infringement on free speech.

Guest: Ernst Roets- Afriforum deputy CEO

Yesterday saw the public launch of Indlulamithi – South Africa Scenarios 2030. This multi-stakeholder project is geared towards developing a framework to better understand our country’s trajectory and make long-term informed-decisions. Joining us to outline its objectives is……

Guest: Dr Yacoob Abba Omar, Head of strategy and communications at the Banking Association of South Africa & spokesperson at Indlulamithi

Guest: Bheki Cele – Minister of Police

With CPS’s contract due to expire at the end of the month. This morning we look at SASSA’s state of affairs asking, how did they get where they are today?

Guests: Paseka Letsatsi, spokesperson, South African Social Security Agency and Lynette Maart, National Director, Black Sash

On the 5th of December 2017, Vusi Thembekwayo launched his debut leadership and management book, The Magna Carta of Exponentiality. In the book, he looks at teams, leaders and organisations that have managed to deliver phenomenal market-beating results in the face of extreme uncertainty, severe resource constraints and socio-political instability. He now joins us to unpack how one can drive exponential results in linear markets.

Guest: Vusi Thembekwayo -Chief Executive Officer of MyGrowthFund & IC Knowledge – Bureau, a global entrepreneur, investor, business speaker and author

Much has been expected of South Africa as an African leader from beyond the continent, yet the lesson of the post-1994 period is that South Africa has consistently struggled to deliver under this weight of expectation – and its African record has been punctuated by a series of failures as it struggles to translate material power into tangible foreign policy achievement. So this morning we investigate why South Africa struggles to lead in Africa.

Guest (UK): Mr James Hamill, Lecturer in the School of History, Politics & International Relations at the University of Leicester, UK & Author of "Africa’s Lost Leader: South Africa’s Continental Role Since Apartheid