Newsmakers and Guest Experts offer their insights and perspectives into the national and global discourse on politics, economics, education, social matters and comprehensive dialogues on cultural diversity and other essential issues of public interest like, poverty alleviation, unemployment rate and health related issues.

Newsmakers and Guest Experts offer their insights and perspectives into the national and global discourse on politics, economics, education, social matters and comprehensive dialogues on cultural diversity and other essential issues of public interest like, poverty alleviation, unemployment rate and health related issues.

SMME feature this morning we talk to one of the winners of the Sanlam/Business Partners Entrepreneur of the year. What does this award mean for them and what are some of the challenges they faced while starting the business?

Newsmakers and Guest Experts offer their insights and perspectives into the national and global discourse on politics, economics, education, social matters and comprehensive dialogues on cultural diversity and other essential issues of public interest like, poverty alleviation, unemployment rate and health related issues.

Focus: Professor Thumbi Ndungu joins us this morning to explain how HIV affects the rate of disease progression in individuals and how in general epidemics spread and change over time.

Professor Thumbi Ndungu is an nvestigator at the KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV - Victor Daitz Chair in HIV/TB Research at the University of KwaZulu-Natal

South Africa’s extreme poverty and inequality is well documented. A toxic mix of high unemployment and low wages for the majority of workers perpetuates this problem. Last year important discussions were held about the need for a minimum wage across all sectors. In today’s show we discuss and explore issues around the implementation of the living wage.

Chairperson of the CRL Commission, Thoko Mkhwanazi Xaluva, discusses the commission's plans to investigate church leaders who use dangerous practices that endanger the lives of congregants. The investigation follows a Soshanguve pastor who fed congregants, snakes, hair and other objects.

We turn our focus now on Naturopathic medicine. The practice includes modern and traditional, scientific, and empirical methods. Just how much do we understand about the value of this practice in the country?

Guest: Dr. Faryal Luhar - A licensed Naturopathic Doctor who has been practicing for 11 years.

Newsmakers and Guest Experts offer their insights and perspectives into the national and global discourse on politics, economics, education, social matters and comprehensive dialogues on cultural diversity and other essential issues of public interest like, poverty alleviation, unemployment rate and health related issues.

Women’s Month for what? That’s the question being asked by Michelle Festus, Women’s Rights Coordinator at ActionAid South Africa, who is of the view that Both Women’s Day and Women’s Month have been depoliticised and have lost their value in recognising the struggles of women in our country. How true is this assertion?