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- Investment in early childhood development could cut inequality and ignite growth. Correcting government’s historic neglect is necessary to end the cycle of dropping out of school, leading to a lifetime of unskilled employment
Guest: Daniel McLaren is public finance economist at ECD programme Ilifa Labantwana.
10 min - Do you have a passion for rockets, satellites, earth observation, remote sensing, and more? Do you have an extra-terrestrial idea on how to use data and technology to help save the world? Then Innovate UK wants to hear from you
Guest: Alana Kruger, Knowledge Transfer Manager for South Africa at Innovate UK.
6 min - Former US President Trump’s civil fraud trial continued for a second day in New York
Guest: Brooks Spector - Associated Editor Daily Maverick
5 min - The Department of Basic Education is probing pupil behaviour that may be linked to "areas of spirituality and ancestral encounters". Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga said there were reports from more than 3 000 schools
Guest: Elijah Mhlanga - Department of Basic Education Spokesperson
4 min - The Institute for Economic Justice (IEJ) published research Monday, in the form of a Policy Brief, that shows reports of an immediate and acute ‘fiscal crisis’ in South Africa are being exaggerated for political purposes.
Guest: Zimbali Mncube, Institute for Economic Justice Tax and Budget Policy Researcher
7 min - Zimbabwe's main opposition Citizens Coalition for Change has boycotted President Emmerson Mnangagwa's State-of-the-Nation address yesterday
Guest: Amos Chibaya - Citizens Coalition for Change MP
6 min - Cosatu says that the massive increase in the price of fuel today is yet another painful further blow to an already battered economy and struggling working class.
Guest: Mathew Parks – Cosatu Spokesperson
5 min - Africa Update Report with Adv. Sipho Mantula from the Thabo Mbeki Afrikan School of Public and International Affairs: Unisa
Afrika Update Report: 4 October 2023;
1. Ghana -Accra, several hundred opposition protesters rallied in Ghana's capital Accra to denounce the country's lingering economic crisis; 2. Kenya-Haiti, Kenyan President William Samoei Arap Ruto welcomes the United Nations Security Council resolution to send a Kenya-led multinational armed force to Haiti; 3. Maurituis-Port Louis, The Secretary General of the African continental free trade area (AFCFTA) Wamkele Mene paid a courtesy call on the Prime Minister Pravind Kumar Jugnauth; 4. Rwanda - African Union, Afrikaans foreign affairs ministers call for new financing for continent's development agenda during a retreat of the AU executive council in Kigali; 5. In our historical archives, it was on this day 4 October 1966 when Lesotho was liberated from Britain and this day has become known as Lesotho's National Day.7 min - National Union of Mineworkers demands a lengthy delay in the implementation of Just Energy Transition
Guest: Khangela Baloyi NUM Energy Sector Coordinator
5 min - SAFTU is appalled and disgusted to learn that R134 million was looted in the Bojanala Municipality, North West province.
Guest: Trevor Shaku - South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) National Spokesperson
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