Guest: Guest: Limpopo Hawks spokesperson, Captain Matimba Maluleke

The charity arm of workers union Solidarity is preparing to sue the National Student Financial Aid Scheme for wasting tax payers’ money. The Solidarity Helping Hands Study Fund Centre says it wants the scheme to account for the incorrect payments it has made to students and the R7.5 billion it incurred in irregular expenditure in the last financial year. The scheme has taken a student to court after she used R800 000 of the R14 million mistakenly deposited into her account by NSFAS. The head of Helping Hands Stefan Pieterse says these incorrect and irregular pays-outs - are a waste.

Guest: Stefan Pieterse, the head of Helping Hands, charity arm of workers union Solidarity

Guest: Dr Randell Carolissen - Nsfas Administrator

Cosatu in the Western Cape have been protesting at the Grand Parade in the Cape Town CBD, ahead of President Cyril Ramaphosa's State-of-the-Nation-Address this evening. They were marching over Job losses, challenges regarding the public transport system, among other issues.

Guest: Malvern de Bruyn, Provincial secretary for Cosatu in the Western Cape

The business community recently celebrated the launch of the SA United Business Council, a non-profit and non-racial business and economic federation that represents cross-cutting business interests in South Africa.

Guest: George Sebulela, President of SA United Business Council

SONA Expectations: President Cyril Ramaphosa will deliver the annual State of the National Address later this evening. To discuss the president’s upcoming SONA we are joined by Andrew Duvenage who says the president can no longer postpone making tough choices. Government needs to stop talking and start doing.

Guest: Andrew Duvenage, Managing Director – NFB

We are told that as Bernie Sanders rises, some Democrats are jittery about possible consequences. Sanders’s victory in the New Hampshire primary and his strengths in the 2020 race are worrying moderates who fear he could cost Democrats the presidency and the House in the fall.

Guest: Professor John Stremlau, Visiting Professor of International Relations at Wits

The Department of Basic Education has urged public schools to stop refusing entry to pupils who do not possess identity documents. This after the High Court in Grahamstown ruled in December last year that undocumented children cannot be denied access to public schools. For more on this,

Guest: Elijah Mhlanga, National spokesperson for the Department of Basic Education

Cosatu’s proposal that the state-owned asset manager, the Public Investment Corporation and local development finance institutions help to lower Eskom debt by around R250bn has been met with mixed reactions. Trade union Solidarity has threatened legal action against a proposed plan to use the pensions of government employees to cut Eskom's R450bn debt burden, saying it would be in breach of the Public Investment Corporation's mandate and must be stopped.

Guests: Connie Mulder, Head of Research Institute at Solidarity

The EFF in the Free State has threatened to intensify its land grab campaign in the province. The party says it has identified several tracts of land for residential purposes. The EFF is at loggerheads with the five-party coalition government in the embattled Metsimaholo Municipality, over its land policy. Meanwhile the party has also threatened to disrupt tomorrow's State of the Nation Address, SONA, if Pravin Gordhan is not fired as Public Enterprises Minister by then.

Guest: Delisile Ngwenya, EFF National Spokesperson