Dr Peter Oberhem has written an article saying that those who are opposed to legal rhino horn trading either do not understand the realities of rhino conservation, or have a vested interest in rhino remaining endangered. As we all know that this has been an issue that the country has been battling with for many years as the poaching continues.

Guest: Mr Pelham Jones who is chairman of the Private Rhino Owners Association

The failure by the government to move on the establishment of a franchise ombud is a “huge bone of contention”. That’s according to Franchise Association of SA.
Less than one-fifth of franchise companies were registered with the industry body and moves to bring them into the fold had come to naught despite efforts in the past three years or more to do so.
This means small investors who sink their savings into a franchise have few places to turn to if they get a raw deal.

Guest: Vera Valasis - Franchise Association of SA executive director

South Africa can expect severe power cuts until Wednesday as none of the myriad technical problems confronting Eskom has an immediate fix, this is according to Eskom. Eskom imposed power cuts last week at stage 1 and 2, escalating it to stage 4 at the weekend. On Thursday, Eskom stated the power cuts were due to a
Guest: Adil Nchabeleng - Energy expert

The ANC in KwaZulu-Natal says it does not rule out the possibility of removing its mayor who has been arrested in connection with the murder of former ANC Youth League secretary-general - Sindiso Magaqa - in 2017. The mayor from a municipality in southern KwaZulu-Natal was arrested yesterday by the police's National Task Team investigating political killings in the province. Seeing that the elections are not so far, what impact is this likely to have on the campaign trail seeing it is ANC members who are implicated?

Guest: Xolani Dube – senior researcher at Xubera Institute for Research and Development in KZN

There was drama in Pretoria today after President Cyril Ramaphosa got a taste of what train commuters go through on a daily bases. Incidents of delays, packed cabins and broken windows when the president took a train as part of the ANC's election campaign. It caused a delay to the arrival of ANC deputy president David Mabuza on his election campaign trail. He was meant to take a train from Atteridgeville to Bosman station to interact with commuters on an ANC election campaign drive. To get a response from Prasa as to what happened.

Guest: Dr Sipho Sithole, Group Chief Strategy Officer at PRASA

South Africa’s long-term low economic growth might be attributed in part to poor education outcomes, according to an International Monetary Fund (IMF) working paper on education, which was released earlier this month.
It is entitled: Struggling to make the grade: a review of the causes and consequences of the weak outcomes of South Africa’s education system.
On average, South Africa spends over 6% of its GDP on education.

Guest: Montfort Mlachila, IMF's Senior Resident Representative in South Africa

The Chartered Institute of Government Finance, Audit & Risk Officers (CIGFARO), is hosting the Audit & Risk Indaba to be held in East London ICC from 10 – 12 April 2019. The event draws participants from Government Departments and Municipalities in all the Provinces. It will be attended by Senior Municipal personnel, Councillors and Government Finance, Audit & Risk Managers. More than 300 delegates are expected to grace the event.


Guest: Abbey Tlaletsi, Chief Executive Officer of The Chartered Institute of Government Finance, Audit & Risk Officers

Guest: Nkuli Swana: CEO – Arms Audit and Risk management Solution

SCHOOL DRUGS IN THE WC
Western Cape schools battling rampant drug use. Statistics obtained from the Western Cape Education Department (WCED) have shown that out of 145 primary school pupils tested for substance abuse, 84 tested positive. At high schools, 478 out of 655 pupils tested positive.
The tests were conducted on pupils suspected of drug abuse. At primary schools 56 of those who tested positive were boys. At high school the figure was 359. The tests were conducted during the first, second and third terms last year.

Guest: Jarryd Smith, Founder of Second Chance Trust

As you may have heard by now about the attacks on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand - which left at least 49 people dead and how they have sparked horror, revulsion and dismay across the globe. Pakistan, Turkey, Indonesia, Afghanistan, Malaysia and Fiji are among nations who've conveyed their condolences to families of those killed. What should we read into this?

Guest: Naeem Jeenahm Executive Director at the Afro-Middle East Centre

the Kgalema Motlanthe Foundation in partnership with Fliptin, Microsoft and Idea Collective will host “AI in Mitchells Plain” bootcamp. They say that access to information is a universal human right. So to address the problem of some youth being left out due to various circumstances, the girls-only bootcamps attempt to address the systematic exclusion of youth in a variety of 21st century careers.

Guest: Lee Chana, Programme Director for the Kgalema Motlanthe Foundation’s “AI in Africa” programme