GUEST: Professor Musa Xulu, Founder of Indonsa Yesizwe Think Tank

We have been running a series of conversations surrounding the latest report emerging from the Public Service Commission surrounding non-compliance and payment of invoices to suppliers within 30 days. One of the provinces who have emerged as repeat offenders is Gauteng which contributed with the highest number of invoices paid after 30 days which amounted to 45, 538 invoices to the value of R3.5bn in the first quarter of the 2023/24 financial year. To tell us more about how Office of the Premier plans to support departments struggling to pay their invoices on time, we are joined by…..

GUEST: Sizwe Pamla, Spokesperson for the Gauteng Premier

The South African National Roads Agency shares its state of readiness for the national roads ahead of the festive season. Holidaymakers are going to be on the road this week and traffic will ramp up ahead of the public holiday on 15th December. In the last festive season (period: 1 December 2022 to 11 January 2023), the nation recorded 1 451 road deaths which was a 14% decrease compared to the same period in 2021 holiday season. To tell us more about preparations and their role in road safety education, we are joined by……

GUEST: Madoda Mthembu, Operations and Maintenance Manager for SANRAL Northern Region

According to a research by Solidarity's medical professional networks, it has found out that many South African Specialists and general practitioners would rather close their surgeries than work under the government's National Health Insurance. The NHI bill was recently approved by the National Council of Provinces, and it now only requires President Cyril Ramaphosa’s signature to become law.

GUEST: Theuns du Buisson 

South Africans have survived 332 days of load-shedding in 2023, which is an additional 127 days more than in 2022. One of the big takeaways from the data shared by the Outlier and EskomSePush is that we have endured 74 days of load-shedding under stage six, highlighting that we are not managing our emergency reserves to overcome breakdown in generative infrastructure. To help us understand what the public should expect for the festive season and beyond, we are joined by....

Guest: Clyde Mallinson - Independent Energy Analyst

The South African Police Service's Deputy National Commissioner for Crime Detection, Shadrack Sibiya, says that kidnapping for ransom is growing gradually in the country. His remarks are backed by the findings of the recent report that was released by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime which revealed that South Africa is among the top 10 countries with the highest rates of kidnapping in the world. However, security and strategy expert, Andy Mashaile says he is not surprised by Sibiya’s comments as thousands of SAPS officers have been arrested for various crimes since 2019. He joins us now to elaborate further on this……

GUEST: Andy Mashaile, Retired Interpol Ambassador, Security and Strategy expert

SASSA and Postbank have announced that, as part of a broader strategy to improve the quality of cash withdrawal services for all social grants recipients, physical cash payment points and cash withdrawal of social grants inside Post Offices will be phased out. The phasing out process will commence in January next year. It is planned that by the end of March next year, all cash payment points and Post Office branch grants payments would have stopped. To give us more details on this is……

GUEST: Paseka Letsatsi, Spokesperson of the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA)

Zimbabwe’s Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) says it’s going to challenge the results of the controversial by-elections that took place over the weekend. The ruling ZANU PF has won most of the seats previously held by the CCC in a by-election that most voters boycotted. For more analysis on this, we are joined by…..

GUEST: Dr Ibbo Mandaza – Political analyst based in Zimbabwe

GUEST (STUDIO): Penny Lebyane, Radio & TV personality

In conversation with Nomzamo Nkatshu about the inaugural Maseru Massacres Memorial Lecture which is due to take place tomorrow - in commemoration and honour of the victims and survivors of the 1982 and 1985 Maseru Massacres. The event will also see the official opening of the Inaugural Lerona Re Batho Art Exhibition – a conceptual art project pioneered by the Walter Sisulu University Fine Art students.

GUEST: Nomzamo Nkatshu, one of the co-founders of the Le Rona Re Batho Memorial Trust