The City of Cape Town will soon serve eviction notices on homeless settlements across the CBD after having been granted permission by the high court to do so. Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis says this will help the city to reclaim public spaces and provide care for vulnerable citizens living on the street. He joins us now to elaborate further on this……

GUEST: Geordin Hill-Lewis, Executive Mayor of Cape Town

Post the AU Summit, we unpack South Africa’s new role on the continent after being appointed as the chair of the Peace and Security Council of the African Union. This is a huge task, as President Cyril Ramaphosa will have to ensure that the Peace and Security Council of the AU attends to all conflicts on the African continent.

GUEST: Sophie Mokoena, SABC’s Foreign Editor

Yudheer Harbhajun from Epson explains why printed material remains a keystone of the digital era. According to him, technology in education needs to be seamless and ensure that learning is continuous and efficient, captures attention and empowers both the learner and teacher.

GUEST: Yudheer Harbhajun, Office Automation Sales Manager @Epson South Africa

The latest crime statistics have revealed double digit increases in the last quarter of 2022. Murder has risen by 10% and attempted murder has increased by 24,3% compared to the same period last year. The Minister of Police announced this at the quarterly crime statistics today in Cape Town. The statistics were recorded between the period of 1 October 2022 and 31st December 2022. To unpack this development, we are joined by... 

Guest: David Bruce - Independent Researcher 

Student protests continue across the country as we come to the end of the registration period for the 2023 academic year. In Pretoria, dozens of students from the University of Pretoria have been sleeping outside of the accommodation office due to the limits set by NSFAS. The students are demanding that NSFAS increase their accommodation allowance funding of R45,000 per annum to match higher rental costs they are expected to pay. We are joined by...

Guest: Asive Dlanjwa - National Spokesperson of South African Union of Students

There has been an accident near the William Nicol and N1 highway (Johannesburg) off-ramp that has left one person injured so far. The tanker explosion comes less than two months after 34 people died in a tanker explosion Boksburg and another one in the East Rands days later. We ask the question: do heavy vehicles or truck tankers need to be escorted by police through cities? To give us the latest updates from the ground, we are joined by...  

Guest: Gavin Kelly - CEO of the Road Freight Association

AfriForum has written a letter to the National Commissioner of the South African Police Service, General Fannie Masemola questioning why ANC Secretary General Fikile Mbalula has not been charged. This following the findings of the 2018 Public Protector’s report into the then-Sport Minister’s family holiday to Dubai, which referred the matter to the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to investigate whether the funds used to pay for the trip were not the proceeds of money-laundering.

GUEST: Barry Bateman, AfriForum spokesperson

Heads of state and government of African Union member states are gathering in Addis Ababa as the AU Summit commences today. The Summit is expected to look into continual problems and make far-reaching decisions on various political and socio-economic areas to promote and advance the welfare and quality of life for the African citizenry.

GUEST: Faith Mabera, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Global Dialogue

Our guest Dr Guy Lamb provides some insights into the possible reasons behind South Africa’s recent mass shootings and recommends violence prevention interventions that can assist the country moving forward. This as mass shootings have become a terrible problem in South Africa – also what is even more worrying is the fact that the government has admitted that it is not winning the fight against the spate of crime in the country.

GUEST: Dr Guy Lamb, Criminologist & Lecturer @Stellenbosch University

Recently, the University of Johannesburg unveiled its new electric vehicle buses, in what is a first for a South African university. The buses are the latest innovation in UJ’s ongoing efforts at going green. 

GUEST: Professor Andre Nel, Special Projects Advisor at the University of Johannesburg