World News today: West Africa’s regional leaders have given Mali’s military until tomorrow to name a transitional president and a prime minister. They also want president and prime minister who will lead the transitional government to be civilians. Given the current situation in Mali – are these recommendations implementable?
Guest: Musa Mdunge, International relations political analyst

Why are we failing to fast-track transformation in this country - despite us having substantial legislative and regulatory framework which is intended to ensure economic empowerment? According to the department of labour, Black South Africans only account for 15% of top management positions in this country and 65% of top management roles go to white workers.
Guest: Duma Gqubule- Founding Director, Centre for Economic Development and Transformation

Today on Beyond Innovation we discuss making fuel cells possible through hydrogen. Energy dot com describes it as a clean fuel that, when consumed in a fuel cell, produces only water. Hydrogen can be produced from a variety of domestic resources, such as natural gas, nuclear power, biomass, and renewable power like solar and wind. The growing demand for electricity and ever so present load shedding require alternative power sources. But can this be one of the available solutions? We find out from……
Guest: Niels Luchters, CEO of HYENA - Hydrogen Energy Applications

The National Prosecuting Authority, NPA in its latest annual report, says it has achieved a 75-point-2 percent conviction rate for sexual offences. It claims it's the highest conviction rate in the past five years and says a special focus has been placed on this category of crime. But the Women's Legal Centre says it's an incorrect assumption, because fewer cases have been finalised this year...
GUEST: Advocate Bronwyn Pithey, an Advocate with the Women's Legal Centre, based in Cape Town

Cosatu in the Western Cape is calling on provincial government to lower water tariffs in the province. They also want fixed water levy to be removed, arguing that there is no longer a drought in the City of Cape Town.
Guest: Malvern de Bruyn, Provincial secretary for Cosatu in the Western Cape

World News today: A Belgian judge has ruled that a tooth taken from the remains of assassinated Congolese independence leader Patrice Lumumba be returned to his family. The story goes that the tooth had been seized from a Belgian policeman who by his own account took it while helping to dispose of Lumumba's body after the charismatic leader was murdered in 1961. So how significant is this move and will his family and the people of Congo finally gain some kind of closure?
Guest: Claude Kabemba, Political analyst & Director of the Southern Africa Resource Watch

Yesterday marked 76 years since the ANC Youth League was formed. As we commemorate their 76th anniversary – we ask, who’s to blame for the current state of the youth structure of the ruling African National Congress and why is this once seminal, vibrant and influential structure so dysfunctional today?
Guest: Thandi Mahambehlala, National Convener of the ANC national youth task team (responsible for the revival of the youth league and she is also the NEC member of the ANC

Following President Cyril Ramaphosa’s criticism of the banks, we hear from Lawrence Mavundla, who is the founding President of the African Council of Hawkers and Informal Businesses (Achib). Yesterday, President Cyril Ramaphosa criticised the banking sector for not doing enough to support businesses during the battle against Covid19
Guest: Lawrence Mavundla, founding President of the African Council of Hawkers and Informal Businesses

We are now in conversation with Sasria, a short-term insurance company that provides coverage for damage caused by special risks such as politically motivated malicious acts, riots, strikes, terrorism and public disorders, just to name a few. Sasria's Managing Director, Cedric Masondo now joins us on the line to elaborate further about their campaign to raise awareness amongst business owners and C-suite executives, to add the special risk insurance cover as part of their risk management plans

GUEST: Cedric Masondo, Managing Director at Sasria

The delegation of the African National Congress ANC, that went to Zimbabwe to mediate in the country's political and economic situation, are back in the country. The delegation led by ANC Secretary-General Ace Magashule met with the governing Zanu-PF. The visit came in the wake of various concerning reports about activists, opposition politicians and journalists who are seen as anti-government having been arrested or abducted in recent weeks
GUEST: ANC International Relations sub-committee chairperson, Lindiwe Zulu