Dr Stavros Nicolaou joins us in studio today to talk on the work he has been doing around corporate citizenship. He was recently awarded the prestigious Hellenic ARGO Award in the Public Service category, by Greek President H.E Katerina Sakellaropoulou, in Athens-Greece. This was in recognition of his on-going humanitarian efforts. Dr Nocolaou is very outspoken on corporates leading the way when it comes to impropeople’s lives and citizen activism. Let me welcome his to talk about his journey and passion for reaching out….

Guest(Studio): Dr Stavros Nicolaou - Senior Executive for Strategic Trade Development at the Aspen Pharmacare Group

Since we’ve started the Municipal Watch feature a few years ago, we’ve spoken to Mayors, Municipal management, residents, business people and residential forums about some of the problems they face under municipalities. So today we’ve invited unions that have members in these municipalities to get their perspectives on what is going on inside municipalities and what solutions they may have to turn municipalities around? 

Guest: Queen Mbatha - Deputy President at the  Independent Municipal and Allied Trade Union (IMATU)

Guest: Cathi Nel - Deputy General Secretary: Operations at the Independent Municipal and Allied Trade Union

Guest: Dumisane Magagula - General Secretary: South African Municipal Workers Union

We end the show now by talking to the Budget Justice Coalition. They are have submitted what they say is a comprehensive response to the 2023 Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement. They go on to say that they are pressing for the need to have a transformative economic framework that addresses inequality, poverty, and the declining quality of public services in the country. 

Guest: Andile Zulu – Member of the Budget Justice Coalition Steering Committee

We continue our 10-series interview in partnership with the Central Energy Fund. The series features various stakeholders in the energy sector unpacking relevant issues within the sector, and provide insight into what South Africa collectively needs to do to ensure power security for all. Today we turn our focus on PetroSA to find out what their mandate, vison and mission is? 

Guest: Sandisiwe Ncemane - CEO of PetroSA 

November being National Diabetes Month, we thought to revisit the subject as medical reports indicate that diabetes is South Africa’s second biggest killer after tuberculosis. It is said to affect 12% of the adult population leaving a devastating loss of income for many families as it’s mostly to be the provider who dies from the disease. 

Guest: Dr Patrick Piotie - Senior Programme Manager at University of Pretoria’s Diabetes Research Centre

SAfm, the country’s leading national talk radio station as well as current PBS radio station of the year is excited to once again launch its popular drama playwriting competition, with the aim to promote literacy and ignite the love for sharing our South African stories.  Writers are invited to explore the medium of sound and the Theatre of the mind! -by writing a one hour play radio in South African English. To talk to us about the thinking behind the completion and what they are hoping to achieve, also what is it you should know should you be interested in the competition, we are joined by…

Guest(Studio): Geoffrey Matenji – Drama Producer on SAfm

Guest(Phone): Dr Jerry Mofokeng wa Makhetha - Head Judge of the competition

Last week we received a call from Sipho in Margate sharing his experience around the frustration of having a criminal record and how it cost him his job. He tried very hard for many years he says to get his criminal record expunged. Let’s take a listen to what he had to say….

Guest: Steve Ralekwa –Head of Legal Services in the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development

Tributes are still pouring in for the late co-founder of Cape Town's District Six museum, Noor Ebrahim. His family announced his death on Saturday at the age of 78. Ebrahim captured District Six through photographs that are now exhibited in the museum. The apartheid regime had forcibly removed him and his family from the area. The current issue in court is that of a mediation process underway to determine whether the families residing in six cottages in Searle Street in District Six will be evicted.  They survived the forced removals during apartheid and have been living in the cottages for three generations since the 1920s. The property was bought by a Gauteng investor. So we thought to use this opportunity to remind ourselves of the history of District Six and how they got to where they are today and also what they feel is outstanding for them. 

Guest: Dr Jonty Cogger - Attorney at Ngifuni Kwazi

Guest: Zahrah Nordien - Chair of the District Six Working Committee

Guest: Chrischene Julius - Manager of District Six Museum

This morning Bryan warns us not to scrutinize the market every day or month or even quarterly if you are in for the long term….

Guest: Bryan Hirsch, Chairperson of Bryan Hirsch, Colley & Associates (Pty) Limited

According to a report released recently by World Without Genocide, since 1996, the Democratic Republic of Congo has been embroiled in violence that has killed as many as 6 million people. The conflict is said to be the world’s bloodiest since World War two. Fighting continues in the eastern parts of the country, destroying infrastructure, causing physical and psychological damage to civilians, and human rights violations on a massive scale. Rape is also reported as being used as a weapon of war, while large-scale plunder and murder occurring in efforts to displace people from resource-rich land.  At the back of this recent report, we take a moment to dissect the genesis of the genocide in the DRC and the continued consequences of these atrocities by the Congolese people as we welcome

GUEST: Claud Gatebuke – Survivor of the Rwandan genocide and human rights activist (He lived in the DRC when the killings started)

GUEST: Nixon Katembo – Africa Affairs Analyst at Channel Africa