The View Point

Pitch Battles: Sport, racism and resistance
We’re in conversation with Prof Andre Odendaal, an Honorary Professor in History and Heritage Studies at the University of the Western Cape and a former first-class cricketer and anti-apartheid activist. Now he has authored and co-author dozens of books on the social history of sport and the history of the liberation struggle in South Africa, but today the focus is on a book titled of ‘Pitch Battles: Sport, racism and resistance’.

In this book, he and his co-author, Peter Hain, recall details of how five decades ago, in the British winter of 1969–70, mass demonstrations and field invasions during the whites-only South African Springbok rugby tour disrupted the cosy relationship between elites from the two nations and shone global attention on apartheid in sport.

Title: [• Prof (Mr.)]
Name: [• Andre Odendaal]
Position at organisation: [• Co-author of ‘Pitch Battles: Sport, racism and resistance’ ]

Ari Katz – CEO of Boston City Campus & Business College
Ari served articles of clerkship with Levitt Kirson and subsequently joined Ernst and Young in 1983. He was appointed a partner in the informations system audit department and was involved in audits of national and international companies whilst conducting extensive consulting in the area of information systems auditing.

Ari has also been extensively involved in training and lecturing. He has been a guest lecturer at Rhodes University where he was voted “Best Visiting Lecturer,” presented seminars on behalf of Internal Auditors and lectured at the University of Witwatersrand where he was subsequently appointed a Visiting Associate in the Department of Accounting.

Title: [•Mr.]
Name: [• Ari Katz]
Position at organisation: [• Founding CEO of Boston City Campus & Business College ]
Title: [• Ms.]
Name: [• Samara Cloete]
Position at organisation: [• Education counsellor at the Ivy Academy]

The Board of Healthcare Funders (BHF) in collaboration with the Industry Technical Advisory Committee (ITAC) has developed an Alternative Reimbursement Model (ARM) tool for the healthcare sector in response to the ongoing impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in South Africa and in particular its management from a health financing perspective.
The alternative reimbursement model tool is aimed at assisting medical schemes managing the risks associated with Covid-19 claims. An ARM is a type of payment improvement method that considers both quality and total cost of treatment when determining reimbursement for healthcare services.

Charlton Murove, Head of Research at the Board of Healthcare Funders joins us on the line and he will talk to us about the research development process of the ARM tool; the aim of the ARM tool and understanding what needs to happen in the overall healthcare system. We will also engage him on the true cost of treating covid-19 - from getting a test right through to being on a ventilator.

Title: [• Mr.]
Name: [• Charlton Murove]
Position at organisation: [• Head of Research at Board of Healthcare Funders ]

Covid has resulted in new consumer behaviours that are expected to outlast the threat of the virus as consumers become used to a new way of shopping and spending.

We’re in conversation with Chris Olsen, the COO at part-payment platform, Payflex and he gives us more insights into some of the key habits that are going to stick; and how retailers can survive and cater for the post Covid consumer?

Title: [• Mr.]
Name: [• Chris Olsen ]
Position at organisation: [• COO at Payflex ]

According to results from a study of the Well-being Economic Research team of the University of Johannesburg, households in the highest income groups claim grants that are meant for the poor.

How is it possible that the highest income quintile households can access grants aimed at the poor? Well it is possible. Think about it this way, to qualify for most of the grants, an individual or married couple must pass the means test. Given that the means test is based on a certain level of income or assets of an individual it is likely that a household member can earn an income below the means test even though he/she is a member of a household that earns an income in the top 20 percent of households.

Is it fair? Is it illegal? Does it not defeat the purpose of a Social Welfare System?

Title: [• Prof. (Ms)]
Name: [• Talita Greyling ]
Position at organisation: [• Wellbeing Economist at UJ AND Vice President of the International Society of Quality of Life Studies]

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#MosenekeInquiry

Title: [• Mr.]
Name: [• Sysman Motloung]
Position at organisation: [• Political Science Lecturer at the North West University ]

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