The View Point

As the continent celebrates Africa Day, remittances from migrant workers in the African diaspora across wealthier countries are helping families and communities in their home countries to meet their increased needs for livelihood support.
Remittances sent by migrant workers to their home countries in sub-Saharan Africa in 2020 amounted to R585.5 billion.
As migrant remittances steadily become the largest source of incoming capital for developing countries, outstripping foreign direct investment and development aid, African countries need to think more innovatively about leveraging these inflows for their development needs in a post-Covid economy.

Dr Elizabeth Nanziri, Director of the African Centre for Development Finance at the University of Stellenbosch Business School (USB) joins us on the line and she will tell us more about “How Sending money home could help finance Africa’s development”

Title: [• Dr. (Ms.)]
Name: [• Elizabeth Nanziri]
Position at organisation: [• Director of the African Centre for Development Finance at Stellenbosch Business School]

Remembering Tuku, is a two day spectacular performance from the 29th to the 30th of May and it will feature Africa’s Vusi Mahlasela, Selmor Mtukudzi, Madosini, Steve Dyer and Ami Faku.
City of Joburg Theatres believes that now more than ever is the time for collaboration and circulation of local content with the global market. And that the pandemic has presented a great opportunity for creatives and institutions to position themselves for local and international markets, bridging and challenging the artistic divides.

Title: [• Ms.]
Name: [• Ntombi Mashaba]
Position at organisation: [• Marketing Manager at Joburg City Theatres]

Hundreds of cancer patients have missed out on treatment for at least two weeks after an April fire shuttered oncology services at Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital.
More than 800 patients had to be transferred to other health facilities in Gauteng after a fire gutted two blocks of the 1 000-bed hospital on 16 April 2021.
The Gauteng health department had initially promised that the hospital would reopen on 3 May after a detailed structural assessment is completed.

Name: [• Jack Bloom]
Position at organisation: [• DA Shadow Minister of Health in Gauteng

It has been a year since the death of George Floyd, Americans remain gloomy about race relations. The murder conviction of the cop who killed him does not seem to have improved relations between the police and non-whites.
But this is an analysis that we get from the media – how are things looking on the ground? Has the way the case was handled not instilled any confidence in the black population?

Name: [• Johanna Leblanc]
Position at organisation: [• National Security Law and Foreign Policy Analyst]

1. #DAPolitics - The DA’s former shadow minister of communications, Phumzile van Damme resigned as a Member of Parliament (MP) and from the Democratic Alliance (DA). In a statement she said “During my seven-years as the Shadow Minister of Communications, and a Parliamentary Whip, I had the pleasure of witnessing the fruits of my hard labour.”

Name: [• Gerrie Coetzee-Swart]
Position at organisation: [• Independent Political Analyst & founder of Acuity Africa Consulting]

Socio, Econ & Political Issues of the day. Incl. Daily Serial @ 21:45

Socio, Econ & Political Issues of the day. Incl. Daily Serial @ 21:45

The issue of legalising polyandry (more than one husband) in South Africa has sparked a heated debate on social media and in Parliament recently.
The polyandry legalisation is one of several wide-ranging proposals contained in the Green Paper, which the Department of Home Affairs has gazetted and on which it has since invited public comments.

Name: [• Musa Mseleku ]
Position at organisation: [• Business Man, Author, Polygamist and Television Personality ]

Dirk Hermann is currently the CEO of the trade union Solidariteit. He completed his doctorate in industrial sociology, with affirmative action as its theme. In addition, two books with affirmative action as a theme appeared from Hermann's pen, namely The Emperor is Naked: Why Affirmative Action Failed and Affirmative Tears: Why Representation Is Not Equality.

Dirk will be in conversation with Barend Uys, head of the AfriForum research institute on the relationship between the Solidarity Movement and traditional communities.

Name: [• Dirk Hermann]
Position at organisation: [• Chief Executive at Solidariteit
Name: [• Barend Uys]
Position at organisation: [• Head of Intercultural Cooperation at AfriForum]

Last week Thursday, the Government Employees Medical Scheme (GEMS), the biggest closed medical aid scheme with 754 000 members and 1.9 million dependents, brought together industry leaders to engage on the future of healthcare in South Africa at its 2021 Symposium.
Themed Healthcare 2021 and beyond, the Symposium discussions focused on the Healthcare outlook beyond 2021, hurdles in the vaccine rollout, lessons learnt, solutions and matters related to distribution of the jabs in SA.

Name: [• Stanley Moloabi]
Position at organisation: [• Principal Officer at GEMS ]