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 ]

On the 24th of May 2021, it will be a hundred years since South Africa’s largest massacre in which more than 200 members of the Israelites church were killed by the Union police. The tragic event has come to be known as the Bulhoek Massacre.

Name: [• Tshepo Mvulane Moloi]
Position at organisation: [• Lecturer at John Moore Liverpool University and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Johannesburg Institute of Advanced Study (JIAS)]

Name: [• Xolani Dube]
Position at organisation: [• Senior Political Researcher at Xubera Institute for Research and Development ]