The View Point

Collen Mashawana, is a renowned African Entrepreneur, a Marketer, an Investor founder and founding chairman of the Collen Mashawana Foundation.
He’s joins us on the line to talk about the One-Brick-at-a-Time initiative which aims to build 100 homes, with members of the public contributing towards each brick to reach the target of 5 000 bricks.

Title: [• Mr]
Name: [• Collen Mashawana]
Position at organisation: [• Chairman and Founder of the Collme Mashawana Foundation]

In February, we had a conversation with Peter Setou, Chief Executive of the Vumelana Advisory Fund (an NGO in the land reform sector) and they were responding to the 2021 budget and government’s approach to finalise the 1-thousand-400-and-9 restitution claims at a cost of R9.3 billion over the next three years to achieve redress and equitable access to land.

Title: [• Mr.]
Name: [• Peter Setou ]
Position at organisation: [•Chief Executive of the Vumelana Advisory Fund]

Today Cyril Ramaphosa, in his capacity as President of the governing party, had to answer for his role during the years when state capture was at its peak in the party and in government.

Factionalism, Cadre deployment, Party funding And Corruption were at crux of today’s proceedings. There were also concerns about the leniency that was displayed towards him by both the chairperson of the commission (Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo) and the evidence leader (SC Adv. Paul Pretorius).

Title: [• Dr. (Mr.)]
Name: [• TK Pooe]
Position at organisation: [• Senior Lecturer – Wits School of Governance]

The reason why, out of all African countries, south Africa must celebrate freedom day and embrace its diversity.
Opening clip – Imbongi by Jessica Mbangeni
Name: [• Jessica Mbangeni ]
Position at organisation: [• Poet, Imbongi and Founder of KwaNtu Entertainment Designs ]

Mzwakhe Mbuli, the “People’s Poet,” was born in Sophiatown in August 1959. In 1966, the town was bulldozed and Mbuli’s family, which included seven brothers and sisters, was forcibly removed to Soweto. He’s a former Deacon at the Apostolic Faith Mission Church in Naledi, Soweto [ohh wow! Ka nnete?]
The Soweto Uprising occurred in 1976 and this served a very formative experience for him; after experiencing the death of his fellow students, his school went on strike and he was encouraged to write poetry during this time.

Name: [• Mzwakhe Mbuli]
Position at organisation: [• Poet, artist, and former anti-apartheid activist]
Name: [• Sbongile Mngoma]
Name: [• Eugene Mthethwa]

Earlier this month, we began a conversation with with Ilana Gerschlowitz, author of a book titled Saving my Sons - A journey with autism, and we touched a bit on World Autism Day and what it meant to raise an Autistic child.

We promised to bring her back and continue the conversation on our #HealthOnMonday feature. She will tell us about her journey and give advice on what to do and what to look out for, shuld you suspect that your child has autism

Name: [• Ilana Gerschlowitz]
Position at organisation: [• Author and activist ]

South African government and business leaders joined forces today during a World Intellectual Property Day virtual webinar hosted by the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CPIC) to discuss the importance of intellectual property rights in combating illicit trade. The webinar was aimed at facilitating engagement between various stakeholders in South Africa to support and collaborate with each other in efforts to raise awareness of the threat and impact of illicit goods and IP infringements.

Name: [•Amanda Lotheringen ]
Position at organisation: [•Senior Manager of Copyright and Intellectual Property Enforcement at the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission in South Africa]

#FreedomDay – Another holiday, another commemoration, only a few a benefiting from the fruits of freedom
#RamaphosaZondoCommission - President Cyril Ramaphosa will finally face the tough questions about what he did or did not do when the Gupta brothers allegedly captured the state when he appears at the Zondo commission this week. He will be wearing his party cap when he appears on Wednesday and Thursday, and will be expected to take the punches for both his personal role and that of his party in the alleged state capture project.

#ANCStepAside - Politically and legally embattled ANC Secretary-General Ace Magashule’s home region Fezile Dabi says it will interdict the party’s NEC if Magashule steps aside. Magashule is one of ANC leaders who have until the end of this month to step aside until their corruption cases are finalised.

#RenamingWillimanNicolDrive- The three-year-long discussion on the renaming of William Nicol Drive to Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Drive has finally begun to make official progress. ANC deputy secretary-general Jessie Duarte led a delegation of men and women along William Nicol Drive in Gauteng today, calling for the popular road's name to be changed to Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Drive.
#CubanEngineers - Minister Sisulu decided to hire 24 Cuban engineers to deal with SA’s water problems. Now, trade union Solidarity has demanded the immediate suspension of the Cuban engineering programme, saying the decision to import the engineers could be illegal.

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

The impact of the pandemic has seen changes in job trends as a result of digital adoption at home and in the workplace. Ari Katz, CEO at Boston City Campus joins us to discuss insights into the top in demand jobs in South Africa.

Position at organisation: [• CEO of Boston City Campus]

In the matter of making investment decisions, consistency is key, and making emotional decisions in reaction to extraordinary events, often destroys market value for investors. These are the cautionary words of Paul Nixon, head of behavioural finance at Momentum Investments, when speaking at a media webinar, which unpacked the findings of the Momentum Investments and Oxford Risk Noise and Investment Advice Study.

Title: [• Mr.]
Name: [• Paul Nixon]
Position at organisation: [• Head of behavioural finance at Momentum Investments ]