The View Point

• Tokyo Sexwale

• Local Government Election date set - President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced 27th of October 2021 as the date for the local government elections. This will be the sixth time in a democratic South Africa that voters will elect leadership and public representatives at metropolitan, district and local government level. The Economic Freedom Fighters – among others – have called for the local government elections to be postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the government is still going ahead with the polls.

Title: [• Mr.]
Name: [• Lukhanyo Vangqa]
Position at organisation: [• Analyst and commentator]

Tamela is a black owned and managed investment, corporate finance advisory and fund management company which was founded by Sydney Mhlarhi and Vusi Mahlangu in 2008. Tamela’s origin dates back to 2005 when Sydney Mhlarhi and Vusi Mahlangu left Standard Bank and Investec Bank respectively to launch their own investment company, Tamela Group, now the holding company of Tamela.

Name: [•Sydney Mhlarhi]
Position at organisation: [• Founder and Director of Tamela]

Asante Tech Solutions is an information communications technology company offering modified marketing and systems development solutions.
Headed by its founder Muhle Ndalwane who is responsible for overseeing the company's business operations, the company offers brand development Web Development, Digital Marketing, Social Media Management and Drone Technology

Name: [• Muhle Ndalwane ]
Position at organisation: [• Founder and Director at Asante tech Solutions]

Every year, on the 22nd of April Earth Day is observed across the globe and people and major stakeholders take part in civic activities and work towards raising awareness about critical issues that the Earth is facing.

The theme this year is "Restore Our Earth" and its focus is on natural processes, emerging green technologies and innovative thinking that can restore the world’s ecosystems. Global warming, pollution and deforestation are some of the problems routinely discussed since they pose a major threat to nature.

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Name: [• Liz Barclay]
Position at organisation: [•Senior lecturer in systems thinking and future studies at the University of Stellenbosch Business School]

Understanding what Sankaraism is about and the ideology can still save Africa

When Thomas sankara assumed political office in Burkina Faso, he introduced political humbleness by selling all luxury cars used by politicians. He declared that the resources of Burkina Faso belonged to the people. The ideology of sankaraism was his birth child.

Name: [• David Letsoalo]
Position at organisation: [• Law Academic, Activist and Sankarist]

Lawson Naidoo is the Executive Secretary of the Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution (CASAC), an organisation committed to the principles of progressive constitutionalism, democracy and the rule of law. He has worked as a strategic political consultant focusing on the spheres of anti-corruption and good governance. He is a regular media commentator on constitutional and legal issues.

Name: [• Lawson Naidoo]
Position at organisation: [•‎ Executive Secretary | CASAC (‎Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution)]
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Name: [• Mosima Rasesemola]
Position at organisation: [• Advocate of the High Court ]

Burnout has always been highly prevalent in healthcare settings and studies show that 40% of South African healthcare workers across the spectrum have suffered from burnout due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Name: [• Bonga Chiliza]
Position at organisation: [• Head of Psychiatry at UKZN]

Education in South Africa and around the world is recognised as a key instrument in human capital development. The more educated people are, the more likely are their chances for employment and jobs with good working conditions – well in an ideal world that’s how it should be.

Title: [• Prof (Ms)]
Name: [• Lauren Graham]
Position at organisation: [• Associate professor | Centre for Social Development in Africa at UJ]

1. #CharlotteMaxekeFire
2. #ZondoCommissionBreakIn
3. #CapeTownFire
4. #VaccineDebacle

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Name: [• Moorosi Leshwele]
Position at organisation: [• Researcher, analyst and post-grad fellow | Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Studies]

UDM leader Bantu Holomisa has written to Justice and Correctional Services Minister Ronald Lamola and the National Commissioner of Correctional Services to get clarity on allegations that the department has reneged on employing over 2-thousand fully trained corrections graduates.

Holomisa says he was approached by representatives of graduates who completed the Correctional Services Learnership programme in Zonderwater in Gauteng and Kroonstad in the Free State between 2018 and 2020. They claim their learnership contracts specify that they will be absorbed into the permanent workforce, yet government has inserted a 30-day out-clause in their contracts.

Name: [• Richard Mamabolo]
Position at organisation: [• Media and Communications Secretariat | Popcru]