The View Point

More than three quarters of township entrepreneurs suffered a blow during Lockdown stages caused by COVID-19 in South Africa, with lack of income, businesses closing down and facing struggles to maintain a normal lifestyle under the abnormal circumstances.

Title: [• Mr]
Name: [• Bulelani Balabala ]
Position at organisation: [• Spokesperson | Township Entrepreneur’s Alliance (TEA)]

Maduwa Paint World is a registered paint manufacturing company specialising in manufacturing decorative, industrial and floor paints supplying it across South Africa. The business currently employs 15 permanent workers and over 35 contract workers.

It was started by Rodney Maduwa who was born and raised in the far north of the Limpopo province in a village called Ha-Maduwa in Venda. Rodney always knew that education would play a pivotal role in his then desired success and he dedicated himself to his studies. He now holds some really good academic accolades that include a BSc in Chemistry and Biochemistry, a BSc Honours specialising in Polymer Chemistry as well as an MSc in Paint Chemistry.

Title: [• Mr.]
Name: [• Rodney Maduwa]
Position at organisation: [•‎ Managing Director | ‎Maduwa Paint World (PTY) LTD]

Like any other sector within the economy of South Africa, the real estate and property sector is constantly challenged and it always emerges that issues around ethics and credibility are intertwined, thus affecting business confidence.

Founder and Principal at real estate agency Snooks Estates, Matseleng Mogodi says she has found that real estate agencies continue to face challenges of ethics and credibility. Her main concern is the practice of real estate agents who elicit and syphon their own deals using the agencies’ name. She argues that this brings the real estate agency to its knees from a business sustainability point of view and often causes severe reputational damage amongst stakeholders which includes clients who receive the negative end of the stick.

Title: [• Ms.]
Name: [• Matseleng Mogodi]
Position at organisation: [• Founder and Principal at Snooks Estates]

Let’s have a conversation about commemorations and how the history of our struggle icons is being manipulated to get political support…
This comes after yesterday’s commemoration of the death of Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu and this afternoon’s commemoration of what would have been Charlotte Maxeke’s 150th birthday.

Title: [• Ms]
Name: [• Tessa Dooms]
Position at organisation: [• Political Analyst]

Mr. Ntokozo Thusi is a former Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College (SOMAFCO) student who joined the SOMAFCO Trust in 2010. He headed the relationship between the SOMAFCO Trust and its then anchor partner, the Independent Development Trust (IDT). He is now the Acting Head of the SOMAFCO Trust and is currently steering the organization.

Name: [• Ntokozo Thusi]
Position at organisation: [• Acting head of the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College (SOMAFCO)
Name: [• Dr Khotso De Wee]
Position at organisation: [• He worked for the Department of Justice and lead the Post TRC projects]

The COVID-19 pandemic, coupled by an uncertain economic environment, has seen everyone cut costs to manage day-to-day expenses. Having a medical aid should remain a priority as the benefits still outweigh not having one. But how do we manage these costs and what are some important factors to consider in order to ensure that you remain covered, while still saving on unnecessary costs?

Title: [• Mr]
Name: [• Thoneshan Naidoo]
Position at organisation: [• Principal Officer | Medshield]

We’re joined now by the U.S embassy Health Attache, Dr. Sophia Siddiqui, together with the CEO of the South African Medical Research Council Dr. Glenda Gray to speak more about the U.S-South Africa covid-19 research collaboration. There has been quite a bit of collaboration between U.S. and South African scientists on research regarding the vaccine, especially the Johnson and Johnson vaccine.

Title: [• Dr. (Ms)]
Name: [• Sophia Siddiqui]
Position at organisation: [• U.S embassy Health Attache]

Title: [• Dr. (Ms)]
Name: [• Glenda Gray]
Position at organisation: [• CEO of theSouth African Medical Research Council]

1. Former president Zuma and the ANC NEC
2. Panyaza Lesufi and alleged tender fraud
3. Mmusi Maimane, DA and Tony Leon's book
4. Easter Weekend Safety (both Covid and road safety)

GUEST [PHONE]

Title: [• Mr.]
Name: [• Oliver Dickson ]
Position at organisation: [• Political commentator, broadcaster, debater and a Daily Maverick Opinionista]

Today is the last day of the 1st quarter of 2021. A year ago, things started going south for many businesses and when a business venture fails there are two most likely reactions from the entrepreneur. You either give up or dive back in again, trying to make it right this time around.

Have you recently experienced a failed business? How are you dealing with it? Some entrepreneurs believe that the good thing about failure for a positive minded person (which should be the mind set of an entrepreneur) is the ability to use the experience as a learning process. Is it that easy to just pick yourself up and try again?

Guest: Teboho Nthoana - Outgoing CEO of TM Group, Private Equity & Property Investor, Business Rescue Practitioner, Finance Expert and TV Presenter

A young swimmer from Gauteng will take on the grueling Island Escape swim from Robben Island to Big Bay, as she attempts to raise funds for the South African Bone Marrow Registry.

Twenty-nine-year-old Christine Roos, who will be participating in the challenge for the first time, aims to raise R50 000 through her BackaBuddy initiative. The funds raised will be directed to the SABMR’s Patient Assistance Programme, that assists families who cannot cover the cost associated with the finding a suitable donor and or the life-saving treatment.

Every year, thousands of people with leukaemia, other blood diseases, and immune disorders reach a point where the only possible cure–and their only chance for survival–is a bone marrow transplant. It is for this reason that the South African Bone Marrow Registry (SABMR) was founded in 1991.

Guest: Christine Roos - Swimmer and SABMR ambassador