The View Point

Every Tuesday since June, we have brought you co-hosts from all walks of life: Ambassadors, Members of Parliament, social justice Activists, Entrepreneurs, Academics, Stalwarts, CEOs, Journalists, Actors, Theologians, Doctors, Playwrights and many well-known South Africans. At first, the purpose of the new feature was to provide a platform that would bring forward the issues that are foremost to the minds of young South Africans.

We look back on our #TuesdayTakeOver co-host, Sello Hatang who spoke about the work of the Nelson Mandela Foundation and its legacy in his profile interview. He also touched on the plight of poverty and inequality in the country. Let us look back at his interview on gender equality with Dr Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka of United Nations Women. This conversation initially aired on 17th November 2020, prior to 16 Days

Today we turn our attention to bone marrow transplants – we often have conversations about organs donations and blood donations, but we seldom look at the bone marrow. Do we know all there is to know about it and do we understand what a person who needs a transplant needs?

A few weeks ago, South Africa reached a milestone when the South African Bone Marrow Registry (SABMR) received the nod from its Clinical Governance Committee and board members, as well as the National Health Department to allow 16 and 17-year-old teens to become bone marrow stem cell donors.

Guest: Dr Charlotte Ingram - Medical Director of the SA Bone Marrow Registry (SABMR)

Last week, the Department of Social Development launched the Unaccompanied Children’s Funding Programme which is aimed at mitigating some of the challenges faced by unaccompanied minors as the country is battling with the global Covid-19 pandemic.

South Africa has over the years experienced the migration of unaccompanied and undocumented children, especially, from SADC countries such as Zimbabwe, Lesotho and Mozambique who for many reasons crossed the borders to live in the country.

Guest: Dr Tebogo Mabe - Director for Adoptions at the Department of Social Department

We’re in conversation with the Gauteng department of education; tomorrow, they will open their online applications for the 2021 academic year.
The online system has been riddles with glitches and many parents have expressed their frustrations. There have also been concerns about learner placements and the delay in responding to parents who have declined the placement that they got.

Guest: Steve Mabona - Spokeserson | Gauteng Department of Education

On Tuesday night, South Africa’s promising young scientists were honoured at the 2020 Eskom Expo virtual awards ceremony. Top performing learners who submitted their research in the Eskom Expo online assessments, were awarded prizes in the form of bursaries and scholarships sponsored by the University of Pretoria and the Wits University to study toward degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), along with gadgets and substantial cash prizes.

Guest: Parthy Chetty - Executive Director | Expo Science

Ten incredible nominee stories were selected, paired up with impactful mentors, and featured on Sponsors of Brave: The Next Generation. From these nominations, two ultimately walked away with one of two R25 000 scholarships. Their mentors also won with an all-expenses-paid trip to an overseas medical conference of their choice and the opportunity to pay-it-forward by donating R25 000 to a registered NPO charity of their choice.

Guest: Tebogo Monogo - Second Year Pharmacy Student | North-West University

Guest: Veneshley Samuels - PhD candidate | University of Cape

Parents have had a rough year. National lockdown left moms and dads without the support of childcare or playschools, leaving parents to find ways to keep their toddlers stimulated and learning.Reading, singing, and interacting with learning materials can be a valuable way of getting to know the world, but nothing beats sensory play for young children.

Guest: Candice du Preez - Founder | Sense • able Play

Parental alienation is a set of processes and behaviors conducted and enacted by a parent to deliberately and knowingly damage or sever the relationship between a child and another parent. In 2005, the United Nations' World Health Organization has adopted as part of their International Classification of Diseases and many advocates of father’s rights consider parental alienation a human rights violation.

Guest: Tshepo Musinyali - Chairperson | We are Fathers, We are Parents Forum

With the second wave of COVID-19 officially here, this means that when you return to work after the holidays, you are likely to be at high risk of infection on account of your colleagues who have been traveling to hotspots.

Employers who don’t plan for this now are going to be faced with higher staff absenteeism or worse, infections in the workplace. This includes better screening processes in the building, track and trace response for vulnerable employees

Guest: Dr Rebaone Moshenyane - Occupational Medical Practitioner | Workforce Healthcare

As the Day of Reconciliation comes to a close, we look at the impact of the decision to take reconciliation as a value and form it as the basis of building a new society. Many young people argue that we traded reconciliation & freedom in the short-term in the hopes of long-term justice. Unfortunately, three decades later, we are starting to see that justice may never it. There is a collective trauma and reproductive violence that we have not addressed, as a nation.

Guest: Lebo Ramafoko - Director | Tekano ] Gender and GBV Activist