The View Point

We’re talking about the unrests in the trucking industry – zooming in on the fight between SA truck drivers and foreign national truck drivers. Is there a scarcity of skilled SA truck drivers? Is it justified for SA truck drivers to say that their jobs are being taken by foreign truck drivers?

Have there been any confirmed reports about falsified permits and licenses and cheap labour? How true is it that SA truck drivers are not comfortable with doing cross-border travels hence companies now prefer the foreign nationals?

Guest: Mary Phadi

Making sense of Violence against women: A reflective conversation of women one generation apart on what they have learnt from their activism

Mmatshilo Motsei is an author, speaker and spiritual healer with a keen interest in integrating indigenous wisdom with modern innovations. She started her career as a nurse, midwife, psychology graduate, social science researcher, rural development facilitator, and Metaphysics Practitioner.

For over 10 years, she worked as a founder and CEO of Agisanang Domestic Abuse Prevention and Training, an organisation working on domestic and sexual violence based in Alexandra Township, Johannesburg. She has been instrumental in involving men as part of the solution to violence against women. Part of her work included using theatre as a tool for social transformation for men in and out of prison.

Guest: Mmatshilo Motsei - Author, speaker, spiritual healer and Founding Director of Afrika Ikalafe Centre for Spirituality and Health

There are many inspirational South Africans but a few who have made the name that Lebogang Ramafoko has done, as the former Chief Executive of the Soul City Institute and now the current CEO of the Tekano Atlantic Fellowship Health Equity South Africa.

Growing up in Munsieville, west of Johannesburg, Lebogang Ramafoko was raised by a father who worked flexi-hours in the taxi-industry and a mother whose nursing career required night shifts. In an interview that she did a few years ago, she described her mother as a very outspoken and vocal person; and her father as very nurturing.

Guest: Ms Lebogang Ramafoko - Chief Executive Officer | Tekano Atlantic Fellowship Health Equity South Africa

Smoking cigarettes is the most harmful form of consuming nicotine and it is the duty of government, industry and society to ensure that smokers have access to less harmful nicotine products. Our next guests argues that South Africa’s approach to regulating less harmful nicotine products should include a review of the scientific evidence and best practices from other countries that are making rapid progress in reducing smoking rates and improving the health profile of their societies by incorporating harm reduction into their tobacco control strategies.

Guest: Dr. Kgosi Letlape - Ophthalmologist and Harm Reduction advocate

Last week, a group of international academics and lobbyists got together to discuss the impact the latest policies for drug control have had on the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals.

This session addresses the impacts of the war on drugs on vulnerable populations, the consequences of the new movement towards legalization of recreational drugs, linkages of health treatment alternatives and the ‘stakeholders’ affected by drug policy.

Guest: Dr. Andrew Scheibe - Medical Doctor & Policy Expert | Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town

1. #Zondo (Issues criminal complaint against Jacob Zuma after dismissing the recusal application)
2. #BrackenfellHigh (Unrest outside of High School between parents and EFF)
3. #16DaysOfActivism (Presidential Weekly letter & Campaign launch: 25 November to 10 December)
4. #HermanMashaba (Africa Check call out on spreading misinformation on undocumented migrants)
5. #CyrilRamaphosa (G20 Address and AU Special Envoys to Ethiopia)

Guest: Dr. Kagiso Pooe - Independent Political Analyst

Guest: Ms.Nonele Ganyilev - SRC General Secretary CPUT

Are you a director, actor, editor, cameraman, or audio enthusiast itching to practice your craft? Professionals, pre-professionals or hobbyists - this is your chance at an amazing opportunity.

The 48 Hour Film Project is an opportunity for filmmakers of all levels to practice your craft - to make a film in a weekend and have it screen before an audience at your local theater. It sounds simple: Make a film in 48 hours - 2 days - one weekend. Here’s the catch - you don’t know the genre of your film until right before the clock starts ticking!

Guest: Ayanda Mthiyane - Spokesperson | 48 Hour Film

Shoprite Group has served over 130 000 nutritious meals and delivered thousands of food packs to children at 109 Early Childhood Development (ECD) centres during lockdown. This initiative ensured that these centres could stay open and saved jobs at a time when many have faced closure. The Shoprite Group has also been supportive with educational tools, resources and with giving time to help with safety measures and training.

Guest: Lunga Schoeman - CSI Manager | Shoprite Group

The impacts of Covid-19 and the lockdown on the Early Childhood Development (ECD) sector have been more widespread than the schooling system. A survey conducted by Ilifa Labantwana and others found that over 100,000 jobs in the ECD sector may already have been lost and 1.8 million children are at risk of not being able to access early childhood learning services if centres are unable to reopen. Without childcare being available, the burden of care falls primarily on women – impeding their ability to take up income-earning opportunities.

Guest: Laura Brooks - ECD Financing and Systems Manager | Ilifa Labantwana