The View Point

The vision of Verityhurst Capital is building sustainable wealth for many generations to come. As one of the longest-running private equity firms on the continent, Verityhurst focuses on building value through investing with a long-term approach.

The firm invests in publicly traded companies that “present outstanding investment opportunities and have systems in place that to ensure that investments yield big returns”. Despite COVID-19, this year has been very good for our trading division; the market uncertainties and volatility have allowed the trading division to make some good returns on a short term.

Guest: Dr. Mandla Lamba - CEO | Verityhurst Academy

All Rise is a judicial memoir of Dikgang Moseneke’s career at the Constitutional Court of South Africa and the processes involved to assume office in the highest court of the land. He describes the hundreds of cases that he was personally involved in deciding and reveals how these cases have shaped the constitutional vision of ensuring adherence to the rule of law, accountability, the separation of powers, and constitutionalism. Significantly, the political pressure that the judiciary is routinely placed under is also addressed in detail.

Guest: Judge Dikgang Moseneke - Deputy Chief Justice (retired) | Constitutional Court (RSA)

If there is an African country that should understand the relationship between heavy-handed responses by law enforcement and the escalation of violence, it is Nigeria. The country is yet to grasp how extortion, torture and extrajudicial killings continue to produce a cycle of violence.

The #EndSARS (End Special Anti-Robbery Squad) protests in Nigeria are a call for massive reforms not only in the police institution but also the wider security sector that involves counter-terrorism.

For decades, the police body responsible for protecting citizens from these acts has been the chief offender. The protests are motivated by the need for accountable and responsible policing, as well as an overhaul of the security sector.

Guest: Dr Akin Olojo - Senior Researcher | Institute of Security Studies (Dakar, Senegal)

The recovery of the aviation sector

“The year 2020 has been challenging for government state owned entities, especially during the COVID-19 Pandemic. International and Domestic Air travel was brought to a standstill as governments across the world put up travel bans to control the spread of the virus.

The Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) is one of these entities that has been hardest hit, with most of our airports virtually empty during the hard lock down and picking up slowly with the opening up of the economy. Join the Minister of Transport and the CEO of ACSA in conversation about this and how ACSA can recover.”

Guest:Mpumi Mpofu - CEO | Airports Company South Africa

He is a member of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the African National Congress (NEC) and serves as its Head of Elections. He has served on this leadership structure for many years before being re-elected in December 2017.

He has distinguished himself as an astute political leader in the various roles he has played from student and youth politics to national leadership roles in the ANC. As a member of the ANC’s National Executive Committee, Mbalula assumed leadership responsibilities as Head of Mobilisation/Organising, walking on the footsteps of distinguished leaders like Wilton Mkwayi, who held this position before him.

Guest:Mr Fikile Mbalula - Minister | National Department of Transport

One of the greatest traumas imaginable is when parents have to deal with the death of a child. Tens of thousands of families across the world are devastated each year by the death of their baby. But the grief of these families and the value of their babies’ lives are very rarely acknowledged.

Producing greater stress than dealing with the death of a parent or spouse, a child’s death is especially traumatic because it is often unexpected; it is also in violation of the "usual" order of things, in which the child is expected to bury the parent.

Guest:Tarryn Oakes - Affiliate | Mama Nurture & End of Life Supportive Alliance

Provincial Week is an initiative hosted by the National Council of Provinces, as a follow-up from Local Government Week last month. This week will consist of visits to 27 municipalities which repeatedly received poor audit reports. Visits will include discussing specific plans to improve financial management and governance in these municipalities.

The week will focus on three major areas involving municipalities: (1) key interventions to improve the financial state of municipalities (Tuesday, 27 October), Governance challenges (Wednesday 28 October) and the State of service delivery (Thursday 29 October). The last session, on Friday 30 October, will reflect on outcomes of these three sessions.

Guest: Amos Masondo - Chairperson | National Council of Provinces

1. #Zikalala (the return of hard lockdown)
2. #BlackMonday (movement that marched to Parliament on the farm murders in Senekal)
3. #MTBPS (Mboweni set to table mid-term budget on Wednesday)
4. #DAElectiveCongress (upcoming virtual Congress this week)

Guest:Thapelo Tselapede - Rhodes University Academic & Political Analyst

Lessons Learned from South African transition of 1994

Guest: Prof. Mahmood Mamdani - Herbert Lehman Professor of Government | Columbia University.

Whilst South Africa may still be a fledgling in the digital eCommerce space, the scope for business in this sector is excellent. Statista.com predicta that South Africa’s fashion scene will grow by 12.8% year on year. eCommerce will take a significant portion of this growth, especially given the accelerated shift to online retail necessitated by the buying public being housebound in 2020. Forecasts also suggest that online will amount to 8% of the total market revenue by 2023.

Guest: Shakeerah Diedericks - Chief Financial Officer | Loot.co.za

Guest: Sheeren Conrad - Head of Fashion | StyleMode