The View Point

On Wednesday the Hawks arrested six suspects after it had been probing a R255 million contract awarded to a company by the Free State government in 2014 for the eradication of asbestos roofs on houses. This operation is covering three provinces, KwaZulu Natal, Free State and Gauteng, and it is believed that there are also five companies that are going to be charged as well and all the suspects will appear in court on Friday in Bloemfontein.

These arrests also come at the same time as the release of a report by the Public Portector, Busisiwe Mkhwebane, where her office investigated whether Ace Magashule twice misled the provincial legislature in his written responses to questions from members of the legislature [when he was still premier]. The Public Protector has cleared former Free State Premier Ace Magashule of allegations that he misled the provincial legislature.

Guest: Tshiamo Malatji - Journalist and writer based in Bloemfontein

GUEST: Derek Cikes - Commercial Director at Payflex

GUEST: Darlene Menzies - Chief Executive Officer of FinFind

GUEST: Dr Mandla Lamba - CEO of Verityhurst Academy

GUEST: Prof. Patrick Bond - Political Economist | University of the Western Cape

Patrice Lumumba’s remains, a tooth or teeth taken away to Belgium as a trophy after his murder on 17 January 1961, will be returned to and buried in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The homecoming follows a Belgian court ruling.

We’re looking at the events leading up to Lumumba’s death in 1961 and the linkages between Zimbabwe's War and DRC. Lumumba’s death happened during African independence from colonialists, 6 countries had declared independence since Ghana.

Guest: Percy Zvomuya - Writer and co-founder of The Con magazine

Pieter-Dirk Uys is in conversation with Lynne Maree, a longtime colleague in the arts, about the work that they do and the impact that theatre has on society.
Lynne, a Capetonian, started her professional life at the Space Theatre and moved to Johannesburg in 1976. Essentially an actress, she also directs and is primarily interested in original indigenous works.
In the 1990s she joined Chris van Niekerk to run a restaurant Theatre (Eauver the Top) in Kalk Bay and Muizenberg.

Guest: Lynne Maree - Director film and theatre

Pieter-Dirk Uys was born in Cape Town in 1945 and has been in the theatre since the mid-1960s. Closely associated with both the Space Theatre in Cape Town and Johannesburg's Market Theatre during the 1970s and 1980s, he has written and performed more than 20 plays and over 30 revues and one-man shows throughout South Africa and abroad.

Pieter-Dirk Uys has been doing this sort of thing for so long that people now refer to it as a career. Officially unemployed since the early 1970s, he writes, directs, acts, produces and does everything else, including the making of dresses and the wearing of them! Having survived the mediocrity of apartheid kultuur, it is his therapy and his joy to expose the bones of that dinosaur for the entertainment of democratic audiences worldwide. He is delighted to still have a government that on a daily basis writes his best material!

Guest: Pieter-Dirk Uys - Author, actor and activist

Before the emergence of the newest animal-borne disease, Covid-19, the world was in the last mile of eliminating one of the oldest animal-borne diseases – rabies. For around 4 000 years, humanity has been contending with this infectious disease which has the highest case fatality rate of any conventional infectious agent at close to 100%.

The aim of World Rabies Day is to raise awareness about the impact of human and animal rabies, how easy it is to prevent it, and how to eliminate the main global sources.
Rabies is a zoonotic disease (a disease which people can get from animals) and it is caused by a virus which affects the brain and causes death. The virus is shed in saliva and is spread by the bite of an infected animal.

Guest:Dr Nomfundo Mnisi - Vice-President of the South African Veterinary Council

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Guest: Mandisa Mpulo - Media Scholar and Chartered Accountant