The View Point

Songezo Mabece spoke to Siya Qoza – Spokesperson for the Minister of Home Affairs (Dr Siyabonga Cwele) about the upgrades that have been launched in the Stellenbosch Home Affairs office. The state-of-the-art infrastructure will ensure that applicants no longer wait up to six months for an ID, as smart IDs will be issued within a week.
They also spoke about the systems upgrades and the challenges that come with these upgrades (i.e. being offline more than once a week for the past 3 months) and we’ll also get an update on the uncollected ID cards that the Home Affairs has been calling on people to collect.

Dr Gerard Hagg - Chief research specialist in the Democracy and Governance research programme at the HSRC (Human Sciences Research Council) talks about the publication HSRC’s publication titled The Poverty and Inequality – Diagnosis, Prognosis and Responses. South Africa is now considered the most unequal country in the world; in addition, the complexity of poverty and inequality, and the multiple factors behind it, require that we develop explanations which account for its durability and persistence. Is there an understandable explanation of how we got here?

Songezo Mabece spoke to Nkcubeko Mbambisa - Director at Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr Inc. AND Yonela Mvana – Director at Mvana & Associates Inc. AND Provincial Deputy Chairperson of the Black Management Forum (BMF) in the Western Cape about their journey to the executive positions that they hold in Cape Town’s corporate world; we get their views on ‘the struggles faced by black professionals in Cape Town’; and the possible shift that can be made to address the issues.

- Safe Schools Seminar (Friday 10th May)

Songezo Mabece spoke to Marc Hardwick - MD of The Guardian: a specialist child abuse Investigation Company about the Safe Schools Seminar taking place in Durban on the 10th of May. The seminar is the first in a series of day-long seminars to interrogate ways of making schools a safer place for high school learners. Educators, Governing Bodies and other stakeholders have long been grappling with fault-lines in typical school systems and structures and are looking at starting conversations around improved ways of safe-guarding learners.

Songezo Mabece spoke to Prof Shadreck Chirikure - Head of the Department of Archaeology at the University of Cape Town

Professor Shadreck Chirikure is one of only 10 recipients of the inaugural and fiercely competitive British Academy Global Professorships. He won this accolade last month for his work dating historical artefacts and the study of pre-colonial urban societies in Africa. Chirikure, whose Archaeological Materials Laboratory is Africa's only facility dedicated to the study of pyrotechnology practiced by farming communities of the last 2000 years of the sub-Saharan, is also the editor-in-chief of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African Archaeology and a senior editor of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology…

The IEDC-Bled School of Management, in partnership with various stakeholders, will deliver the first ADVANCED MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP PROGRAM in Africa. The programme will cover 2 modules of 5 days in Kenya and in Slovenia and it will cover themes around: Leadership for High Performance, Strategy and Change Management, Decision Making, Big Data Analytics AND Purchasing Management

Guest: Nontwenhle Mchunu - President for IEDC Africa Alumni Association; Entrepreneur and first South African woman to go to IEDC - Bled School of Management

Guest: Prof Drikus Kriek - Deputy Dean for Pedagogy and Director of the Executive PhD at the IEDC-Bled School of Management

The Centre for Social Development in Africa (CSDA) at the University of Johannesburg (UJ), recently released the findings of its second survey on voting behaviour titled: The 2019 elections: Socio-economic performance and voter preferences. The study tracks the drivers of voter behaviour over a twelve month period and it measures the influence of socio-economic rights delivery, issues of governance, corruption, land restitution, do social grants sway voters and party loyalty among others on voter preferences.

GUESTS: Prof Leila Patel – she is the DST/NRF South African Research Chair in Welfare and Social Development and Prof Steven Friedman – he is a Research Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Johannesburg

Today marked day one of the 2019 Africa's Travel Indaba which is being held at the Inkosi Albert Luthuli International Convention Centre in Durban. In February this year when President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the 2019 general election date, there were concerns about how this would affect the Indaba – which is dubbed the African continent's biggest travel exhibition show.

GUEST: Ayanda Allie-Paine - Presenter of Life Happens (SAfm - 1 to 3pm weekdays)

We’re in conversation with Mobi Dixon, Tats Nkonzo and Dj PH – talking about the journey of working their way from East London to international stages. How do they sustain their careers and what does their success mean for the people of their home province?

GUESTS: Tats Nkonzo, Mobi Dixo and Dj PH

Today being Workers’ Day, we zoom in on the contentious issue of executive remuneration in our country. Are South Africa company executives being fairly remunerated, considering the amount of industrial action that our country has had because of minimum wage disputes? Is the pay gap between CEO and man on the ground rational and justifiable?

GUEST: Mr Bonolo Ramokhele – Treasurer General of the Black Business Council; Chartered accountant, treasurer-general of the Black Business Council and an SA Institute of Chartered Accountants’ Top 35 CA under 35 in South Africa