The View Point

Guest: Hilal Kaplan, Turkish journalist and TRT board member and columnist for the Turkish newspaper Sabah

An update on the Turkey Syria Earthquake

What humanitarian support you received - which organisations are on the ground?

• The global communities - what have other countries done so far to assist Turkey and Syria?
• Can now say how much damage has been caused - has there been any assessment?
• And of course the death toll - 7 days later, are there still survivors being found or is it just dead bodies?

Guest: Ross Volk , Managing Director - MSC Southern Africa 

For the 2023/ 2024 cruise season, MSC Cruises will bring a new class ship for the first time to South African shores.  MSC Splendida, the 14-deck vessel will arrive in South Africa in

November 2023 and will take cruising in the country to a whole new level.

The vessel can accommodate up to 4 363 guests and for the first time in South Africa will introduce The Yacht Club, a premium ‘ship within a ship’ concept with 71 spacious suites, a dedicated concierge desk, 24-hour butler service, private restaurant, swimming pool and sunbathing area.

Guest: Vuyisa Ramokgopa, RISE Mzansi National Campaign Team Member 

Reactions to president Cyril Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address are flooding in, with most commentators left wanting.   Proceedings were disrupted by the Economic Freedom Fighters, who were subsequently ejected from the sitting.

The rest of the address was littered with information South Africans are already aware of.

Broadly, the SONA:

• Emphasised the risk that insufficient energy supply poses to growth and investment in the economy.
• Noted the need to arrest the deterioration in basic service delivery rolled out from defunct municipalities.
• Acknowledged the widening trust deficit between itself and other key stakeholders in the economy as is evidenced by slow progress in socioeconomic development.
• Highlighted the shortcomings of law enforcement agencies which have led to a rising level of lawlessness in the country.
• Confirmed the continuation of the social relief of distress (SRD) grant.
• Underlined the poor performance of the country’s municipalities and offered up interventions to improve professionalism in public service.

Mogamad Ganief Ebrahim Hendricks was born and raised in District Six.

He is the Leader of Al Jama-ah party he founded in 2007. Al Jama-ah is the only Muslim political party to have obtained a seat in Parliament. Mr Hendricks is a tsaunch sunni who learned his Aqeeda from the best Ulema.

He was exposed to politics at a very young age by his activist mother, Gairooneesa Ally Hendricks. His deceased parents were Imam Shaikh Ebrahim Latiff from Durban and Ghairoenisaa who was also known as Mrs Shaikh. During the 1960s the Latiff family was forced to change their surname to Hendricks to avoid being deported to Natal. Hendricks maternal and paternal grandparents hailed from Johannesburg where they were anti-apartheid activists.

As a young boy he accompanied his mother on visits to political prisoners and meetings. Often, he had to give up his bed to “visiting” political activists on the run from the security; and to the Gogos who travelled to Cape Town to visit their loved ones incarcerated on Robben Island.

Guest: Ganief HendricksLeader of Al Jama-ah 

Guest: Ganief Hendricks speaks to Advocate Yusuf Dalwai on Registration of Muslim Marriages Bill

More than 5,000 people have been killed with tens of thousands injured across Turkey and Syria after a magnitude-7.8 earthquake and powerful aftershocks struck. The first earthquake hit at 4:17am (01:17 GMT) and was centred in Turkey’s Pazarcik district of Kahramanmaras province. Less than 12 hours later, a second 7.6-magnitude tremor rocked the same region.

Turkish authorities say some 13.5 million people were affected in an area spanning roughly 450 km from Adana in the west to Diyarbakir in the east, and 300 km from Malatya in the north to Hatay. Syrian authorities have reported deaths as far south as Hama, some 250 km from the epicenter.

World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says this is now a race against time and every minute, every hour that passes, diminishes the chances of finding survivors alive.

GUEST  Yusuf Erim,  Editor -in-chief at TRT world (Turkish Radio and Television)]

Pregnancy can be a time of joy — and stress. Research suggests that about between 21% and 47% of South African women experience depression during pregnancy, and 31% to 50% suffer postnatal depression, compared to the global rate of approximately 12% of women experiencing depression during or after pregnancy. Rates might be higher in low and middle income countries.

But in most cases, depression during pregnancy often goes unrecognised.  And because some symptoms of depression, including changes in sleep, energy level, appetite and libido, are similar to symptoms of pregnancy this might be attributed to the pregnancy, rather than depression.

There's also a tendency to focus more on women's physical health during pregnancy, rather than mental health.

Guest: Dr. Bavi Vythilingum, Member of the South African Society of Psychiatrists (SASOP)

Seven years have passed since the Fees Must Fall protests took place, but many previously disadvantaged students continue to experience financial exclusion. Fees Must Fall and other movements inspired and fuelled the work of organisations like WeSolve4x, a nonprofit that assists with student fee settlement. The organisation has since introduced a new sustainability model to fund various academic and educational programmes. We are joined by the CEO and actuarial analyst to tell us more about these programmes, the successes of the foundation, and how we can all get involved …

Guest: Tsietsi Ngobese, CEO and Actuarial Analyst at WeSolve4x Foundation] 

On the first Monday of every month we host a public lecture on some of the burning issues that South Africa is grappling with.

We’ve spoken to ratings agencies and got an understanding of their rating mechanisms entail; we’ve spoken about the chaos at Eskom and how we find ourselves here; we’ve spoken to StatsSA and naked them to break down the unemployment stats. 

Today, we speak about the land issue. This has been ongoing for years and it is one of those topics that get the nation riled up.

During apartheid there was a tendency to deny African ownership of the land, but the first prime minister, Louis Botha, admitted in 1916 that “the natives” were here when the Europeans arrived.

Historian Leonard Thompson, author of A History of South Africa, estimates that the Zulu lost two-thirds of their land, while the Tswana lost more than that, because of Afrikaner and British conquest. The Xhosa in the Cape and the Sotho in the Free State lost more than 90% of their land. By the end of the 19th century, most African land was under the control of Europeans.

Guest: Adv. Tembeka Ngcukaitobi (SC), Advocate, acting judge, public speaker, author and political activist, member of the South African Law Reform Commission ]  

Guest: Jeremy Osborn, Head of ESG at AICPA and CIMA 

Guest: Adriaan Kruger, CEO and Co-Founder of nuvoteQ

#HealthOnMonday: nuvoteQ: The SA company making waves in the global medtech field