The View Point

Guest: Dr.David Khoza, Executive Manager for Integrated Geosciences Development at the Council for Geoscience

The Council for Geoscience (CGS) has previously hosted three successful Summits in the years 2016, 2017 and 2019. In 2021, the CGS hosted its biennial Summit. The Summits bring together researchers, scientists, decision-makers as well as nationally and internationally renowned experts for the exchange of knowledge, experiences and research innovations in the geoscientific space.

Guest: Rev Mbuyiselo Stemela, Head of Media and Stakeholder Relations: SADICO

In order to respond to the 74% youth unemployment crisis, the South African Digital Content Organisation, a non-profit organization, is recruiting the Youth from Communities in all 9 provinces and will empowering them in the Digital Technology and 4th Industrial Revolution under a program called Youth Digital eXponential (YDx) program that will run for 12 months.

Guest: Cuma Dube- Chairperson of the Black Management Forum Editorial Committee and the member of the Policy and Research Committee

Poet Xabiso Vili has recently been crowned champion of the 2022 World Slam Poetry Competition, beating slam poets from 40 nations across the globe. His win comes shortly after he was announced as the New Generations Featured Poet at the 26th.

Guest: Xabiso Vili- award-winning performer, writer, new media artist, producer, digital strategist and social activist. 

Guest: Lesego Mosupye Group Chief Financial Officer of OneConnect

Guest: Welcome Witbooi- Director of BrightSpark Foundation SA 

Guest: Nkanyiso Madlala- Clinical Psychologist

Marjorie Jobson is national director of the South African civil society organisation Khulumani Support Group. Her integrity and preoccupation with the search for means for the powerless to claim public space is inspiring. Below a description how she became involved with Khulumani. Her political activism started during apartheid as a prominent member of Black Sash. Marjorie Jobson is a medical doctor with a specialisation in anaesthesiology. Her mother was a founding member of the Black Sash. Her medical practice was always associated with human rights advocacy work Her involvement with Khulumani came about through her involvement in the Pretoria Black Sash which she co-chaired between around 1986 to 1991. Pretoria Black Sash had been infiltrated by women who were working for the security police of the South African government, during apartheid. Some members of its executive committee were locked up and deported. Some members had their homes and motor cars petrol-bombed and their homes searched.

Guest:Dr Marjorie Jobson

The UN Secretary-General called for an end to hostilities in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia on Monday, saying the situation is "out of control," and urging Eritrean troops to "immediately withdraw." Due to the clashes, humanitarian aid to Tigray has been halted for seven weeks, he said, urging all parties to allow humanitarian convoys to pass through. The Ethiopian government reiterated its readiness for peace talks on Monday, but said military operations in Tigray would continue, a day after the African Union (AU) called for a "immediate" end to hostilities. The Tigray War is an ongoing civil war in Ethiopia's Tigray Region that began on 3 November 2020. The war is primarily being fought by the Ethiopian federal government and Eritrea on one side, and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) on the other.

Guest: Thembisa Fakude Senior Research Fellow at Africa Asia Dialogues]

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