The View Point

Many years ago, Mpho Phalatse became qualified as a medical doctor and started an internship at Tembisa Hospital. This was followed by community service in Hammanskraal, where she offered services at Jubilee Hospital as well as various clinics within the area.

She also spent six years of her career exploring service delivery models in different contexts such as mining houses, and proceeded to register her own company, rendering disability consulting services to SASSA in both Gauteng and the North-West.

She is the former MMC for Health and Social Development, she was also appointed as a Medical Advisor in the Compensation Commission 

Title:                          [• Dr (Ms).]

Name:                        [• Mpho Phalatse]

Position AND org.:   [• Executive Mayor of the City of Johannesburg ] 

Title:                          [• Adv. Ms.]

Name:                        [• Thuli Madonsela

Languages feature - isiXhosa

The AmaXhosa are one of four nations, known as Nguni, the other three are AmaNdebele, AmaSwazi and AmaZulu. The AmaXhosa settled in the Eastern Cape and over time spread to the Western Cape.

The Xhosa nation is made up of tribes and clans which are groups of families with different surnames but sharing one clan name. For example, Radebe is the clan, but the nation is called AmaHlubi. 

The isiXhosa language has many clicks - for example the X, Q, KR and CG in the English language are letters that form the clicks. Storytelling plays a big part in the culture, and even the music is a form of storytelling. Xhosa dance is called umtyityimbo, which requires dancers to make their upper bodies tremble and vibrate while dancing.

Title:                          [• Dr. Mr]

Name:                        [• Vulindlela (Godfrey) Mona]

Position AND org.:   [• Director of the Language Centre at the University of Fort Hare]

As Sobukwe Month comes to an end, we take a moment to reminisce and talk about Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe and LOVE.      Yes, love. Love was at the heart of everything that Sobukwe did and we seldom hear stories about his love for the country that he fought so tirelessly for; his love for the people; and his love for his wife uMama uZondeni Sobukwe.  We’ll also touch on his legacy and whether or not it has been kept alive in a manner that would please uTata Sobukwe

Title:                          [• Prof (Mr).]

Name:                        [• Wally Serote]

Position AND org.:   [• Author, Activist, friend of the Sobukwe Family (especially Mme Zondeni] 

Gauteng Accelerator Programme (GAP) Innovation competition

The Innovation Hub announced the winners of its 2021 Gauteng Accelerator Programme (GAP) Innovation competition last week. With novel business concepts including an Internet of Things (IoT) system to prevent load shedding, a digital payment platform for spaza shops, and a portable DNA testing “lab”, both first-prize winners and their runners-up will all receive a share of R3 million in seed funding.

We talk about some of the winning Entrepreneurs and what the businesses offer; what the winners walk away with; and some of the post support programs

Hundreds of people living on the streets of Durban have been counted and surveyed in the start of the national census week. The count was done by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) volunteers in partnership with the Denis Hurley Centre.  According to centre director Raymond Perrier, they prepared a map for Stats SA, identifying homeless shelters and hotspots of where most homeless people congregate at night. Perrier said that Stats SA had admitted to the National Homeless Network that the homeless population was likely under-counted in previous censuses.

Title:                          [• Mr.]

Name:                        [• Raymond Perrier}]

Position AND org.:   [• Director at the Denis Hurley Centre] 

Today the ConCourt ruled that the 2018 multi term collective agreement (Resolution 1 of 2018) concluded under the auspices of the Public Sector Coordinating Bargaining Council (PSCBC) between public sector unions and Government is now invalid and non – binding. Unions have described this as a bitter pill to swallow because this remains the fact that the scourge of corruption that largely contributed to this poverty narrative and the failure to pay public servants their dues, is condemned but continues to be unpunished without full recovery of stolen funds that will comfortably cover the latter part of the 3 – year wage agreement.     

Title:                          [• Mr.]

Name:                        [• Pierre Snyman

Position AND org.:   [• FEDUSA Vice President for Public Sector] 

GUEST: Judge Kate O’Reagan - former Constitutional Court Judge

GUEST: Tshegofatso Phala - Executive Director of the Equal Education Law Centre

GUEST: Tshegofatso Phala - Executive Director of the Equal Education Law Centre

GUEST: Prince Manene Tabane - Executive Council member of CONTRALESA - Gauteng Province

Construction workers who have been hired to build dams for the Department of Water and Sanitation in Polokwane have called on the government to pay outstanding workers merit bonuses.

Title:                        [• Mr ]   

Name:                    [• Gideon Mankayi ] 

Position at organisation:  [• Chairperson | Liaising Committee for Construction East workers] 

Title:                        [• Mr ]   

Name:                    [• Themba Nkosi ] 

Position at organisation:  [• Worker | Construction East]