The View Point

Dr Ross Harvey is Director of Research at Good Governance Africa and joins us now, to talk about the pledge to good governance.

Following the unrest that swept through South Africa in July, Good Governance Africa believes that many African citizens want to act and make a personal contribution to improving governance on the continent.

Good Governance Africa has launched a new website designed to allow African citizens to take meaningful social action while accessing politically neutral governance research and analysis. They are also asking South Africans to take a pledge to good governance on their new website…  on this link https://gga.org/pledge/

Title:            [•  Dr. (Mr.)]   

Name:                      [• Ross Harvey] 

Position at organisation:  [•  Director of Research at Good Governance Africa]

Tasneem Fredericks is the Deputy President of the Black Management Forum and she is also a director of the law firm Fredericks Incorporated. She gained extensive experience in the drafting of Memorandum of Incorporations and advising on the direction on compliance issues relating to the Companies Act 2008.   

Tasneem was the first black female attorney appointed as part of a professional team to assist the taxi industry in negotiating on the integrated public transport system (IPTS) with the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality and the largely male dominated taxi industry. 

She is a part time lecturer and she also lectures admitted attorneys and mentors young attorneys starting their own practice. Tasneem works with various international human rights organisations regarding genocide in Myanmar. She has practiced law for over 14 years and specialises in Commercial Law Conveyancing, Labour Law and areas of Notarial practice.

Title:                   [• Ms.]   

Name:                 [•  Tasneem Fredericks]  

Position at organisation:  [•  Deputy President Black of the Management Forum and Director of Fredericks Incorporated  ] 

Title:            [• Ms.]   

Name:                      [• Busi Mavuso ] 

Position at organisation:  [• CEO of Business Leadership South Africa]  

Title:            [• Mr.]   

Name:                      [• Bonang Mohale] 

Position at organisation:  [• President of Business Unity South Africa ] 

Whilst the world and country’s focus and resources have rightfully been redirected to the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, HIV has not gone away and is far from over. We must not lose sight of other present risks. The Transport Education Training Authority (TETA) is one of the 21 SETAs mandated to facilitate skills development and training in different economic sectors of South Africa – they will be resurfacing and refocusing awareness on the ever-present risk of HIV/AIDS amid the Covid-19 pandemic under the theme, “FOCUS: HIV still needs our attention”.

Title:                   [• Ms.]   

Name:                 [• Maphefo Anno Frempong] 

Position at organisation:  [•  CEO of the Transport Education Training Authority (TETA) ]

In a new regulatory development, the Employment and Labour Department gazetted a consolidated directive on occupational health and safety measures during COVID-19. This calls into question the rights of employees and whether or not employers have the right to implement a mandatory workplace vaccination policy. What do worker’s rights look like in this regard – can an employer force to take the vaccine and can you lose your job is you refuse to get vaccinated?

Title:            [• Dr. (Ms.)]   

Name:                      [• Linda Meyer ] 

Position at organisation:  [• HR specialist and former CCMA Commissioner ]

The Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders is the flagship program of the U.S. Government’s Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI). Established in 2014, the Fellowship has brought nearly 4,400 young leaders from every country in Sub-Saharan Africa to the United States for academic and leadership training. The Fellows, between the ages of 25 and 35, are accomplished innovators and leaders in their communities and countries.

A call has been made for the 2022 applications and the deadline in looming (15 September 2021). 

Title:            [• Ms.]   

Name:                      [•  Bongekile Radebe ]   

Position at organisation:  [• Programme Specialist at the U.S Embassy ]

As we mark the 'end' of Women's month, it is only fair for us to honesty address all the proverbial elephants in the room that undermine efforts to achieve gender equality.  In 2021, the labour of millions of invisible women who bear and raise children, work the land, and run households to enable men to be part of the formal economy remains unrecognized and unquantified.  

We’re in conversation with Yolisa Shugu, an author and Programmes Co-ordinator for SGS Consulting. She is of the view that the introduction of a Basic Income Grant is an opportunity for economists and policy makers to genuinely scrutinize the true policy reforms that need to be implemented. 

Title:            [• Ms.]   

Name:                      [• Yolisa Shugu ] 

Teacher supply and demand is a complex matter. The ultimate aim is to have a teacher in front of every class, today and for the foreseeable future. This also implies an ideal class size. In SA, the ideal class size is tacit, and not explicit, as there are no class size norms.

If SA were to lower the pupil-teacher ratio from the current 30 to a typical middle income country level of around 25, it would need an additional 100,000 teachers. But can this be done is SA seen that we’re going to be hit by a large scale of teacher retrenchments in the foreseeable future?

Title:                   [• Mr.]   

Name:                 [• Martin Gustafsson ]  

Position at organisation:  [• Education economist at Stellenbosch University ] 

Linda Maqoma is currently the National Chairperson of Women of ABASA (Association for the Advancement of Black Accountants of Southern Africa NPC), the National Communications Lead and co-opted member of the National Executive Committee of the above-mentioned organization. She also serves as the Deputy Secretary General of the ABASA Johannesburg Branch.

Title:                   [• Ms.]   

Name:                 [•  Linda Maqoma ]  

Position at organisation:  [•National Chairperson of Women of ABASA (Association for the Advancement of Black Accountants of Southern Africa NPC)] 

Title:            [• Ms.]   

Name:                      [•  Ashley Dicken ] 

Position at organisation:  [• ABASA President]

Title:            [• Ms.]   

Name:                      [•  Tantaswa Fubu ] 

Position at organisation:  [•Barloworld Group Executive : Human Capital]

Title:                   [• Ms.]   

Name:                 [• Shakira Choonara] 

The University of Fort Hare has announced a day of mourning and a number of remembrance activities in honour of Nosicelo Mtebeni, a fourth-year law student who was allegedly killed and had her body dismembered by her boyfriend after an alleged altercation at her boyfriend's residence earlier last week.  

Some of her body parts were discovered in bags placed outside the boyfriend's residence, while her head and hands were discovered inside his room. It is alleged that he used a handsaw to dismember her body.

The university has announced that it will also launch the Nosicelo Mtebeni Women’s Month Public Lecture that will feature a Constitutional Court judge keynote speaker every year during Women’s Month.

Title:                   [• Prof. (Mr.)]   

Name:                 [• Sakhela Buhlungu] 

Position at organisation:  [• Vice-Chancellor of Fort Hare University ]

Title:                   [• Mr.]   

Name:                 [•  Mkhanyiseli Nomana ] 

Position at organisation:  [• SRC President at Fort Hare University ]