The View Point

Jacob Zuma

1. Mozambique
2. Elections deadline
3. What national shutdown?

Title:                   [• Dr. Mr.]   

Name:                 [•  Petrus de Kock ]  

Position at organisation:  [• Political analyst AND founder of Buiteboers Solutions] 

In 2014, Judge Kate O'Regan and Advocate Vusi Pikoli chaired a commission of inquiry into policing in Khayelitsha. The inquiry made some headway into implementing the 20 recommendations submitted after its conclusion, but residents living in Khayelitsha said they were far from being any safer.

The systemic failures addressed by the Commission include the failure of the police and other criminal justice actors to police, investigate and convict perpetrators of violence within our communities.

Seven years down the line, how far are we with the implementation of the Commission’s recommendations?  

Title:            [• Ms.]   

Name:                      [•  Thando George ] 

Position at organisation:  [• Researcher at the Social Justice Coalition ]

Growing up in Atteridgeville in Pretoria back when salons only focused on relaxers and being exposed to products like Black Like Me, Mabel Ledwaba wondered if whether the only beauty treatments black women needed in her community were just limited to relaxers and curls.

This curiosity led to her pursuing a career in the beauty industry, first as an employee for major personal care and beauty companies, later as an entrepreneur. 

Title:                                [• Ms.]   

Name:                             [• Mabel Ledwaba] 

Position at organisation:   [• Founder of Havillah Beauty AND the new International Association for World Peace Advocates (IAWPA) Peace Ambassador ] 

Title:                                [• Ms.]   

Name:                             [• Lillian Mathebula ] 

Title:                                [• Ms.]   

Name:                             [•  Joyce Phiri ] 

The language of TshiVenda  

A few weeks ago on #TheAfrikanNarrative we had listeners call in and enjoy radio in the Setswana Language. In an effort to keep celebrating our indigenous languages, today we focus on the language of Tshivenda.

Vhagai vhaVenda?

Title:            [• Dr. (Mr.)]   

Name:         [• Nthambeleni Charles Netshisaulu]  

Position at organisation:  [•  Lecturer In Tshivenda at Univenda’s MeR Mathiyha Centre for African Languages, Arts and Culture]

Marikana anniversary

1. Phoenix case  
2. Recap on Ramaphosa at the commission
3. Zuma's medical condition

Title:            [• Ms]   

Name:       [• Sanusha Naidu]  

Position at organisation:  [• Senior Research Fellow | Institute for Global Dialogue] 

IZWI and  SERI launched the Guide to Employing a Domestic Worker

This women’s month, Izwi Domestic Workers Alliance & the Socio-Economic Rights Institute (SERI) are aiming to bring greater dignity and fair treatment to women as they launch “Employing a Domestic Worker: A Legal and Practical Guide”.  They believe that a critical step in overcoming South Africa’s race and class divides is to stop treating domestic workers as household servants, and to recognise them as professional service providers.

Title:                   [• Ms]   

Name:                 [• Amy Tekie] 

Position at organisation:  [•  Co-Founder, Izwi Domestic Workers Alliance]

We’re in conversation with Marcus Low – the editor of Spotlight . he has penned an interesting opinion piece about  what we can learn from Mkhize’s time as health minister and he also tries to make sense of some of the contradictions.

Title:                   [• Mr]   

Name:                 [• Marcus Low ] 

Position at organisation:  [• Editor of Spotlight  ]

AUDIO: Women’s month message from Deputy Chair of NCOP [1min long]

Considering that August is a Women’s Month, today we establish what Parliament has done for the women of South Africa in order to ensure a gender-sensitive allocation of resources to enable effective implementation of programmes aimed at benefiting women, girl children and other vulnerable sectors of people in the country.    

Is the work of Parliament going at an acceptable pace? Are women at grassroots seeing the and benefiting from the changes?

Title:            [• Ms]   

Name:          [• Sylvia Lucas ] 

Position at organisation:  [• Deputy Chairperson of the NCOP ]

Nana Ngobese-Nxumalo is a community and gender activist who previously worked as DDG for Special Projects under the former Premier of KwaZulu-Natal, Mr. Sbu Ndebele for several years. In that role, she experienced first-hand the plight of women at the community level.

Title:                                [• Ms.]   

Name:                             [• Nana Ngobese Mxumalo] 

Position at organisation:   [• gender and Community Activist ] 

Title:                                [• Dr. (Ms)]   

Name:                             [• Zodwa Ngobese   ] 

Position at organisation:   [•  Specialist Consultant in Occupational Health and Intergrative Medicine ] 

Title:                                [• Ms.]   

Name:                             [•  Mulalo Nxumalo ] 

Position at organisation:  [•   Practising Psychologist registered for Masters in Psychology in the UK  ] 

Oral History Association of South Africa National conference

The Oral History Association (OHASA) will hold its national conference under the theme “The world in troubled times: Oral History Challenges and Opportunities”

In 2021 Charlotte Mannya Maxeke would have turned 150 years of age, making the celebration a very important milestone in the historiography and collection of new research of South Africa. To compliment this milestone, South Africa is currently experiencing what some may call a women leadership crisis and gender-based violence against women. It is necessary to silence and reflect on the teachings of the giants of the 20th century.

Title:            [• Prof. (Ms)]   

Name:         [• Christina Landman]  

Position at organisation:  [•  Head of Publications at OHASA (the Oral History Association of South Africa]