The Weekend View

Suicide is on the rise among young children, that's according to the South African Depression and Anxiety Group. This as 14-year-old Klara Gottert is laid to rest today after her body was found at the Northgate mall in Johannesburg on Tuesday evening. The police are treating her death as a suicide. We spoke to clinical psychologist, Liane Lurie....

The South African Democratic Teachers Union (Sadtu) has criticised the move to introduce Mandarin as a language on offer in public schools. The basic education department says that the language will be available optionally at the start of the new school year in 2016. We spoke to SADTU deputy general secretary, Nkosana Dolopi, senior researcher at the institute of global dialogue, Sausha Naidoo and the listeners had their say.....

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Dr Pierre Aycard from the Linguistic Section of the School of African and Gender Studies, Anthropology and Linguistics at the University of Cape Town says interaction between children in the city& use of Iscamtho gives life to a new mixed language...

The SA Human Rights Commission will be taking action against what it calls unconstitutional garnishee orders.The Commission was recently friends of the court in a class action case brought by the Stellenbosch University Legal Aid Clinic, on behalf of 12 farm workers, against various micro lenders. The Western Cape High Court ruled in favour of the farmers citing the debt collecting procedure used by the micro-lenders was unconstitutional and an assault on human dignity. We spoke to South African Human Rights Commissioner, Mohamed Shafie Ameermia...

August is organ donor month and looked at the many successful stories of organ recipients and how they are helping dispel myths about organ donation

The South African Council of Churches has called on all pastors to belong to a regulatory body. This came out during a discussion the council held this week with 150 leaders of churches on various issue including the conduct of some pastors and so-called prophets who engage in strange practices. This comes in the wake of reports of some religious leaders who abuse their positions by telling their congregations to eat snakes, while other religious denomitations conduct terrorist attacks in the name of religion. The council's Bishop Malusi Mpumlwana and chairperson of the department of philosophy, practical and systematic theology, Prof Rodney Tshaka...

Today marks the beginning of Women's Month. Although the average woman now has more options and opportunities available to her than her mother or grandmother, total emancipation is a long way off. Almost 60 years since the historic women's march to the Union Buildings in Pretoria in protest against the pass laws, women find themselves experiencing complex challenges. We spoke to Chartered Marketer and entrepreneur, Siphiwe Sithole, intern and Brand Building Management student, Vuyo Jongile and Director of Icamagu Institute, Dr Nokuzola Mndende and Gauteng Social Development MEC, Faith Mazibuko on what it means to be a woman in the 21st century...

The Banking Association South Africa is calling on government to ensure a holistic and balanced approach to legislating on the controversial expropriation bill. In a statement the council stated that this will help mitigate the unquantifiable risks of the provisions contained in the current version of the bill, to the banking sector.We spoke to Cas Coovadia, managing director of the banking council

The South African job market is under threat with the implementation of changes to section 198 of the Labour Relations Act, that requires employers to appoint temporary workers to permanent positions after 3 months. We spoke to Simon Colman, underwriting Executive at SHA Specialist Underwriters....