Point of View with Phemelo Motene
Point of View with Phemelo Motene, delves into the day’s current affairs, touching on real issues and sharing expert advice on the audience questions between 8pm to 10pm Mondays to Thursdays.
Senzo Mchunu, ANC, NEC member & minister of water & sanitation.
ONE-ON-ONE WITH A NEWSMAKER Edward Senzo Mchunu, is a South African politician currently serving as Minister of Water and Sanitation. He served as Minister of Public Service and Administration from 2019 to 2021. He previously served as Premier of KwaZulu-Natal from 22 August 2013 until 23 May 2016. (as acting…
HEALTH & WELLNESS: Stroke awareness week.
On World Stroke Day, celebrated on the 29th of October, the Heart and Stroke Foundation South Africa (HSFSA) warns that this Stroke Awareness Month, we need to remember the high burden of heart disease and strokes on our citizens. The Heart and Stroke Foundation South Africa (HSFSA) is calling on…
A look at gun violence in Gauteng.
Gauteng has emerged as the centre of gun violence and crime after National Police commissioner Fannie Masemola revealed that in July alone, Gauteng accounted for 1035 firearms that were confiscated by the police during their month-long crime prevention efforts. This was revealed by the national commissioner during his media briefing…
SADTU concerned about rolling blackouts as matric exams start.
Over 900 000 matric learners are expected to write English Paper 1 on Monday and SADTU says rolling blackouts will have a negative impact. The South African Democratic Teachers Union (SADTU) has raised its concerns about the impact of rolling blackouts on the National Senior Certificate (NSC) exams. More than…
Public sector workers go on strike after wage talks with Government collapse.
The Public Servants Association (PSA) has already declared a dispute and served government with notice. The PSA's Claude Naicker said that they would start picketing on Thursday. Public sector workers are planning to embark on mass-scale industrial action this week, following the collapse of wage talks with government. Claude Naicker,…
Mandi Vundla - founder of Poetry Zone & Brave Spoken Youth Poetry Institute.
Soweto Born Writer with a blood line that runs through KZN. The Co-editor of ‘Home Is Where The Mic Is’: an international poetry anthology of performance poets reshaping the face of poetry post 1994. The undefeated two time Word N Sound poetry slam champ has been working actively in the…
Nomsa Manaka continues to Dance out of Cancer.
Nomsa Manaka Nomsa Manaka, an acclaimed artist and icon from Soweto will be presenting her show: Dancing out of Cancer at Soweto Theatre on Sunday 30th October. The show will showcase the talented and diverse dancers , from the Nomsa Manaka Dance Studio in Soweto. The dancers are diverse in…
Zoo hopes to debunk myths about owls.
In South Africa Owls generally have a very negative reputation due to mainly cultural and traditional beliefs (i.e. they are believed to bring bad luck and death and are also believed to be associated with witchcraft). Because of this negative reputation and associated beliefs owls are often persecuted and killed…
Rishi Sunak faces a very different economy to the the one he left as Chancellor.
As the incoming UK prime minister, Rishi Sunak has the immediate advantage of perceived success in his two years as chancellor. His tenure ended last July when he resigned due to a difference of opinion with then-prime minister Boris Johnson over the economy. But during his time as chancellor, he…
Sandton terror alert.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has criticised the US, saying it jumped the gun by issuing a terror alert for Sandton, Johannesburg, before speaking to local authorities. “It’s unfortunate that the US government issued that type of warning without having had deep dive-type discussions with us,” said Ramaphosa on Thursday. Speaking after…
LETS TALK RELATIONSHIPS: Has being Mr nice guy worked well for your marriage?
Maybe the saying nice guys finish last applies to dating when you’re young. It always seemed that girls always went for a certain type of guy. The same guy that hurts her and disappoints her but she always went back to him. She turned to her guy friend who was…
Exclusion of Ashley Sauls from Mpho Phalatse's reconstituted executive.
Mpho Phalatse's first day back: Locked out but working virtually ahead of 2nd no-confidence vote Alex Patrick • Johannesburg Mayor Mpho Phalatse and her MMCs are back in power after a court ruling, but they have been locked out of their council offices. • In the interim, the coalition is…
Ekuruleni's council sitting – Vote Of No Confidence in mayor Tanya Campbell.
Democratic Alliance (DA) member, Tania Campbell will have to clean her desk following her removal as Ekurhuleni mayor. The City of Ekurhuleni held its council sitting on Wednesday, where Campbell was ousted through a ANC-sponsored motion of no confidence. 100 councillors voted in favour of her removal, while 93 councillors…
Reaction to e-tolls.
After a decade of defiance, seven transport ministers and billions in uncollectable debt, government has finally acknowledged the end of e-tolls, with Minister Godongwana’s MTBPS including transfer of R23.7bn from Treasury to Sanral Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana ended e-tolls today, tabling bills that transfer R23.736 billion from national government to…
Scrapping of e-tolls.
National government will take on 70% of Sanral's debt, but Gauteng has to come up with a plan to collect the remainder, with e-tolls as one of the options. Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana has thrown the ball back into the Gauteng provincial government’s court, allowing them the privilege to…
The deep rot that exists at license departments.
State losing R3bn in fraudulent licence disc scams A whopping R3 billion has been lost due to the fraudulent issuing of licence discs, according to Road, Traffic Management Corporation (RTMC) chief executive Makhosini Msibi. Speaking at a media briefing in Tshwane on Monday, Msibi said Gauteng, Mpumalanga, and the Free…
Phalatse lawfully reinstated as Executive Mayor of Johannesburg…for now.
The Gauteng High Court has ruled for former Joburg mayor Mpho Phalatse and declared unconstitutional and invalid the motion of no confidence by which she was ousted on 29 September. Judge Raylene Keightley agreed with Phalatse that the case was urgent, and reinstated her, according to the DA’s interpretation of…
24 hour hotline to fight against substance abuse in Gauteng.
Gauteng Premier along with the Provincial Department of Social Development have launched an anti-substance 24 hours hotline in response to the Province’s continuous fight against drug and substance abuse. The Gauteng provincial government on Tuesday launched a 24-hour anti-substance abuse call centre service to help those in need of counselling…
Solidarity vs Dis-Chem – Court battle begins.
Solidarity is going to take Dis-Chem to court after the pharmaceutical giant missed the October 21 deadline to indicate whether it had withdrawn its controversial ban on employing and promoting white people. Solidarity will serve the first legal papers on Dis-Chem this week still. Solidarity wrote to Dis-Chem on 18…
HEALING HOUR: Importance of SA to take a step back and heal as a nation.
What can be done to help heal the open, bleeding wounds of black South Africans? How can these wounds, both literal and figurative, be remedied to birth self-aware social groups and people who are collectively confident to positively engage with forces of globalisation and the fourth industrial revolution; forces defined…