Afternoon Talk

The National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) wishes to announce the appointment of the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Mr Waseem Carrim. The NYDA embarked on a process to fill a vacancy of its accounting officer, following the resignation of its former CEO, Mr Khathu Ramukumba.The NYDA Board set itself a period of four (4) months since the resignation of the former CEO and we are happy that this process was resolved speedily and within the set timeframe.

The male leaders in the majority should be encouraging women to appreciate and thrive from that which makes them unique.”Guest: Zipho Sikhakhane - Global speaker and business strategist specialising in leadership, entrepreneurship and doing business in Africa, with an MBA from Stanford University

Thought provoking talk and debates with the listeners and high profile guests. Presented by Ashraf Garda.

Thought provoking talk and debates with the listeners and high profile guests. Presented by Ashraf Garda.

Dennis George is the General Secretary of the Federation of Unions of South Africa (FEDUSA). He started his involvement in the labour movement as an organiser for the Transnet Allied Trade Union (TATU) in 1991 and went on to become the Assistant General Secretary of the Technical Workers Union (TWU). He was the Chairperson of the National Board for Further Education and Training until 2010, board member of the South African Qualifications Authority from 1998 and served for two terms of office until 2004, member of the Tourism Empowerment Council of South Africa for 3 years, member of the National Skills Authority since April 2000 and appointed to serve on the Human Resource Development Council of South Africa since 2010. As General Secretary of FEDUSA, he is now actively involved in NEDLAC and the MLC to influence fiscal, monetary, trade, economic development and labour market policy through social dialogue in conjunction with business and government.

Paul O’Sullivan has more than 37 years experience in law-enforcement and is considered one of the world’s leading security experts. Areas of expertise include, counter-espionage, counter-terrorism, counter trafficking (drugs, weapons and human), as well local law-enforcement covering all aspects of syndicated crime, fraud, robbery and murder. He has worked on high profile cases that successfully brought Jackie Selebi, former head of Interpol and the South African Police Service, and Radovan Krejcir, to book.

Thought provoking talk and debates with the listeners and high profile guests. Presented by Ashraf Garda.

GUEST (Phone): Paul Hoffman, director for the Institute for Accountability in South Africa Guest (PHONE): Gareth van Onselen - Head of Politics and Governance at IRR Guest (Parliament STUDIO): Mr. Zakhele Mbhele – DA’s Shadow Minister GUEST (Phone): Dr. Mbuyiseni Quintin Ndlozi - EFF National Spokesperson

Chris Maroleng was appointed chief operations officer (COO) of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) on Tuesday.The SABC board announced in a statement that Maroleng would start steering the embattled state broadcaster from Thursday.Maroleng takes over from Hlaudi Motsoeneng, who was fired by the SABC in June 2017, after it was found that he brought the company into disrepute and caused it irreparable damage.An internal disciplinary committee found that Motsoeneng had lied about his qualifications, had purged the SABC of staff, and promoted people and raised salaries without following the correct procedures.

SA FORMER PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALLER WHO WAS CAPTAIN OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL TEAM

CEO OF PAN-AFRICAN CAPITAL HOLDINGS (PTY) LTD , ECONOMIST AND PUBLIC POLICY ANALYST AT PAN-AFRICAN INVESTMENT AND RESEARCH SERVICES (PTY) LTD.

Medical doctor and health advocate Dr Sivuyile Madikana is passionate about public health in South Africa, especially raising awareness among the youth about communicable diseases. Having recently completed his MBA, focused on using social media as a health awareness tool throughout southern Africa, Madikana will travel to New York in September to complete a master’s in public health. But he’s adamant his future lies here, and that he’ll return to continue combining his medical knowledge with his interest in media for health advocacy.

Nobenguni Nonkululeko (Nkuli) Bogopa is currently serving her 2nd term as President of SAIBPP. Her mission is to ensure that all of Africa benefits from the real estate sector. A dynamic, hard-working professional, Nkuli has more than 12 years’ experience in the corporate real estate sector. Her extensive knowledge of the property field is enriched by her architectural studies and practical experience of handling a wide spectrum of portfolios in financial, petrochemical, retail, commercial and mining sectors. She is a former Group Property Manager at Rio Tinto for Africa Region. Nkuli is a registered professional architect with the South African Council for the Architectural Profession and holds a B-Tech degree in Facilities Management from Tshwane University of Technology.In 2014, Nkuli completed the 2014 Archbishop Desmond Tutu Fellowship Leadership Programme at the SAID Business School at Oxford University.

GUEST (STUDIO): Dr. Richard Malkin - MD of Workforce Healthcare South Africa seems to be following the trend in the United States to legalise cannabis. Last year, Judge Dennis Davis ruled in a full bench decision of the Western Cape High Court, that the use and cultivation of cannabis by an adult in a private home is constitutionally legal. While this decision needs to be confirmed by the Constitutional Court before taking effect, it does cast a spotlight on the adequacy of company policies regarding the use of legal and illegal substances including dagga in the workplace.

Salamina Mosese (née Mphelo) is a South African actress, model and television presenter best known for taking over the role of drama lecturer Keketso Chaka from Katlego Danke on the e.tv soapie Backstage, from April 2006 to June 2007.Born in Zebediela, a small village in Limpopo, Salamina got into acting by accident when she took her brother for an audition. She was asked to audition and landed a part.She received a Matric Exemption with distinctions in English, Afrikaans and History and later studied Corporate Communications at the University of Johannesburg (RAU).She was a presenter for e.tv's kids' programming block CRAZe for five years, and also acted on the SABC1 youth drama series Soul Buddyz, from 1999-2002. In 2008 she won a Top Billing presenter search and began presenting the show in the same year.

The flag has previously been displayed at various demonstrations including a march against farm murders in October last year.The foundation says the displays compound the pain experienced by millions of black South Africans who suffered under apartheid and continue to struggle under its legacy.Guest (STUDIO): John Jeffrey – Deputy Minister: Justice and Correctional Services Guest (STUDIO): Dr. Dan Roodt - Director of PRAAG GUEST: Sello hatang CEO of The Nelson Mandela Foundation

When you know yourself and you believe in yourself, the world is your oyster. Ntombizodwa Mhangwani is my name. People call me Ntombi.Continual learning is important to me because I come from a background where it was difficult to get even the basic foundation and training. I grew up in apartheid South Africa. Black people were not even considered important to get an education. To be the best where I come from, you have to keep on studying, keep on improving yourself.My role model is my mother. My mother raised five girls, She put all five of us through private school because she was determined to get the best education South Africa could give for us. My mother taught me to be assertive. I am who I am because of her. My mother taught me about the value of education and what I would get if I went all the way with it.

NEWLY APPOINTED CHIEF DIGITAL OFFICER OF SASOL – PRIOR WAS THE CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER OF SASOL AND WINNER OF THE VISIONARY CIO OF THE YEAR AWARD 2017Alec Joannou was born in Johannesburg and attended Wits University where he completed his BSc with majors in Archaeology and Computer Science. Alec joined Price Waterhouse’s consulting division – later to become PwC Consulting – and decided to specialise on a relatively unknown system at the time called SAP. He quickly rose up the ranks of PwC being promoted from consultant to senior consultant and associate director. In 2002 at age 33 Alec was appointed as a Partner to head up the SAP practice for PwC across the African, Middle East and Turkey. At the time Alec was the youngest person to be appointed as a Partner at PwC. With the Enron crises PwC Consulting was sold to IBM where Alec became an Executive.

South Africans have taken to social media to voice their opinion on AfriForum's disagreement of banning the old South African flag after the Nelson Mandela Foundation applied to the Equality Court to declare the flag as hate speech. How do we outlaw The Old South African Flag? Should it be banned? Guest: Orediretse Masebe – President of Wits SRC (Student Representative Council ) Guest: Bernard Pieters - Afriforum Youth Coordinator Guest: Tshepo Mohlomi – SASCO Treasurer General

Guest: Matsi Modise – Founder and Director of SiModisa

Ndileka Mandela, grand-daughter of the Nelson Mandela, has an academic profile that began with a Diploma in general nursing, followed by a Diploma in Midwifery in the Eastern Cape formerly known as Transkei. Following her education, she worked in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at St Aidan’s. Hospital for 6 years. During her career at St. Aidan’s Hospital, she trained and qualified as a renal ICU nurse at King Edward VII. Later, she left nursing to work as a pharmaceutical representative with Sandoz and Scherag

Thought provoking talk and debates with the listeners and high profile guests. Presented by Ashraf Garda.

Advocate Kevin Malunga – Deputy Public Protector of SA @KevinMalunga #AfternoonTalk #InTheSpotlight

Lufuno Lefowa – Acting Head of Drama /Commissioning Editor for Drama at The SABC

Youth Parliament: SOCIAL GRANTS AND WELFARE REFORM IN SA: DO SOCIAL GRANTS LESSEN THE BURDEN OF POVERTY OR ARE THEY FURTHER PERPETUATING DEPENDENCE ON THE GOVERNMENT?

Sandy worked in the South African music industry for over 20 years, from the discovery of new talent, recording, promotion and management of South African and International artists. Her company was involved in the return concerts of Miriam Makeba, Caiphus Semenya and his wife Letta Mbulu.

Kabeer started his career as a Taxi Scrapping Administrator, and was accountable for the implementation and control of the Taxi Recapitalisation payment allowance.He joined a consulting company, in a risk advisory position as a Junior Consultant in 2009, and was promoted five times over a period of seven years, where he finally headed the whistleblowing practice from a sales, marketing and business development perspective. He has tailored various sales solutions within the risk management space, resulting in cost saving innovations within many large multi-national companies.

Geeta Lachmandas is a well-known personality in the Cooking & Wellness arena in Kuala Lumpur. Owner of Culinary Capers, which started as an ordinary cooking school in 2004 offering classes in many innovative cuisines, she ventured into the culinary health & wellness scene only in 2012, after she brought her own weight down by following a regime of clean eating comprising mainly of whole food & whole grains. Her “Healthy Cooking & Living” classes, which became very popular in 2013 and 2014, are both true reflections of her firm beliefs that to be healthy, we must eat natural, whole and unprocessed foods as well as avoid the use of any artificial colourings, flavourings, additives or preservatives. Her penchant for clean and holistic living also started her foray into yoga and daily meditation, starting her journey towards uncovering her true self, whilst letting go of the many limiting beliefs she had about herself and her fears of starting a new business.

Boikanyo the Dion Herson Foundation's first project was a 1000m sq vegetable garden which was established at Sediba Thuto High Primary School in Mapetla Extension. Five years later the vegetable garden has been handed over to the community to run, a huge success. The project afforded access and opportunities to interact and engage with residents in the area and we got insight into the multi-factorial challenges facing children and teenagers growing up in such dire poverty. The children (and caregivers) whom we assist generally live in child/grandmother and sick mother headed households.

Tashi: It's your first TV role and it's such a notable one. What's it been like?Pearl: Extremely overwhelming. You know, when I started and I was told about the wedding and all of that, it just completely overwhelmed me. It took me a while to warm up to the entire idea that this is me being on such a big soapie. Everything is just coming in bits and pieces and the wedding was so big so that was also overwhelment on top of overwhelment. It's like a huge volcano that's erupted but I'm very happy about it and extremely excited because this can only be the beginning of greater things to come.

AUTHOR AND HONORARIAN OF SOCIAL SCIENCE DOCTORATE FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU-NATALZuleikha Mayat is renowned for her cookbook Indian Delights, which was first published in 1954. The 87-year-old was also active in the struggle against the apartheid government in Durban where she also organised a women's community group that has worked tirelessly for social change.

Sophie Mokoena - Foreign editor, International news and Editing political editor at the SABC Ebrahim Fakir –Director of Programmes at ASRI (socio economic research institute) and part time lecturer at Wits school of Governance Professor Patrick Bond is professor of political economy at the Wits School of Governance.

Ladislas Prosper Agbesi is a native of Benin, who founded Lash Group seventeen (17) years ago in Ghana to further development of the continent. Today, Lash Consult Investments has five worldwide offices in Benin, Ghana, Germany, United States and South Africa. In West Africa, Lash Group is in investment finance and consultancy.

Veteran Actor, Arts Activist, Theatre Director and Arts Administrator

THAMI KA PLAATJIE – ADVISOR TO MINISTER LINDIWE SISULU; FORMER HEAD OF THE PAC; FORMER SABC BOARD MEMEBER

Guests: Mr Seth Mazibuko - Activist and June 16 1976 Student leader Guest: Mr Carl Niehaus – Member of the MKVA National Executive

Former special advisor to the Minister of Social Development AND current COO of the Soul City Institute

Co-founder and Co-Executive Director of Sonke Gender Justice

Thought provoking talk and debates with the listeners and high profile guests. Presented by Ashraf Garda.

Guests: David Maimela – Political Analyst Guest: Lebohang Pheko – Senior Research Fellow at Trade Collective

Associate Rabbi of the Sydenham Shul

Thought provoking talk and debates with the listeners and high profile guests. Presented by Ashraf Garda.

Thought provoking talk and debates with the listeners and high profile guests. Presented by Ashraf Garda.

The year 2018 started on a high note for Preshanthan Pillay, who was appointed as General Manager, Servest Catering (Business and Industry). Preshanthan holds an Advanced International Diploma in Professional Cookery (City & Guilds) and has over two decades of experience in the food industry.

Ms Mmamoloko Tryphosa Kubayi is currently serving as the Minister of Communications, after a brief stint as the Minister of Energy. She was the ANC Proportional Representative from 2006-2009 in the City of Johannesburg Municipality and also the Chairperson of Portfolio Committee on Transport, in the same period. She also served in the ANC Youth League as a Provincial Executive Council (PEC) member in Gauteng Province. She read for a Matric certificate in 1997, a BA Degree through Vista University from 1998-2000 and a Project Management Diploma through Damelin in 2002. Although Minister Kubayi served on various committees over the years,immediately prior to her appointment to the National Executive she served as the Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee of Telecommunications and Postal Services.

Lungile Mashele is the energy specialist at the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA).Lungile is the energy specialist at the DBSA. Her projects are in gas, coal, renewables and hydro; they are spread across the continent.She holds qualifications in economics, insolvency law, cost engineering and energy.Mashele has worked in the consulting space as well as IPPs, utilities and financing houses.

Born in Port Elizabeth in 1986, Laduma Ngxokolo had his first hands-on experience of textile designing in 2003 when he studied at Lawson Brown High School. Ngxokolo’s flair for knitwear design earned him a bursary from both Port Elizabeth-based Cape Wools South Africa and Mohair South Africa during his Btech studies at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in 2010. The same year Ngxokolo won the South African national leg of the South African Society of Dyers and Colourists (SDC) Design Competition, which earned him a trip to London where he was awarded first prize internationally for the competition. The title of his competition entry was “The Colourful World of the Xhosa Culture” that consisted of men’s knitwear that is inspired by traditional Xhosa beadwork.

Guest: Lynette Hundermark - Founder of Useful and Beautiful

Ziyaad Nanabhay In His Million Rand Suit Cavalier Store recently launched Africa’s most expensive suit, the Cavalier Rockefeller Vanquish ll, with a price tag of R1 million. Ziyaad Nanabhay, Managing Director at Cavalier, dons the couture masterpiece.

Guest: Shaheen Essop – First Deputy President at South African Hajj and Umrah Council (Sahuc)