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The Talking Point

Newsmakers and Guest Experts offer their insights and perspectives into the national and global discourse on politics, economics, education, social matters and comprehensive dialogues on cultural diversity and other essential issues of public interest like, poverty alleviation, unemployment rate and health related issues.

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Friday Wind Down with Nomfundo Xaluva

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2025/07/18

Our next guest hails from and began her musical journey at the tender age of 12 when she started taking classical lessons in the piano. This journey has taken her to stages in Europe and the United States of America not only as a performer but an educator as well. She has been invited as an artist in residence at the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music and is part of UCT Next Generation Professoriate programme. Her research interests lie in the intersection where the

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23:46

Section 59 report and the subssequent criminal...

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2025/07/17

Earlier this week, ActionSA filed a criminal complaint against medical aid schemes found to have shown racial bias against black healthcare practitioners in the peirod 2012 to 2019. The complaint was filed on the basis of the Section 59 investigation panel report released last week that concluded that the procedural fairness rights of some doctors were violated. The Section 59 panel was appointed to probe allegations that black healthcare professionals were being unfairly targeted for investigations

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Municipal Watch: Enoch Mgijima Local Municipality

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2025/07/17

Residents of Komani, formally know as Queenstown in the Eastern Cape are approaching the Constitutional Court to rule whether the Enoch Mgijima Local Municipality should be dissolved. At the centre is what they say is the municipality’s inability to deliver services like electricity and waste collection. Other issues they are raising are lacking a financial plan, collection of rates and the inability to deal with ghost workers. To find out how they got here and what seems to be the problem in

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21:41

Leader of National Coloured Congress

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2025/07/17

Guest: Hon. Faziel Adams, Leader of National Coloured Congress

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G20 series with Lerato Tsebe

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2025/07/16

We continue our series on the G20 with Lerato Tsebe, looking at how South Africa uses this opportunity of being at the helm for 2025. Guest: Lerato Tsebe - Independent African Researcher

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13:43

NEDBANK INSURANCE

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2025/07/16

We continue our series about the Money Matters campaign and how Nedbank Insurance can help you find relevant insurance solutions for every life stage. Today we focus on how to have a hassle free insurance claim and to lead us on this subject, we are joined by…. Guest: Angela Vernes - Head of Operations at Nedbank Insurance

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22:30

Citizens Corner: IEC Election Report

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2025/07/16

Yesterday (Tuesday) the Independent Electoral Commission presented its report on the 2024 general elections to parliament where they spoke about some of the challenges they faced. Some of the concerns they raised is disinformation on social media and capacity to handle it. The Commission's chairperson Mosotho Moepya also spoke about the unprecedented amount of court challenges they faced and won while some are under appeal. Mr Moepya now joins us to elaborate on their presentation what he feels

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45:04

Personal Finance with Sandy van der Zanden

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2025/07/15

We are joined again by Sandy van der Zanden to talk about taking on the Importance of Both Spouses Having a Financial Plan Guest (Studio): Sandy van der Zanden - Partner at Bryan Hirsch, Colley & Associates (Pty) Limited

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29:45

Free State Education: What makes them get things right?

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2025/07/15

We end the show by talking to the Free State Education MEC about their success and performance over the years especially the matric results. Yesterday (Monday), they launched the Multi-certification program that they say is aimed at equipping learners with industry-specific credentials in fields such as IT, finance, agriculture, technical and tourism. The overall idea is that learners leave school with editional certificates and not just the matric. To talk about how the idea came about and the

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33:32

Freedom of Speech vs Company Culture: Where do we...

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2025/07/14

The Labour Court of South Africa in Johannesburg, in a judgment delivered on the 20th of June 2025, dismissed a review application concerning the use of vulgar language during a Safety, Health, Environment, and Quality meeting directed at the convener. The Court held that the arbitrator’s findings on both the employee’s guilt and the sanction imposed were reasonable and fell within the bounds of what a reasonable arbitrator could conclude. Accordingly, the application for review was

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42:09

Self reflection of the state of our country ahead of...

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2025/07/14

These past few weeks saw a huge shake in the political arena which started off with the spat between the ANC and the DA due to the firing of former deputy minister of Trade and Industry Andrew Whitfield. The DA in retaliation decided to boycott the National Dialogue. Then it was Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi exposing a criminal syndicate that implicated the national minister of police, Senzo Mchunu and top police management. On the other hand civil servants who are trying to prevent

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48:04

Raising a boy child and issues on consent

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2025/07/11

We received a call from one of our listeners, Patrick in Witbank talking about raising a boy child and issues of consent. He was referring to a story that was running in the news where a young girl was accusing a boy of rape while out together. Guest: Karen Farred - CEO at Girls and Boys Town (She’s a qualified Social Worker) Guest: Tshepo Mokoena - Founder of Moving Ahead Development Agency, a non-profit organisation dealing with IT academy and a program called Boys2Men that mentors young

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Friday Wind Down with Lu Dlamini

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2025/07/11

Lu Dlamini is described as a vocalist, composer and traditional instrumentalist. Those who have seen her play talk mostly about her traditional instrument she always poses with in many of her pictures. She’s about to release a new album entitled ‘Gido’ which is said to be a personal and deeply moving new album that transcends music, a living archive of love, resilience, and the enduring philosophy of Ubuntu. Guest: Lu Dlamini - Durban-based vocalist, composer and traditional

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G20 series with Lerato Tsebe

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2025/07/10

We continue our series on the G20 with Lerato Tsebe, looking at how South Africa uses this opportunity of being at the helm for 2025. Guest: Lerato Tsebe - Independent African Researcher

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Municipal Watch: Polokwane Municipality and...

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2025/07/10

We go back to the Polokwane Municipality this time because we received a call from Kwena, a listener from that part of the country. He spoke about the bad condition of the roads under this municipality going from the city to the villages. He paints a very grim picture of the damages caused to cars and Guest: Mmakwena Moholola – Community leader in the Ga-Matlala Village Guest: John Mpe – Executive Mayor at the Polokwane Municipality Guest: Malusi Maraba – Member of the Traditional

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21:29

Sports as a unifier against hate

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2025/07/10

Robërt Kigongo is a peace negotiator and a sustainable development analyst based in Uganda. He has written a piece in the Mail and Guardian about how sports is a good tool in solving the problem of hate and racism in the world. Interestingly, he points to the 1995 Rugby World Cup that saw former President Nelson Mandela and the former SA Rugby team captain Francois Pienaar lift the trophy together. This marks 30 years since that event took place in 1995 just a year after the country's first

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Improve mental health intergration in primary healthcare

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2025/07/09

A new study from Wits University has highlighted the urgent need to intergrate mental health in the country's primary healthcare system. The study also gives solutions as to how the different intergrated care models can make a meaningful impact to those who need it most. To help us understand the full purpose of the study, we are joined by… Guest: Saira Abdulla - PHD fellow at the centre for Health Policy School of Public Health in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Wits

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What enables some African leaders to stay long in power?

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2025/07/08

Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni says that he was asked by "millions of Ugandans" to stand again for presidency in 2026. He goes on to say that he couldn't betray them because they are ordering not to leave. He was speaking shortly after securing the ruling NRM party nomination as their presidential candidate. Museveni is not the only leader on the continent who somehow manages to stay in power for decades. This morning we thought to get an understanding of what it is that enables some

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Personal Finance with Sandy van der Zanden

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2025/07/08

We are joined again by Sandy van der Zanden to talk about taking on Investment Risk to Beat Inflation… Guest (Studio): Sandy van der Zanden - Partner at Bryan Hirsch, Colley & Associates (Pty) Limited

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28:33

Rethinking our energy future

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2025/07/07

With winter upon us Eskom is pleading with the public to reduce some of the unused appliances to ease pressure on the grid. As much as these warning to yoeld results, what about the future of our energy? Where are we and what can be done to improve our goal of uninterrupted power? Earlier this year (2025) the Electricity Regulation Mendment Act 38 of 2024 kicked in paving the way for a multi-matket electricity in the country which experts say will bring economic reforms in the energy sector. To

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