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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.
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Feature: Taxing Times with the Tshabalalas – Episode 3

In this week’s episode of Taxing Times with the Tshabalala’s Lindiwe thought her director’s fees were just a nice bonus… until SARS came knocking. Phemelo is joined in studio by Tax practitioner and CEO of Netvest, Busisiwe Mdletshe to unpack what happened.
27 May 5PM 17 min

Malatsi Defends ICT Equity Policy Amid SpaceX Favouritism Claims

Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies, Solly Malatsi, has defended his department’s newly gazetted policy directive supporting Equity Equivalent Investment Programmes (EEIPs) in the ICT sector. He maintains the move is legally sound and focused on transformation, not tailored to benefit any specific company. This follows criticism from Parliamentary Committee…
27 May 5PM 21 min

KAYA NEWS EXCLUSIVE: Parents Allege Sexual Grooming at Pretoria's Waterkloof Hoërskool

Concerned parents at Waterkloof Hoërskool in Pretoria have come forward with disturbing allegations of sexual grooming involving the school's principal. Speaking to Kaya News, they’ve accused the 50-year-old principal—whose identity is being withheld for legal reasons—of inappropriate physical contact, including giving schoolgirls unsolicited hugs. Parents also claim he made suggestive…
27 May 5PM 32 min

6 family members die in Boksburg informal settlement fire

Six family members have died when their shack caught fire in the Marikana informal settlement in Ekurhuleni on Monday, leaving only one survivor – a young girl who's in a critical condition in the hospital. According to Ekurhuleni emergency services spokesperson William Tladi, the fire broke out in the early…
27 May 10AM 5 min

Impact on POV: Shared Value Africa

On today’s Impact Feature we speak to Tiekie Barnard the founder and CEO of Shared Value Africa. Barnard is a visionary entrepreneur with a deep commitment to the African continent, she has focused her career on advancing the Shared Value Business Management concept, which aligns business success with social progress…
26 May 4PM 18 min

SA chicken producers say they can fill the gap as bird flu halts Brazil imports

South African poultry producers are confident that the country will avoid chicken shortages following a government ban on imports from Brazil due to a recent outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1), also known as bird flu. The outbreak, confirmed by Brazil’s ministry of agriculture and livestock a week ago…
26 May 4PM 10 min

Gaza: 57 children reported dead from malnutrition, says WHO

In the aid desert of Gaza, malnourished children are dying while survivors can now expect a lifetime of dire health problems, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday. Since the aid blockade began on 2 March, 57 children have reportedly died from the effects of malnutrition, according to…
22 May 4PM 13 min

Impact on POV: Sifiso Learning Group

1In this week’s Impact Feature, we are joined by the Founder and CEO of the Sifiso Learning Group (Pty) Limited Mr Sizwe Nxasana. The organisation is a private education group focused on the development of an African-centred education ecosystem. The group creates and develops content, tools and learning environments that…
22 May 4PM 22 min

What to Watch: Mission Impossible, Lilo & Stitch

In this week’s What to What feature, Leroy Marc reviews Mission Impossible which is in Theatres and IMAX, Lilo & Stitch and Echoes of Silence which will be showing at the Joburg Theatre from the 25th of May.
22 May 4PM 19 min

Important takeaways from Budget 3.0

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana delivered the third reiteration of the 2025 National Budget Speech on Wednesday (21 May). The budget revised several key points, including the country’s economic status, growth projections, substantial debt servicing costs, the withdrawal of the contentious VAT increases, and the continuation of the social relief grant…
21 May 6PM 39 min

SA-US relations: Trump meets with Ramaphosa at the White House

US President Donald Trump has maintained his stance in the presence of President Cyril Ramaphosa that Afrikaner people are being targeted in a genocide in South Africa. Trump is hosting a South African delegation led by Ramaphosa at the White House in Washington on Wednesday. The primary purpose of the…
21 May 6PM 31 min

How Budget 3.0 can restore educational integrity and infrastructure in SA

Equal Education says more than 23,000 posts in education departments have been cut, and now South African classrooms are paying the price for austerity. The organisation says budget 3.0 which will be tabled on Wednesday is a historic moment for our nation’s democracy, which had until now failed to meaningfully…
20 May 4PM 10 min

SA/US relations: Ramaphosa to meet US President Donald Trump

A cool and calm President Cyril Ramaphosa has assured South Africa that its sovereignty will remain intact as he declares that he'll always do what's best for the country. Ramaphosa arrived at the South African embassy in Washington, where he's due to get a briefing from his ministers ahead of…
20 May 4PM 31 min

Gauteng govt defends itself amid ongoing sanitation crisis in Emfuleni Local Municipality

The Gauteng government has defended itself amid an ongoing sanitation crisis in the Emfuleni Local Municipality, where portable toilets have gone unserviced for months. Mobile toilets at the Ramaphosa informal settlement in Vereeniging haven’t been cleaned since early this year, after the provincial government stopped funding the sanitation programme. The…
20 May 4PM 20 min

Music Feature

This week musicologist, Dr Sheldon Rocha Leal takes us down memory lane with five decades of SA music.
15 May 5PM 24 min
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