The impact of the coronavirus pandemic is being felt by every sector of South African society, business and education. Schools and colleges are closing in countries across the world, in an effort to prevent further spread of COVID-19, remote learning is however being used in some countries as a means of limiting disruption to learners' studies. Despite the majority of South African learners having limited or no internet access from their homes, are there ways and means for educators in South Africa to employ technology to keep lessons continuing uninterrupted?

Title: [• Mr]
Name: [• Ari Katz]
Position at organisation: [• CEO of Boston City Campus]

The Presidency has finally released the report of the judicial commission of inquiry into the Public Investment Corporation. The commission found that there had been "substantial impropriety" at the state-owned asset manager and its board is said to have been "divided and conflicted".
The report - which runs to nearly 1 000 pages - further recommends that former acting CEO Matshepo More and former head of human resources Chris Pholwane be internally disciplined for inappropriate conduct relating to misleading the PIC board.

Title: [• Mr]
Name: [• Yongama Mabece]
Position AND organisation: [• Secretary General at the National Union of Public Service and Allied Workers Union (PIC Branch)]
Title: [• Mr]
Name: [• Tshifhango Ndadza]
Position AND organisation: [• Deputy Secretary General at the National Union of Public Service and Allied Workers Union (PIC Branch)]

At many underprivileged schools throughout the country, over 9 million learners are supplied with lunch through the National School Feeding Programme, and in the frightening majority of these cases, this is the only substantial meal these children receive all day. Having worked with schools in youth marketing through his agency, Superiate, Brad Stern woke up on Monday the 16th of March – the day following the president’s address – wondering what might happen to the learners who rely on the one meal they receive at school. Brad decided that the only course of action to stop thousands of children from going hungry was to make a plan of his own - Cans With Purpose.
Cans With Purposes aims to generate funds and donations in order to buy canned food to help curb the imminent hunger among underprivileged South African learners. The initiative gained traction in a matter of hours, raising an unprecedented R 25 000 in under two days.

GUEST: Mr Brad Stern - CEO of Superiate

The homeless are the most vulnerable to the coronavirus which spreads primarily through respiratory droplets coughed or sneezed from an infected person. Homeless people who mostly survive on selling recycling materials, collecting scrap and eating from the dustbins are at a risk of contracting coronavirus by touching dirty tissues from the dustbins.
Furthermore, in order to prevent this virus from spreading people should wash their hands with soap or sanitiser regularly and for homeless people this will be impossible as they cannot afford these materials. Have we thought about how were going to help homeless people deal with this global?

GUEST: Illa Thompson - Piblicist for the Denis Hurley Centre

According to a paper by the Institute of Race Relations, the appointment of an independent water regulator is essential if South Africa is to overcome its perpetual water crisis. Entitled "Thirsty Land", the paper notes that one of the key components of success in ensuring adequate water supplies is high-quality regulation. Regulation should be the responsibility of an autonomous government agency run by technocrats rather than politicians. The paper also notes that the South African government needs no encouragement to introduce controls, and it points out that an independent regulator would have to be free of corruption.

GUEST : Terrence Corrigan - Project Manager at the Institute for Race Relation

Finance Minister, Tito Mboweni, had an undesirable task this afternoon, and his Budget Speech proved to be a roller coaster ride. There were certainly ups and downs, and the finance minister weaved through tax breaks and spending cuts. There were flashes of positivity, and gloomy forecasts in equal measure. Let’s talk about the good, the bad and the ugly of the 2020 Budget...

Mr David French - Tax Consulting Director at Mazars AND
Mr Neil Coleman - Neil Coleman, Co-Director of the Institute for Economic Justice
Dr Ntokozo Nzimande - Lecturer in the School of Accounting, Economics and Finance at UKZN