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.
ICJ issue order for Israel to stop its invasion of Rafah
The International Court of Justice ordered Israel to immediately halt its military offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, referring to the humanitarian situation in Rafah as “disastrous.” Department of International Affairs Director General Zane Dangor reacts to this matter.
ELECTIONS 2024: Patriotic Alliance says they are the answer to a new South Africa
Guest: Gayton McKenzie, Patriotic Alliance Leader
Music Feature: Musicologist, Dr Sheldon Rocha Leal
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.
ELECTIONS 2024: MK Party Manifesto
Guest: Nhlamulo Ndlela, MK Party Spokesperson
The importance of the Youth Vote: Role, Race and Discrimination plays
Guest: Zulaikha Patel - Author/ Activist
ROAD TO ELECTIONS: New parties in the current state of governance
Guest: Duduzane Zuma - All Game Changers Leader
ConCourt overturns Electoral Court ruling allowing Zuma to be MK Party candidate
South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma has been barred from running for parliament in next week’s general election. The Constitutional Court ruled that Zuma’s 15-month jail sentence for contempt of court in 2021 disqualifies him from standing in the May 29 election. What does this say about the credibility of…
Race, ethnicity and elections
Race as a social construct still plays a major role when it comes to being a main factor motivating voters to vote in South Africa. Ethnicity does not fall far behind race as a motivating factor on voters. Steve Letsike of of Access Chapter 2 talks about the role played…
South Africa’s political landscape: Helen Zille
With only a few days left before the national elections, DA's federal council Helen Zille joinsPoint of View instudio where she shares her views on the possible election 2024 outcome and what the DA.
ELECTIONS 2024: EFF's Manifesto, Plans for Gauteng
Guest: Dr Mbuyiseni Ndlozi, MP for EFF
ELECTIONS 2024: ANC NEC member, Ronald Lamola
Minister of Justice and Correctional Service, ANC NEC member Ronald Lamola looks into crime and corruption as the key issues for South African voters in the 2024 election.
30 years of South Africa's democracy: The role of Music and Art in the political liberation
Guests: Mara Louw - South African singer, songwriter and actress Sipho "Hotstix" Mabuse - Jazz star
Tokyo Sexwale on ANC’s Gauteng campaign
The Gauteng ANC, in a bid to raise its numbers has former provincial premier Tokyo Sexwale strengthen its campaign for the upcoming elections. Most listeners and callers are concerned that all these veterans campaigning were bashing the same political party before, so what changed? Who is instructing them to do…
ELECTIONS 2024: The IEC is ready for the 2024 elections
As the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) declared its operational readiness for the 29 May general election, it emerged high profile African leaders and former presidents will be among election observers. The Commission's Gauteng Provincial Electoral Officer, Thabo Masemola gives an update on the state of readiness.
Mixed reactions to the signing of the NHI Bill
President Cyril Ramaphosa has made good on his promise to sign the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill into law before the 2024 national election, bringing the contentious healthcare system into South Africa’s reality. The president signed the NHI into law at a ceremony on Wednesday (15 May). What does this…
ELECTIONS 2024: Importance of the woman voice
Dr. Makhosi Busisiwe Khoza, a former Member of Parliament and served in the Portfolio Committee on Economic Development discussed women's political participation and how it's essential for a healthy democracy.
Re-opening of inquests into death of Chief Albert Luthuli
Justice Minister Ronald Lamola, acting on the recommendation of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), has decided to reopen inquests into the apartheid-era deaths of Chief Albert Luthuli, Griffiths Mxenge and Booi Mantyi. Chief Albert Luthuli's grandson talks about this.
Road to elections: BOSA leader, Mmusi Maimane
BOSA leader, Mmusi Maimane on a campaign trail joins PhemeloMotene instudio to unpack his party manifesto and his views on what South Africans need from the elections.
ELECTIONS 2024: Will the ANC retain power ?
Guest: Nomvula Mokonyane, South African politician who is currently the First Deputy Secretary-General of the the ANC
ANC cadres within the SABC ban DA’s advertisement criticising the ruling party
In today's big stories, the SABC has refused to flight a controversial election television advertisement produced by the Democratic Alliance, a move the official opposition in parliament has vowed to fight in the courts. The SABC on Thursday wrote to communications regulator Icasa to inform it that it will not…