CONVERSATIONS
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THE DIALOGUE BREAKS POSITIONING

Dialogue Breaks has been positioned as a platform for conversations: Dialogues give an opportunity for different views to be heard while also encouraging stakeholders to come up with solutions. The current challenges in the country demand that we work together instead of trying to resolve issues on our own. This is also an important part of a healthy democracy because it reflects our ability to tackle issues regardless of race, political affiliation and gender. Dialogue Breaks brings current events, updates on developing stories while also hearing from those newsmakers making headlines. It is a platform for role players in politic, academics, different communities and inhabitants of South Africa.

TOPICS AND GUESTS:

20 NOV 2023 11 AM: Coalition Goverments. Preparing for the 2024 elections

South Africa’s 2024 national and provincial elections are regarded as a realistic opportunity for coalition governments to be formed in some provinces and also at the national level. This would mark a dramatic change from the current situation in which coalition governments have only been formed at the local level. ALJAMA-AH`s Imraan Moosa shares some of the different tasks and efforts as the Party gears up for the 2024 elections.

14 NOV 2023 5 PM: Can world powers urge Israel to stop its attacks in the occupied West Bank?

Settler violence, raids, and demolitions in the West Bank have been on the rise since the start of the Gaza conflict. Palestinians have been forced out of their homes in large numbers as illegal settlement activity has increased dramatically in the last few months. Prof, Nidal Sakr: Chair man of The March For Justice, -US Commission on Civil Rights, Advisor-ACLU, B/Directors-Arab Spring Mentor is in conversation with Elphas Nkosi on the Dialogue Breaks.

13 NOV 2023 5 PM: Sharia-compliant traditional Muslim marriages

The National Assembly has released a Bill for public discussion that seeks to modify the legal status of Sharia-compliant traditional Muslim marriages. Adv. Fairouz Nagia speaks to Radio Radio Jeem.

1 NOV 2023 3 PM: The impact of the Rugby World Cup on the economy?

IA few weeks ago you could feel the rising swell of pride and hear the echoing roar of “Go Bokke” around South Africa as the Springboks were crowned the Rugby World Cup champions. The country is in celebration mode and will likely still be for several weeks. What impact can such a win have on the economy? Dawie Roodt, chief economist – Efficient Group explains. Another grim picture of the state of the country’s finances when Finance Minister Godongwana tabled the Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS).

1 NOV 2023 3 PM: Matric exams

It’s all systems go for the more than 920,000 candidates who are scheduled to write their matric exams this year, according to quality assurance body Umalusi. Biki Lepota, Senior Manager: Public Relations and Communications at UMALUSI speaks to the Dialogue Breaks Show.

19 OCT 2023 4 PM: Why has the US consistently backed Israel?

President Joe Biden visits Tel Aviv a day after hundreds were killed in an explosion at a hospital in Gaza. The United States has firmly backed Israel in its war against Hamas in the besieged Gaza Strip. Israel launched a campaign of intense air raids on the Palestinian territory after fighters from Hamas attacked southern Israel on October 7.  Stephen Zunes is a professor of politics at the University of San Francisco explains.

7 OCT 2023 10 AM:The importance of self-esteem, what influences it, traits and how to improve it.

In conversation with Mrs. Fatimah Hendricks, Who is a Social Worker.

4 OCT 2023 2 PM: Muslim Marriages Bill.  Why did Hon. Hendricks succeed and others did not?

In conversation with Ho.n Ganief Hendricks ALJAMA-AH Party Leader, we are discussing a few issues of national importance.

26 SEPT 2023 2 PM: Prof. Mammo Muchie – Renowned Pan-Africanist scholar, and research chair at the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT)

A gap of seven to eight years between the Ethiopian and Gregorian calendars results from an alternative calculation in determining the date of the Annunciation. The Ethiopian calendar has twelve months of thirty days plus five or six epagomenal days, which form a thirteenth month.

13 SEPT 2023 5 PM: Hon. Ganief Hendricks pays his tribute to the Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi

Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi is the man who led the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) for decades, helped to deliver SA’s negotiated settlement, and grew into the role of a responsible cabinet minister and wise, elderly statesman in postapartheid SA. Al Jama-ah President Hon. Ganief Hendricks pays his tribute to the Prince.

6 SEPT 2023 5 PM: South Africa’s real Gross Domestic Product

Stats SA, South Africa’s official statistical agency, has released data revealing that the country’s real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) saw a notable growth of 0.6% in the second quarter of 2023, covering the period from April to June. Elphas Nkosi interviewed Dawie Roodt, chief economist and a director at Efficient Group, who says this is not good news at all.

6 SEPT 2023 4PM: Amendments to the Divorce Act

With the deadline looming for comments on Amendments to the Divorce Act to make it compliant with the Constitution AL JAMA-AH has rejected the cabinet Bill as it continues to be unconstitutional. Party Leader, Hon. Ganief Hendricks speaks to the Dialogue Breaks on Radio Jeem.

14 AUG 5PM:The Dialogue Breaks Masterclass with Hon. Ganief Hendricks.

– Parliament is looking to amend the country’s more than 40-year-old Divorce Act for the first time to include Muslim marriages.
– Al Jamah-ah suggests legislation to control the taxi industry at the national level
– Al Jamah-ah Reactions on the National Dialogue on Coalition Government
– Al Jamah-ah welcomes Zuma`s remission

10 AUG 3PM: Mixed reaction to ANC hints of a coalition government after 2024 elections.

3 AUG 3PM: Did You Know It’s 2015 in Ethiopia Right Now?

Most of us use the Gregorian (aka Western or European) calendar marked with 12 months comprising 28 to 31 days each. We measure time-based on four distinct seasons, and our new year rolls around like clockwork one week after Christmas on each and every January 1.

Not in Ethiopia.

According to the Ethiopian calendar (aka Ge’ez or Geez calendar), a year consists of 365 days, six hours, two minutes, and 24 seconds. That adds up to 13 months, 12 of which have exactly 30 days each. The 13th month (called pagume — from the Greek epagomene — meaning “days forgotten when a year is calculated”) has only five or six days. Once every four years, the six hours add up to 24 hours and become the sixth day in a leap year. And once every 600 years, those two minutes and 24 seconds add up to one whole day and become a seventh day, which the Ethiopians call rena mealt and rena lelit.

21 JUL 3PM: South Africa has reached the point of energy desperation and cannot afford fashionable ideological indulgences, the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) has warned in response to the appeal by environmentalists against Eskom bypassing pollution rules at Kusile power station.

20 JUL 6PM: Al Jama-ah leader Ganief Hendricks briefed Parliament on the Registration of Muslim Marriages Bill.
The bill has been put forward in an attempt to introduce interim protections to Muslim marriages while the government works on a new umbrella marriage bill for the country.

20 JUL 4PM: Unpacking the Life of Struggle stalwart, Imama Achmad Cassiem.
On what is considered the holiest and most sacred day for Muslims, the nation laid to rest Imam Achmad Cassiem, a tireless fighter for justice, not just in South Africa but worldwide.

13 JUN 4PM: Categories of prisons: How do maximum correctional centers operate?
The Department of Correctional Services shares insights on maximum prisons in South Africa.
Elphas Nkosi is in conversation with Correctional Services Department spokesperson, Singabakho Nxumalo.

12 JUN 3PM: Hon. Hendricks is setting the record straight.
Al Jama-ah calls on the government to dismiss any proposals by the LGBTQI+ community from being included in the revised White Paper on Family Life; the fundamental reason is that the group wants to redefine family according to its definition deliberately.
Deputy President Paul Mashatile recently stated in Parliament that due to social ills that the country is grappling with because of a ‘weak family system’ or families who have disintegrated, the government will table a revised White Paper on family during this financial year.

6 JUN 9PM : Hon. Hendricks in conversation with Dr. Fowzia Siddiqui, after she met her sister, Aafia for the first time in 20 years, on Radio Jeem. Dr Aafia’s elder sister met her after 20 years in Fort Worth Town of United States where she is currently detained.

1 JUN 2PM:  South Africa’s dilapidated water infrastructure is once again under scrutiny after a new cholera outbreak. As health officials scramble to contain this outbreak, questions are now being raised about the government’s ability to address the ongoing challenges of providing clean and accessible water to its citizens. The death toll in the Hammanskraal incident is now up to 15.

4 MAY 4PM:  Kenya’s opposition has suspended the latest anti-government protests planned for Thursday after reaching an agreement with the government of President William Ruto

4 MAY 4PM: Kenya’s opposition has suspended the latest anti-government protests planned for Thursday after reaching an agreement with the government of President William Ruto. Abdullah Kassim WereAnalyst in Eastern African Affairs Joins us on the Dialogue Breaks to discuss the latest developments in Kenya and the Sudan conflict.

3 MAY 6PM: Time to deal with absent fathers, for their children’s sake.
Social worker Mrs. Fatimah Hendricks explores the topic.

3 MAY 4PM: The City of Johannesburg is still without a mayor. The leader of Action SA, Herman Mashaba has expressed unhappiness over the adjournment of the City’s council which was supposed to elect a mayor on Tuesday.

2 MAY 6PM: Al Jama-Ah leader and Member of Parliament Ganief Hendricks says he hopes Parliament will accept the proposed registration of Muslim marriages bill drafted by his party.

1 MAY 3PM: The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) said it would continue to request Parliament to push for a higher minimum wage for workers to keep up with the rising cost of living as on Monday marks Workers’ Day. COSATU Spokesperson has joined us to give us the Federation`s perspective, meanwhile. Al Jama-ah Leader, Ganief Hendricks says decent work is at the heart of the party’s Workers’ Day message. Hendricks says decent work is something that was close to the hearts of the late stalwarts Nelson Mandela and his ex-wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela.

19 APR 5PM:  Abdullah Kassim Were Analyst in Eastern African Affairs Joined us to unpack the tensions in Sudan.

14 APR 5PM: Pros and Cons of Claiming the Road Accident Fund. 

14 APR 5PM: Incoming World Bank President Ajay Banga’s Predatory-Finance Background Threatens, Even More, Prolific Bank Poverty-Creation and BRICS+ as an alternative power bloc, with alternatives to US$ hegemony (monetary policy and currency dependency), and to the Bank and IMF. Patrick Bond, a Distinguished Professor of Sociology, is a political economist who joins us from Washington where he`s attending World Bank/IMF meetings.

12 APR 8PM: Al Jama-ah leader Ganief Hendricks has defended City of Joburg Executive Mayor Thapelo Amad’s statements about the prospect of a R9.5-billion loan to boost the cash flow of the cash-strapped city. He alleged there have been deliberate attempts to smear Amad.

6 FEB 5PM: In conversation with Western Cape Provincial Electoral Officer, Michael Hendrickse on state of readiness for the Ward 56 By-Elections taking place on the 8th of February.

6 FEB 5PM: in conversation with Joburg Mayor Thapelo Amad in Kensington, Western Cape.

6 FEB 5PM: The Dialogue Breaks, unpacking the New MPs and the ward 56 By elections in the Western Cape with Provincial Electoral Officer Michael Hendrickse

DEC 5, 2022: Political party Al Jama-Ah is in the process of pursuing change in divorce and marriage registration laws in South Africa.