As the digital migration process is already underway to switch off analogue terrestrial television transmitters. Civil Society is uniting to challenge government plans to disconnect the analogue TV signal of over 14 million people. They are arguing that once the digital migration process is in full swing, our country’s communication system will be even further privatised as those that can afford will move over to Multichoice, and they want government to delay the switch-over.

 

Guest: Hassan Logart, Spokesperson of the Peoples Media Consortium

As the digital migration process is already underway to switch off analogue terrestrial television transmitters. Civil Society is uniting to challenge government plans to disconnect the analogue TV signal of over 14 million people. They are arguing that once the digital migration process is in full swing, our country&rsquo;s communication system will be even further privatised as those that can afford will move over to Multichoice, and they want government to delay the switch-over.
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Guest: Hassan Logart, Spokesperson of the Peoples Media Consortium

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Civil Society is uniting to challenge government plans to disconnect the analogue TV signal of over 14 million people.

Minister of Home Affairs, Dr. Aaron Motsoaledi announced that the Department of Home Affairs has granted exemption permits for 178 000 Zimbabwean nationals and 54 653 Lesotho nationals for another 2 years. This is in light of upcoming deadlines for the exemption permits and the court decision to dismiss the Ministry's appeal to challenge the June 2023 ruling surrounding the termination of the ZEP programme made by the Helen Suzman Foundation. To tell us more about the legal implication of this extension, we are joined by...

Guest: Advocate Simba Chitando - Counsel for the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit Holders Association

Minister of Home Affairs, Dr. Aaron Motsoaledi announced that the Department of Home Affairs has granted exemption permits for 178 000 Zimbabwean nationals and 54 653 Lesotho nationals for another 2 years. This is in light of upcoming deadlines for the exemption permits and the court decision to dismiss the Ministry's appeal to challenge the June 2023 ruling surrounding the termination of the ZEP programme made by the Helen Suzman Foundation. To tell us more about the legal implication of this extension, we are joined by...
Guest: Advocate Simba Chitando - Counsel for the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit Holders Association

Department of Home Affairs has extends the permits to 2025

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Closer to home, the report highlights that there has been a surge (1200% increase) in deepfake fraud cases in South Africa. There have been recent cases of Deepfake fraud affecting news anchors Francis Herd and Bongiwe Zwane from SABC. Earlier this year, a similar incident occurred with Member of Parliament, Glynnis Breytenbach. To unpack these findings and what the public needs to know, we are joined by... 

Guest: Jarryd Jensen - Business Development Manager (Africa) at Sumsub

This week, the third global Identity Fraud Report was released. The research unpacks the leading causes of identity fraud across 28 industries and collates data from 2 million cases from the past 12 months. Cases of Identity Fraud has multiplied 10-fold in the past year. The top five types of identity fraud include AI-powered fraud, money mulling networks, fake IDs, account takeovers and forced verification. 
Closer to home, the report highlights that there has been a surge (1200% increase) in deepfake fraud cases in South Africa. There have been recent cases of Deepfake fraud affecting news anchors Francis Herd and Bongiwe Zwane from SABC. Earlier this year, a similar incident occurred with Member of Parliament, Glynnis Breytenbach. To unpack these findings and what the public needs to know, we are joined by... 
Guest: Jarryd Jensen - Business Development Manager (Africa) at Sumsub

Cases of Identity Fraud has multiplied 10-fold in the past year

Final year students from the University of Pretoria’s Department of Consumer and Food Sciences have turned research into practice by creating dishes that preserve food waste and turn into nutritious food products.

Guest: Thando Dlamini  - Final year student at University of Pretoria who’s doing Bachelor of Consumer Sciences (BConSci) Food Retail Management

Final year students from the University of Pretoria’s Department of Consumer and Food Sciences have turned research into practice by creating dishes that preserve food waste and turn into nutritious food products.
Guest: Thando Dlamini  - Final year student at University of Pretoria who’s doing Bachelor of Consumer Sciences (BConSci) Food Retail Management

Final year students from the University of Pretoria’s Department of Consumer and Food Sciences have turned research into practice by creating dishes that preserve food waste and turn into nutritious food products.

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