NIGHT FALL

iCT industry policy shift and BEE 26.05.2025 19:50 ↓

Communications and Digital Technologies minister Solly Malatsi will tomorrow appear before The Portfolio Committee on Communications and Digital Technologies to brief the committee on the draft policy directive relating to the Equity Equivalence Investment Programme and applications for licencing in the ICT sector. Guest: Solly Malatsi, Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies

Critical Minerals strategy 20.05.2025 18:37 ↓

The Minister of  Department of Mineral and Petroleum Resources (DMPR) today addressed a press conference regarding the  Cabinet’s approval of South Africa’s Critical Minerals and Metals Strategy, as well as the approval for the publication of the Mineral Resources Development Bill (MRDB) of 2025 for public comments. Guest: Kagiso Menoe, Director Beneficiation Economics -...

Confronting heritage of shame 20.05.2025 25:51 ↓

Judy_Marie van Noordwyk wrote for her PhD dissertation a very interesting research titled “Confronting heritage of shame: Approaches to cultivating anti-racist praxis among younger generations of white Afrikaans speaking South Africans’. Guest: Judy Marie van Noordwyk, Researcher - Nelson Mandela University

SA tertiary institutions and foreign academics - why it’s vital 20.05.2025 19:45 ↓

Bhuti Manamela - Deputy Minister of Higher Education

White paper on local government review 20.05.2025 25:33 ↓

Velenkosi Hlabisa - Minister: Cogta

Grok, AI and ‘white genocide 16.05.2025 13:49 ↓

 Siphumelele Zondi - Technology expert and lecturer

Rail industry private sector participation. 16.05.2025 31:01 ↓

Masela Nhlapho - Chief Executive Officer of the African Rail Industry Association

Women’s rights to land and housing 14.05.2025 25:19 ↓

Guest: Neri Singh, Women’s Space Project Co-ordinator - Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa

Trump / Ramaphosa possible meeting next week 14.05.2025 23:42 ↓

Guest: Prof Anthoni Van Nieukerk, Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International Affairs.  

Quarterly Labour Force Survey 14.05.2025 23:50 ↓

Guest: Solly Molayi - Acting DDG for Population and Social Statistics - Stats SA  South Africa’s official unemployment rate increased by one percentage point to 32.9% in the first quarter of 2025. The data shows an increase of 237 000 in the number of  unemployed people , bringing the total to 8.2 million

Prisoners and laptops - ConCourt decision 05.05.2025 17:33 ↓

Nonhlanhla Mtshali - Legal analyst

Understanding the Judicial Commission of inquiry on unresolved apartheid-era crimes 05.05.2025 21:37 ↓

Zaid Kimmie - Executive Director: Foundation for Human Rights.

Should SA podcasts be regulated? 30.04.2025 21:02 ↓

Kamogelo Theledi - Journalist lecturer and a PhD student

The disappearance and death of 3 young police officers 30.04.2025 22:34 ↓

Thabang Bogopa - Crime researcher - UNISA

Domestic workers live in unpleasant conditions in Joburg suburbs - new research. 29.04.2025 13:58 ↓

Annabel Fenton - Research Communications Officer at the Care Policy and Evaluation Centre, LSE

SASSA payment challenges -if any. 29.04.2025 33:12 ↓

Paseka Letsatsi - SASSA spokesperson

The phenomenal work of Nduduzo Makhathini 25.04.2025 25:33 ↓

Nduduzo Makhathini - Pianist, composer, Researcher

Zelensky SA’s visit 25.04.2025 28:32 ↓

Dr Oscar van Heerden - International relations expert: UJ

Politics - The ANC Northern Cape elective conference. 24.04.2025 18:06 ↓

Leeto Ntoba - Political analyst

Gauteng High Court mandatory mediation 24.04.2025 28:18 ↓

Mpumelelo Zikalala - Legal analyst