The National Pulse

The situation is growing dire at Stilfontein Mine in the North West as illegal miners claim they are now eating human flesh for survival. These details were contained in a letter that recently came up to the surface, claiming that many of the miners were disappearing from shaft 10 where they are trying to escape. We thought we should check-in on what is happening in Stilfontein today. Joining me o...

A number of good Samaritans in Pretoria spread the Christmas spirit earlier today by feeding the homeless in that city. The person behind this is… GUEST: Emma Sibanyoni, Founder of Bros Do Matter and co-founder of Da Clang Foundation

The African Unite Borders Bus Trucks Association has once again raised concerns with the situation in Mozambique. The association continues to have security concerns as post-elections protests erupted again after the Mozambique’s apex court upheld Frelimo’s poll victory. Chairperson of the African Unite Borders Bus Trucks Association, Mukhwathi Phumudzo joins me on the line to share so...

Our guest, Professor Tshepo Madlingozi outlines the SA Human Rights Commission’s stance on a contentious issue of frequent arrests of adult private users, possessors and cultivators of cannabis. The commission has written to the national Police Commissioner, Fanie Masemola - urging him to pay more attention on this issue of unlawful arrests as they argue that it is inconsistent with both the...

The Limpopo department of transport and community safety is intensifying its efforts to combat drinking and driving this Christmas Day, with a strong warning to all road users to exercise extreme caution and responsibility. So far, the provincial authorities have managed to arrest 181 motorists for drunk driving since the beginning of this month. GUEST: Jane Mulaudzi, Chief Director for Transport...

City Power will be cutting the electricity supply to some parts of the Johannesburg CBD today. This as they need to implement an emergency isolation plan. To tell us more on how this operation has been carried out so far is…..   GUEST: Isaac Mangena, City Power Spokesperson

Today we chat to Fernando Morales-de la Cruz who is a Guatemalan journalist, residing in Strasbourg, France, and a human rights activist who has investigated misery and child labour in the supply chains of developed nations and corporations for more than 10 years with the goal of helping to eliminate them. Fernando has penned an open letter, asking “Santa” to help him win the battle ag...

The feud between Floyd Shivambu and Julius Malema is expected to intensify further after the former deputy president of the Economic Freedom Fighters recently told  crowd of MK Party supporters that he was the one who started the party, not Malema. The clip went viral on social media so we thought we should get the views of political analyst, Dr. Ntsikelelo Breakfast who joins me on the line&...

The Msunduzi Municipality is planning a R3 million New Year’s Eve party set for December 31 at the UMEDA Showgrounds. The event will be showcasing both local and national music talent and engaging the community. The Msunduzi Association of Residents, Ratepayers, and Civics opposed the expenditure, urging the City to seek sponsorship rather than relying on municipal fun. To get more details o...

The eThekwini municipality issued an Request For Proposals in November last year for Joe Cools’ redevelopment and the winning tender was granted to Imvusa Trading 595 CC on a 45-year lease term. To give us more details on this redevelopment deal, I am joined on the line by… GUEST: Ash Muller, Property Broker

The South African National Taxi Council strongly condemned unacceptable behaviour of a Mpumalanga patroller who was captured on video mistreating a truck driver. If you missed the incident and would like to know how SANTACO will deal with such incidents, I am joined on the line by Rebecca Phala, SANTACO spokesperson to give us all these answers… GUEST: Rebecca Phala, SANTACO spokesperson

Yesterday we spoke to Stephen Mogoai about the ongoing power crisis in some parts of Dobsonville. Some of you may recall that during our interview with him - Mogoai revealed that about 100 households have been negatively affected by this situation which has been going on for seven months now. Guess what, apparently there is some positive feedback following our conversation with him yesterday&helli...

    The Mozambican National Resistance party (RENAMO) has rejected the Constitutional Council’s ruling which declared Daniel Chapo, the candidate supported by Frelimo as the winner of the presidential election with 65.17% of the votes. The party argues that Mozambique deserves a legitimate government chosen by the people, not by a small group of individuals. For more on this, we ar...

As we wait for the ruling on the matter. The country’s opposition leader Venancio Mondlane has threatened chaos if the constitutional council confirms the initial election results, which gave the ruling party candidate, Daniel Chapo, 70.7% of the vote and Mondlane 20.3%.   GUEST (Mozambique): Milton

    An angry mob is alleged to have set alight the Bishop Lavis Magistrate’s Court this past Saturday. The anger from the group is alleged to have stemmed after a man was killed allegedly at the hands of members of the Anti-Gang Unit at his home in Kalksteenfontein. The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development has responded to the damage. … joins me on the line t...

    Last week, NGO, mining affected communities united in action filed an urgent application in the Pretoria high court in a bid to force the state to provide humanitarian aid, including medication, food and water to miners still underground in a Stilfontein mine. To share more details about this application as well as a way forward, I am joined on the line by…   GUEST: Chris...

    The National Student Financial Aid Scheme is calling for students who have applied for a bursary or a loan for the 2025 academic year to urgently submit outstanding documents. To give us more details on this, I am joined on the line by…   GUEST: Ishmael Mnisi – NSFAS spokesperson  

Earlier on today, Dobsonville community members picked outside Eskom offices to demand answers from the power utility as they are tired of living in darkness. They are saying it’s now over 7 months since a segment of Dobsonville community has been without electricity. We understand that a transformer in the area exploded last year and has since been replaced, however though, some community m...

We analyse the results of Debt Rescue’s latest Festive Season Survey. According to the latest results, 71% of people polled say they may have to give up on any gifting purchases due to their financial troubles, and 68% say they won’t be able to travel due to the high fuel costs.   GUEST: Annaline van der Poel, COO of Debt Rescue

    Former Statistician General of South Africa, Dr Pali Lehohla joins us to share his thoughts on the country’s state of affairs economically wise and what needs to be done to arrest South Africa’s stubbornly high unemployment rate.   GUEST: Dr Pali Lehohla, former Statistician General of South Africa

    This being our last Fireside Chat edition of the year. Today, we are joined by a multiple global award winning educator who is very passionate about his work, and that is Dr Khangelani Sibiya. His unique and adorable style of teaching is largely infused with social trends such as sport and music, all in the name of simplifying mathematics and science. I hope his story will inspire yo...

    We hear from Dr Mamphela Ramphele who argues that Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe is not being celebrated enough even though we are now living in a democratic country. According to her, the reluctance to celebrate this late Pan Africanist icon is perhaps informed by the fact that Sobukwe’s ideas are as troublesome to today’s democratically elected leaders as they were to yesterd...

    The Constitutional court handed down a number of jugdments today and one of those was on the Ingwana John Mohlaba and Others v The Minister of Cooperative case. The highest court in the land confirmed the High Court’s order declaring section 25 of the Limpopo Traditional Leadership and Institutions Act unconstitutional and invalid to the extent that it bestows the power to impo...

As many holidaymakers will be travelling to their respective holiday destinations, some people will be driving up the N4 Highway heading to Mozambique through the Lebombo Border. With everything that has been happening at that point of entry over the past few weeks, we asked SABC News reporter, Motsebi Monareng to join us on the show to give us an update on the traffic flow…   GUEST: M...