The National Briefing

there is also no Provincial Cabinet in Gauteng, have there been any conversations between DA and the ANC about the make-up of a cabinet in Gauteng? 25.06.2024 5:01 ↓

    Guest: Solly Msimanga is the Gauteng leader of the DA

there is still no cabinet and there are several reports indicating that the ANC and the DA are still at loggerheads over positions and the number of cabinet ministers the DA should receive in the new coalition government. 25.06.2024 6:07 ↓

    Guest: Sibongile Besani: ANC Head Of Presidency Spokesperson

Mpox cases are rising in SA 25.06.2024 3:31 ↓

    Guest: Foster Mohale: National Health Department spokesperson

While Rand Water starts its major maintenance programme in Gauteng - there are more warnings about how there could be difficult water problems in Gauteng in the next few years - because of a lack of investment in infrastructure. 25.06.2024 5:54 ↓

    Guest: Anja Du Plessis: associate professor at Unisa and a water management expert

Severe risks to physical and mental health – including addiction, psychotic episodes, stomach ailments and eating disorders 25.06.2024 6:43 ↓

    Guest: Dr Felicity Marcus: Member of the South African Society of Psychiatrists

it is now six days with no cabinet ministers, how is government running without ministers? 25.06.2024 5:21 ↓

    Guest: Vincent Magwenya: Spokesperson to the President

Africa Update Report with Advocate Sipho Mantula, Researcher: Thabo Mbeki African School on Public and International Affairs: Unisa 25.06.2024 4:01 ↓

    25 June 2024   Egypt- Cairo, Egypt's government has extended daily power cuts to three hours, one hour longer than usual, in response to a surge in domestic electricity consumption because of a heat wave.   Republic of Congo- Russia, The trip by Congolese President Denis Sassou Nguesso comes less than a month after Russia's foreign affairs minister Sergei Lavrov made a stop in the central Afri...

Mediated Conversation: Initiation deaths and kidnappings 24.06.2024 23:59 ↓

Clip: Kiba Kekana: Spokesperson, Gauteng Provincial Initiation Coordinating Committee (PICC) Guest: Kgoshi Mathupa Mokoena: President of the Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (Contralesa) Guest: Javu Baloyi: Commission For Gender Equality Spokesperson  

How South Africa's sardine run is changing 24.06.2024 4:42 ↓

    Guest: Prof Peter Teske: professor in Zoology from the University of Johannesburg and geneticist

RISE Mzansi becomes latest party to join ANC-led GNU 24.06.2024 4:15 ↓

  Guest: Songezob Zibi - Rise Mzansi Leader

Africa Update Report with Advocate Sipho Mantula, Researcher: Thabo Mbeki African School on Public and International Affairs: Unisa 24.06.2024 5:37 ↓

  24 June 2024 1. Sudan- Khartoum, More than 60 civil society organisations call on the international community "to urgently meet the financial pledges they made in Paris on April 15 2024", and further encourage the donor community to consider providing additional funding for the humanitarian work. 2. Sierra Leone – Free Town, Sierra Leone's parliament has approved a law banning child marriage in...

In Saudi Arabia more than one thousand people have now died from an intense heatwave while making the pilgrimage to Mecca - over half of the people who lost their lives were from Egypt - but people from many other countries died as well. 24.06.2024 7:20 ↓

  Guest: Zeenat Adam - Executive Director: Afro Middle East Centre

Panyaza Lesufi postponed the announcement of the provincial Cabinet. 24.06.2024 5:03 ↓

  Guest: Samkele Maseko: Political Reporter, SABC

The Pitbull Federation of South Africa has expressed disappointment over the Misrepresentation of dog breeds in Media reports 24.06.2024 11:06 ↓

    Guest: Lehanda Rheeder: Pitbull Federation SA Spokesperson

UDM officially joins Government of National Unity following meeting with the ANC 24.06.2024 4:59 ↓

  Guest: Bantu Holomisa: Leader of the United Democratic Movement (UDM)

Panyaza Lesufi postponed the announcement of the provincial Cabinet. 24.06.2024 3:52 ↓

  Guest: Samkele Maseko: Political Reporter, SABC

ANC Welcomes Parties into Government of National Unity 24.06.2024 7:12 ↓

  Guest: Mahlengi Bhengu-motsiri: ANC national Spokesperson

Former sports, arts and culture minister Zizi Kodwa, who resigned after being charged with corruption, will return to Parliament as an MP. 24.06.2024 4:00 ↓

  Guest: Wayne Duvenage: CEO of the Organization Undoing Tax Abused (OUTA)

There’s been confirmation overnight that the Freedom Front Plus has now agreed to join the new coalition government - that means that there will now be seven parties in the government 21.06.2024 6:59 ↓

  Guest: Wouter Wessels - VF (Freedom Front Plus) National Spokesperson

Israeli forces are still dropping bombs on the central parts of the Gaza strip - killing Palestinians who have been forced to move first to Rafah - and then out of Rafah as the Israeli operations moved there. 21.06.2024 5:14 ↓

  Guest: Zeenat Adam - Executive Director: Afro Middle East Centre

The Table Mountain National Park now says that there has been a big increase in the number of fires on the mountain this year - there were a hundred and twenty fires in the last year - that’s thirty five more than in the year before 21.06.2024 3:03 ↓

    Guest: Justin Buchmann: Table Mountain National Park fire Manager

Africa Update Report with Advocate Sipho Mantula, Researcher: Thabo Mbeki African School on Public and International Affairs: Unisa 21.06.2024 4:43 ↓

    21 June 2024   Rwanda – Kigali, Rwanda Decides 2024, It is only a few days before the curtains rise on the presidential and parliamentary campaigns that are scheduled to begin on Saturday, June 22, and run for three weeks until mid-July, before the 2024 elections take place.   Burkina Faso - Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso's military leader Ibrahim Traore appeared on national TV on Thursday to deny...

The City of Cape Town has been granted a final eviction order by the Western Cape High Court, allowing it to remove hundreds of street people illegally occupying public spaces in the city centre from August 1 21.06.2024 6:40 ↓

    Guest: Geordin Hill-Lewis: Cape Town mayor

Does the ANC have power in the Government of National Unity? 21.06.2024 8:56 ↓

    Guest: Nkenke Kekana – Member: ANC’s National Executive Committee

The Eastern Cape Liquor Board says there need to be a much bigger campaign to stop underage drinking. Two years ago twenty one young people died in the Enyobeni tavern disaster - when teenagers were drinking in the tavern 21.06.2024 5:12 ↓

    Guest: Mgwebi Msiya - Eastern Cape Liquor Board Spokesperson