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Why is the Midvaal Municipality deducting municipal rates from someone buying prepaid electricity? 01.05.2024 7:19

Guest: Councillor Patricia Hutcheson: MMC for Finance, Midvaal Municipality

In the South China Sea, a group of Chinese coast guard vessels have used water cannon to damage a ship from the Philippines - in the latest dispute between certain parts of the ocean between the two countries. 01.05.2024 10:24

Guest: Timothy Walker: Maritime Project Leader & Senior Researcher, Institute for Security Studies

Africa Update Report with Adv. Sipho Mantula - from Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International: UNISA 01.05.2024 5:00

01 May 2024 (Afrika Month) Niger – Niamey, The State Court is expected to rule in about ten days on the lifting of the immunity of the ousted president, Mohamed Bazoum, to stand trial, particularly for "high treason." Libya- Lebanon, Leaked photographs of the son of Libya's late dictator Moammar Gadhafi and the tiny underground cell where he has been held for years in Lebanon have raised con...

A group of musicians led a picket in Joburg yesterday to the offices of a record company in Rosebank. They say the company is one of several record companies are not paying them proper royalties from streaming services 01.05.2024 8:52

Guest: Sello Chicco Twala: Award-winning record producer

How and when did loadshedding start in South Africa? 01.05.2024 11:56

Guest: Prof. Sampson Mamphweli: Head of Secretariat at South African National Energy Development Institute

Activists have now asked Western Cape Premier Alan Winde to consider turning CBD parking lots into social housing 01.05.2024 8:58

Guest: Buhle Booi: head of political organising at the housing activist organization and law centre Ndifuna Ukwazi

The Labour Appeal Court has ruled against the company Barloworld - which fired a worker because repeated blood tests showed she had been using cannabis - or smoking dagga. 30.04.2024 6:26

Guest: Saber Ahmed Jazbhay - Labour Dispute Resolution Practitioner.

Mediated Conversation: Should powers of policing should be devolved? 30.04.2024 23:42

Guest: Prof Kholofelo Rakubu - Criminologist and HoD: Department of Law, Safety and Security Management at Tshwane University of Technology Guest: Professor Nirmala Devi Gopal Academic Leader in the Discipline of Criminology and Forensic Studies: UKZN Guest: Dr Guy Lamb: Director, Conflict, Peacebuilding and Risk Unit: Stellenbosch University

According to the Electoral Commission of South Africa, of the 39.7 million South Africans that have a right to vote, 69.9% are registered to vote on 29 May 30.04.2024 10:43

Guest: Mbali Ntuli - CEO & Founder of Ground Work Collective Guest: Advocate Brenda Madumise: Director Wise 4 Afrika

The Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) has called on Police Minister Bheki Cele to probe the mismanagement of government buildings that has resulted in unsafe working conditions. 30.04.2024 9:26

Guest: Lennox Mabaso – Spokesperson Department of Public Works

The Electoral Commission has now asked the police to expedite an investigation into a claim that the political party Umkhonto weSizwe forged hundreds of signatures on its election registration documents. 30.04.2024 8:44

Guest: William Gumede: Founder & Executive Chair, Democracy Works Foundation

Africa Update Report with Adv. Sipho Mantula - from Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International: UNISA 30.04.2024 4:57

30 April 2024 Kenya – Nairobi, African heads of state convened in Nairobi for the International Development Association (IDA) summit, with a focus on favourable lending terms and strategies to bolster sustainable development across the continent. Sudan – Russia, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov visited Sudan on Monday in a signal of support for the Sudanese army which is lo...

There was a statement from the Presidency yesterday denying that President Cyril Ramaphosa was in any way targeting the head of news and current affairs here at the SABC - Moshoshoe Monare 30.04.2024 7:25

Guest: Reggie molausi: SANEF Executive Director

Hamas is considering a new framework that would see the group releasing thirty three Israeli hostages - in return for Israel pausing its offensive in Gaza 30.04.2024 6:40

Guest: Dr Kingsley Makhubela – Conflict Resolution Expert and RiskRecon Director

The Cancer Alliance, Treatment Action Campaign and Section27 now say that the Gauteng Provincial Government has failed to appoint a single service provider to provide treatment for cancer patients - despite allocating nearly eight hundred million rand for 30.04.2024 4:48

Guest: Salomé Meyer: Director, Cancer Alliance

Today the National Youth Development Agency will host the Intergenerational Dialogue on Democracy and Development 30.04.2024 4:24

Guest: Karabo Mohale: Executive Deputy Chairperson, NYDA

Over the weekend, MK Party announced that it had expelled five members - including the person who first registered it - Jabulani Khumalo 29.04.2024 6:25

Guest: Prof Bheki Mngomezulu: Director: Centre for the Advancement of Non-Racialism and Democracy (CANRAD) at Nelson Mandela University

Guest: Thulani Ngwenya - Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union President

Criminals are now ‘smoking’ stolen fibre cables - Taking cable theft to a whole new level, is the rising trend of criminals smoking fibre cables 29.04.2024 4:03

Guest: Jan Vermuelan: Editor, My Broadband

Africa Update Report with Adv. Sipho Mantula - from Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International: UNISA 29.04.2024 3:41

29 April 2024 Sudan – North Darfur, The U.N. Security Council on Saturday expressed its "deep concern" over an imminent attack on al-Fashir in Sudan's North Darfur region by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Togo – Lome, Campaigning in Togo ends on Sunday as the country prepares to go the polls on Monday to elect lawmakers and the country’s first regional representatives. Burkina Faso – Ou...

Mediated Conversation: what is the impact of keeping interest rates high? 29.04.2024 22:40

Guest: Dr Roeloff Botha: economist and advisor to the Optimum Investment Group Guest: Dr Lumkile Mondi – Wits University Political Economist

It’s being reported that groups representing around eight hundred magistrates are considering a strike over the fact a dispute over their salaries has not been resolved. 29.04.2024 4:27

Guest: Ian Cox: President: Association of Regional Magistrates of Southern Africa

The Ministers of Police, Justice and Defence announce that there will be able to protect voters and infrastructure during the elections 29.04.2024 9:26

Guest: Lirandzu Themba: Police Ministry Spokesperson Guest: Jackie Cilliers: Chair of Board and Head of African Futures and innovation at the Institute for Security Studies

Doctors have now said that the Department of Health is putting diabetes patients at risk 29.04.2024 4:16

Guest: Dr Patrick Ngassa Piotie. Project Manager: Tshwane Insulin Project at University of Pretoria

it’s now being reported that Russian forces have made gains in at least three different areas along the eastern front - while Ukraine is still waiting for more arms and ammunition from the US and other western countries. 29.04.2024 6:05

Guest: Roland Henwood - Political Scientist: University of Pretoria