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In eThekwini the KZN Premier Nomusa Dube-Ncube has said that workers involved in the municipal strike there are breaking the law 05.03.2024 8:11

Guest: Asad Gaffar: Westville Ratepayers Association chairperson

City Power is going on a new campaign to disconnect people who have not been paying for electricity - while Joburg water is trying to deal with people who haven’t paid for water. 05.03.2024 6:03

Guest: Daniel Meyer - Professor in the College of Business and Economics: University of Johannesburg

Pan Africanist Congress of Azania launched its manifesto over the weekend, in which it said it would Africanize our legal system - and would create a working and functional state 05.03.2024 6:22

Guest: Victor Serakala: PAC Deputy President

Africa Update Report with Adv. Sipho Mantula - from Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International: UNISA 05.03.2024 5:08

5 March 2024: 1.USA-Zimbabwe, The United States of America has terminated Zimbabwe sanctions program and reimposed curbs on nine people and three entities including President Emmerson Mnangagwa; 2. Sudan - African Union Sudan's Defense force commander Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has conditioned acceptance of AU mediation on membership reinstatement; 3. Mozambique-Algeria, Algeria has pledged that i...

African scientists secure major grants to accelerate drug discovery 05.03.2024 4:41

Guest: Prof. Lyn-Marié Birkholtz: University of Pretoria Institute for Sustainable Malaria Control

Mediated Conversation: is the building you’re working in, safe? 04.03.2024 24:36

Guest: Giyani Baloi: Mechanical Engineer specializing in Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning. Guest: Gundo Maswime: Lecture: Municipal Infrastructure Management, UCT Guest: Teboho Thejane: Chief Director, Department of employment and labour

there are now reports that around 1.3 million children in the country aged 3 to 5 years are not attending any form of early learning 04.03.2024 6:16

Guest: Prof Eric Atmore – Director: Centre for Early Childhood Development

UDM launched its manifesto over the weekend with its leader promising that UDM would end load shedding, it would ensure there was clean governance and it would fight crime 04.03.2024 6:57

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

It’s now emerged that a report into Eskom by a group of German experts for a company called V-G-B-E shows that Eskom’s management system does not work - and that there is a risk that if a water purification plant fails - we would be pushed into stage thir 04.03.2024 4:46

Guest: Hügo Kruger: Spokesperson: Truth in Energy

A violence expert has now warned that political violence is a worry ahead of polls 04.03.2024 4:55

Guest: De Haas is a violence monitor in KZN, an honorary Research Fellow at the University of KZN’s School of Law

The ANC has confirmed its holding a special National Executive Committee meeting today. It’s understood the NEC is discussing the party’s candidate list for the elections. Will it include those who were implicated in the state capture commission? 04.03.2024 8:46

Guest: Ebrahim Harvey: Political Analyst

Africa Update Report with Adv. Sipho Mantula - from Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International: UNISA 04.03.2024 4:27

04 March 2024: DR Congo- North Kivu, SADC Army Chief visited the eastern DRC amidst the ongoing fighting between government troops and M23 rebels; Chad- N'Djamena, Chad interim president Mahamat Idriss Deby confirms candidacy in this year's presidential poll; Liberia - Monrovia, A resolution for the establishment of a war and economic crimes court for Liberia is expected to be tabled bef...

In the Middle East, Israel has refused to attend a peace conference with Hamas in Cairo - after Hamas refused to give it a list of hostages that it is holding who are still alive. 04.03.2024 8:26

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

Rand Water says it’s now going to cut the amount of water it gives to two municipalities by twenty percent - because they simply have not paid the money they owe them. 04.03.2024 3:59

Guest: Makenosi Maroo: Spokesperson, Rand Water

still no clarity about the future of e-tolls 04.03.2024 5:01

Guest: Wayne Duvenage: CEO, The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa)

Increase in crime against children reaching crisis proportions. 01.03.2024 12:10

Guest: Craig Wilkinson - founder of Father a Nation

Ritshidze survey of nearly 14,000 people using drugs, sex workers, & LGBTQIA+ community members exposes crisis in public health system 01.03.2024 5:45

Guest: Eva Kiwango - UNAIDS Country Director

The City of Tshwane says it has received positive feedback from 39 companies after its request for information (RFI) notice was sent out to potential independent power producers (IPPs) who have an interest in alternative energy generation. 01.03.2024 3:38

Guest: Cilliers Brink: Executive Mayor of Tshwane

Anti-HIV: Injection now available in South Africa 01.03.2024 8:26

Guest: Prof Salim Abdool Karim: CAPRISA Professor of Global Health in epidemiology

Chaos has erupted at the Ekurhuleni Council Chambers where political parties were supposed to debate and pass a motion of no confidence in the Executive Mayor Sivuyile Ngodwana. 01.03.2024 7:54

Guest: Sivuyile Ngodwana - Executive Mayor: Ekurhuleni Municipality Guest: Jongizizwe Dlabathi - City of Ekurhuleni's acting whip

Ekhurueleni is refusing to implement load shedding - Eskom is taking over. 01.03.2024 4:12

Guest: Amanda Qithi, Eskom Gauteng Spokesperson

New minimum wage comes into effect on 1st March. 01.03.2024 6:19

Guest: Zwelinzima Vavi: General Secretary, South African Federation of Trade Unions ( Saftu)

Trade union, Solidarity, says it has for some time filed complaints about the poor condition of the South African Police Service (SAPS) National Head Office building at Telkom Towers in Pretoria. 01.03.2024 4:33

Guest: Theuns du Buisson - I’m economic researcher at the Solidarity Research Institute

Africa Update Report with Adv. Sipho Mantula - from Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International: UNISA 01.03.2024 4:17

1 March 2024: 1. Algeria - Algiers, Algeria is hosting a summit with 13 nations dealing with oil, gas and renewable energy sources; 2. DR Congo-Rwanda, DRC President Felix Tshisekedi has demanded international sanctions against Rwanda; 3. Chad-N'Djamena, An opposition leader Yaya Dillo has been killed in a clash with security forces; 4. Tanzania- Dar es Salaam, Tanzania's second president Ali Ha...

In Russia - the president there Vladimir Putin has said that if western troops were sent to Ukraine to fight against Russian troops - his country might strike western targets with nuclear weapons. 01.03.2024 6:11

Guest: Prof David Monyae is the Director for the Centre for Africa-China Studies at the University of Johannesburg