The National Briefing

There was an important ruling in the Supreme Court of Appeal yesterday - it said that the CEO of Vodacom Shameel Joosub must make a bigger offer to the inventor of the please call me service Nkosana Makate. 07.02.2024 7:14 ↓

    Guest: Nkosana Makate: “Please call me” inventor

The Ukrainian president Volodomyr Zelensky says he is now considering making a major change to the leadership of his country’s war effort - amid intense speculation he is preparing to remove the head of the military Valerii Zaluzhnyi. 07.02.2024 4:38 ↓

    Guest: Gustavo de Carvalho: Senior Researcher, South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

The US secretary of state Antony Blinken is back in the Middle East this morning - as part of the latest round of attempts to try and broke some kind of peace between Israel and Hamas. 06.02.2024 4:44 ↓

    Guest: Naeem Jeenah: Senior Researcher: Humanity at the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA)

Is there a future of National Health Insurance in SA? 06.02.2024 5:37 ↓

    Guest: Nicholas Crisp: Deputy Director General, Department of Health

Africa Update Report with Adv. Sipho Mantula - from Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International: UNISA 06.02.2024 5:11 ↓

    6 February 2024:   Senegal-Dakar, Senegal government restricted access to the mobile internet as lawmakers debated a bill to possibly extend the president's tenure;   Sudan -Khartoum, The paramilitary rapid support forces have tampered with telecommunications networks across Sudan as the conflict intensify;   Liberia-Monrovia, President Joseph Nyumah Boakai has expressed explicit confidence in...

Mediated Conversation: why do we have low entrepreneurial activity in SA? 06.02.2024 25:04 ↓

    Guest: John Dludlu: CEO, Small Business Institute   Guest: Tebogo Khaas – Chief Entrepreneur Institute of Chartered Entrepreneurs   Guest: Prof Natanya Meyer: Associate Professort at the University of Johannesburg and co-author of the Stellenbosch Business School SA Entrepreneurship Monitor Report

Coalition governments and media narrative 06.02.2024 6:16 ↓

    Guest: Lindiwe Zulu - Minister of Social Development of South Africa

The new rate of the national minimum wage has now been announced - it goes up by eight and a half percent from march - which means that a worker has to be paid R27.58 cents an hour - unless an employer asks the labour department for an exemption 06.02.2024 4:53 ↓

    Guest: Zwelinzima Vavi: SAFTU General Secretary

MACUA Denounces Government’s Prioritization of Wealthy Elites at Mining Indaba over attending and listening to Marginalized and Affected Communities 06.02.2024 5:02 ↓

    Guest: Phyllia Ngoatje, the head of paralegal unit at the Mining Affected Communities United in Action Advice Office.

Last year more coal travelled by road than ever before - a figure of 26 million tonnes - because Transnet can’t manage its railway systems. 06.02.2024 10:56 ↓

    Guest: Mzila Mthenjane - Minerals Council CEO

Professor Thuli Madonsela argues that overhauling existing immigration laws will require a careful balancing act 06.02.2024 7:13 ↓

    Guest: Thuli Madonsela: director of the Centre for Social Justice, law trust chair professor at Stellenbosch University and founder of the Thuma Foundation

There’s been a report that the retired former constitutional court judge Zac Yacoob is now back at constitution hill - and playing an advisory role at the court. 06.02.2024 3:06 ↓

    Guest: Lawson Naidoo: Executive Secretary, Council for the Advancement of the South Africa Constitution (CASAC)

Yesterday the Health Minister Dr Joe Phaahla held a briefing on the shortage of doctors and promised that in various provinces they will advertise 375 medical officer vacancies over the next six months 06.02.2024 5:08 ↓

    Guest: Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo: Deputy Minister of Health

NSFAS’s progress on the state of readiness for the beginning of the academic year. 05.02.2024 4:35 ↓

    Guest: Ishmael Mnisi - NSFAS Spokesperson

why is it important for the youth to vote this year? 05.02.2024 8:26 ↓

    Guest: Mbali Ntuli: CEO & Founder of Ground Work Collective

You may remember last year there was a spate of cases where young children in the same school or the same class would all suddenly suffer what appeared to be some kind of food poisoning - where suddenly they would all fall ill at the same time. 05.02.2024 3:56 ↓

    Guest: Sizwe Kupelo: Eastern Cape Health spokesperson

Africa Update Report with Adv. Sipho Mantula - from Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International: UNISA 05.02.2024 2:30 ↓

    2 February 2024:   Sudan -USA, The United States treasury has imposed sanctions on three Sudanese companies allegedly for financing the devastating war since 2023;   Burkina Faso-Ouagadougou, The Burkinabe Prime Minister Joachim Kyelem de Tambela has defended ECOWAS exit through inhumane sanctions;   Zambia- Lusaka, Former President Edgar Lungu has urged citizens to demand an early election an...

Mediated Conversation: Trust and Artificial Intelligence 05.02.2024 23:02 ↓

      Guest: Prof. Keymanthri Moodley: Bioethicist and head of medical ethics at Stellenbosch University   Guest: Steven Sidley: Professor, University of Johannesburg, Author & Columnist   Guest: Glenda Daniels is associate professor of media studies, Wits University

Cape Town waste management director suspended as communities drown in trash 05.02.2024 4:47 ↓

    Guest: Geordin Hill- Lewis: Executive Mayor of Cape Town

The ANC has sought out the help of former President Thabo Mbeki to strengthen election campaign 05.02.2024 7:47 ↓

    Guest: Dr Ongama Mtimka: Political Analyst

The registration weekend with the electoral commission reporting thousands of people coming to check their registrations - and to register for the first time 05.02.2024 5:43 ↓

    Guest: Masego Sheburi: Deputy Chief Electoral Officer

South Africa is in urgent need of ethical leadership. 05.02.2024 4:53 ↓

    Guest: Dr Kershen Pillay: CEO of the Graduate Institute of Financial Sciences (GIFS)

The Vaal community is scrambling to halt the spread of water lettuce, an invasive alien species threatening the Vaal River. 05.02.2024 4:16 ↓

    Guest: Rosemary Anderson - Managing Director, Stonehaven on Vaal

A spokesperson for the Houthi group operating out of Yemen has now told the US and the UK that their military capabilities are not easy to destroy - after the US led huge bombing raids on installations in Syria and Iraq. 05.02.2024 5:10 ↓

    Guest: Roland Henwood - Political Scientist And Commentator At University of Pretoria