The National Briefing

Inadequate disability grants for SA children thrust families into poverty 05.02.2024 6:10 ↓

    Guest: Dr Zara Trafford from the Institute for Life Course Health Research & Stellenbosch University PhD graduate

Eskom rolls out load limiting across Gauteng to allow customers to use some Appliances during Stages 1 to 4 of loadshedding 02.02.2024 7:43 ↓

    Guest: Amanda Qithi, Eskom Gauteng Spokesperson

Africa Update Report with Adv. Sipho Mantula - from Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International: UNISA 02.02.2024 5:25 ↓

    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...

Bafana Bafana takes on Cape Verde in the quarter finals of the AFCON 2023 tournament 02.02.2024 5:30 ↓

    Guest: Marks Maponyane: Bafana Bafana Legend

US forces have again struck Houthi positions in Yemen - that have been used by the Houthis to attack shipping moving through the red sea. 02.02.2024 4:26 ↓

    Guest: Abel Esterhuyse - Professor Of Strategy: Faculty Of Military Science: Stellenbosch University

The Leader of Xiluva Part Bongani Baloyi yesterday toook samples of water provided by water tankers in Tshwane townships to determine if the quality meets the required standards 02.02.2024 6:06 ↓

    Guest: Bongani Baloyi: Xiluya Leader

The City of Cape Town responds to the dismissal of over 100 LEAP officers 02.02.2024 7:25 ↓

    Guest: Reagen Allen - Provincial Minister Police Oversight and Community Safety in the Western Cape

Gautrain Management Agency’s new Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Tshepo Kgobe, has assumed his role with effect from 1 February 2024. 02.02.2024 8:19 ↓

    Guest: Tshepo Kgobe: Gautrain Management Agency’s new Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

The Western Cape government has approached the National Disaster Management Centre to declare a provincial disaster as several wildfires rage across the province. 02.02.2024 3:32 ↓

    Guest: Colin Deiner: Western Cape Disaster Management Chief Director

The Eastern Cape Social Development MEC, Bukiwe Fanta has now revealed that close to half a million people in the Eastern Cape ran out of money to buy food last year 02.02.2024 6:55 ↓

    Guest: Mzukisi Solani: Eastern Cape Social Development head of Communications

Mediated Conversation: should Mandela’s items be auctioned? 01.02.2024 24:54 ↓

    Guest: Ben Mwasinga, Senior Manager for Heritage Conservation Management at the South African Heritage Resources Agency   Guest: Dr Jane Mufamadi - CEO Freedom Park   Guest: Dr Ali Hlongwane- Researcher: History Workshop at Wits University

South Africa’s early-stage entrepreneurial activity (TEA) has declined to below pre-pandemic levels, and regarding entrepreneurial intentions, fewer people than ever before are considering starting new businesses. 01.02.2024 3:22 ↓

    Guest: Prof Natanya Meyer: Co-author of the Stellenbosch Business School SA Entrepreneurship Monitor Report

Zero Carbon Charge has made its submission to the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy on the draft Integrated Resource Plan. It argues that Government has underestimated the strain that EVs will place on the Eskom grid. 01.02.2024 4:18 ↓

    Guest: Andries Malherbe: Co-Founder and Director of Zero Carbon Charge.

Overnight, our envoy to the United Nations Mathu Joyini has told the united nations that our government believes Israel is not complying with the order of the International Court of Justice - that it must protect civilians in Gaza. 01.02.2024 14:01 ↓

    Guest: Obed Bapela: ANC NEC Member for International Relations   Guest: John Stremlau, Honorary Professor of International Relations Wits University

African Transformation Movement has written to the Minister of Higher Education to address the systematic discrimination against black South African academics in the Higher Education sector. 01.02.2024 4:59 ↓

Guest: Vuyo Zungula: African Transformation Movement President

Africa Update Report with Adv. Sipho Mantula - from Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International: UNISA 01.02.2024 4:58 ↓

01 February 2024:   1. Algeria- Middle East, Algeria held a UN Security Council briefing session on the ruling  by the ICJ issuing provisional measures on Israel's war in Gaza. 2. Liberia -Monrovia, President Joseph Boakai questions government bank balance record  of President George Weah’s administration; 3. Somalia-Mogadishu, Somalia's intelligence (NISA) agency has blocked and shut down  20 Wha...

International Relations Minister Naledi Pandor says that Israel is refusing to comply with the order of the International Court of Justice as it continues its attacks on Gaza 01.02.2024 5:21 ↓

  Guest: Steven Gruzd, head of the Africa-Russia Project at the South African Institute of  International Affairs

SAMWU are appalled by the way the City of Cape Town has dealt with its LEAP officers after they dismissed over hundred Law Enforcement Officers 01.02.2024 7:30 ↓

Guest: Hlalanathi Gagayi - Organiser assigned at the Cape Town Metro SAMWU Region

In eThekwini yesterday, the IFP in KZN brought a confidence motion against the Mayor the ANC’s Mxolisi Kaunda - but ANC councillors and some councillors from smaller parties voted to retain Kaunda 01.02.2024 6:17 ↓

Guest: Mdu Nkosi: Chief Whip of the IFP in KZN

The City of Tshwane says it’s looking to address issues of hijacked buildings by forcing the sale of the property through the courts or by expropriation 01.02.2024 5:50 ↓

Guest: Kingsley Wakelin: City of Tshwane MMC for Corporate and Shared Services  

fire in the Cape Winelands has entered its second week, despite a massive firefighting response from authorities - damaging 24 000 hectares. 31.01.2024 6:04 ↓

    Guest: Jo-Anne Otto: Cape Winelands District Municipality spokesperson

Bafana Bafana beat Morocco 2-0 last night to reach the quarter finals of the AFCON 2023 31.01.2024 4:11 ↓

    Guest: Brian Mofokeng: SABC Commentator

Cosatu has now said that they welcome the decision by the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress to suspend Jacob Zuma from the party 31.01.2024 4:12 ↓

    Guest: Matthew Parks: Cosatu Spokesperson

Mediated Conversation: SA Human Rights Commission and CRL Rights Commission release the July Unrest Reports 31.01.2024 21:35 ↓

    Guest: Nomshado Lubisi-Nkosinkulu: Media Monitoring Africa Communications Manager   Guest: Crispin Hemson - Director for Centre of Nonviolence at Durban University of Technology   Guest: Prof David Mosoma - CRL Right Commission Chair

For the first time, a human patient has received an implant from brain-chip start-up Neuralink 31.01.2024 4:08 ↓

    Guest: Bruce Watson - AI Expert, Stellenbosch University