The National Briefing

Rise Mzansi Leader launches the party’s Manifesto ahead of the national elections. 22.01.2024 5:53 ↓

  Guest: Songezo Zibi: Rise Mzansi Leader

More and more people have grown intolerant of politicians lies and games. 22.01.2024 9:02 ↓

  Guest: Siphamandla Zondi: Professor of Politics and International Relations University of Johannesburg And volunteers in the Devoted Citizen NGO

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will officially open the Ram Janmabhoomi Mandir, a lavish temple built on the same site that analysts say is a monument to Hindu nationalist ambition. 22.01.2024 4:43 ↓

  Guest: Prof Alf Nilsen: Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Pretoria 

load-shedding stage 16 - Stage 16 schedules shall consist of all 16 blocks off simultaneously. 22.01.2024 9:58 ↓

  Guest: Vally Padayachee - Power and Energy Expert

#MatricResults: are our teachers doing better than they used to 19.01.2024 3:37 ↓

    Guest: Prof Chika Sehoole: Professor of Higher Education and Dean in the faculty of Education, University of Pretoria

Last night, the Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga said that 82.9% of those who wrote the matric exams passed - that’s the highest ever when expressed as a percentage. 19.01.2024 3:07 ↓

    Guest: Brahm Fleisch: Education Expert & Professor of Education, Wits

New amendment to the Medicines and Related Substances Act, would allow for cannabis plant material and products containing THC to be used for private consumer purposes without being regulated as a Schedule 6 substance. 19.01.2024 4:13 ↓

    Guest: Gabriel Theron -CEO of Cilo Cybin

Africa Update Report with Adv. Sipho Mantula - from Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International: UNISA 19.01.2024 5:21 ↓

    18 January 2024: Sierra Leone- Freetown, A Sierra Leone high court has allowed former President Ernest Bai Koroma to travel abroad on medical grounds; DR Congo-Kinshasha, Police in DRC dispersed a small protest by Movement for the Liberation of the Congo against the provisional results of the December legislative elections; Ethiopia-Kampala, the Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs declines t...

Well with Bafana Bafana preparing for their crunch match against Namibia on Sunday night - the eff is now demanding that the CEO of the SA Football Association Danny Jordaan be removed from his position 19.01.2024 4:45 ↓

    Guest: Sinawo Tambo: EFF National Spokesperson

Fire Ops SA has now criticized Cities on not prioritizing fire safety leading to extensive damages 19.01.2024 5:25 ↓

    Guest: Wynand Engelbrecht, chief fire officer at Fire Ops SA

why is SA’s dropout rate so high at schools? 19.01.2024 3:00 ↓

    Guest: Colin Wardle: Communication Lead for the Zero Dropout Campaign

The Eastern Cape House of Traditional Leaders dismissed accusations that the Eastern Cape government and police failed to protect the 34 initiates who died this summer season 19.01.2024 12:11 ↓

    Guest: Nkosi Mpumalanga Gwadiso - Chairperson: Eastern Cape House of Traditional Leaders

Pakistan has now launched missile attacks into Iranian territory - killing nine people - after Iran fired missiles into Pakistan this week. 19.01.2024 5:36 ↓

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

How should we support learners who have got disappointing results? 19.01.2024 2:09 ↓

    Guest: Kobus Maree: the Department of Educational Psychology, University of Pretoria

is there any evidence that we are improving the way we teach maths to young people? 19.01.2024 3:19 ↓

    Guest: Prof Faaiz Gierdien: mathematics educator, Stellenbosch university faculty of education

a group of lawyers in South Africa are now preparing a case against countries they say are helping Israel commit genocide in Gaza. The lawyers say that the US and the UK are helping Israel - and thus are complicit 19.01.2024 9:38 ↓

    Guest: Wikus Van Rensburg: Attorney, Wikus van Rensburg Attorneys

Next week a Paediatric Surgeon, Dr Peter Beale is due to face a criminal trial - after a three year old boy - 21 month old girl and a ten year old boy died - following operations he had carried out on them. 19.01.2024 3:59 ↓

    Guest: Dr Sizeka Maweya – Board Member: SA Medical Association

Today, the City of Joburg Safety MMC will unveil two-hundred JMPD pointsment 18.01.2024 9:00 ↓

    Guest: Dr Mgcini Tshwaku - MMC safety, City of Joburg

Mediated Conversation: is there such a thing as South African spoken English - that is distinct from the English spoken in other languages? 18.01.2024 25:13 ↓

    Professor Thabo Ditsele: Associate Professor of Sociolinguistics and Linguistic Anthropology and an NRF-rated researcher at Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria.   Guest: Ayanda Sishi-Wigzell: social & political commentator & a freelance journalist.   Guest: Professor Michael Titlestad: Department of English, Wits

Cogta KZN is in talks with national government to declare the province a disaster as damaging storms have persisted since December. 18.01.2024 4:56 ↓

    Guest: Siboniso Mngadi - KZN Cogta Spokesperson

The Independent Examinations Board (IEB) has achieved an overall pass rate of 98.46% in the 2023 National Senior Certificate (NSC) examinations. The pass rate is slightly higher than the 2022 NSC pass rate of 98.42%. 18.01.2024 4:22 ↓

    Guest: Lebogang Montjane: Executive Director, Independent Schools Association of Southern Africa

There was more flooding in KZN yesterday, the KZN Education Department asked schools to close early - to get children home safely in time. 18.01.2024 4:30 ↓

    Guest: Nomarashiya Caluza, Provincial Secretary SADTU KZN

In the Western Cape Provincial Legislature, the DA appears to be still be pressing ahead with the Western Cape powers bill - which would see the province gaining more powers from national government 18.01.2024 4:03 ↓

    Guest: Isaac Sileku: DA Western Cape Spokesperson on Western Cape Provincial Powers Bill

The ANC in the Western Cape says that the Powers Bill goes against SA's constitution. 18.01.2024 4:02 ↓

    Guest: Muhammad Khalid Sayed - ANC Provincial Spokesperson (Western Cape)

The KwaZulu-Natal government says it is in talk with national government to declare the province a disaster area following damaging storms since December. 18.01.2024 5:44 ↓

    Guest: Prof. Christo Coetzee from the Northwest University, African Centre for Disaster Studies