The National Briefing

At least 11 miners have been killed at the Impala Platinum Mine in RustenburG and 75 injured workers in hospital. Has the mining industry done enough to make mining safe? 29.11.2023 2:57 ↓

  Guest: Fred Arendse - Founding President of the Junior Mining Council

In the middle east, the four day truce which started on Friday has been formally extended - but there has been at least one skirmish involving people from the Israeli defence force and Hamas. 29.11.2023 5:05 ↓

  Guest: Shafiq Morton – Journalist, author, have done four assignments in Palestine, and wrote a book about it, Surfing behind the Wall.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has now said that South Africans must stop bad mouthing their country - he said that we should be more like the Chinese and that we need to be patriotic 29.11.2023 5:29 ↓

  Guest: Sysman Motloung - Political Analyst

The organisation open secrets says that it now has evidence of a squad of soldiers in the SANDF who have been involved in capturing people or kidnapping people - and in at least one case torturing them - and then killing them 29.11.2023 8:35 ↓

  Guest: Hennie Van Vuuren - Director of Open Secrets

Africa Update Report with Adv. Sipho Mantula - from Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International: UNISA 29.11.2023 4:21 ↓

  Afrika Update Report:  29 November 2023: 1. Madagascar- Antananarivo, Two Madagascan army colonels have been charged and detained on suspicion of attempting to destabilise power;  2. Togo-Lome, Togo's opposition coalition alerts about Constitutional vacuum and calls for talks with government ahead of legislative and regional elections in 2024; 3. Kenya-Netherlands, the International Criminal Cou...

Mediated Conversation: Construction Mafias: How can they be stopped? 28.11.2023 23:16 ↓

Thamsanqa Malinga - director at Mkabayi Management Consulting Jenni Irish-Qhobosheane - researcher at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime Roy Mnisi, executive director, at Master Builders South Africa (MBSA)

SA-Belgium collaboration aims to extend availability of infertility care in underprivileged communities. 28.11.2023 4:43 ↓

    Guest: Gerhard Boshoff - Acting Deputy Director Medical Science, Reproductive Biology Laboratory, Dept Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Steve Biko Academic Hospital

Rubber stamping NHI Bill will have damaging consequences for SA for generations 28.11.2023 5:06 ↓

    Guest: Martin Kingston, Business for South Africa Steering Committee Chair

A GBV complainant may approach the police for assistance at any time, irrespective of when or where the incident took place. 28.11.2023 4:08 ↓

  Guest: Maj-Gen Oswald Reddy - Western Cape police ombudsman

My Vote Counts calls on the Minister of Home Affairs to publicise electoral reform progress reports 28.11.2023 4:07 ↓

  Guest: Boikanyo Moloto – My Vote Counts Political Systems Researcher

The Minister of Justice and Correctional Services Ronald Lamola has confirmed that twenty thousand nine hundred and thirty three cell phones have been confiscated in prisons from April to October this year 28.11.2023 9:13 ↓

  Guest: Makgothi Thobakgale - National Commissioner: Department Of Correctional Services

Transnet authorities are putting the blame on the weather for disrupting the handling by cranes of ships docking in the chaotic ports of Durban and Richards Bay. 28.11.2023 8:36 ↓

  Guest: Andrew Pike - Head of Ports, Transport and Logistics: Bowmans'

In Joburg, the huge Johannesburg Central Llibrary which houses one and a half million books in the centre of the Joburg CBD is still closed - after being closed from water damage in 2019. 28.11.2023 3:05 ↓

 Griffin Shea - Journalist, Bookseller And Writer from Bridge Books

The Inkatha Freedom Party says it is going ahead with its plan to put the face of its founder Prince Mangosutho Bhutelezi on the ballot paper next year. 28.11.2023 3:28 ↓

 Velenkosi Hlabisa - Inkatha Freedom Party President 

In New Zealand, the country’s new right wing government says it has cancelled a plan to ban smoking for anyone born after 2008. 28.11.2023 5:31 ↓

 Dr Sharon Nyatsanza – Deputy Director: National Council against Smoking

Mediated Conversation: Sudan Crisis 27.11.2023 22:40 ↓

Gilbert Khadiagala -Director of the Centre for the Study of the United States (ACSUS) Donatella Rovera - Amnesty International Senior Crisis Response Adviser Faith Mabera - Senior Researcher at The Institute For Global Dialogue

During an anti-GBV march held in Cape Town on Saturday, LifeLine's Sinikiwe Biyela said one of the demands on the memorandum sought to prompt doctors and medical staff to report cases of statutory rape. 27.11.2023 5:36 ↓

  Guest: Ms Phinah Kodisang: CEO of the Soul City Institute

Climate change is amplifying epidemics in Africa. A new variant of the Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) emerged in Senegal causing the largest outbreak recently recorded in West Africa. 27.11.2023 4:40 ↓

  Guest: Prof. Tulio de Oliveira, the director of the Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI) at Stellenbosch University.

Organised crime is escalating in South Africa as criminal mafias reportedly get more brazen and threaten high-profile officials in the country. 27.11.2023 6:22 ↓

  Guest: Aron Hyman – TimesLive investigative journalist

Well as you had to survive stage six load shedding for almost all of the weekend the minister for electricity in the presidency Kgosientso Ramokgopa denying yesterday that stage 8 load shedding had been implemented. 27.11.2023 6:37 ↓

 Mohamed Madhi - CEO of Sinan Energy 

City Power took over load shedding from Eskom which has led to confusion over when residents can expect power cuts. City Power implements load shedding at two-hour intervals to provide relief. 27.11.2023 7:13 ↓

Isaac Mangena - City Power Spokesperson