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The Justice Committee of Parliament has voted to recommend to the National Assembly that MPs vote to remove suspended Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe and retired Judge Nkola Motata as judges 23.11.2023 6:28

Guest: Lawson Naidoo – Executive Secretary: Council For The Advancement Of The SA Constitution

Mediated Conversation: Transnet Crisis: thousands of containers stuck offshore outside Durban because ships cannot dock to unload their containers 22.11.2023 21:35

Clip: Earle Peters - Transnet Port Terminals Managing Executive at the Durban Terminals Bonginkosi Mabaso - Transnet Freight Rail, Chief Commercial Officer Dr Juanita Maree | Chairperson | South African Association of Freight Forwarders (SAAFF) Jan Havenga – Drector of Gain Group and Professor in the Department of Logistics at Stellenbosch University

GEPF’s investment strategies continue to protect the Funds’ assets as it reaches R2.32 trillion market value amidst a poor performing South African and global economy. 22.11.2023 7:30

Guest: Musa Mabesa, The Principal Executive Officer (PEO) of the Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF)

South African university students use AI to help them understand – not to avoid work 22.11.2023 4:12

Guest: Tanja Bosch - Professor in Media Studies and Production, University of Cape Town

There has been a sharp increase in attacks on Gauteng cyclists since October, with the Pedal Power Association recording four incidents in a single day earlier this month 22.11.2023 4:53

. Neil Robinson - @PedalPowerPPA CEO

President Cyril Ramaphosa yesterday, as Chair of the BRICS group of nations, convened a BRICS Extraordinary Joint Meeting on the Middle East Situation in Gaza 22.11.2023 6:32

Guest: Prof Chris Landsberg - SARChI Chair of African Diplomacy and Foreign Policy at the University of Johannesburg (UJ)

In the National Assembly yesterday, Members of Parliament voted in favour of South Africa cutting all diplomatic ties with Israel over its conduct in Gaza 22.11.2023 5:18

Guest: Garth Le Pere - visiting professor at the University of Pretoria

The NPA suffered a major blow in the Middelburg regional court yesterday when the case against former Eskom CEO @koko_matshela and nine others was removed from the roll. 22.11.2023 4:02

Karam Singh – Executive Director @Corruption_SA

In the US, the battle over the future of the development of artificial intelligence appears to have now burst into the open - with two different sides on the issue 22.11.2023 5:17

Guest: Steven Sidley - professor of practice at Johannesburg Business School, University of Johannesburg

In Parliament, the finance committee has decided to go ahead with the plan to introduce the two pot retirement system in March next year. 22.11.2023 6:15

Guest: Mathew Parks – Cosatu Spokesperson

A report by Ritshidze has now revealed that there are unwelcoming services and long delays at Gauteng clinics 22.11.2023 6:46

Guest: Ndivhuwo Rambau - Ritshidze Project Coordinator

Africa Update Report with Adv. Sipho Mantula - from Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International: UNISA 22.11.2023 3:11

Afrika Update Report: 22 November 2023; 1. Guinea- Conakry, The Military ruling junta of Guinea has ordered new charges to be brought against the exile and former president Alpha Conde; 2. Somalia-Mogadishu, Flash flooding in Somalia has claimed dozens of lives and causing large -scale of displacement; 3. Italy-Zambia, Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema has arrived in Italy for a two-day sta...

African Independent Congress councillor, Magaret Arnolds, is the new speaker of the Johannesburg council. 21.11.2023 7:08

Guest: Magaret Arnolds - new speaker of the Johannesburg council from African Independent Congress

Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni has said government is expecting the International Criminal Court (ICC) to issue a warrant of arrest against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu soon. 21.11.2023 6:33

Guest: Ben Winks - Independent Advocate Based In Jhb

Mediated Conversation: A report released by the Institute for Security Studies show a steady climb in the murder rate over the past decade. 21.11.2023 21:50

TJ Masilela - Chairperson of Gauteng Provincial Community Police Board Dr Dumisani Quiet Mabunda, Senior Lecturer/Criminologist: Police Practice, College of Law at Unisa David Bruce - Independent Researcher in Policing and Security: Institute for Security Studies

The people who were left homeless after the Marshalltown fire that killed at least seventy six people in the centre of Joburg earlier this year - have now been moved to shacks in Denver in Joburg 21.11.2023 5:36

Guest: Nomzamo Zondo - Executive Director at The Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI) Guest: Zamantungwa Mbeki - Gauteng provincial manager: SA Human Rights Commission

SA Municipal Workers’ Union welcomes Labour Court ruling setting aside Municipal Systems Act amendments, it says the act was an infringement on municipal worker's right to association. 21.11.2023 8:54

Guest: Dumisane Magagula - General Secretary of SAMWU

Venezuela Mr. Leopoldo Lopez who is in South Africa to present the WLC Founding Document to Robben Island on behalf of all political prisoners across the world 21.11.2023 4:55

Guest: Leopoldo López is a Freedom Activist from Venezuela

The Electoral Commission says two point nine million people interacted with its registration machinery during the voter registration weekend - while five hundred and sixty eight thousand people registered to vote for the first time 21.11.2023 6:39

Guest: Sy Mamabolo – IEC CEO

It’s emerged that the backlog of containers needing to be processed by Transnet’s ports terminal in Durban is now over seventy thousand - there are 63 ships waiting offshore to come in and offload their terminals. 21.11.2023 7:56

Guest: Earle Peters - Transnet Port Terminals Managing Executive at the Durban Terminals

In Argentina, the country’s politics has been rocked by the election of Javeir Milei as President 21.11.2023 6:14

Guest: Professor Lyall White - Faculty at Gibs and research associate at the Brenthurst foundation

Zero Carbon Charge broke ground on its first 100% renewable energy charging station in what will become SA’s first national network of 120 solar-powered charging facilities spaced out at 150km intervals. 21.11.2023 4:46

Guest: Andries Malherbe - co-founder: Zero Carbon Charge

Africa Update Report with Adv. Sipho Mantula - from Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International: UNISA 21.11.2023 4:48

Afrika Update Report: 21 November 2023; Germany- Africa Union , The AU Chairperson and President of Comoros Azali Assoumani has told the AU's G20 partners in Berlin to support Africa’s call for reform of international financial architecture; Kenya- Mombasa, Kenya's national railway company has resumed freight services to and from the port city of Mombasa after heavy rains and landslides; Liber...

The South African Police Service (SAPS) statistics for April to June 2023 reveal nowhere is safe for women. There is a relationship between the normalisation of sexual violence and the inability of the state to deal with it, writes Amanda Gouws. 20.11.2023 3:40

Guest: Professor Amanda Gouws - SARChI Chair in Gender Politics, Stellenbosch University

World Toilet Day was on the 19 of November - water and sanitation issues and the pollution and health risks arising from poorly functioning sanitation. 20.11.2023 6:07

Guest: Dr Jo Barnes, Senior Lecturer Emeritus in the Department of Global Health: Stellenbosch University