The National Briefing

The Public Servants Association will tomorrow march over deadlocked salary negotiations that could disrupt services provided by government departments such as home affairs, employment & labour and the SA Social Security Agency (Sassa). 17.10.2023 4:16 ↓

  Guest: Reuben Maleka – General Manager: Public Service Association

Shoprite calls for action to counter food insecurity. By 2025 nearly half of South Africa’s population will be food insecure, with 48.96% of the population potentially not having enough to eat. 17.10.2023 3:57 ↓

  Guest: Sanjeev Raghubir. Shoprite Group: Head of Sustainability and CSI

There was a series of comments by president Cyril Ramaphosa overnight - as he closed the ANC’s NEC meeting - he says that the ANC is not implementing privatisation through the developments at Transnet and Eskom. 17.10.2023 4:25 ↓

  Guest: Mzwandile Mbeje – SABC Politics Editor

WaterCAN, an initiative of the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA), calls on the Gauteng water authorities to make their water infrastructure plans public, with detailed spending and timelines. 17.10.2023 3:26 ↓

  Guest: Dr Ferrial Adam – Manager: WaterCAN

Axed Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane has joined the Economics Freedom Fighters (EFF) as a party member. 17.10.2023 6:00 ↓

  Guest: Sinawo Thambo – EFF National Spokesperson

How big could the hydrogen economy be for South Africa? 17.10.2023 4:51 ↓

  Guest: Professor Sampson Mamphweli – Head of the Energy Secretariat: South African National Energy Institute (SANEDI)

In the middle east the US secretary of state Antony Blinken has made promises of an aid package to Gaza but has not given any details 17.10.2023 3:42 ↓

  Guest: Arina Muresan - Researcher For The Institute For Global Dialogue

The Human Rights Commission has found that ten bodies that distribute water in Limpopo are not delivering water according to the right standards 17.10.2023 4:42 ↓

  Guest: Victor Mavhidula - Limpopo SAHRC Provincial Manager

Mediated Conversation: About 5.2-million young people in SA are not attending school. 16.10.2023 26:00 ↓

    Dr Stephen Taylor - Director: Research Monitoring at DBE   Hendrick Makaneta - Education Analyst   Merle Mansfield - Programme Director of the Zero Dropout Campaign

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being used by South African scientists to detect and classify pollen spores in real time, which may improve forecasting of bioaerosols that trigger respiratory illnesses like allergic rhinitis (hay fever) and asthma. 16.10.2023 5:48 ↓

    Guest: Prof Jonny Peter, head of the Division of Allergology and Clinical Immunology at Groote Schuur and the UCT Lung Institute

Rugby Analysis 16.10.2023 7:11 ↓

    Guest: Thanduxolo Mxoli – SABC News Senior Reporter

E-Hailing Partners Council (EPCO) on Bolt’s Driver Engagement Centre in Johannesburg. 16.10.2023 4:26 ↓

  Guest: Kenny Moretsele – Public Relations Officer: E-Hailing Partners Council

#UniteBehind has launched a court bid to compel the Passenger railway agency of SA (Prasa) to hand over the running and management of the railway system in the metro to the City of Cape Town. 16.10.2023 5:28 ↓

  Guest: Zackie Achmat - co-founder and director: #UniteBehind

Africa Update Report with Adv Sipho Mantula - Senior Researcher Institute for Global Dialogue 16.10.2023 5:11 ↓

Afrika Update Report: 16 October 2023;  1. Israel-Gaza-Afrika, Why is Afrika divided on supporting Palestine?  2.Sudan Khartoum, As the escalation in the conflict between the Rapid Support Forces and Sudanese Armed Forces reached its sixth month yesterday resulting in the deaths of at least 5 000 civilians, 12 000 injured and over 5.7 million people forcibly displaced;  3. Kenya-China, Kenyan Pres...

Eskom, Transnet ex-board members blame ‘meddling’ Minister Gordhan for executive exodus at dysfunctional SOEs 16.10.2023 4:06 ↓

  Guest: Iraj Abedien - Economist

Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Dr Naledi Pandor says the world cannot look away while millions of Palestinians are suffering in the Middle East. 16.10.2023 7:28 ↓

Guest: Dr Naledi Pandor - Minister of International Relations and Cooperation

Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Dr Naledi Pandor says the world cannot look away while millions of Palestinians are suffering in the Middle East. 16.10.2023 3:39 ↓

Guest: Naéem Jeenah – Senior Researcher: Mapungubwe Institute

According to Solidarity, almost a third of South Africans were not counted in the last census. This casts great doubt on the credibility of Statistics South Africa’s (Stats SA) data. 16.10.2023 4:43 ↓

  Guest: Connie Mulder, the head of Solidarity’s Research Institute

the US appears to be suffering extreme politically dysfunction. The republications have not been able to choose a person who could win enough votes to act as the Speaker of the house of representatives. 16.10.2023 5:47 ↓

  Guest: Prof John Stremlau - Honorary Professor of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand

EThekwini Municipality working with Umngeni-uThukela Water’s dedicated teams of engineers are confident that Reservoir 3 would have started filling up with sufficient water quantities to allow residents to start receiving water from Sunday, 15 October 202 16.10.2023 4:45 ↓

  Guest: Mr Ednick Msweli Head of EThekwini Municipality Water and Sanitation Guest: Victor Hlophe - Umngeni-uThukela (Engineer - Area Manager for the eThekwini Region)

Request for public release of the Advocate Dumisa Ntsebeza SC report into the NPA’s approach towards prosecutions of the TRC cases 16.10.2023 3:54 ↓

  Guest: Gina Snyman - In-House Counsel. Lawyers for Human Rights

SA doctors reportedly earn salaries similar to what they had earned in 2012 and 2013, and are currently receiving 13% below the expected income levels for their profession due to inflation. 13.10.2023 6:27 ↓

Guest: Dr Mzulungile Nodikida – South African Medical Association Board Member

South Africa’s great white sharks are changing locations – they need to be monitored for beach safety and conservation 13.10.2023 4:50 ↓

    Guest: Prof Matt Dicken.  Head of Research KZN sharks board  

SALGA would like to express its sadness at the passing of Mr. Nceba Ncunyana who worked as the General Manager for infrastructure in the Buffalo City Metro Municipality. 13.10.2023 5:10 ↓

  Guest: Cllr Mesuli Ngqondwana - provincial chairperson for SALGA Eastern Cape