The National Briefing

Today, The Inyanda National Land Movement in the Eastern Cape will march to COGTA Bisho Offices to demand the right to access water for domestic use, irrigation and that allocated resources are used to improve road infrastructure 13.10.2023 6:10 ↓

  Guest: Xolisa Dwane - Inyanda National Land Movement member and smallholder farmer,

Tshwane Mayor responds to Cosatu’s call for him to resign and video evidence showing that Samwu official implicated in Arson Attack 13.10.2023 6:01 ↓

  Guest: Cilliers Brink – City of Tshwane Mayor

Africa Update Report with Advocate Sipho Mantula 13.10.2023 5:06 ↓

  Afrika Update Report: 13 October 2023;  1. Liberia- Monrovia, Liberians await election results as George Weah and Joseph Boakai vie for presidency;  2. Madagascar- Antananarivo, the first round of Madagascar's presidential elections has been postponed by a week; 3. Zimbabwe- Harare, it takes two to tango as CCC's leader Nelson Chamisa has called for a dialogue with Zanu PF following "a constitut...

service delivery: why are municipalities not coping with providing services due to growing population and migration to metros? 13.10.2023 4:49 ↓

  Guest: Dr Tim Maake - Managing Director - D T M Consulting

The crackdown on defaulting and non-paying customers across the City of Johannesburg is in full swing, with this week's cut-off operation hitting various areas under the Hursthill Service Delivery Centre which owed over R1.3-Billion. 13.10.2023 4:40 ↓

  Guest: Isaac Mangena – Joburg City Power Spokesperson

Bolt Launches Driver Engagement Centre in Johannesburg 13.10.2023 6:03 ↓

  Guest: Takura Malaba, Bolt’s Regional Manager, East and Southern Africa

Mediated Conversation: The power of world cup tournaments 12.10.2023 24:33 ↓

    Eddie Leie – Former cricket leg-spinner   Kelvin Watt - MD Director Nielsen Sports Africa   Odwa Ndungane - Former Springboks Player   Joel Stransky - Former Springbok flyhalf

As a testament to the resilience and dedication of South African stokvel savers, FNB revealed that its customers' stokvel net deposits have increased by 42%. 12.10.2023 7:14 ↓

    Guest: Sifiso Nkosi, Product Growth Head at FNB Retail Cash Investments  

Brush your teeth! Bad oral hygiene linked to cancer, heart attacks and renal failure 12.10.2023 4:24 ↓

    Guest: Dr Yvonne Prince - senior lecturer teaching microbiology in health sciences: Cape Peninsula University of Technology  

Energy Minister Mantashe has now said that foreign-funded NGOs are being used to weaponise environmental preservation to block development in developing nations. 12.10.2023 5:06 ↓

  Guest: Liz McDaid - Strategic Lead of The Green Connection

Most South African university students want to leave the country because of crime, corruption, lack of job opportunities, failing infrastructure, and the rising cost of living. 12.10.2023 5:14 ↓

  Guest: Motshabi Nomvethe, PPS’s head of technical marketing

President Cyril Ramaphosa received the Census 2022 national results from the Statistician-General, Risenga Maluleke and about 5.2-million young people in SA are not attending school. 12.10.2023 4:01 ↓

  Guest: Prof. Martin Gustafsson, education economist at Stellenbosch University

Tshwane has the highest number of homeless people with 18% of the 55 719 recorded across the country. This is according to the latest Census statistics released on Tuesday by Statistics South Africa 12.10.2023 3:43 ↓

  Guest: Siwaphiwe Myataza-Mzantsi - Media Officer at U-Turn Homeless Ministries

Africa Update Report with Faith Mabera - Senior Researcher Institute for Global Dialogue 12.10.2023 3:01 ↓

  Afrika Update Report: 12 October 2023;  1. League of Arab States holds extraordinary meeting in Cairo to discuss the war between Israel and Hamas 2. World Bank and IMF hold annual meeting in Marrakech, Morocco (09-15 October). 3. UN sets up fact-finding mission to investigate human rights abuses in Sudan  

Labour federation Cosatu is the latest organisation to launch an attack on City of Tshwane mayor Cilliers Brink, calling for his resignation. 12.10.2023 5:07 ↓

  Guest: Amos Monyela - COSATU Gauteng Provincial Chair

Israel-Gaza conflict: how could it change the Middle East’s political landscape and what does it mean for international relations? 12.10.2023 5:10 ↓

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

The SA post office has told parliament that it has made huge losses over the last few years - that it has liabilities of over nine billion rand - and that its own employees have been accused of stealing from the entity. 12.10.2023 4:37 ↓

  Guest: Dr Bonke Dumisa, Independent Economic Analyst

Mediated Conversation: what is the current state of the SA National Defence Force? 11.10.2023 25:03 ↓

Guy Martin, Editor of DefenceWeb Adv Pikkie Greef - National Secretary: SA National Defence Union   Dr. Kingsley Makhubela - Conflict Resolution Expert and RiskRecon Director

South Africans who can’t afford to go full solar to escape load shedding are turning to easier solutions like inverters and battery backups – but researchers say that these systems are basically undoing any ‘good’ that load shedding is trying to achieve. 11.10.2023 5:18 ↓

    Guest: Thinus Booysen - Professor in the faculty of Engineering at Stellenbosch University

Politicians might have dropped the ball after failing to amend South Africa’s anti-doping code in Parliament in time to comply with a World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) deadline, but the Springboks will do what they do best and focus on winning. 11.10.2023 5:44 ↓

    Guest: Craig Ray – Daily Maverick sports editor

Parliament's Standing Committee on Public Accounts to give SAPS Brigadier Jap Burger a third chance to appear voluntarily to provide evidence on De Ruyter intelligence reports. 11.10.2023 6:16 ↓

  Guest: Mkhuleko Hlengwa – Parliament's Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) Chair

In the middle-east Israel has now hit at least 70 targets in Gaza - while the Israeli defence minister has told his soldiers - that they have been released from all restraints in their war against Hamas. 11.10.2023 6:29 ↓

  Guest: Mia Swart - visiting professor at Wits Law School specialising in human rights, international relations and international law.

There are growing calls from business and workers who want the UIF to be placed under administration 11.10.2023 8:07 ↓

  Guest: Teboho Maruping - Unemployment Insurance Fund Commissioner

Africa Update Report with Faith Mabera - Senior Researcher Institute for Global Dialogue 11.10.2023 3:46 ↓

  Afrika Update Report: 10 October 2023;  1. Death toll from Sudan's six-month war estimated to be more than 9,000 as fighting spreads to Al-Jazira State (central Sudan) 2.Egypt intelligence official says Israel ignored repeated warnings of ‘something big' 3. Liberia to hold presidential and parliamentary elections on 10 Oct

Government has appealed a decision that would prevent us from flying our flag at the Rugby World Cup and the Cricket World Cup because government has not properly implemented laws to stop the abuse of drugs in sport. 11.10.2023 5:19 ↓

  Guest: Zizi Kodwa - Department Of Sport, Arts And Culture, Minister