The National Briefing

Africa Update Report with Adv. Sipho Mantula from TM Afrikan School of Public and International Affairs 15.08.2023 5:07 ↓

  Afrika Update Report: 15 August 2023; 1. Niger- Niamey, The possible trial of former Nigerien President Mohamed Bazoum was a hot topic in Niamey yesterday; 2. Ghana-Niger, Ghanaian opposition lawmakers have warned President Nana Akufo-Addo to immediately halt all preparation towards deploying Ghanaian soldiers;3.Sudan-Khartoum, Nearly four months into the deadly war in Sudan as General Abdel Fat...

The City of Cape Town and the SA National Taxi Council in the Western Cape are due to meet again today to work out a list of offences for which the city will impound taxis 15.08.2023 5:44 ↓

  Guest: JP Smith – MMC: Safety and Security for the City of Cape Town

In Iran, members of parliament have now decided they will now discuss imposing tougher laws on women who do not wear a hijab in public - as part of what will be called the Hijab and Chastity bill. 15.08.2023 7:15 ↓

  Guest: Ebrahim Deen - Independent Researcher

What was a SANDF Special Forces unit doing on the quay in Simon’s Town when containers were loaded off and on the Russian vessel the Lady R in December 2022? 15.08.2023 7:32 ↓

  Guest: Hennie van Vuuren – Director: Open Secrets

SA Municipal Workers Union have been speaking to leaders about a way forward for their illegal strike in Tshwane, they are demanding that they be paid the five point four percent increase agreed to at the SA local government bargaining council 15.08.2023 7:51 ↓

  Guest: Cilliers Brink – City of Tshwane Mayor

cabinet has approved a bill that will make the Investigating Directorate of the NPA permanent - in other words - the NPA will formally and permanently have its own capacity to investigate crimes 15.08.2023 7:41 ↓

  Guest: Adv. Paul Hoffman – Director: Accountability Now

Mediated Conversation:  General elections are scheduled to be held in Zimbabwe on 23 August 2023 to elect the president and members of both houses of Parliament. 14.08.2023 24:15 ↓

Guests: Sophie Mokoena - International Editor: SABC Guest: Zenzele Ndebele – Zimbabwean Journalist Guest: Dr Ibbo Mandaza - Zimbabwean academic, author and publisher

Dinosaur tracksite in Lesotho: how a wrong turn led to an exciting find 14.08.2023 4:39 ↓

Guest: Miengah Abrahams – Lecturer (Geological Sciences), University of Cape Town

As 11 years later: The victims of the Marikana Massacre still await justice (10 August 2023). 14.08.2023 4:11 ↓

Guest: Thato Masiangoako, Socio-Economic Rights Institute of SA (SERI) researcher

The decision of the Minister of Higher Education to place UNISA under administration is most brazen attack on the institutional autonomy of the university, without justification and sound legal basis. The University must oppose it. 14.08.2023 7:53 ↓

  Guest: Mametlwe Sebei - Lecturer: Professional Ethics at UNISA

My Vote Counts launches online tool to track private political party donations ahead of elections 14.08.2023 4:29 ↓

  Guest: Sheilan Clarke – Communications Officer: My Vote Counts

The DA says it’s going to go to court to challenge the decision by President Cyril Ramaphosa to grant a remission of sentence to nine and a half thousand prisoners - who were regarded as elderly or vulnerable. 14.08.2023 3:49 ↓

  Guest: Adv. Ben Winks - independent advocate specialising in constitutional and international law

The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) has committed to closing all derelict open shafts and mine holes in Riverlea by the end of September 2023, while finalising plans to do the same across the country. 14.08.2023 4:01 ↓

  Guest: Makhosonke Buthelezi, Department of Mineral Resources and Energy Head Of Communications

In the US, a new variant of the covid virus is now circulating very quickly around the country - it’s called e.g-5 or Eris - and it appears to be able to transmit itself very quickly and easily 14.08.2023 5:28 ↓

  Guest: Prof. Salim Abdool Karim – CAPRISA Director

The Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordfhan formally gave Eskom’s board permission to go ahead and start a new Eskom transmission company - in other words to formally break up Eskom’s generation business from its transmission business 14.08.2023 7:13 ↓

Guest: Prof. Sampson Mamphweli - Head of the Energy Secretariat: South African National Energy Development Institute

The DA in Gauteng held its provincial congress over the weekend - with Solly Msimanga defeating a challenge by Khume Ramelifho - which means that he was re-elected leader of the DA in Gauteng 14.08.2023 5:41 ↓

  Guest: Solly Msimanga – Newly Elected DA Gauteng Leader

A new report by the Centre of Sociological Research and Practice at the University of Johannesburg shows withdrawal of ZEP is discriminatory and inhumane 14.08.2023 4:16 ↓

  Guest: Dr Trevor Ngwane – Director: Centre of Sociological Research and Practice at the University of Johannesburg

Africa Update Report with Adv. Sipho Mantula from TM Afrikan School of Public and International Affairs 14.08.2023 3:57 ↓

  Afrika Update Report: 14 August 2023; 1. Niger- Nigeria, Niger military coup leaders agrees to hold direct talks with ECOWAS after Nigerian Islamic Scholars intervene; 2. 1.Gabon-Libreville, Supporters of Gabonese President Ali Bongo believe that their candidate "is the choice of reason" as he launched his election campaign; 3.Zimbabwe- Kenya, Kenya's former cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed will...

In the US island state of Hawaii 89 people have now died from wildfires on the island of Maui - making them the worst fires in the US for over one hundred years 14.08.2023 5:51 ↓

  Guest: Tafadzwa Mabhaudhi, Honorary Research Fellow based at the University of KwaZulu-Natal School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Gauteng Department of Health yesterday reopened the Accident & Emergency Unit at Jubilee District Hospital. The unit recently underwent major refurbishment where the resuscitation and triage areas have been expanded 11.08.2023 8:02 ↓

    Guest: Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko - b Gauteng MEC of Health

The SA National Taxi Council (Santaco) released a statement on Thursday night confirming the protest had come to an end 11.08.2023 6:47 ↓

    Guest: Dr Archbishop Thabo Makgoba - Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town

Gift of the Givers says that poverty-linked suicides are on the rise in the Eastern Cape, this after an Eastern Cape mom killed starving children and hanged herself 11.08.2023 4:02 ↓

  Guest: Corene Conradie, Gift of the Givers coordinator in the Eastern Cape

Nomzamo Winnie Madikizela - Mandela Inter - Generational Dialogue! 11.08.2023 4:36 ↓

  Guest: Cheryl Carolus, UDF general secretary, anti-apartheid activist and former SA high commissioner in London.

The SA National Taxi Council (Santaco) released a statement on Thursday night confirming the protest had come to an end 11.08.2023 5:09 ↓

  Guest: Matthew Parks, COSATU Parliamentary Coordinator