The National Briefing

In Cape Town, around 487-thousand children were not able to get to school yesterday due to the taxi strike 08.08.2023 2:30 ↓

    Guest: David Maynier, Western Cape Education MEC

The Higher Education Minister Dr Blade Nzimande is now planning to place UNISA under administration 08.08.2023 8:24 ↓

    Guest: Ishmael Mnisi - Higher Education Spokesperson

Antibiotic-resistant sepsis still claiming new-born lives in Africa. 08.08.2023 4:23 ↓

    Guest: Prof. Adrie Bekker, Associate Professor. Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University

Arrest of two law enforcement officers in Mpumalanga arrested for alleged cash in transit heist in Hazyview and hijacking of a loaded truck. 08.08.2023 3:56 ↓

    Guest: Vusi Shongwe, The Mpumalanga MEC for Community Safety

There has been a huge impact on hospitals and clinics in the western cape - as nurses and workers battle to get to work due to the taxi strike 08.08.2023 4:17 ↓

    Guest: Dr Nomafrench Mbombo, Western Cape Health MEC

Africa Update Report with Adv. Sipho Mantula from TM Afrikan School of Public and International Affairs 08.08.2023 4:31 ↓

    Afrika Update Report: 8 August 2023; 1. Niger-Nigeria, ECOWAS leaders will meet on Thurday to discuss Niger military coup after its deadline expired for coup plotters to reinstate the ousted President Bazoum; 2. Senegal-Dakar, Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko has been admitted to Dakar hospital after week on hunger strike ; 3. Ethiopia-Amhara, Ethiopian government accuses Amhara mili...

How the Cape Town Taxi strike is affecting the economics of transport in the province? 08.08.2023 1:49 ↓

    Guest: Dawie Roodt, Chief Economist at The Efficient Group

Mediated Conversation: There are warnings that consumers may experience massive price hikes for chicken 08.08.2023 26:53 ↓

    Guest: Georg Southey, chairperson of the Association of Meat Importers and Exporters (Amie)   Guest: Paul Makube, Senior Agricultural Economist at FNB Commercial.   Guest: Izaak Breitenbach, General Manager at South African Poultry Association

Yesterday, the Community of Kagiso protested against Zama Zamas. Last year, residents took to the streets after eight women were gang raped, allegedly at the hands of illegal miners in West Village. 08.08.2023 9:00 ↓

    Guest: Pastor Joe Mabuela, Krugersdorp Community Leader

In the UK, the country’s government has moved a group of men seeking asylum out of their normal accommodation and on a boat - a barge moored in the south of the country. 08.08.2023 5:15 ↓

    Guest: Roland Henwood, political scientist: The University of Pretoria

how should the police be dealing with the taxi violence in Cape Town? 08.08.2023 5:49 ↓

    Guest: Dr. Hennie Lochner - independent researcher. 30 years’ experience as detective and 10 as academic

The City of Cape Town has obtained an urgent interdict yesterday evening in #TaxiStrike. 08.08.2023 9:25 ↓

    Guest: Geordin Hill-Lewis, mayor for the City of Cape Town

The Western Cape Ehailing Association says it is joining the taxi stay away in solidarity with Santaco 08.08.2023 3:16 ↓

    Guest: Siyabonga Hlabisa, chairperson of the Western Cape e-Hailing association

Mediated Conversation: Understanding the Niger coup 07.08.2023 25:55 ↓

    Guest: Faith Mabera, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Global Dialogue   Guest: Koffi Kouakou, Africa Analyst and Senior Research Fellow: UJ Centre for Africa-China Studies   Guest: Rodrigue Koné Fahiraman, Head of the Sahel Project at the Institute of Security Studies  

Africa Update Report with Adv. Sipho Mantula from TM Afrikan School of Public and International Affairs 07.08.2023 4:36 ↓

  Afrika Update Report: 7 August 2023; 1. Niger- Niamey,  Thousands of supporters of a military coup in Niger gathered  at Seyni Kountche stadium yesterday as the threat of regional military  intervention looms; 2. Uganda-Kenya-DR Congo, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni received Kenya' s former President Uhuru Kenyatta  to discuss the DR Congo security situation; 3. Angola-Luanda, The opposition...

There’ve been several significant developments in the Russian, Ukraine conflict over the weekend - Ukraine used a drone to attack a Russian tanker in the black sea - badly damaging the vessel. 07.08.2023 5:49 ↓

  Guest: Gustavo De Carvalho, Senior Researcher on Russia-Africa ties at the African Governance and Diplomacy Programme at South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

Department implements science measures to protect endangered penguins. 07.08.2023 5:18 ↓

    Guest: Barbara Creecy, Member of the National Assembly of South Africa

The ANC and the DA suggest that there should be a minimum threshold for a party to be represented in parliament. Al Jama-Ah opposes this. 07.08.2023 5:17 ↓

  Guest: Ganief Hendricks, leader of Al Jama-Ah

In Cape Town, the SANTACO strike continues - there were talks between the City of Cape Town and SANTACO through until the early evening yesterday - but the talks were then suspended 07.08.2023 3:23 ↓

  Guest: Bronwen Dyke-Beyer, Golden Arrow Bus Services spokesperson

According to the Household Wealth Research Division of the Bureau of Market Research’s report, 73% South African earn below R6 000 per month, 3.3% earn more than R52 000. 07.08.2023 6:10 ↓

  Guest: Isobel Frye Poverty, Executive Director: Social Policy Initiative

the ANC and the DA suggest that there should be a minimum threshold for a party to be represented in parliament 07.08.2023 6:46 ↓

  Guest: John Steenhuisen, DA Leader

According to the Department of Public Works and Infrastructure, the unfinished R94,7 million Mamelodi Magistrate Court in Gauteng has been stalled for almost a decade. 07.08.2023 5:14 ↓

  Guest: Sihle Zikalala, Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure

the ANC and the DA suggest that there should be a minimum threshold for a party to be represented in parliament. Will this make a difference to our politics? 07.08.2023 6:28 ↓

  Guest: Ebrahim Fakir - Director of Programs at ASRI

In Joburg, Police tried to flush out illegal miners - there was an incident yesterday when Zama Zama’s actually fired shots at metro police officers in Matholes-ville - then the miners ran away 07.08.2023 7:48 ↓

  Guest: Dr. Mgcini Tshwaku, the MMC for Public Safety in the City of Joburg

It’s a really difficult morning in Cape Town as SANTACO says its members will only return to work next week - they’re on strike for seven days - in protest at the city’s policy of impounding taxis that break the law 04.08.2023 9:40 ↓

    Guest: JP Smith, Mayco member for safety and security