The National Briefing

Caster Semenya yesterday won an appeal against track and field's testosterone rules at a European court 12.07.2023 6:02 ↓

  Guest: Nocawe Mafu, Deputy Minister of Sport, Arts & Culture

Around three hundred Councillors in KZN councils - out of a total of nearly two thousand Councillors - cannot read or write - in other words - they can’t actually do what is expected of them in council 12.07.2023 8:40 ↓

  Guest: Mlungisi Ndlovu, Chairperson of the Public Servants Association of South Africa (PSA) in KwaZulu-Natal

Mediated conversation: why is the Democratic Alliance pushing for devolution in the Western Cape? 11.07.2023 23:13 ↓

Guest: Helen Zille, DA federal council chairperson Guest: Sandile Swana, Governance and political analyst Guest: Cameron Dugmore, ANC leader in the Western Cape legislature

Yesterday, the SA BDS Coalition called on Orlando Pirates not to play a friendly match with Maccabi Tel Aviv scheduled for 13th July in Spain.  They say there is nothing ‘friendly’ about playing a team representing apartheid Israel. 11.07.2023 14:23 ↓

    Guest: Bafana Modise, spokesperson for the South African Friends of Israel  

The former Mozambique Finance Minister Manuel Chang is due to be extradited from South Africa to the US today - and will be put on a plane which is already here - for the flight to New York. 11.07.2023 6:36 ↓

  Guest: Prof. Adriano Nuvunga, Director: Centro para Democracia e Direitos Humanos

There are now reports that junior doctors in Limpopo are now sitting at home unemployed and waiting for placement. 11.07.2023 4:27 ↓

  Guest: Dr Mvuyisi Mzukwa, chairperson of the South African Medical Association (SAMA)

There are now warnings and concerns for teenage boys undergoing the initiation ceremony - it is initiation season in the Eastern Cape at the moment 11.07.2023 5:18 ↓

  Guest: Zolile Williams - Eastern Cape MEC For Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) 

Yesterday there were reports that five trucks were set alight in Mpumalanga Waterval Boven 11.07.2023 5:07 ↓

  Guest: Vusi Shongwe, Mpumalanga Community Safety and Security MEC

The Russian president Vladimir Putin has held a meeting that included the leader of the Wagner group - Yevgeny Prigohzin - despite the fact that Prigozhin led an attempted rebellion against Putin 11.07.2023 8:01 ↓

  Guest: Abel Esterhuyse, associate professor of strategy in the Faculty of Military Science of Stellenbosch University

Africa Update Report with Adv. Sipho Mantula from TM Afrikan School of Public and International Affairs 11.07.2023 5:15 ↓

  Afrika Update Report: 11 July 2023; 1. Sudan-Ethiopia, Sudan government boycotts the regional peace talks held in Addis Ababa accusing Kenya of bias; 2. The Gambia-Libya, The Gambia foreign affairs ministry has repatriated nearly 300 of its nationals stranded in Tripoli; 3. Kenya-Nairobi,  Raila Odinga uses public service transport to protest against the rising high cost of living in Kenya amids...

In KZN, the Department of Public Workers and Human Settlements there says they’re delighted that work on certain projects is starting again - after they were stopped by the construction mafia 11.07.2023 8:23 ↓

  Guest: Sipho ‘KK’ Nkosi, KZN MEC for Public Works and Human Settlements

Cape Town residents say they can’t pay the recent electricity tariff hikes because they are too high 11.07.2023 6:53 ↓

  Guest: Natasha Gertse, Tafelsig resident and founder of the Electricity Tariffs Must Fall Campaign

Mediated: why is loadshedding not as bad as we thought during this winter? 10.07.2023 24:42 ↓

Guest: Thamsanqa Mathiso, General Manager: Revenue Management – JHB City Power Guest: Kgosientsho "Sputla" Ramokgopa – Electricity Minister

SA BDS Coalition are calling on Orlando Pirates not to play a friendly match with Maccabi Tel Aviv scheduled for 13th July in Spain.  There is nothing ‘friendly’ about playing a team representing apartheid Israel. 10.07.2023 7:28 ↓

    Guest: Roshan Dadoo, Coordinator, South African BDS Coalition

Is threads the biggest threat to Twitter yet? 10.07.2023 4:06 ↓

    Guest: Nafisa Akabor, freelance technology journalist.

City of Johannesburg enter into initiative with Vodacom to keep traffic lights on during load shedding. 10.07.2023 3:51 ↓

  Guest: Sipho Nhlapo, Operations Manager: Johannesburg Roads Agency

The Road Freight Association says the armed men who set six trucks alight and blockaded the N3 near Van Reenen's Pass selected that area to spread havoc and fear. 10.07.2023 3:45 ↓

  Guest: Sifiso Nyathi, ATDF-ASA secretary

the deputy president Paul Mashatile has now told the City Press newspaper that he believes there is a plot to oust him from office by August 10.07.2023 19:12 ↓

  Guest: Thembi Nkadimeng, ANC NEC Member and Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs of South Africa Guest: Prof Steven Friedman, Director of the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Johannesburg

There’s confirmation now that at least two of the man who were beaten up by members of the VIP protection unit ten days ago have got legal representation - and they have found a lawyer who will represent them on a pro bono basis 10.07.2023 5:28 ↓

There’s confirmation now that at least two of the man who were beaten up by members of the VIP protection unit ten days ago have got legal representation - and they have found a lawyer who will represent them on a pro bono basis Guest: Ulrich Roux, MD: Ulrich Roux & Associates

In eThekwini, the Westville Rate Payers Association says its members will not be paying the city of eThekwini until they’ve resolved a dispute between them 10.07.2023 5:44 ↓

  Guest: Asad Gaff, Westville Ratepayers' Association chairperson

Busa has conveyed concerns over risks to trade with the US to the department of trade, industry & competition, which will plead South Africa's case to the US Congress. 10.07.2023 5:46 ↓

  Guest: Cas Coovadia, CEO of Business Unity South Africa

There are now reports this morning that five trucks have now been set alight in Mpumalanga 10.07.2023 3:32 ↓

    Guest: Brigadier Selvy Mohlala – Mpumalanga SA Police Service Spokesperson

Our Minister of Water Affairs and Sanitation Senzo Mchunu has now chaired a meeting of the organisation that coordinates some of the flows of water between our country, Lesotho, Botswana and Namibia. 10.07.2023 4:08 ↓

  Guest: Lindiwe Lusenga, Deputy Director-General responsible for Provincial, Entity Governance and International Cooperation: Department of Water Affairs and Sanitation

A new report has now revealed that a number of attacks involving captive cheetahs, lions, and tigers were fatal. 07.07.2023 4:54 ↓

    Guest: Kelly Marnewick, Tshwane University of Technology nature conservation lecturer

Organisations are now embarking on a campaign to educate the public about labelling, marketing of foodstuff. 07.07.2023 8:46 ↓

      Guest: Lawrence Mbalati, head of the Healthy Living Alliance (HEALA)