The National Briefing

one of the claims is that Zama Zamas were mining in the area around the Angelo Informal Settlement in Ekurhuleni where a gas leak killed seventeen people 07.07.2023 3:43 ↓

  Guest: Meshack Mbangula, National Co-ordinator for Mining Affected Communities United in Action (Macua)

In Cape Town, one of the major problems the Passenger Rail Agency is having to get the central line running again is a group of people who have built shacks on the railways lines 07.07.2023 4:47 ↓

  Guest: Lisa Mangcu, Deputy Minister of Transport

on Wednesday night in the Angelo Informal Settlement in Ekurhuleni, a gas leak claimed the lives of seventeen people. How dangerous is nitrous oxide or nitrate oxide? 07.07.2023 5:41 ↓

  Guest: Dr. Gerhard Verdoorn, director of Griffon Poison Information Centre

The EFF in KZN is calling on the provincial legislature there to institute an inquiry into what happened in Phoenix during the violence in 2021 - that saw thirty three people in that area being killed. 07.07.2023 6:39 ↓

  Guest: Mongezi Twala, EFF KZN Chair

why is loadshedding not as bad as we thought during this winter? 07.07.2023 14:13 ↓

  Guest: Kgosientso 'Sputla' Ramokgopa - Minister of Electricity

There are still so many questions about what happened that on Wednesday night in the Angelo Informal Settlement in Ekurhuleni after a gas leak claimed the lives of seventeen people 07.07.2023 5:57 ↓

  Guest: Panyaza Lesufi – Gauteng Premier

There was a funeral service yesterday for Essop Pahad - the former minister in the presidency - who joined the liberation movement back in the 1950s died yesterday at the age of eighty-four. 07.07.2023 7:12 ↓

  Guest: Mbhazima Shilowa, Former Cosatu General Secretary and Premier of Gauteng

Africa Update Report with Adv. Sipho Mantula from TM Afrikan School of Public and International Affairs 07.07.2023 4:52 ↓

  Afrika Update Report: 7 July 2023; 1. DR Congo-South Afrika,  The SA-DRC bi-national council has strengthened  the solidarity between the two countries and revisiting all bilateral agreements by establishing a great joint  commission; 2. Malawi-Tanzania, A three day state visit by President Samia Suluhu Hassan to President Lazarus Chakwera concludes today and what were the highlights?3.Mozambiqu...

The president of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko says that the leader of the Wagner group that staged that brief mutiny in Russia - Yevgeny Prigozhin - is no longer in Belarus - but has returned to Russia 07.07.2023 5:51 ↓

  Guest: Ronald Henwood, political scientist: University of Pretoria

Mediated Conversation: how important is women sport? 06.07.2023 26:34 ↓

Guest: Blanche de la Guerre, Netball South Africa Chief Executive Officer Guest: Kas Naidoo, Founder of gsport4girls Guest: Kelvin Watt Nielsen, Managing Director for Africa Asia Pacific and Middle East at Nielsen Sports Guest: Khabo Zitha, former Banyana Banyana top goal scorer

Unintended electromagnetic radiation emanating from large satellite constellations. 06.07.2023 3:54 ↓

  Guest: Professor Gyula Jozsa, member of the Rhodes Centre for Radio Astronomy Techniques & Technologies (RATT)

Unisa on 6 July, hosts Black Forum SA to pay homage to 1959 ‘potato boycott’ 06.07.2023 5:51 ↓

.   Guest: Advocate Kgagudi Morota, Black Forum South Africa CEO

The Gauteng High Court has found the flow of sewage into the Vaal River via broken treatment plants is a violation of environmental acts. 06.07.2023 3:40 ↓

    Guest: Maureen Stewart, Vice Chairperson of Save the Vaal Environment

sixteen people have been confirmed dead on Wednesday evening at the Angelo Squatter camp, outside Boksburg, following gas inhalation, in a suspected illegal mining activity. 06.07.2023 10:22 ↓

  Guest: Mbalenhle Mthethwa SABC Reporter

The man who was fired as the CEO of the Joburg Roads Agency Tshepo Mahanuke after being accused of faking his qualifications is now trying to challenge his sacking in court 06.07.2023 12:12 ↓

  Guest: Tshepo Mahanuke, Fired CEO Joburg Roads

the ANC has decided to remove Connie Nkalitshana as Mayor and replace her with Leah Mabuza - who has now been voted in as the new mayor of Emalahleni 06.07.2023 5:12 ↓

  Guest: Leah Mabuza - new mayor of Emalahleni

Dr. Mamphela Ramphele, Co-Founder of ReimagineSA and Co-President of the Club of Rome has now sent an open letter to President Ramaphosa saying that State capture 2.0 is raging ahead under his watch 06.07.2023 4:34 ↓

  Guest: Dr. Mamphela Ramphele, Co-Founder of ReimagineSA and Co-President of the Club of Rome

Today, COSATU and all its Affiliated Unions will be embarking on a nationwide socio-economic strike with marches taking place across major urban centres in all 9 provinces. 06.07.2023 6:18 ↓

  Guest: Zingiswa Losi, Cosatu president

The High Court in Joburg has now said that the attempt by former President Jacob Zuma to privately prosecute the current President Cyril Ramaphosa is illegal and invalid 06.07.2023 4:31 ↓

  Guest: Benedict Phiri, Legal analyst

Africa Update Report with Adv. Sipho Mantula from TM Afrikan School of Public and International Affairs 06.07.2023 5:00 ↓

  Afrika Update Report: 6 July 2023; 1. South Sudan-Juba; President Salva Kirr says South Sudan's long delayed elections will happen in 2024 with him on the ballot for the ruling Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM); 2. Nigeria-Abuja, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has opened his defence in Peter Obi's legal suit challenging his victory at the 25 February  presidential election; 3. Kenya-Somalia...

sixteen people have been confirmed dead on Wednesday evening at the Angelo Squatter camp, outside Boksburg, following gas inhalation, in a suspected illegal mining activity. 06.07.2023 4:51 ↓

  Guest: Sivuyile Ngodwana - mayor of Ekurhuleni

In the city of Jenin in Palestine, Israeli forces have now withdrawn - after their biggest military incursion or attack on the area in twenty years - leaving twelve Palestinians dead 06.07.2023 5:02 ↓

  Guest: Thembisa Fakude, Senior Research Fellow at Africa Asia Dialogues

Mediated Conversation: what is happening in France? 05.07.2023 26:57 ↓

Guest: Koffi Kouakou, Africa Analyst and Senior Research Fellow at The Centre for Africa, China Studies, University of Johannesburg Guest: Adam Habib, director of the School of Oriental and African Studies in London Guest: Crain Soudien - Emeritus Professor: University of Cape Town  

Astronomers observe time dilation in the early universe. 05.07.2023 9:31 ↓

    Guest: Prof Lerothodi Leeuw, department of Physics and Astronomy, University of the Western Cape

SALGA KZN has now revealed that KZN councillors who have died between Sept 22 – 4 July 23. 39 councillors have died in total: 17 were assassinated, 17 died of natural causes, 3 died in car accidents and 2 committed suicide. 05.07.2023 4:13 ↓

SALGA KZN has now revealed that KZN councillors who have died between Sept 22 – 4 July 23. 39 councillors have died in total: 17 were assassinated, 17 died of natural causes, 3 died in car accidents and 2 committed suicide.   Guest: Thami Ntuli, SALGA KZN Chair