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May's annual consumer price inflation slowed to 6.3% from 6.8% in April, with food prices finally cooling. 22.06.2023 4:52

Guest: Prof Raymond Parsons, professor at the North West University School of Business & Governance

Reagen Allen, Western Cape Minister of Police Oversight and Community Safety has now said that there are more drug dens than schools and that police are closing them 22.06.2023 6:03

Guest: Reagen Allen, Western Cape Minister of Police Oversight and Community Safety

In Ukraine, what is described as the Ukrainian counter offensive now appears to be underway but all sources appear to agree any progress that is being made by Ukrainian forces is incredibly slow. 22.06.2023 5:32

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

a German court has now issued an arrest warrant for former Steinhoff CEO Markus Jooste - because he has failed to appear in court 22.06.2023 6:05

Guest: Rob Rose, investigative journalist: Financial Mail

Africa Update Report with Adv. Sipho Mantula from TM Afrikan School of Public and International Affairs 22.06.2023 4:24

Afrika Update Report: 22 June 2023; 1. Sierra Leone- Freetown, Sierra Leone decides 2023 as opposition supporters and police clashed yesterday, demanding the release of the detailed voters register ; 2. Zimbabwe-Harare, The Zimbabwe nomination court have begun to officially register presidential and party list candidates ; 3. Rwanda-Zambia, President Paul Kagame and Hakainde Hichilema have a...

The SA AIDS conference is underway and why are girls between the ages of 16 and 24 at risk of having HIV? 22.06.2023 7:17

Guest: Phinah Kodisang, CEO of the Soul City Institute

Mediated Conversation: The Legal Resources Centre did an experiment on social media to see whether overtly xenophobic content would be approved or not 21.06.2023 24:00

Guest: Kristen Abrahams, Legal Resources Centre attorney Guest: Lerato Ntwampe, Social Media Legal Consultant Guest: Nomshado Lubisi, Media Monitoring Africa Communications Manager Mediated Conversation: The Legal Resources Centre did an experiment on social media to see whether overtly xenophobic content would be approved or not.

A new National Strategic Plan for the period 2023 to 2028 – described as ‘a road map’ for ending HIV, TB and sexually transmitted infections as public health threats – has been launched 21.06.2023 5:12

Guest: Dr Thembisile Xulu, South African National AIDS Council CEO A new National Strategic Plan for the period 2023 to 2028 – described as ‘a road map’ for ending HIV, TB and sexually transmitted infections as public health threats – has been launched.

The search continues for the missing Titan submarine 21.06.2023 5:02

Guest: Martin Blyth, press secretary at British Titanic Society The search continues for the missing Titan submarine.

The Health Minister Dr Joe Phaahla says that to meet our united nations targets in treating and helping people living with HIV we need to put another one point four million people on treatment 21.06.2023 9:28

Guest: Prof. Salim Abdool Karim, Director of the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA) The Health Minister Dr Joe Phaahla says that to meet our united nations targets in treating and helping people living with HIV we need to put another one point four million people on treatment.

The Bhisho High Court granted the Eastern Cape Premier Oscar Mabuyane an interdict against parts of the proclamation signed by President Cyril Ramaphosa for the SIU to investigate corruption at fort hare university 21.06.2023 6:09

Guest: Kaizer Kganyago, spokesperson of the Special Investigating Unit The Bhisho High Court granted the Eastern Cape Premier Oscar Mabuyane an interdict against parts of the proclamation signed by President Cyril Ramaphosa for the SIU to investigate corruption at fort hare university.

Auditors can now be fines of up to R25 million if found to be in breach of South Africa’s Auditing Profession Act 21.06.2023 7:56

Guest: Imre Nagy, CEO of Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors (IRBA) Auditors can now be fines of up to R25 million if found to be in breach of South Africa’s Auditing Profession Act

The son of the US President - Hunter Biden is expected to plead guilty to two counts that he did not pay his taxes on over one million dollars in income for two years - and to deal with a charge of owning a gun illegally 21.06.2023 5:53

Guest: Brooks Spector, Associate Editor at The Daily Maverick The son of the US President - Hunter Biden is expected to plead guilty to two counts that he did not pay his taxes on over one million dollars in income for two years - and to deal with a charge of owning a gun illegally

Africa Update Report : Sierra Leone-Freetown, British A -list actor and Son of Sierra Leone Idris Elba calls for peaceful election and African union has deployed its electoral observer mission; 2.Nigeria-Abuja, Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has re 21.06.2023 4:01

Guest: Adv. Sipho Mantula from TM Afrikan School of Public and International Affairs Afrika Update Report: 21 June 2023; 1. Sierra Leone-Freetown, British A -list actor and Son of Sierra Leone Idris Elba calls for peaceful election and African union has deployed its electoral observer mission; 2.Nigeria-Abuja, Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has reorganised security apparatus as his top pr...

The Northern Cape education department says it’s concerned that more than 3 000 pupils have fallen pregnant between last year and March this year. The pupils are between 10 and 19 years old 21.06.2023 4:38

Guest: Zolile Monakali, MEC for Education in the Northern Cape The Northern Cape education department says it’s concerned that more than 3 000 pupils have fallen pregnant between last year and March this year. The pupils are between 10 and 19 years old.

How big of a problem is teenage pregnancy and sugar daddies in SA? 21.06.2023 6:49

Guest: Marion Stevens, Director of the Sexual and Reproductive Justice Coalition (SRJC) How big of a problem is teenage pregnancy and sugar daddies in SA?

Mediated Conversation: The “two-pot” retirement system. 20.06.2023 26:18

Guest: Dr Mavis Ureka, human behaviour specialist Guest: Eunice Sibiya, Financial and Life Coach Guest: Alvinah Thela, Director: Retirement Savings at National Treasury

Gift of the Givers intervenes in Rawsonville, Western Cape after floods 20.06.2023 3:08

Guest: Ali Sablay, operations manager Gift of the Givers

In the Middle-East five Palestinians including a fifteen-year-old boy have been killed by Israeli forces in a raid on the Jenin refugee camp 20.06.2023 5:51

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

Africa Update Report with Adv. Sipho Mantula from TM Afrikan School of Public and International Affairs 20.06.2023 4:42

Afrika Update Report : 20 June 2023; 1. Tunisia-Tunis; Tunisia government held talks on illegal migration with French and German interior and intelligence ministers ; 2. Egypt-Sudan-EU, The European Union high representative has allocated and donated $22 million to Egypt in the face of the Sudanese refugee crisis ; 3.Sierra Leone -Freetown, Opposition party , All People's Congress ( APC) gath...

With the run up to the 2024 elections, the Legal Resources Centre collaboration with Global Witness, conducts an experiment on Facebook, TikTok and YouTube to see whether overtly xenophobic content would be approved or not. 20.06.2023 6:38

Guest: Kristen Abrahams, attorney: Legal Resources Centre's Johannesburg

The CEO of Business Leadership South Africa Busi Mavuso says that the way parliament passed the national health insurance scheme last week was just an act in a pantomime - and that the entire thing is a charade. 20.06.2023 6:37

Guest: Busi Mavuso, Business Leadership South Africa (BLSA) CEO

Winter storms in the Western Cape have place severe pressure on the blood supply 20.06.2023 3:37

Guest: Marike Carli, the public relations manager at the Western Cape Blood Service (WCBS)

The Gauteng Department of Education (GDE) is proud to announce that a total of 300 907 Grade 1 and 8 Online Admissions applications have been successfully processed to date since the start of the application period on Thursday, 15 June 2023. 20.06.2023 4:26

Guest: Matome Chiloane – Gauteng Education MEC

why was our plane carrying the security personnel and journalist for President Cyril Ramaphosa was blocked in Poland? 20.06.2023 4:00

Guest: Katy Katopodis, chair of safety committee at SANEF