The National Briefing

Guest: Steve Mabona, Gauteng Department of Education spokesperson #2024OnlineAdmissionGP application period for Grade 1 & 8 begins today at 8am. Applications will be from 15 June 2023 - 14 July 2023, visit: https://www.gdeadmissions.gov.za    

Guest: Dr Guy Lamb, criminologist: University of Stellenbosch The Gauteng Police Commissioner Elias Mawela says that the number of murders in the province in the first quarter the year went up to 1556 - while the number of rape cases went down.    

Guest: Jasmine Opperman, Private Security Analyst There appears to be more and more concerns about the fact that people linked to terrorist groups like ISIS or Islamic state are using South Africa and our financial system to move money around  

Guest: Dada Morero, City of Johannesburg Finance MMC The council in the City of Joburg has now voted to pass the city’s budget of eight point nine billion rand - which means that the city will not be put into administration by the province of Gauteng.    

Guest: Matthew Parks, COSATU Parliamentary Coordinator COSATU welcomes the release of draft legislation to allow workers early access to their pension funds by National Treasury    

Guest: Charlotte Powell, City of Cape Town Disaster Risk Management spokesperson In Cape Town, people in informal settlements have had to leave their homes - because of flooding - people with children say they have nowhere to go after flooding in Strand, Mfuleni, Gugulethu and Khayalitsha    

Guest: Adv. Sipho Mantula from TM Afrikan School of Public and International Affairs Afrika Update Report: 15 June 2023; 1. Sudan- Djibouti, The 14th ordinary session of the IGAD assembly of Heads of State and Government adopted four point action plan to resolve the ongoing Sudan crisis

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) The president of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko says his country has now received three tactical nuclear weapons from Russia - and that these bombs are three times more powerful than the bombs used by the Americans on Hirosh...

Mediated Conversation: The History of Shaka Zulu   Guest: Dan Wylie, Professor in the English department at Rhodes University Guest: Professor Musa Xulu, Executive Director of the Heritage Development Trust Guest: Hlonipha Mokoena, associate professor at the wits institute for social and economic research and advisor for Shaka Ilembe series

Guest: Ron Watermeyer, Visiting Adjunct Professor School of Construction Economics and Management, University of the Witwatersrand Guest: William Gumede, associate professor at the School of Governance of the University of the Witwatersrand Guest: Gundo Maswime, University of Cape Town Civil Engineering Lecturer Mediated Conversation: why do government projects take so long to be completed?    

Guest: Mgwebu Msiya, Eastern Cape Liquor Board spokesperson The Eastern Cape Liquor Board said it will double down on underage drinking as high school learners plan their annual "pens down" after Eyobeni tragedy.        

Guest: Peter Mbelengwa, Director of External Communications at the Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries Forestry, Fisheries and Environment deploys second team of 200 firefighters to fight wildfires in Alberta, Canada    

Guest: Azar Jamminne, Director and Chief Economist of Econometrix Four of the most Senior Politicians in the US - from both the Democratic and Republican parties have now written to the US Secretary of State and the President - asking them to move the AGOA summit from South Africa  

Guest: Khanyisa Mapipa, Health Rights Attorney act SECTION27 Lack of urgency as Gauteng Health sits on money earmarked to outsource urgent cancer treatment.  

Guest: Kabelo Gwamanda, Executive mayor for the City of Joburg how difficult is to be the Mayor of the City of Joburg?        

Ayanda Sishi-Wigzell from Johannesburg and Sibongiseni Buthelezi from Braamfischerville in Soweto have been selected for the SAfm Youth Day Takeover  

Guest: Ralph Mathekga, Analyst Suspended Public Protector Mkhwebane released a series of audio recordings, she says shows that the deceased ANC MP Joemet-Petterson met with her husband - and tried to extort money for him - in return for ending the inquiry into her fitness for office        

Guest: Dr. Janeli Kotze, Acting Director for Early Childhood Development at Department of Basic Education why do millions of kids in SA don’t have access to Early Childhood Development?            

Guest: Steven Gruzd, Head: African Governance and Diplomacy Programme and the Russia-Africa Project at the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) In Ukraine, soldiers from both Russia and Ukraine are reporting intense fighting along the border of Ukraine’s Donetsk region - with what appears to be a Ukrainian counteroffensive underway  

The City of Cape Town says it can’t build some of its infrastructure properly - and will lose an infrastructure grant worth R58.8 million - because the construction mafia is holding them to ransom Guest: Rob Quintas, City of Cape Town Urban Mobility MMC

Guest: Professor Usuf Chikte, Spokesperson of Judge Desai Last week the Judicial Conduct Committee of the Judicial Service Commission issued a reprimand for the retired Judge Siraj Desai - for involving himself in political controversy by signing a document condemning or criticising Israel and its policies towards Palestinians.        

Guest: Adv. Sipho Mantula from TM Afrikan School of Public and International Affairs Afrika Update Report: 14 June 2023; 1. Congo-Brazzaville- Ivory Coast, President Denis Sassou Ngueso says Afrika cannot stay silent on Russia-Ukraine war during his three day state visit in Ivory Coast; 2.Eritrea-Asmara, Eritrea rejoins East Afrika bloc IGAD after 16 years as a sign towards peace,stability and reg...

Guest: Songezo Zibi, RISE Mzansi leader RISE Mzansi says that SA problems are not caused by technical problems or a lack of skills - but are caused by what they call political decay and that #2024IsOur1994    

Guest: Dr. Mvuyisi Mzukwa, Chair South African Medical Association Guest: Dr. Nicholas Crisp, Deputy Director General: National Health Insurance · National Department of Health, South Africa Guest: Professor Frikkie Booysen, Chair of Health Economics at Wits University Mediated Conversation: is SA ready for NHI?    

Guest: Prof. Katja Koeppel, Associate Professor Wildlife Health at University of Pretoria The University of Pretoria's Veterinary Sciences team has performed a beak transplant on vulture.