The National Briefing

Guest: Michael Van Niekerk, CEO at ASP Fire

Guest: Dereleen James, Eldorado Park anti-drugs activist

Guest: Christo van der Rheede, CEO of Agri SA Guest: Derek McKernan, Chief Manufacturing Officer - Tiger Brands Guest: Khathutshelo Rambau, Research Assistant at National Agricultural Marketing Council Mediated Conversation: food production and load shedding- how is it affecting people?  

Guest: Kevin Lings - STANLIB's Chief Economist how do countries borrow money from the IMF?          

Guest: Gabriella Leighton, Post-Doctoral fellow at Rhodes University Caracals have metal pollutants in their blood.            

Guest:  Adv. Sipho Mantula from the Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International Affairs: UNISA   Afrika Update Report: 10 May 2023; 1. Sudan - White Nile State, Ethnic clashes between Hausa and Nuba groups has claimed 16 lives and prompting curfew imposition; 2. Namibia-Windhoek, A special summit of SADC which includes Angola, South Africa and Tanzania has backed the deployment of SADC...

Guest: Sandile July, Labour & Employment lawyer Many of South African who are paid the bare legal minimum, will see above-inflation increases in coming years in terms of a new plan.      

Guest: Shirley Mlombo, SAHRC North West Provincial Manager SAHRC finds Tswaing Local Municipality and Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality in violation of the Constitution, the Water Services Act, the National Water Standards Regulations, and the National Environmental Management Act.        

Guest: Isaac Mangena, City Power spokesperson City Power will no longer respond to outage calls from customers who continue to refuse to pay for electricity, including customers with non-vending meters, non-paying customers or defaulting customers.          

Guest: Zeenat Adam, Deputy Executive Director of the Afro-Middle East Centre In Pakistan, internet services have been cut - after paramilitary police broke into a court house - breaking windows and were able to arrest the former prime minister Imran Khan.        

Guest: Themba Fosi, MMC for utilities and regional operations and coordination at the City of Tshwane There are more reports of problems in some of our metros as they try to implement stage six load shedding - with councils saying their equipment was simply never designed to be switched on and off two or three times a day    

Guest: Jongizizwe Dlabathi – ANC Chief Whip in City Council The EFF Leader Julius Malema claims that 71 of the Ekurhuleni’s rubbish trucks had been stolen and could not be accounted for, now the ANC in Ekurhuleni says the trucks are accounted for - and that the EFF is lying      

Guest: Louw Kannemeyer, SANRAL’s Head of Engineering SANRAL says it’s distancing itself from reports that it’s running into a fiscal cliff – meaning it’s running out of money to build new roads and to maintain the roads it already controls        

Guest: Dr. Leverne Mountany, Psychiatrist: Tabula Rasa Wellness Guest: Vumile Msweli, CEO of Hesed Consulting Guest: Nickolaus Bauer, campaign manager for alcohol-harm reduction at The DG Murray Trust Mediated Conversation: Alcohol abuse a threat in the South African workplace    

Guest: Adv. Sipho Mantula from the Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International Affairs: UNISA   Afrika Update Report: 9 May 2023;1. Sudan -Ethiopia, Hundreds of refugees are fleeing ongoing military violent unrest in Sudan and have crossed the border into Ethiopia ; 2. DR Congo- South Kivu, Authorities in the DR Congo have announced that the death toll from the floods  that affected the...

Guest: Thembisa Fakude, Senior Research fellow at Africa Asia Dialogues In Iran two men have been hanged after being found guilty of committing blasphemy - when prosecutors said they had been convicted of burning the Quran and insulting the prophet of Islam.        

Guest: Ian Cameron, Community Safety Director at Action Society Action Society says that the ANC should do much more than just suspend someone from “taking part in the life of the movement” when caught red-handed sexually abusing minors and abusing their position for sexual favours.        

Guest: Malibongwe Mtima Eastern Cape Education Spokesperson There are now reports that payments for school nutrition schemes in the Eastern Cape have not been made and children were crying from hunger      

Guest: Louis Diremelo, provincial secretary of the ANC in the North West The ANC in North West says it’s acting against a forty-year-old ANC Ward Councillor - who has been arrested in connection with two counts of statutory rape.        

Guest: Kadri Nassiep, Executive Director of Energy at the City of Cape Town Guest: Lungile Mashele – Energy Economist Government has now said that it will appeal Friday’s court ruling that ordered it to make sure that schools, hospitals and police stations were exempt or protected from load shedding.            

Guest: Lance Grootboom - ACDP Cllr Nelson Mandela Bay A planned special council meeting in Nelson Mandela Bay, scheduled to debate a motion of no confidence against the Democratic Alliance‘s (DA) Mayor Retief Odendaal, has been called off.        

Guest: Makabedi Makhetha, Bheki Mlangeni District Hospital CEO Soweto’s Bheki Mlangeni District Hospital made history by performing its first heart surgery.            

Guest: Collen Msibi, Spokesperson for the national Department of Transport The National Transport Department says its plans to scrap three thousand seven hundred and fifty minibus taxis this year under the Taxi Recapitalisation Programme.        

Guest: Richard Quest, Journalist at CNN In KZN, the Africa Travel Indaba starts today and one of the people who is attending the Indaba is one of the most famous journalists of our times - CNN’s Richard Quest        

Guest: Sy Mamabolo - Chief Electoral Officer IEC The Electoral Commission of South Africa says that SA elections are becoming an expensive exercise with independent candidates involved