The National Briefing

Guest: Tim Forssman, Senior Lecturer, University of Mpumalanga Archaeology shows how hunter-gatherers fitted into Southern Africa’s first city, 800 years ago.      

Guest: Dr Percy Mahlati, Deputy Director General for Hospital Services, National Health Department The Department of Health says that it’s in need of financial backing from National Treasury as rising fuel costs to run generators overburden health budgets.        

Guest: Chriselda Lewis – Senior SABC News Reporter Facebook rapist Thabo Bester and Dr Nandipha Magudumana returned back to South Africa this morning after skipping the country      

Guest: Prof. David Monyae, Director for the Centre for Africa-China Studies (CACS) at the University of Johannesburg. In Asia, Taiwan’s foreign Minister Joseph Wu has given an interview to CNN in which he claims that China seems to be trying to get ready to launch a war against Taiwan.      

Guest: Adv. Selby Makgatho, Legal Commentator and PhD Candidate in Public Constitutional and International Law at Unisa Guest: Gary Eisenberg, Immigration Attorney Guest: Prof. André Thomashausen, International law expert: Unisa. Mediated Conversation: The United Arab Emirates had declined our government’s request for the extradition of two of the Gupta brothers - Atul Gupta and Rajesh Gupta.    

Guest: Matthew Parks, Cosatu's Parliamentary Coordinator The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) welcomes President Cyril Ramaphosa’s signing the Compensation of Occupational Injuries and Diseases Amendment Act (COIDA Act) yesterday    

Guest: Vhatuka Mbelengwa - National E-hailing Spokesperson Yesterday, Alexandra court erupted in disbelief when E-HAILING operators had been asked to leave court after the killing Euston Bongani Mnguni 28 year old law graduate earning a part-time living on Bolt    

Guest: Professor Stefan Grab, Wits School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies The disastrous flood that hit Durban in April 2022 was the most catastrophic natural disaster yet recorded in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) in collective terms of lives lost, homes and infrastructure damaged or destroyed and economic impact.      

Guest: Sasabona Manganye, Johannesburg ANC regional secretary Guest: Sandile Swana, Local government specialist There are now calls for the City of Joburg Mayor Thapelo Amad to resign over R9.5bn loan remarks during an interview on Morning Live    

Guest: Daniel Steyn, GroundUp Journalist What do we know about the role that a former prison warder Senohe Matsoare and the father of Dr Nandipha Magudumana - Zolile Sekeleni played in the escape of Thabo Bester?        

Guest: Mxolisi Kaunda, Mayor of the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality The Mayor of eThekwini Mxolisi Kaunda is again examining infrastructure in the city after last year’s incredible flooding there. It’s now a year since those floods in Easter last year claimed so many lives.    

Guest: Prof. Mark Swilling, co-director Centre of Sustainability Transitions: University of Stellenbosch There now appears to be uncertainty as to what government and Eskom will actual do regarding the coal fired power stations which are currently coming to the end of their designed life span    

Guest:  Adv. Sipho Mantula from Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International: UNISA   Afrika Update Report: 12 April 2023; 1. Germany- Chad, Berlin has ordered Chad's Ambassador Mariam Ali Moussa to leave Germany within 48 hours in tit-for-tat move ; 2. Somalia-Baidoa, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has visited a camp for internally displaced people in Baidoa in Somalia's South We...

Guest: Abel Esterhuyse, associate professor of strategy in the Faculty of Military Science of Stellenbosch University In the US, there is now a huge investigation into how a group of documents all classified top secret ended up being posted on a social media website.    

People’s Mediated

Guest: Cilliers Brink, City of Tshwane Mayor The City of Tshwane Energy & Electricity officials are trying to cut the seven power lines that fell on the N4 freeway, plunging large parts of Pretoria East and North into darkness.    

Guest: Ashley Uys, Chief Executive Officer at Medical Diagnostech Medical Diagnostech launches new app HealthPulse TestNow.          

Guest: Gideon Chitanga, Research Associate at African Centre for the study of the United States, University of the Witwatersrand President Cyril Ramaphosa to send envoy to the US to explain SA stance on Russia.  

National Freedom Party calls special meeting in Durban as liquidation looms. Guest: Ahmed Shaik Emam, National Freedom Party Parliamentary leader      

Guest: Robert Mckenzie - KwaZulu-Natal emergency services spokesperson An enormous triage operation is under way to assist people injured and stranded at a multi-vehicle crash near Cedara in KwaZulu-Natal. At least 35 vehicles, including eight minibus taxis and five trucks, were involved in the crash.        

Guest: Sifiso Shangase, SANTACO KZN Spokesperson Police Minister Bheki Cele set to preside over signing of peace agreement between rival taxi associations in KZN        

Guest: Solly Mapaila, secretary general of the South Africa Communist Party (SACP) The South African Communist Party launched a campaign for an inquest into the assassination of Chris Hani, in the hope of uncovering who ordered his killing.      

Guest: Mcebisi Kunene, Equal Education Junior Organiser  Today, Equal education will March to Limpopo Department of Education offices in Polokwane to Sanand urgent sanitation relief for priority one schools.      

Guest: Adv. Sipho Mantula from Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International: UNISA Africa Update with Adv. Sipho Mantula from Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International: UNISA    

Guest: Brooks Spector, Associate Editor at Daily Maverick Highly classified Pentagon documents leaked online in recent weeks have provided a rare window into how the US spies on allies and foes