The National Briefing

Guest: Roland Henwood, political scientist: University of Pretoria US defence secretary Lloyd Austin has told that country’s government they must take steps to reduce tensions on the occupied west bank - after Israeli settlers have been attacking Palestinians in the area.  

Guest: Wayne Duvenage, CEO of OUTA There was confirmation again yesterday during the budget speech in Gauteng by Finance MEC Jacob Mamabolo - that etolls are effectively over      

Guest: Angus Gibson, - director of The Bomb Shelter Film Company (Pty) Ltd. Guest: Mandla N - founder Black Brain Picture Guest: Thinus Ferreira - TV critic, writer and journalist Guest: Tariro washe – Producer and Actress Mediated Conversation: what stories are we telling the continent and the world about ourselves as South Africans?  

Guest: Arthur Crewe, spokesperson of SRU Strategic Response Rescue Unit Lion on the loose along the R511 in Centurion.    

Guest: Sizwe Pamla – Cosatu Spokesperson The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) has noted the disturbing reports of violent incidents and destruction of property by the striking public service workers.    

Guest: Professor Zeblon Vilakazi, Vice-Chancellor: Wits University The Wits SRC has now said they are having a 24-hour ceasefire and earlier this week they protested outside the home of the Vice Chancellor Professor Zeblon Vilikazi        

Guest: Sibusiso Khasa, campaigner at Amnesty International South Africa Government must urgently act on eradicating pit toilets after the death of a four-year-old girl whose body was found inside a pit toilet at a school in the Eastern Cape, says Amnesty International South Africa    

Guest: Abel Esterhuyse, associate professor of strategy: Faculty of Military Science of Stellenbosch University US Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines has told congress there that the war in Ukraine has become a grinding attritional war and that it could go on for many years.        

Guest: Terry Bell, Labour Analyst Other NEHAWU leaders have claimed that it is only saboteurs who have disrupted services and their members are not to blame.      

Guest: Keith Pillay, IPSS Medical Rescue Paramedic Yesterday came reports that an ambulance carrying a child in a critical condition was stopped by NEHAWU protesters from getting into the Stanger Hospital in Kwa Dukuza    

Guest: Loyiso Magqashela, ANC Eastern Cape provincial spokesperson The ANC in the Eastern Cape has confirmed taking a decision to recall the mayor of buffalo city - Xola Pakati - they claim that the state of the city shows that someone else needs to take over.      

Guest: Gary Eisenberg, immigration law expert A ruling this week in the High Court about a group of asylum seekers - twenty-two people from Afghanistan - who have been granted an asylum transit visa in South Africa.    

Guest: Mike Shingange - President of NEHAWU Guest: Xolani Fihla - JMPD Spokesperson Guest: Rich Sicina - President of the Young Nurses Indaba Trade Union There’s been so many reports of treatment for patients being disrupted at different hospitals around the country - because of the NEHAWU strike    

Guest: Jack Sekwaila, Environment and infrastructure services MMC Joburg MMC for Environmemt and Infrastructure Services Cllr Jack Sekwaila will be having an inner city war on waste clean-up campaign today.    

Guest: Layton Beard, AA Spokesperson Guest: Boysie Zungu, spokesperson for the Durban Metro police Guest: Louis Nel, Head of Department for Mobility and Freight at Johannesburg Road Agency G uest: Fatima Seedat, SADAG's Development Manager Mediated Conversation: Traffic problems caused by rolling blackouts need urgent attention    

Guest: Camry Jacobs, Westbury community leader There were some angry scenes in Westbury in Joburg yesterday - when the Police Minister Bheki Cele held a ministerial imbizo in an area where gangs have killed so many people - and there has been a huge amount of gang violence    

Guest: Patricia De Lille, Minister of Tourism Patricia De Lille has now been elected as the Minister of Tourism      

Guest: Dr Murungwa Makwarela - former Tshwane Mayor  The City of Tshwane is now without a Mayor again after Dr Murunwa Makwarela was removed and disqualified as Mayor      

Guest: Dr. Tim Maake, Local Government Specialist The City of Tshwane is now without a Mayor again when Dr Murunwa Makwarela was removed due to insolvency. Is there any onus on any organization to actually check - to see if Councilors qualify?    

Guest: Dr. Aslam Dasoo, Convenor of the Progressive Health Forum There’s been so many reports of treatment for patients being disrupted at different hospitals around the country - because of the NEHAWU strike    

Guest: Dr Percy Mahlati, Deputy Director General for Hospital Services: National Department of Health   Guest: Professor Adam Mahomed, head of internal medicine at Charlotte Maxeke Hospital There’s been so many reports coming through of treatment for patients being disrupted at different hospitals around the country - because of the NEHAWU strike    

Guest: David Monyae, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations and Director for the Centre for Africa-China Studies In Beijing, China’s new foreign minister Qin Gang has said that what he calls conflict and confrontation with the US is inevitable - and that the US is suppressing China.    

Guest: Miyelani Mkhabela, founder and economist at Antswisa Management Group President Cyril Ramaphosa made quite big changes to government - Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa as the new minister in the presidency for electricity    

Guest: Mondli Gungubele is Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies Mondli Gungubele has now been appointed as the Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies    

Guest: Prof. Keith Engel, Chief Executive of SA Institute of Tax Professionals There was confirmation from SARS yesterday that it has no record of the five hundred and eighty thousand US dollars stolen from president Cyril Ramaphosa’s phala phala farm entering the country