The National Briefing

Guest: Mary de Haas - violence monitor and analyst following a series of fatal drive-by shootings and a rise in gun violence around Durban, violence monitor and analyst Mary de Haas says that Gun violence in KwaZulu-Natal is out of control and a serious problem    

Guest: Dr Tim Maake – Local Government Specialist Yesterday the DA mayor Mpho Phalatse lost a confidence vote, what is the impact of unstable coalition governments on service delivery?    

Guest: Andrew Russell - Chairperson SA Canegrowers Association The SA Canegrowers Association has predicted that loadshedding is expected to cost sugar industry more than R723 million in 2023.        

Guest: Kenny Kunene – Patriotic Alliance Deputy President Guest: Dada Morero - ANC Johannesburg Chair Well the City of Joburg is expected to get a new mayor today - after the DA mayor Mpho Phalatse lost a confidence vote yesterday.      

Guest: Peter Sutton – City of Tshwane MMC for finance Yesterday you heard Eskom explaining why it asked the Department of Cooperative Governance and Tradition Affairs to intervene in its relationship with the city of Tshwane. Eskom says Tshwane owes it one point four billion rands.      

Guest: David Monyae, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations and Director for the Centre for Africa-China Studies Chinese authorities report that around 896 people are dying a day because of coronavirus.      

Guest: Vally Padayachee - former executive manager of Eskom and former City Power Johannesburg executive We keep seeing Eskom substations failing - what does load shedding do to a substation - switching the power on and off all the time - what does that do?      

Mediated Conversation: how is the theatre industry after the lockdown? Guest: Pieter-Dirk Uys - Performer, author, satirist, and social activist Guest: Greg Homann, Artistic Director of the Market Theatre Foundation Guest: James Ngcobo, Artistic director at the Joburg Theatre

Guest: Dr Alex Lenferna – Secretary of the Climate Justice Coalition South Africa made fresh inquiries about securing electricity supply from Turkey’s Karpowership as it battles its worst ever power outages, according to people familiar with the situation.      

Guest: Philani Mavundla Abantu Batho Congress Leader In eThekwini it appears the ANC’s mayor Mxolisi Kaunda will face a confidence vote next week - after the speaker of that council said it could go ahead next week        

Guest: Prof. Christopher Isike, Director at the African Centre for the Study of the United States, University of Pretoria In the US over the last few weeks there has been an incredible number of mass shootings - in just one month - since the start of this year - there have been thirty-nine incidents of mass shootings.        

Guest: Margaret Arnolds – City of Joburg Chair of Minority Parties Guest: Bongani Baloyi – Action SA Gauteng Chair There’s a series of developments now around today’s vote in the City of Joburg - where some of the smaller minority parties are bringing a confidence vote against the mayor Mpho Phalatse            

Guest: Amanda Qithi, Gauteng Eskom spokesperson Eskom is now asking the National Cooperative Governance Minister Cogta to intervene in its dispute with the City of Tshwane, Tshwane owes Eskom one point four billion rand    

Guest: Qubudile Dyantyi, Parliament's Section 194 Inquiry Committee Chairperson. The committee investigating the fitness for office of the Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane has now decided that it will call the former Public Protector Thuli Madonsela to come and testify.  

Guest: Zukiswa Adenugba, Head HR of Sulzer South Africa Earlier this week, we took a call from Duncan in Emalahleni, he works for a company called Suzler Pumps and he told us that that company was paying its white workers more than its black workers      

Guest: Foster Mohale, Spokesperson for the Department of Health The Department of Health will this week commence with the programme of screening, verification, medical examination and payment of benefits to eligible former mineworkers who contracted tuberculosis (TB) or silicosis between 1965 and 2019.      

Guest: Eben Olderwagen, Vergelegen Environmental Project Manager Rare quagga born in Somerset West.        

Guest: Prof Berte Van Wyk, Associate Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Education Policy Studies at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. Guest: Asive Dlanjwa, National Spokesperson of the South African Union of Students Guest: Dr. Blade Nzimande, Minister of Higher Education, Science and Techn Mediated Conversation: there hundreds of thousands of young people who are looking for a...

Guest: Bishop Malusi Mpumlwana, General Secretary for the South African Council of Churches. South African Council of Churches saddened by the death of eSwatini Human Rights Lawyer - Thulani Maseko, who was assassinated last Saturday.

Guest: Puleng Mopeli, Joburg Water spokesperson Joburg Water that their water supply is constrained due to the load shedding and heatwave.            

Guest: Mkhuleko Hlengwa, Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) Eskom told Parliament’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts yesterday that the risk of load shedding will diminish over the next eighteen months - they did not say that it would end entirely    

Guest: Steven Gruzd - Head: African Governance and Diplomacy Programme and the Russia-Africa Project at the South African Institute of International Affairs In Ukraine the country’s President Voldomyr Zelensky has now fired several high ranking officials while others have resigned - after it appears they were involved in corruption      

Guest: Bhekinkosi Mtolo, KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Secretary The KZN ANC says it’s now asking the councils that it controls in that province to join the various court actions against Eskom’s 18% power price increase - it says that people cannot afford the increase.    

Guest: John Steenhuisen, DA Leader The Democratic Alliance says it’s going ahead with its march today on the ANC’s headquarters Luthuli House - it says it’s going to protest against load shedding        

Guest: Prof. Brian van Wilgen, Professor at the Centre for Invasion Biology at Stellenbosch University 23 Curbing the spread of invasive plants, but we are still struggling to get them under control.