The National Briefing

Guest: Duncan Heafield, Owner of Bellézar Restaurant in Umhlanga Guest: Enver Duminy, Cape Town Tourism CEO Guest: Sibusiso Mkhwanazi, freelance travel and lifestyle journalist Mediated Conversation: Cape Town vs Durban last holiday season    

Guest: Dr. Ntanganedzeni Muambadzi, Nuclear medicine specialist Nuclear medicine facility boosts private medical care in Limpopo.      

Guest: Cllr. Siseko Mbandezi, Acting Mayoral Committee member for Water and Sanitation. The City of Cape Town is now urging residents to use less water as the prolonged high stages of load shedding have an impact on water supply operations.    

Guest: Richard Mamabolo, POPCRU Spokesperson The Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union says that overcrowding in prisons continues to be a major problem for correctional officers.    

Guest: Justin Fernandos, Big Cat Trainer & owner at Jugomaro Predator Park what is the process of recapturing a wild animal gone loose in the city?  

Guest: Dr. Iraj Abedian, founder and Chief Executive of Pan-African Investment and Research Services. While we battle with power problems and an economy, members of our business and government elite are in Davos, Switzerland for the world economic forum meeting there.      

Guest: Hilton Trollip, Energy Expert Still no announcement from president Ramaphosa or Eskom about the situation affecting the national grid - after Ramaphosa cancelled his trip to Davos over the weekend - because of stage six load shedding.      

Guest: David Maynier, Western Cape Education MEC As schools in the coastal provinces go back tomorrow it’s the final day for people to find places for their children. The Western Cape says it’s building a huge number of schools and classrooms to cope with demand    

Guest: Dr. Trevor Ngwane, Socialist and Anti-Apartheid Activist There are looming protests in SA on Service Delivery and load shedding      

Guest: Abel Esterhuyse - associate professor of strategy in the Faculty of Military Science of Stellenbosch University In Ukraine it’s now believed forty people have died after a Russian missile strike that hit an apartment building in Dnipro.    

Guest: Peter Fabricius, Foreign affairs journalist Guest: Sophie Mokoena, Foreign Editor for SABC Guest: Chris Bishop, founding editor of Billionaire Tomorrow and founding editor of Forbes Africa Mediated Conversation: The rise and fall of Isabel Dos Santos    

Guest: Prof. Lerothodi Leeuw, lecturer at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of the Western Cape. Recent discovery of an Earth-sized planet outside the solar system.    

Guest: Tebello Chabana, Senior Executive Public Affairs & Transformation at Minerals Council South Africa The Minerals Council of SA has called for the Transnet CEO to be fired, but the Black Business Council says that this is Fuelled by The Mineral Council's Anti Transformation Stance.    

Guest: Rosheda Muller – President of the Informal Economy Development Forum Scrapping of permit fees for informal traders must be legislated    

Guest: Lawson Naidoo is the Executive Secretary of the Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution (CASAC) Confirmation on Friday that The liberation veteran Frene Ginwala passed away at her home on Thursday    

Guest: Xolani Dube, Political analyst The High Court in Johannesburg is due to hand down its ruling this morning on whether president Cyril Ramaphosa will have to appear in court on Thursday - in the private prosecution brought against him by former president Jacob Zuma.    

Guest: Mary Metcalfe, senior research associate at University of Johannesburg It’s been reported by the Sunday Times that nearly four hundred learners in the Bohlabela district of Mpumalanga will not get their matric results this week because they’re being investigated for cheating          

Guest: Hasha Tlhotlhalemaje, Eskom General Manager of Regulation 55 Eskom appreciates the tough NERSA revenue decision for Financial Year 2024 and 2025 to allow them to increase tariffs by 18% this year and 12% next year.    

Guest: Mmusi Maimane, Leader of Build One South Africa There’s another campaign underway at the moment to change the system that allows someone to pass matric with a mark of thirty percent.      

Guest: Na'eem Jeenah, Executive Director at Afro-Middle East Centre In Israel nearly one hundred thousand people in three different cities have taken part in huge protests against the new government and its plans to give parliament more power over the courts - and to change the legal system      

People's Mediated

Guest:Johann Ferreira, Executive Director and CEO at Intercape

Guest: Kganki Matabane, Black Business Council Minerals Council SA's Call for Transnet CEO, Rail Chief To be Axed. Black Business Council says that this is Fuelled by the Mineral Council's Anti Transformation Stance  

Guest: Vanessa Couldridge, Senior lecture and researcher in the Department of Biodiversity and Conservation Biology at the University of the Western Cape

Guest: Mamokgethi Molopyane, Mining and labour analyst