The National Briefing

Guest: Thilivhali Nthakeni, Financial Regulatory Reporting at NERSA

Guest: Geordin Hill-Lewis, Cape Town Mayor Guest: Adv Mtho Xulu, President for the South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry Guest: Dr Lumkile Mondi, Lecturer at the School of Economics and Finance at Wits

Ramaphosa's bid for an urgenet interdict against Zuma's private prosecution pursuit Guest: Adv Romeo Nthambeleni, Senior Legal Analyst

Guest: Brooks Spector, Associate Editor at The Daily Maverick

Guest: Vumi Msweli, Hesed Consulting Founder Guest: Dr Cathy Angus - Clinical, Psychologist Guest: Dion Chang, founder of Flux Trends Mediated Conversation: how is the world of work going to change this year for people who are going back to the office?    

Guest: Dr. Rhoda Malgas, Lecturer in Conservation Ecology, Stellenbosch University Rural communities who make a living from wild harvesting indigenous rooibos.      

Guest: Michael Sun, MMC for Environment and Infrastructure Services Department. cities around the country are battling to keep their infrastructure running - because during load shedding people attack their infrastructure and steal from it - or sometimes just vandalise it    

Guest: Tertius Simmers, Human Settlements and Infrastructure MEC In the Western Cape, a total of 25 housing projects have been affected by extortionists over the last five years, leaving almost 19 000 beneficiaries without help      

Guest: Matthew Cruise, Independent energy expert There was confirmation from Eskom yesterday that it will now implement stage six load shedding until further notice because of problems at eleven of its power stations.      

Guest: Songezo Zibi, Rivonia Circle Chairperson Yesterday the higher education minister was at the University of Fort Hare - he promised action and said there would be a task team to look at issues of corruption and the safety of people at higher education institutions                  

Guest: Francois Rodgers, Leader of the DA in KwaZulu-Natal The DA in KZN says it’s taking action against a Newcastle councillor Connie Hariram accused of racism by sending a voice note asking why a black woman was appointed to a ward committee in an area where mostly Indian people live.          

Guest: Desmond Latham, Aviation Expert There were dramatic scenes in the US yesterday - when every single domestic flight was grounded - and told that they could not take off.          

Guest: Zain Lundell, Attorney at RH Lawyers There is now going to be a class action law suit against the people responsible for that massive gas tanker explosion in Boksburg on Christmas eve        

Guest: Adv. Pikkie Greeff, National Secretary for the South African National Defence Union The SANDF has now confirmed that at least one our soldiers was involved in the burning of bodies of insurgents in Mozambique after a video emerged of soldiers just throwing bodies onto a burning pile of rubbish.    

Guest: Julian Rademeyer, Director of the Organised Crime Observatory for East and Southern Africa at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime. Guest: Eldred De Klerk- Senior policing and community conflict specialist at Africa Centre for Security and Intelligence Praxis Guest: Thabiso Zulu, whistle blower Mediated Conversation: Why are there so many assassinations in SA?      

Guest: Mpumelelo Zikalala, Legal Analyst Three judges will now hear President Cyril Ramaphosa’s legal bid to stop his private prosecuting by former President Jacob Zuma.      

Guest: Dr. Louw Claassens, Palau National Marine Sanctuary: Science Officer and Researcher & Research Associate of Zoology and Entomology, Rhodes University. DNA in the water shows South African scientists where to find a rare pipefish  

Guest: Joseph Tsatsire, Director for Water Distribution in the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality The Nelson Mandela Bay municipality (NMBM) has said it cannot meet the water demand of 286 megalitres a day as the ongoing drought resulted in severe water shortages        

Guest: Prof Adrian Puren, Executive Director at the National Institute For Communicable Diseases Of South Africa The Health Minister said yesterday that government is not going to take any measures at this stage after the detection of a case of the new sub-variant of covid-19 - officially called XBB.1.5        

Guest: Kedibone Diale-Tlabela - Gauteng MEC for Transport and Logistics The Gauteng Transport and Logistics is today impounding unroadworthy scholar transports    

Guest: Horisani Sithole, Sabc News Reporter Guest: Matome Chiloane, Gauteng Education MEC As schools in the inland provinces go back today there are still some learners who have not been placed - and the Gauteng Education Department has confirmed that it has to sometimes decide to allow a school to be overcrowded      

Guest: Lerato Ntwampe, Social Media Legal Consultant Social Media Experts are warning parents to be careful with posting their child’s first day of school pictures as it causes a digital security risk.    

Guest: Nono Maloyi, North West MEC for Cooperative Governance, Human Settlement and Traditional Affairs Ditsobotla Municipality Mayor yesterday resigned 7 hours after her appointed    

Guest: James Mackay, CEO of Energy Council of South Africa We will have stage six load shedding every evening until further notice and stage four during the day. Energy department will oversee Eskom, Ramaphosa says    

Guest: Abel Esterhuyse - associate professor of strategy in the Faculty of Military Science of Stellenbosch University Ukranian soldiers are now receiving training on how to use the US’s patriot missile system which is designed to intercept missiles that are being used by Russia to attack Ukraine.