The National Briefing

Cost of transport, goods to surge if new duties on vehicle tyres are imposed 27.07.2022 4:04 ↓

Guest: Charl de Villiers, Chairperson of Tyre Importers Association of SA

The Progressive Health Forum has raised concerns that the disciplinary processes against whistleblower Dr Tim De Maayer has not been stopped. 27.07.2022 3:37 ↓

Guest: Aslam Dasoo - The Progressive Health Forum

The step aside resolution will be at the center of the upcoming ANC Policy Conference. The ANC in KZN calls for “step aside” to be scrapped 27.07.2022 7:58 ↓

Guest: Lukhona Mnguni, Political Analyst

Workers at the ANC’s headquarters say that they will disrupt the party’s policy conference in some way - if they are not paid their full salaries 27.07.2022 8:39 ↓

Guest: Mvusi Mdala, ANC Staff Representative Committee Chairperson Guest: Pule Mabe, ANC National Spokesperson

The Western Cape High Court is now considering the application by Busisiwe Mkhwebane challenging the decision of presidency Cyril Ramaphosa to suspend her 27.07.2022 4:49 ↓

Guest: Mpumelelo Zikalala, Legal Analyst 

Greenpeace Africa says that the reduced red tape on energy crisis should not lead to mismanagement 27.07.2022 1:51 ↓

Guest: Nhlanhla Sibisi - Climate & Energy Campaigner: Greenpeace Africa

Progressive Professionals Forum welcomes energy interventions by President Ramaphosa but cautions that the transformation agenda should not be sacrificed 27.07.2022 4:52 ↓

Guest: Kashif Wicomb, Progressive Professionals Forum President

China is threatening to use what it calls resolute and strong measures” if the speaker of the US House speaker Nancy Pelosi visits Taiwan 27.07.2022 3:35 ↓

Guest: Roland Henwood - Political Scientist and Commentator: University of Pretoria    

Mediated Conversation: Western Cape High Court ruling on Qolani Eviction declared unlawful and unconstitutional 26.07.2022 27:03 ↓

Guest 1: Charlene Kreuser - candidate attorney Legal Resource Centre Guest 2: Thapelo Mohapi - general secretary of Abahlali baseMjondolo Guest 3: JP Smith - City of Cape Town Safety and Security, MMC Guest 4: Andre Gaum Commissioner at SAHRC

Email scams on the rise 26.07.2022 5:26 ↓

Guest: Jan Vermeulen, MyBroadband Editor

Monkeypox declared as a global health emergency by the World Health Organization 26.07.2022 6:03 ↓

Guest: Prof. Salim Abdool Karim – Director of CAPRISA

President Cyril Ramaphosa appoints Justice Mandisa Maya as the Deputy Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court of SA 26.07.2022 7:30 ↓

Guest: Mbekezeli Benjamin, Research and Advocacy officer at Judges Matter

Experts say that the pandemic has worsened challenges faced by scholars following the increase in 2021 drop-out rate figures 26.07.2022 4:34 ↓

Guest: Merle Mansfield – Programme Director: Zero School Dropout

President Ramaphosa announced that Eskom will spend more money on maintenance despite its huge debt burden and also buy more power from independent power producers 26.07.2022 19:47 ↓

Guest: Prof. Sampson Mamphweli - Director of Stellenbosch University's Centre for Renewable Guest: Busisiwe Mavuso, Chief Executive Officer of Business Leadership South Africa Guest: Zwelinzima Vavi, SAFTU Secretary General

The Gauteng Health MEC says children needing surgery at the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital will wait between six months and two years for surgery in some cases 26.07.2022 2:50 ↓

Guest: Jack Bloom - DA Gauteng Shadow Health MEC

The Justice Department and the NPA that our will formally filed their extradition request with officials in the United Arab Emirates - for Rajesh Gupta and Atul Gupta 26.07.2022 10:31 ↓

Guest: Andre Thomashausen - Public, Constitutional and International Law professor at University of South Africa

Manuel Chang is accused of large scale corruption in Mozambique - Mozambique wants him to be extradited there - the US wants to extradite him too because he broke their laws 26.07.2022 6:18 ↓

Guest: Estacios Valoi - Mozambican journalist

The UN and the west have condemned Russia for what they say was a Russian cruise missile attack on a grain storage depot in the Ukrainian port of Odessa 26.07.2022 5:05 ↓

Guest: Abel Esterhuyse, professor of strategy in the Faculty of Military Science of Stellenbosch University    

Mediated Conversation: the Reserve Bank announces that it will start to regulate cryptocurrencies as a financial product 25.07.2022 25:02 ↓

Guest: Professor Steven Sidley - Co-writer of Beyond Bitcoin Guest: Lerato Lamola-Oguntoye, Counsel at Webber Wentzel Guest: Rob Rose – Editor: Financial Mail

The Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries says it wants to shorten the timeframes for solar PV projects 25.07.2022 5:14 ↓

Guest: Barbara Creecy, Minister of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries

Gang violence at Northern Cape school leads to closure of the school 25.07.2022 5:40 ↓

Guest: Moira Marais, HOD Education Department: Northern Cape    

Big Business say that raising taxes and it seems particularly raising vat may be the best way to fund a basic income grant 25.07.2022 6:41 ↓

Guest: Cas Coovadia, CEO of Business Unity South Africa  

The ANC in KZN elects new leadership at their ANC KwaZulu-Natal 9th Provincial Congress 25.07.2022 19:57 ↓

Guest: Duma Siboniso - Newly elected KZN ANC Chairperson Guest: Samkele Maseko – SABC News Political Reporter Guest: Dr. Fikile Vilakazi, Lecturer in Public Policy and Political Science at UKZN    

Banyana Banyana wins the WAFCON2022 25.07.2022 4:55 ↓

Guest: Nathi Mthethwa, Minister of Sports, Arts, Culture and Recreation

The University of Stellenbosch’s disciplinary committee has decided that Theuns du Toit who urinated on the possessions of a black student must be expelled from the institution 25.07.2022 7:05 ↓

Guest: Charlene Kreuser - candidate attorney in the LRC's Cape Town office.