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The National Briefing

The National Briefing

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Jul 10, 2026

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Episodes

Two senior people who run the Koeberg nuclear power stations are leaving Eskom and stages of loadshedding implemented through the week 13.07.2022

Guest: Chris Yelland, Energy Expert

Police Minister Bheki Cele says the police Tactical Response Team will be deployed to Soweto after the tavern shooting. Is this the right response? 13.07.2022

Guest: Jeremy Vearey - Former head of Western Cape detectives    

In the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial yesterday, the lawyer representing four of the accused – Adv Malesela Teffo said he was withdrawing from the case 13.07.2022

Guest: Adv. Gerrie Nel, Head of AfriForum's Private Prosecution Unit  

The Western Cape liquor tribunal has refused to grant a license to a petrol station that wanted to sell alcohol on the premises 13.07.2022

Guest: Caro Smit, Founder & Director of South Africans against Drunk Driving

One SA Movement leader says we should be learning lessons from the way the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was forced to resign 13.07.2022

Guest: Mmusi Maimane, One South Africa Movement leader  

In Ukraine the number of people who’ve died from a Russian missile strike on a residential apartment block in Chasiv Yar in the east of the country has now risen to forty five 13.07.2022

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

Mediated Conversation: Understanding abalone trading 12.07.2022

Guest 1: Willem Els - Senior Training Coordinator: ENACT Programme at Institute for Security Studies Guest 2: Bernard Liedemann - Directorate: Monitoring and Surveillance at the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Guest 3: Kimon de Greef - Author Of Poaching

Twitter hits back at Musk, says no deal obligations breached 12.07.2022

Guest Arthur Goldstuck – World Wide Worx CEO

British Minister for Africa is in the country to discuss trade, women’s economic empowerment, and the groundbreaking Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) 12.07.2022

Guest: Vicky Ford – UK Minister for Africa

What kinds of interventions are needed to combat the tavern killings? 12.07.2022

Guest: Dereleen James – Community and Drug Activist

How similar are these tavern killings in Soweto, Katlehong and Pietermaritzburg with what has been happening in Khayelitsha? 12.07.2022

Guest: Ndithini Tyhido - Khayelitsha Development Forum

Toto investment holdings is going to legally challenge the decision by government and the department of public enterprises to sell fifty one percent of SAA to Takatso consortium. 12.07.2022

Guest: Guy Leitch – Editor: SA Flyer Magazine

It has been tough living in South Africa at the current moment, How do we get out of this current mess? 12.07.2022

Guest: Dr Mamphela Ramphele – Co-Founder of ReImagineSA

According to the Law Professor at the University of Limpopo, the Public Protector’s impeachment should not be used by MPs as a political battering ram 12.07.2022

Guest: Professor Dr Omphemetse S Sibanda is a Professor of Law and the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Management and Law at the University of Limpopo  

ehailing drivers in the City of Cape Town say that the City is impounding their cars and that they are not issuing them permits 12.07.2022

Guest: Lee van den Berg - the City's Manager for Transport Regulations: City of Cape Town

Police Minister Bheki Cele say that at least one hundred and thirty bullet cartridges were found on the scene of the tavern in the Nomzamo informal settlement 12.07.2022

Guest: Rev Mzwandile Molo - Acting General Secretary: SA Council of Churches

In Japan thousands of people have been streaming through a temple in Tokyo to pay their last respects to the former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe who was assassinated on Friday 12.07.2022

Guest: Thembisa Fakude, Senior Research Fellow at Africa Asia Dialogues

Mediated Conversation: one year in since the July unrests, what lessons can we learn? 11.07.2022

Guest 1: Benedict Xolani Dube, political Analyst At Xubera Institute For Research Guest 2: Kaveel Singh, Senior Journalist at News24 Guest 3: Crispin Hemson, Director at International Centre of Nonviolence

WhatsApp may soon let you hide your online status 11.07.2022

Guest Nafisa Akabor, Tech Journalist

Gauteng ANC leader and education MEC Panyaza Lesufi says Ekurhuleni is still leaderless 11.07.2022

Guest: Mzwandile Mbeje, SABC Political Editor   

The metro of Ekurhuleni says it’s now tying up agreements with independent power producers to buy electricity directly from them so that it can rely less one Eskom 11.07.2022

Guest: Fanyana Nkosi, MMC Finance in the City of Ekurhuleni

According to King KhoiSan SA, The KhoiSan Traditional Leadership Bill is not accepted by the majority but yet the president signed the Bill into an Act. 11.07.2022

Guest: King KhoiSan SA

According to Gun Free SA, young men are doing the killing and it's young men who are dying in these tavern killings 11.07.2022

Guest: Malose Langa - Professor of Psychology at Wits, special interest in violent masculinity and Gun Free SA board member

It’s been the most difficult weekend, with Tarven killings in some parts of South Africa 11.07.2022

Guest: Chris De Kock, Crime Analyst

President Cyril Ramaphosa urges action following tavern murders 11.07.2022

Guest: Vincent Magwenya, Spokesperson to the President

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