The National Briefing

Zwelinzima Vavi was re-elected as the SAFTU General Secretary and NUMSA has threatened to pull out of the federation 26.05.2022 11:49 ↓

Guest: Mbazima Shilowa - Former Premier of Gauteng and former Secretary General of Cosatu

After the KZN floods, residents in Umdloti have claimed that the area was not properly developed - and that their properties were badly damaged or even destroyed 26.05.2022 4:04 ↓

Guest: Greg Williams - Senior Manager Coastal Storm Water: eThekwini Municipality 

There are threats by the Minerals Resources Minister saying that if the Sibanye-Stillwater strike is not over soon - he would revoke the mines mining license 26.05.2022 6:03 ↓

Guest: Peter Major – Director of Mining: Mergence Corporate Solutions          

The Former Constitutional Court Judge Sisi Khampepe has now been elected to be the new Chancellor of the University of Pretoria. 26.05.2022 8:33 ↓

Guest: Sisi Khampepe - Former Constitutional Court Justice  

SAFCEC says that it will challenge the decision by SANRAL to cancell a series of tenders which had been issued for major road projects 26.05.2022 7:53 ↓

Guest: Webster Mfebe, Chief Executive Officer of the South African Forum of Civil Engineering Contractors (SAFCEC)

It’s now been four months since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Is Europe and the West unified in their quest to oppose Russia? 26.05.2022 5:48 ↓

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

Gauteng’s first new highway in more than 40 years is set to ease traffic congestion on existing freeways, including the busy Gillooly’s interchange 25.05.2022 5:43 ↓

Guest: Jacob Mamabolo – MEC for MEC for Gauteng Public Transport and Roads Infrastructure

Mediated Conversation: How do we recover the one year loss of education due to covid-19? 25.05.2022 23:26 ↓

Guest: Godwin Khosa, CEO of National Education Collaboration Trust   Guest: Senzo Hlophe, Director: Strategic Operations, DG Murray Trust   Guest: Mary Metcalfe - Education Specialist: UJ

You may soon exit WhatsApp groups silently 25.05.2022 2:41 ↓

Guest: Bataung Qhotsokoane, Technology researcher at iAfrikan.com

The Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure says her department has found that 52 bridges will have to be rebuild in KZN because of the flooding there 25.05.2022 11:41 ↓

Guest: Patricia de Lille, Minister for Public Works and Infrastructure

The Joburg Energy Indaba has heard some amazing numbers around cable theft - Joburg’s City Power says that it spends one hundred million rand a year on security 25.05.2022 6:34 ↓

Guest: Michael Sun - Environment and infrastructure services MMC

The Defence Minister says that the budget cuts to the SANDF over the last few years have hurt the force so badly 25.05.2022 8:15 ↓

Guest: Thandi Modise, Defence and Military Veterans Minister

How seriously should we take monkey pox, do we need to prepare for it? 25.05.2022 4:04 ↓

Guest: Dr Mvuyisi Mzukwa – SA Medical Association Chairperson

The City of Cape Town Mayor has written a letter to the Minister of Transport Fikile Mbalula proposing a working committee on rail devolution 25.05.2022 7:02 ↓

Guest: Geordin Hill-Lewis – The City of Cape Town Mayor

The Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure says her department has found that 52 bridges will have to be rebuild in KZN because of the flooding there 25.05.2022 11:41 ↓

Guest: Patricia de Lille, Minister for Public Works and Infrastructure

47 There was the big state visit yesterday to South Africa by the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz - of course his meetings with president Cyril Ramaphosa 25.05.2022 5:27 ↓

Guest: Siphamandla Zondi, Professor of politics and international relations at the University of Johannesburg  

22 In Japan, the US president Joe Biden has appeared to explicitly say that his country would come to the aid of Taiwan if it was attacked by china. 25.05.2022 5:19 ↓

Guest: David Monyae, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations and Director for the Centre for Africa-China Studies at the University of Johannesburg

the dispute at SARS over wages is going to lead to a full blown strike today by NEHAWU and the Public Servants Association demanding 12% increase 25.05.2022 6:08 ↓

Guest: Reuben Maleka, Spokesperson of Public Service Association

Mediated Conversation: how will the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality fix its water crisis? 24.05.2022 27:19 ↓

Guest: Benoît Le Roy, CEO of Water Shortage South Africa Guest: Gundo Maswime, Lecturer in the Civil Engineering Department at University of Cape Town’s civil Guest: Joseph Tsatsire, Director for Water Distribution Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality

NERSA approves first 100MW power generation projects in the private market 24.05.2022 6:26 ↓

Guest: Dom Wills, CEO of the SOLA Group

Launch of the first of three new multi-mission inshore patrol vessels 24.05.2022 6:43 ↓

Guest: Captain Tebogo Motsene, Project Officer for Project Biro    

Cabinet denies reports in the Sunday independent that the transport minister Fikile Mbalula was ordered to leave a committee meeting by president Cyril Ramaphosa because he had not properly prepared. 24.05.2022 10:38 ↓

Guest: Mondli Gungubele, Minister in the Presidency

The Energy Minister, Gwede Mantashe says that the fuel levy cut won't be extended beyond May 24.05.2022 7:07 ↓

Guest: Visvin Reddy, National Convener: People Against Petrol And Paraffin Price Increases

Top executives at South African government agencies and state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are paid large sums of money annually 24.05.2022 5:59 ↓

Guest: Sandile Swana - Governance Expert and Political Analyst

Lwazi Nkolonzi 24.05.2022 5:17 ↓

Guest: Lwazi Nkolonzi - NEHAWU National Spokesperson