The National Briefing

Artificial Intelligence to predict where Gauteng traffic accidents will happen 19.05.2022 4:45 ↓

Guest: Tebogo Bokaba, Applied Information Systems Lecturer at University of Johannesburg  

A new report suggests that the smoking of tobacco has declined for the first time ever but there is a lot of evidence that children are still taking up smoking at a young age 19.05.2022 6:25 ↓

Guest: Dr Sharon Nyatsanza, Deputy Director of the National Council Against Smoking

According to the SA Institute of Chartered Accountants, 2 946 candidates wrote the exam in 2022, compared to 3 887 in 2021. This represents a drop of 24%! 19.05.2022 4:49 ↓

Guest: Graeme Marais, director of specialist finance recruitment company Blue Recruiting

The EU says it’s going to spend three hundred billion Euros investing in a new energy infrastructure - to make sure it does not have to rely on fossil fuels and gas from Russia 19.05.2022 5:37 ↓

Guest: Abel Esterhuyse - Head of the Department of Strategic Studies in the Faculty of Military Science, Stellenbosch University

The Special Tribunal is due to deliver its judgement this morning in cases relating to the Beit bridge border fence, it cost forty million rand 19.05.2022 5:14 ↓

Guest: Adv. Selby Makgotho - Spokesperson of the Special Tribunal  

The Western Cape government says that in the period between June 2019 and December last year there were four hundred cases of mass shootings in the province 19.05.2022 5:04 ↓

Guest: Reagen Allen, MEC for Community Safety in the Western Cape

The Environmental Affairs Minister says that the biggest threat to people around the world right now is disasters linked to climate change - so droughts and floods 19.05.2022 7:59 ↓

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

The former City of Joburg Mayor Mpho Moerane passes away after a fatal car accident 19.05.2022 17:20 ↓

Guest 1: Mpho Phalatse - City of Johannesburg Mayor Guest 2: Herman Mashaba, Leader of ActionSA Guest 3: Sasabona Manganye – ANC Joburg Spokesperson Guest 4: Sepetlele Raseruthe – EFF Regional Chair Joburg and Caucus Leader Guest 5: Ashley Sauls the 1st - Provincial Leader: Patriotic Alliance.      

Black Sash is calling for Sassa to ensure new grant payment come at no cost to recipients 18.05.2022 5:11 ↓

Guest: Amanda Rinquest, National Education & Training Manager for Black Sash

The Western Cape Blood Service says it has only one day’s supply of blood left to give to people who need it and that their stocks are very close to running dry 18.05.2022 3:28 ↓

Guest: Marike Gevers – Spokesperson: Western Cape Blood Service

What is the state of the North West Province? 18.05.2022 14:50 ↓

Guest: Bushy Maape - North West Premier

A new study shows that having two doses of the J&J Covid vaccine protects people from having severe symptoms of the virus and needing hospital help 18.05.2022 6:51 ↓

Guest: Dr. Linda Gayle Bekker – Co-leader of the Sisonke Trial

Mediated Conversation 18.05.2022 25:17 ↓

Your SIM card and biometric data might soon be linked – how new regulations aim to keep consumers safe Guest: Siphumelele Zondi – Senior Producer and Presenter of SABCNetwork Guest: Gur Geva - Founder and CEO - iiDENTIFii Guest: Zanyiwe Nthatisi Asare, CEO of Digitally Legal and Digital Law Regulation and Technology Consultancy

A group of residents in Nelson Mandela Bay say they believe the council is not properly dealing with the water crisis in that metro 18.05.2022 4:23 ↓

Guest: Victoria Siwundla, Water Crisis Committee Member: Nelson Mandela Bay

NPA has withdrawn the charges against against fifty liberation veterans who were accused of kidnapping and attempted kidnapping two ministers and a deputy minister hostage last year. 18.05.2022 5:30 ↓

Guest: Dr. Mathews Phosa, Director at Phosa Loots Attorneys  

Pineapple leaf pads to curb ‘period poverty’ gap 18.05.2022 4:01 ↓

Guest: Candy Androliakos, Founder of Leafline

The Gauteng Education Department received a report from an independent firm into the racial brawls that erupted between black and white learners at Hoerskool Jan Viljoen earlier this year 18.05.2022 6:31 ↓

Guest: Panyaza Lesufi, Gauteng MEC for Education

Parliament says it is going to start a process to properly deal with the Zondo commission report - and the recommendations that it makes 18.05.2022 8:00 ↓

Guest: Lechesa Tsenoli, Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly

FNB says middle-income consumers spend up to 80% of their monthly salary in 5 days 18.05.2022 2:03 ↓

Guest: Ester Ochse, Product Head, FNB Money Management    

As you might have noticed there was stage four load shedding last night - after Eskom had said there would be stage three load shedding last night and tonight 17.05.2022 6:45 ↓

Guest: Professor Sampson Mamphweli - Director for the Centre for Renewable Studies at the Stellenbosch University

Network of weather stations deteriorating because of lack of funding 17.05.2022 5:35 ↓

Guest: Mnikeli Ndabambi, Executive: Infrastructure and Information Systems at SA Weather Service

According to the Automobile Association, there are fuel price shocks ahead 17.05.2022 4:19 ↓

Guest: Layton Beard, spokesperson for the Automobile Association

There should be some direction today in the corruption case against former president Jacob Zuma - as Judge Piet Koen will speak to the lawyers from the prosecution and the defence 17.05.2022 5:17 ↓

Guest: Mpumelelo Zikalala – Founder of Zikalala Attorneys

The Stellenbosch University condemns the destructive, hurtful and racist incident in which a white student is filmed walking into a black student’s room at four o clock on Sunday morning 17.05.2022 10:58 ↓

Guest: Dr. Choice Makhetha, Senior Director Student Affairs: Stellenbosch University Guest: Queen Majikijela – Chair: SASCO Tsietsi Mashinini Branch

Mediated Conversation 17.05.2022 25:12 ↓

Is the government preparing for the privatization of SOE’s? Guest: Dr Guy Leitch, Aviation Expert Guest: Carol Paton – Financial Journalist: Fin24 Guest: Isaac Matshego, Economist at Nedbank