The National Briefing

A truck driver who was driving recklessly has been traced and arrested, now authorities want his driving license withdrawn 17.05.2022 4:39 ↓

Guest: Vusi Shongwe, MEC community safety Mpumalanga

Confirmation at the international child labour conference in Durban this week that the number of children forced to work around the world has gone up for the first time in twenty years 17.05.2022 7:28 ↓

Guest: Thulas Nxesi, Minister of Labour

Sweden and Finland will now apply to the defensive alliance NATO to join the organisation 17.05.2022 5:41 ↓

Guest: Brooks Spector, Associate Editor at The Daily Maverick  

Mediated Conversation - Latest scientific update on Covid? 16.05.2022 24:39 ↓

Guest: Prof Salim Abdool Karim, South African epidemiologist and infectious diseases specialist

Tea Tourism- The hot new engine of growth 16.05.2022 5:27 ↓

Guest: Adele du Toit, Adele du Toit, spokesperson for the SA Rooibos Council (SARC)

There were very difficult, in fact I think heart breaking scenes in Jerusalem on Friday - when thousands of Palestinians tried to bury the Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. 16.05.2022 6:03 ↓

Guest: Na'eem Jeenah, Executive Director of the Afro-Middle East Centre

On Friday you heard the spokesperson for the Sol Plaatje municipality in the northern cape - Thoko Riet explaining about the water shutoff there - the water was switched on Thursday night - and was due to come back last night. 16.05.2022 3:49 ↓

Guest: Thoko Riet, Spokesperson of Sol Plaatje Municipality

4 Numsa threatens to go on strike if Tshwane does not accede to transport allowance demands 16.05.2022 4:03 ↓

Guest: Jerry Morulane, Numsa regional secretary

3 The Competition Commission says it’s asking retailers to be careful around the prices that they charge for edible oils 16.05.2022 7:21 ↓

Guest: James Hodge - Competition Commission Chief Economist

Civil Society organisations take Financial Sector Regulator to court 16.05.2022 8:42 ↓

Guest: Tabitha Paine, Attorney at Open Secrets

There was confirmation over the weekend that police brigadier Philani Ndlovu has passed away - he was one of the first police officers on the scene of the murder of the Bafana captain Senzo Meyiwa in 2014 16.05.2022 13:41 ↓

Guest: Adv. Malesela Teffo, who represents four men accused of killing Senzo Meyiwa   Guest: Adv. Gerrie Nel, Head of AfriForum's Private Prosecution Unit

The Sol Plaatje Municipality to shutdown water for three days, as a result of bulk water supply from Riverton to Kimberley that is experiencing severe leaks 13.05.2022 7:28 ↓

Guest: Thoko Riet - Sol Plaatje Municipality Spokesperson Guest: Reginald Witbooi, SABC reporter

The SA post office says it will no longer be able to pay social grants at its branches 13.05.2022 3:05 ↓

Guest: Johan Kruger, Spokesperson for SA Post Office

Why does the formation of COPE matter to politicians so much - why are they fighting about something that happened fourteen years ago? 13.05.2022 4:04 ↓

Guest: Ralph Mathekga, Political Analyst

ANC chief whip in the Mpumalanga legislature says its suspended its employee Philemon Lukhele - after he was one of the three people charged with the murder of Hillary Gardee last week. 13.05.2022 4:16 ↓

Guest: Fidel Mlombo - ANC’s Mpumalanga legislature Chief Whip

Dr Leon Schreiber, DA Shadow Minister of Public Service 13.05.2022 3:09 ↓

 The Sol Plaatje Municipality to shutdown water for three days, as a result of bulk water supply from Riverton to Kimberley that is experiencing severe leaks

The RTMC urges all motorists who applied for new driving licence cards 💳 or renewal of their licence cards between October 2021 - and December 2021 to come and collect them. 13.05.2022 4:25 ↓

Guest: Simon Zwane, RTMC spokesperson

2 In Sri Lanka, the president Gotabaya Rajapaksa has now appointed a veteran politician Anil Wickremesinghe as the new prime minister 13.05.2022 6:11 ↓

Guest: Siphamandla Zondi, Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Johannesburg

SASSA says people will have to get their social grants from ATMs or from supermarkets - some of the major chain stores 13.05.2022 3:50 ↓

Guest: Paseka Letsatsi, SASSA Spokesperson

Mediated Conversation 13.05.2022 24:24 ↓

People’s Mediated Conversation

The Congress of the People says Former Finance Minister Trevor Manuel was not part of the formation of the party 13.05.2022 3:46 ↓

Guest: Dennis Bloem - COPE Spokesperson

Mediated Conversation: will SA cope with Electric Cars and loadshedding? 12.05.2022 27:01 ↓

Guest: Prof. Sampson Mamphweli- Director of Stellenbosch University's Centre for Renewable and Sustainable Energy Studies   Guest: Martlé Keyter - Motor Industry Staff Association   Guest: Neil Thomas Stacey - scientist in Wits University’s Chemical Engineering department

It’s been a big week for our mining industry - with the mining indaba in cape town - and several promises by president Cyril Ramaphosa and the minerals minister Gwede Mantshe 12.05.2022 10:43 ↓

Guest: Jonathan Veeran, Partner, Webber Wentzel   Guest: Tebello Chabana, Senior executive public affairs and transformation, Mineral Council

Pretoria surgeons use robotics to push boundaries on hip and knee surgery 12.05.2022 3:47 ↓

Guest: Dr. Wian van der Merwe - Orthopaedic surgeon based in Pretoria

SIU has told Members of Parliament that as of 31 December last year, it was owed R650 million by government departments 12.05.2022 3:40 ↓

Guest: Kaizer Kgayago, Special Investigating Unit spokesperson