The National Briefing

The Eastern Cape ANC is postponing its conference that was due to be held over the weekend to see a leadership battle between Oscar Mabuyane and Babalo Madikizela 21.04.2022 5:37 ↓

Guest: Ongama Mntimka - Political Analyst

How is the KZN Department of Human Settlements and Public Works assisting affected victims of floods? 21.04.2022 7:06 ↓

Guest: Jomo Sibiya, KZN MEC for Human Settlement and Public Works

Mediated Conversation: do we trust government to distribute the disaster relief funds fairly in KZN? 20.04.2022 25:32 ↓

Guest: Peter Goss - Corporate Governance Advisor Sysman Motloung- North West University Political Studies lecturer, Guest: Martin Kingston - Solidarity Fund Floods Response Advisor Guest; Melusi Ncala, Snr Researcher, corruption watch

Often in floods we have problems with cholera a few days afterwards - why does this happen - why do diseases follow floods so often? 20.04.2022 6:16 ↓

Guest: Dr. Juno Thomas, Head of the Centre for Enteric Diseases: The National Institute For Communicable Diseases Of South Africa

SASSA says it will not be processing new applications for the R350 Covid grant until regulations are amended 20.04.2022 3:30 ↓

Guest: Paseka Letsatsi, SASSA Spokesperson

There was confirmation yesterday that the number of people who have died in the flooding in KZN is now as high at 448 - and that the number is likely to go higher. 20.04.2022 7:22 ↓

Guest Sihle Zikalala – KZN Premier

Public Enterprises Minister says that there is a backlog of at least eight thousand containers at the Durban harbour which could not be loaded on to ships due to floods 20.04.2022 6:38 ↓

Guest: Moshe Motlohi, Transnet National Ports Authority Managing Director

Stage 4 loadshedding: Eskom says that in a worst case scenario there could be over one hundred days of load shedding this winter 20.04.2022 7:18 ↓

Guest: Anton Ebehard, Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar at UCT

Clean water is now the biggest crisis facing everyone in KZN due to floods 20.04.2022 4:55 ↓

Guest: Gideon Groenewald, chief geologist at Gift of the Givers

An arbitration hearing has ruled that the CEO of PRASA Zolani Matthews must be reinstated - after he was fired for allegedly failing a security clearance procedure 20.04.2022 5:26 ↓

Guest: Thembile Mgqolozana, Acting General Secretary: United National Transport Union (UNTU)

Around ten thousand soldiers are due to arrive in KZN in the next few days - from the SANDF - to try and help people in that province 20.04.2022 3:26 ↓

Guest: Pikkie Greeff - National Secretary of SA National Defence Union

paying tribute to Thabo Masebe, the late acting director-general in the Gauteng premier’s office 20.04.2022 8:59 ↓

Guest: Paul Mashatile, Acting Secretary General of the ANC

The Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov has told a television station in India that another phase of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is starting now 20.04.2022 5:30 ↓

Guest: Peter Fabricius, Daily Maverick Foreign Policy Journalist

President Ramaphosa promised that the KZN disaster relief money help people who need help from the flooding will be stolen 19.04.2022 4:16 ↓

Guest: Sandile Swana – Political Analyst: Wits School of Government

There are calls for government to ensure that people who are living with disabilities are also being helped due to KZN Floods 19.04.2022 7:11 ↓

Guest: Hendrietta Bogopane-Zulu, Social Development Deputy Minister

President Ramaphosa promised that none of the money that government will use for KZN disaster relief will be stolen and there’ll be no place for corruption 19.04.2022 5:53 ↓

Guest: Mkhuleko Hlengwa - Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) Chair

Mediated Conversation: what is driving migration in SA? 19.04.2022 25:24 ↓

Guest: Guest: Diego Iturralde, Stats SA Chief Director of Demographic and Population Statistics Guest: Prof. Loren Landau, Wits University’s African Centre for Migration and Society Director Guest: Ralph Mathekga, Political Analyst

The SARB is celebrating 100 years since the first banknote it issued on 19 April 1922. 19.04.2022 4:35 ↓

Guest: Pearl Kgalegi, SARB Head of Currency Department

at least six hundred and thirty schools have been affected by the flooding - over one hundred of them now can’t be reached 19.04.2022 4:32 ↓

Guest: Kwazi Mshengu – KZN Education MEC

in KZN, the tourism industry says people still need to support the tourism sector in the province amid all of the devastation 19.04.2022 4:12 ↓

Guest: Themba Khumalo - SA Tourism Acting CEO

Following heavy rains and floods in KwaZulu-Natal, two of the province’s dam levels remain on the radar of the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS). 19.04.2022 2:36 ↓

Guest Sputnik Ratau, spokesperson for the Department of Water and Sanitation

6 how is the Gift of the Givers assisting victims of the KZN Floods? 19.04.2022 6:30 ↓

Guest: Dr Imtiaz Sooliman - Gift of the Givers Founder

GIWUSA condemns government and carbon polluters for KZN climate crisis. 19.04.2022 5:27 ↓

Guest: Mametlwe Sebei, GIWUSA President

7 Many people are still moving around the N3 road after the long Easter weekend 19.04.2022 2:18 ↓

Guest: Thania Dhoogra, Operations Manager of the N3 Concession.

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana confirmed that SA has borrowed R1.8 trillion from Investors and that our gross loan debt has almost doubled during this time 19.04.2022 4:42 ↓

Guest: Dr Azar Jammine – Director and Chief Economist at Econometrix