The National Briefing

Mediated Conversation: Analysis of the Ukraine-Russia War 22.03.2022 26:15 ↓

Guest: Prof Abel Esterhuise – head of the Department of Strategic Studies in the Faculty of Military Science, Stellenbosch University Guest: Dr Azar Jammine - Director and Chief Economist of Econometrix Guest: John Stremlau – Professor of International Relations at Wits University

SERI launches application to overturn prohibition of Johannesburg Anti-xenophobia march 22.03.2022 4:12 ↓

Guest: Asenati Tukela - SERI Attorney

An estimated 19 million Yemenis will go hungry unless funds are raised due to the war that has been happening in for 7 years 22.03.2022 5:22 ↓

Guest: Shafiq Morton - Journalist for four decades, focusing on the Middle East

Thousands of e-hailing drivers will embark on a three-day shutdown from today in a bid to get government to regulate the industry 22.03.2022 5:43 ↓

Guest: Vhatuka Mbelengwa - National E-hailing Spokesperson

The credit bureau TransUnion is still refusing to pay a fifteen million dollar ransom to a group of people who have hacked the personal banking information of millions of people in our country 22.03.2022 4:31 ↓

Guest: Adv Collen Weapon – Member of the Information Regular

Saftu President yesterday explained why they suspended Zwelinzima Vavi, claiming that he misused the federation’s credit card 22.03.2022 6:59 ↓

Guest: Zwelenzima Vavi – Secretary General for the South African Federation Trade Unions

There was another mass shooting in the Khayelitsha area over the long weekend - six people were killed after gunmen opened fire on a shack in the Enkanini informal settlement 22.03.2022 3:47 ↓

Guest: Anroux Marais - Acting MEC for community safety in the Western Cape

UWC Develops Unique DNA Profiling Kit that Fights Crime and Reveals SA’s Genetic Diversity 22.03.2022 4:56 ↓

Guest: Gasant Abarder – University of Western Cape spokesperson

Foreigners clash in Robertson – the Good Party calls on farmers to employ more South Africans 22.03.2022 5:04 ↓

Guest: Bret Herron - Secretary for the Good Party

KZN Premier says that our governance system should be overhauled so that the constitutional court cannot change or stop policies adopted by parliament - and that parliament should be above everything 22.03.2022 10:28 ↓

Guest: Sihle Zikalala – Premier of KZN

The DNA Project is calling for the DNA bill to be passed as soon as possible because more than 100,000 prisoners have been released from jail since 2017 without having their DNA recorded 22.03.2022 3:43 ↓

Guest: Dr Vanessa Lynch - The former deputy chairperson of the DNA Board and executive director of the DNA Project

UJ Political Scientist proposes that SA presidents and deputy presidents should personally become ministers in their own governments 21.03.2022 6:29 ↓

    Guest: Dr Bhaso Ndzendze - UJ Political Scientist

The Role of Quantum Tunnelling in Enabling Infection - SARS-CoV-2 21.03.2022 8:09 ↓

    Guest: Professor Francesco Petruccione - South African Research Chair for Quantum Information Processing and Communication (QIPC), founder of UKZN’s Centre for Quantum Technology and interim Director of the National Institute for Theoretical and Computational Science

Human Rights and Healing 21.03.2022 28:05 ↓

    Guest: Dr Seths Cooper – President: Pan African Psychology Union   Guest: Michael Lapsly - Anglican Priest and Social Justice Activist

today we remember and commemorate what happened in Sharpeville in 1960 - when 69 people were killed by police 21.03.2022 10:17 ↓

  Guest: Prof Tinyiko Maluleke – Political Analyst

The agriculture minister Thoko Didiza says that she’s met with farming groups and agro processing companies - and is confident that our country has enough food supplies and has enough crops to survive any fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine 21.03.2022 9:34 ↓

    Guest: Dr Sifiso Ntombela Chief Economist Agricultural Marketing Council

As we continue to mark human rights day there is an important conversation around what human rights are - and what is a right and what is not - but also to how far they extend 21.03.2022 5:43 ↓

  Guest: Dr Ntsikelelo Breakfast – Political Analyst

Over the last twelve hours or so the Ukrainian government has said it has rejected a Russian ultimatum to surrender the city of Mariupol to the Russian army 21.03.2022 8:36 ↓

  Guest: Roland Henwood - Political scientist and commentator based at the University of Pretoria

the Human Rights commission has heard how women are often portrayed as weak or as sex objects in adverts - their inquiry is continuing 21.03.2022 6:10 ↓

    Guest: Jamela Robertson- CEO of the Commission for Gender Equality

President Cyril Ramaphosa has confirmed that he will start a process to pick a new police commissioner that will be similar to the process that he used to select a new head of the NPA 21.03.2022 7:44 ↓

    Guest: David Africa - African Centre for Security and Intelligence Praxis  

Deadly Air Case Judgement: Major court victory for communities fighting air pollution in Mpumalanga Highveld 21.03.2022 8:14 ↓

    Guest: Bobby Peek – Groundwork Director

A process is still underway where a presidential task team is verifying who fought in the liberation struggle and who did not 18.03.2022 5:22 ↓

Guest: Gregory Nthatisi - MK council's Secretary-General

The ANC Caucus in the Council of Ekhuruleni in Gauteng says that the council should scrap seventy five percent of the debt owed by residents for water and electricity 18.03.2022 4:21 ↓

Guest: Cllr Jongizizwe Dlabathi - Ekurhuleni ANC Caucus Chief Whip

The Eastern Cape Health Department says that 319 children between the age of 10 and 14 gave birth in the province in the six months between July and December last year 18.03.2022 5:15 ↓

Guest: Dr Rolene Wagner, Head of Department, Eastern Cape Department of Health