The National Briefing

City of Cape Town announces the launch of renewable energy procurement, to make Cape Town SA's first load shedding-free city. 17.02.2022 4:20 ↓

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

Mediated conversation: what is actually happening between Russia and Ukraine? 16.02.2022 25:21 ↓

Guest: Dr Sarah Pienaar - Expert on Russian issues Guest: Dr David Monyae - Director of the Centre for Africa-China Studies at the University of Johannesburg Guest: Brooks Spector – Associated Editor: Daily Maverick

The City of Tshwane continues to switch off people who aren’t paying their bills - this week the city said it switched off the buildings housing SARS, the SAPS and Gautrain 16.02.2022 6:27 ↓

Guest: Peter Sutton - City of Tshwane: MMC for Finance  

Soapy plants can improve hand hygiene: southern Africa has plenty 16.02.2022 4:25 ↓

Guest: Prof David Katerere, TUT Research Chair, Pharmaceutical & Biotech Advancement in Africa  

The Taliban which rules Afghanistan says that it may now be forced to reconsider its policies relating of the US 16.02.2022 5:19 ↓

Guest: Ebrahim Deen - Researcher and the Afro Middle East Centre  

The Commission for Gender Equality says the Department of Basic Education must employ a non-discrimination principle in its National Guidelines on School Uniforms for #LGBTIQA+ rights 16.02.2022 4:44 ↓

Guest: Busisiwe Deyi - Commissioner at Commission for Gender Equality  

The Automobile Association wants Government to urgently tackle rising fuel. They also say increasing levies is the answer and renews calls for a review of pricing model 16.02.2022 2:28 ↓

Guest: Layton Beard - Spokesperson for Automobile Association  

a South African Non-profit organisations want halt to SA’s R50m donation to Cuba 16.02.2022 3:24 ↓

Guest: Chef Coo Pillay - national project director for Chefs with Compassion  

on Monday, Bheki Cele said he was aware that Julius Malema had met with Khehla Sithole as part of a plot to remove him from his job 16.02.2022 5:11 ↓

Guest: Eldred de Klerk, Senior Associate, Africa Centre for Security and Intelligence Praxis  

According to a report by the Daily Maverick, around R1.8bn Unemployment Insurance Fund monies have been lost in PIC’s Zweli Mkhize-linked Bounty Brands bet. 16.02.2022 10:18 ↓

Guest: Pieter-Louis Myburgh – Investigative Journalist: Scorpio Guest: Makhosonke Buthelezi – Unemployment Insurance Fund Spokesperson  

The labour department to ask a court to fine the local unit of the Chinese company Huawei by employing 90% foreign nationals and only 10% south Africans 16.02.2022 5:53 ↓

Guest: Gary Eisenberg - founder of Eisenberg & Associates  

There’s still intense diplomacy around the situation in Ukraine - with the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the American president Joe Biden agreeing last night 15.02.2022 4:47 ↓

Guest: Siphamandla Zondi - Professor of International Relations at UJ  

How do we stop racism from happening at schools all the time? 15.02.2022 8:25 ↓

Guest: Asanda Ngoasheng - Diversity Expert  

President Cyril Ramaphosa says government does not create jobs. Business creates jobs 15.02.2022 9:39 ↓

Guest: Dr Alex Mashilo - SA Communist Party (SACP) Spokesperson  

Why and how Africans need to participate in genetic studies 15.02.2022 3:27 ↓

Guest: Dr Tinashe Chikowore, co-author, Welcome Trust training fellow and researcher at the SBIMB and the SA Medical Research Council Developmental Pathways to Health Research Unit (DPHRU) at Wits.

Cabinet has decided to extend the state of national disaster 15.02.2022 4:23 ↓

Guest: Shabir Madhi is Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences and Professor of Vaccinology at the University of the Witwatersrand  

Talks on the decriminalization of sex work have finally begun 15.02.2022 6:44 ↓

Guest: Megan Lessing - 'Sex Worker Education and Advocacy Task Spokesperson  

It’s been 2 weeks into census, what has been the progress? 15.02.2022 6:18 ↓

Guest: Risenga Maluleke - Statistician-General and Head of Statistics South Africa (Stats SA)

Mediated conversation: there’s massive accounting scandal at the company Tongaat Hullet. What happened? 15.02.2022 25:02 ↓

Guest: Zwelakhe Mnguni - chief investment officer at Benguela Fund Managers Guest: Rob Rose - Financial Mail Editor Guest: David Woolam - Tongaat analyst and whistle-blower  

yesterday it was confirmed that Julius Malema is now going to court to stop parliament from acting against him relating to a JSC meeting last year 15.02.2022 5:11 ↓

Guest: Adv. Modidima Mannya – Legal Commentator  

Is removing foreign nationals going to create jobs for South Africans? 15.02.2022 5:00 ↓

Guest: Mmusi Maimane - Founder of One South Africa Movement  

Mediated conversation: The importance of infrastructure 14.02.2022 26:18 ↓

Justin Chadwick - CEO of the Citrus Growers’ Association Of Southern Africa Guest: Webster Mfebe - CEO of the South African Forum of Civil Engineering Contractors (SAFCEC) Guest: Mesela Nhlapo - CEO: African Rail Industry Association

There are calls by activists to have boys wear skirts as part of their school uniform. Should they be allowed to do so? 14.02.2022 7:43 ↓

Guest: Estian Smit - Research, advocacy & policy manager- Triangle Project  

The Black Lawyers Association is calling for Judicial Service Commission to introspect after the recently held chief justice interviews 14.02.2022 4:56 ↓

Guest: Bayethe Mswazi - President of the Black Lawyers Association  

How social pressures and poverty affect the ability of children to navigate school in Eswatini 14.02.2022 3:14 ↓

Guest: Dr Ncamsile Daphne Motsa - From Eswatini, and a former teacher in the rural areas of the country. She is presently doing my Postdoctoral studies with the University of KwaZulu- Natal