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The National Briefing

The National Briefing

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Jul 10, 2026

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Episodes

Nurses don’t feel safe anymore after the Tembisa hospital where a Police officer shot a student nurse 10.02.2022

Guest: Bongani Mazibuko – DENOSA Gauteng Provincial Secretary    

There is the big speech tonight by President Cyril Ramaphosa - the state of the nation address - of course there are a lot of questions around it - and different people want different things 10.02.2022

Guest: Mzwandile Mbeje - SABC News Politics Editor  

Mediated Conversation: On Monday the presidency released a report from a panel of experts which found that cabinet ministers did not agree on what was happening and on what they should do to stop it 09.02.2022

Guest: Themba Masuku- Programme Manager at the African Policing Civilian Oversight Forum (APCOF) Guest: David Africa - Executive Director of ACSIP, the African Centre for Security and Intelligence Praxis Guest: Siphumelele Zondi- senior producer and anchor of Network, a tech show on the SABC News Channel as well as lecturer at the Durban University of Technology.  

More than 4 800 children were victims of abuse or violence in the Western Cape Province 09.02.2022

Guest: Shaheda Omar · Clinical Director at the Teddy Bear Clinic for Abused Children  

It’s all systems go for tomorrows State of Nation Address 09.02.2022

Guest: Ms Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula - National Assembly Speaker of the National Assembly  

Democracy Survey shows a slight decline in vaccine hesitancy but highlights inequalities in vaccination coverage and barriers to vaccination 09.02.2022

Guest: Carin Runciman - Associate Professor of Sociology at UJ  

The Congress of South African Trade Unions is looking forward to the upcoming State of the Nation Address (SONA) 09.02.2022

Guest: Matthew Parks - Cosatu's Parliamentary Coordinator  

The United Nations security council says that Lebanon must have its elections as planned in may - and that there can be no way those elections are postponed. 09.02.2022

Guest: Siphamandla Zondi - Professor of International Relations at UJ  

The Johannesburg High Court has now ruled in favour of the man who invented the “please call me” service while working for Vodacom 09.02.2022

Guest: Elaine Bergenthuin - Intellectual Property Attorney and director at De Beer Attorneys  

There has been the discovery of a new variant of HIV in the Netherlands 09.02.2022

Guest: Professor Salim Abdool Karim – CAPRISA Director  

the High Court in Tshwane has ruled that the DTI Minister Ebrahim Patel does have the authority to order an independent investigation into the national lotteries board 09.02.2022

Guest: Raymond Joseph – Investigative Journalist: Ground Up  

The General Council of the Bar says it wants to remove Adv. Dali Mpofu from the Judicial Service Commission because he brought the advocates profession into disrepute 09.02.2022

Guest: Adv. Craig Watt-Pringle - General Council of the Bar Chairperson  

Mediated Conversation: what impact do these floods have on people? 08.02.2022

Guest: Prof Dewald van Niekerk - The programme manager in Geography and Environmental Sciences: North West University Guest: Gundo Maswime - Lecturer in the University of Cape Town’s civil engineering department Guest: Thapelo Mohapi – General Secretary: Abahlali BaseMjondolo

The report by panel of experts released yesterday found that the infighting in the ANC poses a serious risk to the country 08.02.2022

Guest: Ralph Mathekga – Political Analyst  

SAHPRA Registers Two Covid-19 Vaccines 08.02.2022

Guest: Dr Boitumelo Semete-Makokotlela - Chief Executive Officer of South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA)    

Yesterday. Action SA leader Herman Mashaba said that he believed that the DA-led coalition in Ekurhuleni, Joburg and Tshwane should reach an agreement with the EFF 08.02.2022

Guest: Helen Zille - DA Federal chair  

Children’s rights group is fighting a statutory appeal against the authorization of Covid-19 vaccines for use on children between 12 and 17 years of age. 08.02.2022

Guest: John Taylor – Founder: Free The Children - Save The Children  

A new report says that the State Security Agency, the police, and Cabinet Ministers are to blame for last year’s violence, and in-fighting in the governing party poses a threat to our stability. 08.02.2022

Guest: Jane Duncan - professor in the Department of Communication and Media, University of Johannesburg  

The Western Cape High Court has ordered Australian company Searcher Seismic, to stop its seismic exploration off South Africa’s West Coast from Cape Town to Namibia. 08.02.2022

Guest: Wilmien Wicomb – Attorney from the Legal Resources Centre  

There has now been the first meeting between the rules of the UAE and Qatar - since the dispute involving those countries began in 2017 08.02.2022

Guest: Shafiq Morton - Journalist for four decades

Mediated Conversation: Reflection On JSC Interviews 07.02.2022

Guest: Advocate Dumisa ntsebeza – A former Member of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) Guest: Prof. Tumi Mmusinyane, Associate Professor of Law at North West University Guest: Alison Tilley - Co ordinator - Judges Matter  

NECSA Edges Forward With Plans to Replace the Safari-1 07.02.2022

Guest: Loyiso Tyabashe – GCEO of the South African Nuclear Energy Corporation.  

City Power says it has lost millions of rands due to load shedding that took place last week 07.02.2022

Guest: Isaac Mangena – City Power Spokesperson  

The South African Police Service has resumed 2019/2020 recruitment and selection intake for 7000 entry level police trainees 07.02.2022

Guest: Lesiba Thobakgale - South African Police Union (SAPU) spokesperson  

Schools around the country will go back for full time face to face teaching today - along with all of the other activities as well 07.02.2022

Guest: Xolani Fakude- The South African Democratic Teachers' Union (SADTU)’s Head of Secretariat

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