The National Briefing

Schools in the inland provinces went back yesterday - but millions of children are still on a rotating timetable - meaning they are only in class every second day or every second week. 13.01.2022 5:17 ↓

    Guest: Professor Haroon Saloojee, executive member: South African Paediatric Association (SAPA)

Gauteng SAMWU concerned for workers’ safety following brutal killing of 5 workers at a Pikitup Depo 13.01.2022 4:37 ↓

    Guest: Bafana Zungu - Provincial Secretary for the South African Municipal Workers' Union (SAMWU)

SASCOC says it wants to be able to host fans in stadiums from next month - and that it will ask to be allowed to have half full stadiums - with people who are vaccinated 13.01.2022 3:42 ↓

    Guest: Barry Hendricks - President of SA Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC)

Acting Chief Justice Raymond Zondo says Tourism Minister Lindiwe Sisulu is insulting the judiciary and calls for President Ramaphosa to take action against her. 13.01.2022 17:13 ↓

Guest: Mbekezeli Martin Benjamin - Research and Advocacy Officer at Judges Matter Guest: Lawson Naidoo - Executive Secretary of the Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution (CASAC) Guest: Ongama Mtimka - Political Analyst

The South African Democratic Teachers Union (Sadtu) has raised concern that fewer classes have been built to ensure adequate space for learners. 13.01.2022 3:42 ↓

    Guest:  Mugwena Maluleke - SADTU Spokesperson

Western Cape Education placement of learners is not hundred percent due to late applications 12.01.2022 1:47 ↓

    Guest: Bronagh Hammond - Director Communication - Western Cape Education Department

The transport ministry says it’s now ready to start paying out its relief fund for the taxi industry from the covid-19 damage worth one point one billion rand 12.01.2022 6:25 ↓

    Guest: Theo Malele – Spokesperson for the National Taxi Alliance

Business Unity SA says it wants to help support the NPA to make prosecutions relating to state capture cases 12.01.2022 9:07 ↓

    Guest: Bonang Mohale – BUSA President

Eskom has initiated to call on communities to help to combat theft and vandalism of its assets 12.01.2022 3:30 ↓

  Guest: Portia Papu – Eskom Distribution Senior Manager, Customer Service

the first wife of the late Zulu King - Goodwill Zwelithini will find out this morning if her application for the judge in the inheritance case will recuse himself. 12.01.2022 6:12 ↓

    Guest: Mpumelelo Zikalala – Director: Zikalala Attorneys and Legal Analyst

Nearly half of South Africans have been unable to pay debts, lost income during last six months, according to 2021 SA Reconciliation Barometer 12.01.2022 4:25 ↓

    Guest: Mikhail Moosa - Project Leader for SA Reconciliation Barometer Institute for Justice and Reconcilliation (IJR)

In Kazakhstan - the country which shares borders both with Russia and China the country’s president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev says that Russian soldiers will now leave his country 12.01.2022 4:49 ↓

    Guest: Arina Muresan - Researcher at the Institute for Global Dialogue

a City of Cape Town Law enforcement officer is charged with murder after homeless man shot dead 12.01.2022 8:57 ↓

    Guest: Daniellè Louw – Attorney at Ndifuna Ukwazi

Mediated Conversation: Over the last few days the world of sport has been convulsed by the drama involving Covid-19, vaccinations, Australia and Novak Djovokic. 12.01.2022 26:37 ↓

Clip: Bruce Davidson - Independent tennis analyst   Guest: Gary Eisenberg - immigration attorney and a founder of Eisenberg & Associates.   Guest: Sanusha Naidu- Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Global Dialogue based in Pretoria

it’s back to school today - schools in the inland provinces are going back - grade ones will have their new uniforms and grade eights will be going into high school for the first time 12.01.2022 3:27 ↓

    Guest: Prof Mary Metcalfe, Senior Education Researcher - University of Johannesburg

in Gauteng, there are still learners who don’t have placements 12.01.2022 5:03 ↓

    Guest: Steve Mabona – Spokesperson for the Department of Education in Gauteng

Update on Limpopo province school readiness and not all pupils have received placements 12.01.2022 2:20 ↓

    Guest: Tidimalo Chuene - Limpopo Education Spokesperson

it’s emerged that the printing machine which prints driver’s licenses has broken down - and has been broken for three months - and is still not fixed 11.01.2022 4:13 ↓

    Guest: Wayne Duvenhage – CEO of Organization Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA)

The South African Union of Students say they are opposed to the University Vaccine Mandates. 11.01.2022 6:01 ↓

    Guest: Asive Dlanjwa - South African Union of Students Spokesperson

Mediated Conversation: the role of traditional leaders in a changing society 11.01.2022 24:23 ↓

    Guest: Nkosi Jongisilo Pokwana Ka Menziwa - Director at Vusizwe Foundation for Historical Research   Guest: Dr VVO Mkhize – founder of Umsamo Institute

Novak Djokovic has been released from immigration detention in Australia after a court quashed his visa cancellation but the decision does not necessarily mean the end of the issue 11.01.2022 8:32 ↓

    Guest: Bruce Davidson - Independent tennis analyst

Even Bushbabies Get Stressed: Here’s How We Know, And What It Means 11.01.2022 5:28 ↓

    Guest: Adrian Tordiffe - Associate Professor and a Wildlife Specialist at the Faculty of Veterinary Science of the University of Pretoria

law Professor suggests that the ANC led government should decree that corruption and state capture are threats to national security 11.01.2022 7:08 ↓

    Guest: Omphemetse S Sibanda - Professor of Law and the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Management and Law at the University of Limpopo.

it’s emerged that over the last four years three thousand people have has their names added to the sex offenders register 11.01.2022 7:29 ↓

    Guest: Ntombizodwa Matjila - Registrar of the National Sex Offenders Register Department of Justice and Constitutional Development   Guest: Elanie van der Walt - Action Society Spokesperson

there’s been intense meetings in Geneva in Switzerland between top diplomats from the US and Russia aimed at trying to defuse the situation along the border between Russia and Ukraine. 11.01.2022 5:19 ↓

    Guest: John Stremlau - Honorary Professor at Wits