The National Briefing

KZN / Free State - N3 Route: #VanReenensPass Truck Driver blockade - ROAD CLOSED 03.12.2021 2:06 ↓

    Guest: Thania Dhoogra, operations manager N3 Toll concession

amaBhungane scores major win for political funding transparency. The High Court handed down judgment declaring the Executive Ethics Code to be unconstitutional, unlawful and invalid. 03.12.2021 4:57 ↓

    Guest: Cherese Thakur - The head of amaBhungane's advocacy programme

Mediated Conversation: where are you going and what are you doing during the holidays 02.12.2021 25:45 ↓

Guest: Listeners Guest: Sbu Mkhwanazi - Travel and Freelance Writer Guest: Dr. Unathi Sonwabile Henama - Tourism Lecturer at the Tshwane University of Technology

defining what Ethical in Artificial Intelligence Needs Input from Africans is 02.12.2021 3:34 ↓

Guest: Dr Mary Carman - Lecturer in Philosophy at Wits University  

President Cyril Ramaphosa has now signed the Cyber Crimes Bill into law 02.12.2021 7:16 ↓

Guest: Jan Vermeulen - MyBroadband Editor-at-large

Western Cape ANC pulls out of the coalition with ICOSA in the municipality of Kannaland. After Jeffery Donson has been convicted of raping a fifteen year old girl 02.12.2021 6:14 ↓

Guest: Sifiso Mtsweni - Head of communications in the ANC Western Cape  

The South African Medical Association is calling on government to establishment specialized medical courts to deal with medico-legal cases. 02.12.2021 6:13 ↓

Guest: Dr Mark Human - Chair of SAMA Human Rights Law and Ethics Committee  

some public sector unions refuse to support mandatory Covid-19 vaccinations, Cosatu back mandatory vaccinations 02.12.2021 3:48 ↓

Guest: Reuben Maleka - Public Service Association’s spokesperson  

the Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo says he will not allow the former head of the state security agency Arthur Fraser to cross examine witnesses who have implicated him in corruption at the agency. 02.12.2021 11:44 ↓

Guest: Benedict Phiri - Legal Expert   Guest: Eric Mabuza - Lawyer representing Arthur Fraser  

KZN provincial police commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi told the human right’s commission’s inquiry that police were unable to stop people putting up barricades in phoenix 02.12.2021 5:10 ↓

Guest: Fanele Mhlongo – SABC Reporter  

Accountability Now says it is considering court action against the NPA - because it is not prosecuting high profile cases where there is massive evidence of corruption 02.12.2021 6:30 ↓

Guest: Paul Hoffman – The Director of Accountability Now  

there are huge concerns about how many people are starving in Afghanistan due to a massive shortage of food 02.12.2021 5:18 ↓

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

Mediated Conversation: World Aids Day and Omicron covid-19 variant 01.12.2021 26:42 ↓

Guest: Prof. Salim Abdool Karim – CAPRISA Director

The 2022 Gauteng Online Admissions for Grade 1 & Grade 8 have been extended to 10 December 2021 01.12.2021 4:45 ↓

Guest: Panyaza Lesufi - Gauteng Education MEC  

Organizers of Matric Rage festivals says their events will go ahead despite President Cyril Ramaphosa’s warning for people to avoid large gatherings 01.12.2021 7:57 ↓

Guest: Darren Sandras - Balito rage Festival spokesperson  

DNG energy has received its first shipment of liquefied natural gas from Rotterdam - to use to test the feasibility of using Liquefied Natural Gas to produce electricity instead of diesel. 01.12.2021 12:18 ↓

Guest: Aldworth Mbalati, Founder of DNG Energy  

The health department has confirmed that a disciplinary hearing has found the health department DG Dr Sandile Bhutulezi is not guilty of wrong-doing in the digital vibes scandal. 01.12.2021 8:48 ↓

Guest: Karam Singh - Head of Legal and Investigations at Corruption Watch  

Aspen Pharmacare says it’s signed a deal with the innovators of the Johnson and Johnson covid-19 vaccine to manufacture and sell the vaccine here and to sell it across Africa 01.12.2021 8:10 ↓

Guest: Stavros Nicolaou - Aspen Pharmacare Group's Senior Executive responsible for Strategic Trade Development  

at least half a million jobs were lost in the third quarter of the year 01.12.2021 4:40 ↓

Guest: Malerato Mosiane - chief director responsible for labour statistics at Stats SA    

Taiwan’s defense minister has claimed that China’s military is trying to wear out its defenses - using repeated incursions into Taiwan’s air defense identifications zone. 01.12.2021 4:08 ↓

Guest: Ayesha Fakude - Junior Research Fellow at Africa Asia Dialogues (Afrasid)  

in Gauteng over eighty percent of the people hospitalized for covid-19 are not vaccinated. How prepared are our hospitals for a forth wave of this virus? 30.11.2021 13:13 ↓

    Guest: Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo - Deputy Minister of Health

Origins of Early Sapiens Behavior Exhibition at the Origins Centre, Wits University 30.11.2021 3:57 ↓

    Guest: Tammy Hodgskiss – Curator at the Origin Centre Museum, University of Witwatersrand

Petrol Price to increase again by 81c a litre by midnight 30.11.2021 6:44 ↓

    Guest: Reggie Sibiya - CEO of fuel retailers association

massive debate around the way the discovery of the Omicron variant was announced to the world - by our scientists. Was it handled well? 30.11.2021 4:53 ↓

    Guest: Tessa Dooms - Social Analyst, Political Commentator and Director of Jasoro Consulting

Mediated Conversation: Should we have Mandatory Vaccinations? 30.11.2021 26:58 ↓

Guest: Sylvester C. Chima - Associate Professor & Head: Programme of Bio & Research Ethics and Medical Law, College of Health Sciences, UKZN Guest: Rev. Kenneth Meshoe - Leader of the African Christian Democratic party Guest: Dr Aslam Dasoo - Progressive Health Forum convener Guest: Benjamin Smart - Associate professor in Philosophy: University of Johannesburg