The National Briefing

In the US yesterday travelers from dozens of countries around the world arrived for the first time since the start of the pandemic 09.11.2021 5:02 ↓

Guest: Brooks Spector - Associate Editor at the Daily Maverick

Mediated Conversation: homework: how much time children need to spend doing it and how much free time they need 08.11.2021 25:28 ↓

Guest: Victorine Mbong Shu – Involved Parenting Conversationalist and Author Professor Ramodungoane Tabane - Department of Psychology of Education, Unisa. Mary Metcalfe - Senior Research Associate at University of Johannesburg

how granular climate information can help tea growers in Malawi and Kenya 08.11.2021 7:10 ↓

Guest: Katharine Vincent - Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal  

A learner from the Kegomoditswe Primary School in Hertzogville in the Free State has been stabbed to death by a fellow learner during a scuffle near the school gate. 08.11.2021 4:52 ↓

Guest: Howard Ndaba - Free State Department of Education Spokesperson  

Concerned groups turn to the courts to stay vaccine rollout to children 08.11.2021 6:02 ↓

Guest: Dr Naseeba Kathrada – Founder of the Caring Healthcare Workers Coalition  

The Correctional Services Department confirmed Oscar Pistorius is eligible for parole after killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentines Day in 2013 08.11.2021 4:53 ↓

Guest: Karyn Maughan, NEWS24 Legal Journalist  

Analysis on Political party coalitions 08.11.2021 5:53 ↓

Guest: Sysman Motloung - Political Science Lecturer at the North West University  

What is Al Jama-ah’s position around coalitions? 08.11.2021 3:31 ↓

Guest: Ganief Hendricks - Leader of Al Jama-ah  

The DA said last night that they will not enter any coalitions with the ANC or the EFF. 08.11.2021 5:16 ↓

Guest: Siviwe Gwarube - Spokesperson for the Democratic Alliance  

There’s a huge amount of negotiating around coalitions with some parties saying they won’t go into coalitions with the ANC. could we be in for a period of chaos? 08.11.2021 7:23 ↓

Guest: Dr. Harlan Cloete from the School of Public Leadership at Stellenbosch University.

The Public Servants Association says the government needs to implement the border management authority 08.11.2021 5:12 ↓

Guest: Reuben Maleka - Public Servants Association (PSA) Spokesperson  

new figures suggest that we have lost over a million jobs due to load shedding 08.11.2021 2:59 ↓

Guest: Mike Schüssler - Chief economist at economists.co.za  

The Good Party says they won’t get into any coalitions with the ANC 08.11.2021 2:47 ↓

Guest: Brett Herron - Good party Secretary General  

In Iraq the prime minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi says he was attacked by a drone laden with explosives over the weekend - in what looks like an assassination attempt 08.11.2021 4:13 ↓

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

The Makana Citizens Front has secured at least five seats in the Makana Municipality in Makhanda formerly known as Grahamstown. 05.11.2021 6:58 ↓

    Guest: Ayanda Kota - Activist from Makana Citizens Front and Unemployment Peoples Movement

How do jellyfish find their food – and how do they poop? 05.11.2021 5:59 ↓

    Guest: Verena Ras - PhD candidate, University of the Western Cape  

Mediated Conversation: After a disappointing run in the local government elections for the ANC. Will they change? 05.11.2021 25:22 ↓

    Guest: Tessa Dooms – Social Analyst and Director of Jasoro Consulting.   GUEST: Amuzweni Ngoma is a researcher at the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (Mistra).

the ANC in the Free State won just 50.61% of the votes - it lost outright control of Maluti-A-Phofung 05.11.2021 9:18 ↓

    Guest: Mxo Dukwana - ANC Free State Interim Provincial Committee Convener

Cosatu says it’s disappointed with the results of the ANC in the Local Government Elections and that all the indicators of poor performance were there 05.11.2021 3:46 ↓

  Guest: Bheki Ntshalintshali - General Secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu)

the CSIR’s Projected big losses for the ANC and DA in the Local Government Elections 05.11.2021 4:06 ↓

    Guest: Professor Pravesh Debba - Statistician and Manager for spatial planning at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)

in Glasgow delegates have spent the week discussing climate change and how to prevent it at the United Nations COP26 conference. 05.11.2021 5:43 ↓

    Guest: Prof Guy Midgley - An Ecologist who teaches Global change biology at Stellenbosch University

ANC says the people have spoken by not going to the polls in the local government elections and it’s a wake-up call 05.11.2021 9:06 ↓

    Guest: Sibongile Besani – ANC Head of Presidency

The Patriotic Alliance won 1% nationally and 3% in Joburg in the local government elections 05.11.2021 6:37 ↓

    Guest: Kenny Kunene - Deputy President of the Patriotic Alliance

the Good Party 3.84% in Cape Town in the local government elections 05.11.2021 6:09 ↓

    Guest: Patricia de Lille - Leader of the Good Party

Forensic science is unlocking the mysteries of fatal lightning strikes 04.11.2021 3:36 ↓

    Guest: Dr Hugh Hunt - Senior Lecturer and Head of the Johannesburg Lightning Research Laboratory, Wits University