The National Briefing

The mayoral committee for community services and health in the city of Cape Town says people must consider the risks of exposure to unvaccinated individuals in public facilities. 14.09.2021 4:50 ↓

Guest: Dr Zahid Badroodien serves as the Mayoral Committee Member for Community Services and Health in the City of Cape Town.  

On Sunday night Presidency Cyril Ramaphosa said government was looking at the idea of vaccination passports. Will this work? 14.09.2021 6:53 ↓

Guest: Professor Tulio de Oliveira - Director of KZN Research, Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP)  

SASRIA said it would prioritize paying out claims of up to a million rand - so that would help smaller companies - what’s happening to bigger companies? 14.09.2021 5:22 ↓

Guest: Ryan Woolley, CEO of Insurance Claims Africa  

Sadtu says that it believes that when vaccines for children are approved - they should be rolled out to children at school 14.09.2021 5:53 ↓

Guest: Mugwena Maluleke - SADTU Secretary General  

It’s now being reported that data gathered by the international atomic energy agency shows that Iran may well have enough uranium which is now enriched to a high enough point 14.09.2021 5:41 ↓

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

Mediated Conversation: what is gender fluidity? 13.09.2021 27:48 ↓

Guest: Jamil Khan - Award-winning author of Khamr, Researcher and PhD Critical Diversity Studies Candidate Guest: Emeritus Professor Crain Soudien – CEO of the Human Sciences Research Council

Momentum says that although they believe vaccination is the best weapon against the impact of Covid-19, they will not be imposing mandatory vaccines for their staff 13.09.2021 6:36 ↓

Guest: JeanetteMarais, Deputy CEO of Momentum     

What will the ban on weekend selling of alcohol achieve? 13.09.2021 5:10 ↓

Guest: Sibani Mngadi, spokesperson SA Liquor Brandowners Association (Salba)  

Two hundred and fifty people allowed indoors with social distancing 500 people outdoors. Is this the right move? 13.09.2021 5:38 ↓

Guest: Bishop Malusi Mpumlwana – General Secretary for the South African Council of Churches (SACC)  

Was it the right move for President Cyril Ramaphosa to move us to level two of the lockdown? 13.09.2021 9:21 ↓

Guest: Prof. Mosa Moshabela, Dean and Head of School, Nursing and Public Health at UKZN’s School of Medicine  

President Cyril Ramaphosa says that around one quarter of our adult population is fully vaccinated - around seven million people have received at least one dose. 13.09.2021 9:18 ↓

Guest: Nicholas Crisp - Acting Director-General of the Health Department  

There was a claim yesterday in the city press newspaper that the transport minister Fikile Mbalula had failed to appoint members to two councils that regulate aviation 13.09.2021 5:06 ↓

Guest: Joachim Vermooten – Transport Economist  

The curfew moves to eleven at night to four in the morning - restaurants and bars are open until ten at night to let their workers get home 13.09.2021 3:00 ↓

Guest: Wendy Alberts- CEO of the Restaurant Association of South Africa  

The national treasury is starting a new online portal for businesses to report the damage they suffered during the violence two months ago in KZN and Gauteng 13.09.2021 4:21 ↓

Guest: Ismail Momoniat - Treasury deputy director-general  

In Asia, Japan has now signed a defense agreement with Vietnam 13.09.2021 5:00 ↓

Guest: Sanusha Naidu – Political Analyst based at the Institute for Global Dialogue  

Educo Africa’s Men’s Programme to address the deep emotional wounds that so many South African males carry (and that all-too-often are expressed as violence against women 10.09.2021 5:44 ↓

  Guest: Lali Milli - Educo Africa Men’s Programme – Funded by Solidarity Fund 

tomorrow it will be twenty years since the 9.11 attacks by Osama Bin Laden on the US 10.09.2021 6:06 ↓

  Guest: Siphamandla Zondi - Professor of International Relations at University of Johannesburg

The City of Gauteng Observatory releases the 6th Quality of Life Survey and found that one and a half percent of people in the province had been raped in the last year 10.09.2021 5:57 ↓

  Guest: Graeme Gots - City of Gauteng Observatory Director of Research and Strategy

President Jacob Zuma's lawyers are to write to President Cyril Ramaphosa, accusing State Prosecutor Billy Downer of leaking a confidential letter from Zuma's state doctors to the media 10.09.2021 9:56 ↓

    Guest: Mzwanele Manyi - Spokesperson for Jacob Zuma Foundation

around fourteen million vaccination doses have been administered - the province with the highest vaccination rate is the Western Cape at 46% and Mpumalanga is at 24% 10.09.2021 9:59 ↓

    Guest: Prof (Dr) Ramneek Ahluwalia - The CEO of Higher Health

The Department of Health in North West is going to investigate the fire that recently broke out at Christiana Hospital, and resulted in the burning of the hospital 10.09.2021 4:43 ↓

    Guest: Madoda Sambatha – MEC for Health in the North West

since the beginning of 2020, Sanlam says it has paid 22 billion in death claims 10.09.2021 4:30 ↓

    Guest: Abigail Mukhuba (CFO, Sanlam)

Mediated Conversation: Government confirms that consultations were now underway into whether we can move from level three of the lockdown to a lower level 09.09.2021 26:19 ↓

Guest: Lucky Ntimane, convener for Liquor Traders Association Guest: Shabir Madhi – Dean: Faculty of Health Sciences and Vaccinology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Guest: Sharif Baker – Southern African Communications Industries Association Chair

Brazil marked independence with protests for and against President Jair Bolsonaro 09.09.2021 6:30 ↓

Guest: Prof Lyall White - Research Associate, Brenthurst Foundation and Founder of Contextual Intelligence.