The National Briefing

The ANC Head of Presidency says President Cyril Ramaphopsa is slowly but surely steering the country back to a path of growth and clean governance 05.08.2021 10:12 ↓

Guest: Sibongile Besani - ANC Head of Presidency  

The Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu has confirmed that people can start applying for the reinstated three hundred and fifty rand social grant from Friday 05.08.2021 6:16 ↓

Guest: Busisiwe Memela - SASSA CEO  

The EFF will today march through the phoenix area - against what they call racist indians - after the violence that we have seen there 05.08.2021 5:02 ↓

Guest: Chris Nissen - South African Human Rights Commissioner  

In China it appears that there some kind of change in the dynamic between some of the country’s biggest businesses and the country’s government 05.08.2021 6:30 ↓

Guest: Dr David Monyae - Director for the Centre for Africa – China Studies, University of Johannesburg  

Mediated Conversation: after fourteen years of work - the last generating unit at the Medupi power station is now up and running. How will power generation in SA change? 04.08.2021 23:59 ↓

Guest: Bheki Nxumalo – Eskom’s head of Group Capital division Guest: Prof. Sampson Mamphweli - Director of Stellenbosch University's Centre for Renewable and Sustainable Energy Studies Guest: Jesse Burton – Snr. Researcher of Energy Systems Research Group at the University of Cape Town

Former president Jacob Zuma is still refusing to participate in a court hearing in the Pietermaritzburg high court through a virtual hearing 04.08.2021 6:13 ↓

Guest: Karyn Maughan - Investigative Journalist at News24

One of the world’s rarest chameleons found clinging to survival 04.08.2021 4:33 ↓

Guest: Krystal Tolley – Associate Professor of Biodiversity at Wits University  

According to Wits Professor, we shouldn't be concerned with reaching herd immunity anymore 04.08.2021 6:27 ↓

Guest: Shabir Madhi - Professor of Vaccinology at Wits University  

SARS to ask the high court in Tshwane to sequestrate a man referred to as a fixer in the VBS scandal and that Kabelo Matsepe pay them sixty one million rand in tax 04.08.2021 4:41 ↓

Guest: Pauli Van Wyk- Investigating journalist with Daily Maverick  

Forum 4 Service Delivery to opposed the Electoral Commission of SA’s court application to have the local government elections postponed to 2022. 04.08.2021 5:56 ↓

Guest: Mbahare Kekana – President of the Forum 4 Service Delivery  

The Cooperative Governance Minister announced yesterday that she was formally proclaiming the date of the local elections for the 27th of October 04.08.2021 9:12 ↓

Guest: Steven Friedman – Political Analyst  

Police Minister Bheki Cele says they confiscated a hundred and fifty firearms from just four private security companies in Phoenix KZN 04.08.2021 4:32 ↓

Guest: Jan Sambo – Acting Deputy Director of Law Enforcement at Private Security Industry Regulatory Authority  

The city of Cape Town is facing more criticism for a draft by-law that it says will help it to manage the illegal occupation of land. 04.08.2021 5:28 ↓

Guest: Nkosikhona Swartbooi - Head of Advocacy and Organising at the Social Justice Coalition

A Belarusian Olympic sprinter who had a public feud with officials from her team says she’ll face punishment if she returned home to an autocratic government 04.08.2021 5:05 ↓

Guest: Roland Henwood Political Scientist at the University of Pretoria  

Mediated Conversation: how bad is our debt situation at the moment? How do we deal with it? - is it the right thing to access your pension money? 03.08.2021 24:13 ↓

Guest: Mavis Ureka - Human Behaviour specialist Guest: Gerald Mwandiambira – Personal Financial Expert Guest: Neil Roets - Debt Rescue CEO

Research and development are key to resilient food systems in Africa 03.08.2021 6:21 ↓

Guest: Lulama Ndibongo Traub - Technical Chair, Regional Network of Agricultural Policy Research Institutes (ReNAPRI), Stellenbosch University      

ANC supports scientific-based enquiries into the origin- tracing of the #COVID19 pandemic, urges for global cooperation and decries politicization of such enquiries. 03.08.2021 6:05 ↓

Guest: Pule Mabe – ANC National Spokesperson  

The inquest into the deaths of the one hundred and forty three people who died as a result of the Life Esidimeni scandal has been postponed for a month 03.08.2021 5:56 ↓

Guest: Phumzile Mlangeni - SABC Reporter  

Eskom Medupi’s last unit achieves commercial operation, marking completion of the project 03.08.2021 5:39 ↓

Guest: Bheki Nxumalo - Head of Group Capital division: Eskom  

The two taxi associations who have killed so many people in the Western Cape, CATA and CODETA agree on a deal to end the violence 03.08.2021 9:44 ↓

Guest: Lesley Sikhupela - CODETA Secretary Guest: Lawrence Venkile – Special Advisor to the Minister of Transport  

The High Court in Joburg is due to hear an application by unions representing worker at the Mango airline to try and force it into business rescue 03.08.2021 4:56 ↓

Guest: Captain Jordan Butler - Mango Pilots Association Chair  

The number of new cases of covid-19 continues to rise in the Western Cape - with some calls for a new form of lockdown there - or at least a differentiated approach 03.08.2021 8:35 ↓

Guest: Nomafrench Mbombo - Western Cape Health Minister  

Myanmar Senior General Min Aung Hlaing has given a pre-recorded television speech to his nation in which he says he will become prime minister 03.08.2021 4:11 ↓

Guest: Adv. Shabnam Mayet – Co-Founder of “Protect the Rohingya”  

In Afghanistan it appears that the Taliban has now taken almost half the country’s territory - and may soon be able to take a provincial capital 02.08.2021 7:17 ↓

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

Mediated Conversation: what do we know so far about how the violence was planned? 02.08.2021 25:48 ↓

Mcebisi Ndletyana - Political analyst Lizette Lancaster – Manager: Crime and Justice Information Hub Institute for Security Studies Ferial Hafajee – Associate Editor at Daily Maverick