The National Briefing

How private is your mobile phone? 28.07.2021 6:55 ↓

Guest: Dr Dusty-Lee Donnelly - Law lecturer at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Howard College

SALGA calls on municipalities to pay back R1.2bn spent on consultants. 28.07.2021 7:17 ↓

Guest: Khomotso Letsatsi - Chief Officer for Municipal finance at SALGA  

Parliament says it’s going to hold two joint inquiries into the violence and looting that took place two weeks ago - and that it wants to find out what actually happened 28.07.2021 4:48 ↓

Guest: Cedric Frolick, House Chairperson responsible for Parliament Committees & Oversight  

The Minister of Finance, Mr Tito Mboweni to unpack economic support package as announced by president Cyril Ramaphosa 28.07.2021 8:10 ↓

Guest: Iraj Abedian - founder and Chief Executive of Pan-African Investment and Research Services  

Cabinet has adopted a policy that will see the government helping to return the remains of people who pass away outside the country 28.07.2021 6:07 ↓

Guest: Nathi Mthethwa - Minister of Arts and Culture  

Experts call on the government to address the vaccination of undocumented migrants and asylum seekers 28.07.2021 4:02 ↓

Guest: Jo Vearey - Associate Professor and Director, African Centre for Migration & Society, Wits University

Airline Mango which is owned by SAA is going to go into business rescue - it stopped flying yesterday 28.07.2021 3:36 ↓

Guest: Guy Leitch – Aviation Analyst  

In Hong Kong - Tong Ying-Kit has been found guilty of terrorism and inciting secession 28.07.2021 2:42 ↓

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

Mediated Conversation: The Politics of shopping malls – Are they good for the township economy? 27.07.2021 24:28 ↓

Guest: Bulelani Balabala - Founder of Township Entrepreneurs Alliance Guest: Tebogo Khaas – President of SME Forum Guest: Dr Jane Battersby - senior lecturer in the Environmental and Geographical Science department. University of Cape Town Guest: Lulama Mali is the Chairperson of the Johannesburg Informal Traders platform

The public servants association has now signed a wage deal with government - for an increase of one and a half percent which is under inflation 27.07.2021 10:43 ↓

Guest: Reuben Maleka - Public Servants Association Deputy General Manager  

Tiger brands says it’s recalling over twenty million cans of KOO and Hugos products - because a problem with the side seam weld on the cans 27.07.2021 5:40 ↓

Guest: Mary Jane Morifi - Chief Corporate Affairs Officer at Tiger Brands  

The first South African produced Johnson and Johnson vaccines are coming out of the Aspen facility at Gqeberha 27.07.2021 5:47 ↓

Guest: Stavros Nicolaou is the Aspen Pharmacare Group's Senior Executive  

On Friday the electoral commission said that it would implement the recommendations of the former deputy chief justice Dikgang Moseneke 27.07.2021 8:56 ↓

Guest: Pierre De Vos - Constitutional Law Professor from the University of Cape Town  

SAFTU rejects the R350 social relief of distress grant, demands a grant at the upper bound poverty line for the unemployed 27.07.2021 8:13 ↓

Guest: Zwelinzima Vavi - Secretary General of the South African Federation of Trade Union  

There’s still no sign of an end to the taxi violence in the Western Cape - where there’s been a series of gun attacks on taxi drivers - and on taxi ranks 27.07.2021 4:13 ↓

Guest: Ndithini Thyido, Chairperson of Khayelitsha Development Forum  

Mediated Conversation:  If we look at eSwatini - Mozambique and then the violence here - what has that revealed about our security forces in the region 26.07.2021 24:19 ↓

Guest: Menzi Ndlovu - Political Risk Analyst at Signal Risk Guest: Faith Mabera - Senior Researcher at the Institute for Global Dialogue Guest: Jakkie Cilliers - analyst, author and commentator. He is the founder of the Institute for Security Studies (ISS)

UDM Leader Bantu Holomisa joins Zwelinzima Vavi to try and stop the taxi violence in the Western Cape 26.07.2021 3:51 ↓

Guest: Bantu Holomisa - UDM Leader  

Why is there so much infighting over the crime intelligence unit in the police 26.07.2021 4:55 ↓

Guest: Gareth Newham - Head of the Governance, Crime and Justice Division at the Institute for Security Studies

What is KZN’s Recovery Plan after the recent lootings? 26.07.2021 6:15 ↓

Guest: Ravi Pillay - MEC for Economic Development, Tourism and Environmental Affairs in KZN  

There are still important investigations into what happened in Phoenix two weeks ago - with people still incredibly angry about what happened. 26.07.2021 8:55 ↓

Guest: Mondli Gungubele - ANC National Executive Committee member  

There are claims that there are huge divisions in the intelligence structures of the police 26.07.2021 6:51 ↓

Guest: Dr Ralph Mathekga - Politic Analyst  

Schools are back - primary schools are back to full time face to face teaching - the curfew is changing - leisure travel is allowed to Gauteng 26.07.2021 10:18 ↓

Guest: Prof Salim Abdool Karim – Epidemiologist and Director of CAPRISA  

Schools are going back to today 26.07.2021 4:22 ↓

Guest: Elijah Mhlanga – National Spokesperson for the Department of Basic Education  

The ban on the sale of alcohol has been lifted - offsite sales Monday to Thursday 26.07.2021 5:49 ↓

Guest: Sibani Mngadi - Chairperson of the SALBA (South African Liquor Brand owners Association)

In Iran at least three people have died after protests over water shortages following a drought - it’s not known who killed the protestors 26.07.2021 5:31 ↓

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