The National Briefing

40 civil society organizations are demanding a universal grant of R1268 for every South African with immediate effect 21.07.2021 9:13 ↓

Guest: Isobel Frye, Director - Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute  

Should the Local Government Elections be postponed from October this year to next year February? 21.07.2021 7:01 ↓

Guest: Thembelani Mazibuko-Researcher - Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa

Former Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke recommended that the local elections scheduled for October to be postponed until February next year 21.07.2021 7:04 ↓

Guest: Dr Fareed Abdullah-Director Office of AIDS and TB Research at the SA Medical Research Council

How does SASRIA work - what makes it different from other insurance companies? 21.07.2021 5:53 ↓

Guest: Cedric Masondo - Managing Director of South African Special Risk Insurance Association

The European union says plans by the Turkish leader Recep Erdogan to reopen a town on the island of Cyprus known both as Varosha and Maras are unacceptable 21.07.2021 4:43 ↓

Guest: Theo Venter Political and Policy analyst and lecturer at North West University  

Mediated Conversation: What impact does exposure to violence have on children? 20.07.2021 26:05 ↓

Dr Anusha Lachman – Child Psychiatrist and South African Society of Psychiatrist Board Member Anna Moyo-Kupeta, Acting Executive Director - Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) Guest:Dr Shaheda Omar - Director of The Teddy Bear Foundation

South Africa is rich in plants used for skincare: rural women helped to document some 20.07.2021 4:41 ↓

Guest: Tshepiso Ndlovu - Ph. D. candidate in Indigenous Knowledge Systems and lecturer at School of Biology and Environmental Sciences, University of Mpumalanga    

The DA’s Western Cape spokesperson on Human Settlements, has criticized delays in the return of District Six land claimants for phase 3 of the restitution process. 20.07.2021 6:25 ↓

Guest: Karen Breytenbach - District 6 Working Committee spokesperson  

There have been at least fifty schools burnt or during the violence last week - mainly in KZN 20.07.2021 5:38 ↓

Guest: Basil Manuel – Executive Director of Naptosa  

The Social Development Minister says social workers and workers in early childhood development centres-creches - will now start to get vaccinated 20.07.2021 3:59 ↓

Guest: Professor Eric Atmore – Director of the Centre for Early Childhood Development  

W are now seeing a lot more people getting vaccinated - and getting vaccinated quite quickly 20.07.2021 12:35 ↓

Guest: Mia Malan- Founding editor-in- chief of Bhekisisa  

The NPA and the criminal justice system are now preparing to deal with various issues - there has been confirmation that five alleged instigators have been arrested 20.07.2021 5:18 ↓

Guest: Adv. Mthunzi Mhaga – National Spokesperson for the National Prosecuting Authority  

With a government that abandoned the poor, it's no surprise they looted – Political Analyst 20.07.2021 5:14 ↓

Guest: Prince Mashele - Political analyst  

The inquest into the deaths of the one hundred and forty four mentally ill patients who died after being taken out of the Life Esidimeni center in Gauteng and put into unlicensed NGOs 20.07.2021 4:42 ↓

Guest: Phumzile Mlangeni – SABC Reporter  

There’s still violence that’s been linked to the taxi industry playing out in the Western Cape - there’s been a series of murders here over the last week 20.07.2021 3:15 ↓

Guest: Bronwen Dyke-Beyer-Golden Arrow Bus Services (Gabs) spokesperson  

New evidence reveals massive wave of attacks by cyber Surveillance Company NSO Group’s customers on iPhones, potentially affecting thousands of Apple users worldwide 20.07.2021 5:47 ↓

Guest: Shenilla Mohamed - Amnesty International South Africa Executive Director  

Mediated Conversation: How do we find healing as South Africans after these recent lootings and civic unrests? 19.07.2021 25:11 ↓

Father Michael Lapsley – President of the Healing Memories Global Network Guest: Nomfundo Mogapi – CEO: Centre for Mental Wellness and Leadership

Post Traumatic Stress in Children Following Violent Unrest 19.07.2021 4:59 ↓

Guest: Dr Anusha Lachman, child psychiatrist and SASOP board member  

Gauteng Health Department giving an update on the Gauteng Vaccination drive to encourage eligible persons to get vaccinated, as well as the vaccination sites available 19.07.2021 4:09 ↓

Guest: Motalatale Modiba – Gauteng Health Spokesperson  

Life Esidimeni Inquest to begin today 19.07.2021 4:05 ↓

Guest: Christine Nxumalo - Life ESIDIMENI family Committee  

There has been new rules gazetted by the justice and correctional services minister Ronald Lamola to deal with criminal cases from the looting 19.07.2021 3:33 ↓

Guest: Chrispin Phiri - spokesperson for the Ministry of Justice and Correctional Services.    

It was Nelson Mandela Day yesterday, Do you believe there is a path forward - a way forward for us to move as a country 19.07.2021 10:01 ↓

Guest: Sello Hatang - CEO of the Nelson Mandela Foundation      

Thabo Mbeki’s foundation says SA is “harvesting the bitter fruits of a counter-revolutionary insurgency that has long been germinating in the bowels” of state capture 19.07.2021 4:20 ↓

Guest: Prof Barney Pityana - Advisor: Thabo Mbeki Foundation.  

The police minister Bheki Cele was in phoenix in KZN again yesterday - after those reports about racial tensions 19.07.2021 6:30 ↓

Guest: Lirandzu Themba - Police Ministry Spokesperson  

Former president Jacob Zuma is due to appear in court this morning - as part of the corruption cases he faces relating to Shabir Shaik and the arms deal 19.07.2021 6:32 ↓

Guest: Karyn Maughan - Legal Journalist at News24