The National Briefing

Guest: Reagen Allen - The Democratic Alliance (DA) in the Western Cape’s Spokesperson on Cultural Affairs and Sport

Guest: Prof Jennifer Watermeyer, Director, Wits Health Communication Research Unit (HCRU).

Guest: Prof Angela Mathee-Environment & Health Research Unit at the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC)

Government will have some control over people who operate initiation schools - as it will be able to screen operators of the schools for criminal records Guest: Kgoshi Mothupa Mokoena - President of CONTRALESA

Guest: Richard Mamabolo - POPCRU Spokesperson

Government is preparing to set up vaccination sites especially for teachers - and that they would be the second special group of people to get vaccinations Guest: Mugwena Maluleke - Secretary General for the South African Democratic Teachers Union v

The Northern Cape Education Department may ask for a deviation from the current plan to reopen schools for full time face to face teaching at the end of July Guest: Geoffrey van der Merwe Spokesperson Department of Education in the Northern Cape

Guest: Makgala Masiteng, Senior SABC reporter Guest Advocate Stefanie Fick - Head Of Legal Affairs - Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA)

Guest: Stephen Vines - author of the recently published defying the Dragon. Hong Kong and the world's largest dictatorship

Guest: Lungile Mashele – Energy Expert Guest: Chris Yelland - Energy Expert Guest: Prof. Sampson Mamphweli - Director of Stellenbosch University's Centre for Renewable and Sustainable Energy Studies

Guest: Prof Kate Alexander, the South African Research Chair in Social Change at the University of Johannesburg (UJ)

Guest: Ald. Marian Nieuwoudt, Mayco member for Spatial planning and Environment. City if Cape Town.

There SA medical association calls for stricter restrictions at the moment around the curfew - larger gatherings particularly in taxis Guest: Dr Angelique Coetzee - South African Medical Association Chairperson

Guest: Dumisane Magagula - Samwu Deputy General Secretary

South Africa currently has 61557 active cases of Covid-19 and had an increase of over 5000 new cases a day over the weekend Guest: Professor Mosa Moshabela, Dean and Head of School, Nursing and Public Health at UKZN’s School of Medicine

There’s been reporting over the weekend about a letter send to the head prosecutors in the high court in Johannesburg Guest: Sipho Ngwema - NPA Spokesperson

Guest: King Sibiya – Co-Founder of Ilungelo Lethu Foundation

There was a meeting of the G=7 group of rich countries over the weekend that agreed that they would all now institute a system where corporate tax would not go below fifteen percent Guest: Christian Hallum - Oxfam International’s Senior Tax Specialist

Guest: Professor Somnath Bhattacharyya - School of Physics: University of the Witwatersrand

President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed the Cybercrimes Bill into law, bringing South Africa’s cybersecurity laws in line with the rest of the world Guest: Tholoana Ncheke - Media and Telecommunications Law Specialist Attorney

More information came out in the Piet Retief magistrates court in Mkhondo where eight men are charged with killing two people who were living on a farm Guest: Motsebi Monareng – SABC Reporter

Guest: Sindisiwe Seboka – Spokesperson for the Investigating Directorate

The Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution to challenge the Judicial Service Commission interviews for Constitutional Court vacancies Guest: Lawson Naidoo-Executive Secretary for CASAC Guest: Professor Omphemetse Sibanda - Executive Dean of the Faculty of Management and Law at the University of Limpopo

Four provinces are now in a third wave of the covid-19 pandemic - with Gauteng, Northern Cape, Free State and North West in the grip of a third wave Guest: Professor Alex van den Heever – Health and Security Systems Specialist at Wits University

Guest: Gary Eisenberg - Immigration Attorney at Eisenberg and Associates