The National Briefing

Brazil President Jair Bolsanaro is now under even more pressure - after the country recorded more than 90 thousand new cases of covid-19 in a single day Guest: Prof Lyall White - Research Associate, Brenthurst Foundation and Founder of Contextual Intelligence

MEDIATED CONVERSATION: Is it much cheaper to provide electricity for people than to have people providing electricity for themselves using solar power? GUEST: Kareen Heese - Economist Municipal IQ Guest: Kevin Robinson – Board Advisor for the Africa solar industry association Guest: Prof. Sampson Mamphweli- Director of Stellenbosch University's Centre for Renewable and Sustainable Energy Studies

Guest: Daniel Galloway former Managing Director & Lead Producer of The Fugard Theatre

SASCOC say they looking at ways to get fans back into stadiums Guest: Barry Hendricks - President of South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee

The Department of Publics Works and Infrastructure is owed over three billion rand in rent from government departments, private companies and former ministers Guest: Patricia De Lille - Public Works and Infrastructure Minister

Free State farmers and Taxi drivers block R26 over deteriorating roads in the area which makes it difficult to farm Guest: Friedl von Maltitz – Representative of the Free State Agriculture

more evidence over the last few weeks that children of foreign nationals who are here without proper documents are being told they cannot go to school Guest: Karabo Ozah, Director of the Centre for Child Law (CCL) in the Faculty of Law (UP) at the University of Pretoria (UP)

King Goodwill Zwelithini ka-Bhekuzulu has been laid to rest Guest: Vusi Makhosini- SABC reporter

The former transport Minister Dipou Peters told the Zondo commission yesterday she couldn’t remember if she explained to parliament why she wanted to fire the PRASA board Guest: Amina Accran - SABC Economic reporter

What were the outcomes of the meeting with the human rights commission, the higher education ministry and the public protectors’ office? Guest: Andre Gaum - Commissioner at the South African Human Rights Commission

US president Joe Biden was asked on American TV if he thought the Russian president Vladimir Putin was a killer. Biden’s answer was I do Guest: Prof John Stremlau - Honorory professor at Wits University

GUEST: Rali Mampeule, CEO of the South African Housing and Infrastructure Fund GUEST: Geoffrey Lee, Managing Executive for Absa Home Loans GUEST: Dr Andrew Golding, chief executive of the Pam Golding Property group

Guest: Dr Bernard Coetzee of the Wits Global Change Institute

There is still no clarity on whether the national assembly’s justice committee will vote in favour of the traditional courts bill - which has been stuck in parliament for many years. The bill has been criticized by some who say it will remove democratic rights from some people - particularly women - but others say the bill must be passed because it will properly restore the role of customary court...

Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane is the first head of a Chapter 9 institution to be impeached by Parliament. This follows the Constitutional Court yesterday morning dismissing Mkhwebane's application for direct access to appeal a Western Cape High Court ruling disallowing her to interdict the parliamentary inquiry against her. Guest: Prof Tinyiko Maluleke – Political Analyst

Minister Senzo Mchunu has revealed that R4.5 billion was paid to civil servants while they were waiting for their disciplinary hearings to be concluded we would like to chat about the cost and what is causing the delay in finalizing cases. He was answering questions in parliament with regards to spending. Guest: Senzo Mchunu is currently serving as Minister of Public Service and Administration

The Gauteng municipalities committee has released a report which revealed the dire situation of Gauteng Municipalities. The report found that there is a lack of accountability and oversight by politicians. The committee was appointed in 2019 to investigate the state of affairs in Gauteng’s municipalities after the Auditor-General’s 2019 report found that all, bar two, were on the verge of collapse...

The financial statements of President Cyril Ramaphosa 2017 ANC presidential campaign were never entered into the court record and therefor it is not in the public domain. President Ramaphosa's advocate, Wim Trengrove, SC, told the high court in Pretoria the documents were made available to the EFF and other respondents but they never incorporated the documents into their main case. Guest: Karyn Ma...

The Black Management forum says it believes the board of Eskom should suspend the CEO of Eskom André de Ruyter - while it conducts an investigation into claims that he tried to purge black suppliers. The person who has made the claim is the head of procurement at Eskom Solly Tshitangano - he has been suspended on claims of misconduct De Ruyter denies that he tried to stop using black suppliers - a...

Yesterday Prof Ahmed Bawa met with the Minister of Higher education and training following student protests, with concerns raised by with lack of Funding, exclusion due to historical dept. Guest: Prof Ahmed Bawa - Chief Executive Officer of Universities South Africa

Yesterday dozens of Yemeni protesters stormed a presidential palace in the southern port city of Aden on Tuesday. There were demanding payment of public sector salaries, after the government failed to pay salaries of retired soldiers Guest: Ebrahim Deen, Researcher at the Afro Middle East Centre

Guest: Sifiso Skenjana, Chief Economist IQ Business Guest: Duncan Pieterse, DDG Economic Policy, at National Treasury Guest: Neva Makgetla-Snr Economist Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies

Guest: Robert W. Gess - Palaeontologist, Albany Museum (supported by the Millennium Trust and the DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence in Palaeosciences, the NRF and the NSCF), Rhodes University

There are developments around the country at higher education institutions - the University of the Free State says it’s allowing students with historic debt of less than twenty five thousand rand to register - other institutions are also trying to get teaching underway during what the students organisations call a national shutdown. Guest: Prof Francis William Petersen, who is the Rector and Vice-...

A principal in an Eastern Cape School has been suspended after he coerced a pupil to collect a phone from a pit toilet. Guest: Vuyiseka Mboxeka - Spokesperson for Eastern Cape Education Department