The National Briefing

Guest: Jonas Sibanyoni – SAHRC Commissioner

Guest: Nqabha Bhanga - Nelson Mandela Bay mayor

Guest: Mugwena Maluleke – Chief Negotiator for Public Sector Unions

Johann Kriegler, A former justice of the Constitutional Court and Freedom Under Law Chair calls for the Judicial Service Commission to remove Judge Hlophe Guest: Johann Kriegler, a former justice of the Constitutional Court and Freedom under Law Chair

Driving school instructors are demanding that Gauteng should abandon its online booking system for driver’s licenses - they say that the system is not working. Guest: Abel Motsite - National Driving Schools Association of SA in Gauteng chairperson

There have been more reports that people who claim to be members of the MKMVA have been attacking and intimidating traders who are foreign nationals in eThekwini Guest: Daniel Dunia - Secretary General African Solidarity Network

An intelligence report by US authorities finds the Saudi Prince Mohammed Bin Salman responsible for the killing of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul Guest: Shafiq Morton, journalist for four decades

Mediated Conversation: Why do humans feel the need to designate people by their race - why do we talk about black people and white people and other groups all the time? Guest: Prof. Crain Soudien – HSRC CEO

Guest: Xolani Radebe – Wits University Engineering Student

Guest: Arthur Goldstuck - World Wide Workx CEO

The Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (POPCRU) is distraught over continuous reports of police killings that have been on the rise in our country Guest: Richard Mamabolo – Spokesperson for the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union

President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that 67 000 people have been vaccinated with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine and another 80 000 doses arrived on Saturday Guest: Prof Glenda Gray - President and CEO of the South African Medical Research Council

Reports in the Sunday Times yesterday said that DA leader John Steenhuisen is willing to work with President Cyril Ramaphosa and not deputy president David Mabuza Guest: John Steenhuisen – Democratic Alliance Leader

President Ramaphosa said that 33 land border posts that are closed will remain closed for the time being. What does this mean for the tourism industry? Guest: Tshifhiwa Tshivengwa - CEO at Tourism Business Council of South Africa (TBCSA).

Guest: Sibani Mngadi, spokesperson SA Liquor Brandowners Association (Salba)

Restaurant Association of South Africa welcomes the move by President Cyril Ramaphosa and cabinet to move the country to lockdown level 1 Guest: Wendy Alberts – RASA CEO

In the middle east the Palestinian authority has put the west bank under a twelve day lockdown - as the number of covid-19 cases there is increasing Guest: Na’eem Jeenah- Executive Director of the AFRO Middle East Centre

Wrapping the week with Vusi Thembekwayo – Global Business Speaker and Venture Investor

Guest: Professor Musa Manzi, Director of the Wits Seismic Research Centre

Google South Africa & SA Tourism partner, launch ‘South Africa: An Explorer’s Paradise, it enables people all over the world to explore SA virtually Guest: Sisa Tshona – SA Tourism

Guest: Velile Mbuli - Sports Journalist

Guest: Mxolisi Matshamba SEFA CEO

The matric pass rate of inmates who wrote their final examinations in 2020 was 86.3% higher than the national pass rate of 76.2% Guest: Singabakho Nxumalo - Spokesperson for the Department of Correctional Services

The Johnson & Johnson vaccine has been effective against Covid-19, new research from the US food and drug administration says it’s more effective than we had thought. Guest: Prof. Helen Rees - South African Health Products Regulatory Authority Chairperson

Tomorrow 80 000 Johnson & Johnson vaccine doses to arrive in the country- the Health Minister says he wants to have a million people vaccinated by the end of March Guest: Professor Mosa Moshabela - Dean in the School of Nursing and Public Health at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.