The National Briefing

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

There’s been a series of developments around a contract between the mining company south thirty two and Eskom - yesterday the Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter said Eskom will try to increase the price it’s paying the mine for coal for the Duvha power station - the coal moves from the mine to the power station on a conveyer belt. Guest: Sabelo Skiti, Senior Investigative Journalist at the Sunday Times

Learning and teaching continues at Wits dispute protests by students against financial exclusion. GUEST: Wits spokesperson, Shirona Patel

There is a huge debate in our society around funding higher education - and what should be free and what should not - you will have seen the protests around the country demanding that government scrap historic student debt. At the same time in some ways higher education is changing dramatically - because people are not able to study during these protests - and because of the covid-19 pandemic Gues...

The Independent Police Investigative Directorate has confirmed that four police officers have been arrested in connection with the death of Mthokozisi Ntumba. Guest: Ndileka Cola, IPID Spokesperson

CR17 Funding investigative journalism amaBhungane, in the court case brought by the EFF to unseal the CR17 bank records Guest: Cherise Thakur - advocacy coordinator amaBhungane centre for investigative journalism

Europe is struggling to contain the third wave of the Coronavirus and Germany, France, Italy and Spain have halted the use of AstraZeneca vaccine. The suspensions follow reports that some people developed blood clots after receiving the shot. Guest: Shabbir Madhi, Professor of Vaccinology at the University of the Witwatersrand.

GUEST: Daneel Knoetze, an investigative journalist GUEST: Seth Mazibuko, Leader of the 1976 Soweto Uprising GUEST: Gareth Newham, head of the Justice and Violence Prevention Programme at the Institute for Security Studies

The South African Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Coalition (BDS) have described response by Justice Mogoeng to the ruling delivered by Justice Mojapelo from the Judicial Conduct Committee (JCC) as a disregard the Constitutionality of his office, and him not respecting the decision of his peers. The Chief Justice, Mogoeng Mogoeng, has expressed his intentions to appeal the ruling delivered by Ju...

A new IPSOS report has shown that illicit cigarettes have now taken over huge swathes of the South African market. It says up to 75 percent of outlets in some provinces sell illicit cigarettes and that this amounts to tax evasion on an industrial scale. GUEST: Johnny Moloto, General manager British-American Tobacco SA

Just two days after bystander MthokozisiNtumba was killed when police opened fire on student protesters in Braamfontein, activists in KZN protesting peacefully against the Ikwezi mine were confronted by excessive force from SAPS members. Nine environmental activists have been taken into police custody in Dannhauser, KwaZulu Natal. Guest: Bobby Peek, Environmental Expert Groundwork