The National Briefing

The Institute for Race Relations releases a post-Covid economic recovery strategy, titled Growth & Recovery: A strategy to #GetSAWorking The Institute for Race Relations has released a post-Covid economic recovery strategy, titled Growth & Recovery: A strategy to #GetSAWorking. It was launched as an online media briefing yesterday. Detailed in the report are 4 objectives, including attracting dire...

According To The Ingonyama Trust, The Bill To Address Women's Access To Land Tenure Shouldn't Apply To Its Land, But Rather To Urban Land. Guest: Xolani Dube, political analyst from the Xubera Institute of Research and Development,

Carl Neihaus - Spokesperson for the Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans Association

The Eastern Cape has made available a sum of R2.7m so that a mortuary for Covid-19 can be constructed at Sir Henry Elliot Hospital in Mthatha. Although the province says it is seeing a decline in covid 19 infections, they say they are still concerned about fatalities. Guest: Sindiswa gomba – MEC OF Health in the Eastern Cape health

South African gyms cannot open just, yet. President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that gyms can open under level 2 lockdown. Guest: Grant Austin, spokesperson for FitSA

Nehawu is planning on a strike over pay at the National Health Laboratories Service. The Union says they are in a difficult position, and they it has come to a point where they have no other choice but to down tools after failing to reach a resolution with management. Guest: Khaya Xaba - The National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) spokesperson

Thousands of people have protested across Belarus, and are disputing elections held on the 9th of August. The protests have been going on for a week, after Alexander Lukashenko, Europe’s longest serving leader, claimed a sixth term as president. Guest: Mr Roland Henwood - political scientist and commentator based at the University of Pretoria

Guest: Dr Catherine Egbe Specialist Scientist in the alcohol, tobacco and other drugs research unit at the SA Medical Research Council Guest: Savera Kalideen – Executive Director for the National Council against Smoking Guest: Chad Thomas – CEO of IRS Forensic Investigations

A study titled “Remote Working in South Africa 2020” has been conducted by World Wide Worx for Cisco, and polling 400 companies. One of the findings from the study was that at the time when remote working became mandatory, only 37% of companies had rolled out a digital transformation strategy. Guest: Arthur Goldstuck - CEO- World Wide Worx

Under Lockdown Level 2 initiation practices are still prohibited. Disaster Management Act section 57. (1) states that for the duration of the national state of disaster- (a) male and female initiation practices are prohibited; (b) a person may not arrange or hold an initiation school or conduct an initiation practice; (c) a prospective initiate may not attend an initiation school; (d) an owner of...

The South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SACCI) says although a level 2 lockdown has been announced, the government still has no concrete plan to recover the economy. Guest: Adv. Mtho Xulu, President of the South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Guest: Prof Reza Daniels - Associate Professor in the School of Economics at the University of Cape Town (UCT)

Gauteng has launched an anti-land invasion plan which according to them will help ease the housing backlog. The plan seeks to fight the mushrooming of informal settlement and illegal land invasions. Guest: Lebogang Maile - Gauteng Province MEC for Human Settlements, Urban Planning and COGTA

ANC economic policy head Enoch Godongwana says that the ruling party doesn't want to use pension funds to bail our State-Owned Entities Guest: Enoch Godongwana - ANC economic policy head

Mbali Ntuli has challenged interim Democratic Alliance party leader John Steenhuisen to a series of four live Tv debates. This as the party is in the run-up to the party’s congress. Guest: Mbali Ntuli is a South African politician and a member of the Democratic Alliance. She is the former Provincial Campaigns Director for the party in KZN.

Those working in early childhood development centres and their supporters will embark on a week-long national protest. According to C19 People’s Coalition which is a civil society body, the protest is against Minister Lindiwe Zulu's announcement that R1.3 billion will be allocated to employ compliance monitors. Guest: Prof Eric Atmore – Director for the Centre for Early Childhood Development

The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) says it has unfunded 5,000 students after financial information obtained from SARS revealed that these students declared total household family income was above the R350 000 threshold. Affected students have 14 days to petition this decision for review. Guest: Randall Carolissen, The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) administrator

Prof Francois Viruly - University of Cape Town engineering and built environment. Also property Economist Mfanufikile Sindane Abahlali basemjondo - youth representative in national council Yonela Diko - Spokesperson Department of Human Settlements, Wat

Guest: Romala Govender - Curator of Cenozoic Palaeontology, Research and Exhibitions, Iziko Museums of South Africa; Honorary Research associate Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town

Foodforward’s Andy du Plessis, says “The escalating number of ‘new poor’ will drastically increase the number of vulnerable people needing access to food”. He was responding to a recent survey conducted by the National Income Dynamic Study Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey (NIDS-CRAM). Guest: Andy du Plessis - Managing Director FoodForward SA

Restrictions on the sale of Tobacco will be lifted. The suspension of the sale of alcohol will be lifted subject to certain restriction. Alcohol will be permitted for onsite consumption in licensed establishments only up to 10 PM. Liquor outlets will be allowed to sell alcohol for off-site consumption from Monday to Thursday during the hours of 9 AM to 5 PM only. The restaurant’s association has s...

The Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution, CASAC, has expressed concern about the executive's failure to consult parliament in the continued extensions of the state of disaster as announced by Co-operative Governance Minister Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma. The COGTA Minister has announced yet another extension of the state of disaster and it has been published in the government ga...

South Africa has recorded a COVID-19 recovery rate of 80-percent - translating to over 466-thousand recoveries. This is above the global recovery rate of about 63-percent. This comes as President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that the country would move to level 2 of the lockdown from midnight on Monday. The country has over 500-thousand cases and 11-thousand deaths. Those who have tested positive say...

Guest: Sibani Mngadi - South African Liquor Brand owners Association

The KwaZulu Natal government has welcomed the risk adjusted strategy of level 2 saying this is a gateway to economic recovery for the province. Last night President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that several socio-economic restrictions will be lifted which include inter-provincial travel, the sale of alcohol and tobacco products. Guest: Lucky Mtimande – Tavern Association Spokesperson