The National Pulse

Professor Pierre de Vos explains the country’s Constitutional processes following this year’s national and provincial elections. Yesterday we received a voice note from one of our listeners Mvusiwekhaya who wanted to know the following…….   GUEST: Professor Pierre De Vos, Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Cape Town

While businesses in South Africa are still adapting to AI and it will take some time for this emerging tech to go mainstream, research has however shown that many companies have started their journey. Doreen Mokoena, CEO of Cybersec Clinique

    Earlier on we spoke to the IEC and one of the things they touched on is…..     Joining us on the line to take this conversation forward is…   GUEST: Professor Steven Friedman,

The ANC’s national executive committee (NEC) meeting which was due to be held today has been postponed to Thursday. Several media reports suggest that there's a lot of tension currently post last week’s national and provincial elections. GUEST: Samkele Maseko, SABC News reporter

The ANC NEC meeting that was meant to happen today has been postponed. The country and some of the ANC alliance partners are waiting to see which direction the party will take when it comes to coalitions. Trade unions have urged the party to go into coalition with parties that will prioritise the interests of the workers.   GUEST: Matthew Parks, Acting COSATU Spokesperson

    As we continue trying to get a deeper understanding on how the South African business community views the recent election result and looming coalitions, we are joined by Business for South Africa’s chair, Martin Kingston   GUEST:  Martin Kingston, Business for South Africa (B4SA) Chairperson

Today is my birthday !  The most common way we celebrate birthdays is  by  eating cake and maybe a happy birthday  message or   call  .  If you are lucky someone hosts  a party in  your name with the birthday  boy or girl receiving gifts  too - lots or litte depending on the size of the party. But should birthdays be more than that?  Today I find  myself,  on my birthday,  reflecting on my role in...

Statistics South Africa’s newly released data shows that the country’s economy contracted by 0.1 percentage point in the first quarter of the year due to a number of factors. Contributions to the negative performance in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) came from a decrease in the construction, mining and manufacturing industries.    GUEST: Risenga Maluleke, Statistician-General of South Africa and...

The Global Watch: Vote counting is underway in India where Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is expected to win this year’s general election. We understand that the BJP Party is currently leading in preliminary results, but the opposition Congress party is performing better than expected. Just how vital is this election for Narendra Modi’s party?   GUEST: Sanusha Naidu, S...

We assess the IEC’s overall performance in relation to this year’s general elections. This as some political parties feel that this year’s election will go down in history as the most irregular in the country. However though, despite having received more than 585 objections, the Electoral Commission declared the 2024 elections free and fair on Sunday night.   GUEST: Mr Masego Sheburi, Deputy Chief...

President Cyril Ramaphosa has extended his condolences to the families who have lost loved ones due to severe flooding in the Eastern Cape.

The MK Party believes if they boycott parliament, then this will result in the institution not meeting quorum and therefore forcing another election to happen. Guest: Dan Mafora, CASAC Research Officer

The next 90 days after elections   We spoke about the MK Party threatening to boycott parliament in order to, in their view, force a re-election in the country. We’ll have another bite at this later with Dan Mafora from CASAC. For now, former statistician general, Pali Lehohla joins me to talk about what we should expect in the next 90 days as well as what business’ role will be.   Guest: Pali Leh...

    Last night, during his speech at the IEC Results Operations Centre, President Cyril Ramaphosa made a special mention of the work South African media did during the election period.   Guest: William Bird, Director of Media Monitoring Africa  

Despite many disputes over election process discrepancies and calls to delay the announcement, the IEC has declared the national and provincial elections free and fair despite glitches, saying irregularities were immaterial. It will be interesting to see what happens in the next 14 days.   Guest: Ebrahim Fakir, analyst at Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa

The Constitutional Court has issued directions in the EFF's bid to challenge Parliament's December 2022 decision to NOT adopt the Section 89 independent panel report into Phala Phala and to NOT refer it to the impeachment committee. The apex court has set down the matter for hearing in due course and has further set a timetable for the parties to file the required documents. The EFF launched the a...

According to some of the new provisions in the Domestic Violence Amendment Act – your child can now obtain a Protection Order against you for exposing them to domestic violence. Joining us to explain this further is…..   GUEST: Adv Salome Scheepers, Senior State Advocate at the Sexual Offence and Community Affairs Unit of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA)  

The Global Watch: One of Donald Trump's lawyers has told the BBC that the former president is a "victim of political, selective prosecution". This after Trump was convicted on all 34 counts of falsifying business records in relation to a hush-money payment made to adult star Stormy Daniels. What’s also important to note is that Trump intends to appeal against his historic conviction. For more anal...

The MK Party has threatened to boycott the first sitting of Parliament if the issue of vote recount is not resolved to their satisfaction. This as the party is also considering to take legal action over allegations of election irregularities.   GUEST: Dr Fikile Vilakazi, Political analyst based at the University of the Western Cape  

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