The National Briefing

There’s confirmation now that at least two of the man who were beaten up by members of the VIP protection unit ten days ago have got legal representation - and they have found a lawyer who will represent them on a pro bono basis 10.07.2023 5:28 ↓

There’s confirmation now that at least two of the man who were beaten up by members of the VIP protection unit ten days ago have got legal representation - and they have found a lawyer who will represent them on a pro bono basis Guest: Ulrich Roux, MD: Ulrich Roux & Associates

In eThekwini, the Westville Rate Payers Association says its members will not be paying the city of eThekwini until they’ve resolved a dispute between them 10.07.2023 5:44 ↓

  Guest: Asad Gaff, Westville Ratepayers' Association chairperson

Busa has conveyed concerns over risks to trade with the US to the department of trade, industry & competition, which will plead South Africa's case to the US Congress. 10.07.2023 5:46 ↓

  Guest: Cas Coovadia, CEO of Business Unity South Africa

There are now reports this morning that five trucks have now been set alight in Mpumalanga 10.07.2023 3:32 ↓

    Guest: Brigadier Selvy Mohlala – Mpumalanga SA Police Service Spokesperson

Our Minister of Water Affairs and Sanitation Senzo Mchunu has now chaired a meeting of the organisation that coordinates some of the flows of water between our country, Lesotho, Botswana and Namibia. 10.07.2023 4:08 ↓

  Guest: Lindiwe Lusenga, Deputy Director-General responsible for Provincial, Entity Governance and International Cooperation: Department of Water Affairs and Sanitation

A new report has now revealed that a number of attacks involving captive cheetahs, lions, and tigers were fatal. 07.07.2023 4:54 ↓

    Guest: Kelly Marnewick, Tshwane University of Technology nature conservation lecturer

Organisations are now embarking on a campaign to educate the public about labelling, marketing of foodstuff. 07.07.2023 8:46 ↓

      Guest: Lawrence Mbalati, head of the Healthy Living Alliance (HEALA)

one of the claims is that Zama Zamas were mining in the area around the Angelo Informal Settlement in Ekurhuleni where a gas leak killed seventeen people 07.07.2023 3:43 ↓

  Guest: Meshack Mbangula, National Co-ordinator for Mining Affected Communities United in Action (Macua)

In Cape Town, one of the major problems the Passenger Rail Agency is having to get the central line running again is a group of people who have built shacks on the railways lines 07.07.2023 4:47 ↓

  Guest: Lisa Mangcu, Deputy Minister of Transport

on Wednesday night in the Angelo Informal Settlement in Ekurhuleni, a gas leak claimed the lives of seventeen people. How dangerous is nitrous oxide or nitrate oxide? 07.07.2023 5:41 ↓

  Guest: Dr. Gerhard Verdoorn, director of Griffon Poison Information Centre

The EFF in KZN is calling on the provincial legislature there to institute an inquiry into what happened in Phoenix during the violence in 2021 - that saw thirty three people in that area being killed. 07.07.2023 6:39 ↓

  Guest: Mongezi Twala, EFF KZN Chair

why is loadshedding not as bad as we thought during this winter? 07.07.2023 14:13 ↓

  Guest: Kgosientso 'Sputla' Ramokgopa - Minister of Electricity

There are still so many questions about what happened that on Wednesday night in the Angelo Informal Settlement in Ekurhuleni after a gas leak claimed the lives of seventeen people 07.07.2023 5:57 ↓

  Guest: Panyaza Lesufi – Gauteng Premier

There was a funeral service yesterday for Essop Pahad - the former minister in the presidency - who joined the liberation movement back in the 1950s died yesterday at the age of eighty-four. 07.07.2023 7:12 ↓

  Guest: Mbhazima Shilowa, Former Cosatu General Secretary and Premier of Gauteng

Africa Update Report with Adv. Sipho Mantula from TM Afrikan School of Public and International Affairs 07.07.2023 4:52 ↓

  Afrika Update Report: 7 July 2023; 1. DR Congo-South Afrika,  The SA-DRC bi-national council has strengthened  the solidarity between the two countries and revisiting all bilateral agreements by establishing a great joint  commission; 2. Malawi-Tanzania, A three day state visit by President Samia Suluhu Hassan to President Lazarus Chakwera concludes today and what were the highlights?3.Mozambiqu...

The president of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko says that the leader of the Wagner group that staged that brief mutiny in Russia - Yevgeny Prigozhin - is no longer in Belarus - but has returned to Russia 07.07.2023 5:51 ↓

  Guest: Ronald Henwood, political scientist: University of Pretoria

Mediated Conversation: how important is women sport? 06.07.2023 26:34 ↓

Guest: Blanche de la Guerre, Netball South Africa Chief Executive Officer Guest: Kas Naidoo, Founder of gsport4girls Guest: Kelvin Watt Nielsen, Managing Director for Africa Asia Pacific and Middle East at Nielsen Sports Guest: Khabo Zitha, former Banyana Banyana top goal scorer

Unintended electromagnetic radiation emanating from large satellite constellations. 06.07.2023 3:54 ↓

  Guest: Professor Gyula Jozsa, member of the Rhodes Centre for Radio Astronomy Techniques & Technologies (RATT)

Unisa on 6 July, hosts Black Forum SA to pay homage to 1959 ‘potato boycott’ 06.07.2023 5:51 ↓

.   Guest: Advocate Kgagudi Morota, Black Forum South Africa CEO

The Gauteng High Court has found the flow of sewage into the Vaal River via broken treatment plants is a violation of environmental acts. 06.07.2023 3:40 ↓

    Guest: Maureen Stewart, Vice Chairperson of Save the Vaal Environment

sixteen people have been confirmed dead on Wednesday evening at the Angelo Squatter camp, outside Boksburg, following gas inhalation, in a suspected illegal mining activity. 06.07.2023 10:22 ↓

  Guest: Mbalenhle Mthethwa SABC Reporter

The man who was fired as the CEO of the Joburg Roads Agency Tshepo Mahanuke after being accused of faking his qualifications is now trying to challenge his sacking in court 06.07.2023 12:12 ↓

  Guest: Tshepo Mahanuke, Fired CEO Joburg Roads

the ANC has decided to remove Connie Nkalitshana as Mayor and replace her with Leah Mabuza - who has now been voted in as the new mayor of Emalahleni 06.07.2023 5:12 ↓

  Guest: Leah Mabuza - new mayor of Emalahleni

Dr. Mamphela Ramphele, Co-Founder of ReimagineSA and Co-President of the Club of Rome has now sent an open letter to President Ramaphosa saying that State capture 2.0 is raging ahead under his watch 06.07.2023 4:34 ↓

  Guest: Dr. Mamphela Ramphele, Co-Founder of ReimagineSA and Co-President of the Club of Rome

Today, COSATU and all its Affiliated Unions will be embarking on a nationwide socio-economic strike with marches taking place across major urban centres in all 9 provinces. 06.07.2023 6:18 ↓

  Guest: Zingiswa Losi, Cosatu president