The National Briefing

Guest: Iain Banner - Chairman- Formula E Cape Town and co-founder Go Green Africa South Africa has now lost a bid to host F1 over its friendship with Russia.  

Guest: Wandile Sihlobo - Senior Fellow, Department of Agricultural Economics, Stellenbosch University Farming in South Africa is being hobbled by power cuts and poor roads. Rural towns are being hit hardest.  

Guest: Kenny Kunene, MMC Transport at City of Joburg There were protests by members of the e-hailing industry in Protea glen yesterday in Soweto - after a series of attacks on e-hailing drivers - people who drive uber and bolt cars.        

Judgment’s expected today in the application brought by the Prosecutor Billy Downer and the Journalist Karyn Maughan - to stop the private prosecution brought against them by former President Jacob Zuma Guest: Mpumelelo Zikalala, Legal Analyst    

Guest: Dr. Tim Maake, Local Government Expert The Joburg mayor used his first State of the City Address saying he’ll improve services. He wants to employ two thousand crime wardens to help communities - and to give solar panels to people in poorer communities.    

Guest: Roland Henwood, political scientist: University of Pretoria In china drilling began yesterday in a desert in the north west region of Xinjiang - as part of a plan to dig a hole that will be eleven kilometres deep    

Guest: Rev. Frank Chikane, chairperson of the integrity commission in the ANC The new leadership of the ANC’s integrity commission says that they are determined to deal with corruption in the organisation - the chair of the commission Rev. Frank Chikane said that if people don’t lead with integrity they should not lead at all    

Guest: Siphosethu Ngcobo, Secretary-General of the IFP KZN school nutrition programme continues to face challenges.  

Guest: Gustavo de Carvalho, Senior Researcher on Russia-Africa ties at the African Governance and Diplomacy Programme at SAIIA Ukraine Developments: Ukraine coordinating ‘offensive actions’ in some areas.  

Guest: Blade Nzimande, Minister of Higher Education and Training, Science and Innovation Shock at the murder of MUT University lecturer  

Water crisis forces Helen Joseph to 'divert' patients to other hospitals. Guest: Dr. Rodney Pheto, Acting Helen Joseph Hospital CEO  

Guest: Adv. Sipho Mantula from TM Afrikan School of Public and International Affairs    

Guest: Sandile July, Director and the Head of Employment advising in Business Crimes & Investigations at Werksmans Attorneys Guest: Thembinkosi Mkalipi, Chief Director of labour relations for the Department of Employment and Labour  Guest: Anton CV Van Der Bilj, Head Of Legal At Solidarity  

Guest: Asive Dlanjwa, Spokesperson for the South African Union of Students University of Fort Hare students arrested for damaging university buildings.  

Guest: Theo De Jager, Chairperson of The Southern African Agri-Initiative (SAAI) The foundations of food security in South Africa are being shaken by the new draft regulations from the department of water and sanitation that propose racial quotas for the extraction and storage of water.        

Guest: Adv. Jan Heunis, Former president of Stellenbosch University convocation  Six weeks ago the vice chancellor of Stellenbosch University Professor Wim de Villiers was accused of using his position to help two people related to his family to win places at the institution          

Guest: Matthew Cuthbert, Democratic Alliance, head of policy The DA says that it wants to extend the child support grant beyond the age of eighteen - if the person who receives it is still in school    

Guest: Dr. Sayan Dey Postdoctoral Fellow, Wits Centre for Diversity Studies Authorities in India are now trying to find out three separate trains were involved in one train crash in the eastern state of Odisha - that claimed the lives of at least two hundred and eighty-eight people.        

Guest: Obed Bapela, ANC's International Relations Subcommittee Deputy Chairperson ANC secretary general Fikile Mbalula says Russian President Vladimir Putin should “not feel belittled” if his BRICS Summit invitation is withdrawn.    

Guest: Adv. Sipho Mantula from the Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International Affairs: UNISA Afrika Update Report: 5 June 2023; 1. Senegal- Dakar-Ziguinchor , The Senegalese presidential coalition has accused the opposition of destabilizing the country after politica upheaval that left 15 people dead since last week Thursday; 2. Sudan -UN Security Council, In a piecemeal approach the U...

Guest: Prof. Anton Harbor, Executive Director, Campaign for Free Expression Campaign for Free Expression is most concerned to hear that the Johannesburg High Court has issued an order blocking investigative journalism unit amaBhungane’s examination of the Moti Company.  

Guest: Lesiba Thobakgale, SA Police Union Spokesperson The SA Policing union calls on Police Chief Fannie Masemola to be fired over inability to fight crime.  

Guest: Heindrich Wyngaard, Executive Chairperson of Cape Forum Guest: Caryn Dolley, Journalist at the Daily Maverick    Guest: Eldred De Klerk, Senior policing and community conflict specialist at the Africa Centre for Security and Intelligence Praxis

Guest: Herman Wasserman, Expert panelist for The International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE). The International Panel on the Information Environment was officially launched at the 2023 Nobel Prize Summit  

ANC secretary general Fikile Mbalula says Russian President Vladimir Putin should “not feel belittled” if his BRICS Summit invitation is withdrawn.   Guest: Prof. Siphamandla Zondi, professor of politics and international relations at the University of Johannesburg