The National Briefing

More bad news from Eskom with predictions of stage five load shedding for literally all of winter - and Eskom saying yesterday that in a worst case scenario there could be stage 8 load shedding for two whole months - July and August. Guest: Hilton Trollip, Independent Energy Consultant      

Guest: Dr. Trevor Ngwane - Centre for Sociological Research and Practice, University of Johannesburg Why do we have more protests in winter than in summer?  

Guest: Selby Leshaba, one of the organizers and the EXCO member of the community a two-day shutdown in Fleurhof and Florida is underway to protest against illegal mining, lack of infrastructure, and poor service delivery.        

Guest: Gwen Ansell, Independent Music Writer National anthems: how composers in South Africa and India are reimagining them.      

Guest: Piet Le Roux - Sakeliga CEO Sakeliga demand immediate withdrawal of draft regulations on employment equity      

Guest: Zolile Williams, Eastern Cape MEC for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA) The Eastern Cape MEC for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs to visit the areas affected by heavy rains over the weekend in Nelson Mandela Bay      

Guest: Cas Coovadia, CEO of Business Unity South Africa It’s emerged Business Leadership SA paid R18-million for the private investigation into Eskom. Andre de Ruyter asked the BLSA CEO Busi Mavuso to help investigate corruption at Eskom. She was also a board member of Eskom at the time      

Guest: Benedicta van Minnen, Member at Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan says Andre de Ruyter was more interested in gossip and his book than fixing Eskom when speaking to parlimanetary’s standing committee on public accounts yesterday      

Guest: Adv. Sipho Mantula from the Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International Affairs: UNISA   Afrika Update Report: 18 May 2023; 1.Sudan - Khartoum, The United Nations estimates that more than $3 billion is needed for humanitarian aid and refugees in Sudan ; 2.Libya-Tripoli, Libya's east-based parliament votes to suspend Prime Minister Fathi Bashaga yesterday; 3.DR Congo-Kinshasha, Ca...

Guest: Tafadzwa Mabhaudhi, Professor of Climate Change and Water Systems: UKZN The World Meteorological Organisation is warning that we are now entering a phase where global temperatures are going to rise dramatically in the next five years        

Guest: Mahlengi Bhengu-Motsiri spokesperson for the African National Congress (ANC) The ANC says it’s meeting with the US ambassador to SA Rueben Brigety were cordial after he claimed that South Africa sold weapons to Russia for Russia to use in Ukraine      

Guest: Robyn Pasensie, Party Funding Researcher at My Vote Counts My Vote Counts launches a court application to amend the Political Party Funding Act.        

Guest: Nomzamo Zondo – Executive Director: Socio-Economic Rights Institute The Socio-Economic Rights Institute (SERI) has now condemned the unlawful raids and war on the poor by City of Joburg Acting Mayor, Kenny Kunene. they call upon the City to rectify its course and refrain from unlawful conduct      

Guest: Sean Phillips, Director General Department of Water and Sanitation The Department of Water and Sanitation say it has nearly R600 million has been repaid from two problematic contracts during Nomvula Mokonyane, former Minister of Water and Sanitation    

Guest: Prof. Kathy Myburgh - research chair in Integrative Skeletal Muscle Physiology, Biology and Biotechnology in Stellenbosch University's Department of Physiological Sciences Valuable exchange of expertise on extracellular vesicle research      

Guest: Xhanti Payi, senior economist at PwC Strategy The official unemployment rate increased by 0.2 of a percentage point to 32.9% in the first quarter of 2023, from the fourth quarter of last year, Statistics SA reported        

Guest: Dr. Nwabisa Makaluza, Head of Research, Funda Wande Guest: Sipumelele Lucwaba, Secretariat of the Right to Read   Guest: Prof Nic Spaull, Secretariat of the 2030 Reading Panel Mediated Conversation: Yesterday came with confirmation that 81% of our children cannot read for meaning in any language by the time they get to grade four    

Guest: Steven Gruzd, Head of the African Governance and Diplomacy Programme: South African Institute of International Affairs President Ramaphosa announced that Russian President Putin and Ukraine President Zelensky have both approved a plan that will see six African presidents including Ramaphosa traveling to Moscow and Kyiv to try and broker peace in Europe            

Guest: Adv. Sipho Mantula from the Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International Affairs: UNISA Afrika Update Report: 17 May 2023; 1. Russia-Ukraine -Africa,  South African President Matamela Ramaphosa has announced that six African leaders are planning to travel to Moscow and Kyiv ( African peace mission) ; 2. USA- Nigeria , A senior member of the All Progressive Congress ( APC) Femi Fan...

Guest: Vincent Magwenya, Presidential spokesperson Ramaphosa set to join African mission to broker peace talks between Ukraine, Russia.      

Guest: Professor Mark Swilling, head of the University of Stellenbosch Centre for Sustainable Transitions Government is looking to procure a combined 10,000MW of renewable energy from bid windows seven and eight.    

Guest: Naledi Pandor, Minister of International Relations and Cooperation of South Africa South African President Matamela Ramaphosa has announced that six Afrikan leaders are planning to travel to Moscow and Kyiv (African peace mission)    

Guest: Zuko Godlimpi, ANC national executive committee or his job as an advisor to Eastern Cape Premier Oscar Mabuyane denies academic fraud, claims allegations have tainted his reputation.                      

Guest: Dr Gary Koekemoer, Wildlife and Environment Society of SA (Wessa) Algoa Bay chair As we are currently on stage four load shedding and moving to stage six later - there are more indications that government is preparing to sign some kind of contract with the company Karpoewrships.      

Guest: Nthabiseng Dubazana, Legal analyst and Director and Attorney at Dubazana A witness in the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial says she doesn’t want her testimony to be broadcast