The National Briefing

Guest: Malibongwe Mtima Eastern Cape Education Spokesperson There are now reports that payments for school nutrition schemes in the Eastern Cape have not been made and children were crying from hunger      

Guest: Louis Diremelo, provincial secretary of the ANC in the North West The ANC in North West says it’s acting against a forty-year-old ANC Ward Councillor - who has been arrested in connection with two counts of statutory rape.        

Guest: Kadri Nassiep, Executive Director of Energy at the City of Cape Town Guest: Lungile Mashele – Energy Economist Government has now said that it will appeal Friday’s court ruling that ordered it to make sure that schools, hospitals and police stations were exempt or protected from load shedding.            

Guest: Lance Grootboom - ACDP Cllr Nelson Mandela Bay A planned special council meeting in Nelson Mandela Bay, scheduled to debate a motion of no confidence against the Democratic Alliance‘s (DA) Mayor Retief Odendaal, has been called off.        

Guest: Makabedi Makhetha, Bheki Mlangeni District Hospital CEO Soweto’s Bheki Mlangeni District Hospital made history by performing its first heart surgery.            

Guest: Collen Msibi, Spokesperson for the national Department of Transport The National Transport Department says its plans to scrap three thousand seven hundred and fifty minibus taxis this year under the Taxi Recapitalisation Programme.        

Guest: Richard Quest, Journalist at CNN In KZN, the Africa Travel Indaba starts today and one of the people who is attending the Indaba is one of the most famous journalists of our times - CNN’s Richard Quest        

Guest: Sy Mamabolo - Chief Electoral Officer IEC The Electoral Commission of South Africa says that SA elections are becoming an expensive exercise with independent candidates involved        

Guest: Zanele Modise, Equal Education’s Head of National Organising Guest: Prof. Peter Goss, Advisor: Corporate Governance & Forensic Audit Investigation   Guest: Masego Khutsoane, founder and CEO of Procurementor Mediated Conversation:  Should there be just one supplier for the school nutrition programme?    

Guest: Foster Mohale, Health Department spokesperson The Department of Health has noted an announcement by the World Health Organization that COVID-19 no longer constitutes a public health emergency of international concern.      

Guest: Dr. Mpho Phalatse, Democratic Alliance (DA) caucus leader in Johannesburg On Friday, the City of Joburg got a new mayor - Kabelo Gwamanda from Al Jama-ah, the Democratic Allaince claims that Gwamanda was involved in a scam that ripped off people    

Guest: Bret Herron, Good Party Secretary General. Speaker of Parliament Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has acceded to a request from GOOD Party MP Brett Herron to schedule an urgent debate on the failed extradition of persons implicated in corruption.      

Guest: Paseka Letsatsi, SASSA Spokesperson There was a rush over the weekend by people receiving social grants to try and renew their SASSA gold cars - because they were due to expire - but now it appears the life of the cards is being extended.      

Guest: Stavros Nicolaou, Board member of Busa and senior executive for Strategic Trade Development at Aspen Pharmacare Group. Business Unity South Africa says that they support the establishment of the NHI fund.        

  Guest: Geordin Hill-Lewis, Mayor at City of Cape Town City reflects on five months of Gunshot detection technology        

Guest: Makhudu Sefara, Editor of TimesLIVE and Deputy Editor of SundayTimes Well later this week we should find out how the national prosecuting authority intends to appeal the verdict in the Nulane case - the case that was described as the blueprint for state capture        

Guest: Dr. Sayan Dey Postdoctoral Fellow, Wits Centre for Diversity Studies, University of Witwatersrand In India Manupur, at least fifty-five people have been killed and nearly three hundred hurt - while twenty-three thousand people have been evacuated from the area - after ethnic violence between two different groups      

Guest:  Adv. Sipho Mantula from the Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International Affairs: UNISA Afrika Update Report: 8 May 2023; 1. Sudan- Egypt- US, The Arab League begins negotiations between Sudan's warring sides in Cairo this weekend amidst Sanctions from USA ; 3. Mali-Bamako, The military government has announced the date of the constitutional referendum for next month ;4. Burundi-...

Guest: Vally Padayachee, currently the Chairman of the Management Committee of the NRS Association of SA and formerly an executive manager of Eskom and formerly a senior executive of City Power Johannesburg The organisation which manages the specifications for load shedding has now made plans from what happens after stage eight load shedding      

Guest: Zwelinzima Vavi, South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) general secretary There was a ruling on Friday in the High Court in Tshwane which says that government has sixty days to prevent places like hospitals, schools and police stations from suffering from load shedding.    

Guest: Bharti Patel, National Executive Director at the South African Mental Health Federation There is a new National Mental Health Policy Framework and Strategic Plan 2023 – 2030 but experts concerned over implementation.    

Guest: Sihle Zikalala, Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure. Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure commenced a programme to rehabilitate small harbours in the country. He is in SALDANHA- where half a billion has been injected to improve the harbour and will also visit Houtbay.          

Peoples Mediated

Guest:  Adv. Sipho Mantula from the Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International Affairs: UNISA   Afrika Update Report: 3 May 2023; 1. Sudan -Khartoum, the warring parties in Sudan have agrees to a seven-day truce begin tomorrow and who is behind the mediation process now? 2. Ghana -Japan, The Japanese Prime minister Kishida Fumio and President Nana Akufo-Addo have agreed to align their...

Guest: Karam Singh, Executive Director at Corruption Watch There’s been confirmation from the NPA that it will now appeal the verdict in the Nulane case - which was described as the blue print for state capture