The National Briefing

    Guest: Velenkosi Hlabisa, IFP president

    Guest: Billy Petzer, CSIR Cybersecurity System expert and researcher group leader

    Guest: Sihle Zikalala - Department Of Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Sihle Zikalala

    Guest: Jenny Moodley, Spokesperson at Johannesburg City Parks and Zoo

Guest: Professor Roger Southall, Emeritus Professor in Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand   Guest: Dr Philani Mthembu, Executive Director at the Institute for Global Dialogue Guest: Dr. Khabele Matlosa, Visiting Professor, Centre for African Diplomacy and Leadership, University of Johannesburg (UJ). Mediated Conversation: do we need borders in Africa?    

Guest: Dr. Siphiwe Dlamini - lecturer, School of Physiology, Wits University A study by Wits University has now revealed that poor mental health in SA is linked to food insecurity          

Guest: Julian Rademeyer, Director of the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime's East and Southern Africa research observatory. Charlene Felicity Mathews was shot dead on Tuesday in Mpumalanga, she was the wife of the former traditional leader chief Clyde Mnisi - who was also killed in the same way a week ago        

Guest: Kaizer Kganyago, spokesperson Special Investigating Unit The Special Investigating Unit is now accusing a lawyer from the office of the state attorney of defrauding government of twenty-seven million rand. Advocate Hassan Ebrahim Kajee was arrested over the weekend    

Guest: Karam Singh, Corruption Watch executive director Corruption Watch has released a big report looking at the trends of corruption - they suggest that the problems caused by corruption are now being seen in our cities and towns      

Guest: Thato Molosankwe, Mahikeng Social Activist  It’s emerged that four hundred and sixty million rand given to nine councils in North West for service delivery and infrastructure was returned - because it had not been spent.      

Guest: Herman Mashaba, ActionSA leader ActionSA announces that they have been in talks with the IFP, VF+, ACDP and other political parties to form a coalition pact to remove the ANC from power come 2024.        

Guest: Adv. Sipho Mantula from Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International: UNISA Afrika Update Report: 5 April 2023; 1. South Afrika- Uganda, South Afrikan LGBTQI+ activists led by the Economic Freedom Fighter President Julius Sello Malema gathered outside the Ugandan High Commission in Tshwane to demonstrate against the anti-gay bill ; 2. Sierra Leone - Free Town, Political Parties Re...

Guest: Vuyo Mhaga, Spokesperson of Premier Panyaza Lesufi There’s been reports in City Press that the Gauteng MEC for Economic Development Tasneem Motara has fired the acting CEO of the Gauteng Growth and Development agency - Simphiwe Hamilton a month before his contract was due to end              

Guest: Leslie Petrik, Professor of Chemistry, University of the Western Cape Researchers have now said that the coastline is contaminated by chemicals from inadequately treated sewage.      

Guest: Sherwin Bryce-Pease, SABC Correspondent US President Donald Trump has become the first former president in the history of the world’s oldest democracy to be formally charged and to appear in court        

Guest: Ms Barbara Creecy - Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Ms Barbara Creecy, launched the South African National Parks (SANParks) Vision 2040 yesterday (4 April 2023).    

Guest: Ben Maswinga, Senior Manager: Heritage Conservation Management Cape Town’s District 6 has now officially been declared as a National Heritage Site.    

Guest: Chris Yelland, Energy Analyst Guest: Sandile Swana, Political and Governance expert  Guest: Hilton Trollip, Independent Consultant in Energy research There has been outrage from so many different groups about National Treasury ’s exemptions being granted to Eskom from having to report wasteful irregular and fruitless    

Guest: Dr Marc Wegerif, researcher, senior lecturer and development studies program coordinator at University of Pretoria Guest: Johann Kirsten, Professor and Director of the Bureau for Economic Research: Stellenbosch University Mediated Conversation: Last week the competition commission released a report on the prices of basic foods in South Africa claiming companies may have been profiteering as...

Guest: Flo Bird, Johannesburg Heritage Foundation Chairperson T here has been a most awful act of vandalism at Braamfontein ash wal              

Guest: Nomakhosazana Meth, Eastern Cape Health MEC The Eastern Cape MEC of Health visited displaced victims in Port st Johns following floods    

Guest: Nthabiseng Dubazana, Director and Attorney at Dubazana Attorneys There were more tense scenes at the parliamentary inquiry into the fitness for office of the suspected Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane yesterday.      

Guest: Ismail Momoniat, National Treasury Acting Director General National Treasury has exempted Eskom from parts of the public finance management act - which means it no longer has to report irregular, wasteful and fruitless expenditure in its financial statements    

Guest: Keith Engel, Chief Executive of SA Institute of Taxation SARS has now broken through the two trillion-rand barrier in terms of the amount of money it collected for government in the last financial year    

Guest:  Adv. Sipho Mantula from Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International: UNISA   Afrika Update Report: Freedom Month; 4 April 2023; 1. Kenya - Nairobi, Kenya's top prosecutor has dropped charges against four lawmakers over Anti- government protests, a day after Raila Odinga suspended demonstrations and agree to talks with government; 2. Gabon - Libreville, President Ali Bongo delays...