The National Briefing

Guest: Mark Heywood, editor of Maverick Citizen and social activist The National Department of Health has now said that four people have died due to the NEHAWU strike    

Guest: Selby Bokaba - City of Tshwane Spokesperson Guest: Solly Msimang - DA leader in Gauteng   Guest: Bafuze Yabo – Tshwane ANC Provincial Spokesperson   Guest: Dennis Bloem – COPE Spokesperson There are now concerns raised about the authenticity of the court rehabilitation order submitted by embattled Tshwane mayor Murunwa Makwarela  

Guest: Xolani Fakude - Sadtu's Head of Secretariat Officer Sadtu says that Nehawu protestors attacked its members, demanding that they join their public demonstrations and has now accepted that Nehawu is an opponent and not a sister union  

Guest: Roland Henwood, political scientist: University of Pretoria US defence secretary Lloyd Austin has told that country’s government they must take steps to reduce tensions on the occupied west bank - after Israeli settlers have been attacking Palestinians in the area.  

Guest: Wayne Duvenage, CEO of OUTA There was confirmation again yesterday during the budget speech in Gauteng by Finance MEC Jacob Mamabolo - that etolls are effectively over      

Guest: Angus Gibson, - director of The Bomb Shelter Film Company (Pty) Ltd. Guest: Mandla N - founder Black Brain Picture Guest: Thinus Ferreira - TV critic, writer and journalist Guest: Tariro washe – Producer and Actress Mediated Conversation: what stories are we telling the continent and the world about ourselves as South Africans?  

Guest: Arthur Crewe, spokesperson of SRU Strategic Response Rescue Unit Lion on the loose along the R511 in Centurion.    

Guest: Sizwe Pamla – Cosatu Spokesperson The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) has noted the disturbing reports of violent incidents and destruction of property by the striking public service workers.    

Guest: Professor Zeblon Vilakazi, Vice-Chancellor: Wits University The Wits SRC has now said they are having a 24-hour ceasefire and earlier this week they protested outside the home of the Vice Chancellor Professor Zeblon Vilikazi        

Guest: Sibusiso Khasa, campaigner at Amnesty International South Africa Government must urgently act on eradicating pit toilets after the death of a four-year-old girl whose body was found inside a pit toilet at a school in the Eastern Cape, says Amnesty International South Africa    

Guest: Abel Esterhuyse, associate professor of strategy: Faculty of Military Science of Stellenbosch University US Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines has told congress there that the war in Ukraine has become a grinding attritional war and that it could go on for many years.        

Guest: Terry Bell, Labour Analyst Other NEHAWU leaders have claimed that it is only saboteurs who have disrupted services and their members are not to blame.      

Guest: Keith Pillay, IPSS Medical Rescue Paramedic Yesterday came reports that an ambulance carrying a child in a critical condition was stopped by NEHAWU protesters from getting into the Stanger Hospital in Kwa Dukuza    

Guest: Loyiso Magqashela, ANC Eastern Cape provincial spokesperson The ANC in the Eastern Cape has confirmed taking a decision to recall the mayor of buffalo city - Xola Pakati - they claim that the state of the city shows that someone else needs to take over.      

Guest: Gary Eisenberg, immigration law expert A ruling this week in the High Court about a group of asylum seekers - twenty-two people from Afghanistan - who have been granted an asylum transit visa in South Africa.    

Guest: Mike Shingange - President of NEHAWU Guest: Xolani Fihla - JMPD Spokesperson Guest: Rich Sicina - President of the Young Nurses Indaba Trade Union There’s been so many reports of treatment for patients being disrupted at different hospitals around the country - because of the NEHAWU strike    

Guest: Jack Sekwaila, Environment and infrastructure services MMC Joburg MMC for Environmemt and Infrastructure Services Cllr Jack Sekwaila will be having an inner city war on waste clean-up campaign today.    

Guest: Layton Beard, AA Spokesperson Guest: Boysie Zungu, spokesperson for the Durban Metro police Guest: Louis Nel, Head of Department for Mobility and Freight at Johannesburg Road Agency G uest: Fatima Seedat, SADAG's Development Manager Mediated Conversation: Traffic problems caused by rolling blackouts need urgent attention    

Guest: Camry Jacobs, Westbury community leader There were some angry scenes in Westbury in Joburg yesterday - when the Police Minister Bheki Cele held a ministerial imbizo in an area where gangs have killed so many people - and there has been a huge amount of gang violence    

Guest: Patricia De Lille, Minister of Tourism Patricia De Lille has now been elected as the Minister of Tourism      

Guest: Dr Murungwa Makwarela - former Tshwane Mayor  The City of Tshwane is now without a Mayor again after Dr Murunwa Makwarela was removed and disqualified as Mayor      

Guest: Dr. Tim Maake, Local Government Specialist The City of Tshwane is now without a Mayor again when Dr Murunwa Makwarela was removed due to insolvency. Is there any onus on any organization to actually check - to see if Councilors qualify?    

Guest: Dr. Aslam Dasoo, Convenor of the Progressive Health Forum There’s been so many reports of treatment for patients being disrupted at different hospitals around the country - because of the NEHAWU strike    

Guest: Dr Percy Mahlati, Deputy Director General for Hospital Services: National Department of Health   Guest: Professor Adam Mahomed, head of internal medicine at Charlotte Maxeke Hospital There’s been so many reports coming through of treatment for patients being disrupted at different hospitals around the country - because of the NEHAWU strike    

Guest: David Monyae, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations and Director for the Centre for Africa-China Studies In Beijing, China’s new foreign minister Qin Gang has said that what he calls conflict and confrontation with the US is inevitable - and that the US is suppressing China.