The National Briefing

Guest: Leonardo Manus, Acting Deputy- Director General for Infrastructure Management 12 flood gates remain open at Vaal Dam, communities urged to move to high lying areas .  

Guest: Isaac Mangena, City Power spokesperson Two contractors hired by Johannesburg’s City Power have been arrested for theft of copper cables.  

Guest: Mosotho Moepya, chairperson of the Electoral Commission of South Africa The Electoral Commission of South Africa will mount a national campaign to enable and assist South Africans to register online to vote in the National and Provincial Elections scheduled to take place in 2024. Themed “Your Vote Is Your Voice”, this campaign will feature on print, electronic and digital media.  

Guest: Edwin Cameron, retired justice of the Constitutional Court Retired ConCourt justice Edwin Cameron says bail fund will assist 'prisoners of poverty'.  

David Bruce - Independent Researcher In Policing And Security Violent crime is still increasing, with 7 555 murders between October and December    

Guest: Zeenat Adam, Deputy Executive Director at The Afro-Middle East Centre Turkey earthquake rescue operations to end

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Guest: Tidimalo Chuene, Limpopo Department of Transport and Community Safety spokesperson The Death toll of the N1 Limpopo bus crash has now risen to twenty-two.              

Guest: Amanda Qithi, Gauteng Eskom Spokesperson Theft and vandalism of electricity infrastructure have risen to disastrous proportions, threatening essential services and the lives of innocent people across the Gauteng province.  

Guest: December Mavuso, NEHAWU Deputy General Secretary  

Guest: Adv. Stefanie Fick, Executive Director of the Accountability Division at Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) OUTA goes to court to overturn the electricity State of Disaster    

Guest: Mary de Haas, Violence monitoring expert Eight men linked to nine Glebelands Hostel murders sentenced and one of them is a Police detective        

Guest: Sipho Mosai, Rand Water Chief Executive Rand Water to launch a MEGA reservoir in the City of Ekurhuleni today      

Guest: Barry Martin, Senior Director Water and Sanitation at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Municipality In a tactical move to save every drop of water in the Nelson Mandela Bay region, the NMBM is intensifying its alien vegetation clearing and catchment management work. First priority being the critical Impofu and Churchill Dams.            

Guest: Alan Winde, Premier of the Western Cape The Western Cape Government has now rejected President Ramaphosa’s plan to appoint a new minister for electricity and to declare a national state of disaster.      

Guest: Na'eem Jeenah, Executive Director at Afro-Middle East Centre The Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi has now finished his visit to China - it’s the first time in twenty years that the leader of Iran has been to china on such a big visit.        

Guest: Adv. Pikkie Greeff, Secretary: SA National Defence Union more than 70,000 SA National Defence Force (SANDF) members’ may have not got their salaries on time due to faulty air conditioning systems    

Guest: Dr. Trevor Ngwane, Director of the Centre for Sociological Research and Practice at the University of Johannesburg Guest: Professor Keith Engelt, Chief Executive of SA Institute of Tax Professionals   Guest: Ayanda Sishi Wigzell, Freelance Digital Content Producer. Guest: Khumo Theko, Digital trends analyst Mediated Conversation: The culture of displaying wealth on social media influencers...

Guest: Prof. Adrian Tordiffe, Professor at The University of Pretoria's faculty of veterinary science Twelve wild cheetahs will be translocated from two quarantine facilities in South Africa to Kuno National Park in India.  

Guest: Prof. Abel Esterhuyse, associate professor of strategy in the Faculty of Military Science of Stellenbosch University In Ukraine fierce fighting continues in particular areas around the Bakhmut region ahead of the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of that country.        

Guest: Ndithini Tyhido - Khayelitsha Development Forum Chair This week, Parents and their children from Khayelitsha were left frustrated as minibus taxi operators blocked scholar transport from taking children to school.    

Guest: Kululwa Muthwa, Chief Executive Officer at SAIBPP The SA Institute of Black Property Practitioners says it’s worried about government’s plans to resolve this crisis - and that it believes this will affect transformation      

Guest: Volker Von Widdern, Principal Strategic Risk Riskonet Africa How can we use scenario planning to analyse the key outcomes of the state of the nation address.        

Guest: Yolanda Gcanga, Komani Protest Action Committee member  The Komani Protest Action Committee will today embark on a two-day shutdown over service delivery    

Guest: Bheki Stofile - Chair of the SA Local Government Association Yesterday during the SONA debate, the Chair of the SA Local Government Association Bheki Stofile said coalition government is the animal that robs from the people