The National Briefing

Guest: Mpho Tawana, SABC Technical Engineer What kind of impact does load shedding have on signals?      

Guest: Steven Gruzd, Head of Russia-Africa programme at the South Africa Institute of International Relations In Europe, Ukraine’s defence minister is due to meet the French president Emmanuel Macron in Paris today      

Guest: Robert Maake, Department of Energy director of fuel pricing mechanism Petrol and diesel prices increased at midnight      

Guest: Senzo Mchunu, The Water and Sanitation Minister There are now so many places around our country which are battling with water problems. What is the Water and Sanitation Department doing to solve the crisis?      

Guest: Geordin Hill-Lewis – City of Cape Town Mayor The City of Cape Town has now given a go ahead to lift moratorium on applications for new metered-taxi operating licences        

Guest: Matthew Cruise, Head of Business Intelligence: Hohm Energy Climate technology: it's about so much more than just saving the planet.    

Guest: Mpho Kwinika, Independent Policing Union of South Africa General Secretary Guest: TJ Masilela, Chairperson of Gauteng Provincial Community Police Board   Guest: Eldred De Klerk, Senior policing and community conflict specialist at Africa Centre for Security and Intelligence Praxis Mediated Conversation:  why have people lost respect for the police - and how do police officers go about getti...

Guest: Masala Ramabulana, Director of MiPower electric buses MiPower electric buses - an official distributor of new generation electric vehicles (EV) range in South Africa and across Africa.      

Guest: Lindela Mashigo, City of Tshwane Spokesperson Today they’ll be interruptions to the Tshwane bus services operations due to fuel shortages.        

Guest: Dorah Modise: Deputy Director General, Environment at Gauteng Department of Agriculture, Rural Development & Environment. What is the regulation around keeping wild animals, especially tigers?    

  Guest: Velenkosini Hlabisa, Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) President The IFP says it believes it will only lose power in perhaps one or two councils in KZN - after the EFF said it would withdraw its support from the IFP in councils in that province.        

Guest: Jabu Mbongwa – ANC Ward 16 Branch Secretary: Kempton Park The ANC Ward 16 in Kempton Park has now said that it has noted the collapse of Ekurhuleni municipality under the DA administration      

Guest: Mzwandile Mbeje, SABC Political Editor Guest: Prof. Susan Booysen, Political Analyst President Cyril Ramaphosa yesterday while speaking at the end of the ANC’s NEC Lekgotla - that government is looking at declaring a state of national disaster over our load shedding problems and electricity  

Guest: Malekutu Bizzah Motubatse, NUM Highveld Regional Chairperson The National Union of Mineworkers Highveld Region which includes most of the power stations in Mpumalanga had a long meeting with the Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan last week - to discuss issues around load shedding          

Guest: Thembisa Fakude, a senior research fellow and director at Africa Asia Dialogues. In Pakistan, at least fifty-nine people have been killed and many more wounded after a bomb blast in a mosque inside a compound used by police officers.        

Guest: Mbekezeli Benjamin, Research and advocacy officer at Judges Matter The Pietermaritzburg High Court Judge Piet Koen has now officially recused himself from hearing the Jacob Zuma arms deal corruption trial - meaning that a new Judge Nkosinathi Chili will now have to take over.    

Mediated conversation

Guest: Ntalane Seroka, Phd candidate from University of Westerb Cape

Guest: Mahlengi Bhengu-Motsiri, ANC National Spokesperson The ANC has appointed Mahlengi Bhengu-Motsiri as its new spokesperson replacing Pule Mabe.      

Guest: Osborne Molatudi, founder and MD of Molatudi Attorneys South African companies might start seeing a reversal of the work-from-home trend as a result of loadshedding.      

Guest: Prof. Bheki Mngomezulu, Political analyst EFF leader yesterday said he was pulling out of coalitions with the IFP in KZN. He’s instructed all of the EFF Deputy Mayors in those councils in KZN to resign and says he will remove the IFP from power      

Guest: Gideon Chitanga, research associate at the African Centre for the Study of the US: Wits University In the US it’s been a weekend of marches and demonstrations after the murder by police of an African American man called Tyre Nichols.        

Guest: Luke Lamprecht, Head of Advocacy for Women and Men Against Child Abuse Yesterday police in gauten confirmed they had managed to find and arrest Gerhard Ackerman - the man wanted on over seven hundred counts of child abuse and peodophila and human trafficking        

Guest: Samkele Maseko, SABC Political Reporter The ANC has elected a national working committee (NWC) at its first national executive committee (NEC) meeting this year.      

Guest: Ellias Mawela, Gauteng Police Commissioner Last week a video emerged of a group of men literally digging up a massive electrical cable - and then stealing it - right in front of the local police station in Reiger Park