The National Briefing

Guest: Lawson Naidoo is the Executive Secretary of the Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution (CASAC) Confirmation on Friday that The liberation veteran Frene Ginwala passed away at her home on Thursday    

Guest: Xolani Dube, Political analyst The High Court in Johannesburg is due to hand down its ruling this morning on whether president Cyril Ramaphosa will have to appear in court on Thursday - in the private prosecution brought against him by former president Jacob Zuma.    

Guest: Mary Metcalfe, senior research associate at University of Johannesburg It’s been reported by the Sunday Times that nearly four hundred learners in the Bohlabela district of Mpumalanga will not get their matric results this week because they’re being investigated for cheating          

Guest: Hasha Tlhotlhalemaje, Eskom General Manager of Regulation 55 Eskom appreciates the tough NERSA revenue decision for Financial Year 2024 and 2025 to allow them to increase tariffs by 18% this year and 12% next year.    

Guest: Mmusi Maimane, Leader of Build One South Africa There’s another campaign underway at the moment to change the system that allows someone to pass matric with a mark of thirty percent.      

Guest: Na'eem Jeenah, Executive Director at Afro-Middle East Centre In Israel nearly one hundred thousand people in three different cities have taken part in huge protests against the new government and its plans to give parliament more power over the courts - and to change the legal system      

People's Mediated

Guest:Johann Ferreira, Executive Director and CEO at Intercape

Guest: Kganki Matabane, Black Business Council Minerals Council SA's Call for Transnet CEO, Rail Chief To be Axed. Black Business Council says that this is Fuelled by the Mineral Council's Anti Transformation Stance  

Guest: Vanessa Couldridge, Senior lecture and researcher in the Department of Biodiversity and Conservation Biology at the University of the Western Cape

Guest: Mamokgethi Molopyane, Mining and labour analyst

Guest: Thilivhali Nthakeni, Financial Regulatory Reporting at NERSA

Guest: Geordin Hill-Lewis, Cape Town Mayor Guest: Adv Mtho Xulu, President for the South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry Guest: Dr Lumkile Mondi, Lecturer at the School of Economics and Finance at Wits

Ramaphosa's bid for an urgenet interdict against Zuma's private prosecution pursuit Guest: Adv Romeo Nthambeleni, Senior Legal Analyst

Guest: Brooks Spector, Associate Editor at The Daily Maverick

Guest: Vumi Msweli, Hesed Consulting Founder Guest: Dr Cathy Angus - Clinical, Psychologist Guest: Dion Chang, founder of Flux Trends Mediated Conversation: how is the world of work going to change this year for people who are going back to the office?    

Guest: Dr. Rhoda Malgas, Lecturer in Conservation Ecology, Stellenbosch University Rural communities who make a living from wild harvesting indigenous rooibos.      

Guest: Michael Sun, MMC for Environment and Infrastructure Services Department. cities around the country are battling to keep their infrastructure running - because during load shedding people attack their infrastructure and steal from it - or sometimes just vandalise it    

Guest: Tertius Simmers, Human Settlements and Infrastructure MEC In the Western Cape, a total of 25 housing projects have been affected by extortionists over the last five years, leaving almost 19 000 beneficiaries without help      

Guest: Matthew Cruise, Independent energy expert There was confirmation from Eskom yesterday that it will now implement stage six load shedding until further notice because of problems at eleven of its power stations.      

Guest: Songezo Zibi, Rivonia Circle Chairperson Yesterday the higher education minister was at the University of Fort Hare - he promised action and said there would be a task team to look at issues of corruption and the safety of people at higher education institutions                  

Guest: Francois Rodgers, Leader of the DA in KwaZulu-Natal The DA in KZN says it’s taking action against a Newcastle councillor Connie Hariram accused of racism by sending a voice note asking why a black woman was appointed to a ward committee in an area where mostly Indian people live.          

Guest: Desmond Latham, Aviation Expert There were dramatic scenes in the US yesterday - when every single domestic flight was grounded - and told that they could not take off.          

Guest: Zain Lundell, Attorney at RH Lawyers There is now going to be a class action law suit against the people responsible for that massive gas tanker explosion in Boksburg on Christmas eve        

Guest: Adv. Pikkie Greeff, National Secretary for the South African National Defence Union The SANDF has now confirmed that at least one our soldiers was involved in the burning of bodies of insurgents in Mozambique after a video emerged of soldiers just throwing bodies onto a burning pile of rubbish.