The National Pulse

Earlier today, government announced that the South African National Defence Force has commenced with pre-deployment processes and procedures of its members to areas hit by violent flare-ups in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng. Joining us to explain what this deployment entails is… Guest: Brigadier-General Mafi Mgobhozi, SANDF Spokesperson

The Executive mayor of the City of Johannesburg Geoff Makhubo has passed on. He had been admitted to hospital last week after contracting COVID19.    GUEST: City of Johannesburg spokesperson, Prince Mlimandlela Ndamase

The High Court in Johannesburg has found that the suspension of ANC Secretary-General Ace Magashule is lawful and valid. The court has also declared the suspension Magashule had issued to party President Cyril Ramaphosa null and void. Last month Magashule had asked the court to lift his suspension for failing to vacate his position following a directive under the ANC’s step aside resolution....

The Western Cape Transport Department say safe taxi operation will resume this afternoon after talks with industry leaders. Provincial Transport and Public Works Minister, Daylin Mitchell, today convened an urgent meeting with SANTACO, the Cape Amalgamated Taxi Association (CATA), the Congress of Democratic Taxi Association (CODETA) and senior Government Officials to address the current...

The Public Protector South Africa and the South African Human Rights Commission will this afternoon reveal the outcomes of a joint-investigation launched a little over two years ago on the back of a spate of violent service delivery protests in Alexandra township, north of Johannesburg.  Guest: Adv Busisiwe Mkhwebane, South Africa’s Public Protector  

Guest: Dr. Llewellyn Curlewis, senior lecturer in criminal and procedural law at the University of Pretoria

Who is behind KwaZulu-Natal’s shutdown protests and how is the province handling the situation? Police in KwaZulu-Natal say there is no evidence that the protests are fueled by pro-Zuma supporters. But on the other hand, former president Jacob Zuma’s daughter Dudu Zuma-Sambudla has taken to social media to say the protesters who are burning tyres on a number of busy roads in Empangeni,...

On World News today, we assess Africa’s capability to produce its own vaccine, asking what would it take for the continent to produce one and can the upcoming Bio Africa Digital Convention provide solutions as we know that the pandemic has starkly highlighted the class divide world-wide. In some African countries for instance, a lack of funds is already causing delays in addition to a lack o...

Staying with the story of former President Jacob Zuma's incarceration at the Estcourt Correctional Centre, in KZN, we speak to prisoners' rights activist Golden Miles Bhudu, the spokesperson for the South African Prisoners Organisation for Human Rights (SAPOHR), who knows the ins-and-outs of the correctional system, as a former inmate himself. GUEST: Golden Miles Bhudu, the spokesperson for the So...

Suspended ANC and MKMVA member Carl Niehaus has been arrested outside the Estcourt prison, in KZN where Jacob Zuma is being held. Niehaus was addressing supporters when he was arrested by police. GUEST: Vusi Khumalo, SABC senior reporter in KZN

A group from the Matric class of 1985 are hoping to finally have the matric farewell Apartheid denied them. Former pupils from the then Fred Gaum Secondary School now known as the Ceres Secondary School in Ceres Western Cape will host their Matric dance on the 25th of September this year. 1985 signalled the beginning of the end of apartheid in South Africa, following an upsurge of violent and non-...

The Department of Correctional Services says former President Jacob Zuma will not receive preferential treatment at their facilities. It says Zuma will be given the same services as that of other inmates. Zuma handed himself over to Correctional Services, less than an hour before the expiration of the deadline for police to arrest him. The Constitutional Court gave him 15 months prison sentence fo...

What’s next for Zuma? Former President Jacob Zuma handed himself over to prison authorities in the wee hours of the morning after his legal team failed to convince the Constitutional Court to suspend his arrest. Following this development, Zuma became the first South African leader to go to prison in the 27 years since apartheid ended. But politically speaking – what does it all mean a...

Four people suspected of being involved in the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse of Haiti were killed by the police in a gun battle and two others were arrested. The news of Moïse’s assassination rocked the Caribbean nation and experts have warned that his killing could fuel a cycle of violence. To discuss the late president’s killing is….. Guest: Jacques Jnr Ba...

Carl Niehaus has been suspended from the ANC with immediate effect. The motion for suspension was tabled and adopted at the special NEC yesterday. Meanwhile Niehaus says he will appeal the suspension. Yesterday ANC Deputy Secretary General Jessie Duarte also announced that the Mkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans (MKMVA) and MK Veterans Council had been disbanded. GUEST: Carl Niehaus, ANC member and...

Wiseman Shange, a Taxi owner, has lost many loved ones due to the ongoing taxi violence in uMzinyathi, In Kwa-Zulu Natal. The ongoing violence is reportedly over taxi routes in the uMzinyathi area that the Inanda Taxi Association allegedly hijacked in 2004. Wiseman Shange says his brother was killed this year in a hail of bullets due to the ongoing disputes. He joins us on the line GUEST: Wiseman...

Conflict between rival taxi associations, CATA and Codeta has led to the killing of seven taxi operators in separate shooting incidents throughout Cape Town today. Western Cape Transport Minister, Daylin Mitchell is set to meet with taxi associations and authorities to discuss the ongoing taxi violence.  Mitchell says the shootings bring the total number of taxi related murders in the provinc...

Judgement in former South African President Jacob Zuma's application to stay his 15-month jail sentence before the Pietermaritzburg High Court has been reserved until Friday. Until then, the jury is out on whether the former leader will be behind bars come tomorrow, Thursday. The police ministry has said if it doesn't receive a response from the office of the Chief Justice by the end of business t...

Is the taxi industry doing enough to quell taxi violence in the Western Cape? We speak to Santaco about the ongoing taxi violence in the Western Cape. So far more than 30 people have been killed in taxi violence in the province since the beginning of this year. Guest: Bafana Magagula, Chief Strategic Manager at the South African National Taxi Council (SANTACO)

World News: About two days ago, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that his government will no longer force people in England to wear face masks from later this month, and social distancing will be scrapped. But latest reports coming from the UK suggest that cases are now soaring, deaths are on the rise and yet in just days, the country will effectively declare the pandemic o...

The campaign to vaccinate about two hundred thousand South African police officers for COVID-19 kicked off today at the Orlando Stadium, in Soweto, south west of Johannesburg. The police force's medical scheme Polmed, aims to complete this process by the 11th of August. The scheme is currently providing health insurance to about 80 percent of the country's police force. The campaign is i...

Police Minister Bheki Cele has refuted criticism that the police did not act on the mass gathering at Nkandla at the weekend. Thousands of supporters of former president Jacob Zuma gathered at his home in Nkandla, north of KwaZulu-Natal this weekend, in contravention of lockdown regulations. Speaking at Orlando Stadium in Soweto, during the vaccination drive, Cele said the police were present but...

National movement, Pastors Against Church Closure say churches are not government departments and should not be criminalized. The movement, that constitutes religious leaders, briefed the media earlier today on the organisation's stance on the ban on religious gatherings as per current adjusted level 4 lockdown rules. Pastors Against Church Closure have since pledged its support for churches who w...

The National Prosecuting Authority Investigative Directorate has intensified its efforts to extradite the Gupta family. It has confirmed that the International Criminal Police Organisation Interpol has issued red notices against Atul and Rajesh Gupta as well as their wives. The controversial businessmen and associates are wanted in connection with the Free State Agriculture Department's alleged fr...

We hear from the Aljamah political party on why they think that sending Zuma to jail is not a good idea. The party’s argument is that the constitutional court should only have done that if it was a unanimous decision. Guest: Ganief Hendricks, Al Jama-ah Party leader