Guest: Xolani Zuma - March And March Legal Adviser

 

 

Guest: Ashley Benjamin - FEDUSA Deputy General Secretary

 

 

22 August 2025

 

1.    DR Congo – Kinshasha 

A military court has acquitted a former special advisor to the DR Congo’s President Félix Tshisekedi.

Arrested in 2022, François Beya was charged with conspiring to kill the head of state. He was accused of violating orders and inciting soldiers into a dereliction of duty.  

 

1. Sudan – Khartoum 

Khartoum begins rebuilding as 2 million people expected to return by the end of the year

Devastated by over two years of civil war, Sudan's capital, Khartoum, is beginning to rebuild. The chaos in Sudan erupted when long-standing tensions between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) escalated into open conflict in April 2023, affecting Khartoum and other areas.

 

1. Niger – Niamey 

Officials in Niger said that at least 47 people have been killed and over 56,000 others displaced by flooding triggered by recent heavy rains.

The General Directorate of Civil Protection said the floods have affected 7,754 households in 339 neighbourhoods and villages.

“Some 30 people died after their houses collapsed while 17 drowned. In addition, the floods injured 70 people,” it said in a statement.

 

1. African woman profile series 

Who is transforming Africa? The women who refuse to wait their turn. Africa has always had brilliance, courage, or vision.

 It has always had women who are not waiting for history to remember them, but shaping it in real time. From Nigeria to South Afrika

 

 

1. In our historical archives, it was on this day 22 August 1791 when slave rebels in the French colony of Saint-Domingue started the Haitian Revolution, the only instance of a successful slave rebellion in world history and the founding event of the first modern black republic.

 

 

• 1. Walmart says tariffs are starting to bite
• 2. Google and Meta seal a cloud deal
• 3. Markets - US, JSE, rand, oil and Asia

 

Guest: Gustavo de Carvalho, Senior Researcher on African Governance and Diplomacy at the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

 

Guest: Dr Sandra Roberts - Researcher at Code for Africa

 

Guest: Thami Cele, Postbank Chief Commercial Officer

 

 

• 1. Exxaro delivers double digit earnings growth
• 2. PPC secures funds for future projects as it sells a property at its Zimbabwean unit
• 3. Markets - Asia, US, JSE, rand & oil

 

Guest: Helmoed Heitman - Military And Defense Analyst

 

Guest: Jodi Scholtz – Commissioner for the National Lotteries Commission