Celebrating Women in Business - Turning passion into purpose with Simphiwe Motha's entrepreneurial journey, the lessons she has learned, the challenges she has overcome and what it takes to build a successful business with purpose and perseverance.

Guest: Simphiwe Motha - Founder and Owner of Lash & Dash and an FNB Business customer 

 

 

Briefing Focus: As governments around the world grapple with the energy demands of AI, is South Africa prepared for the next phase of the digital economy? Do we have the governance muscle to safeguard digital sovereignty? What will this new economy mean for service delivery, employment and national security? Is it an economic opportunity or an infrastructure risk?

Guest: Wellington Muzengeza - Research Fellow at the Africa Centre for Critical Minerals and Energy Transition (ACCET)

Guest: Arthur Goldstuck - Managing Director at World Wide Worx 

Guest: Makibinyane Mohapeloa - Chief Operating Officer of MzansiSat and Founder of Tshokoma Training and Consulting. 

 

 

The National Student Financial Aid Scheme is promising a fresh start after years of governance failures, audit findings and operational challenges. NSFAS Administrator Professor Hlengani Mathebula has now submitted a Stabilisation Plan aimed at restoring accountability, improving student support, tackling fraud, fixing ICT systems and rebuilding public confidence. But will this plan finally deliver the change that students have been waiting for?

Guest: Prof. Hlengani Mathebula - Administrator for the National Student Financial Aid Scheme, NSFAS. 

Waste collection services have been disrupted across several parts of Johannesburg as casual workers contracted to Pikitup continue their protest, demanding to be permanently absorbed by the entity. The action has led to the blockading of several Pikitup depots, preventing waste collection trucks from operating and leaving rubbish uncollected in affected areas. Pikitup says it is working to resolve the impasse, while the protesting workers insist their concerns have gone unheard.

Guest: Jabu - spokesperson for the protesting casual workers

Guest: Thobani Nkosi, Regional Secretary of SAMWU in Johannesburg 

 

 

 

Nature of Post-Apartheid migration from Southern Africa and beyond. 
2. Political refugees & economic migrants.  
3. The RSA Constitution, the 1951 Geneva Convention. 
4. The 1969 OAU Refugee Convention addresses broader refugee definitions, the principle of non-refoulement, and voluntary repatriation

Guest: Mavuso Msimang - retired civil servant and former freedom fighter

 

The Road Accident Fund is under renewed scrutiny as it embarks on one of its biggest reforms in decades, returning to the use of private attorneys through a hybrid litigation model aimed at reducing legal costs, improving court compliance and speeding up the processing of claims. The Association for the Protection of Road Accident Victims has proposed a once-off intervention to immediately settle thousands of finalised claims awaiting payment, saying this would put compensation directly into the hands of victims while helping to clear the backlog. 

Guest: Mr Ngoako Mohlaloga - Chair of the Association for the Protection of Road Accident Victims (APRAV) 

 

Prominent attorney Zola Majavu has refused to testify in the corruption trial of former Minister of Defence and Military Veterans Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula. Majavu, who had previously consulted state-key witness Nombasa Ntsondwa-Ndhlovu after being recommended by Mapisa-Nqakula, says he would be limited in testifying due to attorney-client privileges.

Guest: Nthabiseng Dubazana – Founder and Director at at Dubazana Attorneys 

 

1.Zimbabwe- Britain
Thousands attend funeral for Zimbabwe family murdered in Britain
About 2,000 people gathered in Bulawayo yesterday for the funeral of a Zimbabwean woman and her two daughters who were murdered in their home in Britain last month.
Police discovered the bodies of Nothabo Zandile Tshuma, 15-year-old Natalie and 5-year-old Nala at their home north of London, after their family reported they could not reach them.

2.    Namibia - Windhoek
Sophia Shaningwa Denies Plot to Topple Nandi-Ndaitwah
Swapo secretary general Sophia Shaningwa has dismissed speculation that she intends to unseat party president Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah.
Speaking at a Swapo Women's Council event held in Nandi-Ndaitwah's home village of Okongo, Shaningwa addressed rumours circulating within political circles that she harbours ambitions to replace the party leader.

3.    Cameroon- Yaounde
World's oldest president reshuffles army as his absence stokes unease
Cameroon's veteran leader, Paul Biya, who has not been seen in public for nearly two months, has reshuffled the country's military amid growing concerns over his prolonged stay abroad.
The 93-year-old president appointed officials to key positions in the army and promoted five colonels to brigadier general.
One of the newly promoted brigadier generals is Raymond Jean Charles Beko'o Abondo, who was immediately reappointed as commander of the elite presidential guard - responsible for protecting Biya - a position he has occupied since 2013.

4.    In our historical archives, it was on this day, 5 August 1962, when Tata Rolihlahla Nelson Mandela was arrested in Cedara, a small town near Howick, KZN, shortly after his return to South Africa on completing six months’ military training in Oujda, Morocco, and after attending the All-Africa People’s Conference in Ethiopia.

 

1. AI investment overshadows SpaceX’s first earnings as a public company
2. Streaming growth adds momentum to Paramount’s WBD ambitions
3. Market update

 

The Global Briefing: Another major rescue operation has unfolded in the English Channel after dozens of migrants attempting the dangerous crossing from France to England were rescued at sea.

Fresh Russian and Ukrainian airstrikes are once again raising alarm over security in the Black Sea.

Israeli and Lebanese negotiators have returned to the table in Rome for a seventh round of US-mediated talks.

Guest: Prof. Anthoni van Nieuwkerk - Professor at the University of South Africa