Guest: Professor Vally Padayachee: power and energy expert and a former executive manager of Eskom and a former senior executive of City Power Jhb 

Guest: Rev. Musa Zondi: KwaZulu-Natal’s MEC for Economic Development, Tourism and Environmental Affairs 

Guest: Khaya Sithole - Independent Analyst

Guest: Aseza Gungubele, Commissioner responsible for Migration, Human Settlement & Climate at the SA Human Rights Commission. 

Guest: Chris Rutledge - executive director of Mining Affected Communities United in Action

Guest: Dr Sheetal Bhoola - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences: University of Zululand and Director of StellarMaths 

Guest: Claire Taylor - Researcher: Gun Free South Africa, 

20 January 2025 

1. Mozambique -Maputo  

Mozambique’s newly installed President, Daniel Chapo has appointed Maria Benvinda Levi, a former judge and Minister of Justice, to the post of Prime Minister, leading a team in which only the Minister of National Defence, Cristóvão Chume, was in the outgoing government. 

2. United States of America – Jamaica (Afrika Diaspora) 

Biden posthumously pardons Black Nationalist Marcus Garvey and Holness hails Garvey’s pardon as ‘a proud and historic day’ for Jamaica 

Outgoing President Joe Biden yesterday posthumously pardoned Jamaican Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who influenced Malcolm X and other civil rights leaders and was convicted of mail fraud inthe 1920s. 

3. BRICS- Nigeria  

Nigeria becomes the ninth BRICS partner country 

Brazil’s government said on Friday that Nigeria has been accepted as a partner country in the multinational BRICS group. 

This adds Africa’s largest economy to the growing alliance of emerging market countries. 

4. Tanzania – Dar Es Salaam 

Tanzania's ruling party, Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM), passed a resolution on Sunday endorsing Samia Suluhu Hassan and Hussein Ali Mwinyi as the party's official candidates for the Union and Zanzibar presidential elections, respectively. 

5. In our historical archives, it was on this day 20 January 1987 when the mysterious death of Mozambican late President Samora Machel led to the first hearing of the Margo Commission on 20 January 1987. Machel’s plane crashed near the South African border under suspicious circumstances, prompting widespread speculation about the apartheid government’s involvement. 

Guest: Prof Andre Roux: Economist at Stellenbosch Business School 

Guest: Alie Komape: Communications Manager at #Africa4Palestine 

Guest: Dr Stanley Moloabi, Principal Officer at GEMS