Despite what Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi says, experts believe that money from the Public Investment Corporation (PIC) cannot be used to build hospitals and by implication fund the National Health Insurance (NHI), because firstly, the money does not belong to government and secondly, the hospitals will not be an asset that can be sold for a profit. 

Guest: Prof. Alex van den Heever, chair of Social Security Systems Administration and Management Studies at Wits 

 

The Morning Brief  

Afrika Update Report  

11 November 2024 

1. Botswana – Gaborone  

Duma Gideon Boko takes oath as Botswana's president 

Thousands of people from around Botswana attended the inauguration Friday of their country's new president, Duma Boko, who called for unity after an election that brought an end to the former ruling party's 58 years in power. 

His Umbrella for Democratic Change, a coalition of Botswana National Front and the Alliance for Progressives won 36 parliamentary seats and denied former president Mokgweetsi Masisi a second term. 

2. Mauritius – Port Louis 

The Indian Ocean Island nation of Mauritius hold a national election yesterday, where Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth seeks to win a second term as leader of a nation often praised as one of Africa's success stories. 

 Mauritians will vote for 62 seats in Parliament, and the party or alliance with a majority forms the government and chooses the prime minister. 

Another eight lawmakers are nominated by the Electoral Supervisory Council. 

3. Ivory Coast- Yamoussoukro 

 Parties begin preps for 2025 presidential election 

Former Ivorian Prime Minister Pascal Affi N'Guessan was on Saturday named candidate for the Popular Ivorian Front (FPI) in the 2025 presidential election. 

At a congress in Yamoussoukro, the Ivorian capital, N'Guessan was re-elected president of the FPI with 99.34% of the votes cast by some 4,500 voters. 

4. Mozambique – Maputo  

Mozambique election dispute: Borders reopen as protests subside amid wait for feedback 

Border posts were reopened over the weekend, and protests in Mozambique have subsided for now as the country’s people await feedback after apparent tampering with election results. 

They have stopped for now. [Mondlane] has said he is going to speak on Monday to update his followers on what would be the next step. He is one of the candidates, not a leader of any party, and supported by Podemos. He called for seven days of protests, which culminated on Thursday and now it has subsided; they have stopped. 

 

5. In our historical archives, it was on this day 11 November 1975 when Angola was liberated from the Portuguese colonial rule. 

Angola becomes independent after 14 years of armed resistance to Portuguese colonial rule. The three major movements fighting the war, the Movimiento Popular de Liberación de Angola, (MPLA), the Front for the National Liberation of Angola (FLNA) and National Union for Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) signed the Alvor agreement in January 1975. 

 

Guest: Abel Esterhuyse - Professor Of Strategy: Faculty Of Military Science: Stellenbosch University 

 

Guest: Dr Rituparno Goswami - Professor and Director: Astrophysics Research Centre (ARC, UKZN) School of Mathematics Statistics and Computer Science University of KwaZulu-Natal (Westville Campus) 

 

 

Guest: Leslie London, a pesticide expert at the University of Cape Town’s School of Public Health. 

 

 

Guest: Nkosikhulule Nyembezi - Political and Elections analyst   

 

Guest : Lance Schultz - CEO PanSALB  

 

Guest: Sarah Hoffman - Digital parenting expert and social media lawyer 

 

 

Guest: Sandile Mavundla - Alex Shutdown Movement 

 

The Morning Brief Afrika Update Report 08 November 2024  

1. Botswana- Gaborone Julius Malema and others Botswana travel ban lifted ahead of President Duma Boko's inauguration The Botswana travel ban against Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema and Floyd Shivambu of MKP has been lifted ahead of President Duma Boko's inauguration on Friday. The travel restriction on Malema was formally lifted under a Government Notice issued on yesterday. 

 

 2. Mozambique - Maputo Graça Machel calls for calm in Mozambique and South Afrika High Commissioner Siphiwe Nyanda has declared that Maputo is under siege Graça Machel, best known as the widow of Nelson Mandela, appeared on state television on yesterday to repeated call for call for calm in Mozambique.  

 

3. Ghana – Accra Backlash as Ghana’s President Akufo-Addo unveils self-honouring statue Ghana's outgoing President Nana Akufo-Addo is facing a storm of criticism on social media after unveiling a statue of himself outside a regional hospital in Sekondi.  

 

4. Benin- Cotonou Hustle Culture Emerges in Benin in Face of High Graduate Unemployment In Benin, college graduates struggle to find formalized work. Educated young people find themselves working odd jobs, creating their own companies or remaining entirely financially dependent on their parents. Few in the country decide to pursue higher education at all. According to the UNESCO Institute of Statistics, only 15% of men and 8% of women in Benin enroll in tertiary education.  

 

5. In our historical archives, it was tomorrow on the 9th of November 2008 when Dr Zenzile Miriam Mabeka “Mama Afrika” died in 2008, at the age 76, after having a of a heart attack after a 30-minute performance at a concert for Roberto Saviano near the southern Italian town of Caserta. "I kept my culture. I kept the music of my roots. Through my music I became this voice and image of Africa and the people without even realising," – quote by Miriam Makeba written in her biography (2004)