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) 

 

Guest: Jan Vermeulen – EditoR: My Broadband 

 

Guest: Sandile Swana - Political and Governance Analyst