We talk to City Power about their revenue collection drives: The power entity is on a mission to recover millions from customers with unpaid bills across the city. 

Guest: Nqobani Mzizi: senior manager of revenue enforcement, City Power 

recent news report has highlighted that South Africans are increasingly turning to loan sharks as banks tighten their lending criteria in response to a surge in bad debts compounded by high interest rates, and the impact of the increasingly high cost of living. 

Guest: Danny Mofsowitz: Marketing Director for Atlas Finance 

Science & Innovation Segment: Science: Dangers of oversharing children on social media - it this new Agee, it is found the parents are oversharing “Sharenting” - “The challenge with sharenting is that parents need to fully understand the long-term implications of their child’s digital footprint.” 

Guest: Dean McCoubrey: Social Media Expert & Member of the Digital Parenting Club, an online platform that offers parents advice on digital parenting insights, news, app settings, tips and how to teach children about the online dangers 

DA flexes its control over Cyril Ramaphosa’s ANC with renewed fight over NHI - The Democratic Alliance (DA) is confident a talk with President Cyril Ramaphosa will resolve their objections to the National Health Insurance (NHI) in its current form.  

Guest: Michele Clarke: DA health spokesperson 

 Municipalities sounding the alarm over water mafias - we talk DWS about how this is impacting the service delivery around water or how it impacts the efforts being made to address water supply challenges and what are the common “practices” of these mafias and is the department involved and to what extent in addressing this issue 

Guest: Sean phillips: Director General, Department of water and sanitation 

 

Afrika Update Report  

1. Tunisia - Tunis

Tunisian President Kais Saied announced yesterday a broad cabinet reshuffle of 19 ministers that included those for defence, foreign affairs and the economy, ahead of a presidential election on October 2024. 

1. DR Congo – Kikuvo-Kirumba

Renewed fighting between Democratic Republic of Congo's army and M23 rebels broke out on Sunday around a densely populated town in eastern North Kivu province, where the rebels are waging an insurgency, the army and M23 said. 

1. Malawi- Lilongwe 

Malawi has begun screening for mpox at all ports of entry in a bid to prevent the spread of the virus. 

The move comes just days after the first two suspected cases were registered in the country and are currently awaiting laboratory test results. 

1. Namibia – Okavango Basin

Local and International Activists Call for Global Action Day on 26 August, Demand Immediate Government Action to Halt Drilling Operations. 

Activists worldwide are organizing a global action day, urging peaceful protests at Namibian and Canadian embassies to demand an end to ReconAfrica's drilling in Namibia. 

International - Hezbollah launched hundreds of rockets and drones against Israel on Sunday in retaliation for the assassination of a senior commander in Beirut last month, the Iranian-backed movement said, as Israel's cabinet met to prepare a response. 

Guest: Dr Kingsley Makhubela: Risk Analyst, former Diplomat and Public Relations Executive 

Feature Interview: We talk to the Minister of health about the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) looking into the fraudulent medico-legal claims, which has reportedly saved the health department more than R3 billion by uncovering multiple instances of fraudulent activities, including cases where lawyers claimed for patients who had died. 

Guest: Dr Aaron Motsoaledi: Minister of Health  

 

Guest: Mlungisi Mabaso  Member of the Mayoral Committee (MMC) of Human Settlements in Johannesburg,  

 

Guest: Teboho Mofokeng: Lecturer Water Engineering, UCT